"I need tens of thousands of years, perhaps even longer..."
"Not to mention the third Nirvana, which is harder still."
Jiang Ding murmured.
He was not a man who lacked patience.
The Immortal Sect's hibernation technology was advancing. It could already let a Void Refining cultivator sleep for ten thousand years, and in the future, it should be able to seal one in slumber for tens of thousands. Add his own seventy-thousand-year lifespan, and he could exist in this world for at least a hundred thousand years. He had enough time for research.
But the Ancient God Patriarch!
That long-established expert at the peak of the Celestial Realm, a man qualified to make a charge toward Near-Immortal, could awaken at any moment!
How could Jiang Ding possibly have another hundred thousand years?!
"Am I going to give up the second and third Nirvanas?"
Another possibility occurred to Jiang Ding. He could do that.
If he abandoned the second and third rounds of rule-refining Nirvana, he could advance to Dao Integration quickly. There was no difficulty in it.
But he could not bring himself to accept it.
This was a path with an excellent chance of leading to Near-Immortal!
What was the Ancient God Patriarch's talent like?
He was a genius whose brilliance eclipsed antiquity and illuminated the present!
He had begun as a mere human slave. Not just he himself—the entire human race had been enslaved under the rule of the Ancient God Domain's Demon Race.
In terms of timing, terrain, and the support of the people, nothing in the entire Ancient God Domain favored the rise of a human expert. The difficulty was pushed to its limit, like trying to grow a towering tree in the desert.
Yet in that very environment, the Ancient God Patriarch had forced his