Thunder rumbled and shook the heavens. The young woman slashed through bolt after bolt, her soul beginning to merge with the Heavenly Dao as the essence of her life climbed ever higher, higher still.
Now, when the Divine Lords of Dao Integration from the past had all fallen, a second Divine Lord of Dao Integration was being born in the Ancient God Domain.
"So many years have passed. In a daze, I thought it was only yesterday..."
Jiang Ding murmured.
In his memory, Yu Qianzi was still an Immortal Sect undergraduate he had dragged here.
Yet her cultivation had reached the realm once reserved for the Immortal Order's great powers. She was now a Divine Lord of Dao Integration, an ancestor of the Immortal Order. The contradiction between those two images unsettled him a little.
"Greetings, Sword Lord!"
The Netherdark Inheritance and the Radiant Inheritance stepped forward to pay their respects.
They were due to advance to Dao Integration around the same time as Yu Qianzi. They had let her go first so they could protect one another's Dao and guard against accidents.
"Mm. Not bad."
"It has been many years. You've built decent foundations and haven't squandered that time."
Jiang Ding swept his divine sense over them and nodded slightly.
These two Taiyin-Sun sword cultivators had grown far stronger since their first encounter in the Ancient God Domain and Nine Spirits Domain, rapidly closing the gap between themselves and the Dao Children of the Nine Spirits Domain.
They might still fall short, but the gap was no longer an impassable chasm. They had some hope of becoming Celestials.
This was the promise the Great Sun Sword Lord had made to the Netherdark Sword Lord and the Radiant Sword Lord years ago.
Sword cultivators of the same lineage shared an