"I can undergo the second rule refinement and rebirth now."
"It'll probably take a thousand years..."
Beside the sun, Jiang Ding silently made his estimate.
In fact, he had completed the theoretical work six hundred years ago.
But this concerned his life, so he had checked and rechecked it for six hundred years before taking this step.
"Is there anyone I should say goodbye to?"
Jiang Ding sighed softly.
In the past, before entering a long seclusion, he had always been busy. He would let Zhang Junsheng, Divine Mechanism, Sun Slayer, An Siyan, Jin Lingfeng, and many others know, so they would not come looking for him.
Now, looking across the universe in every direction, he found that Yuan was the only person he still knew well.
The melancholy that came with longevity lingered, but he was gradually growing used to it.
Jiang Ding quietly arranged the handover of his work.
Once his assistance as a human-shaped super-galactic immortal-dao computer was temporarily gone, the Immortal Sect's research efficiency would inevitably plummet, and considerable confusion would follow. Many organizations and staffing arrangements needed to be adjusted so work could continue in his absence.
Then there were the individual research projects.
Yuan would keep watch over major projects, including the many eighth-rank Central Array-Spirit Computer projects, so Jiang Ding did not need to worry about those. Other sword-dao projects required his careful personal planning. One was the Dark Matter Laboratory, which was especially important now. After twenty-seven experiments, dark matter finally seemed close to emerging.
After his rebirth, the Immortal Sect Sword Dao Academy would take over that work.
The task itself was simple: work with Jiang Ding's clone to watch the Dark Matter Laboratory, conduct experiments according to a fixed procedure, and record the data.
He estimated that dark matter would