Dao Integration!
At that moment, the Great Sun Sword Lord had finally become the absolute ruler of the world cluster in every sense. There could be no further doubt.
He had also reached the highest cultivation realm of any Great Sun Sword Lord in history.
If the Great Sun Patriarch knew of this beyond the grave, surely he would be pleased?
After all, his path had truly endured. His successor had built upon it, climbing ever closer to immortality and realizing, step by step, the dream shared by all Great Sun sword cultivators.
"The first Sword Lord..."
Jiang Ding sighed, his heart full of respect.
Of course, that was assuming the first Great Sun Sword Lord had been dead for hundreds of thousands of years.
If the first Great Sun Sword Lord was still alive, Jiang Ding would show him even more respect by beating him until both body and soul were destroyed. Surely that would please the first Sword Lord even more.
The restless magic power within Jiang Ding gradually settled and stabilized, finally coming to rest at the middle stage of Dao Integration.
"I expect it'll take me a hundred thousand years to reach the peak of Dao Integration. Then I can enter the Celestial realm in perfect condition."
"Provided I don't pursue the absolute limit."
Jiang Ding calculated silently: "Cultivation at the Dao Integration stage involves accumulating magic power and strengthening the soul, then fine-tuning rules and exploring the rules that belong to the cultivator himself. That determines whether he can advance to the Celestial realm."
"At this stage, I may be able to make up for having already broken through the fourth-step limit."
"A hundred thousand years should be enough."
"If a hundred thousand isn't enough, then three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand, five hundred thousand!"