Before anyone knew it, a hundred years had passed.
Jiang Ding remained immersed in cultivation and research, forgetting food and sleep.
In his cultivation, he was at the middle stage of Dao Integration and needed to keep accumulating mana and spiritual sense to climb toward higher realms. His second rule-adjustment nirvana in Dao Integration should occur naturally within two thousand years. Once his physical body and soul adapted to the first adjustment, the second would descend without any particular barrier.
Throughout this process, Jiang Ding needed to keep deducing the rules of the Law-Annihilation Great Dao and his own path so he could guide his rule-adjustment nirvana.
Jiang Ding had originally completed that work and believed it was perfect.
But now he had discovered a better path forward!
A better point of reference!
"Good heavens!"
"What a beautiful arm..."
In the Immortal-Suspecting Arm Laboratory, Jiang Ding gazed in wonder at an image of a tiny flesh sample and a scan from the spirit-particle Fate Law tunneling microscope.
The Ancient God Patriarch's inability to damage the arm did not mean the Immortal Sect could not.
Decades earlier, the Ninth-Tier Forbidden Nuclear Weapon Scalpel, developed jointly by the Immortal Sect's Great Sun Sword Lord, Yuan, and others, had been completed. Its principle was simple: continually constrain the power of forbidden nuclear weapons, then concentrate their release on a point the size of a fingernail to forcibly reach ninth-tier power.
The scalpel's use was severely limited.
First, each use consumed fifteen quasi-ninth-tier forbidden nuclear weapons. Second, it required a disposable scalpel made from quasi-ninth-tier materials. Finally, it had no practical combat capability.
Each use took decades to prepare, and its power could only erupt at a point the size of a fingernail. At most, it could pierce a Supreme's skin. But because of