Jiang Ding awoke completely.
The instant he opened his eyes, the world around him seemed to freeze. Within hundreds of thousands of kilometers, every spiritual thing in heaven and earth was extinguished, stripped of all its spiritual essence. Even rules and causality collapsed and vanished without a trace.
It was as though the Dharma-Ending Age had truly arrived!
A terrifying being from the Dharma-Ending Age had descended upon the mortal world to proclaim an inescapable fate for the endless starry sky.
As the Great Sun Sword Heir awoke, layer upon layer of fleet formations slowly drew inward. The Sun Dharma-Ending Sword Formation Diagram gradually vanished, along with its ranks of stern decrees.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, on completing your eighth Nirvana of Dao Integration."
"You are only one step away from becoming a True Immortal Heir."
The Fusang Holy Maiden emerged from the dissolving restrictions and quietly watched the Great Sun Sword Heir.
For the past thousand years, she had devoted herself to cultivation. Now, the signs of a breakthrough were drawing ever closer. Her eighth step could not be far off.
The Fusang Sacred Land possessed one of the finest legacies in the endless starry sky. So long as the person she had chosen neither died in battle nor failed, her breakthrough could be considered a matter of course.
"Yes."
"I've completed my eighth Nirvana of rule refinement."
Jiang Ding looked within himself.
His magical power, divine sense, sword soul, and entire body had grown several times stronger. He had surpassed his former self completely, as though he had undergone a transformation in kind.
Since ancient times, eight-step Dao Children and Eight-Tribulation Supremes had been the strongest beings beneath True Immortal Heirs, powerful ministers to Human Emperors. There was good reason for that. They stood below one person and above