Immortal Sect · Solar System.
"So many ties to the mortal world have ended before I knew it."
"Among those I once knew, not one remains below the rank of Supreme or Dao Child. Everyone else has died, departed forever, vanished into the long river of time."
"From this day forward,"
Jiang Ding murmured, "from this day forward, hardly anyone will disturb my quiet cultivation again. Hardly anyone..."
It should have made him happy. Yet as he spoke, a grief that reached deep into his bones lingered in his heart and would not fade.
From now on, through the slow passage of time, no one would come to disturb him.
No one would interrupt his cultivation or his contemplation of the Dao.
He would enter the longest seclusion of his life, perhaps lasting hundreds of thousands of years, until he had pushed the Immortal-Dao Cosmic Constant Empirical Formula to its limit.
"So be it."
Jiang Ding sighed deeply and began to grow accustomed to it.
Those who lived long had to grow accustomed to such a life. Sooner or later, they all did.
He closed his eyes slightly. His Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword Soul radiated black and white arcane light as he tirelessly observed the data of the Immortal-Dao Universe and its Heavenly Dao, received one research proposal after another submitted by human prodigies across the boundless starry sky, and worked through problems in spells, cultivation methods, and the forging of magic treasures.
Through that ceaseless exploration, the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden became a statue beneath the watch of the Central Array-Spirit Computer—a statue that existed alongside the sun, the universe, and the Heavenly Dao.
Time seemed to lose all meaning in the Sword Immortal Maiden's awareness.
Its passage changed almost nothing about him. It could not alter