When it came to battle merits, the Sword Immortal Maiden always took them seriously.
"Since neither of you has any objections, we'll settle it this way."
Jiang Ding nodded.
He looked toward the True Phoenix Crimson-Flame Imperial Heaven, then toward the clusters of great worlds.
Many deformed beings were still wailing among them.
Their bodies and souls were warping because the path they followed, the True Phoenix Primordial Ancient Talisman, had collapsed. Worse, it had been deliberately twisted.
Among these deformed beings were quasi-emperors, Eight-Tribulation Supremes, and many other powerful cultivators.
These powerful cultivators were essential to immortal-path industry. Without them, cultivators such as Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators could scarcely govern even one great world effectively, let alone vast star domains. Those immense territories would have to be abandoned because they could not be governed.
Training new powerful cultivators would take time—hundreds of thousands of years.
These powerful cultivators of the myriad races therefore had to be preserved. They would play an important role for hundreds of thousands of years and could not be replaced in the short term.
Clang!
Jiang Ding drew his sword, and its cry rang out in every direction.
The Law-Annihilation Great Dao rippled with it.
The Law-Annihilating Spirit-Particle Lock was affected in turn and began to change in a specific way. It dispelled the source of the beings' deformation, temporarily corrected their path, and allowed the True Phoenix path to continue existing.
The terrifying whispers that had filled heaven and earth at every moment gradually vanished. The Heavenly Dao grew stable once more.
"Impossible!"
"The Heavenly Dao..."
"Your Majesty—Your Majesty is gone..."
Countless powerful cultivators of the myriad races began to awaken. In an instant, they understood what had happened and wept without end. Many lost the will to go on and chose