The outside world was in turmoil, and the situation across the starry skies was chaotic.
Jiang Ding paid none of it any mind.
He remained seated in the Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace, comprehending the Immortal Dao before the immortal body of the Six Paths Reincarnation True Immortal Heir. Combining all manner of materials from Dao Court industry, he repeatedly corrected his Immortal-Dao Cosmic Constant Empirical Formula, gradually compressing this cumbersome empirical formula and bringing it closer to a concise, beautiful Dao formula.
His progress was visible to the naked eye, and he was still nowhere near a bottleneck.
Clearly, only tens of thousands of years ago, Jiang Ding had barely deduced the Immortal-Dao Cosmic Constant Empirical Formula, the Law-Annihilating Sun Immortal Scripture, to one hundred characters—the minimum threshold for becoming an Emperor.
Yet now, this immortal scripture had compressed once more!
In merely tens of thousands of years, it had gone from one hundred characters to eighty-five. The progress bar had leapt forward by a great stretch!
At the level of the foremost powerhouses in the endless starry skies, advancing so greatly within tens of thousands of years was utterly terrifying.
No wonder the Myriad Laws True Immortal Heir had called this being "skilled in comprehending the Dao." He was simply far too overpowered.
He possessed none of the "Sacred Sword Duel path dependence" common to other sword cultivators, or even other Sword Immortal Maidens.
Sword cultivators rose through Sacred Sword Duels. If enemies grew scarce in the later stages and Sacred Sword Duels became lacking, their Great Dao would advance slowly, even approaching stagnation.
This was a chronic ailment shared by many sword cultivators, differing only in degree.
That was why the more powerful a sword cultivator became, the more twisted and mad they were.
Human sword cultivators