"Jiang Ding!"
True Lord Sun Slayer stood up and waved toward the distance.
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Jiang Ding walked over unsteadily, looking at them in confusion.
"Jiang Ding, when will you be able to form your Nascent Soul?"
True Lord Sun Slayer asked.
The other True Lords watched him as well.
"About three hundred years."
"The development of the Great Sun Nascent Soul Formation Secret Art will require that much time."
Jiang Ding thought for a moment, then added, "It might be sooner, or it might not, but I'm not sure."
He was talking about the Great Sun Sword Sect.
If he could obtain its inheritance there, the research on the Great Sun Nascent Soul Formation Secret Art could be greatly accelerated. If not, there was nothing to be done but proceed step by step.
"Fine, I understand. Go play."
True Lord Sun Slayer stroked his yellow hair and said mysteriously, "Once you form your Nascent Soul, I'll take you somewhere fun."
"Oh."
Jiang Ding obediently replied.
True Lord Sun Slayer had always been like this—scatterbrained and eccentric, often doing things that took people by surprise. Jiang Ding had long since grown used to it.
Returning to the Great Sun Ruins Laboratory.
Jiang Ding began repairing some of the incomplete sword arts and cultivation techniques excavated from the ruins. The Golden Core cultivators below could not handle these; there were many things they did not understand and could not accomplish. They had only completed part of the work, and the rest could only be submitted upward.
This work was fairly simple for Jiang Ding. For most cultivation techniques and sword arts, he only needed to look them over once to deduce the missing portions, as though it were instinctive.
For the rest, he pondered them more deeply. He accumulated those he could