Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Jiang Ding took step after step into the Time River, staring blankly at the deep starry sky.

For a long time, there was silence.

When the Ancient Emperor returned to the present, the vast Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Tao Rules gathered, forming clouds, with splendid destiny like colorful clouds.

This is the imposing manner of the current Ancient Emperor.

Endless Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and the essence of the sun and moon poured into the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor’s Immortal Body, making his body gradually solidify, with visible veins and markings of blood vessels appearing in the once translucent and ethereal body. Hair, skin, and clothing began to show the authentic texture of blood and flesh, no longer like a mere phantom.

However, the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor did not show much joy, remaining silent.

The endless starry sky began to calm, the turbulent eons of the Time River began to recover, flowing smoothly from the past through the present and into the future.

Endlessly and tirelessly flowing, night and day.

The cultivators of the Immortal Dynasty held their breath, not daring to speak.

It was unclear how much time had passed.

A graceful figure approached the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor, glancing at the damaged corpse of the Ancient Emperor of the Sun, then looking at the green-clothed youth, who stood blankly like a puppet.

”Your Majesty... Are you feeling unwell?”

The Fusang Empress asked softly.

At this moment, as a dao companion, she clearly sensed the faint sadness in the Ancient Emperor’s heart, as well as the dense and overwhelming melancholy.

The Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor did not speak.

”Is it because of the Ancient Emperor of the Sun, he isn’t dead?”

The Fusang Empress asked again.

”It’s alright, Your Majesty.”

”The Golden Era has yet to arrive. In the future, when you meet the Ancient Emperor of the Sun again, if you do not die by his hand, you will surely achieve your desire.”

”There will be no regrets in life, Your Majesty.”

The Fusang Empress gently comforted him.

As the dao companion of a Sword Cultivator, she understood the source of his sorrow.

”Yes, soft persimmon.”

”The Ancient Emperor of the Sun is a peerless elite spanning countless eras.”

Jiang Ding’s puppet-like face finally showed a bit of life, and he laughed and cried, ”He ultimately succeeded in fleeing, sacrificing most of his Immortal Body and most of the Sun Forbidden Area. The glorious foundation of the Sun Immortal Dynasty is mostly mine. If any Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor has the potential to await the Golden Era, I am certainly among them.”

”The foundation of two Forbidden Area Ancient Emperors converges upon me.”

”Yet, the Ancient Emperor of the Sun has escaped in the end.”

”From now on, for sixty million years, I shall never again find such a worthy opponent, nor shall I meet a similar Sharpening Stone for many eras and countless lengthy times to come.”

”Soft persimmon, do you know? My Immortal Path is about to stall and break temporarily.”

This is the source of the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor’s sorrow.

In his youth, he shouted arrogantly to the heavens and earth, This monarch will surely slay all strong enemies in the world, will surely become an Immortal in this life, filled with ambition and hope.

Yet now, at this moment, the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor suddenly realized something.

His talents had reached their limits.

By relying on himself alone, he would never become an Immortal. Without the wisdom of the various Emperors, without the resources of the Golden Era, without gathering the crystallized Immortal Dao of countless Immortal Dynasties, without these conditions—

He couldn’t become an Immortal.

This was his limit, with no variables.

Even the Ancient Emperor of the Sun couldn’t be slain; this was the extent of his capabilities.

”It’s alright.”

”It’s alright, Your Majesty, it’s alright.”

The Fusang Empress embraced the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor, her beautiful eyes filled with pained affection, and her voice became even softer: ”The Golden Era will definitely arrive, and Your Majesty will certainly slay all foes under the heavens during the Golden Era, gathering the crystallized wisdom of the Immortal Dao of countless eras and ultimately attaining the title of a Destruction True Immortal.”

”His Majesty will definitely achieve it.”

As gentle whispers continued, the figures of the Empress and the Ancient Emperor gradually faded.

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Time flowed leisurely; a hundred thousand years passed by.

Jiang Ding quietly watched the beauty sleeping soundly in his arms, gently placing her on the bed and covering her with a quilt.

This Empress had briefly awakened to witness the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor’s ascension to Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor, then fell into slumber once more. This time the slumber would last so long that no words could describe it.

The Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor carefully smoothed the slightly upturned hair of the Empress before standing up and looking around.

This was a world of dim yellow, vast and broad, seemingly endless.

Everything here was stagnant—Spirit Element, matter, and rules were all halted, showing no sign of movement, even time itself.

The Time River seemed to lose its effect when flowing through this place.

This was the Great Sun Forbidden Area.

Using the Sun Forbidden Area as a reference model, the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor personally built it, ultimately forming the Great Sun Forbidden Area by devouring most of the Sun Forbidden Area.

Here lay the sleeping Empress and the Emperor Realm Cultivators of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty across generations.

In the future, it would also enclose the standard equipment of numerous Super-tier Elite Dao Soldiers of the Immortal Dynasties, as well as the Xianmen Sect’s Deep Space Unmanned Group Army, waiting for that day to come.

”Sleep, sleep.”

”Soft persimmon.”

Jiang Ding murmured, ”The Golden Era will surely arrive.”

”In the Golden Era, if we cannot become Immortals, we shall die together, perishing in battle, achieving the supreme glory of a Sword Cultivator.”

”Thus, what regrets could this life have?”

The murmuring voice echoed in the empty Supreme Great Sun Celestial Pivot, the reverberating sound carrying far, far until it dissipated.

After the Empress left, the Ancient Emperor returned to a state of aloof indifference, with little human aura, appearing more like an immortal Sword Dao being.

The Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor watched over the sleeping Empress, simply watching, doing nothing.

In the human world, nothing warranted his distraction.

Time flowed serenely by.

Everything in the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty proceeded in orderly fashion: production, resource accumulation, research, everything in organized progression, yet the latter, research, was extremely challenging.

In reality, the Immortal Dao Civilization of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty faced the most formidable Immortal Dao technological bottleneck in history!

As if some Immortal Dao Technology Lock existed in the void, all Immortal Dao civilizations were trapped at a certain level. No matter how hard they researched, it was futile.

For hundreds of thousands of years, even after devouring the Sun Immortal Body and analyzing most of the Sun Immortal Dynasty’s Immortal Dao Technology, allowing the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dynasty civilization to make many breakthroughs in breadth, but in terms of depth, the essence of Immortal Dao remained unchanged, without any progress.

Even from the most microscopic, the most subtle perspective, there was no progress at all!

By this stage, Immortal Dao civilization had reached its utmost limit, a point of utter despair faced by countless Ancient Emperors through countless times.