Chapter 2546 - 2511: Nirvana in the Present World, Cleansing the Marks of Past Times

Time, in the waiting and self-imposed seclusion of the Forbidden Area Ancient Emperor, flows slowly.

In the blink of an eye, two hundred thousand years have passed.

On this day, the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor slowly opened his eyes, looking towards the edge of the Great Sun Forbidden Area with a gaze full of nostalgia and excitement.

There, a dozen agile and graceful deer leapt towards this place, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, leaving streaks of afterimages, their innate skill in wind movement evident.

"After so many years, a fortuitous coincidence of life finally appears."

Jiang Ding sighed softly.

The Perishing Immortal Realm, where the Great Sun Forbidden Area resides, has fully revived, no longer the harmless place it once was. It is constantly filled with various evil qi, strong winds, curses of heaven and earth, and natural killing arrays, instantly fatal to any beings that approach, making it an extremely terrifying danger zone, hence no life has ever come here throughout history.

However, with the passage of time, coincidences inevitably happen.

Clang!

As these deer stepped into the Great Sun Forbidden Area, the residing Sword Intent was triggered, transforming into countless blazing white sword-lights, slicing them into countless pieces, their blood spraying into the air, greedily absorbed by the land of the Great Sun Forbidden Area, which inherently craves any existing vitality.

Jiang Ding watched quietly, his amusement and anticipation unchanged.

It’s merely the natural laws of heaven and earth.

And these natural laws are quite beautiful.

The current Great Sun Forbidden Area is an indisputable terrifying area, devoid of the material foundation for life, with extremely harsh conditions. It might allow for brief stays by beings, but that would undoubtedly require the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor to expend his scarce remaining mana for protection and alteration, which is impossible.

"Look at the living beings of the present world."

Jiang Ding murmured to himself.

Among the sixteen deer, a certain wind-attribute Spirit Beast, all of their shattered flesh and fragments gathered instantly before him, forming complete specimens. Their dead Divine Souls were also revived and placed on the specimens, which then separated, revealing clearly defined meridians, bones, various organs, Demon Beast Elixir Field, Sea of Consciousness, and other structures.

In the green-clothed youth’s hand appeared an experimental log. Holding a pen in one hand, he wrote and drew in it; his black and white twinkling eyes served as the most advanced experimental analysis instruments in the universe.

Detailed sketches of Spirit Beast organs rapidly appeared in the experimental log, annotating their structure, size, function, etc., in great detail.

In the end, it even began deducing and analyzing the traces left by the Heaven and Earth Rules on these Spirit Beasts, thus backtracking the laws of heaven and earth.

"The Heaven and Earth Rules of the Golden Era are also quite interesting."

"There aren’t any additional rules. The rules of the universe haven’t changed significantly. The change lies in the heightened activity and much faster response of the Heaven and Earth Rules."

The Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor archived this primitive research data in the Ship Spirit of the Super Warship Great Sun, lost in thought.

"This means that Immortal Path activities have been greatly enhanced."

"Simply put, it means the great explosion of Spiritual Energy, the extreme activity of rules, the increase in both type and number of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, and the appearance of a large number of mutant aberrations. Those unable to adapt to their environment perish, those who can, survive... Intelligent beings are the same. Amidst a myriad of changes, many Elite Divine Bodies, Sacred Bodies, and Demon Bodies emerge, benefiting from countless such mutations."

"In our era, the emergence of such unparalleled elites meant they were destined to be invincible, at the very least strong adversaries on the path to becoming True Immortals, but now they seem relatively ordinary."

"This is an extremely suitable universe cycle for the development of the Immortal Dao Civilization!"

Jiang Ding once again drew his conclusion, a look of desire in his eyes.

In such a flourishing era, one truly ought to immediately involve themselves in Immortal Path research, cultivate numerous Heavenly Pride talents to serve them, establish various Immortal Path research institutions, undertake various Immortal Path mega-projects, and explore the mysteries of the Immortal Path no creature has ever known, so as not to waste this life.

Not like a desiccated bone in a grave, trapped in a forbidden area.

"Wait."

"What kind of existence will the Ancient Emperor of the Golden Era be?"

Jiang Ding murmured to himself, once again entering self-imposed seclusion.

In the absence of the eternal Time River, the effect of self-imposed seclusion has greatly weakened, no longer allowing him to sleep through dozens of eras easily, but it still effectively slows down the dissipation of Life Energy.

...

Sleep, sleep.

Wait.

This time the slumber was even longer, spanning a whole hundred million years, reaching one twentieth of the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor’s slumber Life Energy limit.

If, after nineteen billion years, no Great Emperor emerges in the human world, he might just perish within the flow of time!

"Slept another hundred million years..."

Jiang Ding slowly opened his eyes.

Upon waking this time, he clearly felt more differences.

The constraints of heaven and time on this past being were lessened again. The Supreme Great Sun Immortal Body could relax a bit, no longer constantly resisting the present time, freeing up some spare energy.

"Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi..."

"The essence of the sun and moon..."

Jiang Ding looked up toward the starry sky.

Rumble!

Crackle!

In the Sea of Consciousness, the Supreme Great Sun Original Ancient Talisman started to operate like rusty gears, causing the surrounding space to break apart, with lightning and thunder, due to the severe conflict between the past’s Original Ancient Talisman and the present’s heaven and earth. The past’s Original Ancient Talisman could not function in the current heaven and earth.

"Hmph!"

Jiang Ding grunted, his face suddenly turning pale.

He gazed inward, seeing much blood and flesh of the Immortal Body turning to rot, the Sea of Consciousness full of cracks, even the jade-like Immortal Bone appeared dim. This is the cost for past beings to operate in the present age; from Divine Soul to Immortal Body to Original Ancient Talisman, all are incompatible with this era.

However, these incompatible changes require energy.

To extract energy, the Immortal Body must be operated!

This is a paradox.

"It’s not a big deal."

"I won’t completely die."

Jiang Ding looked at his broken Divine Soul and Immortal Body and casually smiled.

The outdated Original Ancient Talisman and Immortal Body struggled like rusted gear sets. Sparks flew sporadically, gears collided, breaking many teeth, and occasionally a whole gear shattered, creating terrifying blood holes in the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor’s Immortal Body, with bone fragments flying, and flesh and blood blurred, chilling the heart.

Facing all these pains, even nearing death multiple times with the Immortal Body nearly completely shattered, the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor remained calm and indifferent.

This is not about mindset.

It’s about science, Immortal Science. According to the calculations of Immortal Science, success is inevitable, a fact verified countless times.

Finally, after countless operations, when the Original Ancient Talisman was nearly shattered, and the Immortal Body almost unrecognizable, a pleasing change suddenly occurred.

A gentle moonlight, transformed into warm moon essence, flowed into this broken Immortal Body.

After countless eons,

the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor, like every living being in the human world, finally once again absorbed the essence of the present world’s sun and moon.