Chapter 1668: Chapter 1636: The Terrifying Patience of the Upper Realm Immortal Sect

The boundary of the Golden Sea Domain is vast beyond measure. Even a Heavenly Man cannot be omniscient to monitor every place and every point, let alone a Refining Nothingness Cultivator who randomly chooses a place.

In fact, even the cultivator themselves does not know where they will leave the domain.

Yet, it is so.

When Ji Shan Venerable flew towards the boundary, not far from him, a green-clothed youth silently watched him, having waited for hundreds of years.

Ji Shan Venerable had the appearance of a refined scholar. He thought of many things, ignoring the green-clothed youth.

Even his Divine Soul instinct did not react at all, passing by the green-clothed youth in a hurry, stepping into the boundary, causing a gust of wind and clouds to surge, manifesting the Gold light emanating Broken Realm Phenomenon.

“A young Refining Nothingness Cultivator…”

“A junior…”

Jiang Ding murmured.

In the past, a Refining Nothingness Cultivator was always seen as an ancient strong being in his eyes. Now it’s just a little one, merely over ten thousand years old, having been promoted to Refining Nothingness for less than five thousand years.

“And cause and effect,”

“Is it really so mysterious and unknown?”

“Is it a mistake for me to manipulate cause and effect, when the sword is my forte? Perhaps such backstage manipulation of cause and effect signifies danger for me…”

Ji Shan Venerable had already stepped into the domain boundary, causing the phenomenon, about to completely miss this chance, the opportunity schemed and awaited for hundreds of years.

Yet Jiang Ding hesitated.

He now lacked any decisiveness that a Sword Cultivator should have had.

Why?

Because, at this moment, he suddenly discovered that Ji Shan Venerable’s amorous Harmonization God Monarch father was remarkably the Shadow Puppet God Monarch of the past!

In the past, when he dueled against the Inheritor Sword Cultivators of the Thunder Sun Heavenly Sword Realm, he was once ambushed by three Harmonization God Monarchs.

Respectively by the Shadow Puppet God Monarch of the Immortal Artifact Sect, the Shou Gui God Monarch of the Thunder Sun Heavenly Sword Realm, and the Xuanyin God Monarch from the Taiyin Lineage of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm, nearly beating him, who was then only at the Divinity Transformation Stage, to death.

Is this the bind of cause and effect?

Such important information, he had surprisingly no prior awareness!

In all prior deductions, Jiang Ding’s gathered intelligence, every piece of information was accurate concerning ‘Ji Shan Venerable’s amorous father’, a truly handsome cultivator, someone who could achieve extremity in appearance with Shadow Puppet as his dao name.

Data intelligence was accurate, but incomplete!

Everything seemed reasonable.

The secrets of a Harmonization God Monarch cannot be known by cultivators below Refining Nothingness. Even after collecting the memory databases of 870,000 cultivators, a little luck was missing, overlooked, is quite normal.

But such luck and coincidence!

In the slaughter and contention of the Way of Cause and Effect, it represents extremely terrifying danger!

“Damn it!”

“I, I’ve fallen into big trouble…”

“I might have inadvertently touched a web, a karmic web buried and concealed for tens of thousands of years; even now, it hasn’t unraveled, and might not even ten thousand years from now.”

“I underestimated the patience of the Upper Realm Immortal Sect!”

Jiang Ding’s eyes slightly reddened, with flowing golden patterns like molten lava in his pupils.

“The Upper Realm Immortal Sect has survived for millions of years, combined with the inherited remnants of prior Immortal Sect generations, texts, lessons learned, some sects even have histories of over a hundred million years. A mere twenty thousand years is far from enough to wear down their vigilance!”

“So admirable…”

“Such patience, such wisdom…”

Facing enormous and terrifying danger, Jiang Ding felt a bit of fear, a bit of joy, but mostly calmness, his Sea of Consciousness swiftly contemplating and deducing.

“No,”

“Things are not that dire.”

Jiang Ding gradually regained calmness: “This karmic web, I merely disturbed it indirectly, like dropping a leaf on a spider web, causing a few ripples.”

“These ripples of cause and effect should not be uncommon amidst the current contention between the two Immortal Sects…”

“So now, should I continue executing the plan?”

Jiang Ding looked at Ji Shan Venerable, whose steps were about to fall, letting him soon miss the opportunity.

Refining Nothingness Cultivators, in his eyes, existed on another dimension, their movements infinitely slow, like frames of a film slowed down hundreds of times.

If he wished, during this time, he could even take a nap before Ji Shan Venerable’s steps landed; they were completely different level beings.

Should he forsake this opportunity, it would to some extent besiege him within the Golden Sea Domain, and who knows when the next chance would arise.

During this process, upon disturbing the karmic web, the enemies might react unknown; they could ignore, or possibly value highly, surrounding the Golden Sea Domain, deploying numerous strong experts, thus trapping him—

Having learned this lesson today, Jiang Ding truly dared not underestimate the slightest bit about the enemy.

Though now merely at the Refining Void Late Stage, if the enemy confirmed the target, it’s possible they would mobilize double-digit Heavenly Men, to ensure a kill, exceptionally terrifying.

The other choice would be to persist with the predetermined plan, knowing full well it’s to confront danger.

The cost of this choice is further alarming the karmic web.

Previously, the enemy might have ignored it, treating it like a mosquito accidentally touching a spider web without caring, but after this disturbance, they would surely pay attention and respond.

How should he choose?

Clang!

The Taiqing Flying Sword hummed softly.

“Indeed,”

“Taiqing, you know me well…”

Jiang Ding chuckled softly.

Quietly waiting for an inevitable death, entrusting life to luck, that was not his path. To fight forward, battle, seek transcendence in war, that was his dream’s locus.

So long as he could cut a path out, cross through heavy domains, reach a Central Domain, he could be like a dragon into the sea, fully hiding once more, and the Heavenly Man could not catch him.

Above Heavenly Beings?

That is an unfathomable presence.

He can only rely on the cover of the Suppressing Destiny Treasure, and if that fails, he has to confront the grand destiny of a Sword Cultivator’s death.

Before this, Jiang Ding had one advantage. Even if the karmic web was touched, as long as it was uncertain he was an Immortal Sect Disciple, it would not cause high alert from the Immortal Artifact Sect or other Immortal Sects, nor dispatch Heavenly Man experts from various significant roles to besiege.

There are limited Heavenly Man experts; they cannot abandon their previous fronts for trivial matters.

During this time, it was Jiang Ding’s path of survival.

So long as he escapes into the Central Domain or Upper Domain!

So long as he enters these vast domains, he can immediately hide again, without triggering the Broken Realm Phenomenon, and the Heavenly Man would not catch him.

“Ji Shan,”

Jiang Ding made his choice, softly speaking.

This voice, blurry, as if coming from the dream realm, he imbued with the power of Six Dao Reincarnation.

“Who?”

Seasoned rules, Ji Shan Venerable instinctively turned back.

He saw a green-clothed youth.

Then, his Divine Soul instantaneously plunged into ruin, death, the Divine Soul entirely extinguished, perishing by the rules.

Yet his soul shell still existed, concealing his demise, undisturbed by the Soul Lamp or soul token in his sect.

This soul shell carried his body, routinely passing through the boundary.

Meanwhile, the phenomenon of Refining Nothingness breaking the boundary formally appeared, winds surged and gold light radiated, all beings in the Lower Domain saw it, understood a Refining Nothingness Cultivator had departed from the Golden Sea Domain, entering an adjacent domain.