Chapter 1553: 1521: Back to the Mother Star

Chapter 1553: Chapter 1521: Back to the Mother Star

Time passes slowly and gently.

Unknowingly, a hundred and twenty-seven years have passed. Jiang Ding, further attracted by the gravity of this planet, fell onto the frozen ground, a cold wind covering his body with a thin layer of frost.

Layer upon layer of frost.

Years went by, and he was completely covered by frost, sinking into the depths of an eternal glacier.

The cold wind blew over this icy planet, unchanged for a long time as the ice layer grew thicker, thicker, and unknowingly, several decades passed.

This year, a volcano suddenly erupted, a mighty force breaking through the ice layer, bringing forth things from deep underground.

Lava flowed across the ice, carving out trenches as it melted, with large amounts of water vapor forming mist, only to be frozen by the tens of degrees below zero weather into ice crystal particles, which fell into the lava, vaporizing again in a repeating cycle.

In this lava river, a human-sized piece of obsidian tumbled and flowed, moving downstream, until after a distance, it settled quietly on the ice edge of the river.

Time passed, and several more years went by.

The lava river was once again frozen, solidified, leaving only a dark trace of a river, covered once more by frost, including the human-sized obsidian.

Crack!

On this day, the obsidian shattered, revealing a green-clothed youth inside, who opened his eyes with a calm gaze.

“Fellow Daoist, has it only been a hundred and fifty-seven years and already you can’t hold on?”

“Useless.”

Jiang Ding said blandly.

He turned his inner view to his Divine Soul, finding that in its deepest part, where he thought the butterfly’s shadow had completely dissipated, it unexpectedly appeared again, extremely fragile and tiny, hidden in an inconspicuous corner of layered memories, its presence weaker than even a Qi Practitioner.

“Fellow Daoist Jiang, you are well.”

Immortal Butterfly gazed deeply at the green-clothed youth, his form slowly collapsing and disappearing.

“Of course, I am well.”

Jiang Ding didn’t care, and produced that pair of ice crystal dreamlike butterfly wings again. As expected, a butterfly was hidden within its depths, its Spiritual Energy largely depleted, unable to conceal anything in this Soulless Universe.

Clang!

A Sword Qi emerged on Jiang Ding’s fingertip, surging into the butterfly wings, completely annihilating the butterfly.

She was too weak, even worse than a Qi Practitioner, with no ability to resist, and even her hiding skills had greatly diminished, unable to conceal anything.

“She should be completely dead.”

“Just an Immortal Butterfly, nothing like a True God’s child.”

Jiang Ding said blandly.

Yet, the sentiment remains.

He had plenty of time; a seventy-thousand-year lifespan is meant for such use, without the urgency felt by those short-lived species, as time was abundant.

Jiang Ding closed his eyes, once again delving into the deduction of Swordsmanship and various Xianmen Sect scientific projects.

Even if he couldn’t cultivate right now, his time wasn’t wasted, as he orderly deduced the processes of Sword Dao Seventh Realm Heavenly Sword Realm, and further perfected the five great Sword Moves of the Six Paths Reincarnation Destruction Five Elements Sword, involving Swordsmanship, shipbuilding engineering, Sword Soul, Flying Sword smelting, and other multidisciplinary composite projects.

Year after year, time flows.

The cold wind blew down, covering him in frost once again, sealing him within dozens of meters deep in the ice layer anew.

Through the passage of time, many things happened on this planet: earthquakes, volcanoes, asteroid impacts, and disasters that could destroy the heavens and the earth frequently occurred.

Unknowingly, more than three hundred years passed.

The five-hundred-year period had ended.

Crack!

An unmelting glacier cracked open, revealing a green-clothed youth inside, taking one last look at the planet before flying into the sky without looking back, passing through the thin planet’s atmosphere into the dark, desolate cosmic starry sky, soon disappearing entirely.

“Nothing was found anew.”

“Immortal Butterfly is truly dead, completely cleared from my Divine Soul, even her true form, a True Immortal’s Child, can’t refute this conclusion.”

Jiang Ding flew toward the direction of his Mother Star.

He was now very weak, though his Realm hadn’t dropped, his internal Spiritual Energy reserves were nearly depleted, the Sword Soul was in a state of extreme weakness, even dropping to Harmonization Stage combat power, making even a Refining Nothingness Cultivator potentially life-threatening to him—an unprecedented weakness.

Yet, he felt very relaxed, very joyful.

He even began to sing a cheerful tune; although sound couldn’t be transmitted in a vacuum, only his mouth opening and closing could be seen.

“The Heavenly Illusion Immortal Butterfly Clan’s merging with a Cultivator’s Heart Demon Heavenly Tribulation is indeed terrifying.”

“This race must be taken with extreme importance.”

Jiang Ding thought back over past events and gradually burst into a smile: “Yet, going through such a Heart Demon Heavenly Tribulation has also brought me greater benefits!”

“My Divine Soul is poised to grow further, possibly even reaching up to eight times the capacity of cultivators of the same level!”

“All of this is the enormous benefit brought to me by Immortal Butterfly, which I will remember, and I will repay her well in the future…”

Jiang Ding spent decades finally re-entering the Solar System and then boarded the Super Warship Great Sun, quickly flying toward his Mother Star.

The Super Warship Great Sun held much Spiritual Energy, which he absorbed like a whale, swiftly draining it all.

This vast amount of Spiritual Energy was converted into Mana, dropping into his withered Elixir Field, transforming into some intangible substance that nourished his weakened Divine Soul, preventing the deterioration of his internal injuries.

Time elapsed as he spent much of it.

Finally, in the distance, that blue star appeared at last, visible even to the naked eye, no longer eternally dark and silent.

“Mother Star!”

“I am home!”

Tears welled up in Jiang Ding’s eyes.

Whoosh!

He took a step, instantly entering the three-dimensional Defensive Array of Mother Star, and sat cross-legged in the Great Sun Heavenly Pond orbiting the planet.

Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Great Sun Essence poured in like a tsunami, forming a tens of thousands of kilometers vortex funnel, voraciously swallowing Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi.

This vortex continued to expand!

Fifty thousand kilometers, a hundred thousand kilometers, three hundred thousand kilometers, five hundred thousand kilometers!

Truly returning to the Immortal Dao Universe, supported by the Heavenly Dao, Jiang Ding’s power instantly surged tens of times, truly exhibiting the fearsome might of an Immortal Dao eminent figure, distorting even the Mother Star’s three-dimensional Defensive Array, unable to restrain everything.

“Sword Master… Swordsman, you finally returned.”

Yue seemed to see history, sighing: “In those days, Xi Yuan too returned grievously injured, only to be besieged by the Nine Great Immortal Sects immediately, his effort ultimately in vain.”

“This boy doesn’t have much luck.”

Jiang Ding couldn’t be bothered with her.

Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi and Great Sun Essence gathered tumultuously, quickly filling his cracked Elixir Field, revitalizing the weakened Sword Soul to rapidly regain his strength.

Meanwhile, that pair of confirmed soulless ice crystal dreamlike butterfly wings also absorbed Heavenly Earth Spiritual Qi to recover, as its essential structure wasn’t destroyed despite being an inanimate object.