Chapter 1055: The Current Epoch Is the Epoch of Materials Science

Jiang Ding circulated a wisp of fine magic power from his dantian, running it through one meridian cycle of Zhou Tian, and felt a faint stinging pain.

This kind of tempering and nurturing would continue without interruption for several decades, and then his original condition could be restored, his Dharma Body once again whole and flawless.

It was considered normal — a seriously injured Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun would need about this much recovery time.

"Senior Zhenjun Shenji, how is the current battle situation?"

Jiang Ding asked.

He had not forgotten that they were still in a foreign realm, that enormous latent dangers still remained, that it was not as if everything were safe now.

"All is as usual, no major changes have occurred yet."

Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun said: "Currently, we and the great powers of the Baweixian Sect have initially restrained the Flame Stone Great Emperor and are conducting a meticulous soul-search on him; this process may take several decades."

"The current plan is to employ the methods of the puppet and refined corpse path, refining the Flame Stone Great Emperor into a living corpse, to be used as a chess piece planted among the various emperors of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan."

He stated an extremely cruel matter in a very flat tone.

"This living corpse puppet has very demanding requirements — it must be completely controlled while possessing sufficient spirituality, requiring that he himself does not know he is a puppet, and it must also be able to deceive the various emperors of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan. Therefore, this is a whole-domain scientific research project undertaken jointly by the Jiudaxian Sect, to discuss and develop the most suitable refinement plan."

"Those below the Flame Stone Great Emperor — the Flame Flow Imperial Son, the Sinking Mountain King, and others — will all receive similar treatment."

"They will be transformed into our chess pieces and ears and eyes spread across the four directions."

"This preparation and planning process should take between one hundred and three hundred years."

Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun carefully explained the strategic thinking of the realm war to Jiang Ding: "Too fast, and the preparations will be insufficient; too slow, and the secret may be leaked."

"In the Cultivation World, any kind of accident is possible. The enemy is also a flourishing immortal Dao civilization that has produced figures above Refinement of the Void; we cannot afford to underestimate them."

"While we take each step steadily and firmly, we must strike a fatal blow, hitting precisely at the nine-inch point, striving to paralyze the top-tier forces of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan in a single campaign."

"All of this, the Central Array Spirit supercomputer core and the great powers of the Badaxian Sect are carefully planning — in reality, the situation is extremely complex and difficult to explain clearly."

"This is good, this is good."

Jiang Ding listened and nodded repeatedly.

The many seniors of the Immortal Gate, and those eight old antiques who had become shrewd through age, were all extremely cunning and seasoned individuals as long as no internal strife occurred — utterly reliable.

They were neither aggressive nor timid or hesitant, like cold galactic quantum computers, stronger than him in every respect.

"As for the spoils, there's no need to mention the many heavenly materials and earthly treasures — they all have very distinctive features, being unique materials from the foreign realm. Many of these materials have enormous significance for our materials science, merely—"

"Just last month, Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun told me that the Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin industry has already seen the dawn of a breakthrough."

Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun continued.

"Within the next hundred years, above the Number One Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin, the Jia-1 Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin — equivalent to a sixth-grade supreme material — will emerge, and the Immortal Gate's warship and magic treasure industries will all benefit from it."

"Senior Senior Wanji is truly a heaven-sent fierce talent!"

Jiang Ding rejoiced greatly in his heart and said with great admiration.

In materials science, he would not even be fit to tie Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun's shoes — the man would find him a hindrance.

This was not a matter of realm suppression, nor of being at the same or different realm. Even if he advanced to Refinement of the Void in the future, a full realm above Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun, he would still be inferior to Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun in materials science.

If materials science also had its Dao, Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun could easily cross realms and crush him.

Now, with the addition of various heavenly materials and earthly treasures from a foreign realm, the Immortal Gate's materials science had immediately welcomed explosive development, the blue ocean vast and terrifying.

In the words of many materials-science Tianjuns, going out every day now was like picking up money — they were so exhilarated they couldn't sleep or cultivate. Pick any direction at random, and within several decades one could produce a patent; cultivation resources for the next several hundred to thousand years need not be worried about.

If luck exploded and one drew a patent that could promote the Immortal Gate's great development, one might even be able to start considering one's own path to Refinement of the Void.

The bald doctoral academicians of the Immortal Gate's materials science had welcomed their spring!

In this year's Immortal Gate college entrance examination, the materials science major's scores led all other majors by a cliff-like margin. Some Immortal Gate students even gave up Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou University and enrolled in a second-tier university, simply because the materials science programs at those two universities were full — they would rather attend another university than miss out on materials science.

The popularity of materials science could be seen at a glance.

Some show-off materials-science professors had even begun proudly proclaiming that this millennium could already be named the Materials Millennium, with no challenger remaining.

"Let's skip the materials — these people are terrifyingly worked up right now."

Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun shook his head, seemingly disdainful: "Gong Fa is the most fundamental matter. Some people are simply frogs at the bottom of a well — a Materials Epoch, heh… forget it, let's continue talking about the spoils. In the Flame Stone Great Emperor's Star Palace, we seized several sixth-grade body-refinement Gong Fa of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan, the most powerful being the 《Mountain-Pushing Sea-Trampling Ten Thousand Fires True Scripture》 cultivated by the Flame Stone Great Emperor."

"These body-refinement Gong Fa take a different path from our Dharma cultivation, but they also have strong reference value, and are very helpful for researching the Horn Demon Imperial Clan's unique Imperishable Chaos Space."

"Several years ago, over the attribution of Gong Fa, the Immortal Gate fleet and the eight great powers erupted in a small-scale conflict, but the Immortal Gate did not yield an inch, and the standoff lasted a long time."

Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun sneered.

The reason was obvious — the Badaxian Sect feared the Immortal Gate obtaining Refinement-of-the-Void-grade Gong Fa, feared that the Immortal Gate would thus produce Refinement-of-the-Void cultivators, and so madly tried to prevent the Immortal Gate from acquiring Refinement-of-the-Void Gong Fa.

To the Refining Void stage Gong Fa, they feared that immortal sects would produce Refining Void cultivators, so they frantically prevented immortal sects from obtaining Refining Void Gong Fa.

"What was the final outcome?"

Jiang Ding was startled in his heart.

"The Badaxian Sect temporarily yielded."

Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun said: "Only after we produce a Refinement-of-the-Void cultivator, or after someone among the Badaxian Sect breaks through above Refinement of the Void, can the current balance possibly be broken."

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun said, "Only after we produce a Refining Void cultivator, or after someone among the Badaxian Sect breaks through beyond Refining Void, will the current balance possibly be shattered."

"However, those eight great powers of the Weixian Sect may become more aggressive because of this. The previously estimated one-hundred-to-three-hundred-year strategic preparation time may be moved up — they are starting to get anxious."

"According to our estimates, once the Jiuling Domain army takes down the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan, the eight great powers of the Weixian Sect may advance above Refinement of the Void."

"They have always possessed inheritances above Refinement of the Void; it was only because the Jiuling Domain was barren that they could not break through. The Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie of the Horn Demon Imperial Clan can provide them with such an environment."

"They have always possessed inheritances beyond Refining Void; it was merely that the Nine Spirit Domain was too barren for them to break through. The Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan can provide such an environment for them."

"Various crises, various possibilities of internal war and collapse, but the balance can still be maintained, and no major changes have occurred for now."

"What about you? What are your plans now?"

Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun asked, fully respecting his opinion.

"I want to return to the rear to recuperate, until I recover the peak of my combat strength."

Jiang Ding said without hesitation.

Jiang Ding said without the slightest hesitation.

He was far too weak right now — even a peak Nascent Soul cultivator could probably beat him, and a Soul Transformation cultivator could kill him with a single casual strike. He felt utterly unsafe.