Chapter 1074: The Concept of Outsourcing Scientific Research to Immortal Sects

Several years later, all the criminal cultivators had been dealt with.

Some were executed, some imprisoned, some fined; Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting returned to its former high efficiency, whether it was the Agricultural Sect, the Qi Sect, or the Array Sect.

The direct feeling of many mortals and Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment cultivators was that the various sects, Master Tushan Xianchengs, and families had instantly become much more upright and incorruptible.

The various sects, families, and Master Tushan Xianchengs appeared to be independent institutions with different names, but in reality, they were all subordinate institutions of Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting; internal disciples could flow freely, and internal elders, family heads, sect masters, and others could be transferred at will, including taxation and teaching, all of which were supervised.

The high-level magic cultivators also breathed a sigh of relief, waking from a nightmare.

Only the sword cultivators were gloomy and unhappy.

They reluctantly returned to their sects, spending their days refining flying swords, cultivating, and waiting for security incidents involving the death penalty to occur.

"It is indeed a bit of a grievance for them..."

Jiang Ding, observing the mountains and rivers through the Da Ri Ding Gao Jie formation, sighed, "If there were a controllable opponent, the sword cultivators might prosper much more."

Currently, the number of Nascent Soul sword cultivators in Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting is one hundred and fifty-one, fewer than three hundred years ago.

Clearly, the current educational conditions, flying sword materials, and disciple aptitudes are far better than three hundred years ago, yet the number of Nascent Soul sword cultivators is actually constantly declining; it is truly ghostly.

Magic cultivators, on the other hand, are the opposite; there are now over five hundred magic cultivator Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjuns!

This is the reason why Tianji Candidate Daozi, Ji Liuyue, and others like peace and dislike conflict; only in peace can magic cultivators grow steadily, advance, and refine pills and treasures.

Sword cultivators, however, are strongly correlated with war.

Only with war as the soil will sword cultivators grow vigorously.

"However, this seems to be a good thing?"

Jiang Ding thought for a moment and added, "These classical Da Ri sword cultivators do nothing but practice swords, refine swords, and cultivate; they are completely consumers rather than producers. If there are too many, the interior will explode; we cannot afford to raise them."

"Damn it!"

"How can this be?"

"Even I work in the Immortal Sects during my daily life, doing scientific research and labor to maintain my livelihood; how can these fellows do nothing at all in their daily lives?!"

Saying this is actually a bit shameless.

The Da Ri Sword Sect sword cultivators now concurrently handle all security, bandit catching, clearing chaotic demonic beasts, killing harmful demonic beasts in the sea, and hunting demonic beasts without spiritual intelligence that are not recognized as members of Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting... in short, they do all the fighting work.

The reason Jiang Ding did not realize this is that fighting is, for sword cultivators, as normal as air, sunlight, and water; it is not considered "work."

"We must find work for them."

"Sword cultivators must not only be skilled in fighting but also possess knowledge and participate in sword Dao scientific research."

Jiang Ding pondered seriously, "After thinking about the extreme fighting and blood-battle philosophy of the Da Ri Sword Pavilion, I still do not fully approve; it needs partial modification. Purely barbaric fighting has too low a success rate."

"We cannot listen entirely to Hei on this matter."

"The Da Ri Sword Pavilion's ability to cultivate disciples is merely so-so; it is not an authority, so we should take the strengths and compensate for the weaknesses."

"Most importantly, the wisdom of cultivators in this realm must not be wasted; they must participate in the scientific research projects of the Sword Dao Pavilion laboratories and participate in the research and development of the Da Ri Hua Shen secret techniques!"

"Exactly, some laws of the Immortal Sects do not allow it, scientific research outsourcing... but there are also loopholes to exploit. I can contract certain low value-added projects, which is allowed. In scientific research, many things are not secrets; cultivators from outside the realm can access them after meeting certain conditions..."

"We can push for one or two legislative changes to accomplish this..."

Jiang Ding's eyes sparkled as he calculated continuously in his mind.

Currently, the development cycle of the Da Ri Hua Shen secret technique has dropped to around thirteen thousand years, but after obtaining several Refining Void Gong Fa and much Refining Void knowledge in the Immortal Sects, it should accelerate again.

Furthermore, after Refining Void cultivators appear in the Immortal Sects, scientific research capabilities will skyrocket, and time will accelerate again.

Also, the great powers of the Brother Xuanwu Tian Palace once gave the Immortal Sects half of the Da Ri Hua Shen secret technique, which should hide fatal traps; over these years, the Central Array Spirit Computer and predecessors like Yuan have repeatedly verified and screened for traps.

Jiang Ding's own feeling is that after advancing to the peak of Nascent Soul, he will also generate many instincts and inspirations regarding the Soul Transformation path, making it possible to create a super-simplified version of the Hua Shen secret technique himself, which can also verify truth and falsehood.

Adding these together, there is hope to develop a Da Ri Hua Shen secret technique suitable for him within one or two thousand years.

For Jiang Ding, this is still not enough.

Therefore, promoting scientific research outsourcing, contracting many complex but low value-added scientific research projects to cultivators of the Minor Thousand Worlds, might be a very promising path.

Correspondingly, it is also necessary to provide some basic Immortal Dao scientific research training to the cultivators of the Minor Thousand Worlds.

This is quite simple.

Many high-level cultivators are already doing similar things; people have always been creating their own spells and Gong Fa, and not everyone has a perfect inheritance.

High-level cultivators have extremely high spiritual soul computing power and are extremely intelligent; naturally, they would not leave this direction unexplored.

Their problem is inefficiency; they lack a systematic Immortal Dao scientific research system and rely on one or two peerless geniuses to drive the development of Immortal Dao civilization.

"It can be done."

"As long as one or two Immortal Sect legal issues are resolved."

Jiang Ding calculated within his spiritual soul and arrived at this answer.

While thinking, he entered cultivation, inhaling and exhaling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to refine it into fine drops of magical power that fell into his dantian, gradually strengthening his foundation.

It was unknown how much time passed.

"Master."

"Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun Da Ai requests an audience."

Hei Hei Louxi, tall, beautiful, and with a seductive figure, walked gracefully into the palace and softly reported.

This year, Hei Hei Louxi and the other eleven maids are stationed outside the Hei Mo Palace, guarding Tushan Tian Jun, implementing a rotation policy; basically, every Nascent Soul stage Master Tushan maid has such qualification.

"Oh?"

Jiang Ding, who had been pondering on the Wang Zuo of the Six Paths for an unknown length of time, opened his eyes, somewhat surprised.

A Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun,

is not someone one can see just by wanting to.

Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting has over six hundred Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjuns; if every person had an urgent matter to see him once every two years, it would require him to see guests day and night without rest just to finish.

If it were truly like this, cultivation would be impossible to discuss.

Except for a few people, ordinary Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjuns cannot meet him; their applications would not even be transmitted up.

The Great Compassion Master Dinghai Zhenjun was not among that minority.

He had no real connection with Jiang Ding; though his strength was formidable, he was not someone Jiang Ding trusted.

But now, the Great Compassion Master Dinghai Zhenjun had received word from a Fox Mountain maid — bribery and the like aside, it seemed he had passed the review and indeed had something very important.

"Please, Daoist Great Compassion, come in for a chat."

Jiang Ding said softly.

At a time like this, no Fox Mountain maid would dare violate the regulations.

"Yes."

Hei Hei Louxi withdrew.

Not long after, accompanied by footsteps, a broad-faced, kindly-looking youth walked into the palace. He glanced at the blue-robed boy upon the Six Paths Wang Zuo and bowed in salute.

"Canghai Tianjun,"

"Last night I cast divinations and obtained some intelligence concerning cultivators of the Upper Realm."

"Therefore, I wish to use this to exchange with you for a supreme-grade Soul Transformation Pill."

The Great Compassion Master Dinghai Zhenjun said respectfully.

He was very direct — no pleasantries at all, he stated his purpose straight out. It seemed carefully calibrated to suit a sword cultivator's temperament, and felt entirely natural.