Chapter 1174: A Hundred Years of Healing

Jiang Ding appeared very calm, not emphasizing anything solemnly.

However, everyone knew how much he valued his Great Sun Soul Transformation Strategy.

A thousand years ago, even before Great Sun Canghai Tianjun had advanced to the Soul Transformation stage, he began promoting it throughout the Immortal Gate. His avatars and true body gave speech after speech, explaining to citizens of every Immortal Gate the necessity of the Great Sun Soul Transformation Strategy, again and again explaining why it was so — so that when the Immortal Gate encountered powerful civilizations in the dark forest of the realms in the future, it would not be without the power to resist.

After a thousand years of effort, he had indeed accumulated many supporters among the many citizens of the Immortal Gate, including Soul Transformation Tianjuns.

Of course, he had also accumulated some extremely fierce opponents and political enemies — for instance, the many people represented by Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun, who valued the purity of the Immortal Gate above all else and were willing to pay the price of a drastic slowdown in the Immortal Gate's growth for it.

They would rather die in a pure Immortal Gate than see cultivators from the outside become citizens, refusing any change.

To them, this was a kind of faith.

"You little brats, what a mess—"

Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun saw this and said with a wry smile: "There is the faction that accepts prodigies from beyond the realms, and the extreme purity faction; there is the even more radical faction that wants to fully open citizenship, embracing all comers, granting citizenship to anyone who arrives, with virtue and scientific creativity determining advancement; and there is the extreme Immortal Gate citizen faction that imitates the Horn Demon Imperial Clan, keeping all races as slaves while citizens remain eternally on high..."

"Really, there's everything."

"Right now all these contradictions are being suppressed by the immense pressure of war. Once we win, lose the external enemy, and the situation stabilizes, the Immortal Gate really has no idea what kind of mess it'll turn into."

He was somewhat worried.

"Senior, isn't this a good thing?"

Jiang Ding smiled slightly: "The premise for this kind of situation is that the Immortal Gate has already thoroughly won the war and gained enormous strategic room for development. Arguing over the post-war political landscape and distribution of benefits is purely a happy trouble—what is there to worry about?"

"That… I suppose so."

Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun was stunned for a moment, then laughed helplessly.

……

Taking his leave of Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun, Jiang Ding came before Hua Hua Xiaohua, Fang Fang Yilong, and several dozen other peak Nascent Soul cultivators.

Among these peak Nascent Soul cultivators, some were law cultivators, some were sword cultivators, with all manner of natural talents and dispositions.

However, one thing was absolutely certain.

Their growth process was intimately tied to Great Sun Canghai Tianjun. They had participated in the research and development of multiple projects such as the Sword Dao Hall Group, finding their own Dao advancement within them.

They trusted Great Sun Canghai Tianjun.

"Teacher!"

"Great Sun Canghai Tianjun!"

"……"

Many peak Nascent Soul cultivators revealed excited expressions — among them not lacking white-bearded old men and old women — but before this

green-robed youth, they were like children.

This was fact.

When they were still teenagers, Great Sun Canghai Tianjun had taught them, spent a thousand years with them, always been present — an elder, a senior, a father-like figure.

This was the ancient one of the Immortal Gate who mastered the Great Sun Dao Comprehension Field spell.

He needed to do nothing more; merely with the passage of time, after two thousand years, there would be a great many companions, wings, who could firmly carry out any of his orders — orders that conformed to Immortal Gate law.

"No need for such ceremony."

Jiang Ding waved his hand: "Among you, those who should enter slumber, do so. The Soul Transformation great Dao is most important. The rest continue to carry out our 'Rising Sun Plan' — this is the Immortal Gate's greatest reliance for establishing itself among the starry skies.

Too radical, and the Immortal Gate will lose itself; too conservative, and the Immortal Gate will sink into isolation."

"We represent the correct direction for the Immortal Gate."

"The Immortal Gate's bright future unfolds in our hands. Future history will surely prove this."

Rising Sun Plan!

This was the prelude to the Great Sun Soul Transformation Strategy — a massive plan involving the Immortal Gate's media, public opinion, industry, scientific research, and all other aspects. It had been prepared for over a thousand years, its supreme purpose being to lead the Immortal Gate down the path they believed correct.

This plan had been brewing all along, waiting to erupt when the Immortal Gate's resources became so immensely abundant that it could no longer digest the vast Minor Thousand Worlds, and reform became unavoidable.

"Yes! Teacher!"

Fang Fang Yilong and the other peak Nascent Soul cultivators accepted the order solemnly and dispersed.

These cultivators were the 'Sword Dao Hall cultivators' in the eyes of many Immortal Gate cultivators. Just like the old monster Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun in the Immortal Gate Academy of Sciences, and the old monster Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun in the Immortal Gate Materials Research Institute, they were deeply influenced by the Sword Dao Hall's old monster, Great Sun Canghai Tianjun.

An Siyan and Jin Jin Lingfeng watched this scene.

They always felt something was off.

"Stop daydreaming, hurry up and enter slumber. You two don't have much lifespan left — even taking life-extending pills won't change that."

Jiang Ding came before the two of them, dragged them toward the Chen Mian Mi Jing, and instructed: "Unless it's a life-or-death moment for the Immortal Gate, don't wake up. Don't get distracted. The moment you awaken, immediately charge at Soul Transformation, and try to solidify your foundations."

"Right now, the two of you have very little chance at Refinement of Emptiness."

"But in the future, it's not certain. If the Immortal Gate's Immortal Dao technology exploration sees another major breakthrough, the difficulty of advancing to Refinement of Emptiness will drop considerably in the future — that's the opportunity…"

He rattled off a long string of instructions.

"Mm, understood!"

The two women nodded seriously.

……

After hastily handling all matters, Jiang Ding finally had leisure to return to Dayang

Dayang Tianchi.

All concealing spells vanished, revealing his body riddled with wounds — many places fragile as paper, parched without any moisture, like rotten wood that had completely lost its vitality.

"Heavenly Sword Sword Child…"

Jiang Ding murmured.

A Sun Divine Tree unfurled behind him, equally battered — many places had broken trunks, leaves withered and scorched black, the main trunk nearly collapsed, with only a little bark and trunk left to prop it up, barely sustaining life.

Within the shade, the battered and feeble super warship Great Sun looked like a broken kayak, listlessly perched on the branches.

"Sword Child, you should have healed your wounds right after crossing tribulation. There's no need to attend to all the miscellaneous affairs of the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect — this isn't something you should be doing…"

Yue Ling complained nonstop.

"This is no trivial matter."

"Those arrangements concern the immortal sect's growth — a matter of life and death."

Jiang Ding shook his head.

He slowly closed his eyes, his divine sense spreading out seven thousand kilometers, using it as a fulcrum to lever the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the great sun within tens of thousands of kilometers to come pouring in, flooding into the broken embryonic form of the sword realm around him, and then pouring into his weakened body, repairing the damaged Dharma body bit by bit.

These injuries came from a Heaven Sword Sword Son of an upper-realm Jiang Jiang Jinxian-level faction.

Jiang Ding would repair his body bit by bit, eradicate the lingering power of the Heaven Sword Sword Son, and do his utmost to analyze his power structure, as well as his more advanced sword-realm and the subtle applications of immortal arts.

Once these were digested, Jiang Ding's sword-realm and his comprehension of immortal arts would grow by a large margin.

This was the powerful effect of sword duels and fierce combat for sword cultivators, and the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's Great Sun Sword Son was an extreme representative among them, possessing an even faster growth rate.