Chapter 1192

After Mu Mu Tianxue and the other two left, the palace fell into silence.

It was unknown how much time passed.

"Thousands of years, tens of thousands of years later, will this world perish?"

"Is this true?"

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

This person, Great Love Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun, is not trustworthy.

However, what he said has already come true once; for another prophecy, one cannot simply ignore it—that would be self-deception.

The most rational course of action is to assume it is true and prepare for the worst.

"What plans can I possibly make?"

Jiang Ding smiled in self-mockery.

"Before the great calamity that will destroy all living beings in a perishing world, I am merely a small Soul Transformation cultivator; in the end, I can only abandon everything and flee."

"If there are grudges, they can be settled another day."

Of course, this is the final plan.

If there is even a sliver of possibility, he still wishes to save this world.

The consideration of benefits is only part of it; more crucially, he is the strongest in this world, having grown from a mortal to a Soul Transformation cultivator here, gaining far too much in the process.

Just like many sect ancestors, he has feelings for this world and feelings for the myriad living beings within it.

Unless absolutely necessary, he will not give up.

……

Jiang Ding stayed in this world for another twenty years.

During this period, he cultivated in the Yin-Yang Yuan Ci Absolute Spirit Mountain, deducing the structure of the Six Realms Reincarnation Sword Art, while coldly observing the changes occurring in Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting.

Numerous corrupt cultivators and law-breaking cultivators were dealt with one by one, facing imprisonment, fines, or execution.

Under the gaze of the supreme will, there was no shirking of responsibility, no pretending to comply while secretly defying orders—or if there was, it was quickly met by power from higher realms, even with Soul Transformation cultivators personally intervening to slaughter all cultivators who failed to see the situation clearly.

As a result, the atmosphere throughout Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting was corrected.

Spirit plant cultivation, spirit beast breeding, artifact forging industry, alchemy industry, talisman-making industry, and so on flourished; the three armies of Tushan rotated on the battlefield, fighting and honing their military formation techniques.

In a short time, the war at Blood Demon Abyss actually served to promote the smooth operation of the world's economy.

Tax revenues from that year climbed steadily, once again recovering to around sixty billion low-grade spirit stones.

Jiang Ding glanced at the wealth he had placed in Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting.

Various spirit stones piled up like mountains; from first-tier to fifth-tier, all kinds of heavenly treasures and earthly gems shimmered with precious light, almost blocking one's vision so that nothing could be seen clearly.

"Twelve hundred years of continuous accumulation..."

Jiang Ding swept his divine sense over it and quickly tallied: "Roughly forty-one trillion spirit stones, four hundred and ten thousand supreme-grade spirit stones; an average of over thirty billion spirit stones per year. It seems that without proper planning of the system and supervision, it simply won't work; later, tax revenues dropped to over ten billion per year, which is simply terrifying."

"Four hundred and ten thousand supreme-grade spirit stones, not bad."

Jiang Ding took out the jade pendant at his waist and let it float in the air.

The jade pendant emitted a beam of light, radiating a powerful attraction; heavenly treasures and spirit stones around it surged toward this spot like a river being swallowed, flowing into this storage treasure that seemed infinitely vast.

After the battle in Jiao Jiao Mingyu, seizing the storage treasures of many Di sons was no problem for Jiang Ding at all.

Ten-plus minutes later, all the heavenly treasures and spirit stones were packed.

"My money has increased a bit."

Jiang Ding made an estimate.

This was not boasting; the facts were so.

The accumulated wealth of an entire world over twelve hundred years, for him, was merely an increase in wealth, not a sudden windfall.

Now, he possessed a total of five million nine hundred and twenty thousand supreme-grade spirit stones!

Most of these were obtained by slaying dozens of Di sons, ancient Di sons, and ancient princes of the Jiao Demon Di clan; among them were more than twenty portions of sixth-tier materials, coming from the Jiao Ming Ancient Prince and the eight great ancient Di sons.

These spoils of war were allocated to him after evaluation by the Immortal Gate.

In the battle against the Yanluo Hell Equal King's Yin-Yang Reversal Great Array, over seventy percent of the spoils belonged to him; this was how war merit was estimated, and it did not change based on the number of people involved.

The current Jiang Ding, even without counting his Void Refinement war merit, ranked among the top three in wealth within the Immortal Gate, or even top two, second only to Yuan.

The Great Sun Sword Disciple, famous far and wide as a great tycoon, was exactly like this.

Recently, many Canghai Tianjun had gone crazy applying for projects with him: sword path electromagnetic applications, sword path Yin-Yang system spell applications, sword path artificial intelligence applications... and so on; they all added the term "sword path" to their research projects to follow the trend, making it seem as common as graphene.

The result was that recently many Canghai Tianjun had been rushing to apply for projects with him—sword-path electromagnetic applications, sword-path yin-yang system spell applications, sword-path artificial intelligence applications… and so on, all slapping the word "sword-path" onto their own research projects to chase the trend, making it just like graphene.

But to be honest, there really were some Immortal Gate Canghai Tianjun who successfully combined their research directions with the sword path; they were not simply scamming funds.

For these, Jiang Ding was generous with his funding; especially for sword path directions he needed, he often feared the other party didn't have enough money, so doubling the research funds was a frequent occurrence.

For these research projects he funded, not only could the results be used freely, but he also owned most of the patents; all in all, it was worth it.

These actions further sparked a trend within the Immortal Gate of combining research with the sword path.

Jiang Ding took one last look at everything in Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting, confirming that all had gotten back on track and was thriving.

Jiang Ding took one last look at all of Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting, confirming that everything had gotten onto the right track, thriving and flourishing.

……

Great Sun Dayang Tianchi, Sun Abyss.

Jiang Ding closed his eyes and cultivated; tens of thousands of li of heavenly and earthly spiritual energy and Great Sun essence rolled in, surging into

his meridians and dantian, transforming into drops of accumulated magic power.

It was estimated that in another three hundred and fifty years, he would advance to the mid-stage of Soul Transformation.

Besides this, the Wan Hua Ci Yuan Gong Fa he was currently cultivating was the latest version developed by the Immortal Gate, already comparable to the supreme-level Gong Fa of the Jiudaxian Sect.

Besides this, the "Wan Hua Ci Yuan Jing" he currently cultivates is the latest version developed by the Immortal Sect, already comparable to the scripture-level Gong Fa of the Jiudaxian Sect.

What was somewhat regrettable was that it still had not reached the level of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's Gong Fa.

Jiang Ding had recently been busy with this matter and several other extremely important matters related to the immortal sect's development.

Overall, the immortal sect's current immortal Dao technological development was advancing at high speed, but the pace still had not met expectations. This was because Yuan, Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun, Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun, and a large batch of other immortal Dao scientific research elites had been held back by the war, unable to devote themselves to the advancement of immortal Dao technology.

The immortal sect now greatly needed peace, in order to allow itself to develop rapidly.

"My sword intent… has reached perfection."

Jiang Ding silently glanced at his own Great Sun Destruction sword intent, which had reached perfection the instant he ascended to Soul Transformation.

Originally, he had been secretly pleased with himself, feeling he could look down on all the heroes and outstanding figures under heaven.

He had not expected the Heavenly Sword Sword Son to deal him a blow right on the head.

"Sword intent perfected, the next realm is Sword Soul."

"At the Sword Soul stage, sword intent can truly take form, transforming into invisible flying swords that instantly slay enemies on the soul level — extremely terrifying. The Heavenly Sword Sword Son has already walked to an extremely deep realm on the Sword Soul path. I currently have no qualification to face his true self directly; even meeting him is not allowed, or I would be instantly slain…"

"Although he is probably also at Hua Shen Chu Qi, he cultivates according to the goal of becoming an immortal. He won't be impatient, but steady and sure, and might even cultivate more slowly than me."

"What a pity,"

Jiang Ding let out a long sigh.

"Although we are of the same rank, a gap in level has already formed between us."

"Right now, I cannot appear before his eyes."

"No matter what."