Chapter 1257: Xianmen Stocks Surge, Citizens Strike It Rich

The Xianmen fleet of three hundred million citizens did not give up, patrolling across realms, targeting the great powers of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, as well as the still heavily wounded great powers of the Danding and Shangqing Lingbao Sects, who were extremely vulnerable.

No targets were found.

This was not because these great powers had such excellent concealment methods that they all evaded the Xianmen's Dao Merging-level scans.

It was simply because they had run far enough.

The starry skies of the realm domains were endlessly vast, the distances nearly infinite—run and run, run out of Jiao Jiao Mingyu, into the desolate starry skies beyond the realm domains, who could possibly catch up?

Dao Merging-level beings were already star-domain-level lifeforms, possessing the ability to survive alone in the starry skies; once they escaped the enemy's lock-on, they were nearly impossible to defeat.

If not for the fact that a Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie existed within Jiao Jiao Mingyu, holding the key to their cultivation advancement, even cultivators above Dao Merging would be helpless against them—nearly endless space blocked all great power.

After patrolling the realm domains and confirming Xianmen's rule, the citizen fleet once again returned to Jiuling Realm.

This would be the main stationing ground for this Xianmen main fleet, and it would not be moved lightly again.

Besides its great strategic significance, the most important reason was that the cultivation conditions here were too bountiful—several times that of the mother star, and the difficulty of advancing to higher realms was far less than on the mother star.

In the past nearly thousand years, Xianmen had digested the war dividends, giving birth to so many Soul Transformation Canghai Tianjun and nine Refinement Void True Honored Ones; the existence of the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie was crucial.

So many great powers madly chasing this place, willing to fight to the death for it, was not without reason.

However, the mother star was equally crucial.

The "Citizen Law" to date clearly stipulated that only those born, raised, and receiving the legally mandated compulsory education on the mother star would naturally possess citizenship; otherwise, one was merely an indigenous lifeform—no exception for all beings of Jiuling Realm, regardless of their aptitude.

"From now on, the most important matter is to carry out a great upgrade of all Xianmen's various Dao achievements."

Yuan announced spiritedly to the crowd: "The Central Array Spirit Computer has advanced to Dao Merging level, Xianmen now possesses Dao Merging-level computing power, the difficulty of many research projects has dropped off a cliff, great progress and a great explosion in Xianmen's Dao technology is surely before our eyes—do not miss this opportunity, honored ones."

"Gong Fa, materials, planting techniques, breeding techniques, spells, dharma treasure refining techniques... and so on, hold great promise."

"Some Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong great powers are resentful, believing they are only at the early stage of Dao Merging now, and that once they advance to higher realms in the future, they will crush us with their strength—the future is promising."

"I think they are completely wrong!"

"With the joint efforts of all citizens, Xianmen's progress will exceed everyone's imagination!"

These brief words quickly stirred up various longings in the crowd.

"Dao Merging-level computing power..."

A fervent look also appeared in Jiang Ding's eyes.

This single point alone held a tremendous, qualitative-level significance for him.

It meant that in the deduction of the Six Paths of Reincarnation structure, within the "Ten Thousand Transformations Primordial Magnet Scripture," in Sword Escape Arts, in the Six Paths of Reincarnation Sword Art, and in all cultivation methods and sword techniques that had profoundly influenced him—such as Jin Zhi's karma—a development far surpassing the past would emerge, causing their Dao foundations to leap forward in the coming period.

At the same time, the fact that Xianmen as a collective had firmly established its footing among the realm domains also meant his personal wealth instantly surged dozens of times!

One must remember that Jiang Ding did not only possess some spirit stones, heavenly materials and earthly treasures—these liquid assets.

Within Xianmen he owned the Sword Dao Hall Group, a super-giant commercial conglomerate spanning numerous industries, and held the full shares of Xiandu No. 1 Great Solar Gold Factory, Mingdu No. 2 and No. 3 Great Solar Gold Factories, as well as massive shares in many other companies acquired over the years through angel investments or purchases from other Canghai Tianjun.

There were also numerous patents—the spell patents of the Great Solar Dao Comprehension Ground, all patents of the Great Solar Sword Pavilion's Gong Fa, and countless sword arts, sword Dao Gong Fa, and sword Dao material patents developed over these thousands of years.

There were also cave dwellings, commercial land, numerous Dao skyscrapers...

All sorts of fixed assets and patent assets that could not be liquidated in the short term were a sea in scale, profoundly affecting every industry of Xianmen.

Xianmen cultivators shared weal and woe with Xianmen's fate—sharing poverty and sharing wealth was not mere talk.

Not only Jiang Ding, but Yuan, Zhenjun Shenji True Honored One, Senior Wanji True Honored One, and others were similar; time had brought them not only growth in cultivation and magic power, but also a tremendous surge in wealth.

These cultivators looked like individuals, but each and every one was actually a Xianmen super capital leviathan!

The influence of these people was so enormous that calls to introduce an "Anti-Monopoly Law" frequently arose within Xianmen—many citizens had objections.

However, every time it was suppressed without mercy.

The Cultivation World was not a place that enforced absolutely equal laws.

The strong within Xianmen also possessed enormously vast productive power—one person working was equivalent to the productive power of tens of billions of mortals, and wealth would naturally concentrate toward them.

This was a law of physics, and no one could stop it.

Forcibly stopping it would drive these strong to betray Xianmen.

Xianmen's ideology and morality always emphasized mutual benefit, but never demanded cultivators unconditionally dedicate everything they had; those who did not understand the extreme importance of interests to humanity could never score high in ideology and morality.

Most importantly, Xianmen needed the existence of top-tier powerhouses.

If Xianmen lacked top-tier powerhouses, it would inevitably perish—for example, right now, without the existence of the ten Refinement Void-level powerhouses, Xianmen would surely die.

This was the objective demand of the struggle environment among the realm domains.

Therefore, Xianmen's laws would not only not restrict these powerhouses from amassing wealth, but would also encourage them, support them in obtaining the most wealth in a manner consistent with the law—this was Xianmen's Soul Transformation Strategy.

Of course, the interests of the strong were important and must be protected, and the interests of the vast citizenry were likewise so.

A point recognized by most people needed to be found between the two; one could not go to extremes—overemphasizing the interests of one side would bring destruction to everyone.

After all, the strong were indeed important, and Da Ri Canghai Tianjun, Yuan, Senior Wanji True Honored One, and others were indeed strong—no one questioned this.

But however strong these ten were, how did they compare with any single Dao Merging Divine Monarch?

Trivial, like ants!

Then why were these ten unafraid of Dao Merging Divine Monarchs, even pursuing and killing them?

This was the role of the several hundred billion citizens!

An absolutely indispensable role—the strong treated the weak with tolerance, and the main reason was not out of benevolence.

Rather, the several hundred billion citizens wielded terrifying power and were fundamentally not the weak!

The vast populace of Xianmen never needed pity from any powerful figure; the compassion and awakening of the strong were never the foundation of the Xianmen citizens' existence—they wielded world-destroying power and were never in a position of weakness.

If the strong were not convinced,

And wished to overturn Xianmen's order, destruction and death were the only outcome.