Chapter 1302: Appearing Again in the Xian Gao Jie

Comprehending immortal arts does not equal the entirety of life.

Jiang Ding left a clone here.

His true body walked outward, continuing to handle various immortal path research and development tasks within the Immortal Sect, and began preparations and planning for the "Destruction of the Five Elements Sword Project."

For instance, finding someone to design the blueprints for the five great star-orbit cannon barrels; he could do this himself, as the Immortal Sect Sword Dao Science Academy excels in this field.

However, if one wishes to do it well, one must first consult the authority on materials, the True Venerable of Ten Thousand Machines, the authority on array-spirit automated control, the True Venerable of Divine Machines, and Yuan, who is extremely strong in all aspects.

There are also opinions from many others, even including some Jin Dan and Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Because Jiang Ding's sense of time differs vastly from that of low-level cultivators and mortals, and the Immortal Sect's industrial system is intimately connected with the vast numbers of mortals and low-level cultivators, serving as the very first step in many of the Immortal Sect's industrial foundation chains.

For example, the first step in the synthesis process for Synthetic Synthetic Gengjin is carried out by mortal citizens and low-level cultivators; their production capacity issues must be taken into account.

In this regard, Foundation Establishment and Jin Dan cultivators are more likely to produce experts, as they are closer to basic industrial production.

One must also investigate the mineral resources in nearly two hundred Minor Thousand Worlds near the Immortal Sect, as well as which heavenly treasures and earthly gems are available for trade within the Badaxian Sect regions; heavenly treasures and earthly gems in the Tian Yuan Domain must also be considered.

After all, the design blueprints for the five great orbit cannons must consider what materials will be used to forge them.

There is also the progress of various new material and new technology research and development...

And so on.

In short, within the Immortal Sect, forging a super-large magical treasure is not the affair of a single cultivator, but the operation of an entire industrial system, involving the cooperation, production capacity allocation, and extreme complexity of tens of trillions of people or more; only the soul-calculating power of a Soul Transformation cultivator or higher can make sense of it, and even then only with the help of the Central Array Spirit Computer to organize it.

Industrial matters are just this troublesome, extremely precise and complex.

Once everything was finished, another ten years had passed.

By this time, Jiang Ding had organized a framework and handed it to the Immortal Sect Academy to handle.

He then returned to the Dayang Dayang Tianchi to continue cultivating, tempering his flying sword, and taking stock of his wealth.

"I currently have a total of,"

"thirteen Harmony Dao combat merits, forty-one Void Refinement combat merits; Soul Transformation combat merits are gone, used up as change by me to avoid the trouble of remembering them."

"There are also about five million top-grade spirit stones and heavenly treasures and earthly gems."

"These are my entire liquid assets, not counting numerous physical heavy assets, numerous shares, patents, and the like."

Jiang Ding counted clearly on his fingers.

It is not too much, because numerous physical heavy assets, such as the Dayang Yaojin Factory, the Sword Dao Hall Group, and so on, are the bulk of his wealth and were not included.

He is not accustomed to hoarding money too much, acting like a local landlord or a miser.

Basically, after reserving a portion, he invested the money into the Immortal Sect's reproduction and the development of his own industries.

This has many benefits: it can accelerate the development of the Immortal Sect's economy and science, provide more Immortal Sect employment, and his own wealth can also grow; it is a win-win situation, far more useful than a pile of cold bank account numbers.

"My thirteen Harmony Dao combat merits."

Jiang Ding focused on counting these.

"Among them, thirteen point zero Harmony Dao combat merits are Immortal Sect rewards for turning in immortal art fragments; again, the Immortal Sect currently only has this much money to exchange, having triggered the reward cap, so it can only give this much; the national treasury is empty."

"If it truly harmed the Immortal Sect's future development to give rewards, I myself would not agree."

"The remaining one point seven Harmony Dao combat merits were originally mine, obtained by participating in battles and researching planetary-level warships."

As for why there were none before?

Because the Immortal Sect was not a Harmony Dao-level power before; Harmony Dao combat merits did not exist. This is something that appeared only in the last few hundred years, stemming from the Immortal Sect financial system reform pushed by Senior Jin Liu.

"That's all; among Soul Transformation cultivators, I am still considered a rich person, right?"

Jiang Ding nodded in satisfaction.

Immediately, he sighed again.

"Pity, I still probably can't compare to the Dao Sons of the Upper Realm Immortal Sects..."

"I am still a pauper."

"Never mind; how can we cultivators be obsessed with money and other external things? Cultivation is paramount!"

"It's time to get the materials for the 'Sun Sword Tempering Method.' Before the first layer of tempering reaches the sixth Sun God Seal, it should only be some relatively ordinary Upper Realm materials, not that hard to find."

Jiang Ding muttered to himself, and his figure vanished.

Tempering his innate flying sword and enhancing its foundation has always been the thing he valued most in his cultivation; it has never been interrupted for thousands of years. Now that all conditions are met, he will no longer hold back.

After passing through the Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting as a transfer point, somewhere in the Leiyan Domain of the Upper Realm.

Among a pile of gravel, at a certain moment, an ordinary stone appeared once again, disturbing no space, air, rules, or dust.

This stone, which had been silent for many years, vanished.

Jiang Ding hid within the rules and space using the Human Path Sword Technique, not intending to meet any living being.

He hoped that before he was absolutely safe, no one in the Xian Gao Jie would recognize him or remember him, so as not to bring him any karma, trouble, or disturbances.

"Within the Xian Gao Jie, there are currently two matters."

"First, find the tempering materials for the 'Sun Sword Tempering Method'; this concerns my Dao path."

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Second, under absolutely safe conditions, find a way to enter the Blood Lake Bone Mountain and the mountain gate of the Tianshenlei Sect to retrieve the immortal art fragments there; those are my things."

Jiang Ding thought silently as he flew hidden in the sky.

Now, thanks to Zou Zou Xiyuan's robbery back then, the Immortal Sect possesses seventy percent of the immortal art fragments; the remaining portion is within the two great sects.

This was precisely why the two sects paid a huge price to descend upon the Northern Origin Minor World back then; they saw a huge opportunity and, knowing full well that a Harmony Dao battle had occurred there previously, still took the risk.

Through Zou Zou Xiyuan's soul-searching of that Void Refinement cultivator from the Tianshenlei Sect, Jiang Ding clearly knew that an immortal art fragment was sealed beneath the Tianshenlei Sect's ancestral formation, hidden and sealed tightly.

"That is my thing."

Jiang Ding repeated calmly.

That unknown existence clearly stated it wanted to spread the Dao across the starry sky to deal with some future situation; hearing this, it was naturally speaking to him.

Therefore,

Immortal Art · Sky-Suppression is his property, and he has transmitted the Dao of it to me.

Has any cultivator in the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect or the Blood Lake Corpse Mountain ever heard such a voice?

If so, please present evidence, and he will consider an exchange.

If not, this is forcibly seizing his property — a criminal and evil grave offense!

Jiang Ding distinguished a direction or two.

Mainly, he followed the spiritual veins, heading toward places where cultivators gathered. If he couldn't determine the way for the moment, he would find a cultivator in the act of killing and seizing treasures to ask for directions.

Within the coverage range of a divine sense spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, and in a place where cultivators gathered, such things were bound to happen.

Therefore, he seldom lost his way.

Still, asking low-level cultivators for directions was too troublesome — in their entire lives, their range of activity might never exceed a hundred thousand kilometers, and he couldn't extract any detailed information from them.

Jiang Ding searched here and there.

In the end, he locked onto a nearby infamous demonic Soul Transformation Canghai Tianjun, a cultivator known as the Romantic Human-Demon, and arrived at one of his secret strongholds — a cultivation market and brothel called Spring Breeze Tower.

"There's always a first time for everything,"

"This is the first time this Sovereign has entered such a place — I'm about to become impure…"

Jiang Ding felt a little heartache, and slowly paced his way through the main gate.