Chapter 1523: Immortal Gate Immortal Dao Industrial System: Great Division of Labor Among Ten Thousand Races

Jiang Ding's gaze drifted to more distant places, settling upon the hundred million living beings of the Youming Realm.

In customs and culture, these cultivators were rapidly converging toward Immortal Gate citizens, yet differences remained: the hierarchical order since ancient times, wherein they regarded Immortal Gate citizens as akin to inner-disciples of the Upper Sect.

As for the Immortal Gate secondary network they used, it embodied further enhancement of the Immortal Gate Central Array Spirit Computer's computing power; it could now expand the divine sense network to native cultivators at Foundation Establishment and above, incorporating them into the system of public opinion propaganda and command issuance.

The Immortal Gate Central Array Spirit Computer was their direct superior, not their commanding officer.

Many native cultivators had grown accustomed to receiving commands from the Central Array Spirit Computer, accepting missions, obtaining rewards, promotions in rank, and Gong Fa.

They grew within this system, had become accustomed to it, and trusted its fairness.

If one day a powerful figure incited rebellion without severing the transmission of commands from the Central Array Spirit Computer, the consequences were imaginable.

Perhaps a single order would suffice, and everyone except the rebellious powerful figure would no longer be loyal.

Once the timing was suitable, an orderly and terrifying rebellion would erupt instantly.

This was the Immortal Gate's terrifying degree of control over vassal civilizations.

At the same time, it must not be concealed that this Immortal Gate secondary network and the Immortal Gate citizen network were entirely different existences.

Within this Immortal Gate secondary network, all words and deeds were monitored; no privacy existed, and the Immortal Gate administrative departments could initiate any reasonable investigation.

Public opinion among native cultivators within the Immortal Gate secondary network was strictly controlled.

Naturally, the Immortal Gate secondary network would not contain the nearly infinite Immortal Dao knowledge found in the citizen network; as long as one could understand it, one could have as much as desired. Moreover, detailed and precious intelligence between realms could not be obtained easily; all controlled knowledge involving realm trends, geographical changes, realm maps, and the like would never leak out.

For all useful knowledge, native cultivators must establish military merit, prove their loyalty and ability with blood, before receiving it; for the same military merit, their rewards were far smaller than those of citizens.

Furthermore, an intangible yet solid ceiling existed inherently for them; if conditions were not met, even an unparalleled genius could at most reach the peak of Soul Transformation and perish, unable to advance further.

In this world, there has never been love without cause.

"Let us go take a look at Youming Factory Number One."

Jiang Ding accessed the secondary network permissions for the Youming Sword Divine Realm area, made an assessment, and said.

"Yes, Sword Master."

Taiyou Legacy and Guangming Legacy led the way ahead.

In a few steps, the three crossed ten thousand li of land, arriving at a boundless, brightly lit steel technology city.

This city was divided into Yin and Yang parts, distributed like a Taiji diagram, with various alchemical Immortal Dao industrial instruments scattered in all directions.

These instruments formed the bones, muscles, and veins of a terrifying giant beast, connected by formation arrays; at the Yin pole and Yang pole, extreme cold and extreme heat were applied, and after refining countless heavenly treasures and earthly gems, two types of synthesized seventh-tier heavenly treasures were formed.

Yangming Heavenly Light Copper and Youji Nine Abyss Iron!

These were sword-refining materials passed down through generations in the Youming Sword Divine Realm, yet now they had undergone earth-shattering changes.

"Sword Master,"

"The effect of the sword-refining materials has improved by more than double, and output has increased tenfold! Including the sixth-tier materials for Void Refinement-stage sword refining, truly..."

Guangming Legacy said in shock.

After merely simple modifications by the Immortal Gate, the sect's inherited sword-refining materials had undergone tremendous changes; it was truly baffling and hard to believe.

Like turning stone into gold, it completely defied common sense.

In that instant, the two somewhat understood why the Jiudaxian Sect of the Nine Spirit Realm was so poor yet so powerful; it was precisely these various things.

Could adversity truly be such a precious treasure?

If tens of thousands of years ago, the Youming Sword Divine Realm had also appeared in a barren world, would it have become so powerful?

These various speculations left Guangming Legacy's mind in turmoil.

"Guangming, Taiyou."

"I have always believed that only the union of interest and emotion can be eternal."

Jiang Ding carefully scanned each reaction step of Youming Factory Number One with his divine sense, and particularly checked whether the permission locks of the Immortal Gate Central Array Spirit Computer on various instruments were intact, then said: "This factory shall remain as it is."

"Yangming Heavenly Light Copper and Youji Nine Abyss Iron are superior seventh-tier materials, playing a crucial role in the Immortal Gate's construction of star-level warships; they cannot be dispensed with."

"And these seventh-tier materials can only be refined in large quantities by Taiyin sword cultivators using instruments; they must be refined within the Youming Sword Divine Realm. This is the reason the Youming Sword Divine Realm exists within the Immortal Gate, and it will never change; it will never undergo earth-shattering alterations due to someone's preference or aversion."

"You must focus on this factory henceforth."

"Yes, Sword Master."

Guangming Legacy said solemnly.

In fact, even if the Great Sun Sword Master had not said so, they would have done the same, because the sixth-tier byproducts produced during the refining of Yangming Heavenly Light Copper and Youji Nine Abyss Iron were extremely important raw materials for their sword refining; their recent rapid cultivation breakthroughs, the further sharpening of their flying swords, and the further solidification of their foundations were all related to this.

During the great development of Yin-Yang Immortal Dao industry, the two had shared immense benefits and would naturally allow no one to damage even a fraction.

In fact, such people existed within the Youming Sword Divine Realm, and in considerable numbers.

No matter how Immortal Dao productive forces developed, no matter how powerful productive forces erupted, there would always be stubborn conservatives obstructing, driven by interest or emotion, wishing to return

to extreme tradition, changing not a single bit.

These stubborn conservative cultivators were now nowhere to be seen.

"That is good."

"In these years you have done well; continue henceforth, advancing toward the Heaven-Man realm. I hope that in the days to come you can establish yourselves in this domain, and do not betray the ideals and aspirations of Daoist Guangming and Daoist Taiyou."

Jiang Ding waved his hands at the two, indicating they need not follow further, then rose and flew toward the realm's sky, gradually disappearing from sight.

"Respectfully escorting, Sword Master!"

Behind them, the two Legacy disciples bowed deeply; only after the existence far away had departed for a long while did they slowly rise.

Guangming Legacy and Taiyou Legacy exchanged glances, somewhat surprised to find that their Daoist partners' hearts held no sense of relief, no emotion of escaping calamity, but rather a certain reluctance.

This differed greatly from the resentment of the past Taiyin sword cultivator lineage.

"Little You, why?"

Guangming Legacy asked curiously.

He would certainly not betray his path; he had been so from beginning to end, and would be so in the future, yet he also held a great natural affinity for the other Sun sword cultivator, and Taiyou seemingly should not be so.

"What is there to find strange?"

"Idiot!"

The Taiyou Inheritance rolled its eyes and sighed softly: "This sword cultivator is upright and honorable. If we can kill him in a Sacred Sword Duel in the future, then naturally we must do it without any hesitation, risking our lives."

"But before any Sacred Sword Duel, doing shady, underhanded things behind the scenes would be far too disgraceful."

"Besides, with a powerhouse like this guiding us, the foundations of our cultivation have advanced by leaps and bounds over the past thousand years, far surpassing the time when our old Master and the others were here. How could I not know all this…"

"Hahaha!"

"If the Sword Master knew you harbored such ambition to replace him, he would be very pleased."

The Guangming Inheritance burst into laughter.