Chapter 1526: Nation of the Immortal-Path Industrial System

A terrifying immortal-path industrial nation was born within the Ancient God Domain.

Its scope spans forty-one domains, over ten thousand worlds, a population in the trillions—countless as the sands of the Ganges—and contains countless races and countless sub-civilizations, each sub-civilization possessing its own unique reserve of immortal-path knowledge and its own unique function, together upholding a dazzling immortal-path industrial Wang Zuo among the domains.

This immortal-path industrial nation has already been born and is growing strong.

"What comes next is to continue developing."

"Yuan and the others are about to return and begin deeply participating in the many researches of the Immortal Gate; no longer will it be cooperation across vast distances between domains—the pace of development from here on will be much faster."

"Just give the Immortal Gate fifteen thousand years, and everything will be different."

"Time, we need time…"

Jiang Ding murmured.

He looked toward the black fog star sea before him, his gaze flickering, revealing a sliver of cold light.

Over the past thousand years, many things have already been settled.

As time passed, the fundamental spirit-qi particles of this black fog star sea were undergoing extremely subtle and slow changes, beginning to shift in a specific direction toward unknown alterations, clearly related to the resurgence of the Heavenly Beings.

Moreover, as these fundamental spirit-qi particles changed, more unknown forces were spreading outward in all directions with the black fog star sea as their center, influencing something, changing something.

The true primordial sovereigns of the Ancient God Domain were reviving, and the various causes and effects buried tens of thousands of years ago were shifting.

Within the Ancient God Domain, something must have changed!

Jiang Ding was absolutely certain of this.

Yet he did not know what essential thing was changing, nor did he know what terrifying form these changes would ultimately manifest as.

Over these years, he and the Immortal Gate had been exploring, researching, repeatedly reading through the seized Ancient God Dao inheritances—gaining much, yet never able to find the essential change within this domain, nor the possible great danger.

What would the malice of a Heavenly Being be like?

Where would it manifest?

This immense pressure weighed on everyone's hearts, so that over these years they had all been madly cultivating and researching, never pausing for a moment.

"What exactly is it?"

"What is lurking, growing within the Ancient God Domain?"

Jiang Ding murmured.

He could find no answer and fell into thought.

Unknowingly, another several hundred years passed.

Boom—!

At a certain moment, Jiang Ding was startled awake by a peal of thunder and looked toward the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven domain.

In that distant place, amid the tribulation clouds of an Ascension Immigration Lei Gao Jie.

A man and a woman, two sword cultivators, were withstanding a Lei Gao Jie personally initiated by the Central Array Spirit Computer, undergoing thorough examination of their magic power, foundations, battle

merits, moral character, and so on; if they failed, death would descend upon them, their divine souls utterly destroyed.

Such strictness is because the Ascension Immigration Heavenly Tribulation requires a small amount of the Central Array Spirit Computer's computing power and cannot be casually triggered by native cultivators, lest it bring danger to the Immortal Gate.

But beneath the Lei Ting, two Nascent Soul inheritance sword cultivators were joining forces to face the heavenly tribulation, displaying all manner of exquisite sword arts, fighting desperately against the heavenly tribulation.

The data of the Ascension cultivators was automatically submitted to the Immortal Gate's Council of Ministers—this is the solemnity of citizen status.

"Qing You and Qing Yang inheritances, the two most outstanding inheritance seeds to awaken from the seal of the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven in tens of thousands of years, possessing the Supreme Yin Dao Body and the Supreme Yang Dao Body, unsealed in this era to receive the brand-new education of the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven, as well as having received the Immortal Gate's moral-character education since childhood…"

"Their battle merits are illustrious, their moral character excellent, their immortal-path scientific creativity outstanding—they fully meet the Immortal Gate's Ascension Immigration requirements…"

"This generation's Tai You Chong Guang Ming inheritance sword cultivators have extremely outstanding talent; they will surely achieve Dao Merging in the future, with a slight possibility of reaching Heavenly Being."

"This is an important measure by which the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven attempts to integrate into the Immortal Gate."

"The future threat of the Qing You and Qing Yang inheritances is extremely great; they are the highest-talented, strongest cultivators since the establishment of the Immortal Gate's Ascension Immigration system. Council members, please respond with utmost seriousness…"

Various programs within the Central Array Spirit Computer's Ascension System were activated, transmitting detailed information to the Immortal Gate's Council of Ministers.

Through the Immortal Gate's Central Array Spirit Computer, a sliver of divine sense from the nine Immortal Gate Council members gathered together, quietly watching the distant Lei Gao Jie, countless rule-forces interlacing in their gazes as they deduced the myriad futures.

"This day has finally arrived."

"An Ascension Immigration prodigy has appeared who may overturn the Immortal Gate in the future."

Senior Wanji Zhen Zun's mechanical mouth opened and closed, cackling strangely: "Although I had long been mentally prepared, a feeling of discomfort still wells up inside me, a desire to strangle them in the cradle."

"Should we strangle them? Everyone."

The might of the Immortal Gate's Ascension Immigration Heavenly Tribulation is not fixed.

It can be raised or lowered—raised to the point of destroying a Dao Merging cultivator; destroying a mere Nascent Soul cultivator naturally poses no difficulty at all; even a sword-seed of the Upper Realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong at the Nascent Soul stage coming here would die.

Of course, this does not count the life-preserving trump cards bestowed by the elders of the Upper Realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong sword-seeds—they are not so easily bullied across realms by superior foes.

The might of the Ascension Heavenly Tribulation can be influenced by the Immortal Gate Council members.

Generally speaking, the Immortal Gate Council members are very busy and have no time to mind the Ascension Heavenly Tribulation of a single Nascent Soul cultivator.

No matter how great a prodigy,

how could their talent possibly compare to those of us who control the Zhu Zai Gao Jie domain?

Who among us is not a prodigy?

However, the strongest inheritance of the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven currently undergoing Tribulation Crossing

can no longer be ignored.

Their talent is extremely high; their inheritance is at the Heavenly Being level; they are born with a seventh-grade top-quality sword embryo; in the future, they can be said to walk all the way to the peak of Dao Merging without much difficulty, and reaching the Heavenly Being level also holds some hope.

This is the bearing of an Immortal Gate Council member.

Although, as Ascension Immigrants, they may not necessarily gain the support of a large number of Immortal Gate citizens and ascend to the supreme seat of power within the Immortal Gate.

"Execute them."

This was Tao Qing Zhen Zun's opinion, spoken calmly.

She needed no one's viewpoint and had made her own decision.

"Increase the power of the Heart Demon heavenly tribulation by three levels. As for prodigies — since ancient times, the power of heavenly tribulation for them has always been far stronger than for ordinary people. It stands to reason."

"Their moral character needs to be tested more thoroughly."

This was Yuan De's opinion.

"Execute."

"Execute."

"..."

"A normal response will suffice. The Immortal Gate need not fear any prodigy. On the contrary, we welcome like-minded prodigies to join the Immortal Gate and advance together along the path to immortality."

This was Divine Mechanism True Venerable's opinion.

"Increase the heavenly tribulation Lei Ting by three levels, and the Heart Demon heavenly tribulation by four levels."

"If one's strength is insufficient, and one cannot break through oneself within a life-and-death heavenly tribulation, then they are not the sword-path prodigy the Immortal Gate requires. The weak deserve to die."

This was Great Sun Sword Lord's opinion.

The nine great councilors did not consult anyone, and went ahead to make their own decisions.

"Voting complete, tallying normally..."

"Please wait."

The central array spirit computer ran its program logic, repeatedly confirming that this was a decision of the Immortal Gate councilors, that it had not been interfered with by any external force, and whether the procedure was lawful, before announcing the result.

"The execution opinion did not reach the required six votes. It does not stand."

"Combining the opinions of the other councilors, the result is as follows: the power of the heavenly tribulation Lei Ting is raised by two levels, and the Heart Demon heavenly tribulation is strengthened by four and a half levels."

"This resolution takes effect immediately."