Chapter 1536: Immortal Sect's Number One Tycoon, Great Sun Sword Master

The participating elders of the Immortal Sect continued their inspection and testing of this first stellar-class warship, discovering many flaws that had not appeared in the prior simulated calculations, and corrected them one after another.

According to the estimates of the project's chief engineer, True Venerable Divine Mechanism, these defects could be fully repaired within at most five hundred years.

By that time, a true Immortal Sect stellar-class warship would emerge into the world.

"The Immortal Sect's flagship certainly needs to be upgraded, and the cost comes from the Immortal Sect's treasury."

"Jiang Ding,"

True Venerable Divine Mechanism inquired: "Do you want to place an order for a stellar-class warship? The Immortal Sect's current production capacity is entirely sufficient to accommodate the construction of two stellar-class warships."

"Additionally, your stellar-class warship should be custom-built, better matching your combat style, and the military formation arrays also need to be altered. The factory zones, living quarters, and so on on the Death Star Ship still need to be outfitted with sword-forging arrays and the like that you require. These matters need a shipbuilding preparatory meeting convened in advance to discuss thoroughly."

From a very long time ago, the Great Sun Sword Master's warships had always been funded from his personal savings.

The difference from Immortal Sect treasury appropriations was that the warship belonged entirely to an individual, rather than being like Yuan's — the Free Immortal Sect Ship was actually the Immortal Sect's flagship, not someone's private property.

Theoretically speaking, if Yuan stepped down from his position, he could not take the Free Immortal Sect Ship with him; it had to be handed over to the next incumbent.

And a stellar-class warship!

Its value was incalculable, its industrial chain extremely long, its engineering procedures complex, and the first- to seventh-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures used were beyond counting. It was nearly equal in weight to a planet, and the direct Dao of Immortality industry jobs it could create were conservatively estimated at around ten million — and these were high value-added positions accommodating Jin Dan, Nascent Soul, Soul Transformation, and Void Refinement cultivators.

The indirectly created jobs numbered at least in the tens of billions.

Moreover, these were not jobs lasting ten or twenty years, but thousands of years — high-welfare positions for dozens of generations of citizens, a tremendous boon for internal employment among citizens, and could even drive breakthroughs in many aspects of Immortal Dao science and technology.

Relying on these high-welfare positions, who knew how many Soul Transformation cultivators and Void Refinement cultivators might be born, further strengthening the Immortal Sect fleet's power.

This was why the Immortal Sect vigorously developed cutting-edge Immortal Dao industry.

It truly brought great benefits, touching upon the lifelong Dao paths of many citizens.

"Yes."

"The current situation in the Ancient God Dao Black Mist Star Sea is very bad. I feel a serious unease. The super warship Great Sun should be promoted to stellar-class as soon as possible."

Jiang Ding met the expectant gaze of the ship spirit Yun Qi and said: "I will deposit the first-phase shipbuilding deposit into the corporate account of Lianyun Air Port within three years. As for the shipbuilding preparatory committee, you may discuss it with my main body. My divine soul's computing power cannot support calculations of this scale."

A stellar-class warship.

Even for him, the shipbuilding cost was too high. He could not pay the full amount upfront — it exceeded the limit of his liquid funds.

(Jin Dan)

However, the shipbuilding cycle would last at least seven or eight thousand years or more, so the payment pressure was not great, because his many industries and various patents were generating wealth continuously every moment.

"Impressive,"

"You young man are generous!"

True Venerable Divine Mechanism praised, a look of delight appearing on his face.

As the warship's chief engineer, he had many students and peers under him whose livelihoods and cultivation needed maintaining, as well as their pursuit of the Dao. Naturally, he had to consider things well for them, and this also brought enormous benefits to the entire Immortal Sect's economy.

For himself, participating in the design and construction of a stellar-class warship was also a good practical process for his advancement to Dao Merging — just like the ancient sect cultivators' "worldly tempering and enlightenment of the Dao," it was all a process of comprehending the Immortal Dao, and would be of tremendous help to his future advancement to the Dao Merging stage.

As for compensation in spirit stones, heavenly materials, earthly treasures, and the like, naturally he would not be shortchanged.

All of these things could only be afforded by the Immortal Sect's number one tycoon, the Great Sun Sword Master. Outside of the Immortal Sect treasury, another economic stimulant had appeared.

Yes,

The Great Sun Sword Master had now far surpassed Yuan, becoming the Immortal Sect's number one tycoon!

In the Immortal Sect, strength was the ability to research and develop Immortal Dao technology, and the ability to accumulate wealth. The Great Sun Sword Master possessed the power to suppress the entire Immortal Sect, so naturally he was not lacking in wealth creation either — it was truly terrifying.

Sometimes, the Great Sun Sword Master's annual increase in deposits at the Immortal Sect Central Bank even exceeded the fiscal revenue controlled by the Immortal Sect Ministry of Finance!

If the two were viewed separately, they were simply the treasuries of two quasi-Heavenly Human-level powers, not the deposit account of a single individual.

Now, the funds in this quasi-Heavenly Human-level "treasury" were about to flow into various employment positions across the Immortal Sect — truly a tremendous boon, and moreover an embodiment of the further binding of both sides' interests, a hundred times more reliable than any alliance treaty, and immediately put the surrounding Immortal Sect Void Refinement cultivators at ease.

"Looks like it's going to be busy again."

True Venerable Ten Thousand Mechanisms said with a smile.

No matter how mad a person was, they couldn't possibly do anything untoward before their own warship was even finished being built, could they?

Let alone the Immortal Sect's Great Sun Sword Master, whose moral character surpassed ninety-nine point nine-nine-nine-nine percent of Immortal Sect cultivators, and whose political stance was extremely reliable.

The reason they did this was merely out of habitual interest-binding.

This was their habit, and also Jiang Ding's own habit.

Everyone was constantly maintaining the Immortal Sect system, continuously thickening the connections between each other, rather than consuming it — even though the feelings between them had already become so intimate as to be almost inseparable.

The deeper and more intimate the relationship, the more it needed to be maintained.

Not the case that because my relationship with you is good and our feelings are deep, my interests can be sacrificed.

Even less the case of being meek and obedient to outsiders, always showing a smiling face, while inwardly your bad temper can be vented on me at will, scolded at will.

Nuonuo, you often show a smiling face, but inside, your bad temper can be vented on me at will, scolded at will.

……

(Jiang Ding Zi)

Time drifted on, and before he knew it, a thousand years had passed.

Demon Heaven Domain, Solar Watchtower.

On this day, Jiang Ding awoke from his cultivation and sword-forging, suddenly looking toward the Ancient God Black Mist Star Sea before him, the unease in his heart growing ever stronger.

Before him, the Black Mist Star Sea churned ceaselessly, with towering waves rising and falling. The rules within were constantly in disarray and flux, no longer possessing the calm profundity of the past, as if an ancient fierce beast gradually awakening — its brutal killing intent and emotions beginning to manifest outwardly, causing celestial phenomena to shift unceasingly.

"Finally,"

"Senior Ancient God, your contingency — is it about to appear?"

Jiang Ding whispered coldly.

A spark of inspiration appeared in his mind.

The various data recorded continuously by the Solar Watchtower over these several thousand years — rule-change data, basic spiritual particle change data, the myriad inheritances of the Ancient God Dao, and the various mysteries of the Six Paths of Reincarnation… all manner of documents appeared in his sea of consciousness, undergoing rapid calculation and deduction.

At a certain moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared.

"Reincarnation!"

"Reincarnation, rebirth and awakening..."

Jiang Ding suddenly felt his heart race, thinking of an extremely terrifying guess.

If this guess were true, this Ancient God Ancestor, the master of the endless starry sky and inheritor of the human race's legacy, even while still in a state of awakening, had precisely aimed at the Immortal Sect's fatal weak point and was now attacking it.

The only question now was: how far had the Ancient God Ancestor progressed?

Would the Immortal Sect fall?

Jiang Ding's heart suddenly panicked.

Then, this panic instantly hit rock bottom; his eyes turned a burning scarlet, giving birth to a violent, mad killing intent.

"Such a powerful enemy,"

"If it is truly so... the Immortal Sect will not perish!"

Jiang Ding whispered coldly: "Even if the entire Immortal Sect is destroyed, as long as this Lord still lives, I will surely rebuild the Immortal Sect and restore the order of the citizens."

"This Ancient God senior will also be unable to destroy the Immortal Sect."