Chapter 1567: Late Void Refinement

After meeting the Great Sun Sword Lord and receiving his explicit guarantee on his Sword Heart, the Dao Child of the Jiudaxian Sect led some core disciples to formally surrender to the Immortal Gate.

Similar to the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven, they would possess a special zone within a realm; the military, diplomacy, and education within the zone would be guided by the Immortal Gate, while the Badaxian Sect retained all other powers.

In exchange, the Badaxian Sect pledged loyalty to the Immortal Gate and surrendered the inheritances they possessed.

This was an enormous fortune!

The political credibility the Immortal Gate had always upheld over countless years finally received its reward at this moment.

If it were someone like the Ancient God Ancestor instead, even if he could destroy them, he could not obtain the Upper Realm inheritances; even if the Upper Realm Xianzong inheritance holders were no match, destroying their own inheritances would be no problem at all.

Even if one seized a body, one could never obtain a complete Xianzong inheritance.

This enormous wealth of knowledge instantly shook the entire Immortal Gate, and the highest-level Immortal Dao scientific research conference was swiftly convened; no one felt that exchanging a realm for these was a losing deal.

"We've struck it rich!"

"The Immortal Gate's Immortal Dao foundation has surged eightfold in an instant! Eightfold!"

Senior Wanji True Venerable said excitedly: "This is a complete inheritance that leads straight to the peak of Heaven and Man, covering almost every aspect—artifact refining, spirit planting, formations, talismans, incense faith, beast taming, alchemy… and so on!"

"Among them, the path of Brother Brother Xuanwu's incense faith, although we don't like it, holds very great research value; at the very least, in the future it can prevent us from being harmed by incense faith."

"The Immortal Gate's Immortal Dao scientific and technological arts are about to welcome a great breakthrough!"

Senior Wanji True Venerable declared.

After absorbing the Badaxian Sect's inheritances, this kind of great breakthrough in science and technology was almost inevitable.

"For the next several thousand years, the focus of our work will be on absorbing and fusing the Badaxian Sect's inheritances."

Yuan sighed.

"Within at most three thousand years, our alchemy industry, artifact-refining industry, shipbuilding industry, and all other fields will see great improvements; all kinds of industrial products will cost less and be of better quality.

Every citizen will benefit, receiving better pills, better magic treasures, while spending fewer spirit stones."

"Building on this, the cultivation of Immortal Gate citizens and the number of powerhouses will surely welcome a great wave of growth."

"Finally, the strength of the citizen fleet will also undergo earth-shaking changes."

"Haha!"

"It's not just that."

Zhenjun Shenji True Venerable said with a smile: "With the Badaxian Sect's inheritances as reference, the R&D progress of our solar-system-class warships, eighth-tier Gong Fa, eighth-tier central array-spirit computers, eighth-tier military formations, and other projects will all accelerate dramatically.

Many original scientific research difficulties were solved in an instant; the sages of the Badaxian Sect had long encountered similar difficulties and had already overcome them, and we only need to copy them."

"Think back to those years, from the Yuan onward, when the Immortal Gate's sages were slaves to others, without even a Jin Dan cultivator—could anyone have imagined today?"

"Now, the dreams of our predecessors have all been realized."

Zhenjun Shenji True Venerable sighed.

Everyone exchanged words one after another; amid their excitement, they were all filled with countless emotions.

"Esteemed predecessors,"

"The millennial Hero Monument Grand Sacrifice is coming soon—shall we hold it in grand style?"

Teacher Gu Lin True Venerable suggested: "The successive patriarchs of the Youming Sword Grotto-Heaven and the successive patriarchs of the Badaxian Sect should all be inscribed on the Hero Monument and enjoy incense sacrifice; this will help us dispel the Badaxian Sect's resistance and strengthen their sense of belonging."

"After all, regardless of stance, the sages who contributed to Immortal Dao science throughout history all deserve our respect."

"Because we have inherited the legacy of the human predecessors of the past."

Teacher Gu Lin True Venerable, the once-outside-world-called "Dao Child Gu Lin" prodigy of the Immortal Gate, after advancing to the Void Refinement realm and tempering himself in this realm for nearly ten thousand years, finally ascended to the Immortal Gate's Political Participation Council, becoming one of the nine great political participants three hundred years ago.

"Good."

"That's a fine idea."

Jiang Ding, hearing this, fully agreed: "The successive sages of the Badaxian Sect bear no grudge against us; the Immortal Gate had not even appeared in the Jiuling Domain back then."

"The past grievances and entanglements have faded with time; only the brilliant crystallized wisdom of Immortal Dao science remains in the world."

The human race is just like this.

Although internal strife is utterly brutal and a fight to the death, no matter how deep the hatred, as time passes both sides die off, yet the crystallized wisdom of Immortal Dao is passed down, developing generation after generation, benefiting the entire human race.

"Hahaha, indeed so."

"Immortal Dao scientists who achieved great results, even those of enemy nations, are worthy of respect—let alone the fact that they have long been dead for many years."

Yuan laughed heartily.

After briefly discussing some political affairs, everyone swiftly threw themselves into the digestion and fusion of the Badaxian Sect's Immortal Dao knowledge legacy.

One fact had already clearly emerged.

Several thousand years from now, the Immortal Gate and everyone present would surely welcome a great increase in Immortal Dao foundation, because the Immortal Dao inheritance wisdom of all forces—the ten great Xianzong of the Jiuling Domain, as well as the Ancient God Domain's Demon God Sect, the Myriad Races Alliance, and so on—was fusing, beginning to fuse within an extremely efficient Immortal Dao collective civilization.

This fusion would surely give birth to something entirely new, something far beyond anything in the past.

……

Time flew like a shuttle.

Unknowingly, three thousand years passed.

On this day, at the center of Dayang Dayang Tianchi, boundless light and heaven and earth spiritual energy converged, flowing in an endless stream, having continued for several hundred years, and finally today, a terrifying qi

breath advanced another step, the breath increasing by another large margin.

After a long while, the radiance dissipated, and a several-hundred-thousand-meter Divine Sun Tree stood tall between heaven and earth.

"Late Void Refinement."

"Reached it calmly and peacefully, without any disturbance."

Jiang Ding opened his eyes.

He introspected his body and found that the magic power in his dantian had already accumulated to two-thirds full; he was only a small portion away from filling the entire dantian.

"I should still be ten thousand years from the peak of Void Refinement."

"At that time, I can break through to the Hedao stage; it will be achieved, without any bottleneck, without any accident."

Jiang Ding whispered.

It was such a wonderful thing, the celestial fortune countless Void Refinement cultivators dreamed of—but his voice was cold, resentful, and… a deep crimson hunger for slaughter.

The secondary refinement of the Rebirth rule's success rate, after three thousand years of continuous contemplation of the rules, experimentation, scientific training, and assimilation of the Badaxian Sect's legacies, had now increased significantly, reaching eighty point seven percent.

Yet!

The path to one hundred percent, absolute achievement, remained impossibly distant.

Jiang Ding felt a bad premonition—his earlier estimates had been overly optimistic.

Secondary refinement of the Rebirth rule for Void Refinement cultivators was among the pinnacle achievements of immortal scientific research in the Grand World!

Though it seemed but a minor event for Void Refinement cultivators, insignificant to Celestial Beings, historically, it might have been a great accomplishment developed by an entire upper-realm Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong.

Even with the immortal sect's vast legacy and reference materials, success might still be unattainable within ten thousand or tens of thousands of years.

In the worst-case scenario, if fortune turned against him, he might need to enter a deep slumber to resist the passage of time, waiting for the secondary refinement of the Rebirth rule to be successfully developed.