Chapter 234: Immortal Sect Citizenship

The train arrived at Immortal Capital West and slowly came to a stop.

As his cultivation base grew ever more profound, Jiang Ding's entire person became like a ghost. Apart from the ticket inspector at the gate, no one along the way ever looked at him; they all subconsciously ignored him.

"The right to life is above all else!"

On the station's television screen, a figure was vigorously waving his arms while giving a speech. He wore gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked very familiar.

Jiang Ding's footsteps paused.

Liu Zhiyuan, a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Qingfeng University.

"Why, in this century, does such a barbaric law as the death penalty still exist? This suffocating, backward custom!"

His tone was impassioned, his chest filled with immense anger, and a circle of young students had gathered around him.

"The Immortal Sect losing one citizen is already a tremendous loss; why must we lose the life of another citizen as well!"

"If there is a mistake, it can be educated, reformed with love. No one is born a criminal; it is society's lack of love and care for them. Everything can be corrected."

"But a citizen's life, once lost, is gone forever."

"Once there is a miscarriage of justice, it can never be undone!"

"I advocate for the total abolition of the death penalty! Let the Lanying Star civilization enter a brand-new stage!"

Liu Zhiyuan raised both hands high.

"We collectively advocate for the abolition of the citizen death penalty!"

Below the podium, a group of students held up signs and shouted in unison, their emotions excited and full of longing.

A circle of travelers who had stopped for the spectacle surrounded them.

"The Abolitionist faction!"

A scruffy-bearded middle-aged man sighed with emotion: "There was this debate when I was young. I didn't expect it to still be here; how nostalgic."

"Professor Liu from Qingfeng University speaks so well. The citizen death penalty is indeed too barbaric; it should be changed."

Someone agreed; it was a young, beautiful woman.

"Change what?!"

"Scum deserve to die; don't talk about any 'reformation'."

Someone immediately retorted, also drawing a wave of agreement, mostly from older travelers.

"I can't believe you are all so cold-blooded..."

The two sides began to argue right there, each holding their own ground, the shouting becoming very intense.

Jiang Ding did not look again and flew toward Qingfeng University.

The Divine Tree Futianrong, which blotted out the sun and sky with branches reaching into the starry void, once again filled his entire field of vision. Between its breathing and exhaling of massive amounts of spiritual energy, it circulated through the entire planet, and countless floating continents were nestled among its branches and trunk.

A pale blue streak of light, a small dot, flew into a floating island the size of a hundred miles, where ninety-nine rivers intersected and formed waterfalls at the edges, and landed within.

Once again, he arrived right on time.

It was currently time for Language class, and streaks of light of various colors were gathering from all directions.

"Good morning, Dari Sword Child."

"Good morning."

People greeted him continuously along the way.

Jiang Ding searched for a moment and merged into the streaks of light of Jin Lingfeng and An Siyan.

"Jiang Ding, you've been asking for leave too frequently this year."

An Siyan said with some worry: "Successfully switching techniques doesn't mean you are completely worry-free. The 'Jing' grade techniques of the Foundation Establishment Realm are also very difficult. It will be hard for us to obtain such a generous educational environment after graduation, with Nascent Soul Zhenjun who specialize in education pointing out our cultivation at all times."

"You should take advantage of this opportunity to accumulate your foundation as much as possible, so that the independent cultivation that will inevitably come in the future won't be so difficult."

Indeed.

In a year of twelve months, he had taken nine months of leave; it was truly a bit exaggerated.

"You wouldn't have been suppressed too hard for the first eight years and relaxed too much all at once, would you?"

Jin Lingfeng asked curiously.

"There were indeed some matters at home, but they have already been handled."

Jiang Ding thanked them for their concern and turned to speak about the incident he encountered at the station.

For him, a shut-in who could close himself off, to encounter this, it showed that it had already caused a certain degree of influence within the Immortal Sect.

"The Abolitionist faction, this is nothing strange."

An Siyan said casually: "It's not just this; there is also the Extreme Equality faction, which advocates for equal pay for equal work between cultivators and mortals and suppresses cultivators.

There is also the Human Rights faction, which advocates that Immortal Sect Minor Realms and Lanying Star should be equal, and the Great Harmony faction, which believes all indigenous people should be regarded as Immortal Sect citizens."

"The Retro faction, which yearns for the Nine Great Immortal Sects system, the separation of immortals and mortals... etc., they are arguing very fiercely."

"The Immortal Sect's public opinion in this regard is very loose; there is everything. Except for the Extreme Equality faction and the Retro faction, the other factions cannot be said to be completely without reason; they also have their own logical theories."

"These crooked paths, where is there any reason in them!"

Jin Lingfeng was extremely displeased and retorted: "Take the Great Harmony faction for example. The Immortal Sect was created by our ancestors fighting tooth and nail, step by step with blood. Why should we share citizenship with indigenous people? Because of their ridiculous spiritual root talent?"

"This has nothing to do with us."

"You are right."

An Siyan did not refute; she spread her hands, signaling to Jiang Ding.

The example was right before their eyes.

Jiang Ding nodded.

After flying for a while, the three arrived at the classroom. The avatar of Dinghai Zhenjun was already waiting early. Accompanied by the bell for class, he spoke slowly:

"Today, we will discuss the circulation of magic power in the dantian and Qi Sea..."

Jin Ling Mountain.

Three months passed. The spiritual wheat broke through the soil, lush and green, covering the mountaintop. When the breeze blew, one could see waves of green rolling, and the faint fragrance of grass and trees permeated the air.

Under a deep blue metal tree, Jiang Ding took out a jade bottle, and one could vaguely see the scalding pure gold liquid rolling inside.

【Rongjin Fruit Sword-Quenching Liquid】

【Effect: A sword-quenching spiritual liquid refined with Tier 2 Rongjin Fruit as the main material. Long-term quenching can make a spiritual sword become sharper. It should be noted that this item is highly corrosive and must not be placed where children or low-tier cultivators can reach it. If used too much on low-grade spiritual swords, they may be damaged.】

This was what he had entrusted an elixir shop online to refine three months ago, and it arrived today.

"Go!"

Jiang Ding's spiritual sense moved, extracting a drop of the scalding pure gold liquid, controlling it to land on a leaf of the blue-gold tree.

The moment the pure gold liquid touched the leaf, it spread rapidly, instantly covering every part of the tree, every leaf, every piece of bark, adding a thin golden film to it.

Sizzle...

At the same time, the sound of metal corrosion came, and his soul felt a burst of stinging pain.

This was naturally not the Taiqing Flying Sword being corroded, but the sword intent that existed on it at all times encountering corrosion; the two were confronting and honing each other.

Jiang Ding calmed his heart.

He felt every battlefield of honing, mobilizing the same amount of sword intent as the Rongjin spiritual liquid to kill forward, maximizing its effect.

After several hours, all the Rongjin spiritual liquid was eliminated.

"Today is finished."

Jiang Ding let out a breath, his soul feeling a burst of exhaustion.

After resting for a moment, he pulled over a deep blue metal branch and examined it carefully.

At the edge of the leaf, a wisp of pale golden Gang Qi had been added at some unknown time; it was very, very faint, and would disappear if one were not careful, but it did indeed exist.

Jiang Ding extracted a piece of Tier 1 spiritual iron ore.

It was exactly what Han Lin and the others sent up every month, transmitted to the mountaintop through a formation. Besides this, there were various low-grade spiritual plants, spiritual beasts, spiritual insects, etc.

Of course, the most numerous were still mortal plants, mortal beasts, mortal insects, and various ores without spirituality, in quantities dozens of times greater. Almost all the mortal forces in the entire Yue Kingdom had been mobilized to participate in this matter.

The specimens collected every month piled up like a mountain, and it required multiple storage bags to hold them all.

These items brought Jiang Ding tens of thousands of library points every month!

And, it looked like it could continue for a period of time, until most of the easily collected specimens were gathered, at which point the speed of library point increase would suddenly slow down.

Jiang Ding estimated that,

All the unknown animals and plants in the entire Yue Kingdom combined should be able to add millions of library points for him!

This was the charm of developing an alien world!

He placed the Tier 1 spiritual iron ore at the edge of the leaf.

Swish!

The deep blue leaf turned slightly, and the spiritual iron ore was cut with a deep notch, and it did not touch the tree body itself, relying purely on that layer of pale golden sword intent on the surface.

"Not bad."

Jiang Ding nodded with satisfaction.

Once this batch of Rongjin Fruit was used up, it should be able to add a layer of sword intent with Tier 2 sharpness to the Taiqing Flying Sword, and his strength could increase a bit more.

"And this..."

He picked up another jade bottle covered in runes and sealed layer by layer. Inside, a drop of gray metal liquid was clearly visible, emitting wisps of heavy Yuan Magnetic aura.

It was exactly the Tier 4 material refined from the heart-blood magic treasure of a direct disciple of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, the Magnetic Fusion Crystal Core!

A Nascent Soul-tier refiner took action, taking nine years to successfully refine it.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 235 =====