Chapter 2368: Hidden Dangers of the Financial Qi Luck Dao Are Expanding

For cultivators at the Emperor Realm, the present age is an excellent one.

This is equivalent to two Emperor Realm cultivators of equal talent and achievement: one teaching at an ordinary university, idling away his days, the other working in a national top-tier laboratory, exploring the upper limits of human civilization's technology; after several decades, their gap will grow to a terrifying extent.

This is the effect of resources and platforms on Emperor Realm cultivators.

With a sweep of his divine sense, Jiang Ding sensed the auras of eighteen Emperor Realm cultivators in the present Dao Court, benefiting from the completion of the Imperial Immortal Arts project, digesting its fruits; over hundreds of thousands of years, three more Emperor Realm cultivators have emerged from the immortal sects and legal cultivators, including one Emperor Realm sword cultivator, so the Dao Court can now be said to produce Taishan and Beidou-level figures in the immortal path.

Every Emperor Realm cultivator represents a peak of immortal path scholarship.

For example, the Great Sun Bright Light Sword Emperor's Great Sun Bright Light Sword Dao, extreme and pure, is most like the path of the first and successive Great Sun Sword Masters;

For example, the Sea Sword Emperor's Burn Sea Sword Dao, which burns and destroys all things, emphasizes the erosion, burning, concealment, and evasion of sword Dao; in battle, they often hide and evade in unknown places, the Burn Sea Sword Qi coming from nowhere to burn opponents until death, without overemphasizing frontal destruction;

For example, Han Li's Six Paths of Reincarnation and Life Roads, the 《Six Paths of Reincarnation Immortal Scripture》 being the peak of this era — 【9】 Jiang Ding will not overlook the achievements of these Emperor Realm cultivators in immortal path scholarship; when encountering related professional matters, he will carefully consult with the relevant Sword Emperors and quasi-Emperors and make joint decisions.

Jiang Ding would not overlook the achievements of these emperor-level cultivators in the field of immortal Dao scholarship; whenever matters related to their specialized fields arose, he would carefully discuss them with the relevant Sword Emperors and Quasi-Emperors, making decisions together.

Besides the many Emperor Realm cultivators, some noteworthy sprouts have also emerged.

"Has the Financial Qi Luck Dao made great progress?"

When Jiang Ding calculated and saw some things, his brow furrowed slightly.

Qi Luck is tolerable, but for finance, he has an inherent hostility, yet clearly knows it is an inevitable emergence of economic development; unless adopting barter and crude primitive economic systems, finance is not only important but necessary, and without finance, there would be no development of the Immortal Dao Industrial System.

This is something he is not good at; to him, it means chaos and the unknown.

"The True Dragon Immortal Clan, the Immortal Sect Finance Department, and a large number of groups like the Tianji Immortal Sect and Suantian Immortal Sect, all mixed together, researching with great fervor — do they confirm that this path could give birth to several Emperor Realm cultivators?"

"Never mind, let them go; I am the one who sets the rules, not the one who takes sides in the field."

"If factors harmful to the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dao System appear, adjust them; do not fear the unknown and chaos, for the unknown is the source of Immortal Dao progress."

Jiang Ding let out a light sigh, suppressing the restless thoughts in his heart.

There are hidden dangers here, he knows; once his suppression is lost, this group of Financial Qi Luck Dao cultivators will surely overturn heaven and earth, using virtual finance to suppress the physical Immortal Dao Industrial System, even completely devouring it, causing the efficient Immortal Dao Industrial System of the Immortal Dynasty to explode from within.

But are the hidden dangers within the Immortal Dynasty limited to the Financial Qi Luck Dao?

The Wei Zi family and many other families, many old sects, though these sects and families have been reformed into universities, with finance, personnel, military, etc., under direct control of the Supreme Great Sun Dao Court Central, everything is stable and secure; yet if supervision is lost and they revert to semi-feudal, semi-independent states, at most a few million years would pass, still not as good as the Myriad Laws Immortal Dynasty.

There are also immortal sects with extreme citizen-supremacist tendencies and crowds of frenzied Supreme Great Sun sword cultivators, who see everyone as a sacred sword-fighting whetstone — 【23】 The hidden dangers of the Immortal Dynasty are manifold; it is truly not lacking in the Financial Qi Luck Dao.

The hidden dangers of the immortal dynasty are numerous; it truly does not lack one more financial fortune Dao.

As long as the Human Emperor remains alive and does not cause chaos, that is sufficient; the rest are truly beyond management.

"This sovereign is still merely a mortal, with limited ability, unable to see so far — 【26】 Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

Jiang Ding Zi muttered to himself.

He closed his eyes and continued to deduce the 《Extinction of Dharma Sun Immortal Scripture》, refining the Taiqing Flying Sword.

This sword, since the founding of the Immortal Dynasty, has constantly devoured vast amounts of ninth-grade spiritual materials and immortal materials at every moment, never ceasing; the flying sword is now far stronger than when the Human Emperor first attained the Dao.

To this day, no living being has probed the limit of this Extinction of Dharma Dao Sword.

Besides, part of the Human Emperor's divine sense is constantly refining and monitoring the progress of the Supreme Great Sun Undying Immortal Elixir; every few hundred years, he injects a primitive ancient talisman into the immortal seed, feeding it vast amounts of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, continuously enhancing the vitality of the undying immortal seed.

However, this immortal seed grows extremely slowly, being a divine plant with a growth cycle of tens of millions of years, requiring at least a million years of cultivation before it will sprout.

Time flows slowly.

Unnoticed, another thirty thousand years have passed; the starry sky remains peaceful, the Immortal Dao of heaven and earth further leaps and transforms, the spiritual energy density, spiritual veins, and earth veins of all worlds continually strengthen, gradually approaching the silver trend, rising slowly and steadily, benefiting all Immortal Dao living beings.

The Boundless Starry Sky now has a core; without the bloodletting of the historical emperors, everything is gradually improving.

Just as everyone believed this peace would last until the expedition began, a variable appeared: two armies of decay from the distant, dark starry sky, after who knows how many hundreds of thousands of years of marching, have approached the borders of the Immortal Dynasty.

The figures of Emperor Realm cultivators, busy, arrived at the Heavenly Pivot.

Their steps were steady, their faces showed no anxiety, each waiting in the Heavenly Pivot until a youth in blue robes appeared.

"Greetings, Sword Master!"

The Emperor Realm cultivators bowed.

"No need for excessive courtesy."

Jiang Ding waved his hand; he was not surprised by these enemies, merely leaving them to be handled by the Immortal Dynasty itself.

"Jiang Ding,"

"These two decaying armies are not numerous, only two billion, like a small-scale infiltrating force."

The representative of the Immortal Dynasty General Staff, in his capacity, introduced: "These two forces differ completely in attire, personnel composition, military formations, banners, and rank titles, like two armies of cultivators from different factions, or perhaps the armies of two slumbering ancient emperors — 【45】 As he spoke, a sky-covering, earth-obscuring marching scene appeared before everyone's eyes.

As he spoke, a vast scene of an army blotting out the sky and covering the earth appeared before everyone's eyes.

The first force mainly consists of numerous rotting beast-shaped beings: immortal cranes, demon oxen, dragons, phoenixes, sea-covering demon apes, etc.; there are also humanoid beings, but they do not predominate, more like part of the barbaric myriad tribes than masters of the Boundless Starry Sky; this force's heavy weapons and banners mostly use animal hides and white bones, giving off a crude, barbaric aura.

Of course, a crude and barbaric appearance does not mean others lack high immortal Dao scientific and technological content; primitives are the same, this is merely appearance; the ancient emperor's army has no true barbaric primitiveness.

Their aesthetic is simply this style; they do not favor strong order or neatness.

Notably, the strong beings and those suppressing key military formation nodes among them mostly resemble the immortal beast qilin, or possess partial features of the immortal beast qilin, such as scales and qilin horns, including many humanoid beings, which are very similar to the historically recorded "burning transformation" — 【50】 Burning transformation, namely the phenomenon whereby myriad tribes evolve toward a certain direction through cultivating techniques, receiving essence blood from superior races, etc.

Incineration refers to the phenomenon in which myriad races evolve toward a certain direction through cultivating techniques, receiving essence blood from superior races, and similar means.

This phenomenon was common during the rule of the True Dragon Immortal Clan, and also occurs during human rule, for example, some demon tribes consider humans more beautiful and more representative of the Heavenly Dao, so demon tribes that transform into human form become stronger, etc.

Burning transformation is certainly the process whereby the weak draw near to the strong they cannot imagine.