Chapter 2398

In the blink of an eye, two million years passed.

The Huang in the Supreme Sun Heavenly Pivot still sat upright on the crystal divine throne, having sealed himself within that palace, so that no one could enter to pay homage to the Human Emperor.

During these two million years, the development of Immortal Dao science and technology advanced by leaps and bounds, changing rapidly; every few hundred thousand years, the various aspects of society underwent many changes, and if a supreme being remained in seclusion for too long, they might even feel as though they had awakened in another age, unable to adapt to society, finding the latest Immortal Dao journals obscure and difficult to understand.

In such circumstances, the path of a supreme being often stagnates, or even regresses!

Because a supreme being is an eminent authority in a specific subdivision of Immortal Dao science and technology within the boundless starry void, and although the subdivisions of Immortal Dao science are as numerous as cow hairs, it is not guaranteed that someone will not clash with the supreme being's own subdivision; if a newcomer forcibly promotes that subdivision's supreme being, the original supreme being will inevitably suffer grave injury.

Even to the point of halving the lifespan of the additional supreme being!

Such is the terror that an elderly supreme being may very well exhaust their lifespan and die.

Between the old supreme being and the new heavenly prodigy, there will also be an inexplicable induction; though the exact location is unknown, they will certainly know that a great threat is forming.

If this were in ancient times, it would undoubtedly be a life-and-death Dao struggle: the old supreme being would seek to eliminate the unformed heavenly prodigy, extinguish their Dao lineage, while the newly risen heavenly prodigy would flee madly, plotting their opportunity to ascend, and the story of this would be tortuous and mysterious, filled with bloodshed, causing a myriad of worlds to fall into a bloody, terrifying war, where countless cultivators would perish as a result.

Placed in the present Supreme Sun Immortal Dynasty, it is likewise a life-and-death Dao struggle!

However, the means of struggle have changed.

No longer direct and bloody warfare, but contention within the Immortal Dynasty's framework—for example, public opinion smearing the opposing laboratory, cutting off the rival's research funds, lavishly poaching the opposing laboratory's personnel, deliberately publishing valuable yet trap-laden reviews in second-rate journals, using lawful and compliant administrative measures to suppress, and so on—

It can be said that, aside from not killing each other directly, the supreme beings have all gone all out to contend and slaughter.

Because this truly is a matter of life and death!

Therefore, in the Supreme Sun Immortal Dynasty, there are basically no supreme beings who seclude themselves for hundreds of thousands of years without attending to affairs; every supreme being must regularly read journals, participate in Immortal Dao research and development, and enhance their Immortal Dao foundation, or else they may be forced to yield to the newly ascended heavenly prodigy.

This situation currently exists in the Immortal Dynasty, but it is not common.

More young heavenly prodigies, however, look toward new technological breakthroughs and new branches of Immortal Dao science, for the Immortal Dao technological breakthroughs of these years have been too numerous, making it entirely unnecessary to compete with the old supreme beings, who are instead more disadvantaged.

The system of the Immortal Dynasty is precisely one that compels and encourages Immortal Dao scientists to constantly strive upward; those who fall behind are destined to be eliminated.

Within the Supreme Sun Heavenly Pivot.

Jiang Ding remained utterly motionless, like a stone carving intertwined with weeds and a human likeness, having not moved in the slightest for two million years, appearing as if dead.

Only the eye sockets continually flashing black and white light indicated that his soul and spirit were frantically calculating.

"————The super-engineering experimental model of the Nine-Character Immortal Scripture has been further simplified; it is estimated that the Immortal Dynasty need only three hundred million years to accumulate the resources for one experiment."

"————Major progress has been made in deciphering the Grass-Character Immortal Sword Scripture; it is estimated that completion of the breakthrough will require at most five hundred thousand years, and if an accident occurs, the Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword Soul will be burned, using the burning of foundation as a price to force deep enlightenment, which can likewise resolve————

This is the foundation of this sovereign as the present emperor."

Jiang Ding's mind conjured one idea after another.

His soul's computational power connected to the Grand Dream Sword Realm, and then directly communicated with countless Immortal Dynasty emperor-realm laboratories, quasi-emperor laboratories, and supreme-realm laboratories, exchanging ideas at every moment with countless Immortal Dynasty scientists, hearing their thoughts, and collaboratively exploring one Immortal Dao direction after another.

At every moment, hundreds of thousands of conjectures arose in his mind, and hundreds of thousands of conjectures were verified or falsified by these laboratories, making him extremely busy.

"The Financial Fortune Dao, further flourishing————"

Jiang Ding's gaze fell upon a report submitted by the empress, in which certain items were emphatically marked in red ink.

Jiang Ding's gaze turned toward the location indicated by causality, and immediately, in the capital of the Weaver Girl Star Domain, the Weaver Girl Major Thousand World, he saw a vast laboratory constructed jointly by the Immortal Sect Finance Sect heavenly prodigies, the True Dragon Immortal Clan, the Heavenly Secrets, and various Immortal Sects, from which golden fortune treasure light shot up into the heavens, illuminating myriad medium and minor thousand worlds.

It is worth noting that the scale of this giant laboratory is exceedingly high!

There are as many as three hundred and twenty-eight quasi-emperor cultivators stationed there, and even three incarnations of emperor-realm cultivators permanently resident; beneath them, countless supreme-realm teams are present, various heavenly materials and earthly treasures for experimentation are freely available, luxuriously abundant to an almost unbelievable degree, nearly comparable to the primary sub-item of the Immortal Dynasty-level project that the Human Emperor pays close attention to.

"Whose influence is so great?"

"To be able to organize so many people to undertake a civilian project—one's ability is not small."

Jiang Ding's brows furrowed slightly.

He casually performed a deduction, looking toward the river of past time, and scenes from the history of this laboratory successively appeared in his pupils, continuously flashing by.

The result immediately appeared.

"Money."

"It is the influence of money, the ability of money."

Jiang Ding muttered to himself: "The Financial Fortune Dao, in an Immortal Dao industrial nation, possesses an extremely strong moneymaking ability; these Financial Fortune Dao cultivators obtain money through investing in stocks, futures, angel investments, and so on, and then use money and storytelling dreams to acquire even more money————thereby gathering so many strong ones to work for them."

"The momentum is extremely fierce; the influence and number of Financial Fortune Dao papers published in the past hundred thousand years exceed those of the past several million years."

"The Financial Fortune Dao is now on the eve of an impending outbreak!"

"If the first Financial Fortune Dao emperor-realm cultivator is born————this emperor-realm cultivator has the ability to disrupt the Immortal Dynasty's financial order, trigger a depression affecting all industries, causing countless cultivators to go bankrupt and become homeless, a financial crisis!"

"Damn!"

Jiang Ding pondered for a moment, then cursed loudly.

These Financial Fortune Dao cultivators truly are capable of causing trouble; even in the present age of the Human Emperor, they have the ability to inflict major damage upon the Immortal Dynasty, and with this ability, they are simply like superbugs in a hospital ward, having a special advantage against the Supreme Sun Immortal Dynasty's super Immortal Dao industrial system, and in internal struggles, possessing destructive power akin to nuclear weapons.

Yet their external combat strength is no better than that of a stray dog by the roadside.

The Human Emperor's past dislike of the Financial Fortune Dao was not without reason; he had long sensed the danger and uncontrollability of finance, and had taken some measures, but still failed to prevent it.

"Whether or not————"

Jiang Ding felt some inexplicable thoughts arise in his heart.

Such violent interruption, he truly dislikes, for it would cause permanent damage to the Immortal Dynasty's organizational efficiency.