Chapter 2554: Not foolish, not deaf, not becoming an old fogey? Ah

The golden great age, the unified Tai Shang Da Ri Ninth Immortal Dynasty.

The starry sky is silent.

This is the golden great age era belonging to the Tai Shang Da Ri Dao lineage, where myriad races' heavenly prodigies submit, the human race's great Dao lineages bow their heads, and countless heavenly prodigy elites gather in the Immortal Dynasty, serving under it.

Those who follow prosper; those who oppose perish!

This is the terrifying deterrent power of the Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dynasty in the golden great age.

Even if a forbidden zone heir is born, they must still bow down, serve the Immortal Dynasty, register in its records, or else a terrifying strike will descend, obliterating the forbidden zone heir to death.

All kinds of administration, all kinds of military affairs, and all kinds of Immortal Dao research and development have reached peak efficiency, and after the Immortal Dynasty's establishment, a comprehensive enhancement emerged.

Immortal Dao productivity has erupted again, and military might has risen to a new level!

Everyone only believes that the Immortal Dynasty, through countless struggles and accumulations, has seen its Immortal Dao foundation rise again, thus firmly controlling all star regions of the endless starry sky, with myriad peoples submitting.

No one knows that in ancient times, a monster has already partially revived and begun influencing the starry sky.

The Great Sun Forbidden Zone.

After Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang slightly handled some Immortal Dynasty scientific affairs, he fell into a gradual slumber.

Regarding his influence on the Ninth Immortal Dynasty, it is intermittent—basically, he stirs only once every few thousand years, conducting a review of the dynasty's internal affairs, military, and scientific research, then sinks back into slumber.

As an ancient being, his lifespan is extremely limited and precious, making it impossible for him to constantly communicate with the myriad cultivators of the Immortal Dynasty.

Time just flows by like this.

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang occasionally awakens, but spends most of his time in slumber.

In the meantime, thirty million years have passed.

Shen Zhou has already greatly changed in appearance.

The cultivators who participated in the previous war have either died of old age or are slumbering, awaiting the future; beneath the starry sky, a new generation of cultivators now prevails.

Throughout the starry sky, everywhere bears the ruling traces of the Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dynasty era; every major power in the endless starry sky enforces the Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dao standard, and from historical memory, they have already grown accustomed to the dynasty's rule.

Any command issued can form an elite Dao兵 unit to march afar and suppress the occasional true immortal rebel uprisings.

However, after such a long passage of time, internal changes in the Immortal Dynasty are inevitable.

At this moment, Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang slowly opens his eyes, once again directing his gaze toward the Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu, aided by the vision of the Great Dream Sword Realm and the Central Array Spirit Computer to survey the entire starry sky.

"The rotten seeds have already appeared."

"It is estimated that in another fifty million years, these rotten seeds will fully mature—is this a coincidence, or have the emperors already calculated this future? ————"

Jiang Ding murmured.

He looked toward the Great Sun Sword Pavilion.

He saw that the new Great Sun Sword Heir had already been born, continuously growing; his past selection of sacred sword duel opponents were mostly heirs of rebellious emperor Dao lineages, but now they are mostly cultivators who have committed grave crimes but in most cases would not be executed—these cultivators, who should have been sentenced to life imprisonment, are now sentenced to death, to be carried out in death duels by the contemporary Great Sun Sword Heir and many Great Sun Sword cultivators.

This matter stands at the edge of legality and illegality.

In the Ninth Immortal Dynasty's central Immortal Gate and the Tushan maidservants, there was once strong opposition and severe reprimand, but ultimately they could not change this fact, and instead were mocked.

Are your own backsides really that clean?

Really, completely clean?

Jiang Ding looked toward the cultivators of the Su Nu Dao.

In the endless starry sky, Immortal Dao industry flourishes, with Immortal Dao industrial products emerging endlessly across all sectors, commercial trade extremely prosperous, and in many of these companies, Su Nu Dao cultivators hold shares—these shares are not all commercial transactions, with a considerable portion being sponsors sought by company operators for themselves.

There are many punishable and non-punishable clauses; holding shares of Su Nu Dao cultivators often leads to the latter.

Moreover, many sects—even top-tier帝境 cultivators among citizens—have begun seizing various industries in the endless starry sky to maximize their own interests————

All of this is commonplace.

Does the entire Immortal Dynasty's interest completely overlap with my personal interest?

One matter: if handled entirely justly, the Immortal Dynasty gains a hundred units of benefit, I gain one unit; but if procedures are slightly biased, yet still within legal bounds, the dynasty gains ninety-five, and I legally gain five—five times more!

If this were you, would you do it?

What if it were ten units of benefit—would you do it?

Know this: in Immortal Dao, benefit and wealth are not merely money, luxury cars, or beautiful women—they are also lifespan, dreams, Dao paths, and everything!

Would you do it?

In heaven and earth, ninety-nine percent of people would do it, even if they are citizens.

In the past, amidst the brutal life-and-death struggles of the endless starry sky war, everyone shared a consensus; now, with peace prevailing for long and all directions submitting, can we not still enjoy some relaxation and ease?!

Yes!

And we must be able to—this is the consensus of the Ninth Immortal Dynasty cultivators.

To have cultivators with lifespans of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or at most ten million years consider the grand scheme of hundreds of millions of years later—they truly cannot do it; this goes against human nature.

Nowadays, these corruptions have just begun to emerge, still in their infancy, causing limited destruction.

But, from the perspective of irresistible historical laws, these corruptions will inevitably accelerate and grow, ultimately forming a terrifying cancerous tumor that completely destroys the organism.

Facing these corruptions, what did the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang, who briefly revives once every few thousand years, do?

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang did nothing.

"Shen Zhou————"

Jiang Ding's gaze was deep and distant, he murmured.

When we were all well and happy, you were the old ancestor, you were the ancestral master, you were the Great Sun official, a citizen from long ago—everyone respected you, even willing to sacrifice part of their interests for you, giving you this ancestral master's face.

But you are insatiable, you bite the hand that feeds you, wanting to thoroughly reform, enter the deep waters, and try to seize others' core interests for survival?

Even, you go further—trying to eliminate the corruption interest group, execute a batch of top-tier vested interest holders, and reshape the Ninth Immortal Dynasty's political ecology?

If you dare to try even once, you will know how shallow that respect for the ancestor truly is.

Not foolish, not deaf, not becoming an old fogey ah————

Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang's heart-lake was still as water, his soul touching the Dao, and in an extremely complex way, he once again projected his will into the Tai Shang Da Ri Tian Shu.

Here, many True Immortals of the immortal dynasties and Emperor Realm cultivators are waiting respectfully.

"Paying respects,"

"Paying respects, Sword Master!"

Disciples of the Ninth Immortal Dynasty bowed respectfully, their etiquette flawless.

"Senior Great Sun,"

"The Golden Great Age Spatial Secret Realm has already developed and constructed the first experimental body."

The current immortal sect's governance reported an exciting piece of good news, saying: "The Golden Great Age's River of Time is too violent and turbulent to be usable, so we have adopted the traditional spatial secret realm method. Preliminary testing shows it has the ability to shield against the probing of many True Immortals."

"If we build more such spatial secret realms, scattered in all directions, they will surely become the spark of the immortal dynasties—"