Chapter 2615

Endless Starry Sky, battle clouds gather thick!

Having just enjoyed decades of peace, the starry skies' war drums sound again—twelve great Eight-Character Immortal Scripture forbidden-zone ancient emperors are gathering armies, drilling troops, stockpiling supplies, rebuilding the invincible Dao soldiers once wielded by the immortal dynasties of each forbidden zone, converging on imperial road hubs; the entire Endless Starry Sky is filled with a suffocating sense of impending storm.

"Human emperors, what of them?"

"Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Ancient Emperor, Solar Ancient Emperor, Lunar Ancient Emperor, what of them?"

"Our preparations, how are they?"

Jiang Ding spoke calmly.

Among humanity, counting the Tai Shang Da Ri Gu Huang, there are four who have ascended to the Eight-Character Immortal Scripture forbidden-zone ancient emperors—truly the top powers of the Endless Starry Sky—plus over two hundred ordinary ancient emperors, a universe-level creation immortal formation, and the current strongest who has not yet been toppled from the divine altar.

With such strength, if united, of one heart, they could almost establish the possibility of the immortality path in this era, concentrating the odds of ascension immensely within humanity.

Though the foreign emperors are many, they are too scattered, with severe internal ethnic conflicts, and their respective Dao violently clash.

Alas...

The human race, by nature, lacks bloodline shackles, is overly free, and harbors deep rebelliousness; in history, aside from rare periods of impending extinction, there has never been a time of unanimous unity—often, the stronger they are, the greater the internal division, and the more numerous the strong, the greater the internal consumption.

"These past decades, as the Eight-Character ancient emperors stirred up war, the realm became the sole peaceful haven in the Endless Starry Sky, drawing vast numbers of human and foreign ancient emperors into the Tai Shang Da Ri realm, who made major contributions to its development; at its peak, the Tai Shang Da Ri realm housed four hundred and ninety-seven human and foreign ancient emperors!" "In the long river of history, over half of the ancient emperors have served us, allowing our construction efficiency to far surpass any single forbidden-zone ancient emperor, enabling us in just over a hundred years to preliminarily establish a complete, though crude, Tai Shang Da Ri Immortal Dao industrial system, already capable of continuously producing vast quantities of warships, magical treasures, elixirs, and talismans—Immortal Dao industrial goods."

"Today, our Immortal Dao civilization's development level far surpasses that of any Eight-Character ancient emperor."

Upon hearing that the Tai Shang Da Ri realm would be besieged by multiple peer Eight-Character forbidden-zone ancient emperors, the Fusang Empress showed no worry or anxiety, instead becoming exceedingly confident and spirited, saying: "It can be said that, even if we control only one-third of the Endless Starry Sky's territory, we possess several times the material and human resources of the united emperors!"

"Currently, in tax revenue and human and material resources, we must vastly exceed them."

"Your Majesty, in this war, we possess enormous human and material advantages!"

"As long as the Tai Shang Da Ri Slaughter Demon Sword Formation remains unbreached, the longer the stalemate, the greater our advantage!"

She is giving confidence to the Tai Shang Da Ri ancient emperor, striving to be his bulwark, filling the vast Immortal Dao machine of the Tai Shang Da Ri Dao lineage with endless energy.

In Immortal Dao industry, there is a term called scale advantage.

That is, in Immortal Dao industry and Immortal Dao agriculture production, the greater the output, the larger the Immortal Dao industrial system, the lower the cost to produce a single Immortal Dao product; often, the price of certain magical implements can drop to as low as spiritually charged spring water, even lower—almost free.

Conversely, the smaller the Immortal Dao industrial system, the lower the output, the higher the cost!

Take the common low-level cultivator's magical implement, the Azure Flame Sword: ignoring the inefficient handcrafted production model, only discussing the Azure Flame Sword implement factory—if you forge just one Azure Flame Sword implement, you must still spend vast sums to build an entire factory, painstakingly establish upstream ore refining and synthesis industrial chains, downstream sales chains, byproduct reuse chains, and waste noxious gas treatment chains...

This entire system is necessary for Immortal Dao large-scale production; forging one Azure Flame Sword is thus, forging one hundred is thus, forging one hundred million is thus—same factory initial investment, averaged out, the higher the output, the larger the supporting scale, the lower the cost per Azure Flame Sword. Under special circumstances, such as when the Azure Flame Sword's main material comes from a byproduct of another Immortal Dao industrial chain—for example, the Tai Shang Da Ri realm's production of Solar Spirit Gold generates large quantities of scrap metal as a step, which becomes the main material for the Azure Flame Sword—this can even drive the Azure Flame Sword's cost into negative territory!

Processing these scrap metals can even earn subsidies.

Among Qi-refining cultivators, if the Tai Shang Da Tiangong wishes, they could even sell Azure Flame Swords cheaper than water!

This is the immense advantage of the great Immortal Dao industrial system!

This is a vast Immortal Dao industrial system spanning one-third of the Endless Starry Sky!

By contrast, the Immortal Dao systems of the twelve great Eight-Character forbidden-zone ancient emperors have only just begun establishment, each independent, not subordinate, belonging to various races; moreover, many Immortal Dao theorems, formulas, and parameters do not interconnect, making it absolutely impossible to form a vast industrial system between them.

In Immortal Dao production efficiency and Immortal Dao industrial accumulation time, they are vastly behind the Tai Shang Da Ri realm.

Know that the Tai Shang Da Ri realm accumulated vast heavenly treasures and industrial mother machines during the Ninth Immortal Dynasty era; the importance of early Immortal Dao industrialization accumulation is undeniable to anyone—this is the piled-up blood, tears, hardship, and even lives that form the primordial capital of Immortal Dao industry.

The twelve forbidden-zone emperors still lack this process today.

Whereas the Tai Shang Da Ri ancient emperor has already completed preliminary Immortal Dao industrialization, the Immortal Dao industrial system can already begin to feedback into all industries, and hematopoiesis has already begun.

The difference between the Tai Shang Da Ri realm's Immortal Dao industry and that of the twelve forbidden-zone ancient emperors' Immortal Dao industry is like that between a first and second industrial revolution—the gap is terrifying.

Of course, this is not rigorous. Nowadays, some of the twelve Eight-Character forbidden-zone ancient emperors resemble a lost civilization: clearly, the entire Immortal Dao system's level is very low, they have not yet achieved true Immortal Dao industrialization, yet they possess the pinnacle creations of future Immortal Dao industry—the existence of the Eight-Character Immortal Scripture forbidden-zone ancient emperors!

This is the current situation of the Endless Starry Sky.

"As for the human Eight-Character forbidden-zone ancient emperors, the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou Ancient Emperor, Solar Ancient Emperor, Lunar Ancient Emperor, and so forth—"

"They are neutral."

The Fusang Empress fell silent for a moment, then said: "Your Majesty, at this time when the starry skies' blood war is about to begin, they refused our proposal to form a human alliance; the Solar Ancient Emperor did not even receive the Solar Realm envoy, while the others politely declined, claiming they are at a critical juncture of secluded cultivation and cannot go to war."

"Furthermore, when the turmoil arose, many human and foreign ancient emperors began to leave the Tai Shang Da Ri realm one after another; the ancient emperor count has now dropped below three hundred and is still decreasing, with reasons ranging from visiting friends, searching for treasure materials, contemplating rules, etc., and none directly stated withdrawal."

"Due to your policy of free movement, we have not placed any obstruction."

"Among them, the Time-Order ancient emperor and other sword-path ancient emperors—none have left; instead, they unanimously accelerated the drilling of human sword-path soldiers."