Chapter 419: Nine Great Immortal Sects Arrived in This Domain Three Hundred Thousand Years Ago

Returned to the mining district dormitory.

Jiang Ding sat cross-legged; behind him, the blue-gold tree shimmered brilliantly, and amidst its swaying branches and leaves, the hazy light of primal magnetism was faintly visible.

"Since the end of the Gaokao, I have unknowingly been studying for eighty-one years."

"Nineteen more years until graduation from Qingfeng University's graduate program."

Jiang Ding pondered: "Now I should prepare my master's thesis. I can simply extract a branch of research from the Dai Sen solar-mirror sword-type drone. The requirements for a master's thesis are not that high; graduation will be no problem."

"Unless something unexpected happens, I will continue to pursue a doctorate at Qingfeng University, receiving instruction from my Soul Transformation cultivator clone."

His figure vanished.

……

Master Tushan Xiancheng.

Amidst the molten-gold vines covering the mountain, groups of maids surrounded him, listening intently.

A youth in green robes closed his eyes and then opened them; a certain liveliness seemed to have appeared in his gaze.

"... Lying low and hiding are our compulsory courses."

After a slight pause, Jiang Ding continued: "No one is powerful from the start. I am so, and so are all of you. Many cultivators who are incredibly powerful now were once weak; therefore, one must learn to hide and lie low."

"The key to lying low lies in truth and stability."

Jiang Ding recalled the material from the textbooks and recited verbatim: "What is truth? It is to act with one's true appearance and true cultivation. For this, we must study the 'Heavenly Growth Method'. When necessary, we must promote our bodies to undergo secondary growth to achieve the required appearance."

"The same applies to spells. Besides combat sword arts, everyone must learn a set of spells for daily use. During periods of lying low, unless facing a life-or-death crisis, one must not reveal one's abilities..."

"What is stability? Not altering the original conditions of the place where one is lying low..."

Jiang Ding swept his divine sense over the surroundings and spoke with ease.

This was not his forte, but it did not matter; finishing the explanation of the relevant spells was sufficient.

After cultivating and teaching for over forty years, a group of one hundred and forty-five maids had initially taken shape.

Nowadays, the Foundation Establishment cultivators among the maids have reached over thirty; most are at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, while Gong Gong Caiyu and a few others, having received focused training, are now at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

The remaining one hundred-plus maids are almost entirely late-stage Qi Condensation cultivators.

The proportion of those with dual spiritual roots is a terrifying one-third!

The remaining two-thirds of the maids possess three spiritual roots, and all are existences whose talent and comprehension exceed the ordinary.

Chun Chun Jian, the maid with the heavenly spiritual root, has already reached the early stage of Foundation Establishment, successfully obtained the status of the Second Maid of Spring, and can independently lead a thirteen-person team of Tian Chong Guang Yao Yang sword soldiers in battle, possessing near-third-tier combat power.

The other two maids with heavenly spiritual roots, saved from Shang Shang Chengye's hands, Qiu Wei Shanggong and Qiu Shangyun, are now at the peak of the Qi Condensation realm.

It is estimated that they will reach Foundation Establishment in another five or six years; relying on the affinity of the heavenly spiritual root with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, they should also be able to qualify for the title of a titled maid.

"... That is all for today."

Jiang Ding closed his mouth.

"Yes!"

"Goodbye, Young Master!"

Led by Gong Gong Caiyu, Chun Chun Jian, Xia Tu, Chun Shi, and other maids stood up, lifted their skirts, bent their knees to bow, and retreated backwards.

Inside the Demon Palace, tranquility was restored once more.

Jiang Ding flew into the sky, concealed his form, expanded his divine sense, and circled Master Tushan Xiancheng once.

"It has developed even better."

Jiang Ding said silently.

Over the past twenty-five years, benefiting from the intensification of the war in the Northern Plains, many Jin Dan and Foundation Establishment cultivators have come here to escape the conflict; there are over twenty Jin Dan cultivators at the early to mid-stage.

Consequently, this has brought a massive flow of cultivators and spirit stones; annual tax revenue has increased by nearly fifty percent, reaching over thirty million low-grade spirit stones per year.

As for public order, it remains excellent, reaching a state where items are not picked up from the road at night and doors are not locked.

A mere twenty-five years is not a very long time for a Jin Dan cultivator; it is not long enough for them to forget the incident of the three late-stage Jin Dan cultivators dying back then.

The newly arrived Jin Dan cultivators have not been rash for the time being.

The Foundation Establishment and Qi Condensation cultivators are slightly different; for them, this period is long enough to experience many promotions and to forget many things.

However, under the uninterrupted cleansing by the growing Master Tushan Maid Group, and amidst the deaths of demonic cultivators and bandit cultivators time and again, the surviving Foundation Establishment and Qi Condensation cultivators have also learned how to abide by the order of Master Tushan Xiancheng.

The better the public order, the more prosperous the commerce.

Consequently, a vast number of cultivators have gathered here.

Here, there are numerous talisman shops, artifact refinement pavilions, and pill towers; whatever is needed can be easily purchased at relatively cheap prices with spirit stones, even for third-tier items required by Jin Dan cultivators, a basic market has been established.

Huaxuedian and Xiang Qiyu Sect have successively opened large-scale shops here, selling some unique items of their sects and purchasing many things needed by Foundation Establishment and Jin Dan cultivators within their sects.

"Among Jin Dan cultivators, I am considered quite wealthy."

"How much money do I have now?"

Jiang Ding actually needed to ponder for a moment before getting the answer.

"Through over forty years of commercial transaction taxes, income from mining, planting spiritual herbs and spiritual rice, breeding spiritual fish, and other industries, as well as occasional gifts from kind-hearted people, I now have—"

"One billion three hundred and thirty-nine million low-grade spirit stones!"

"I am so rich!"

Jiang Ding exclaimed.

"If we do not count the difficulty of acquiring fourth-tier heavenly treasures and earthly treasures, I am richer than many Nascent Soul cultivators of the immortal sects. If I save up spirit stones for a few more years, once the Dai Sen mirror-sword-type drone is successfully developed, I can build a super warship."

"Hmm, some fourth-tier heavenly treasures and earthly treasures that the immortal sects cannot artificially synthesize can be exchanged for the treasure embryos of Brother Brother Xuanwu's True Disciples of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace; that should be roughly enough."

This is a unique advantage of the immortal sects: the ability to artificially synthesize certain heavenly treasures and earthly treasures.

Often, the gap between tiers is terrifyingly large, making circulation impossible; Nascent Soul cultivators simply look down on second and third-tier heavenly treasures and earthly treasures, and no amount of them can be exchanged for fourth-tier materials.

……

Jiang Ding once again entered a busy and orderly state of study.

Every day he studied Gong Fa, array methods, and other knowledge to enrich his Dao foundation, especially the Jin Dan Jing's "Wan Hua Ci Yuan" scripture and array techniques.

The former concerns the Gong Fa practiced after reaching the Jin Dan Jing, while the latter is the basic requirement for piloting a super warship.

After adding numerous functions, even with his advantages in divine soul and sword intent, without a fourth-tier array mastery level, he could not activate the super warship at all, able only to watch it from afar.

Now, he was merely a third-tier high-grade array master, still far from the requirement.

In the literature class.

"Student Jiang Ding, do you know the relationship between the Great Sun Sword Pavilion and the Great Moon Qingse Jianzong?"

After explaining a chapter of the Jin Dan Jing's "Wan Hua Ci Yuan" scripture, Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun shifted the topic and asked.

"Relationship?"

"They are both sword cultivation sects."

Jiang Ding thought for a moment and said, "According to the materials I looked up in the library, the Great Moon Qingse Jianzong seems to be a sword cultivation branch of the Qingmuxian Sect, one of the Jiudaxian Sects. After the Great Sun Sword Pavilion was destroyed, the remaining Badaxian Sects jointly recognized it and established the Great Moon Qingse Jianzong."

"Is there some secret involved?"

he asked curiously.

The library contains only knowledge; regarding special intelligence, only citizens with certain permissions can learn it.

Now, as time passed, something must have triggered a regulation, raising his citizen permission level to the point where he could know this.

"Indeed there is."

Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun smiled and said slowly, "Over three hundred thousand years ago, when the Great Sun Sword Pavilion first arrived in this realm, its name was the Sun and Moon Sword Pavilion."

(End of this chapter)