Chapter 583: The Old Monster of the Sword Dao Hall

Wei Hu took the awarded Foundation Establishment Pill and left.

These were the conditions promised to the other party decades ago when the invitation was extended; although the completion was not perfect, it barely passed the standard, and he was not a harsh employer.

Next, Wei Hu will resign from the position of General Manager of the Sword Dao Hall, enter seclusion to cultivate, and strive for a chance to form a Foundation Establishment before the age of eighty.

The new General Manager of the Sword Dao Hall will be succeeded by the former Deputy General Manager.

Jiang Ding cared little about these trivial matters; except for the initial establishment of the Sword Dao Hall, he had never questioned these things again.

His divine sense unfolded, covering the entire Sword Dao Hall building.

After twenty years of development, the place had taken on a proper shape, with people working in every office.

In the sword practice rooms, cultivation rooms, and other places, coaches, students, and parents came and went without interruption; everywhere were scenes of cultivators and martial artists wielding swords, sword light flashing, and sweat pouring like rain.

This was the absolute center of the Immortal Gate's cold weapon curriculum.

Even, a holy land!

Universally acknowledged by outsiders.

Even the cold weapon instructors of the Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou University Affiliated Middle School were far inferior in teaching ability compared to this place; one could say they were not on the same level.

Since the fifth year, the top three in the college entrance examination's cold weapon category have always included students from the Sword Dao Hall, with their numbers increasing.

This year, they even swept the first and second places among the top three in the college entrance examination's cold weapon category; the top one hundred was terrifying, with seventy-four students coming from the Sword Dao Hall and its subordinate institutions after long-term instruction.

Many people inferred that in another fifty years, it would become the norm for all top one hundred students in the Immortal Gate college entrance examination's cold weapon category to be from the Sword Dao Hall.

Because of this, students came here to receive instruction year after year without interruption.

During this period, several famous swordsmen emerged, making a name for themselves at the Huashan Sword Debate, the Tai Xu Illusion Realm Sword Debate, and in numerous live streams and videos, gaining both fame and fortune.

"These places are for spreading the Sword Dao and nurturing new sprouts..."

Jiang Ding shifted his gaze from the many coaches and students and continued looking.

He had cultivated here for twenty years and would continue to hold the position in the future.

For hundreds of years, for thousands of years, it would not change.

Like the Divine Machine Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun of the Immortal Gate Academy, he would become a true Tiangui Tiangui Laoguai of the Sword Dao Hall, but every time he saw these innocent students, he still felt a sense of intimacy, as if seeing the rising future of the Immortal Gate's Sword Dao.

Starting from the ninety-eighth floor of the building, the semi-profit, semi-welfare sword training ceased, turning into various research centers: Sword Dao Gong Fa Research Center, Sword Technique Research Center, Flying Sword Material Research Center, Flying Sword Refining Research Center, and other institutions.

Based on talents supported by the Shu Du Giant Panda Breeding Research Center and talents from the Qingfeng University Great Sun Ruin Emergency Excavation specialty, they recruited fresh graduates from major Immortal Gate universities and specialized talents from society to build this massive research center.

The number of researchers stationed daily reached thirteen thousand and seventy-two, ranging from martial artists and Qi Condensation cultivators to Foundation Establishment and Jin Dan cultivators.

After years of research, there were some results.

The Immortal Gate Library added hundreds of sword technique and Gong Fa classics, mostly Qi Condensation-level and Foundation Establishment-level Gong Fa; theoretically, there were no problems.

It was just the cost...

"Every year, a loss of eight million two hundred and seventy thousand low-grade spirit stones... Sigh."

Jiang Ding sighed again.

It always felt that no matter how much money, it was never enough.

The Sword Dao market was simply not very large; current investment was basically burning money, burning money, and burning money again, with no knowing when it would become profitable.

But it could not be left undone.

Without investment, there would be no Sword Dao talents, and no growth of the Sword Dao industry.

If investment stopped halfway and was abandoned, these cultivated Sword Dao talents would quickly scatter to various places, rapidly dissipating and being destroyed in one stroke.

Therefore, even without demand or orders, a sum of spirit stones had to be invested every year to support the people and various machines.

"It's nothing; the spirit stones are circulating within the Immortal Gate, not going out, not leaving me, just existing in another form."

Jiang Ding comforted himself, not thinking about the piles of spirit stones melting like snowflakes every year.

His divine sense extended outward, landing on the Sword Technique Research Center, Room 104-25.

Over these years, he had obtained some projects of the Third-Order Electromagnetic Sword Escape from his main body, subcontracted them, and found work for the newly established Sword Technique Research Center to cultivate talents.

His divine sense absorbed a bit of the surrounding heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, condensing a youth in green robes, the green robe fluttering, sitting in the main seat.

"Pay respects, Senior Jiang!"

A Foundation Establishment cultivator, accompanied by dozens of Qi Condensation cultivators with sharp auras around their bodies, rose to bow.

"Hmm, sit."

Jiang Ding nodded slightly.

The bearded Foundation Establishment cultivator before him was a sword technique development expert poached from another company, with some achievements, a seed-level figure.

The rest were Sword Dao talents like Fang Fang Yilong, who had won the laurels or performed outstandingly in the Huashan Sword Debate over the years; although they had not received more spirit stones or heavenly treasures as rewards, Jiang Ding did not leave them unattended.

He gave them work, work directed at the sword.

In such an environment, if a Sword Dao cultivator was diligent and intelligent, they could achieve rapid growth, rather than receiving pills which were merely a temporary case of pulling seedlings to help them grow.

Immortal Gate sword cultivators must not only know how to fight but also learn scientific research, Sword Dao research, constantly exploring the unknown, exploring the distance, never stopping.

"How is the 'Draft for the Development of the Third-Order Electromagnetic Sword Escape Number'?"

Jiang Ding asked.

This was the work entrusted to them, and the reason for receiving a monthly salary; besides this place, more than thirty departments were also doing similar work. These were some of the not-difficult but time-consuming trivial tasks in his development of the Electromagnetic Sword Escape, thus subcontracted.

"Senior Jiang, it is already done..."

The bearded Foundation Establishment cultivator showed a look of difficulty, hesitated for a long time, and handed over a jade slip.

Fang Fang Yilong and other sword talents from past Huashan Sword Debates dared not breathe loudly, heads lowered looking at the table, not moving their gaze for a long time, as if something very good-looking was hidden there.

"If it is completed, that is very good."

Jiang Ding's divine sense swept over the jade slip, his expression calm, without joy or anger.

Fifty percent is wrong.

Thirty percent is useless.

Fifteen percent of it barely touches the edge, but it's still useless.

The remaining five percent has a little use, with some picking and choosing; the main body spends twice the time it took to process this research draft to put their results to use.

The way this research draft was given out, he had designed it in advance so that undergraduates at Clear Breeze University could handle it easily, even if they weren't in the sword-path research direction, just amateurs.

"In the first part, the errors are in the seventh spell structure, the eighth spell structure, the ninth spell structure... classmates, we can think about it this way..."

Jiang Ding explained slowly, gradually guiding the sword-path seedlings before him, cultivating their scientific approach to sword-path research.

There was no anger, no cursing, no venting because of the terrible results.

Compared to the teaching of basic sword arts, this is the core of sword-path development.

(End of this chapter)