Chapter 900: Xu Gao Jie Travel Strategy Plan

"Hey, hey, Jiang Ding…"

The voice of Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun came through the phone; the surroundings seemed very noisy, with the endless ding-dong of queue numbers being called.

"Senior Mie Ri, have you been released from prison? You didn't go back in again, did you?"

Jiang Ding's heart tightened.

That voice sounded a bit like the queue-call tones of Immortal Capital's First Prison — he'd been there once… a few times.

"No!"

"What are you saying? You don't trust this old master?"

Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun was displeased. "I'm handling the paperwork — the Immortal Gate's withdrawal procedures, the future re-registration procedures, and while my identity is still valid, applying for the Immortal Gate's military to seal off the domain where Xu Gao Jie is located for a period of time… all these matters are a real hassle."

"Oh right, after withdrawing and then re-registering, within three hundred years one cannot be elected to an Immortal Gate position at the city level or above. This won't affect your Dao path planning, will it?"

"No, not at all."

Jiang Ding let out a breath of relief.

He had no plans to enter politics; staying at Clear Wind University was just fine.

"Good, that's settled."

"I'll send you a withdrawal-procedure proxy document in a bit. Sign your name on it, and I'll handle all the paperwork for you lot so you don't have to make another trip — the procedures are a real pain."

Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun said.

"Understood."

Jiang Ding sat cross-legged inside the Sun Abyss, eyes closed in cultivation. With each breath he drew in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the great sun, taking them into himself, bit by bit accumulating his magic power foundation, tempering his divine soul and sword intent.

Several months passed.

He opened his eyes and flew up into the sky above Dayang Dayang Tianchi.

"Hello!"

"Great Sun Swordson!"

Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun flew over, flicked his yellowish-black hair, and greeted him warmly. "Our warships have all been sealed away — non-citizens can't use them — so we can only hitch a ride with you."

"Haha, Senior Mie Ri is too polite."

"When traveling, carpooling is a perfectly normal thing."

Jiang Ding walked up with a smile, greeting them one by one. "Senior Master Canghai, hello. Senior Pingyang, hello. Senior Niri, hello…"

Around Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun were Pingyang Canghai Tianjun, Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun, Niri Canghai Tianjun, and others — a total of ten Canghai Tianjun. Among them, Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun had the highest cultivation, at late-stage Hua Shen Chu Qi, while Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun and the rest were at Hua Shen Chu Qi, all freshly advanced, brothers-in-arms for several thousand years.

Ten Canghai Tianjun, including one late-stage Hua Shen Chu Qi cultivator.

Such a force, going to besiege Xu Yan of the Xu clan — a mid-stage Hua Shen Chu Qi cultivator — and Wang clan Hua Shen, also a mid-stage Hua Shen Chu Qi cultivator: the lineup could not be called anything less than lavish.

Even so, Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun and the others still felt it wasn't safe enough, and only proposed the travel plan after waiting for Jiang Ding's advancement.

Jiang Ding invited Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun and the others to the side of the Xihe, to a temporarily constructed glazed palace where they could sit down. He served them clear tea, and they could admire the scenery of thin mist and thick clouds while discussing matters.

"This place isn't great."

"I don't like it."

Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun gulped down a cup of tea, smacked his lips, and said, "The sword intent aura all around is too intense — warning signs keep flashing in my mind. I can't feel at ease at all."

"Indeed, I can't quite rein it in…"

The surrounding Canghai Tianjun all agreed wholeheartedly; none of them were quite comfortable here.

"Ah… my apologies."

"I really can't suppress it. This is where the Moon Vein sword intent resides — this is already the most restrained it gets."

Jiang Ding gave a wry smile.

The few chatted idly for a while, discussing the Immortal Gate's latest immortal-path scientific research achievements — especially the results related to Gong Fa from the Lunar Exploration Laboratory — and exchanged pleasantries, before finally getting down to business.

"Fatty, go!"

Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun tilted his chin.

"You got it, big bro!"

Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun trotted forward like a sycophant and spread out before everyone a map of the Minor Thousand Worlds, along with the surrounding star domain's features — the Netherwind currents, meteorite belts, and other terrain.

At the very top of the map was written a line: "Xu Gao Jie Travel Strategy Plan."

Everyone straightened up, their expressions turning solemn.

Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun — though he always acted like a sycophant in front of Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun — was in fact the one with the highest military rank among them, and the richest experience in warfare, especially Hua Shen-level warfare.

"Please look here, everyone."

A tactical pen appeared in Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun's hand. Pointing at the map of Xu Gao Jie, he said, "Xu Yan has a Star Fortress, but it's the Immortal Gate version from two thousand years ago. Since then, he has never received any technical updates from the Immortal Gate. This is the structural diagram of that Star Fortress from back then, along with the accompanying military formation diagram."

He sent a pile of documents over to everyone.

Jiang Ding connected his divine sense to the network, read them carefully, and compared them against the Immortal Gate's current Star Fortress and military formations, finding that over the past two thousand years, the Immortal Gate's Star Fortress had grown stronger by nearly threefold.

"This Star Fortress has ninety-seven critical formation energy nodes. Break any one node, and the entire Star Fortress falls. In its accompanying military formation…"

Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun explained the plan to everyone in detail.

In this operation, the Hua Shen cultivators would still fight using military formations — even without a Star Fortress. This was already an instinct ingrained in the bones of Immortal Gate cultivators, impossible to change.

"Senior Master Canghai,"

After listening to the battle plan, Jiang Ding raised his hand and asked, "It's been two thousand years. Hasn't Xu Yan's Star Fortress changed at all? I've heard he was once one of the Immortal Gate's most outstanding prodigies, even expected to become an ancient Hua Shen on the level of Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun or Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun, and he led multiple breakthroughs in Immortal Gate military formation technology."

"Even today, I can still see the name Xu Yan in many textbooks and Gong Fa."

"That's a good question."

Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun nodded approvingly.

"I actually considered this question too, and prepared a contingency plan."

"However, based on existing conditions and calculations, Xu Yan's Star Fortress shouldn't have changed much — it might even lack maintenance and large amounts of critical sacrificial-refinement materials. His Star Fortress may have actually degraded."

"As you know, among the materials used in the refinement of the Immortal Gate's Star Fortress, more than seventy percent are controlled materials, and there are virtually no natural substitutes within the realm domains."

"Jiang Ding, you don't understand."

"This isn't a matter of whether one is a prodigy or not."

On the Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun interface, with a look of schadenfreude: "The technological advancement of the Star Fortress, in many cases, requires the use of the Central Array Spirit Computer to calculate data. Otherwise, relying solely on the soul-computing power of a single Soul Transformation cultivator, something that should take a year would take a Soul Transformation cultivator a hundred years to produce."

"This isn't a question of your talent; the sheer volume of calculation is simply that large, and there's no way around it."

"And then there's the supporting talent at every level. The operation of every level of the Immortal Gate's Immortal Dao industrial chain requires talent."

Pingyang Canghai Tianjun added, "I've heard Xu Yan set up a Yuan Lao Yuan Academy, recruiting cultivators of the Xu and Wang bloodlines to train them into talent, but it's useless. His teaching methods are far inferior to the Immortal Gate's, and internally there's fierce infighting between the main and branch lineages."

"Besides, even if the people from these Yuan Lao Yuan Academies truly become talented, Xu Gao Jie doesn't have the relevant positions to accommodate their employment!"

"A small realm, even if you let him play it up, producing one or two Immortal Dao industries that barely reach the ordinary level of the realm domains would be impressive. Any more is simply impossible."

"Yes."

"Overall, Xu Yan's Star Fortress technology is almost impossible to continue advancing."

Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun concluded.

Amid the casual conversation of several people, the Dayang Dayang Tianchi crystal wall flowed, retrieved the spatial anchor, departed from the thirty-third Tian Gang orbit, and flew toward the dark depths of the realm domain under the gazes of many Immortal Gate Canghai Tianjun's blessings.

(End of this chapter)

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