Chapter 901: The Great Sun Sword Child Can Turn an Immortal Sect into a Pauper

"Senior, help me take a look at this."

In the gaps between conversation, Jiang Ding eagerly produced a piece of spiritual metal the size of a palm, humming with the clang of swords, and handed it to the crowd.

Though only palm-sized, this piece of spiritual metal radiated an incomparably sharp, incomparably scorching aura, ringed by electromagnetic light, with sword Qi spurting out from time to time — any single wisp could pierce the shield of a Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Master Dinghai Zhenjun.

Great Sun Radiant Metal!

With the help of Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun's avatar, the Capital Outskirts Great Sun Radiant Metal Factory No. 1 had officially gone into production this year, and this was the first finished piece.

Capital Outskirts Great Sun Radiant Metal Factory No. 1 had a total investment of 1.3 trillion low-grade spirit stones, including many fifth-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

The workforce numbered 1,070,000, among them forty-eight Nascent Soul cultivators.

Three Soul Transformation cultivator avatars took turns holding down the fort in the factory, controlling the factory's formations with the aid of formation spirits to complete the refining of a fifth-tier supreme material like Great Sun Radiant Metal — one piece could be produced in a year.

Among these, every single item required spending a great deal of money.

The 1,070,000 workers cost money; these workers were all citizens of the Immortal Gate, and their wages and benefits had to meet legal standards — five social insurances and one housing fund, two-day weekends, holidays, maternity subsidies, and so on, all had to be arranged; miss a single item and just wait for the enormous fines.

Multiple violations, and the factory would be shut down for you.

Dare to violate, and no matter whether you're the Great Sun Sword Child or Tushan Tian Jun who suppresses the Northern Plains, it'll be of absolutely no use.

Under such circumstances, many Master Dinghai Zhenjun and Canghai Tianjun wanted to open factories in Dao Xiao Gao Jie, where labor costs could be reduced to less than one-tenth.

However, very few have succeeded so far.

The reasons were many; the main one was that the quality of workers in Dao Xiao Gao Jie was lacking — Immortal Dao industry was extremely complex, and only those who had received higher education in the Immortal Gate could operate formations and Immortal Dao instruments; one had to possess a sufficient level of formation Dao expertise.

A secondary reason was that the Immortal Gate had powerful local protectionism — many controlled materials, many controlled Immortal Dao instruments simply could not be taken out of the Immortal Gate's home star.

With this, production in Dao Xiao Gao Jie naturally could not even be discussed.

The forty-eight Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun in the factory required fourth-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures as wages; the three rotating Soul Transformation Canghai Tianjun avatars required fifth-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures as wages.

Add to that the raw materials for producing Great Sun Radiant Metal, which were likewise expensive — not lacking fourth-tier and fifth-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Taken together,

For every piece of Great Sun Radiant Metal used to refine a Supreme Clarity Flying Sword, the cost Jiang Ding had to pay was 62.3 billion low-grade spirit stones!

62.3 billion low-grade spirit stones!

Spirit stones!

Stones!

When he first saw this figure in the report, Jiang Ding's head spun and he couldn't stand steady, swaying unsteadily.

He suspected his money had been embezzled.

The brazen, utterly unscrupulous kind, at that!

For this, Jiang Ding spent a full month investigating from top to bottom, not letting a single spirit stone slip by.

In the end, he glumly reached a conclusion: this was the truth.

In fact, the old senior Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun was well-versed in policy and had even applied for several policy supports for him; only after the price reduction did it come down to this figure — otherwise it would have been even more.

One could only say that Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong and the Great Sun Sword Pavilion having only one Dao Child per generation was not without reason.

An entire Immortal Sect, in the same era,

Could only afford to raise one Dao Child!

Every Dao Child was a fearsome glutton, a chaos gold-devouring beast!

Before a Dao Child, mountains of spirit stones, seas of spirit stones meant nothing — in the blink of an eye they could be spent clean, while still shouting "hungry, hungry, hungry" at the mouth.

What if the standards were lowered?

Lower the standards, and you could raise two, three, four Dao Children at the same time.

This was an extremely foolish approach.

With the same amount of resources, if you piled all your resources onto one Dao Child, that Dao Child could almost certainly steadily advance to Refining Void.

If you instead cultivated three Dao Children at the same time, you would cultivate three Dao Children with a twenty to thirty percent chance of advancing to Refining Void.

In the end, the result might be two or three advancing to Refining Void, or it might be one.

It was also possible that not a single one advanced.

The risk in this was simply too great.

What's more, a Dao Child cultivated by concentrating all resources would absolutely be able to easily thrash three Dao Children raised in a dispersed manner.

The Immortal Dao was like this — the strongest at the very top decided everything; once one was ahead by even a single step, a single minor realm higher, one couldn't even call it a thrashing — slaughter was possible.

62.3 billion low-grade spirit stones every year!

To tell the truth, Jiang Ding was scared.

The Northern Plains were still in recovery; the annual tax revenue was currently only 5.7 billion low-grade spirit stones, and even after counter-attacking the demon race and unifying the entire Northern Plains, it was unclear whether it could double.

Under such circumstances, even if one squeezed harder and further reduced the wages of Nascent Soul and Jin Dan cultivators, it wouldn't increase much.

Things had to change!

Great Sun Radiant Metal had to be incorporated into the Immortal Gate industrial chain's great division of labor!

Only this way could costs be reduced — one couldn't build everything oneself and bear it all alone; this was simply a bottomless pit, no amount of spirit stones could fill it.

"Great Sun Radiant Metal?"

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun immediately recognized it.

This was a fifth-tier supreme material newly born in the Immortal Gate recently, once featured in the "Cultivator" newspaper, occupying several pages at that, and many Soul Transformation cultivators had taken note.

"Why show it to us?"

Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun asked, puzzled, "We don't know the first thing about sword Dao — we don't understand this."

"This isn't sword Dao."

"It's materials."

Jiang Ding explained, "Great Sun Radiant Metal, a fifth-tier supreme material, possesses extremely high toughness, extremely high sharpness, extremely high capacity for accommodating 'intent,' is heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant, and handles fifth-tier high temperatures and severe cold without any problem."

"This kind of near-perfect material — shouldn't you find a way to apply it to the Star Fortress engines, the fortress main cannons, the shells, and the like?"

"Think about it: if the application succeeds, wouldn't the performance of the Immortal Gate's warships rise to another level?"

"This is the pinnacle of a Domain Overlord's exploration into fifth-tier materials!"

Jiang Ding pressed on with all his might.

If the Great Sun Radiant Gold industry achieved significant development, he could not only lower costs but also profit from Great Sun Radiant Gold and strike it rich!

"Seems to make sense…"

Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun, Cang Hai Canghai Tianjun, and the others showed looks of being tempted, and finally looked toward Dayang Dayang Tianchi.

Dayang Dayang Tianchi had a face full of brawny flesh, wore a thick gold chain, and was big and burly, looking like a butcher — but in fact he was a leading authority in materials science research; his getup could only be called a personal hobby.

"Not quite."

Dayang Dayang Tianchi shook his head. "Our Materials Research Institute tried it the very first moment — no good. The top fifth-tier composite materials of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion follow the same path as theirs: too extreme. Almost only the very top sword cultivators can use them."

"For law cultivators and lesser sword cultivators, smelting them into a magic treasure is almost no different from smelting in poison."

"Otherwise."

"Since there's a problem, then let's solve it."

Jiang Ding refused to give up, looking brimming with confidence. "The Immortal Gate's army soul is also a kind of Will; a sword cultivator's sword intent is also a kind of Will."

"The two are in some sense interlinked. We can study it — we can set up a 'Will' research project, and I will do my utmost."

"Set up a new 'Will' project?"

Dayang Dayang Tianchi's heart stirred.

Law intent, sword intent, army soul — these are collectively called the soul-specialized adaptations of cultivators.

In this area, the Great Sun Sword Pavilion walked at the very pinnacle of the domains, pulling far ahead of other sects.

The Immortal Gate's research in this area was actually very difficult, with few results, so it had always been unwilling to invest large funds.

Now, the Sword Child of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion was right here!

One had to know that the Great Sun Sword Child could almost represent the entire Great Sun Sword Pavilion, existing on equal footing with the Great Sun Sword Master.

His participation did indeed have a great chance of accelerating the research on Will.

Amid their metaphysical discussions, after months of flight, the Great Sun Dayang Tianchi finally drew near the two minor worlds of Xu Wang.

Mie Ri Canghai Tianjun and the others stopped their talk, their eyes lighting up.

(End of chapter)

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