Chapter 935: The Sword Cultivator's Path Embedded into the Immortal Sect's Industry

The Golden Palace Conference had been going on for several months.

It covered war preparations and deeper cooperation with the Badaxian Sect.

The most important item was that the Jiudaxian Sect would, centered on the Jiao Jiao Mingyu spatial passage, jointly build a star-domain grand array controlled by all nine sects, to guard against a counterattack from the Jiao Jiao Mingyu.

This was one of the benefits of forming an alliance among the immortal sects in the face of a powerful external enemy.

For this purpose, the Badaxian Sect had taken out from their own inheritance a seventh-tier grand array called the Nine Spirits Life-Death Illusion-Destruction Liangyi Micro-Dust Array, sharing it with Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong, in an attempt to construct a star-domain array above the Void Refinement realm.

Clearly, those eight madmen were mad, but still sane, doing their utmost to make all kinds of preparations and conceding a great deal for it.

They conceded everything except their bottom lines.

Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong had once offered Void Refinement inheritances as a condition, but was refused without hesitation — that was their bottom line.

This seventh-tier Nine Spirits Life-Death Illusion-Destruction Liangyi Micro-Dust Array was one of the very few inheritances above Void Refinement that Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong had come into contact with. Though it brought no direct benefit, it greatly broadened their horizons and offered significant guidance for many areas of research.

Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong and the Badaxian Sect were allocating massive quantities of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, along with cultivators, preparing to construct this array.

At present, it looked extremely, extremely difficult.

Among the Jiudaxian Sect, there simply were no seventh-tier array masters — not even quasi-seventh-tier ones.

The seventh-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and seventh-tier array instruments required for array deployment, were even less worth mentioning.

Attempting to deploy a seventh-tier array under such conditions was nothing short of a fantasy — nearly impossible.

But what could be done?

The Jiao Jiao Mingyu might possess beings above Void Refinement.

All that could be said was: prepare with all one's might, prepare with all one's might; if seventh-tier couldn't be achieved, then do as much quasi-seventh-tier as possible.

Perhaps by relying on the geographical advantage of the spatial passage, perhaps by relying on luck, perhaps that possibly existing being above Void Refinement was in an abnormal state, perhaps… perhaps they could contend against one above Void Refinement.

So many perhapses.

It could only be so — when lower-realm cultivators faced higher-realm ones, luck was the key to victory or defeat.

Several months later, the Golden Palace Conference — whose influence ran deep and would very likely affect the rise and fall of this realm several centuries hence — came to an end.

Under the supervision of the central array-spirit computer, numerous Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun reinforced to the utmost the secrecy prohibitions within their divine souls, then dispersed.

After stepping out, each of them wore an expression as usual — composed as if a Taishan had crumbled before them — without the irritable fury of the conference.

The end of the Golden Palace Conference was not an ending, but the beginning of more conferences.

Many matters within Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong needed immediate handling: coordinating with the Badaxian Sect, various factories preparing to produce all manner of war weapons — even exporting them to the Badaxian Sect to arm their military formations and boost their combat power, even the combat power of Void Refinement military formations and Void Refinement Dao soldiers.

The combat power.

This was an extremely dangerous move, one that could very well affect the safety of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong.

However, none of this was done for nothing.

The Badaxian Sect needed to deliver more high-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures, spurring the birth of more Soul Transformation cultivators within Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong.

It could be stated plainly: as long as high-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures were supplied in sufficient quantity, Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong could, to a certain extent, continuously give birth to Soul Transformation cultivators.

The vast number of slumbering cultivators across the generations was no joke.

Draining Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's talent reserves was a rather difficult feat.

And as long as the number of Soul Transformation and Nascent Soul cultivators in Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong increased, the military formation strength of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong would likewise rise directly. Therefore, it would not be a loss — on the contrary, it would be a great gain. This was one of the concessions beyond the bottom line of those eight great powers.

The Badaxian Sect was actually not very willing.

But what could they do? If they truly dared to be stingy, Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong would absolutely go mad. When the time came, who was truly mad and who was merely pretending would be hard to say — the two sides would certainly have to fight a life-and-death battle before attacking the Jiao Jiao Mingyu.

The Golden Palace Conference was precisely about arranging and implementing all these various matters; every Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun carried various tasks.

Jiang Ding had just stepped out of the Golden Palace when a clone of Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun pulled him off to a meeting at the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Military Soul Research Institute.

At the same time, a distant clone in charge of education pulled another of Jiang Ding's clones to attend an education-system meeting; Zhenjun Shenji Canghai Tianjun pulled yet another of Jiang Ding's clones to attend a military-system meeting, especially one on sword cultivator scouts; and there was also the Array Spirit Research Institute…

Nearly every Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun was running at full capacity, their clones barely enough to go around.

Military Soul Research Institute.

This newly born research institute sat in the stratosphere high above the Immortal Capital. By the windows, the thick branches of the Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong stretched out, a sea of green forest; when the gale blew through, it was cool and refreshing.

A group of Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun took their seats in turn around it.

Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun, Pingyang Canghai Tianjun, and others had all arrived — more than thirty people, all Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun who had made their mark in the materials industry within Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong, all of whom had participated in the Great Solar Gold project.

"Too few people."

"Manpower is a bit insufficient."

Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun glanced left and right, somewhat helplessly saying: "I recall there seem to be over a dozen old friends who were quite good with materials among the slumbering ones, right?"

"Once the heavenly materials and earthly treasures from the Badaxian Sect are in place, wake them up and have them come lend a hand."

"No, no, don't hold them up."

"Senior Wanji, don't talk nonsense."

Pingyang Canghai Tianjun was caught between laughter and tears, hurriedly dissuading: "Those people don't have much lifespan left; advancing to Soul Transformation is what matters. Don't let them work halfway and then quietly drop dead when their lifespan runs out — then we'd be the sinners."

"That is true."

Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun's computer screen flickered: "Enough chatter, let's begin the Military Soul Research Institute meeting."

"Mainly about the Great Solar Gold."

Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun glanced at Jiang Ding: "News came from the Lunar Exploration Laboratory — there's been a breakthrough in the applied research on Great Solar Gold within Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong."

"Because we merged this difficult problem with the Void Refinement project, the Great Solar Soul Transformation secret art, and other academic challenges of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong into the Lunar Exploration Project experiments, those eight madmen were still somewhat sensible and didn't say anything out of line."

"Consider them tactful."

Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun snorted coldly.

It could be seen that he was extremely dissatisfied with the Badaxian Sect dragging Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong into an unknown realm war while refusing to give Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Void Refinement inheritances.

If it weren't for Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's insufficient strength, he'd have had the mind to kill them.

"News just came in: alongside the breakthrough on the Jiao Jiao Mingyu coordinates, several of our technologies also broke through."

"Setting that aside for now, it's not the topic of today's meeting. Others are handling it; it has nothing to do with us."

"What we need to discuss now is the application of Great Sunday Gold."

Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun raised a hand and transmitted a research document to everyone: "The extreme properties of Great Sunday Gold have already been initially resolved in the laboratory. That is, using the Immortal Gate military soul 'Zhong,' we engage in a sword-duel-like refining process with the extreme sword intent within Great Sunday Gold by means of sword cultivation. Once the will within is defeated, Great Sunday Gold can be used as an additive in engines, cannon barrels, spirit-child radars, and the like."

"Initial estimates suggest it can boost engine efficiency by five percent—not bad, and this is merely a side benefit."

"The most important capability of Great Sunday Gold is the amplification of 'intent,' and the amplification of the Immortal Gate military soul 'Zhong.' According to current research, Great Sunday Gold can nearly amplify the military soul's strength by sixty percent, allowing a substantial increase in the Immortal Gate's military power."

"Without a doubt, this is a strategic-level project!"

"Fellow cultivators!"

Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun excitedly waved his mechanical arm and said: "Our next task is to take Great Sunday Gold out of the laboratory and truly apply it to the Immortal Gate's various warships and starry-sky fortresses. Ideally, before the great war of the realms arrives, we will re-refine every Immortal Gate warship, so that the Immortal Gate may have greater power to protect itself."

"Enough said—let's get to work…"

Senior Wanji Canghai Tianjun began assigning tasks to everyone.

Behind the scenes of this meeting, the Master Dinghai Zhenjun of the Immortal Gate's various shipbuilding groups and research institutes were also listening in—numbering in the tens of thousands. Under the Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun, several million industrial workers stood ready, prepared to receive orders from above at any moment.

This is a massive project involving several million cultivators.

Jiang Ding saw this and felt a measure of relief in his heart.

"It's done."

"It's done… my path has begun to be deeply embedded into the Immortal Gate's industrial system…"

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Jiang Ding's heart was overjoyed, and he too busied himself.

Under his command, the sword cultivator researchers of the Sword Dao Hall laboratory, the Sword Dao Hall Group, and others were also hard at work—various calculations and all the sword-cultivation support needed in the Great Sunday Gold project were being handled by them, doing their utmost to accelerate the Immortal Gate's Great Sunday Gold application implementation plan.