Chapter 1018

"Many thanks, General Wang Jian." Nan Sun and the others were quite happy; for cultivators, what they care about is not the Empire's power.

With their abilities, if they were truly willing, they could become a county magistrate of a locality.

None of them had much enthusiasm for power; if they were truly enthusiastic about power, I'm afraid they wouldn't have gone to the Daoist School to cultivate before.

It's just that they couldn't endure the loneliness later and returned to the secular world, but this doesn't mean that Nan Sun and the others would be enthusiastic about officialdom.

The officialdom of the Great Qin Empire is strict; if you are a main official of a locality, you will also be examined. If you are found to be slack, you will also be severely punished.

They cultivate the Dao and return to the secular world, which doesn't mean that Nan Sun and the others will give up cultivating the Dao; on the contrary, they joined Great Qin, in fact, also for the cultivation resources provided by Great Qin.

And even the immortal cultivation methods provided by Great Qin.

The Daoist School is one of the Hundred Schools of Thought, but the Daoist School also has many sects. The most powerful is the direct lineage of the Daoist School, which is also considered the school of Laozi, and this school actually has many sects.

Inside the Great Qin Empire, there are also sects that cultivate the Dao, but these sects are different from those immortal cultivation sects in the Nanzhan Buzhou.

Those immortal cultivation sects in the Nanzhan Buzhou are the main body, while the sects inside Great Qin are mostly hermit sects, hidden in the deep mountains and old forests.

Most of the sects only have a few disciples in a generation, unlike the Nanzhan Buzhou, where there are hundreds, thousands, or even ten thousand cultivators.

This is also the reason why Great Qin can tolerate these Daoist sects; after all, they do not interfere with the localities of the Great Qin Empire, and they themselves are hermits in the mountains and forests.

Coupled with the fact that the ancestors of the Daoist School cannot be easily provoked, Great Qin ignores those Daoist sects.

These Daoist sects are actually quite weak; the strongest in the sect where Nan Sun is located is only at the Earth Immortal realm.

The Daoist methods they practice are also considered the Golden Elixir Great Dao, but the transmission is not considered very profound or mysterious.

And they themselves are not considered core disciples; after leaving, there are no subsequent Daoist methods, so they can only look for opportunities in Great Qin.

This time, the promotion in title is even better for Nan Sun; as a Da Fu, the cultivation resources he will receive in the future will be improved again.

And more importantly, he has already established a relationship with General Wang Jian; he is not a fool and can feel the other party's implicit solicitation of him.

Nan Sun has no great aversion to joining the Wang clan; after all, the resources of the Wang clan far exceed his own. If he can get the support of the Wang clan, his chances of becoming an immortal in the future will be greatly improved.

Of course, it's not that he hadn't thought about defecting to Su Fan before; after all, the other party had the grace of teaching him, almost having the reality of a master and disciple.

However, it was clear that the other party didn't look at him; apart from giving him guidance, he couldn't get close to the other party at all.

Later, when he made progress in the rune Dao, it became even harder to get in touch.

Therefore, he also understood.

Imagine that General Wang Jian contacted and solicited him; it was very simple—he had a bit of potential, was the first to come into contact with the rune Dao, and was the master craftsman of this Nanjun craftsman institute.

He also began to contact and try to refine rune cannons; he was considered a talent.

And his cultivation has now broken through to the Soul Refining realm.

Martial arts cultivation is not comparable to immortal cultivation; in the army, there are many who have surpassed Soul Refining. Just in the great army of Nanjun, there are hundreds or nearly a thousand martial arts Dharma body experts comparable to the Earth Immortal realm.

But there are very few cultivators.

Because cultivating the Dao itself is more difficult; if martial arts can persist, with sufficient resources and not-so-bad talent, as long as they don't die, they can also improve rapidly.

Of course, martial arts are explosive, and the death rate from forced breakthroughs is greater, which is no different from cultivators facing the calamity.

The only possibility is that martial arts do not need to face the calamity.

It's just that the flaws of martial arts, except for the army, are rarely practiced by people; after all, cultivating the Dao is peaceful, and the lifespan is longer.

And martial arts cultivation is extremely arduous, far less comfortable than sitting in meditation to cultivate the Dao.

That is to say, those people in the army can persist; the more people at the bottom, the more enthusiastic they are about martial arts, because martial arts improve strength rapidly, and the stronger the strength in the army, the more likely they are to be promoted and obtain meritorious service and titles.

The Wang clan is a military clan, so naturally, they mainly practice martial arts; nine out of ten disciples in the family walk the path of martial arts, because martial arts are the orthodoxy in the army.

And the Wang clan clearly also wants to continue walking the path of the army.

But it doesn't mean that the Wang clan doesn't want cultivators.

After all, cultivators are long-lived; once they become immortals, they have a lifespan of ten thousand years, and even when they reach the Heaven Immortal or True Immortal realm, they have a lifespan of hundreds of thousands or a million years.

Great Qin has only had a history of one hundred thousand years since its establishment.

Martial arts only have a greatly increased lifespan when they reach the Golden Body realm; even martial arts experts at the Dharma body realm are not necessarily longer-lived than Soul Refining realm cultivators.

This is the fatal flaw of martial arts.

The lifespan is too short, and often because of the lifespan, they cannot break through to the next realm.

The Wang clan wants longer development, so naturally, they also hope that a few immortals will appear in the family.

But cultivating the Dao pays more attention to talent; the aptitude of a cultivator is very important. If the aptitude is not enough, it is very difficult to cultivate anything.

The Wang clan naturally also has those who cultivate the Dao, but the strongest is only at the Golden Core realm. This strength is clearly not enough; the Golden Core realm doesn't even have the qualification to become Wang Jian's personal guard.

He, Nan Sun, is already in the Soul Refining realm and has the opportunity to try to impact the Earth Immortal realm in the future; the Wang clan naturally will not look down on him too much.

Therefore, soliciting him, Nan Sun also wants to have a backer.

Although the Wang clan is not a top-tier family in Great Qin, with Wang Jian, a General of the Left and Right with a martial arts golden body, no one dares to bully them.

So backed by the Wang clan, his future cultivation will also be smoother.

He did not refuse Wang Jian's invitation.

He also became a guest of the Wang clan; if he marries a woman from the Wang clan in the future, he will become a clansman of the Wang clan.

He doesn't care about being a matrilocal son-in-law or anything.

After all, in the future, if there are descendants, he also has the qualification to let his descendants follow his own surname, and his Nan family will not be cut off.

At the celebration banquet, everyone was very happy, especially these nobles in Nanjun, who breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the rebel army being heavily damaged in one fell swoop.

Nanjun is safe, and they are truly safe.

Of course, they also know that being able to have such merit this time is inseparable from Ge Nie and Su Fan.

One joined forces with Wang Jian to behead two Golden Immortals of the rebel army.

One brought out the rune Dao, built rune powerful bows, and formed a new archer legion, heavily damaging the rebel army's elite legion in one fell swoop.

It can be said that the latter's merit is even greater.

Losing two Golden Immortals, in fact, for the rebel army, they could still continue to attack.

But losing one hundred thousand elite troops, then they need to slow down.