Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Chapter 1339: Chapter 1307: The Foundation of Immortal Sects Turns into Xianmen Sect’s Resources

The Dingding Heavenly Monarch and other Xuanwu Heavenly Palace’s Nascent Soul practitioners respectfully bowed their heads.

Although their hearts were bitter, there was no obstruction, and no one flew into a rage out of humiliation to prove their point with blood; the cultivators of this Demon Sect were terrifyingly realistic and rational.

“It’s quite tempting.”

“Every one of you, fellow Daoists, are exceptional individuals, understanding the bigger picture, willing to accept the outcome of a bet, which is admirable.”

Jiang Ding praised.

The greed that arose in his heart quickly disappeared as it came, not stirring a single ripple in the Lake of Heart.

“What a pity…”

Jiang Ding sighed.

“Senior Gui Cong has not yet ascended to the afterlife and still possesses the ability to retaliate against all the Minor Thousand Worlds outside of the Mother Star and the Nine Spirit Realm, capable of single-handedly massacring every place outside the two major cities of the Immortal Sect.”

“Fellow Daoists, rest assured for now.”

“Besides not being able to leave the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, you are not truly prisoners.”

Jiang Ding said indifferently. “For now, everything in the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace remains unchanged. My purpose here is twofold: firstly, to peruse the heritage of the Sutra Pavilion in the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace… The top-tier heritages aside, surely there are available middle and lower-tier heritages?”

A vast number of middle and lower-tier Immortal Path heritages are equally important to the Immortal Sect, even not inferior to a few top-tier heritages, greatly enriching the collection of the Xianmen Library.

“…”

Dingding Heavenly Monarch dared not answer.

However, he faced the Sutra Pavilion of the Heavenly Palace and bowed deeply.

“That’s good.”

Jiang Ding nodded slightly. “Secondly, a three-hundred-thousand-person Immortal Path scientific examination team from the Xianmen Sect will be stationed here for three hundred years to investigate the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace’s alchemy, farming, spirit beasts, artifact refining, and incense Divine Dao, learning from the various strengths of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace in these industries; by then, please cooperate.”

“This is quite a common thing.”

“In the past, when we jointly attacked the Horned Ming Realm, we similarly exchanged students to learn from each other and improve mutually. Naturally, this time is no different.”

Jiang Ding said casually, “Fellow Daoist Dingding, you also send dozens of people to study at Qingfeng University. We mutually contribute, and there’s no superiority or inferiority in this.”

“Swordsman, wise and enlightened!”

Dingding Heavenly Monarch bowed deeply.

The surrounding Nascent Soul Celestial Lords of Xuanwu Heavenly Palace also bowed in agreement with this arrangement.

“Very well.”

Jiang Ding nodded.

He did not visit anything further and went straight to the Sutra Pavilion of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace. Under the protection of the Immortal Sect’s Harmonization level grand formation, he began to access the vast heritage of the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace and record it, transmitting it to the Xianmen Library.

…

The Xianmen Sect’s three-hundred-thousand-person Immortal Path scientific examination team was stationed in the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace to investigate various aspects here.

It’s not just here; at the Heavenly Mechanism Immortal Palace, Wanji True Venerable also led a team to conduct various studies and seal a lot of low to mid-level heritages.

This was a tacit understanding.

Out of fear of the Immortal Sect’s Harmonization God Monarch who hadn’t yet died, the Xianmen Sect would not retaliate against their mountain gates, but the Immortal Sects also had to pay with some reasonable returns; otherwise, the annihilation of these mid and low-tier heritages could happen in the blink of an eye by a Great Expert, leaving nothing behind.

The complete mountain gates of each Immortal Sect appeared before the Xianmen Sect for the first time, containing a variety of Immortal Path wisdom, which would undoubtedly benefit the Xianmen Sect greatly.

However, these things were just the initial steps by Wanji True Venerable and the Great Sun Celestial Lord, meant to intimidate the Immortal Sect practitioners and then left for the other Xianmen cultivators to complete.

They had more important tasks, such as the promotion of the Central Array Spirit Computer to Harmonization level.

…

Rumble!

Fifty years later, amid the fall of thunder, reverberating in all directions.

In the Star Demon Tree, nine Refining Nothingness experts of the Xianmen Sect sighed softly and paused from their research on the Divine Soul structure of the Xuanwu Avatar.

“It’s a Great Expert of the Five Elements Heavenly Sect.”

Divine Machine True Venerable said, “Our old friend should be sent off more solemnly.”

Several hundred years passed, and the Xianmen Sect had promoted over two hundred Nascent Soul practitioners, with An Siyan, Jin Lingfeng, and those hibernating cultivators all awakening, passing tribulations, and successfully advancing to Nascent Souls.

Until now, Xianmen had over one thousand three hundred Nascent Soul practitioners!

The number of Nascent Soul Golden Core stage cultivators was also significantly increasing.

Under the support of terrifying resources spanning two regions and nearly two hundred Minor Thousand Worlds, the cultivation environment for Xianmen cultivators was extremely privileged, at least a hundred times better than in Jiang Ding’s time.

Any Xianmen citizen was naturally a tycoon, receiving benefits and treatments that students in Jiang Ding’s era couldn’t even imagine.

According to this year’s population census on the Mother Star, now, among the tens of billions of mortals, seventy-seven point nine percent are Xiantian Martial Artists.

It can be said that excluding the elderly and children, nearly every citizen starts as a Xiantian Martial Artist!

Even if they are not Eaglet Innate, an ordinary Xiantian is easily attainable without any difficulty, provided one isn’t too lazy and simply completes their compulsory education.

This is the war dividend the Xianmen Sect received, even for mortal citizens.

Thanks to the increase in the number of powerful citizens, the Xianmen Fleet has now expanded to over 150 million, with various warships undergoing different levels of upgrades, becoming stronger and faster, substantially boosting the strength of the Immortal Sect Citizen Fleet compared to a few hundred years ago.

It is expected that the number of Nascent Soul cultivators in the Xianmen will continue to increase rapidly, until it reaches around fifteen hundred, at which point it will gradually halt.

It’s not due to a lack of resources.

In fact, there’s still plenty of resources, at least there are opportunities to transform into a deity.

But all the hibernating cultivators have awakened, either dying or successfully crossing tribulations. The talent pool in Xianmen has already been fully tapped.

Citizens with enough qualifications and effort can obtain opportunities to transform upon reaching Nascent Soul Peak, without needing to hibernate.

With a population of tens of billions on the Mother Star, producing so many strong ones can be considered a miracle, with an astonishingly high success rate, marking the great success of the Xianmen educational system.

However, this is the limit.

For many citizens, their talent and effort are simply not enough.

Some just aren’t smart enough.

Or they just want to enjoy life, unwilling to endure the hardships of cultivation, holding onto the fallacy of ‘life is short, enjoy it while it lasts’, and are unwilling to make efforts.

Can you forcibly make them cultivate?

This is the limit.

According to the estimates of the Central Array Spirit Computer, relying on the nearly two hundred Minor Thousand Worlds and the Medium Thousand World Nine Spirit Realm, Xianmen will at most possess two thousand Nascent Souls, after which it will stabilize.

With the death of Nascent Soul cultivators, new ones will be born, continuing the cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death, but not increasing further as time goes on; this is the limit potential of the Mother Star’s population of tens of billions.

At least at the current level of Immortal Dao technology.

To continue growing, there are only two paths: further increasing the population of the Mother Star, or absorbing external talents, and these two paths might not necessarily conflict but coexist.

Reform is imperative.

These issues will definitely erupt once the post-war situation finally stabilizes.

Under the scrutiny of many Xianmen cultivators, a century later, when the Thunder Tribulation Cloud dissipates, another Harmonization God Monarch of the Immortal Sect emerges in the world, greeted by the earth-shattering bombardment of ship cannons and the Taibai Netherworld Sky Patrol Arrow strike.

In the end, the Great Expert of the Five Elements Heavenly Sect escapes in a dire condition with injuries far worse than those of the Great Expert of the Heavenly Mechanism Immortal Palace, fleeing pathetically with only half of his body remaining.