Jiang Ding cultivated in quiet seclusion for several months before opening his eyes again.
"Great Sun Senior."
Before him, an elderly man in a dark blue Daoist robe bowed respectfully. "This junior is Tianqing, president of the Immortal Sect Academy of Sciences. I have come specifically to report to you."
He had received a summons from the Great Sun Heavenly Monarch.
The president and vice presidents of the Immortal Sect Academy of Sciences were meant for this sort of work: serving the various Deity Transformation Cultivators and forming research teams around them. They were effectively administrative officers. It did not mean that whoever served as president of the Academy of Sciences was necessarily one of the Immortal Sect's strongest figures.
Just as Jiang Ding's Sword Dao Hall group had already been elevated into the Immortal Sect Sword Dao Academy of Sciences, Jiang Ding himself was not its president.
"You are Tianqing?"
"Tianqing, ah. It has been a long time."
Having received the memories of his various incarnations, Jiang Ding showed a nostalgic expression. "It seemed to have been three hundred and twenty-seven years ago. You had only just advanced into the Nascent Soul Realm then, and looked quite young. Now you have aged considerably... Do you have too many matters weighing on your mind?"
As a cultivator who had mastered the spells of the Great Sun Enlightenment Ground, Jiang Ding was often sought out by younger generations with questions.
Thus, Jiang Ding was fairly familiar with the Immortal Sect's younger cultivators.
This True Lord Tianqing was one of the most outstanding Nascent Soul Cultivators produced by the Immortal Sect over the past few centuries. He had achieved respectable results in Formation Spirit Algorithms, which was why he had become president of the Immortal Sect Academy of Sciences.
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