The Immortal Sect entered a blazing frenzy of immortal Dao research.
All kinds of projects and undertakings were established in an extremely short time. Temporarily demobilized citizen cultivators took part in research, production, and teaching everywhere. Once they set down their guns, they became ordinary citizens, working in every trade and seamlessly shifting into different professions.
Jiang Ding also temporarily retired from the military.
He returned to his old profession in education, taking charge of the planning and establishment of Mingdu University, the Immortal Sect's fortieth university with a Cultivation Department.
The Nine Spirit Realm was being developed according to the standards of a mother realm.
This unprecedented Mingdu University was one example. For the first time, the Immortal Sect had opened a cultivation university somewhere other than its home planet. It had no intention of releasing the Nine Spirit Realm as it had so many Minor Worlds, leaving the natives to manage production on their own.
The many intelligent lifeforms that had originally existed in the Nine Spirit Realm, including the surviving members of the Horned Demon Tribe, would gradually be relocated from the Nine Spirit Realm and resettled in other Minor Worlds.
However, Mingdu University differed from other Immortal Sect universities as well. It enrolled only Immortal Sect students over one hundred years old, or transfer students, and offered only graduate-level courses and above.
This was to ensure the citizens' sense of belonging to the home planet.
Citizens could not be allowed to grow up in the Nine Spirit Realm from childhood and thereby develop a stronger sense of belonging to the Nine Spirit Realm than to the home planet. That was not permitted.
Jiang Ding stood within the Seventh-grade Spirit Vein, beneath the Sacred Tree Covering the Sky Banyan.
Mountain after mountain, forests, and rivers rose from