Time flowed on.
Before anyone realized it, another two thousand years had passed.
Over those two thousand years, no major disaster had befallen the Immortal Sect. The ten-thousand-year plan for Immortal Path Industry continued to advance steadily. Projects such as Heavenly Being Grade cultivation methods, the Eighth-Order Heavenly Being Central Array Spirit Computer, and Solar System-grade Battleships were all proceeding steadily, while the exploration of Immortal Dao Science and Technology never paused for a moment.
The only slight regret was that, aside from the gratifying progress of the Eighth-Order Heavenly Being Central Array Spirit Computer, all the other projects were merely "advancing steadily," without the slightest exaggeration. The Immortal Sect's millennium annual reports had been exceedingly precise in their wording, with no deviation whatsoever.
Advancing steadily meant only advancing steadily. Efficiency had plunged off a cliff, falling to less than one-third of its prewar level.
Had the Immortal Sect's talents withered away after that brutal war?
Had research efficiency declined because the Central Array Spirit Computer was no longer absolutely trusted?
Neither was the reason.
In that battle, the Immortal Sect's Void Refinement and Spirit Transformation cultivators had not suffered greatly. After a thousand years of recuperation, nearly all the low- and mid-level Immortal Sect Cultivators had been replenished. Moreover, as time passed and Immortal Sect science and technology advanced, the average standard of its talents had even risen.
The Immortal Sect's talent pool, supported by its powerful educational system and replenished by Ascension immigrants, had not withered away.
Nor was the Central Array Spirit Computer the cause.
After that battle, under Regent Yuan's leadership, the Immortal Sect strictly carried out physical power-cutting and network-disconnection procedures. It sealed the Central Array Spirit Computer of the Home Planet on Uranus, providing it with only a tiny amount of spiritual qi to