This village, the countless mortals and cultivators of the Artifact Sect, all lived like this.
Women became Flesh and Blood Trees, reproducing and living efficiently. Men became miners and farmers, mining and farming for the Artifact Sect. Ten years later, they died, nourishing the earth once more and providing resentment.
None of this required any expenditure of spiritual energy. It could continue forever.
While brutally suppressing living beings, the Artifact Sect placed exceptional emphasis on nature and harmony.
All production and all smelting followed the laws of nature perfectly. They never drained the pond to catch every fish. That black smoke of resentment was all collected and turned into Artifact Refining Materials. It would never pollute the environment, turning the sky gray and murky, covering the land in filthy wastewater and stench, driving living creatures to extinction.
This land was so fertile.
This sky was so clear and spotless.
This place known as the Black Iron 29 Domain was improving environmentally, its spiritual vein grade rising at an exceedingly slow pace. Its future was boundless, and it was even drawing closer to the Upper Domain.
Everything seemed beautiful.
"Heaven's Favor!"
"Heaven's Favor, Heaven's Favor..."
Jiang Ding stared at the sky and said coldly, "The Artifact Sect possesses Heaven's Favor—the favor of the Great Thousand World's consciousness. How enviable. How admirable..."
"The Artifact Sect."
"It truly is an excellent, highly efficient civilization..."
Jiang Ding said blandly.
In this world, which was more important: the Heavenly Dao or the Human Dao?
All manner of reasons and disputes had been argued time and again throughout the history of the Immortal Path: 'Heaven and Earth are heartless, treating all things as straw dogs'; 'My fate is mine, not Heaven's'; 'The Heavenly Dao is supremely just'...
Yet hundreds of millions of powerful human cultivators knew