The Great Sun Heavenly Pool Crystal Wall spun and flowed as it traveled through the darkened realm.
Jiang Ding sat cross-legged in the Solar Abyss, meditating in seclusion, unaware of the passage of years.
At some point, he opened his eyes and looked toward the faint spatial ripples that had appeared beyond the Heavenly Pool Crystal Wall.
Within those minute spatial ripples, dozens of aerospace aircraft carriers and tens of thousands of warships and fighter craft teleported into the Great Sun Heavenly Pool. After circling within the Heavenly Pool for a moment, they flew toward the Solar Abyss.
With a wave of his hand, Jiang Ding temporarily isolated the Solar Abyss's destructive heat and corrosive sword intent, forming a passageway. He rose and flew forward to welcome them.
The aerospace carrier fleet halted. More than fifty Nascent Soul True Lords flew out, led by a square-faced middle-aged man at the Nascent Soul Peak.
"Hello, Professor Jiang!"
The middle-aged man saluted and introduced himself. "I am Liu Futong, director of the Immortal Sect Warship Research Institute. By order, I have come to conduct preliminary inspections of the Great Sun Heavenly Pool and gather all manner of data, in preparation for the senior predecessors' future involvement in researching Great Sun Sword Pavilion warship construction technology and strengthening the Immortal Sect's foundations in warship construction."
Liu Futong felt somewhat uneasy.
The person before him was clearly only at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, lower in realm than himself, yet when he truly faced him, he instinctively felt somewhat suffocated.
There was not even any pressure; it was purely psychological, as though he were facing a genuine Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarch.
"Hello, Director Liu. You are too polite."
Jiang Ding responded courteously.
This had been arranged long ago.
The Immortal Sect was extremely interested