Conditions for the Central Array-Spirit Computer to Advance to the Dao Integration Level

While his clone in the Golden Emperor Palace was surrounded so tightly by the many Heavenly Lords that not even water could pass through, Jiang Ding was at the Great Sun Celestial Pool, listening to the Central Array-Spirit Computer's assessment of the inheritances he had submitted.

Labor would always bring reward.

Those who rendered meritorious service to the Immortal Sect would receive equally great merit credits.

This was the foundation of the Immortal Sect. It did not ask its citizens to be saints who expected nothing in return.

Even if such saints existed—people who gave everything without thought of reward—they were not what the Immortal Sect wanted. They would not score highly in Ethics and Ideology.

One hundred and thirty points would be their ceiling. They would never advance further.

Saints who defied the continuation and development of life might bring temporary benefits, but in the long run they would inevitably bring disaster.

As the saying went, while saints lived, great thieves would never cease.

What, then, earned a high score in the Immortal Sect's Ethics and Ideology course?

Jiang Ding pondered this.

A high score meant binding the Immortal Sect's interests to one's own: possessing a powerful drive to pursue gain without breaking the Immortal Sect's laws, and increasing the Immortal Sect's prosperity while pursuing one's own. Both sides benefited.

Yes, that was difficult.

But anyone who managed it had earned a high score in Ethics and Ideology. Scoring a hundred and thirty or forty points would be child's play.

The Immortal Sect's Ethics and Ideology was not merely an abstract moral demand. Morality alone could not encompass the whole course.

It was also an ability!

The ability to bind one's interests deeply to the Immortal Sect's, so both sides benefited and grew together!

"...Citizen 5227...89, Jiang Ding, you