Jiang Ding appeared calm and did not make a point of emphasizing anything.
But everyone knew how much he valued his Great Sun Spirit Transformation Strategy.
A thousand years ago, before the Great Sun Heavenly Lord had even advanced to Spirit Transformation, he had begun promoting it throughout the Immortal Sect. His main body and avatar had given speech after speech, telling Immortal Sect Citizens why the strategy was necessary. Again and again, he had explained that if the Immortal Sect encountered a powerful civilization in the dark forest of the realms, it must not be left without the strength to resist.
After a thousand years of effort, he had indeed won many supporters among the Immortal Sect's citizens, including its Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lords.
Of course, he had also made some fiercely opposed political enemies. Many, with the Sun Slayer Heavenly Lord as their most prominent representative, cared deeply about the Immortal Sect's purity. They would rather pay the price of drastically slowing its growth.
They would rather die in a pure Immortal Sect than see cultivators from outside become citizens. They rejected any change.
To them, it was a matter of faith.
"You youngsters really are a tangled mess,"
The Divine Mechanism Heavenly Lord gave a wry smile. "Some of you want to admit prodigies from beyond our realms; some insist on absolute purity. Others go further and want citizenship opened to all: embrace everyone, grant citizenship on arrival, then let character and research ability determine advancement. And then there are extreme Immortal Sect Citizen supremacists who would imitate the Horned Demon Imperial Clan, enslave all other races, and keep citizens forever above them..."
"You have every kind of faction imaginable."
"The pressure of war is covering up all these conflicts. Once we win, lose our external enemy,