Yuan led the fleet of hundreds of millions of citizens away, and it soon vanished into the distant starry sky.
Though he and many of the Immortal Sect's Void Refining cultivators were gravely wounded, the searing killing intent in their hearts had not cooled. They wanted to find the critically injured Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace mighty one and beat him to death.
"Get to work!"
"Time to get to work!"
Myriad Mechanisms shouted.
He could hardly wait to connect his soul to the Central Array-Spirit Computer. He began scanning the Black Tortoise clone again and again, gathering all manner of data on its Dao Integration soul.
In a sense, this was the Immortal Sect's system of cultivation and war.
Cultivation, combat, research, and production were one inseparable whole. Each supported and strengthened the others, serving as one another's wings.
Almost every Immortal Sect cultivator spent their entire life this way. This was their life.
"Coming."
Jiang Ding sat cross-legged in the Great Sun Celestial Pool and began healing the injuries he had suffered from the Taiyi Netherworld Sky-Patrolling Arrow's backlash.
At the same time, his divine sense surged into the Immortal Sect's network and its laboratories. There, he joined hundreds of thousands of Spirit Transformation cultivators, Nascent Soul True Lords, and Void Refining cultivators in discussing the composition of the Dao Integration soul and beginning a series of experiments that would not harm the Black Tortoise clone.
The Immortal Sect had planned a great many research projects for this day long ago. It had even poured enormous effort into building specialized instruments, so experiments could begin the moment a Dao Integration soul fell into its hands.
Soon, one Dao Integration-level soul structure after another was scanned, drawing waves of astonished exclamations.
"Incredible!"
"It's beautiful, like a twelve-faceted crystal. Strands of