The Immortal Sect plunged into the study of the immortal arts with a fervor that spread like wildfire.
Projects and construction efforts sprang up in no time. Citizen cultivators temporarily demobilized from the military took part in research, production, and teaching everywhere. Once they put down their guns, they were ordinary citizens again, moving seamlessly into jobs across every trade.
Jiang Ding also retired from the military for the time being.
He returned to his old work in education, taking charge of planning Nether Capital University, the Immortal Sect's fortieth university with a School of Dao Cultivation.
The Immortal Sect was developing the Nine Spirits World to the standards of a homeworld.
The unprecedented Nether Capital University was one example. For the first time, the Immortal Sect was establishing a Dao Cultivation university beyond its homeworld. It had no intention of letting the Nine Spirits World go like its many lesser worlds, leaving production in the hands of the native inhabitants.
The Nine Spirits World's existing intelligent beings, including the surviving members of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan, would gradually be relocated and settled in other lesser worlds.
Nether Capital University differed from other Immortal Sect universities, however. It would admit only students over a hundred years old, or transfer students, and would offer only postgraduate courses and above.
This was to ensure that citizens felt a sense of belonging to the homeworld.
Citizens could not be allowed to grow up in the Nine Spirits World and come to feel more attached to it than to the homeworld. That was not permitted.
Jiang Ding stood within a seventh-order spirit vein beneath the Sky-Covering Divine Banyan.
Mountains, forests, and rivers rose from the ground at a thought, forming classrooms, plazas, school gates, and cave-residence dormitories for students of every level. Almost