Jiang Ding glanced at the ID card in Flower Vine's hand.
"Name: Flower Vine"
"Sex: Female Ethnicity: Han"
"Date of birth: August 21, 15796"
"Address: No. 4 Orphanage, Old Street South District, Banyan City, Qian Province"
Her date of birth was today. The Central Array-Spirit Computer had no citizen records for her before now, so everything began today. Her ethnicity, meanwhile, had been chosen to deliberately downplay her identification with the Skullblood Vine Demon Clan.
In fact, she looked nothing like a Skullblood Vine Demon. She looked entirely human.
"Why did you choose Banyan City as your registered address?"
Jiang Ding asked casually.
"The staff told me to choose any orphanage as my registered address, or find someone to adopt me. They had to be more than three times my age—at least five thousand years old... I couldn't find anyone."
"So I chose somewhere similar to your registered address, Teacher."
Flower Vine explained.
"That works too."
"What do you plan to do now?"
Jiang Ding asked again. "You can do anything you want, as long as it complies with Immortal Sect law. Even if you decide to lie around and do nothing, that's your freedom. But every thousand years, you'll have to spend some time serving in the Citizen Fleet. That's every citizen's duty."
"I want to cultivate immortality! I want to become an emperor!"
"Teacher, do you have any advice?"
Flower Vine looked at him expectantly.
That was hardly surprising. Among the powerful cultivators of the realm, few lacked a fierce desire to pursue the Dao.
"My advice..."
Jiang Ding fell into deep thought.
For months, he sat there in a daze, thinking.
He was not merely mulling it over. He was casting a predictive spell—not a Heavenly Secret divination, but a data-driven projection unique to the Immortal Sect.