Yuan's "increasing risks on the road ahead" hypothesis was somewhat pessimistic.
The Great Sun Heavenly Lord's theory about the path to immortality was far more inspiring, setting many of the Immortal Sect's True Venerables' hearts surging.
The two of them did not argue, however.
In fact, both views might be right, or both might be wrong. The path to immortality was still an exceedingly distant goal for the Immortal Sect's scientific community. They might be unable to test either view for hundreds of thousands of years.
"These questions are too distant."
"At least for now, we may have a greater advantage in battles at the Dao Integration stage than the Nine Great Immortal Sects of the Ancient God Domain. Is that right?"
True Venerable Divine Mechanism posed the question.
His foundational cultivation art was the Lunar-Solar Scripture, one of the Nine Immortal Sect Scriptures. His rule was a branch of the lunar-solar rule: it treated yin and yang as two entangled particles, zero and one, greatly enhancing his soul's computational and deductive abilities. He had particular expertise in Array Spirit Algorithm research and command planning, and had long served as the Immortal Sect's chief of general staff.
Of course, once separated from the Immortal Sect's Citizen Fleet, his individual strength was extremely weak. It went without saying that he ranked at the bottom of his stage; most of the Immortal Sect's Void Refining cultivators were like him.
True Venerable Divine Mechanism looked across the Immortal Sect's many Void Refining True Venerables, paying particular attention to Yuan and the Great Sun Sword Heir.
One had reached extraordinary depths in seventh-tier military formation command and the art of arrays, as if he were a ghost. The other possessed terrifying individual strength: in a duel, he could wipe out swathes of the Immortal