A sun-star veiled its light as it traveled through the universe toward the distant reaches. It never stopped for a moment.
This was the Great Sun Celestial Pool.
At one point, a young man in azure appeared once more at the heart of the Great Sun Celestial Pool's Solar Abyss. He closed his eyes and resumed cultivating, refining the flying sword's eleventh solar-rule restriction while considering and planning the many affairs of the Immortal Sect.
The most pressing tasks were developing a stellar-class warship and a Void Refining-stage cultivation method. These were the keys to every Void Refining cultivator in the Immortal Sect advancing to a higher realm.
Less urgent were comprehending the Six Paths Reincarnation Structure and Heaven Sword Art, and developing and applying solar sword arts.
There was also the development of the Void Six Paths Illusion, which was vital to the government of the Immortal Sect Citizens. Its deadline was less pressing; it only needed to be completed within twenty thousand years.
But if the Void Six Paths Illusion was to emerge twenty thousand years from now, they had to start investing vast amounts of manpower and resources in its development today. They could not wait twenty thousand years and then clasp the Buddha's feet at the last moment. Nothing would come of that.
There was also the work of refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of sun and moon into the gradual accumulation of mana in his dantian. That was a task spanning a cultivator's entire life, one that never stopped for a moment.
And so he kept busy, with scarcely a moment to spare.
Fortunately, Jiang Ding enjoyed all these things himself, so he hardly found them tedious.
Whenever he had leisure time, he used the Great Sun Celestial Pool's