The Immortal Sect's representatives continued inspecting and testing the prototype stellar-class warship. They discovered many flaws that earlier simulations had missed and corrected them one by one.
According to Divine Mechanism, the project's chief engineer, all those flaws could be fixed within five hundred years at most.
Then the Immortal Sect's first true stellar-class warship would be born.
"The Immortal Sect Administration's warship will certainly be upgraded. That will come out of the Immortal Sect's treasury."
"Jiang Ding,"
Divine Mechanism asked, "will you place an order for a stellar-class warship? The Immortal Sect has more than enough capacity to build two at once."
"Besides, yours should be customized to suit your fighting style. Its military formations will need adjustments, and the factory and living areas aboard the death-star warship will need the sword-refining formations you require. We should convene a shipbuilding preparatory meeting to settle all this in advance."
For a long time, the Great Sun Sword Lord had paid for his warships from his personal savings.
Unlike a warship funded by the Immortal Sect's treasury, one bought this way belonged entirely to him. The Free Immortal Sect, for example, was effectively the Immortal Sect Administration's warship, not Yuan's private property.
In theory, if Yuan stepped down as administrator, he could not take the Free Immortal Sect with him. He would have to hand it over to his successor.
And a stellar-class warship!
Its value was beyond calculation. Its supply chain was vast, its manufacturing processes complex, and the materials it consumed—from first-tier to seventh-tier heavenly treasures—were countless, nearly equal in weight to a planet. Conservative estimates put the direct jobs it would create in immortal industry at around ten million, and these were cutting-edge, high-value positions for Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, and Void Refining cultivators.
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