A clash between sword cultivators was bloody and dangerous.
It also brought immense rewards, especially for a cultivator with a deep foundation in the immortal arts and extensive experience in scientific research.
Jiang Ding was now certain that both his Heaven Sword Art and Six Paths Reincarnation Structure could evolve by leaps and bounds.
This was no rare treasure or miraculous pill.
It was knowledge, insight, inspiration. None of it could make a cultivator's realm soar overnight. He needed time to turn those insights into reality through his future cultivation, and only then would his strength surge.
"I need time..."
Jiang Ding murmured.
Once he had sorted through everything he had gained, his soul connected to the Central Array-Spirit Computer. Without the slightest hesitation, he joined the Immortal Sect's research projects, handled their many affairs, and took a deep role in the Eighth-Order Celestial Being Project, the Solar-System-Class Battleship Project, the Eighth-Order Array Research Project, and more.
At that instant, every Immortal Sect cultivator working on those sect-level projects sensed that something had changed.
The pace of immortal-arts research abruptly accelerated.
Not by a few percent, or even one or two times. In an instant, it leaped to four times its former speed!
A threefold increase!
It was like a carriage suddenly entering the age of steam trains!
The productivity of immortal-arts science was turned upside down. Research problems that had once demanded enormous amounts of time had become almost matters of common sense: solutions could be seen at a glance, with no time spent searching for them.
Many problems that had once been formidable now had their most crucial parts solved. All that remained were peripheral issues—not difficult, merely tedious and time-consuming—well within the abilities of the Immortal Sect's tens of billions of elite technical researchers.
The Immortal Sect's