Time drifted on, and the years passed.
The Immortal Sect developed, and Yuan, who had advanced to the Dao Integration stage, displayed formidable organizational ability.
Immortal Dao science and technology advanced by leaps and bounds across every field of the Immortal Sect. New discoveries emerged without pause, and the Great Sun Sword Lord and the nearly eighth-tier Central Array-Spirit Computer lent their full support, accelerating the process even further.
The Immortal Sect was now developing ten, a hundred, even a thousand times faster than Dao Integration-level powers such as the Weaving Celestial Clan and the Demon God Sect.
The Immortal Sect was advancing at a furious pace, traversing in a few thousand years a path that took traditional sects more than a hundred thousand.
Throughout history, each new Immortal Dao technology had been built by one generation after another. Sect patriarchs and prodigies each contributed a little. From time to time, a prodigy died after losing control of their cultivation while exploring a new technique. Generation after generation died, and generation after generation added to what had come before.
They accumulated knowledge, then accumulated more.
At last, a peerless prodigy would arise. Building on the explorations of the sect's forebears, that prodigy would make the final leap, transforming a Dao Integration-level sect into a celestial-level sect.
Even the shortest such journey took more than a dozen generations and hundreds of thousands of years.
And that still required a measure of luck. The sect had to escape catastrophe as its legacy passed down, while every generation of patriarchs needed a fierce drive to forge ahead—enough to risk losing control of their cultivation as they developed new Immortal Dao technologies, rather than lie back and leave their ancestors' legacy untouched.
What were the odds of such a sect existing?
Far too low!