The lively tribulation gradually came to an end.
Jiang Ding spent some time with Divine Mechanism, An Siyan, Jin Lingfeng, Sun Slayer, and the others. Then he and Yuan saw these old friends into slumber.
It was not yet time for them to advance.
The Immortal Sect's seventh-tier heavenly treasures needed another eight thousand years or so to mature. Only then would they awaken and face their tribulations.
Many of these old friends had high chances of surviving their tribulations. Sun Slayer and Myriad Mechanisms, for instance, each had a success rate above ninety percent.
But when life and death were at stake, every extra fraction of a chance mattered.
Besides, the Immortal Sect was stable. There was no need for them to risk a breakthrough.
And then there were the two great powers' selfish feelings, which neither spoke aloud.
They wanted their old friends to remain with them a little longer. Even if those friends slept and said nothing, knowing they were there felt different. It made the loneliness easier to bear.
If parting was inevitable someday, then please, let that day come a little later.
"What if we tackle the Void Six Paths Illusion project first?"
Jiang Ding watched his old friends enter slumber one by one, their figures vanishing, and suddenly spoke.
The Void Six Paths Illusion was a project begun many years ago. Its aim was to establish a void communications network spanning the Ancient God World Cluster, allowing Immortal Sect Citizens to study, live, and cultivate online. Even across vast distances between worlds, seeing a loved one would take only a single step, with no need to spend ages traveling through super teleportation arrays.
Besides, unless their travel was officially funded, many low-level cultivators could not afford the cost of those arrays.
If the Void