Ming Guangzi and the others bowed once more, then departed.
These Integration cultivators would head to the sites of the opportunities, assess and appraise them, and reach a conclusion.
Meanwhile, work on the various formations in the Celestial Craft Star Chain World Cluster continued in orderly fashion. Completing them was expected to take between seven hundred and a thousand years.
"That's not right."
"Far too slow."
After calculating for a while, Jiang Ding frowned.
By his original calculations, the work should have taken only about three hundred years. An error this large was an insult to his professional career. It meant his ability to handle administrative affairs had fallen drastically.
Jiang Ding's frown deepened. He turned his divine sense to the reports from every quarter, calculated for a while longer, and found the cause.
"A lack of governing institutions."
"These sword cultivators are terrible at building organizations across the worlds of the Celestial Craft Star Chain World Cluster. Basically, a Golden Core or Spirit Transformation cultivator goes somewhere, establishes a sect, collects taxes, recruits disciples, and leaves it at that."
"But this is a world-cluster formation. It involves every mountain and river, even every hillside. Without a tightly organized structure, cultivators have to deal with one place after another themselves. The job can still be done, but the efficiency is far too low."
"Mortals and low-level cultivators can handle many simple tasks. Having Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivators do them is a complete waste."
Having found the problem, Jiang Ding dealt with it at once.
He searched through the presences in his sea of consciousness and finally settled on the most powerful of the Tu Shan Maidservants, a woman at the peak of Void Refining.
Before long, the female cultivator flew in from afar.
She was a woman of