After so many years of friendship, they needed few words between them.
Once Jiang Ding had dealt with several urgent research projects, he arranged others, chiefly concerning the fifth limit, the Cause-and-Effect-Extinguishing Sword, and celestial-tier cultivation methods—projects that bore directly on his Dao Path.
He already had rough ideas for these important projects. What he needed now was the Immortal Sect's vast research team to test his various conjectures.
That was why the Immortal Sect mattered so much to him.
Within the Immortal Sect, Jiang Ding's research efficiency rose severalfold, far beyond what he could achieve alone. It was as though he had an entire elite research staff at his disposal.
Of course, the same was true for the Immortal Sect when it came to the Great Sun Sword Lord.
The Great Sun Sword Lord's participation could likewise multiply the Immortal Sect's research efficiency. The two had grown together from weakness, each complementing the other.
"My chief gain from this breakthrough lay in the Law Annihilation rule."
"I may sound a little arrogant, but the path of Law Annihilation holds immense promise. It is the direction closest to producing a true immortal in the Immortal Sect's future. When joining the Dao, one imprints the heart of heaven with one's own heart..."
Jiang Ding spoke slowly to a group of the Immortal Sect's Void Refining cultivators, while numerous Dao Integration Divine Lords listened from concealment in the void.
He was sharing what he had learned during his breakthrough.
It was an old tradition of the Immortal Sect, one that had never changed.
Decades later, the Void Refining cultivators bowed and dispersed. Jiang Ding continued his discussion with Divine Lord Myriad Mechanisms and the others. "Yuan suggested strengthening our research into forbidden nuclear weapons and making the project our top priority. I