"I need to find time to talk with the nine Dao Children."
"Set up a joint research project on inherited divine metals."
Jiang Ding murmured to himself.
The Immortal Sect no longer opposed the Eight Great Immortal Sects producing Celestial Realm cultivators. It meant those sects, deeply integrated into the Immortal Sect's industrial system, could contribute more and produce more specialized raw materials for immortal industry. For the Immortal Sect's vast industrial system, that was a major boon.
The Eight Great Immortal Sects could produce things the Immortal Sect struggled to make, such as Supreme Clarity Azure Firmament Meteoric Iron.
But the Immortal Sect merely allowed it.
The Eight Great Immortal Sects had no chance of receiving its support.
The Immortal Sect did have Celestial Realm resources, but those were reserved for citizens who had earned great merit. Many of its own citizens could not obtain them, so outsiders certainly would not.
It could not give them resources, but it could collaborate on a new research project.
Jiang Ding settled his mind and continued cultivating and researching.
As an immortal being with a lifespan of five hundred thousand years, he had time to spare. A mere fifty or sixty thousand years was nothing much, even without any acceleration. It was hard for him to feel impatient even if he wanted to.
Time passed amid one task after another, each day quiet and uneventful.
Every day, Jiang Ding discussed immortal science with old friends and acquaintances. From time to time, he visited the human race's Myriad Laws Nexus to debate the Dao with the other Dao Children.
Whenever he encountered a research problem, he dressed it up as a song, a game of Go, or a painting and posted it there for discussion with the human race's many prodigies.
These peerless