Something fundamental had changed across the World Cluster. An earth-shaking transformation was underway.
The Immortal Sect was devoted to scientific research into the immortal path.
Its exploration of that path encompassed the development of all kinds of technologies: pills, smelting, military formations, spirit plants, cultivation arrays... The Immortal Sect's research reached into every aspect of the immortal path.
The Immortal Sect was, in essence, an enormous research organization that never stopped working.
New technologies were born every moment.
At the same time, many projects hit obstacles. Some exceptionally difficult cultivation technique or spell structure held them fast, preventing a breakthrough.
The mass production of Solar-System-Class Battleships, the development of ninth-order arrays, the ninth-order Central Array-Spirit Computer, ninth-order military formations...
Nearly every field had encountered immense obstacles, forcing work to be set aside.
That was the nature of research into the immortal path.
Every new technology had to pass through countless trials and dangers. It might take the efforts of generations, along with a measure of luck, before a breakthrough finally came.
But now, none of that was necessary!
Whenever the Immortal Sect encountered a research problem—say, an array it could not resolve in the production process for Solar-System-Class Battleships—it immediately searched the inheritance archives of the Six Immortal Orders to see whether their predecessors had faced anything similar.
If it found a relevant inheritance, the Immortal Sect exchanged for it, and an impossibly difficult technological bottleneck gave way at once!
The Immortal Sect's research was practically a matter of copying from a book!
Almost every century, its technologies for spirit plants, smelting, shipbuilding, military formations, and more underwent earth-shaking changes, advancing in great leaps.
The World Cluster was still the same World Cluster.
Matter and energy remained conserved. Neither had changed at all.
Yet the heavenly treasures, spirit pills, magical