Time flew.
Five thousand years flowed by like water.
The world cluster was still developing at breakneck speed. Every year, new immortal-path technologies erupted like a geyser, finding uses in alchemy, artifact refining, formations, and countless other fields. The world cluster's productivity kept rising and rising.
Now, with the material foundation of barely one world cluster, it was producing the output of seven!
Nearly seven times the productivity!
Of course, that did not mean the Ancient God World Cluster's productivity and immortal-path science and technology had surpassed those of the Fallen Immortal Realm's Immortal Orders sevenfold. That was far from the case.
The main reason was that this tiny world cluster had far too many extraordinary people!
Four-step-limit Dao Children, the Central Array-Spirit Computer, Yuan, the heirs of the Six Dawn Immortal Orders, and the many Divine Lords and disciples of the Afterglow Immortal Sects beneath them...
The density of extraordinary people here almost surpassed that of an entire great thousand world!
And all those people were confined to one tiny world cluster.
That was the real reason its productivity had reached such heights. Most of it came from extraordinarily intensive work. Even the Great Sun Sword Heir and the heirs of the Six Dawn Immortal Orders were hard at work, carving patterns onto embroidery needles, pushing the world cluster's productivity beyond its limits again and again.
That productivity grew stronger every year, as though it had no limit.
Unfortunately, "as though" was all it was.
After a mere five thousand years, the geyser of breakthroughs in immortal-path technology came to an abrupt halt. The pace of progress suddenly slowed.
The scientists of the Immortal Sect and the Six Dawn Immortal Orders had picked almost every easily reached fruit of immortal-path science and technology.
The fruits that remained hung higher