The Grand Dream Sword Realm laboratory network advanced in orderly fashion.
After the Fusang Holy Maiden joined, efficiency improved considerably. Progress on every front surpassed what it had been before, and years of backlogged experimental data finally began to shrink instead of piling ever higher.
The Fusang Holy Maiden began sorting out personnel matters in one Grand Dream Sword Realm after another. She adjusted the duties of the many Supreme Great Sun Sword Cultivators, reshaping each realm around their personal preferences, strengths, and organizational structure. She did not simply use the Tu Shan Code to suppress everyone as the Great Sun Sword Heir did: violators died, and those who complied were rewarded.
That approach could also produce an orderly organization, but it was far too heavy-handed.
Living beings had feelings, after all. They did not weigh everything in cold terms of profit and loss. They had pursuits, ideals, and preferences of their own.
This was where the Great Sun Sword Heir fell short.
The Great Sun Sword Heir's code secured the foundation, while the Fusang Holy Maiden eased the tensions within.
The Great Sun Sword Heir might not have cared about those tensions, though. Anyone who dared challenge him could simply be suppressed. Only those capable of challenging him were heroes—true prodigies of the Supreme Great Sun Sword Dao.
"Grand Dream Sword Realm E-92973, codename Supreme..."
The Fusang Holy Maiden had been handling the internal affairs of each Grand Dream Sword Realm. Every realm she reorganized became far more efficient, and its Supreme Great Sun Sword Cultivators praised her to the skies.
Then she turned to this Grand Dream Sword Realm in the Seven Kill Starfield and could not help drawing a sharp breath.
"Tu Shan,"
"Are you not going to do anything about the sword cultivator codenamed Supreme?"
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