"The Immortal Sect has changed so much..."
Jiang Ding murmured.
Materialist Science in the Spiritless Universe held enormous potential for development. In the past, the Immortal Sect had devoted little effort to it, focusing instead on immortal cultivation science. Now that it had truly turned its attention there, it had immediately achieved many results.
But that was as far as it went.
Immortal cultivation science drew on countless millions, perhaps countless trillions, of years of inheritance. Even a minor fireball spell could be traced back to the opening of chaos and the birth of the first cultivator. That inheritance stretched back an unimaginably long time.
The Spiritless Universe might have possessed a civilization with such an inheritance too, but the Immortal Sect had never encountered one. It could only forge a path on its own. Every technology had to be invented anew, with no outside civilization to learn from.
The Immortal Sect's many advances in Materialist Science over the past ten thousand years were closely tied to the methods of observing and manipulating matter developed through immortal cultivation. Immortal cultivation science had given birth to the sect's Materialist Science.
A Celestial cultivator, for example, was the equivalent of a supercomputer on a galactic scale, able to observe the tiniest reaches of the microscopic world with ease.
If relying on Materialist Science alone, how many years would it have taken to build such a machine?
The Immortal Sect had skipped that stage of development, obtained the result directly, and then used it to advance Materialist Science in turn.
That was why Materialist Science had progressed by leaps and bounds over the past ten thousand years.
Yet in theoretical research, ordinary mortals of the Immortal Sect still seemed more likely to make breakthroughs. Jiang Ding did not know why.
His gaze swept