Many thoughts surfaced in Jiang Ding's mind, then slowly settled.
The Central Array-Spirit Computer's assessment of his character and values had made no mistake. At this moment, the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden truly could not represent the Immortal Sect's interests completely.
In this era, the sword path had surpassed the Immortal Sect's entire immortal dao.
This was a cold law of the material world. No amount of feeling could undo it.
The world was shaped by the mind: only because people had feelings did its myriad wonders have color, sound, and life. Without feeling, all matter was meaningless to living beings.
Yet the world was also material. Matter and energy flowed according to cold physical laws.
Those who defied those laws never came to a good end.
As things stood, the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden possessed productive capacity, research strength, and combat power far beyond the entire Immortal Sect. To demand that he still submit wholly to its greater interests was unrealistic.
From the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden's kindergarten days onward, the Immortal Sect had taught him that its dao heart rested on two pillars: interests and feelings. The Immortal Sect would never forcibly strip citizens of their interests in the name of the "greater good" or "righteous duty." Any requisition had to be compensated.
The Immortal Sect was formed from the shared interests of its citizens. It was not a father standing high above them, demanding selfless sacrifice.
Even while safeguarding the Immortal Sect's interests and the greater good, no citizen should neglect his own interests for any reason!
That was what the Immortal Sect had taught him.
The Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden had lived by it.
And so the Supreme Great Sun Sword Immortal Maiden's path had begun to diverge