Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Chapter 2382 - 2349: The Expanding Hidden Dangers of the Financial Fortune Dao

For Emperor Realm cultivators, the current era is an excellent time.

It’s akin to an Emperor Realm cultivator teaching at an ordinary university while another works in a national top-tier laboratory exploring the technological limits of human civilization. After decades, the difference between two individuals of the same ability and talent will become tremendously significant.

This is the effect of resources and platforms on Emperor Realm cultivators.

Jiang Ding scanned with his Divine Sense, and now in the Taoist Court, he sensed eighteen Emperor Realm cultivators. Thanks to the conclusion of various Emperor’s Immortal Technique projects and digesting the outcomes, over tens of thousands of years, three more Emperor Realm cultivators have emerged from the Xianmen Sect and Magic Cultivation, and one Emperor Realm Sword Cultivator. The current Taoist Court can be said to be brimming with figures ranked alongside the Immortal Path Big Dipper.

Emperor Realm cultivators invariably represent the pinnacle of various immortal path academic studies.

For instance, the Great Sun Bright Light Sword Dao of the Great Sun Bright Light Sword Emperor is the utmost and purest Great Sun Swordsmanship, most akin to the paths of the First Generation Great Sun Sword Master and the successive Great Sun Sword Masters;

For instance, the Sea Burning Sword Dao of the Sea Burning Sword Emperor, a Sword Dao that burns and destroys everything, emphasizes the erosion, burning, concealment, and evasion of the Sword Dao. In battles, it often hides in unknown places, with the Sea Burning Sword Qi appearing from nowhere to burn the opponent to death, not focusing much on direct obliteration;

For instance, Han Li’s Six Dao Reincarnation path and Life path. The Six Paths Reincarnation Immortal Scripture is the pinnacle of this era...

Jiang Ding does not ignore the achievements of these Emperor Realm cultivators in Immortal Path academics, always discussing related matters in specialized directions with relevant Sword Emperors and Quasi-Emperors for joint decision-making.

Besides numerous Emperor Realm cultivators, there have also emerged some notable seedlings.

"Has the progress of the Financial Fortune Dao been significant?"

When Jiang Ding calculated and saw certain things, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Destiny aside, he harbors a potential hostility towards finance but clearly knows it is an inevitable aspect of economic development. Unless adopting a barter and crude, primitive economic system, finance is not only important but necessary; without finance, there is no progress of the celestial industrial system.

This thing is not his forte; to him, it signifies chaos and the unknown.

"The True Dragon Immortal Clan, the Xianmen Sect financial departments, and a large group of factions like the Heavenly Mechanism Immortal Sect, the Heavenly Calculation Immortal Sect, and other human Heavenly Mechanism Cause and Effect Sects have mingled together and their research is in full swing... Have they confirmed the possibility of several Emperor Realm cultivators emerging along this path?"

"Let them be, I’m the one setting the rules, not getting involved to skew the odds."

"Adjust when factors threatening the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dao System emerge, and do not fear the unknown and chaos; the unknown is the source of Immortal Path progress."

Jiang Ding sighed lightly, suppressing the restless thoughts in his heart.

He knows there are hidden dangers within, for once his suppression is lost, this group of Financial Fortune Dao cultivators would definitely turn against the Heavenly Gang by using virtual finance to suppress the celestial industrial system, potentially consuming it entirely, leading to an internal explosion of the Immortal Dynasty’s highly efficient celestial industrial system.

However, the internal threats of the Immortal Dynasty far exceed the Financial Fortune Dao.

The Wei Zi Family along with a multitude of clans, old sects, although transformed into universities with finances, personnel, military, etc., directly controlled by the central Supreme Great Sun Dao Court, everything seems stable, yet without regulation reverting to semi-feudal, semi-independent may barely last millions of years, even worse than the Ten Thousand Laws Immortal Dynasty.

Also, Immortal Sects with extreme citizen supremacy tendencies, a group of agitated Supreme Great Sun Sword Cultivators, viewing everyone as Holy Sword Fighting Grinding Stones...

The threats within the Immortal Dynasty are numerous and certainly not lacking one Financial Fortune Dao.

As long as chaos doesn’t break out while the Human Emperor is alive, the rest is beyond control.

"I, this monarch, am still a mortal, with limited capabilities, unable to foresee everything..."

Jiang Ding sighed lightly, closed his eyes, and continued deducing the Sun Immortal Scripture, refining the Taiqing Flying Sword.

This sword has been voraciously consuming large amounts of Ninth Tier Spiritual Materials and Immortal Materials since the establishment of the Immortal Dynasty, never once stopping, it has grown immeasurably stronger since the Human Emperor achieved the Dao.

To this day, no living being has tested the extremity of this Destruction Dao Sword.

Besides, part of the Human Emperor’s Divine Sense continually refines and monitors the progress of the Supreme Great Sun Immortal Medicine, injecting an Original Ancient Talisman into the Immortal Seed every few hundred years, feeding it with vast amounts of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, constantly enhancing the life force of the Undying Immortal Seed.

However, this Immortal Seed grows very slowly; it is an Immortal Plant with a growth cycle of tens of millions of years, requiring at least a million years of cultivation to germinate.

...

Time flows softly.

Unbeknownst, thirty thousand years have passed again, the starry sky remains peaceful as always, the Heavenly Immortal Path further transitions and elevates, the concentration of Spiritual Energy, Spiritual Veins, and Earth Veins in various worlds continuously strengthen, slowly and steadily advancing towards the silver trend, benefiting all Immortal Path living beings.

The Endless Starry Sky has gained a core, without historical emperors bleeding it, everything is gradually improving.

Just when everyone thought this peace would last until the expedition began, a variable emerged; two decaying armies from a distant dark starry sky approached the Immortal Dynasty’s territory after countless millennia of marching.

A busy silhouette of Emperor Realm cultivators appeared in Dubhe.

Their steps were steady, and no anxiety could be seen on their faces; one by one, they waited in Dubhe until a green-clothed youth appeared.

"Greetings, Sword Master!"

Emperor Realm cultivators saluted.

"No need for ceremony."

Jiang Ding waved his hand, not surprised by these enemies, simply leaving them to be handled by the Immortal Dynasty.

"Jiang Ding,"

"The two decaying armies aren’t numerous, only two billion, like small infiltration units."

Representing the Immortal Dynasty Staff Department, Yuan introduced: "In aspects such as attire, personnel composition, military formations, flags, military rank appellations, etc., the two units are entirely different, like cultivator armies from two different forces or armies of two slumbering Ancient Emperors..."

With his words, a sprawling marching scene appeared before everyone’s eyes.

The first unit primarily composed of numerous decayed beast forms: Immortal Crane, Demon Bull, Dragons, Phoenixes, Sea-covering Demon Apes, etc., humanoid creatures also exist but they do not dominate, more like part of the Barbaric Ten Thousand Clans rather than the Endless Starry Sky Dominator. The military formation’s heavy artifacts and flags largely use beast skins, white bones, etc., exuding a rough and barbaric air.

Of course, the barbaric facade does not indicate others lack Immortal Dao Technology content, akin to primitive humans, it’s merely the surface, there’s no actual barbaric primitiveness in Ancient Emperor’s army; it’s merely their aesthetic, not keen on strong order and organization.

Notably, among them, the strong ones and creatures suppressing key military formation nodes often resemble Immortal Beast Qilins or have features like scales, Qilin horns, etc., including many humanoid creatures, resembling the historical record of ’calcinated transformation’.

Calcinated transformation, wherein the Ten Thousand Races evolve in a particular direction through cultivation methods or the Essence Blood bestowed by the Upper Race.

This phenomenon was common during the True Dragon Immortal Clan’s reign, and some also existed during the human rule, for example, some from the Demon Race believed humans were more beautiful and better represented the Heavenly Dao, and transformed into human form to become stronger.

Calcinated transformation inevitably involves a process where the weak approach an unimaginable strong entity for them.