Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 1204 - 1172: Nurturing Refining Void Stage Material Earth Mother Gold

Jiang Ding, for the first time, did not conceal his figure, flying in the sky over the Northern Plains, surveying the mountains, Spiritual Veins, and rivers of the Earth.

From time to time, he would land on the ground, taking out one Formation instrument after another, be it ores or Spirit Stones, casting Mana Techniques with his hands to arrange something.

After some time had passed, the Cultivators from Tushan Central Court hurried over to take over the matters here.

Sometimes Jiang Ding would fly to a Fourth Order Spiritual Vein and stay within a Nascent Soul Stage Sect, regardless of whether the sect elders led the entire Sect to greet him, busy with arranging something.

Sometimes he planted a tree, other times he used great Mana to transport mountains one by one, altering the Earth's Qi of this area.

Sometimes he would plan a Spiritual Medicine Garden here, or else he would create a Spirit Beast Garden.

Jiang Ding spent several years busy with the Northern Plains, and then flew to the East Sea, Southern Border, West Desert, each time deploying many things, planning many industries, involving Spiritual Medicine Gardens, Spirit Beast Lakes, deep sea breeding currents, deep sea plantations, deep mountain mines, and so on.

All these were his arrangements for the Refining Nothingness industry of this Minor Thousand World.

Just as the Minor Thousand World of the Horned Ming Realm contained Refining Void Stage magical stones and Demon Vine Fruits, although this Minor Thousand World had been damaged, it could still nurture Refining Void Stage Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

It might just take a bit more time.

However, with the addition of Xianmen Sect's more scientific and efficient nurturing methods, it might produce higher yields and take less time than the Minor Thousand World of the Horned Ming Realm.

"The final result being,"

"Refining Void Stage top-grade material, valued at 0.8 of a Refining Void Stage Battle Merit, one of the main materials for Synthetic Geng Metal——Earth Mother Gold from the mine."

Jiang Ding stopped at the Fifth Order Spiritual Vein, the Gu Divine Peak in the Southern Border, casting down the final Mana Technique.

At this moment, he felt the flow of the Earth Qi and Spiritual Veins of the entire world changing, converging towards the direction of the Six Dao Sect of the Southern Border, coalescing into something.

The world seemed, at this moment, to be a Law Net.

This Law Net was composed of four massive main veins, namely the Four Orders of Fifth Order Spiritual Veins in the Southern Border, East Sea, Northern Plains, and West Desert. Then there were the various Spiritual Medicine Gardens beneath them, Spiritual Plant Gardens, lakes, rivers, deep-sea currents, ocean-bottom Spiritual Veins... and so forth.

All the buildings, Spiritual Medicine Gardens, Formation Methods, and Spirit Fields on it are part of this multi-dimensional Formation, and cannot undergo too many changes.

Otherwise, the process of nurturing Refining Void Stage Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures would fail.

This is one of the important reasons why Jiang Ding needs to stabilize the order of Tushan Central Court. He will not allow anyone to interrupt his millennium plans, thereby affecting the growth of his Life Flying Sword in the future.

Due to the presence of the Boundary Formation that adjusts the Earth Spirit Veins, this kind of nurturing will not damage the Immortal Tao Ecosystem of the world, but instead, will accelerate and promote the growth of the world.

Refining Void Stage Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, after all, are trivial compared to the scale of an entire world.

This kind of Formation is akin to a great invention that uses the world's breath as an energy source, and then generates electricity from it.

These world breaths would have been wasted anyway, some terribly intelligent and brilliant person in history discovered this method and thus it was passed down.

The Horned Ming Realm is different.

That method is very crude, directly using the internal Spiritual Energy and Earth's Qi of the world to condense Refining Void Stage Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, causing damage to the world.

Of course, the damage is also very minor, because if the world's original consciousness gets angry, even a Great Emperor would die instantly.

Although this method is very slightly damaging to the world, for the whole world, for the surface, the most superficial layer where living beings reside, the impact is still enormous. Therefore, every twenty thousand years it must 'rest' once, resting for ten thousand years.

Not even a Great Emperor dares to defy this principle, seeking short-term profits at the expense of draining the pond to get all the fish.

This is a tragic lesson from history.

However, even so, there is still a cost to pay.

Those who slightly damage the world, especially those who do so for hundreds of thousands of years, will have some 'bad luck' in the mystery of the world. It may not necessarily lead to anything serious because the world's subconscious has not gotten angry, but it's just that their 'luck' will be a bit worse, and it won't matter if their strength is strong enough.

World.

Minor Thousand World.

The higher the cultivation base, the more one holds the world in awe, unlike Nascent Soul to Divine Transformation Cultivators, who think that after moving mountains and seas, destroying countless lives, they have conquered the entire world.

"Roughly six hundred years..."

Jiang Ding inspected the Spiritual Veins of the entire world with the Great Sun World Defining Array and concluded, "If everything remains unchanged, within six hundred years, an Earth Mother Gold Mine can be condensed, serving as the primary material for crafting number one Synthetic Geng Metal, citizens can get it for half price internally."

"The remaining half can be paid with Fifth and Fourth Order Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure and a large number of Spirit Stones, which won't be a problem for me."

"It's just that it only produces one portion every six hundred years..."

Jiang Ding sighed softly.

He felt the difficulty of cultivation, the more it was so at later stages.

This efficiency is already much higher compared to a portion every thousand years from Horned Demon Imperial Clan of the Horned Ming Realm, but it is a bit less compared to the Immortal Sects' every five hundred years, and even less compared to Xianmen Sect's every four hundred years to condense a portion.

The reasons for this are that the world had once been broken, affecting the state of the Immortal Tao Ecosystem, and on the other hand, the efficiency of Xianmen is based on 'intensive cultivation'; without a highly developed Immortal Tao Civilization and the presence of highly skilled professionals in the Immortal Dao Industrial System, it's impossible to further accelerate the condensation efficiency.

"A thousand years from now, we should be able to obtain close to two portions of Earth Mother Gold Mine."

"According to the heritage records of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, if the Taiqing Flying Sword successfully ascends to Great Emperor Arms, it will need one portion of number one Synthetic Geng Metal every fifty years, so my thousand years of accumulation will only last for a hundred years," Jiang Ding lamented.

"By then, I can only exchange for it with Refining Void Battle Merits to Xianmen, my Refining Void Battle Merits are sufficient— but the problem is that Xianmen doesn't have that much number one Synthetic Geng Metal!"

"Xianmen has already become impoverished!"

"The practice of Immortal Sects is to stockpile a massive amount of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure before the birth of their Taoist disciples, using at least fifteen thousand years to accumulate various resources, making all preparations, and then only start nurturing the disciples, slowly watching over their growth."

"It's not that Xianmen lacks foresight."

"It's just that Xianmen's history is too short, and during such a short history, it has faced all kinds of life-and-death bloody battles, often resulting in total war, just surviving is already good enough, and the accumulations are pitifully small."

"...Forget it, we'll talk about it later."

"This is something for me to worry about a thousand years from now. Currently, the Taiqing Flying Sword is still far from ascending to Great Emperor Arms, maybe it cannot even advance after breaking through to Divinity Transformation."

Jiang Ding muttered to himself and returned to the Liudao Sect.

On the Six Dao Throne, a one-armed green-clothed youth sat calmly, looking at the few people in front of him, Gong Caiyu, Han Lin, and Mu Tiansnow.

"Go back."

"My healing and cultivation retreat this time will last for a very long time."

Jiang Ding looked at the few people, especially Mu Tiansnow, and said with a smile, "I wish you all, Fellow Daoists, success in reaching Divinity Transformation, extending your lifespan by ten thousand years, otherwise, my retreat won't be peaceful."

"We will not let down the trust of the Heavenly Monarch."

Han Lin and the others bowed deeply, took one last look at the youth on the throne, and then slowly exited the Dark Demon Palace.

This meeting could well be their last.

Such is the Destined Fate of Cultivators, continuously parting ways, constantly witnessing the death of old friends and allies, until there are no more ripples in their hearts.

In the Dark Demon Palace, silence reminiscent of many past years was restored.