Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

”Great Sun Luminous Gold...”

Jiang Ding carefully contemplated the inheritance for a moment.

He vaguely felt that Great Sun Luminous Gold was similar to Scorching Sun Spirit Iron, a higher grade material corresponding to the current Scorching Sun Spirit Iron Factory No. 1. Upgrading this factory should make it possible to produce it.

Since the peak of Taiqing Flying Sword’s Nascent Treasure, the factory had mostly shut down, retaining only the functions needed by the Immortal Gate Sword Cultivators, earning tens of millions of low-grade Spirit Stones annually, with most machines lying idle.

”However, I’m not certain, as I am a layman when it comes to materials. I will ask Wanji’s clone next month.”

”With a complete inheritance and preliminary research, it shouldn’t be difficult.”

”It’s just the cost...”

Jiang Ding showed a look of headache.

Taiqing Flying Sword, as the pinnacle creation of Great Sun Sword Pavilion’s Immortal Technology, would not come cheap.

Though it could also ’eat coarse grains’ and barely manage, it could adapt well to external environments and survive tough times.

However, the consequence would be extremely slow speed in refining flying swords, and poor development of flying swords. Life Flying Swords would significantly affect the Sword Master’s path and reduce the success rate of Swordsman breaking through Refining Nothingness.

If it were so, progressing beyond Refining Nothingness would hardly be possible, given the insufficient foundational basis.

”I made a rough estimate. Upgrading Xiandu’s Scorching Sun Spirit Iron Factory No. 1 to Great Sun Luminous Gold Factory No. 1 would likely cost over a trillion low-grade Spirit Stones, and main materials must use Divinity Transformation Stage Heavenly Materials... Seems much cheaper than the Super Warship Great Sun?”

”Alright, after all, it’s refining top-notch material for Divinity Transformation, the Great Sun Luminous Gold.”

”But this can’t go on like this forever!”

Jiang Ding looked at these costs flowing like water and felt a bit panicked.

The key was,

this kind of cost growth seemed endless, as if needed everywhere!

Any of these expenses was far beyond what a regular Spirit Transformation Heavenly Monarch would encounter.

He knew why. For instance, Heavenly Monarchs of Immortal Gate like the Sun Extinguisher and others had the support of a complete industrial chain for the Heavenly Materials they used in their cultivation.

Many things were not just needed by Sun Extinguisher alone; a whole group of Heavenly Monarchs needed them, and historically, more ancient Heavenly Monarchs had needed them as well.

Even many by-products from producing Divinity Transformation Stage Heavenly Materials, and upstream industrial by-products were the kind of treasures needed by Nascent Soul Monks, Golden Pill Monks, and Foundation-building Cultivators.

Factories, industrial chains, talents, all were ready-made. Everyone jointly distributed their own costs, and after operating, the expenses were only a tenth or even one percent of Jiang Ding’s.

Even more fiercely, it was possible to bring costs into the negatives.

Jiang Ding had seen a case from Heavenly Monarch Wanji.

A kind of Fifth-Order Top-Grade Material used by Wanji for cultivation, called Measure and Ten Thousand Gold, had raw materials that were a kind of waste produced by the construction of the Starry Sky Fortress by Immortal Gate.

This waste had high radiation and high pollution, and Immortal Gate needed to spend a large amount of Spirit Stones every year to dispose of this garbage.

At this time, the person who first started materials science in Immortal Gate, the stalwart Wanji, stood up. He used this rubbish waste, and after many years of research, he succeeded in refining a new Fifth-Order Top-Grade Material, Measure and Ten Thousand Gold, one thousand two hundred years ago.

With this, Wanji contracted the disposal work of this kind of waste for Immortal Gate.

Meaning, Immortal Gate had to pay Wanji a large amount of waste disposal fees each year, while this waste was the famous raw material for Measure and Ten Thousand Gold.

This is how the costs were brought into the negatives!

This technology, currently still under a three-thousand-year patent protection period, three times the lifespan of Cultivators, allowed Wanji to earn a full pot. Anyone using this technology had to pay him massive patent fees.

In fact, due to the magnitude of the industry, this technology has continued to be monopolized by Wanji’s Immortal City Measure and Ten Thousand Gold Co. Ltd. Newcomers, even if they have the technology, cannot compete on cost with this company.

Wanji can easily bankrupt them by merely dropping the price, and once they are bankrupt, he returns to the original price, making this the absolute dominating company in the industry.

Some senior cultivators looked benevolent and uncompetitive, but don’t assume they were easy to bully.

With just a casual display of their skills, they could make you long for death or immortality, letting you know what it means to have seen more salt than the rice you’ve eaten.

And such technology and industry dominators didn’t just own one company under the name of Heavenly Monarch Wanji; there were indeed many!

This was the foundation of the Ancient Transcendent.

It wasn’t just strength, but wealth that far surpassed that of newcomers like Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch and other newly risen Divinity Transformation Heavenly Monarchs.

”Great Sun Luminous Gold!”

”I don’t believe it, such great material, the peak creation of Grest Sun Sword Pavilion in Divinity Transformation stage materials, could go unwanted.”

The more Jiang Ding thought about many senior cultivators’ cunning tactics, the more he salivated, saying fiercely, ”How about some Starry Sky Fortress cannonballs? With such sharp material, it would be incredibly fierce.”

”And the engines? How about those?”

”This is a super material that’s highly resistant to high temperatures, with exceptional toughness and hardness!”

”Moreover, it has one very prominent advantage—it has a high capacity for bearing and amplifying various kinds of will. For instance, the Military Soul of the Immortal Gate is also a kind of will.”

The patent for Great Sun Luminous Gold was held by Jiang Ding.

And talking about lifespan, that meant Jiang Ding, if he were to establish a company, could subtly monopolize the Great Sun Luminous Gold production industry for six thousand years at an extremely low cost.

Six thousand years!

”Pingyang Heavenly Monarch came from a materials background, didn’t he?”

Jiang Ding recalled this friend of Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch, ”I should find a time to discuss the applications of Great Sun Luminous Gold in the Immortal Gate with this senior.”

”It should work, the newly risen Divinity Transformation Heavenly Monarchs are as poor as beggars, not much better off than me.”

Sun Extinguisher Heavenly Monarch and others were incessantly howling about traveling to Xu Jiezhong, not only out of genuine hatred but also because of their empty wallets, which was a major reason they wanted to score somewhere.

”There’s a low-cost solution for Great Sun Luminous Gold, but my cultivation still needs other Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures.”

Jiang Ding pondered for a moment.

”Firstly, a large amount of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures of various attributes and types are needed. They must be Fifth Order, part of which can be resolved in the Great Sun Heavenly Pond, which has been producing in order, the rest I can only hope to acquire through captures.”

”Then there are some common materials – silicon, uranium, copper, iron, etc. These are needed in large quantities, easily in the tens of thousands of tons, but the cost is negligible.”

”Finally, synthetic Gengjin.”

”This is good stuff, greatly beneficial for the Taiqing Flying Sword, and a shining pearl of Immortal Gate material science.”

”Currently, what suits me is the Number Four Synthetic Gengjin, equivalent to Fifth-Order Top-Grade Material.”

”It’s just the price...”

Jiang Ding sighed.

Synthetic Gengjin was developed by Senior Yuan and was still under patent, considering profitability although Senior Yuan had already reduced the price several times considering the growth of the Immortal Gate as a whole.

But the cost is still there.

”Five hundred and twenty billion Low-Grade Spirit Stones, per piece!”

”Fifth-Order Top-Grade Material. Peak of Divinity Transformation level material — this price, I can’t really say anything, it’s already very cost-effective.”

”But still, it’s too expensive! I need one piece every year!”

Jiang Ding felt his eyes might start glowing with the green light of a hungry wolf; ”Cultivating at the God-Transformation Phase is really not meant for humans. I need a complete world to stabilize!”

”A complete world!”