Chapter 2629 - 2594: Scale Advantage of Immortal Tao Industry

Endless cosmos, the war clouds are thick!

After only a few decades of peace, the war in the starry sky resumes. The Twelve Ancient Emperors of the Eight-character Immortal Scripture Forbidden Zones are gathering and training their armies, accumulating and mobilizing resources, and rebuilding the once all-conquering invincible Daoist Soldiers of the various Forbidden Zone Immortal Dynasties, gathering at the hubs of the Emperor’s Road. The entire endless cosmos is filled with an oppressive sense of impending storm.

"What about the Human Race Emperors?"

"What about the Beidou Ancient Emperor, Ancient Emperor of the Sun, Taiyin Ancient Emperor?"

"What about our preparations?"

Jiang Dingping said calmly.

Among the Human Race, including the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor, there are a total of four Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors who have ascended to the Eight-character Immortal Scripture, truly representing the top forces of the endless starry sky. Additionally, there are more than two hundred ordinary Ancient Emperors, and a cosmic-level Immortal Array, not to mention the current first strongest, who has not been dethroned.

Such momentum, if unified and all hearts united, could almost ensure the possibility of achieving the Immortal Path in this era, greatly increasing the likelihood of ascension within the Human Race.

The Alien Race Emperors are numerous, but too scattered, with severe internal racial conflicts and great clashes in their individual Dao paths.

Unfortunately...

The Human Race, by nature, lacks bloodline shackles, too free, with a deeply ingrained rebellious nature. In history, except for the rare times when the race faced extinction, they have never been united. Often, the more powerful they become, the more intense the internal division, the more numerous the strong, the greater the internal friction.

"In the past decades, as the Ancient Emperors of the Eight-character have stirred up war, our domain has become the only peaceful haven in the endless starry sky, attracting a large number of Human Race and Alien Ancient Emperors into the Supreme Great Sun Domain, greatly contributing to the development of the domain. At its peak, there were as many as four hundred and ninety-seven Human and Alien Ancient Emperors within the domain!"

"In the long river of history, more than half of the Ancient Emperors have worked for us, greatly exceeding the construction efficiency of any Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperor, allowing us to build, in a mere hundred years, a crude yet complete Supreme Great Sun Immortal Dao Industrial System, capable of continuously producing a large number of warships, treasures, elixirs, talismans, and other Immortal Dao industrial products."

"Our current level of Immortal Dao civilization development is far beyond any Eight-character Ancient Emperor."

Upon hearing the news that the Supreme Great Sun Domain would be besieged by many Eight-character Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors of the same rank, the Fusang Empress exhibited no worry or unease, instead became very confident and uplifted, stating: "It can be said that even if we control only one-third of the endless starry sky territory, we can surpass the united Emperors several times in heavenly material and earthly treasures, manpower, and resources!"

"Currently, in terms of taxation and manpower resources, we far exceed them."

"Your Majesty, in this battle, we have a tremendous advantage in manpower and resources!"

"As long as the Heavenly Yuan Supreme Great Sun Demon Slaying Sword Formation is not breached, the more stalemated it becomes, the greater our advantage!"

She is instilling confidence in the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor, striving to become his support, filling the vast Immortal Dao machine of the Supreme Great Sun Daoist with endless energy.

In Immortal Dao industry, there is a term called economies of scale.

That is, in the production of Immortal Dao industry and agriculture, the greater the output, the more gigantic the Immortal Dao industrial system becomes, the cheaper the cost of producing a single Immortal Dao product becomes. Often times, the price of certain magic tools can be as low as spiritual energy-infused spring water, or even cheaper, almost like they are free.

Conversely, the smaller the Immortal Dao industrial system, the lesser the output, the more expensive the costs become!

Take the commonly seen Blue Flame Sword, held by low-ranking cultivators, as an example. Not discussing the inefficient production mode of handcrafting, only focusing on the factory production of the Blue Flame Sword; if you only produce one Blue Flame Sword, you still have to spend huge sums to build an entire factory, painstakingly establish the upstream ore smelting and synthesis industry chain, the downstream sales chain, the recycling chain of byproducts, the industrial chain for waste evil qi treatment...

This entire system is necessary for large-scale Immortal Dao production. Whether you produce one Blue Flame Sword, or a hundred, or one million, or a billion Blue Flame Swords, the initial investment in the same factory remains, and as the output increases, the supporting scale enlarges, the cost per sword decreases.

In special circumstances, like if the main material of the Blue Flame Sword comes from byproducts of another Immortal Dao industrial chain - for instance, one step in refining the Great Sun Immortal Spirit Gold in the Supreme Great Sun Domain produces a lot of waste metal, which serves as the main material for the Blue Flame Sword. This could even drive the cost of the Blue Flame Sword into negative!

Handling these waste metals can provide subsidies.

For a Qi Practitioner, if the Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace wishes, they can sell the Blue Flame Sword even cheaper than water!

This is the enormous advantage of a large Immortal Dao industrial system!

This is a massive Immortal Dao industrial system spanning one-third of the endless starry sky!

In contrast, the Immortal Dao systems of the Twelve Ancient Emperors of the Eight-character Forbidden Zones are just beginning to be established, each independent, not intertwined, belonging to their respective races. Not even many Immortal Dao theories, formulas, or parameters are shared, making it impossible for them to form a vast industrial system.

In terms of Immortal Dao production efficiency and accumulated time of the Immortal Dao industry, they lag far behind the Supreme Great Sun Domain.

Know that the Supreme Great Sun Domain has amassed vast heavenly material and earthly treasures and industrial machineries from the Ninth Immortal Dynasty period. The significance of early Immortal Dao industrialization accumulation is something no one can overlook, built upon numerous tears, burdensome efforts, and countless lives. Only thus can the original capital of Immortal Dao industry be generated.

The Twelve Forbidden Zone Emperors still lack this process.

And the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor has already completed initial Immortal Dao industrialization, and the Immortal Dao industrial system is starting to benefit various fields, and blood production can now begin.

The difference between the Immortal Dao industry of the Supreme Great Sun Domain and that of the Twelve Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors is akin to the difference between the first and the second industrial revolution – a terrifying gap.

Of course, this is not rigorous.

Currently, some of the Twelve Eight-character Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors are akin to lost civilizations, even though the present Immortal Dao system level is very inferior and yet to complete true Immortal Dao industrialization. However, they possess the pinnacle creations of future Immortal Dao industry - the existence of Eight-character Immortal Scripture Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors!

This is the current situation in the endless starry sky.

"As for the Human Race Eight-character Forbidden Zone Ancient Emperors, the Beidou Ancient Emperor, the Ancient Emperor of the Sun, Taiyin Ancient Emperor, among others..."

"They are neutral."

The Fusang Empress paused in silence and added: "Your Majesty, as the cosmic blood war is about to commence, they rejected our proposal to form a Human Race coalition army. Among them, the Ancient Emperor of the Sun did not meet with the envoy from the Sun Domain, while the remaining ones politely declined, stating that they are at a crucial retreat and unavailable for battle."

"Moreover, as the turmoil arises, numerous Human and Alien Ancient Emperors begin to leave the Supreme Great Sun Domain in turn, reducing the number of Ancient Emperors to below three hundred and still decreasing, their reasons mostly being visiting friends, searching for treasure materials, comprehending rules, etc., without directly saying withdrawal."

"Due to your policy of freedom of movement, we made no obstruction."

"Notably, the Time Order Ancient Emperor and other Sword Dao Emperors, none left, all hastening the training of Human Race Sword Dao Soldiers unanimously."