The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

Chapter 1923: Chapter 1868 – 1869: Zhuge’s Life of Caution, Lv Duan’s Clarity in Major Matters_2

So it seems as if it was the True Immortals and Gods who initiated the era of Chaos Void expansion, but the true backbone of this movement were those Spirit Realm cultivators. They are the ones who can truly delve into a world and bring all the resources back to the Divine Land World.

Perhaps once a world’s coordinates are obtained, building a corresponding Guiding Altar can guide the strong from the Divine Land World to descend. However, the costs involved are innumerable.

Not to mention the resources required to construct a Guiding Altar in a world, even for a large immortal sect, the cost is formidable. It might be acceptable to establish Guiding Altars in one or two important strategic worlds, but establishing a Guiding Altar in every world isn’t feasible.

Some worlds are destined not to be operated in the long term. Their significance lies in short-term harvesting, and then they are merged into the Divine Land World. Building a Guiding Altar at this point would be a loss.

Moreover, in some worlds, especially those second-rate worlds with many indigenous strong people, extra care must be taken to ensure a Guiding Altar is not destroyed, which adds to the costs.

Thus, to truly allow all beings to participate in the Heavenly Court’s Expansion Plan, such enormous battleships are indispensable.

Initially, they might have been mere flying boat-type magical treasures, intended to resist the corrosion of Chaos Qi and quickly traverse the Chaos Void to reach the worlds being sought.

But over time, these flying boat-type magical treasures kept developing, adding many attack functionalities and exerting massive combat power comparable to True Immortals, which led to the true transformation of the Expansion era.

Initially, the expansion process involved a True Immortal or a God discovering a certain world, then beings from the Divine Land World using flying boats to descend and pioneer that world.

But later, these battleships, comparable to True Immortals and driven by even the Supreme Strong of the Spirit Realm, could traverse the Void, pioneering numerous worlds and plundering resources.

Over ten thousand years, these flying boats continuously evolved. The enormous battleship Liu Wenzhao and his team refer to is the fourth-generation battleship developed by the Heavenly Court Engineering Department and many Divine Craftsmen from the Heavenly Craft Realm, made with numerous Divine Materials, controlled by Heavenly Soldiers and Generals of the Supreme Strong tier, and can match True Immortals of the Fourth Layer.

Of course, matching a True Immortal of the Fourth Layer means the two sides bombard each other, as long as a true Fourth Heaven True Immortal doesn’t foolishly stand there waiting for an attack, there’s actually no need to worry about threats.

Similarly, a True Immortal of the Fourth Layer, without extraordinarily powerful Divine Weapon treasures, can do nothing against such a battleship as long as the Mana Source isn’t entirely depleted.

And if it’s a single battleship, that’s one thing, but such battleships are generally used in coordinated fleets, forcing even true Immortal Strong individuals to steer clear.

It is with such battleships and cannons that many beings from the Divine Land World have pioneered countless worlds, harvesting massive resources, cultivating numerous strong beings.

“Moreover, with the Heavenly King holding the rear, with the power of the fifth-generation ships, any strong individuals below the Taoist Monarch can be contested,” thought Liu Wenzhao, slightly easing his worries.

As a Jinyi Guard Commander under the Jade Emperor, Liu Wenzhao ranks among the upper echelons and knows that the fourth-generation battleship they are on isn’t the top-grade battleship. Above this are the fifth and sixth-generation battleships.

The fifth-generation and sixth-generation battleships are enough to contend with True Immortals of the Fifth and Sixth Layers, but because of the colossal cost of production, even for the Jade Emperor, such expense is prodigious and unbearable.

The current sixth-generation battleship serves as the Jade Emperor’s vehicle and is rarely deployed. The other fifth-generation battleships are managed by True Immortals, and a fifth-generation battleship serves as the Pagoda-Bearing King’s vessel in the rear command, allowing him to contend with a True Immortal of the Sixth Layer owing to its support.

At this thought, Liu Wenzhao said with a smile, “It is said that the seventh-generation battleship is already under development, with some progress made.”

Rumors tell of the existence of seventh-generation battleships in the calculations of various forces. If the sixth-generation battleship represents the limit of True Immortals, then the seventh-generation battleship aims to rival the Taoist Monarchs.

But to date, while there is a lot of information about the seventh-generation battleship, no force has announced they’ve developed the seventh-generation battleship.

Prince Jing, Zhu Zai Zhen, upon hearing Liu Wenzhao’s words, fell silent for a moment and replied, “It’s rumored that the seventh-generation battleship could match the level of a Taoist Monarch. Do you think it could be developed?”

Liu Wenzhao was momentarily stunned by this and then stayed silent, understanding the implication.

The seventh-generation battleship’s benchmark should be the Taoist Monarch strong individuals, but developing such a powerful warship, aside from whether anyone can create it, its expenditure is already hard to bear.

The current sixth-generation battleship already matches True Immortals of the Sixth Layer. Even for a figure like the Jade Emperor, the immense cost to create one is such that it’s rarely used due to the high resource consumption and the enormous cost if it were destroyed, representing a substantial loss to the Jade Emperor’s side.

More importantly, if the seventh-generation battleship doesn’t rival a Taoist Monarch, then is it worth such an expense?

But if it truly can contend with a Taoist Monarch, where does this place the Taoist Monarchs?

Though he hasn’t personally witnessed this era of battleship evolution, during Liu Wenzhao’s rise, such events related to the evolution and development of battleships had only just passed, and he had heard a little about them.

Even from the perspective of those who came later, the battleship’s evolution was beneficial to the expansion of the world, greatly aiding cultivators yet to advance to the Immortal Path Realm, allowing them to participate in the era’s benefits.

However, what of the perspective of those True Immortals and Gods?

Originally, world expansion was predominantly led by many True Immortals and Gods; they were the main drivers of world expansion and were the ones who would reap the benefits once a world was discovered.

Later, the advent of battleships did indeed accelerate world expansion but also broke their monopoly over planetary expansions, costing them considerable interest, unfavorable for some True Immortals and Gods.

This past ten thousand years of accelerated Heavenly Court Expansion Plan led All Heavens to a pinnacle but simultaneously brought it to a bottleneck, with no further benefits than at the start.

“If not for the battleships’ acceleration draining the proverbial lakes and streams of the Heavenly Court’s Expansion Plan, today’s conflicts wouldn’t be so intense. Even if this day came, it wouldn’t have arrived this soon.”

This is an attitude of some strong individuals, believing that today’s situation stems from battleship evolution hastening conflict development.

Though it sounds a bit selfish and unreasonable, there is some truth to it.

If the seventh-generation battleship can indeed rival a Taoist Monarch, then for a Taoist Monarch and top forces, would their advantage not be matched, and would they not lose some interests they ought to have?

This is a story worth deliberating on, considered a forbidden topic left unmentioned by mutual agreement among all parties.

In an instant, Liu Wenzhao understood that the development of the seventh-generation battleship is unimportant, but whether the Taoist Monarchs and top forces allow it to manifest at this time is crucial.

Such a forbidden topic is not something a cultivator who hasn’t even reached True Immortal status can touch. Any error could lead to a death unknown even in how it came about.

Furthermore, from his perspective, the rapid development of the battleship brings no good. After all, the significance of these individual strong beings is for conquest; if one day these battleships could match a Taoist Monarch, then where would they find resources for cultivation? It might be better to invest resources into battleships instead.

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