Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

Immostal Blood Hand Li Tu was sentenced to three years imprisonment with a fine of two million Low-Grade Spirit Stones worth of Fourth-rank Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

The Immortals of Nascent Soul did not commit major errors, but minor mistakes were frequent.

All sorts of trivial matters resulted in a few days or months of imprisonment, verbal reprimands, and so on.

They likely did not do it on purpose; they just haven’t corrected their usual habits.

”No!”

”No, not necessarily so...”

Jiang Ding’s eyes flashed, ”One must not underestimate the Immortals of Nascent Soul, they are almost the same as quails in front of me, docile and sensible.”

”But in the Cultivation World, they are regarded as Immortals, elders, and people with prominent status, and the computational power of their Divine Souls is not weak. Are these small bad habits really impossible to overcome?”

”The Tushan Law is crystal clear, with everything written explicitly, without any vague boundaries.”

”Do they really not understand this?”

”If they don’t understand, then why have almost all Immortals of Nascent Soul avoided serious crimes, capital crimes?”

”This is a test!”

”A test against me!”

Jiang Ding spoke coldly.

In ancient summaries of the relationship between monarchs and their subjects, there is a saying ’there are a hundred battles each day between those above and those below,’ which describes very well the relationship between those who manage and those being managed.

Even the strictest of rules will be tested, tested, and then tested again, if there’re truly no consequences, then more profound and serious challenges will arise, until after hundreds of years, they engulf and collapse an entire dynasty with corruption.

”Not bad.”

”This is our first time working together, and having some small issues is reasonable.”

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

”I hope some people with ulterior motives won’t keep testing my patience again and again...”

He wouldn’t do anything beyond the scope of the Tushan Law, other than assigning those Nascent Soul Monks who always annoyed him and deliberately increased his workload to tough, dangerous locations.

In the Tushan system, there has always been an invisible score of ideological morality, which also affects everything.

In ambiguous situations with disputes, such as who to promote or who to assign to which task under equivalent conditions, Cultivators with higher ideological morality scores will have a favorable deviation, and those with lower scores will have an unfavorable deviation.

A Cultivator’s usual words and deeds, military exploits, number of mistakes, background, stance on cultivation methods, etc., all influence the ideological morality score.

This system was modeled after the Xianmen Sect.

”However, the ideological morality system in the Tushan Central Courtyard is clearly problematic; it is not as good as Xianmen Sect.”

”The biggest problem is me.”

Jiang Ding contemplated silently, examining his heart: ”My preferences, my worldview, people I admire, people I have a good impression of – all these strongly influence the corresponding Cultivator’s ideological morality score, and compared to the absolute fairness and righteousness of the Central Array Spirit Computer, there is a great disparity.”

”The Tushan Central Court as an organization, in terms of potential, cannot compare to Xianmen Sect at all.”

”Xianmen Sect, despite losing Yuan and Divine Mechanism Heavenly Monarch, can still maintain its existence, continue to develop, and in the future, there will still be elite geniuses born within its domain to take over the governance of Xianmen Sect.”

”The Tushan Central Court, however, depends entirely on me.”

”If I were to disappear for a long time, for example five hundred years, a thousand years without dealing with affairs, or if I lose my suppressive power during this period, or if several figures with Divinity Transformation strength arise internally who can contend with me, then the Tushan Court system would collapse instantly.”

”If they manage to achieve Divinity Transformation while my power remains unchanged, not only will the strength of the Tushan Central Court not grow, but it will even weaken, facing the crisis of an internal war of extinction.”

”So, it is not unfounded that people like Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch and the Six Dao Ancestor chose to suppress internal affairs; there’s certain objective rationality in that.”