The Corruption Dragon God: Lust System-Chapter 593 - No middle ground.

[The next few Chapters will be a bit dense with information, but don’t worry—the story will soon start to flow!]

In the mortal and immortal heavens, the civilizations present were, for the most part, almost entirely medieval.

Although arrays of Qi and mana allowed for the existence of modern technologies and even flying ships, it was still, for the most part, a medieval world.

Long-distance communication systems were rare, almost non-existent, and most of the technology was geared towards war and the well-being of the elites.

In the celestial heavens, however, things were a little different.

The only word by which Qingyi could describe it was, in short, techno-medieval.

Clothing, architecture, forms of combat and even social divisions.

Everything was like in a medieval world, but even so, there was a high level of technology, with interplanetary communication systems, Qi-powered engines and various types of technology that Qingyi had simply never seen, not even on earth.

It was, without a doubt, incredible.

In silence, Qingyi walked alongside Chen Wei until they reached a huge hall at the heart of the spaceship.

There were almost a thousand people there, lined up in rows, each with around sixty to seventy people, commanded by an elder of similar power to Elder Shen.

Soon, Elder Shen himself also organized his recruits, standing next to the other elders of the recruitment pavilion.

"Any interesting talents?" One of the elders approached, his eyes focused on the little more than sixty recruits who had just arrived.

He was surprised to see a young black dragon among the recruits, but didn’t think much of it.

Dragons were rare, yes. But in such a long life, a man like him had naturally seen many.

Even in the recruitment process, there was always a dragon every few centuries.

After all, they weren’t a unified race.

Youths without support or who had been thrown out of their families often sought shelter in human sects, which accepted them with open arms, since the potential of the draconic race was always immense.

"Some." Elder Shen murmured. "The young dragon, Long Qingyi, finished the secret realm of the hidden moon in less than five minutes, but..."

"But what?" The elder next to him spoke, shocked.

Five minutes.

Even he, when he tried to pass through the secret realm for pure fun, needed ten whole minutes, and he was an expert of the First Step of the Path of Extinction Realm!

For Qingyi to be able to do the same in half the time, even though he was only at the astral body realm...

Didn’t that mean he was a monster of incomparable talent?

"He’s an ascended one from the immortal heaven." Elder Shen’s words immediately silenced the other.

"Ah... it’s a shame, but don’t be discouraged, old man. Ascended ones often prove mediocre, but when they don’t..." he paused, "you know what happens."

Elder Shen nodded, agreeing with those words.

Either the ascended were mediocre, or they were incomparable monsters, capable of making the entire celestial heaven tremble.

There was no middle ground.

’I wonder which one he’ll be...’ Elder Shen shook his head, looking up.

A gentle tremor spread through the ground beneath his feet as the ship began to take off, a powerful Qi spreading through it and feeding its thrusters.

Clearing his throat, Elder Shen turned his back on his recruits and raised his eyes to a small platform, from which a woman emerged.

Well, more of a giantess than a human woman.

More than two meters tall, with a manly yet clearly feminine face, powerful muscles and, on her back, a sword big enough to decapitate an elephant with a single movement.

She crossed her arms under her firm and powerful chest, her eyes scanning the disciples with interest.

It was Elder Yuelan, from the peak of the First Step of the Path of Extinction Realm.

Having reached this level at less than a thousand years old, she was one of the few elders with a real chance of one day becoming a Stellar Sovereign.

As the leader of the War Pavilion and commander of a fleet with more than twenty frigates and a cruiser whose power was in no way inferior to that of the sect leader himself, she was someone of great influence within the sect.

Of course, it wasn’t fair to compare warships with cultivators.

The emperor’s hand, in the immortal heaven, could easily kill an astral body realm expert with a single blow, but that expert could also cut it in half just as easily.

The difference was that a cultivator was faster, more agile, and could make a thousand strikes in the time it took a warship to fire a single shot.

Even though the huge cruiser theoretically had a power equivalent to that of the sect leader, in practice it was just a piece of metal in front of any real expert.

Their Qi shields could hold out for a while, but in the end, experts and swords were and always have been the main base of combat power in the celestial heavens.

Regardless of the size of the war fleets created by merchants and large industrial worlds, a single flick of the finger from a peak expert was all it took for everything to be reduced to scrap metal.

Elder Yuelan, with cold, focused eyes, studied the faces of each of the recruits, men and women of varying talents and backgrounds.

"It’s a good batch." Yuelan nodded, jumping off the platform and landing on the metal floor. "As of today, you are proud outer disciples, part of the Cosmic Dawn Sect."

She walked in front of the almost one thousand young people.

"Your strength will be refined, as well as your will.

Those who surpass the astral body realm will also be able to accept missions on behalf of the sect, for which they will receive payment in celestial spirit crystals."

Hearing this, many excited whispers echoed among the disciples.

Celestial spirit crystals were rarer in the Celestial Heaven than supreme spirit crystals in the Immortal Heaven.

Only the great sects and incomparable experts had control over their extraction, making them the main currency of exchange between cultivators, as well as being the main sources of energy that drove the entire celestial heavens.

From demonic cultivators to the unorthodox and the orthodox.

There was no exception.

Everyone wanted celestial spirit crystals, and Qingyi was obviously on that list too.

The world of the mind needed a source of energy, and celestial spirit crystals were perfect for that.