Chapter 1264: The Great Sun Canghai Tianjun's Northern Tour

Involving the Ancient God Domain and the Ancient God Dao homeland, the Jiudaxian Sect moved with great efficiency and swiftly completed the signing of the Nine Spirit Horned Dark Memorandum.

In this memorandum, the Jiudaxian Sect agreed to jointly scheme against the Ancient God Domain.

Just as when they had attacked the Horned Dark Domain before, they would cooperate with each other in Immortal Dao techniques, resources, equipment, and dharma treasures, allowing limited freedom of trade, all for the sake of a broader realm-survival space.

Of course, that was a matter for the future.

The pressing task was to head to the vicinity of the passage between the two domains indicated by the Ancient God Token, complete the sealing and suppression of this passage, first ensuring that the Horned Dark Domain was not lost, ensuring their own safety.

If necessary, they could attempt to blast apart the passage between the two domains; even those above He Dao might be helpless against it for tens of thousands of years.

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Between the realms, peace was restored.

Wars everywhere vanished, and production in all regions recovered swiftly.

In the Nine Spirit Realm of the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, the mountain gates of the Badaxian Sect were brimming with joy, hung with lanterns and decorations, one after another holding grand He Dao ceremonies, the entire sect celebrating.

The entire Badaxian Sect was plunged into wild joy; one after another, Hua Shen cultivators and Nascent Soul cultivators wept from happiness, as if they had walked out of hell, no longer monitored every moment by the Central Array Spirit Computer, no longer in danger of execution at any time.

Now, not only were they safe.

They even had hope for the Great Dao!

Hua Shen of the Xianzong could eye Void Refinement, Nascent Soul could advance to Hua Shen, Jin Dan could advance to Nascent Soul… a portion of the Xianzong cultivators would all welcome a war dividend, with the difficulty of cultivation dropping by a large margin.

The reason it was only a portion rather than all was also the norm within the Xianzong.

There were always many people oppressed within the Xianzong; no matter how great the dividend of the realm war, it would not fall upon their heads, but would instead concentrate extremely toward the topmost layer, at most dispersing to the upper-middle layer, with a small amount spilling over to the lower layer; it was impossible for every group to benefit, and this could not happen within the Xianzong.

After confirming safety, the Dao Sons of the Xianzong also returned one after another, the entire sect celebrating together.

Out of propriety, the Xianmen likewise dispatched a plenipotentiary ambassador to the Xianzong to offer congratulations, delivering appropriate gifts, unwilling to deliberately create a rift with the Xianzong over unimportant matters.

The plenipotentiary Xianzong ambassador was to be served by a peak Hua Shen cultivator.

It was impossible for Void Refinement cultivators and Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun to go to other sects alone; the risk involved was too great.

However, what attended the celebrations were only the avatars of the great powers.

The true main bodies of the great powers, along with a fleet of several hundred million Xianmen citizens, had already headed to the passage between the Horned Dark Domain and the Ancient God Domain, stationing themselves there to investigate the Ancient God Dao ruins.

The Jiudaxian Sect would set up a grand He Dao-grade formation there, as well as establish a formation capable of blasting apart the realm passage if necessary.

All of this had little to do with Jiang Ding.

He was about to leave the Nine Spirit Realm, leave the Horned Dark Domain and return to the mother star, taking over from Li Hai Zhen to garrison the mother star, and would not stay here long.

He would not stay here long.

"Teacher, I'm leaving."

"If there's anything, tell my avatar left in the Nine Spirit Realm."

Jiang Ding waved his hand toward Master Master Dinghai, the Slaughter Spirit Canghai Tianjun, Zhang Zhang Junsheng, and others, saying with great regret: "It's a pity that my recommendation of you for the position of president of Dark Capital University was vetoed by the committee; it was taken by a Canghai Tianjun with stronger seniority and strength, though you are still one of the vice presidents."

Master Master Dinghai's seniority was too shallow; even with Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun's recommendation, it was still not enough, and the committee vetoed it.

"It's fine, I expected it long ago."

Master Master Dinghai said with a bitter smile: "True Magnetic Canghai Tianjun is a peak Hua Shen cultivator, with illustrious military merits, and has repeatedly made contributions in Immortal Dao scientific research, as well as in education, cultivating many outstanding students."

"I truly am inferior to him."

"It's fine, you simply lack time to temper yourself; wait another few thousand years, and perhaps it will be different."

Jiang Ding consoled.

Afterward, he bid farewell to his teachers and friends, transformed into a flash of blue-gold sword light and vanished, disappearing at a speed far exceeding Hua Shen cultivators, comparable to early-stage Void Refinement cultivators.

Master Master Dinghai, Siyan Canghai Tianjun, and others also departed.

This was no real parting; Jiang Ding's avatar remained here overseeing various scientific research tasks, and relying on the He Dao-grade Central Array Spirit Computer, real-time communication with the mother star was possible, no different from usual, so there was no sentimentality, just a casual farewell.

In the cosmic starry sky.

Dayang Dayang Tianchi, passing through teleportation formation after teleportation formation, using the super teleportation formations in various Minor Thousand Worlds as nodes, traversed through the realms.

For the moment, there was no worry about safety.

A fleet of several hundred million citizens was with the eight great powers; this was both cooperative suppression of the realm passage and surveillance, with the Central Array Spirit Computer watching at all times.

Once any great power disappeared from the Central Array Spirit Computer's monitoring, it would be equivalent to a declaration of war.

Jiang Ding would be notified instantly, and immediately conceal his form and flee into unknown starry skies.

The realms were incomparably vast; even a He Dao Divine Lord might not be able to find his traces within several decades, no matter what.

Dayang Dayang Tianchi teleported several times, finally landing in the Mo Teng Xiao Gao Jie.

This was the location of the Horned Dark Domain Second Expeditionary Force Command.

As one of the nine members of the Xianmen Senate, Jiang Ding came bearing a mission; he intended to tour and offer condolences here, evaluating what changes, strengths, and weaknesses had emerged in the Xianmen's current Minor Thousand Worlds management system after more than a thousand years of operation, and whether there were areas for improvement, providing data support for the Xianmen's next internal political reforms.

Yes, the Xianmen's internal political reform was already imperative.

It was not a question of whether to reform, but how to reform.

A consensus had already formed throughout the Xianmen: reform was essential, otherwise

The Xianmen's development potential would be greatly affected; even after tens of thousands of years, falling from the position of the Jiudaxian Sect was not impossible—one must advance or retreat.

Because the Xianmen's current several hundred billion population simply could not support a hegemonic power spanning two domains and over a hundred and eighty Minor Thousand Worlds!

There weren't even enough talents; what else was there to talk about?

The reason it could barely hold up now was entirely due to the Xianmen accumulating talents over the past nearly twenty thousand years, with successive generations of slumbering cultivators awakening from the Chen Mian Mi Jing, advancing to Hua Shen Qi, filling the talent gap; otherwise the Xianmen simply could not have produced so many soldiers in such a short time.

Without enough Hua Shen cultivators serving as high-ranking officers, even Yuan would not be able to command military formations so smoothly, and strength would greatly decline.

This was the historical dividend of the past; it would no longer exist in the future.

All the slumbering cultivators had awakened.

With several hundred billion population, let alone a distant expedition to the Ancient God Domain or eyeing above He Dao, even consolidating the foundations of the two domains would be difficult; leaving it alone would lead to major problems in the future.

Now, there were only two paths before the Xianmen.

One path is to massively increase the population of the mother planet, raising it to one hundred billion, several hundred billion, or one trillion — all of which are acceptable. Sifting for talent from a population of trillions would certainly be far better than from one of mere tens of billions.

However, this is despised by many citizens.

With too many people, the immortal sect's public welfare would inevitably have to be slashed drastically — this is inevitable.

The other path is the one proposed by Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun: to absorb cultivators from beyond the realm whose thought, moral character, and recognition of the immortal sect, scientific creativity, and meritorious service all meet the standard, making them citizens — absorbing the finest prodigies of the myriad races. This is extremely effective for consolidating rule over the Minor Thousand Worlds, and can also bring in a great number of the cream-of-the-crop prodigies from various realm domains.

The arrival of so many prodigies from different cultures and different paths of immortal Dao can greatly accelerate the progress of the immortal sect's immortal-Dao technology.

The drawback is an increased risk of rebellion.

With peace arriving and realm-domain wars temporarily ceasing, these two paths have begun to stir up a storm of public opinion within the immortal sect.