Chapter 1272: Ancient God Realm Cluster

After the silencing attempt failed, the Jiudaxian Sect swiftly acknowledged the outcome.

They did not make a great show of traversing the unfamiliar realm, occupying Minor Thousand Worlds, and interrogating the enemy. Instead, they returned to Jiao Jiao Mingyu and, with unprecedented efficiency, madly constructed defensive arrays and self-detonation arrays for the realm passage.

The Dao Merging Divine Monarchs of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong all personally labored, laying arrays, refining array instruments, like busy workers, without any pretension, with no time for dignity.

While throwing themselves into constructing the realm passage, the Jiudaxian Sect also began deploying anti-teleportation positioning arrays throughout the entire Jiao Jiao Mingyu, to prevent enemies from breaking through realms and teleporting in, ensuring that even beings above Dao Merging could not forcefully break through and descend upon Jiao Jiao Mingyu in a short time.

This is the terrifying aspect of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's inheritance.

If it were a Dao Merging-level sect with shallower foundations, they probably wouldn't even know what realm anti-teleportation arrays were.

The entire Jiuling Domain and Jiao Jiao Mingyu once again fell into intense, drum-tight war preparations.

No, saying "again" might not be accurate.

It should be said that the Jiudaxian Sect has always been in full-scale war preparation!

The mere Heavenly Dao Covenant, peace treaties, were never overly credible promises to them. They had always been preparing for war, guarding against other sects while also coveting other sects.

Even without external enemies, even the most optimistic cultivators would believe that large-scale internal war among the Jiudaxian Sect would inevitably erupt within ten thousand years, and the Heavenly Dao Covenant could not prevent such things from happening.

Lasting peace could never exist among the Jiudaxian Sect.

The only difference was that, due to the appearance of external enemies, the Jiudaxian Sect had, as if by unspoken agreement, relaxed some of their mutual vigilance. Large-scale trade and immortal Dao technical exchanges among the Jiudaxian Sect, which had been interrupted for over a thousand years, rose again, using every ounce of strength to increase their own power to deal with the external enemy.

While Dao Merging combat power held down the domain, the Jiudaxian Sect almost simultaneously dispatched large numbers of scout cultivators flooding into the newly appeared realms.

The great being of Yingmo Yuan felt dissatisfied with this.

She called for the Jiudaxian Sect to concentrate all scouting forces, establish a unified command department, with Yingmo Yuan leading the scouting, lest clumsy hands and feet stir up the grass and startle the snake.

This call received no response.

The Badaxian Sect merely agreed to sign a shared intelligence covenant, showing no interest in the proposal of the Yingmo Yuan great being.

Affected by the situation beyond the domain, Jiuling Domain and Jiao Jiao Mingyu became much quieter and more peaceful. Internal commerce flourished, with mutual dispatch of exchange students and core disciples, allowing many mid- and low-level cultivators who didn't know the reason to enjoy a rare period of peaceful days.

……

In the leisurely flow of time, another two hundred years passed.

Inside the Secret Realm of the Mother Star Deputy Administrator's Office, Jiang Ding sat cross-legged beneath the Sun Divine Tree. The heaven and earth spiritual energy and great sun essence within tens of thousands of kilometers, like a tsunami, slowly dissipated.

The splendor slowly dispersed.

A crimson flying sword fell from the sky, distorting space and melting rules along the way.

After a long while, it returned to its blue-gold luster, exiting the critical state of sacrificial refinement.

"The refinement speed is still the same as always."

Jiang Ding inwardly examined the interior of the Taiqing Flying Sword. Two Sun Rule Divine Prohibitions, like celestial bodies composed of two runes, revolved around fixed, intersecting three-dimensional orbits. The third Sun Rule Divine Prohibition had only a hazy form, not yet real.

"Still need about a thousand years before I can refine the third Sun Rule Divine Prohibition. In the later stages, as refinement deepens, the time consumed will increase, even double, especially the final Void Refinement Great Perfection Rule Divine Prohibition, which is a threshold requiring a great deal of time to grind through."

"Not cultivating the 'Sun Sacrifice Sword Art' is exactly like this; the speed won't change."

"Unless one possesses a Sword Soul, or sword Dao of the Sixth Realm, Sword Spirit Realm sword art, or advances to late Soul Transformation, the refinement speed will also increase somewhat…"

Jiang Ding pondered. Speaking of realms and Gong Fa, he was certainly far inferior to the Heavenly Sword Sword Child.

Perhaps, advancing as soon as possible to Soul Transformation Peak, or Void Refinement Realm, then leaping realms to beat the Heavenly Sword Sword Child, was the true way.

This was very possible.

Because the Gong Fa the Heavenly Sword Sword Child cultivated must surely target True Immortal as its goal; the foundation must be repeatedly polished to the limit before advancing, so the cultivation speed would be very slow.

However, this would bring about a consequence.

That sliver of hope for True Immortal might have to be greatly discounted!

Because only by slaying the Heavenly Sword Sword Child at the same realm could one possess a sliver of hope of becoming an immortal.

Such a heaven-defying opportunity, a True Immortal opportunity, so wantonly wasted, like an ox chewing peonies, truly made Jiang Ding unwilling to accept.

One must know,

Back then, Zou Zou Xiyuan was so destitute she actively cultivated enemies!

Yet Jiang Ding, sitting on a True Immortal opportunity, would actively waste it.

If the Great Sun Sword Masters of past generations were resurrected and saw Jiang Ding wasting it like this, wantonly squandering it, their eyes would absolutely turn blood-red, and they would beat Jiang Ding to death ten thousand times in an instant, without any hesitation. It was too wasteful.

Although, at the same realm, the Heavenly Sword Sword Child could kill them with a single glance, far inferior even to Jiang Ding.

But this was faith, the faith of sword cultivators.

They would rather burn their essence blood and divine soul, fleeing madly in search of that faintest sliver of hope, than allow this True Immortal opportunity to suffer any loss or desecration.

"In these two hundred years, no earth-shattering major events have occurred between realms. There are two matters worthy of note."

Jiang Ding browsed through the immortal gate documents.

"First, the immortal gate has gained another Void Refinement True Venerable. Panda Ancestor Hua Hua Lingling has advanced to Void Refinement, a body-refining path Void Refinement True Venerable. My clone is currently participating in the Void Refinement ceremony, congratulating this immortal gate elder whose seniority is a full circle greater than theirs on attaining the Dao and reaching Void Refinement."

"The Badaxian Sect has also produced two Void Refinement cultivators, respectively the Lord Dingding True Venerable of Brother Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace, and the Green Vine True Venerable of Qingmuxian Sect… The immortal gate General Staff Department estimates that the Jiudaxian Sect should all produce Void Refinement cultivators next. Their talent reserves at the Soul Transformation Peak stage are extremely abundant; as long as the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Dao Merging Divine Monarchs provide resources, someone will surely advance."

"The Badaxian Sect has also produced two Void Refinement cultivators, namely the Ding Ding True Honored One of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace and the Green Vine True Honored One of the Qingmuxian Sect… The General Staff of the Immortal Sects estimates that all of the Jiudaxian Sect should produce Void Refinement cultivators next. Their talent reserves at the peak Soul Transformation stage are extremely abundant, and as long as the Dao Merging Divine Monarchs of the Xianzong provide resources, someone is bound to advance."

"The second matter concerns intelligence on the Tian Yuan Domain."

Jiang Ding carefully read the intelligence transmitted back by the immortal gate's scout sword cultivators, as well as the intelligence shared by the Badaxian Sect according to the covenant.

"The Tian Yuan Domain has only a little over a hundred Minor Thousand Worlds, but it has one Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie."

"Its strongest sect is called the Heavenly Ghost Divine Sect."

"It is the sect of that Heavenly Ghost Divine Monarch who has already returned his soul to the Heavenly Dao. Currently, scout cultivators of the Jiudaxian Sect have already infiltrated the Heavenly Ghost Divine Sect, beginning to gradually take control of various places within it, even including its sect-protecting arrays."

"All the foundations of the Heavenly Ghost Divine Sect, under the combined will of the Jiudaxian Sect, are fragile beyond measure. Even without Dao Merging combat power personally taking action, merely relying on talismans and other means is enough to break through all the defenses of the Heavenly Ghost Divine Sect."

"The current Heavenly Ghost Divine Sect already effectively belongs to the Jiudaxian Sect. All its high-level cultivators have been controlled by the Jiudaxian Sect; only an empty shell of the Heavenly Ghost Divine Sect is maintained."

"From the Heavenly Ghost Divine Sect's inheritance, it is learned that around the Tian Yuan Domain there is a large cluster of realms called the Ancient God Realm Cluster. This is a vast and prosperous Xian Dao Shi Gao Jie cluster, with strong cultivators emerging generation after generation, Dao Merging Divine Monarchs continuously inherited through the ages, and even beings above Dao Merging…"

"From the inheritance of the Heavenly Ghost Divine Sect, it is known that around the Tian Yuan Domain there is a large cluster of realm domains called the Ancient God Realm Domain Cluster. This is a vast and prosperous cluster of Xian Dao Shi Gao Jie, with strong cultivators emerging generation after generation, and Dao Merging Divine Monarchs being passed down through the ages without end—there are even existences above Dao Merging…"

(End of Chapter)