Chapter 1384: Immortal Sect Ancient God Domain Diplomatic Mission

"Let me go meet the Dao Child of the Badaxian Sect and the Dao Child of the Jiudaxian Sect of the Ancient God Domain…"

"Sigh,"

Jiang Ding set down the appointment letter and sighed softly: "How precious are life and time—how could they be wasted on something like this?"

"But then, drifting through the world, one is never truly free to choose."

"Until a Dao Child has grown, they are still just a Dao Child—a weak, pitiful little baby who cannot act according to their own will. The world is just this helpless."

He looked thoroughly unenthused.

Clearly, this trip had nothing to offer beyond the political demands of the sect.

Jiang Ding stood up and walked out of Dayang Dayang Tianchi.

Dayang Dayang Tianchi shrank and dropped into his pocket like a tiny pellet, its nature the same as a travel tent—serving only the simple purposes of lodging and transport.

For now, Dayang Dayang Tianchi had lost any necessity for combat.

Jiang Ding stepped out a few paces, and space and order shifted, bringing him beside the sect's ultra-long-range teleportation array.

Teacher Gu Lin was already waiting here.

She was the Ancient God Domain Mission's Plenipotentiary Deputy Envoy, in charge of the specific communications, to prevent the Dayang Sword Child from getting into fights with others at the slightest disagreement.

Additionally, making contact with the Dao Children of other sects and gaining experience would also be of some benefit to her cultivation.

Although the cultivation of a law cultivator does not demand combat and has nothing to do with bloody battles, all manner of experience is still indispensable—working behind closed doors cannot produce a strong cultivator.

"Jiang Ding,"

"It's been a long time since I've seen your true body—roughly over a thousand years."

Teacher Gu Lin greeted him.

She was now at the peak of Soul Transformation, carrying the aura of magnet-order on her, and could already be considered a Dao Child of the Jiudaxian Sect, though her individual combat power was still very weak.

"I've been rather busy lately."

"There's always all sorts of messy things cropping up."

Jiang Ding said apologetically.

He was still at the late stage of Soul Transformation.

The process of refining the eighth-tier Lei Ting Destruction Sword Embryo continuously purified his magic power and divine sense, reducing their total quantity and causing his realm to drop somewhat. He needed time to cultivate back up, repeating this cycle over and over.

In the end, it came to the present state—his magic power, divine sense, soul, and sword intent were over twice as refined, yet his realm had not changed at all in over a thousand years.

"Salute!"

"Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Ancient God Domain, Lord Dayang Canghai Tianjun!"

Beside them, the sect's diplomatic mission team was led by Canghai Tianjun Teacher Ouyang Hui, including several dozen Soul Transformation cultivators and several hundred Nascent Soul cultivators, each with their own duties. They were responsible for the entire diplomatic negotiation process, working out the details of every diplomatic clause.

Often, the Plenipotentiary Ambassador represents the sect's face and cannot easily tear off the mask—at such times, it falls to those below

to charge into the fray, haggling over every last detail, fighting for the sect's interests down to a single spirit stone.

Seeing Jiang Ding arrive, Teacher Ouyang Hui and the others saluted in unison.

Although theoretically a civil-official diplomatic team, the military style was extremely strong—probably because these sect powerhouses all had extensive military careers.

"Greetings, everyone."

"It is a great honor to work with you all."

Jiang Ding stood at attention and returned the salute to everyone.

"Lord Dayang Canghai Tianjun, the honor is ours as well."

Many of the younger Soul Transformation and Nascent Soul cultivators of the sect showed looks of reverence; some were even trembling with excitement, as if beholding an ancient existence of the sect.

Jiang Ding and Teacher Gu Lin completed all the diplomatic procedures together, then vanished into the sect's ultra-long-range teleportation array.

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The sect's Ancient God Domain diplomatic mission team passed through the Jiao Jiao Mingyu and Jiuling Domain boundary passage as a transfer point, then took another teleportation array to the Jiuling Realm. After passing through layers of inspection by the Jiudaxian Sect's formations, they then passed through the boundary passage into the Tian Yuan Domain.

The Jiudaxian Sect had constructed a massive seventh-tier peak formation in the Tian Yuan Domain, along with the most elite citizen fleet and Harmonization Divine Monarchs from the Badaxian Sect permanently stationed there, to prevent sudden raids by Ancient God Domain powerhouses and firmly guard the Jiao Jiao Mingyu boundary passage, ensuring the safety of the rear.

Jiang Ding emerged from the ultra-long-range teleportation array, opened his eyes, and looked around.

This was his first time in the Tian Yuan Domain.

The Tian Yuan Domain was a domain containing over a hundred Minor Thousand Worlds and one Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, theoretically already part of the Ancient God Domain world cluster, though a relatively peripheral zone of the cluster.

In the past, the Tian Yuan Domain had long been ruled by a Harmonization-level sect called the Tiangui Divine Sect.

After the Jiudaxian Sect of the Jiuling Domain appeared, they slew the mortal incarnation of the Tiangui Divine Sect's Harmonization Divine Monarch, then completed actual control over the Tian Yuan Domain—several thousand years had passed since then.

The sect held over thirty Minor Thousand Worlds and one-third of the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie in the Tian Yuan Domain.

In the past, the Jiudaxian Sect had still maintained a disguise in the Tian Yuan Domain, preserving the appearance of Tiangui Divine Sect rule. However, recently, with intelligence leaks, the strategic initiative had been lost, the surface rule of the Tiangui Divine Sect had been torn away, and all the worlds of the Tian Yuan Domain had formally become the territory of the Jiudaxian Sect.

The grand seventh-tier supreme formation jointly built by the Jiudaxian Sect looked from the outside like a series of Xianshan islands, bustling with people, covered in countless formation patterns. The spiritual veins of over a hundred Minor Thousand Worlds and the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie converged here, making it the center of the Tian Yuan Domain—quite prosperous.

Many cultivators called this place Tian Yuan Xiancheng.

"Greetings, Dayang Sword Child!"

This place operated under a rotating management system among the Jiudaxian Sect. For the past five hundred years, Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace had been the rotating administrator, and the highest administrator here, the City Lord, was precisely the Palace Master of Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace, True Sovereign Lord Dingding.

As a Void Refinement cultivator, at the moment he saw the sect's diplomatic mission and the Dayang Sword Child appear, he actually came out personally to greet them, keeping his posture very low.

This left many of the sect's Soul Transformation cultivators dumbfounded.

They had often come to the Tian Yuan Domain in the past to trade, travel, or work. In their impression, True Sovereign Lord Dingding was a dignified, weighty, and cold-natured senior cultivator of high standing.

It was hard to imagine such an existence humbly coming out to greet a group of Soul Transformation cultivators.

"Greetings, Senior Lord Dingding."

Jiang Ding also returned the salute with proper courtesy, smiling: "Senior, you are burdened with a myriad of duties, yet you still came personally to greet us—this truly moves me beyond words."

"Not at all, not at all."

"To meet the Sword Child is my honor."

Lord Dingding True Venerable said humbly, "Dayan Jianzi, our sect's Candidate Daozi, and the Candidate Daozi of the other seven great sects have already arrived; they are all currently resting on Chongguang Island."

"The nine Old Ancestors have agreed that you and the other eight Candidate Daozi will stay on Chongguang Island for a period of three years."

"Three years from now, you and the eight Candidate Daozi will, guided by the pull of the Yin-Yang Void Realm, enter the controllable Yin-Yang Realm within the Yin-Yang Void Realm of the Ancient God Domain to meet with the Candidate Daozi of the Jiudaxian Sect of the Ancient God Domain and further deepen mutual understanding."

"At the same time, there are some rather good opportunities within; you may pick one or two."

Lord Dingding True Venerable humbly led the way ahead, gently explaining the various matters to come for the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong Ancient God Domain delegation, attentive to the utmost.