Chapter 1400: The Immortal Sect Fleet Marches Out to the Ancient God Domain!

The Immortal Sect's Council of Participation in Governance was proceeding in an orderly fashion.

"The debate is concluded; the vote begins."

Zhenjun Shenji Zhen-zun, presiding over the meeting, announced.

Many of the sect's Refinement Void cultivators, each according to Ji De Xiang Fa, taking reference from numerous opinions, under the gaze of the Central Array Spirit Computer, independently, autonomously, and in accordance with the sect's laws, made their own decisions.

"Fifty-eight in favor, ten opposed; the votes in favor of the Ancient God Dao Vault Heaven Pavilion plan account for 85.3%."

"In accordance with the sect's laws, this resolution is passed."

Zhenjun Shenji Zhen-zun announced once more.

A resolution concerning the sect's overall strategy was thus formed; within a powerful Combined-Dao force, the unification of will had been completed, and it was truly about to act.

……

The seemingly long Council of Participation in Governance session, which had gone through much argument, debate, and cursing, was in fact nothing more than the collective will of the fleet deliberating under the integration of the Central Array Spirit Computer, with countless Refinement Void cultivators thinking it through; in the outside world's true time, only a short while had passed.

To outsiders, it looked like Yuan had thought for a moment, then answered the inquiries of Brother Brother Xuanwu and the others from the Heavenly Palace.

"The sect agrees to the expedition to the Ancient God Dao Vault Heaven Pavilion."

Yuan answered.

His voice seemed to be a single voice, yet also seemed to be a strange voice formed by hundreds of millions of voices converging at a specific frequency; within a single utterance it carried hundreds of millions of echoes, bizarre and terrifying beyond compare, unlike any normal living being.

If an uninformed cultivator were to witness this scene, they might well think it was a terrifying demon lord who had devoured hundreds of millions of souls undergoing a divine soul aberration.

For the great powers of the Badaxian Sect, such bizarre sights were long since nothing new.

"Good!"

"For Dao-friend to grasp the greater picture could not be better."

Tianji Shen-jun said lightly: "This expedition to the Ancient God Dao Vault Heaven Pavilion actually has one enormous benefit."

"And that is, the many forces of the Ancient God Domain have opened the realm passage for us!"

"The realm passage has already been opened!"

A flame seemed to burn in Tianji Shen-jun's gaze: "If circumstances permit, if indeed no cultivators above Combined-Dao exist, we will no longer need to spend thousands or tens of thousands of years on the road; we can descend directly into the many realms of the Ancient God Domain, using the realm passage to save countless years of marching and slumber."

The Ancient God Domain world cluster was, in truth, a gathering of many realms.

Without realm passages, or if the realm passages were blown up by someone, relying solely on travel meant only fleet expeditions, with soldiers slumbering for hundreds or thousands of years, only gradually awakening after reaching the battlefield to throw themselves into combat.

When necessary, mid- and low-tier cultivators might need to live and reproduce within the fleet for dozens of generations; the soldiers within the army and the soldiers who had just stepped out of the mother realm would not be of the same generation at all, and the soldiers of old would have long since perished, no one knew how many years ago.

The realm passage, however, was a shortcut, akin to a wormhole, akin to two natural super realm teleportation arrays, able to drastically shorten the distance of the march.

And this was still the case where the realms within the Ancient God Domain world cluster were relatively close to one another.

For more remote places, it might take tens of thousands of years to travel; by the time the expeditionary fleet reached the designated battlefield, everything there might long since have changed beyond recognition.

Now, however, a tremendous strategic opportunity had appeared.

Because of various reasons, many Combined-Dao forces in the Ancient God Domain had invited the Jiudaxian Sect of the Nine Spirit Domain into the Void Spirit Abyss in the eastern part of the Ancient God Domain world cluster, which gave the Combined-Dao Divine Monarchs of the Nine Spirit Domain a legitimate pretext to enter the core of the Ancient God Domain world cluster.

As the future of a sect, an existence akin to a parent's own child, it was entirely reasonable for the sect's patriarch to personally protect the Dao Child.

The various forces of the Ancient God Domain would voluntarily let them pass, and would even permit the Combined-Dao Divine Monarchs of the Nine Spirit Domain to carefully inspect whether ambushes had been set along the way; after all, this time they were arriving in the name of guests.

If all went smoothly, the eight great powers and the sect's citizen fleet would become the vanguard, first to break through into the core of the Ancient God Domain, then guide in their own sect's great armies, striking out in all directions, swallowing up everything in all directions in an extremely short time, annihilating every force within sight, completing an expansion of their sect's realm by several times or even tenfold.

"Send out the troops."

"Immediately."

The great power of the Brother Xuanwu Heavenly Palace glanced around at those present and said calmly: "I hope everything goes smoothly, that no existence above Combined-Dao exists, and then you and I scatter to the four directions, each choosing our own opponent; whoever dies, whoever lives, it matters not, and then we seal the realm passage, best that we grow old and die without ever meeting again."

"I don't want to see any of you again."

"Hahahaha!"

"Guicong speaks well; it greatly accords with my intent."

The great power of the Wuxingtian Sect laughed heartily: "Our sects have been entangled with each other for hundreds of thousands of years, and with Dao-friend Yuan for over ten thousand years; that's enough, truly enough."

"The boundless starry sky is infinitely vast; you and I may each abide by our own fate."

……

"Send out the troops!"

"Order: Marshal Yuan, commander of the Central Army Group of the First Front Army of the sect, immediately lead his forces on a visit to the Void Spirit Abyss of the Ancient God Domain. The Citizens' Assembly authorizes Marshal Yuan with full powers, including the power to declare war and the power to respond to circumstances as they arise, but all orders must be reviewed and approved by the Military Committee of the Central Army Group of the First Front Army."

"Order: Vice Marshal Senior Wanji Zhen-zun, the Second Front Army, to relocate to the realm passage of the Tian Yuan Domain;"

"Order: Vice Marshal Zhenjun Shenji Zhen-zun, the Third Front Army, to relocate to the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie Nine Spirit Realm;"

"Order: Vice Marshal Master Canghai Zhen-zun, the Fourth Front Army, to garrison the sect's mother star……"

"Order: General Taoqing Zhen-zun……"

"……"

"Order: Deputy Marshal Dali Canghai Tianjun, the Ninth Front Army, to relocate to the realm passage of the Tian Yuan Domain,

and await further orders. During the period when Dali Canghai Tianjun accompanies the First Front Army on campaign, the Ninth Front Army shall be managed on his behalf by Deputy Army Group Commander-in-Chief Mieri Zhen-zun and others."

"Order……"

The moment the resolution on the Ancient God Domain Vault Heaven Pavilion was passed, the Council of Participation in Governance rapidly issued a series of military deployment orders, involving every Refinement Void cultivator, every Soul Transformation cultivator, and even every Foundation Establishment soldier.

With the assistance of the Central Array Spirit Computer, the sect's military orders could be precise down to the very lowest level, precise down to a single spirit stone of supplies.

"Yes!"

Yuan accepted the marshal's authorization and appointment document, and saluted.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Yes……"

Senior Wanji Zhen-zun, Zhenjun Shenji Zhen-zun, Master Canghai Zhen-zun, and other vice marshals and generals of the sect saluted, accepting the vice marshal authorization and appointment documents, the general authorization and appointment documents, and the legion array spirit permissions for their respective front armies granted by the Citizens' Assembly.

"Yes!"

Vice Commander Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun received the authorization appointment document for Vice Commander of the Ninth Front Army.

At the same time, the permissions of the Ninth Star Sky Front Army's legion array spirit were bestowed upon him, instantly flooding his mind with all manner of information on the five-hundred-million-strong citizen fleet — the fleet's garrison, personnel, equipment, array training standards, how many Void Refinement cultivators it had, how many Soul Transformation cultivators it had… and so on.

At the moment full-scale war broke out, the Immortal Gate's Ninth Star Sky Front Army, which had previously been only a paper formation, swiftly completed its citizen conscription, filling its ranks with large numbers of citizen Foundation Establishment cultivators and supplementing them with much technical equipment; it had now returned to full strength and possessed a Dao Merging battle formation.

Even though Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun's array Dao attainment had not reached the seventh rank, with the assistance of the Ninth Star Sky Front Army's legion array spirit, and with the active cooperation of numerous Void Refinement and Soul Transformation officers as well as the Immortal Gate's exceptionally high-caliber officers and soldiers, he could still unleash combat power at the Dao Merging rank — and within that rank, he would certainly be no weakling.