Chapter 1443: The Immortal Sect Gains Another Realm

The Ninth Front Army, officers' conference in session.

Yuan and others had established a stable ultra-long-range communication array, and were sharing combat experience with the comrades of the Ninth Front Army, everyone summarizing lessons together.

Jiang Ding looked past Yuan, Zhenjun Shenji True Honored One, Ten Thousand Machines True Honored One, and the others.

Behind them lay a starry battlefield, corpses strewn everywhere, the Heavenly Dao's rules shattered, space in utter disarray, slowly recovering under the inertia of the cosmos.

Behind these expeditionary army generals stood a gloomy, dark Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie.

Demon Heaven Realm!

A Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie belonging solely to Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong!

Using Demon Heaven Realm as a foundation, it would be far easier to swallow up the surrounding Minor Thousand Worlds, spreading the light of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's civilization to ever more distant places.

At the same time, using a Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie as a base, they would be able to construct ultra-long-range inter-realm teleportation arrays, no longer requiring fleet jumps to return.

The Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong expeditionary army had already reestablished contact with the rear.

This meant the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong expeditionary army would enjoy a steady stream of troop replacements, warship and fighter craft resupplies, and a continuous supply of pills and talismans; no longer rootless duckweed, its sustained combat capability had greatly improved, no longer a lone force deep behind enemy lines.

"Salute!"

Jiang Ding stood up: "Salute to the comrades of the First, Second, and Third Front Armies, and congratulations to them for opening up new living space for Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong and bringing more light to all beings of the realm."

"Salute!"

"Congratulations, comrades!"

Sun-Slaying True Honored One, Pingyang True Honored One, Fire Leopard Three, Flower Vine, and other officers snapped to salute in unison, excitement written on every face.

"Congratulations, everyone!"

Senior Jin Liu, stationed further to the rear, and Master Canghai True Honored One, stationed at the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong mother star, and others cupped their fists in salute.

This had to do with the duties they bore.

Master Canghai True Honored One and Senior Jin Liu currently held civil administration posts, managing Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's government affairs and economy while also holding concurrent military positions, hence the difference in the examples they set.

"Hahaha!"

"Awfully embarrassed, really…"

Yuan laughed heartily: "Actually, along the way we basically didn't run into much real resistance—more like an armed march, really. There weren't all that many chances to fight."

"The Ancient God Domain forces haven't completed a tight integration yet."

Yuan shared combat experience: "Here in Demon Heaven Realm, we only ran into a joint attack by a dozen or so Dao Merging cultivators from the Ten Thousand Races Alliance and quite a few racial Dao soldiers. We didn't see the imagined encirclement by the Demon God Sect, the Jiudaxian Sect of the Ancient God Domain, or even the badly wounded Brother Brother Xuanwu and the rest of them."

"That scene of being besieged by the whole world never appeared."

In fact, even if such a scene had appeared, Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong would not have feared it.

A loose alliance, each with its own schemes—as long as one concentrated full force on a single point, it would inevitably trigger a collapse and retreat among the Dao Merging cultivators at that point.

cultivators collapsing and retreating.

They couldn't possibly fight to the death, abandoning their own lives and the survival of their race, to seize a battlefield opportunity for some other Dao Merging Divine Monarch.

That kind of selflessness was almost impossible to appear among foreign races.

One could even say that, among the vast majority of the same race, within sects, such cases were extremely rare—let alone among foreign races.

The only variable was the Badaxian Sect such as Brother Brother Xuanwu's Heavenly Palace.

If the Ancient God Alliance had them as its core, the probability of completing internal integration would grow considerably, and its strength would surge abruptly. Even if they could never be perfectly united, the force they could unleash would still be terrifying.

However, by great coincidence, things now stood thus.

Brother Brother Xuanwu and the Divine Monarchs had suffered heavy wounds; if they forced themselves onto the battlefield in their injured state, the probability of falling would climb sharply, and they would no longer be so composed.

Once all their mortal incarnations were wiped out, after ten thousand or several tens of thousands of years, the entire realm might no longer have anything to do with them.

That consequence was little different from outright defeat.

"The only pity is that, apart from the Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, our battle results aren't all that great."

"We only killed two Dao Merging cultivators; the remaining Ten Thousand Races Alliance Divine Monarchs got away."

Yuan said with great regret: "The one who died was an early-stage Dao Merging cultivator of the Nether Dark Sky Crane race—that race still has two Dao Merging cultivators left. The other was a Dao Merging Divine Monarch of the Blue Water Spirit Dragon race; their race only had that single Dao Merging Divine Monarch."

"The Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong's hidden force is already in motion."

"I am attempting to stir up the greed of the Blue Water Spirit Dragon race's many enemies, hostile races, Dao Merging-level powers, and Void Refinement-level powers, to make them annex and utterly annihilate the Blue Water Spirit Dragon race, throwing the interior into further chaos and disorder."

"There is a certain possibility of this."

"These races have always nursed deep blood feuds in the past, with no small grievances between them. The Blue Water Spirit Dragon also only became a Dao Merging-level power after slaughtering numerous opponents."

"If we external enemies weren't here, that race would surely be wiped out."

"The Ten Thousand Races Alliance enforces a cruel law of nature. Though they call themselves allies, there isn't much warmth between them."

"As for now, though, it's uncertain…"

Yuan thought for a moment, then said: "Reasoning by common sense, to prevent the many Dao Merging Divine Monarchs within the Ten Thousand Races Alliance from becoming estranged and disloyal, the Alliance would surely protect the Blue Water Spirit Dragon race to the death. It might even cede some of the heaven-and-earth treasures that could break through to the Dao Merging stage, so that another Dao Merging Divine Monarch would appear among the Blue Water Spirit Dragon race in the short term."

"If it were me, I would do exactly that—to set the minds of the many allies at ease and further integrate the interior."

"To make the many Dao Merging Divine Monarchs no longer fear battle, no longer have worries at the rear, and even to build a multi-racial power that transcended race, with equality among all races…"

"Of course, that is extremely difficult, not as

easily said as it sounds."

"It just remains to be seen how much our opponents can achieve."

"Yuan,"

"you're borrowing trouble where none exists; the odds aren't great."

Zhenjun Shenji True Honored One shook his head, not optimistic: "Abandoning prejudice, equality among all races… it's simply too fantastical. Even within our own Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong—same culture, same race, even sharing the same ancient ancestors—and with cultivation forces generally lacking any tradition of equality, our advantages over the Ten Thousand Races Alliance could be called many."

"Yet even so, without the Central Array Spirit Computer, Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong internally would by now have erupted in civil war at least ten times."

He cast a sidelong glance at Great Sun Canghai Tianjun.

The meaning was self-evident.

This is an example.

Without the Central Array Spirit Computer mediating internal conflicts and increasing mutual trust among citizens, the rise of Sword Cultivators and the Great Sun Sword Sect would inevitably greatly damage the fundamental interests of the traditional powers of the Immortal Gate. The many conservative vested-interest holders would absolutely not allow this new force to grow and take a share of the spoils.

At the same time, the Immortal Gate's Sword Cultivators are not easy to get along with, and are moreover extremely skilled at assassination.

If anyone bullied or suppressed them, their violent temper would flare up on the spot, and they could scatter the provocateur's divine soul right then and there. An outbreak of civil war would be almost inevitable.

Only through a bloody and brutal slaughter could the Immortal Gate be reborn, and the various internal power blocs rebalanced.

And this is still the Immortal Gate.

For a loose, disparate force like the Myriad Races Alliance — with wildly different species, customs, cultures, and habits — how could its internal affairs possibly be integrated?