Chapter 1600: The Flame Sun World Cluster's Twenty Thousand Years of Wealth for the Pure Yang Sword Disciple

The afterwaves of this battle first spread through the upper echelons of the various Immortal Sects, then gradually reached the middle tiers, and finally the entire Great Thousand World.

The many Immortal Sects had no intention of keeping the Pure Yang Sword Disciple a secret.

For such a sinister sword cultivator, this was no less than a public execution, bringing him much trouble.

When news of the Pure Yang Sword Disciple's reappearance spread to the Flame Sun World Cluster, a region that legally belonged to his personal rule, it immediately triggered a massive political upheaval.

Many were overjoyed.

Many fell into panic, frantically seeking ways to change their allegiance.

Sun Palace.

"Young Master..."

A young girl murmured.

A white-robed girl, one meter fifty-six tall, still wore her hair in a bun; her face was cute, unchanged from the first meeting tens of thousands of years ago, not a single alteration.

She handled the myriad administrative affairs of the World Cluster within the Sun Palace, dedicated to implementing the will of Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting throughout the entire World Cluster, ensuring the World Cluster was shrouded by the will of the Great Sun Sword Disciple, and shaping the World Cluster into what the Great Sun Sword Disciple required, both in systems and in cultural customs and habits.

If the Great Sun Sword Disciple wished the World Cluster to be thus, then the World Cluster must be thus.

Beyond Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting, she also built an army, established internal guard units, and set up administrative bodies, agricultural agencies, research institutes, artifact refinement institutes, and so on.

Most importantly, naturally, was the taxation agency.

The Great Sun Sword Disciple required seventy percent of the World Cluster's tax revenue.

This was the foundation of Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting, a constitutional-level fundamental law; the Great Sun Sword Disciple originally overwhelmed all beings in the world in combat power, productivity, and research capabilities, so such taxation was reasonable and legal; this was his money, his spirit stones, not a single spirit stone could be missing.

Any tax evasion or embezzlement, even embezzling a single spirit stone of his, must be severely punished!

This is something any Master Tushan political service maid should know, something they must treat as an instinct, firmly engrained in their hearts, never to be forgotten.

Because this is the foundation upon which political service maids rely for survival!

And now, what is the current state of the Flame Sun World Cluster?

Annually, the tax revenue received by Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting was less than thirty percent.

The Great Sun Sword Disciple's wealth accumulation speed suffered an extremely severe decline, such that the wealth accumulated over these twenty thousand years was reduced by more than half.

Bear in mind, this was the savings of the entire World Cluster over twenty thousand years!

This wealth was nothing short of earth-shattering, enough to enable a Dao-Integration cultivator of qualified aptitude and talent to achieve the status of a Heavenly Immortal, granting him the opportunity of a Heavenly Immortal.

If this wealth were used to cultivate Void-Refinement cultivators, it would be more than sufficient to promote dozens of Void-Refinement cultivators to the rank of Dao-Integration Divine Lord.

Such an immense sum of wealth

that would appear dazzling even in the Upper Realm, was now only half remaining.

Where did the missing half go?

It was embezzled by people.

By whom was it embezzled?

By the Taiyin and Taiyang lineage sword cultivators, Divine Lord Guangyao and Divine Lord Guanglan.

Over these twenty thousand years, because the light of the Pure Yang Sword Disciple did not truly shine upon this World Cluster, there was only the legal authority and the crown, but no actual exercise of power.

Therefore, just as in countless dynasties with young Emperors and powerful ministers, this scene played out in the Flame Sun World Cluster as well.

Under numerous plausible pretexts, the wealth belonging to the Pure Yang Sword Disciple was devoured and embezzled; the radiance of Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting also failed to shine thoroughly into every corner of the Flame Sun World Cluster, and many local hardliners still had ample room to maneuver, resisting the reforms of Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting.

These hardliners affected the immortal productivity of the Flame Sun World Cluster and impacted the speed of the Pure Yang Sword Disciple's wealth accumulation.

"Young Master,"

"Now, I seem able to reclaim a portion of the authority..."

Gong Gong Caiyu murmured to herself.

Within this Sun Palace, she issued an order to convene a high-level cultivator meeting of the Flame Sun World Cluster.

She gently closed her eyes and waited quietly.

One shichen later, she opened her eyes precisely on time, looking toward the great hall before her.

Numerous Dao-Integration Divine Lords and Void-Refinement True Venerables stood respectfully in solemn formation, not one missing; no cultivator was late, and no one was absent due to extremely important and critical reasons such as 'hostile threats', 'busy with state affairs', or 'secluded breakthrough in cultivation'.

In the past twenty thousand years, such a thing had never occurred.

Countless people were always busy with things they considered very important, having no time to heed her orders.

Some acted out of good intentions, as political allies.

For instance, cultivators like Divine Lord Yangtie; they were disciples of the Heavenly Immortal Yanggu, naturally standing on her side, assisting her in ruling the vast Flame Sun World Cluster, making betrayal almost impossible.

However, Divine Lord Yangtie and others had their own thoughts.

They did not believe the opinion of a Void-Refinement cultivator was worthy of attention, let alone always correct; her orders must contain numerous errors, an inevitable flaw brought by the narrow vision of a low-rank cultivator, and absolute obedience to her orders would be a mistake.

For the glory of the Pure Yang Sword Disciple, Divine Lord Yangtie and others believed they should correct these errors.

As for whether to notify that Void-Refinement cultivator after the correction and change, that depended on their mood at the time; low-rank cultivators always found it difficult to understand the wisdom of high-rank cultivators, and explaining it was too troublesome.

Some cultivators were simply arrogant and unyielding.

For instance, Chong Chong Guang Zi, True Venerable Lieyang, and countless other Great Sun sword cultivators; they lacked

profound respect for a maid; while their surface gestures were ample, their actual execution was perfunctory; they often only respected the Dao-Integration Divine Lords they could not defeat, then executed many matters according to their own understanding.

The last category of cultivators were enemies.

They came from the Taiyin lineage, from the hostile faction within the Taiyang lineage, affiliated with the lineage sword cultivators Divine Lord Guangyao and Divine Lord Guanglan.

Their only point of loyalty to the Pure Yang Sword Disciple was in slogans; everything they did was to dig at the foundations of the Flame Sun World, placing it into their own pockets.

If the first two categories of cultivators still obeyed the orders of the Sun Palace, merely choosing to execute selectively those beneficial to themselves or those they deemed correct, then the last category of cultivators completely ignored the orders of the Sun Palace, brushing them aside with various excuses.

These cultivators never participated in any meeting of the Sun Palace's Chief Administrator of the Register; they always had very important matters like entering a life-or-death seclusion.

But today,

They had all come, not a single one missing.

Every cultivator's face was deathly pale, their bodies trembling, cold sweat continuously breaking out on their foreheads, yet they still braced themselves and came over, showing everyone a fawning gaze, with none of their former arrogance.

Gong Gong Caiyu looked over at Yang Tie Divine Monarch and the others.

These Divine Monarchs sat upright and proper, constantly watching the Grand Registrar, as if waiting for her command at any moment.

Gong Gong Caiyu looked again at Chong Chong Guang Zi and the other Great Sun Sword Cultivators.

These Great Sun Sword Cultivators had always been untamed and unruly, claiming that even a Great Sun Sword Child they would dare to challenge, for death alone was nothing.

The Great Sun Sword Cultivators believed the Sword Dao to be supreme, that beyond the sword there was nothing else, and that dying gloriously in a sword duel was the ultimate destiny of a sword cultivator; in the past, they would always recklessly initiate sword duels, ignoring not only the Tu Mountain Law but sometimes even the Great Yin-Yang Sword Law—utterly arrogant.

At this moment, Chong Chong Guang Zi and the others lowered their brows and meekly bowed, kowtowing respectfully.