Chapter 2524 - 2489: Restoration of Imperial Fortune

Time flowed on.

It was now the ten-millionth year since the descent of the True Immortals.

The Endless Starry Sky had entered a state where the feudal lords carved up the cosmos.

The Xianmen Sect occupied nearly ten thousand Star Domains, the Great Sun Sword Immortal held more than five thousand Star Domains, the Thunder Tribulation True Immortal ruled over more than twenty thousand Star Domains, and the remaining Star Domains were divided among the various True Immortals, each presiding over their own territory, forming an unexpected, brief era of peace.

It was not that the True Immortals had chosen to cease fighting; they were simply too exhausted to expand further.

The Endless Starry Sky was far too barren!

Everywhere lay desolate star-soil, everywhere lifeless worlds; there were scarcely any plants or animals, let alone Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure. Many times, after launching a conquest war, the resources gained in the end were not even enough to construct a single Super Transmission Array. Every step forward required an enormous hoard of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, emptying the national vault.

It seemed like expansion, yet in truth the foundations were being consumed, and the lands seized were entirely useless soil.

In this process, the expansion of the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal went exceptionally smoothly, as if heaven itself aided him. In world restoration and in calculating Star Domain coordinates he enjoyed an extraordinarily evident favor of the heavens, and thus leapt in an instant to become the strongest among the True Immortals, holding the greatest territory.

Facing such a barren starry sky, the many True Immortals, without prior agreement, adopted the same measure.

Slumber, quietly awaiting the recovery of the starry sky.

Thus the Endless Starry Sky sank into an era where multiple Immortal Dynasties stood side by side.

This era of multiple celestial dynasties lasted for an extremely long time. There were no vast massacres in the starry sky, but small-scale clashes were endless, and the Mars of the heavens kept accumulating.

Over these years, in the intervals between their slumber, each True Immortal governed their Star Domains and, for the sake of war, continuously repaired the ecological environment, accelerating the recovery of the worlds across the Endless Starry Sky, allowing the cosmos that had been ravaged by the "drain-the-lake-to-fish" of historical Ancient Emperors to slowly begin to heal.

In this relatively tranquil span of time, the Endless Starry Sky endured for fifty million years.

On this day, the Endless Starry Sky quivered faintly, its laws running more smoothly, as though some deep transformation had occurred; everything was no longer the same.

On this day, the many True Immortals across the Endless Starry Sky began to awaken.

After so many years of restoration, the Endless Starry Sky finally possessed the conditions for the birth of an Emperor’s Crown!

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The Great Sun Forbidden Area.

"Another cycle of emperor-making slaughter?"

"How dreadfully dull."

This Soul Fragment of unknown generation lay idly sprawled on a deck chair, chewing on some unidentified weed root he had picked up from who knew where, poking it between his teeth, already half drowsy as he muttered.

Year after year, time after time.

He had long grown sick of such events; with a yawn, he sank into sleep.

On the notebook he tossed aside at random, line after line of script flickered past—this was a recording Treasure he had refined, able to automatically extract and inscribe any occurrence within the Endless Starry Sky worthy of record, leaving it in written form for the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor to peruse upon awakening, fully automated and under trust.

On the notebook, line after line of characters flashed.

"...The Xianmen Sect fully mobilized the Destruction Fleet, descended into the territory of the Taotie True Immortal Fairy, began gradually to gnaw away the star-soil of the Gluttonous Beast clan, and at extreme speed obliterated the Gluttonous Beast army, while offering surrender and preferential treatment to any Alien Race willing to submit, including the Gluttonous Beast clan. The Taotie True Immortal Fairy once assembled an army to strike back, but was swiftly routed, barely escaping with her life..."

"...In the seventy-thousandth year, the Xianmen Sect’s Destruction Fleet descended upon the Dark Light Star Domain, ancestral land of the Gluttonous Beast clan, and launched an Attack on the Ancestor Realm of the Gluttonous Beasts, shrouded in layers of Formation Methods. After a thousand years they broke that land, slaying the Taotie True Immortal Fairy who sought to flee... From this, the path of the Xianmen Sect’s collective-will True Immortal grew..."

"...The brutal slaughter of the starry sky continues..."

Line after line of script appeared upon the notebook, using the fewest words to describe what transpired within the Endless Starry Sky.

The slaughter across the Endless Starry Sky continued for a million years; many True Immortals perished, many lesser Immortal Dynasties were wiped out, and the overlords gradually revealed themselves.

In this era, three True Immortals survived to the end. The first was the Thunder Tribulation True Immortal who bore the Destiny of the cosmos’ post–mass extinction recovery. This True Immortal possessed extraordinarily outstanding ability in restoring the Immortal Tao Ecosystem and rejuvenating worlds—he was practically the Son of Destiny of this age.

From the moment of his birth he was invincible in attack and undefeated in war, occupying more than sixty thousand Star Domains in a snowballing surge, and was revered by the myriad races as the common ruler.

The second was the Xianmen Sect’s collective-will True Immortal, who awoke along the way, exterminated several Alien Race True Immortal Fairies, and seized upward of thirty thousand Star Domains.

The third was the Great Sun Sword Immortal, who commanded more than twenty thousand Star Domains.

As for the line of True Immortals from the Tushan Maid lineage, none were born. Not every Ancient Emperor Secret Realm can continuously give rise to generation after generation of True Immortals; within the lifespan limit of an Ancient Emperor Secret Realm, birthing two or three True Immortals is already rare fortune.

In fact, the blood-making capacity of the Xianmen Sect’s Ancient Emperor Secret Realm and the Great Sun Heavenly Pond had now sharply diminished. Perhaps after several more eras, these two Secret Realms personally created by the Forbidden Area Ancient Emperors of the two Forbidden Areas would, like all the Ancient Emperor Secret Realms throughout history, gradually vanish from the Endless Starry Sky.

In the current era, it could be clearly stated that the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal held an immense advantage, surpassing any other True Immortal by far.

This was the Son of Destiny of the era, a born Ancient Emperor!

A terrifying, dreadful opponent.

Faced with such circumstances, would the Xianmen Sect’s collective-will True Immortal and the Great Sun Swordsman choose to unite, as they had in history?

No.

Such a thing did not occur.

Before even coming into contact with the Thunder Tribulation Holy Spirit True Immortal, the Xianmen Sect and the Great Sun Sword Pavilion first launched into a life-and-death slaughter!

The war between them was extremely brutal; both sides repeatedly broke into the other’s heartlands. The Heavenly Sword Star Domain fell multiple times, and Xianmen’s Mother Planet was broken through time and again by Great Sun Sword Cultivation forces. Countless citizens perished. In this war the two sides exhausted every possible means, its cruelty pushed to the utmost, with untold numbers of Great Sun Sword Cultivators and Immortal Sect Citizens buried between the Star Domains.

This was an ancient grudge from history, a war of Undying mutual extermination that the Great Dao itself desired to stack upon itself.

Their war lasted for a full hundred thousand years. In the killing and dying, both sides’ potential was constantly forced out and continuously increased, until one side finally reached its limit.

After a hundred thousand years, in the Heavenly Sword Star Domain, this war came to its close.

Within the encirclement of countless Xianmen Sect Destruction Fleets, at the center of the Army Formations and army-spirits of the fleet, innumerable Ship Cannons unleashed their final salvo, blasting the lone Sword Cultivator who fought on brandishing his sword into fragments; his Life Flying Sword shattered, reduced to a myriad motes of dust scattering in all directions. The remaining Human Race Sword Cultivators and cultivators still left on the battlefield, seeing this, silently laid down their weapons, formed up in Formation, and awaited recruitment.

In this internal civil war of the Supreme Great Sun Daoist lineage, the Xianmen Sect emerged victorious!

The Divine Soul of this generation’s Great Sun Sword Immortal was annihilated!

Beneath the boundless pressure of the Great Dao, the Xianmen Sect’s collective-will True Immortal devoured the Great Sun Sword Immortal’s Original Ancient Talisman, and his aura and oppressive might surged madly.

At the same time, in that very instant, all territories of the Great Sun Sword Immortal, and all their cultivators, instantly fell under the dominion of the Xianmen Sect.

The two Human Race territories became one in an instant.