The Immortal Sect's 300 Million Citizen Fleet did not give up. It patrolled the various realms, targeting vulnerable existences such as the Xuanwu Heavenly Palace Great Power, as well as the severely wounded Pill Cauldron and Shangqing Lingbao Sect Great Powers.
They found no targets.
It was not that these Great Powers' concealment methods were so effective that they had all evaded the Immortal Sect's Dao Integration Grade scans.
They had simply fled far enough away.
The Realm Starry Sky was endlessly vast, distances practically infinite. As long as they kept running and running, escaped the Jiao Ming Domain, and entered the desolate starry sky beyond the realms, who could catch them?
Dao Integration Grade existences were already Star Domain Level Life, capable of surviving alone in the starry sky. Once they escaped an enemy's lock-on, defeating them was almost impossible.
If not for the Middle Thousand World within the Jiao Ming Domain, which held the key to advancing their cultivation, even cultivators Above Dao Integration would have been helpless against them. Near-endless space blocked all great power.
After making a circuit of the realms and confirming the Immortal Sect's rule, the Citizen Fleet returned once more to the Nine Spirit Realm.
This would become the main garrison of this Immortal Sect main fleet. It would not uproot itself lightly again.
Beyond its immense strategic importance, the primary reason was that the cultivation conditions here were simply too favorable—several times better than those of the home planet, while advancing to higher realms was far less difficult.
The Immortal Sect had spent nearly a thousand years digesting the spoils of war, producing so many Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarchs and nine Void Refinement True Venerables. The existence of a Middle Thousand World had been of crucial importance.
There was a reason why