After the attempt to silence them failed, the Nine Great Immortal Sects swiftly accepted the outcome.
They did not swagger through unfamiliar realms, occupying Minor Worlds and torturing enemies for answers. Instead, they returned to Jiao Ming Domain and, with unprecedented efficiency, frantically constructed Realm Passage Defense Arrays and self-detonation arrays.
The Dao Integration Divine Lords of the Immortal Sects personally joined the work, laying arrays and refining array artifacts like busy laborers, without any airs and with no time to spare for dignity.
While throwing themselves into the construction of Realm Passages, the Nine Great Immortal Sects also began setting up anti-teleportation positioning arrays across all of Jiao Ming Domain, preventing enemies from shattering realms and teleporting in. This ensured that even beings Above Dao Integration could not force their way through and descend upon Jiao Ming Domain in a short time.
This was the terrifying aspect of an Immortal Sect's inheritance.
Had it been a Dao Integration Grade sect with shallower foundations, they likely would not even have known what a realm anti-teleportation array was.
The entire Nine Spirit Domain and Jiao Ming Domain once more sank into intense war preparations.
No, perhaps "once more" was not quite accurate.
It should be said that the Nine Great Immortal Sects had always been preparing for war with all their might!
A mere Heavenly Dao Alliance Treaty or Peace Treaty was never a particularly trustworthy promise to them. They had always prepared for war, guarding against the other Immortal Sects while watching them covetously.
Even without External Enemies, even the most optimistic cultivators believed that a large-scale civil war among the Nine Great Immortal Sects would inevitably erupt within ten thousand years. The Heavenly Dao Alliance Treaty simply could not prevent such things from happening.
Lasting peace simply could not