During the decades the Artifact Sect envoy spent recovering from his injuries, the Thunderflame Domain remained calm, and no major events occurred.
Even the great war between Blood Lake Corpse Mountain and the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect, where brutal offensives and defenses had never ceased, abruptly halted. No True Sect cultivator dared provoke hostilities under the Artifact Sect envoy's very nose.
Influenced by the two great True Sects, the many Rogue Cultivators also became cautious. The Thunderflame Domain entered a rare state of peace.
Within Mud Swamp Demon City.
Jiang Ding opened his eyes inside the jade-green palace.
He had completed his second cultivation session of the Sun Sword Refining Method, with tremendous gains. He estimated that in another hundred years, the fourth Sun Rule Divine Restriction would be born, and the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword would also become a mid-grade Space Treasure, its sharpness further enhanced.
In the refinement of Space Treasures, which routinely took several thousand years, the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword added one rule Divine Restriction every few hundred years. Such speed was utterly terrifying.
It was not merely the refinement speed. Jiang Ding's divine soul and the material of the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword were also undergoing subtle yet fundamental changes.
This could be called a miracle—a miracle wrought by the immortal Dao inheritance of the Immortal Sect.
And the price existed as well.
"I can cultivate one more time, and I'll go bankrupt..."
Jiang Ding muttered to himself.
Wealth accumulated over several thousand years, enough to make him one of the wealthiest among Dao Integration Grade powers, had been drained dry within a few short centuries of such cultivation. The accumulated resources of countless Minor Worlds over thousands of years had all been spent.
Even wealth melting away like ice and snow was