Time flowed on.
Before anyone realized it, another two thousand-odd years had passed.
During this time, mortal dynasties rose and fell through several cycles, while Immortal Sect Citizens passed through dozens of generations. The old exhausted their lifespans and died, and the new emerged.
Throughout this process, powerful figures continuously arose, Deity Transformation Cultivators continued to appear, and their numbers steadily grew.
The elites among the Immortal Sect's trillions of citizens, along with many peerless geniuses among the ascension immigrants, drove extremely healthy growth in the Immortal Sect's Deity Transformation Cultivator ranks. Senior officers in the Citizen Fleet emerged one after another, strongly supporting the expansion of the Immortal Sect Fleet.
During this period, the Immortal Sect successfully established diplomatic relations with the Nine Great Immortal Sects of the Ancient God Domain, the Demon God Sect, and the Myriad Races Alliance. They traded with one another and took what they needed.
Now that war had not yet erupted, every force appeared friendly and open to communication. Peace filled the domains—if one ignored the undercurrents surging beneath the surface.
The Immortal Sect's many goods, standardized magical treasures, and standardized pills sold briskly throughout the various domains. In an extremely short time, they became renowned among surrounding powers for their quality and low prices, bringing the Immortal Sect vast quantities of spirit stones and Natural Treasures and further increasing its number of Deity Transformation Cultivators.
Natural Treasures of the Void Refinement level and above, however, were subject to restricted trade. Many powers in the Ancient God Domain remained wary of transactions at that level.
Even so, the Immortal Sect's dumping of goods still provoked dissatisfaction from powers such as the Demon God Sect and the Myriad Races Alliance. Even stricter trade restrictions seemed to be taking shape.
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