When Heavenly Monarch Dingding, master of the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace, took out the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect's ceasefire treaty and placed it on the table, the entire Alliance Ground fell instantly silent; a needle dropping could be heard.
Heavenly Monarch Dingding set down the drafted Eight Sect Alliance, gently placed it aside, rose to his feet without saying a word, walked to the window, and gazed out at the sea of clouds in the distance.
The Alliance Ground was called the Ascension Tower.
This tower had been jointly built and refined fifty thousand years ago by the Nine Great Immortal Sects, including the Great Sun Sword Pavilion. It was an unfathomably powerful Void Refinement treasure.
The tower had been built to celebrate the birth of this Minor World, the Minor Spirit World. Its name, Ascension, came from that purpose.
The Minor Spirit World gathered the resources of every Minor World throughout the entire star domain. It had the hope of becoming a Middle Thousand World and, in theory, could produce cultivators beyond Void Refinement. In those ancient years, the Nine Great Immortal Sects had made a joint effort toward the realm beyond Void Refinement.
Sadly, the Great Dao was selfish.
Before the Minor Spirit World had even been completed, a bloody civil war erupted among the Nine Great Immortal Sects. The Great Sun Sword Pavilion rose amid that chaotic melee and gradually set out on the path to domination, nearly succeeding. Then the Eastern Extreme Demonic Sect emerged, and the Great Sun Sword Pavilion perished, leading to the present day.
Though the Minor Spirit World had not reached the anticipated standards of a Middle Thousand World, it still far surpassed ordinary Minor Worlds, including the small worlds at the mountain gates of each of the Nine Great Immortal Sects.