Just as Ye Lin was marveling, a flash of sword light streaked ahead. With his own eyes, Ye Lin saw countless warships perish beneath that single slash.
The might of that sword light rivaled that of a late-stage Earth Immortal.
"Hmph. The Fourth Celestial Domain permits no faction to exist. Otherwise, annihilation."
A cold snort echoed through the void, and countless stars exploded. In the starry sky, streak after streak of incomparably powerful Sword Qi crisscrossed, slaughtering innumerable living beings with a single strike.
The Fourth Celestial Domain allowed no form of faction to emerge. This was an unspoken understanding shared by all, for the vast majority of cultivators in the Fourth Celestial Domain had committed offenses in the other three great celestial domains.
Having committed crimes and found themselves unable to get by in the other celestial domains, they came to the Fourth Celestial Domain. Some others had come from beyond the Purple Cloud Star System.
Thus, they tacitly accepted the Fourth Celestial Domain as a place of absolute disorder and chaos, where no organized faction could ever be allowed to appear.
The moment a faction emerged, it had to be eradicated.
For once the first faction appeared, there would be a second. From there, factions would only grow more numerous, eventually carving up territories among themselves and gradually settling down.
Until a holy-land-level faction emerged. Someone did not wish to see such a scene happen again.
So, this unspoken rule was established.
If you dared to establish a faction, then once discovered, everyone had the right to put you to death.
Thus, the vast majority of cultivators in the Fourth Celestial Domain were lone wolves, each lying low in the shadows. Every so often, they would leap out and take a bite, tearing a chunk of flesh from