"Those eight have gone mad. They don't care if they live or die."
"In the last few war exercises, they've shown an extraordinarily reckless disregard for their lives. They work together more closely than anything we've ever seen."
Yuan sighed. "That's why we can't stop them. We can't keep them from making contact with the Horn Nether Domain."
Under the Immortal Sect's plans, outward exploration was supposed to begin only after it had produced a Void Refining cultivator of its own.
Resources were hardly scarce now. With twenty-six small worlds at its disposal, the Immortal Sect had more room to breathe than at any point in its history. The Void Refining project was advancing steadily and had encountered no insurmountable bottleneck. What the Immortal Sect needed most was time to develop in peace.
Unfortunately, the Eight Great Immortal Sects disagreed, and they had the power to act on it.
"The Horn Nether Domain..."
Jiang Ding drew a deep breath, shaken to his core.
An unfamiliar immortal civilization. They did not know its strength, its foundations, or how far its immortal technology had advanced.
Everything was unknown.
If the Horn Nether Domain possessed an immortal civilization far beyond the Immortal Sect's...
Then the Immortal Sect and the Eight Great Immortal Sects would be destroyed beyond any doubt. They would vanish, their existence forgotten forever by the domains and the universe, like the countless civilizations swept away in the river of time.
The Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lords around him looked equally horrified.
"Next, I'll share some of what we've learned about the Horn Nether Domain. It comes from the imperial scion's soul, which we've managed to decipher."
After giving the Heavenly Lords a moment to absorb his words, Yuan continued, "Assuming the memories in the Horn Nether Domain imperial scion's soul weren't