The Tide of Independence Among the Myriad Races: Great Sun Heavenly Lord, the Immortal Sect's Hope

"Fellow Daoists,"

"The Nine Spirits World, a medium chiliocosm, is now a battlefield!"

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Lord spoke coldly.

"The Eight Great Immortal Sects and the Immortal Sect are locked in battle. For now, they remain evenly matched. Both sides have suffered heavy losses, but the balance has not tipped either way. Neither side is prepared to fight until jade and stone alike are shattered."

The Heavenly Lords around him nodded.

There was a reason the Nine Spirits Domain had remained at peace before the Horned Demon Imperial Clan appeared.

Neither side could do anything to the other. They simply could not kill each other, so they had held their noses and endured each other's presence. It was not as though they naturally enjoyed living shoulder to shoulder, packed together like sardines.

After the Immortal Sect gained a Void Refining cultivator, the balance shifted somewhat.

But not enough to change the situation.

The Immortal Sect's planet-class warships, Dao Integration-level military formations, Dao Integration world-army formation spells, and other means of attack were still under frantic development. None had produced a qualitative leap. The sect needed more time at peace to build its strength, produce more Spirit Transformation and Void Refining cultivators, and achieve major technological breakthroughs.

That peaceful accumulation alarmed the Eight Great Immortal Sects so much that they tore up their pact and shattered the peace among the human race across the domains, a peace that had taken more than a thousand years to maintain.

"Then the cultivators of the Eight Great Immortal Sects resorted to dirty tricks."

"Those bastards!"

Divine Mechanism Heavenly Lord cursed. "They sent large numbers of scattered Spirit Transformation and Nascent Soul cultivators to open a second front. They heavily backed all manner of slave races in the Immortal Sect's territory within the Horn Nether