The Immortal Sect's fleet of three hundred million citizens did not give up. It patrolled the worlds, hunting vulnerable targets such as the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace's mighty cultivators, the still-gravely-wounded Dan Ding, and the mighty cultivators of the Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Sect.
It found no targets.
It was not that these mighty cultivators had concealed themselves so well that they had all evaded the Immortal Sect's Dao Integration-level scans.
They had simply fled far enough.
The starry expanse between worlds was boundless, its distances all but infinite. If they kept fleeing, fled beyond the Horn Nether Domain and into the barren stars outside the domain, who could catch them?
Dao Integration beings were already life-forms on the scale of a star domain, capable of surviving alone among the stars. Once they escaped an enemy's lock, they were almost impossible to defeat.
If the Horn Nether Domain had not contained a medium chiliocosm crucial to advancing their cultivation, even cultivators above Dao Integration would have been helpless against them. Near-endless space stood between them and any force brought to bear.
After patrolling the domain and confirming the Immortal Sect's control, the Citizen Fleet returned to the Nine Spirits World.
This would be the Immortal Sect's main fleet base. It would not relocate again lightly.
Beyond its great strategic significance, the chief reason was that cultivation conditions here were far better than on the homeworld—several times better—and advancing to higher realms was much easier.
The medium chiliocosm had been crucial to the Immortal Sect's ability to turn the spoils of war into so many Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lords and nine Void Refinement True Venerables over the past nearly thousand years.
There was a reason so many mighty cultivators pursued this place so fiercely that they were willing to fight to