The two sides traded moves. In the blink of an eye, each had played thirty-two.
By then, white stones covered the entire Nine Spirits Domain. The Eight Great Immortal Sects had unified it and secured the Law-Breaking Immortal Gold production nodes. The light on their stones grew brighter.
That was because the Dao Integration divine lords had refined large quantities of Law-Breaking Immortal Gold into their artifacts, increasing their strength.
The Immortal Sect had likewise occupied the entire Horn Nether Domain.
More than four hundred lesser worlds, including one middle world, belonged to the Immortal Sect.
After the Immortal Sect Homeworld was destroyed, a period of internal turmoil followed. Then the Immortal Sect passed a law designating the Nine Spirits World as its new homeworld, and its citizens began multiplying rapidly. In just a century, the population grew more than a hundredfold to three hundred billion citizens, including over a billion Foundation Establishment cultivators.
As a result, ten more black stones appeared out of nothing.
That rate of growth seemed likely to continue. As long as time passed and the number of Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators among the citizens kept rising, the Immortal Sect would grow stronger, and more black stones would appear.
"Send out the troops."
The mighty cultivator of the Heavenly Mechanism Immortal Palace could no longer sit by and watch.
At his command, the many white stones that had formed a net were brought into play. Gleaming with Law-Breaking Immortal Gold, they advanced on the Horn Nether Domain. They did not come through the domain passage, but teleported in from elsewhere, catching the Immortal Sect off guard.
The white stones of the Eight Great Immortal Sects fell one after another.
Across the Horn Nether Domain, lesser worlds that had belonged to the Immortal Sect were