After their attempt to silence the witnesses failed, the Nine Great Immortal Sects quickly accepted the outcome.
They did not march through the unfamiliar domains with banners flying, occupy lesser worlds, or interrogate their enemies. Instead, they returned to the Horn Nether Domain and, with unprecedented efficiency, threw themselves into building defensive formations and self-destruct formations around the domain passage.
The Divine Lords of the Immortal Orders worked with their own hands, laying formations and refining formation devices. They were like busy laborers, with no airs and no time to worry about dignity.
While building up the domain passage, the Nine Great Immortal Sects also began laying anti-teleportation tracking formations throughout the Horn Nether Domain. These would prevent enemies from crossing the boundary and teleporting in, ensuring that even beings above the Dao Integration realm could not force their way through and descend upon the domain in a short time.
That was the terrifying strength of an Immortal Order's inheritance.
A Dao Integration sect with shallower foundations might not even know what a domain-wide anti-teleportation formation was.
The entire Nine Spirits Domain and Horn Nether Domain plunged back into feverish war preparations.
No, perhaps "back" was not quite right.
The Nine Great Immortal Sects had been preparing for war at full strength all along!
A mere Heavenly Dao Pact, a peace treaty, was hardly a promise they considered trustworthy. They had kept preparing for war, guarding against the other Immortal Orders while coveting what they held.
Even without an outside enemy, the most optimistic cultivator would have expected a large-scale civil war among the Nine Great Immortal Sects to break out within ten thousand years. The Heavenly Dao Pact could never prevent it.
Lasting peace was simply impossible among the Nine Great Immortal Sects.
The only difference was that the