Jiang Ding streaked across the sky. He flew fast—roughly half again as fast as an ordinary cultivator at the peak of Spirit Transformation, befitting a prodigy who had ascended from a small world.
Until he was certain he had shaken off any possible surveillance, he would remain the strongest cultivator of his small world, one step below Celestial Lord Shuo Yang.
Mountains and rivers swept past beneath him. Along the way, he passed seventeen mortal kingdoms and five cultivation sects. Four were Nascent Soul sects, and one was a Golden Core sect. Their cultivation methods shared a common origin, carrying a trace of the Nine Firmaments Thunder Canon, the foundational method of the Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign. They were lesser branches of that method.
Disciples of the Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign had founded these small sects over successive generations. They were subordinate forces tasked with planting, breeding, mining, and similar work—part of the sovereign's holdings in the form of sects, not independent powers.
"The Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign is based in the Thunderfire Domain, one of the Great Thousand World's nine hundred and twenty-one domains. It's classified as a lower domain."
"Is the name 'domain' connected to why the Nine Great Immortal Sects call the Nine Spirits Domain a domain?"
Jiang Ding silently recalled the memories of Azure Thunder True Sovereign, the Void Refining cultivator Xi Yuan had captured and soul-searched.
This was the homeland of the Nine Great Immortal Sects.
Many things carried a cultural legacy, and there was a great deal to unearth from it.
The word "world" in Great Thousand World was deeply misleading. In truth, it was a nebula-like region formed by the condensation and convergence of many star regions, a place where numerous worlds teeming with life were concentrated.