During the decades the Immortal Artifact Sect's envoy spent recovering from his injuries, the Thunderflame Domain remained calm. Nothing of consequence happened.
Even the brutal war between Blood Lake Bone Mountain and the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sovereign stopped at once. No cultivator of either faction dared start a fight under the Immortal Artifact Sect envoy's nose.
Influenced by the two factions, the many Rogue Cultivators also grew cautious. The Thunderflame Domain entered a rare period of peace.
In Swamp Demon City.
Jiang Ding opened his eyes inside the emerald palace.
He had finished his second round of cultivating the Sun Sword Sacrifice Method and gained much from it. He estimated that in another hundred years, the fourth divine restriction of the solar rules would take shape, and the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword would become a mid-grade spatial treasure, its sharpness rising another level.
The refinement of spatial treasures often took thousands of years. For the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword to gain a divine restriction within mere centuries was terrifyingly fast.
And it was not only the speed of refinement. Subtle yet fundamental changes had also occurred in Jiang Ding's soul and the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword's material.
It was nothing short of a miracle, wrought by the Immortal Order's immortal cultivation inheritance.
But there was a price.
"I can cultivate it one more time. Then I'll be bankrupt..."
Jiang Ding spoke to himself.
He had amassed wealth over thousands of years and ranked among the richest people in a Dao Integration-level power. Yet this cultivation would bankrupt him in mere centuries. The accumulated resources of countless lesser worlds over millennia would all be spent.
To say his wealth melted like ice and snow could not begin to describe the terrifying cost.
Such was the price of a foundation