Jiang Ding sat quietly atop Blood Lake Bone Mountain.
Before leaving, he gave an order, and the largest sect in the Thunderflame Domain sprang into action. Countless Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation cultivators busied themselves collecting specimens of the domain's distinctive creatures, ores, and natural treasures, along with its various inheritances.
Blood Lake Bone Mountain wielded far more power than Swamp Demon City.
It gathered these things far more efficiently, further enriching the Immortal Gate Library and adding to the Immortal Sect's archive of immortal cultivation knowledge—the original source from which all its achievements in immortal cultivation sprang.
Moreover, the work was buried among a tangled mass of sect affairs. Anyone without control of the sect's upper ranks would have had no idea what was happening.
In just ten years, they collected specimens of nearly every mundane-grade resource and every kind of first- through sixth-tier natural treasure in the Thunderflame Domain. Apart from a tiny number of exceptionally rare items, they swept up almost everything in one net.
Now the benefit of removing every Void Refining cultivator became clear.
No one in Blood Lake Bone Mountain questioned this somewhat unusual undertaking. A Void Refining cultivator's orders might be strange, but lower-ranking cultivators simply carried them out without giving them further thought.
"There's nothing left for me here."
Jiang Ding took the last specimens and inheritances, then left Blood Lake Bone Mountain.
Before departing, he had all its Void Refining cultivators enter seclusion and stop receiving subordinate disciples and the like. With the sect's protective formation running on its own, order could be maintained for centuries without trouble.
Provided the Immortal Artifact Sect did not turn its watchful gaze this way.
Concealing his form, Jiang Ding flew unhurriedly toward the Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder True Sovereign.
"Oh?"
At that