Deputy Commander Great Sun Heavenly Lord of the Immortal Sect Ninth Starry Sky Front Army

"Adjusting formation frequency fluctuations, adjusting army-soul fluctuations..."

"The Immortal Sect Ninth Starry Sky Front Army is about to deploy. Legion jump begins in ninety-five minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Please..."

Above the Immortal Sect Homeworld, an ocean of steel warships spread across every corner of sight. It seemed endless, its cold metallic gleam radiating a crushing pressure.

The Immortal Sect Fleet was about to deploy to guard the Heavenly Origin Domain's domain passage.

If necessary, when an opportunity arose, the fleet would enter the Ancient God Domain battlefield directly. It would destroy and occupy the Ancient God Domain's Dao Integration-level powers, bringing its people more light and happiness—or, at the very least, lives far better than they had known under the sects.

At the homeworld's super teleportation array, Immortal Sect soldiers were boarding warships, aerospace carriers, and Starry Sky Fortresses as their families saw them off.

Grief showed on many faces. Children said goodbye to parents, elderly parents said goodbye to children, and reluctance filled their eyes as they wept too hard to speak.

Because this was a war on the scale of star domains.

Win or lose, this might be the last time they saw one another. Such wars could last hundreds or thousands of years, longer than many cultivators' lifespans.

Yet for all their reluctance, no one backed down.

Because this was a citizen's duty!

It was the obligation that came with enjoying the rights of citizenship.

The world demanded balance, and so did Immortal Sect citizenship. Every citizen had to fight for the Immortal Sect. No one was more equal than anyone else, free to remain safely in the rear and enjoy peace while soldiers fought and died at the front, then reap the rewards of their sacrifice.

Weakness was no excuse. The strong and the weak were