After meeting the Great Sun Sword Lord and receiving his explicit guarantee on his sword heart, the Dao Children of the Nine Great Immortal Sects led some of their core disciples in formally surrendering to the Immortal Sect.
Like the Netherbright Sword Grotto-Heaven, they would have a special administrative region spanning one domain. The region's military, diplomacy, and education would come under the Immortal Sect's guidance. Beyond that, the Eight Great Immortal Sects would retain all other powers.
In exchange, the Eight Great Immortal Sects would pledge loyalty to the Immortal Sect and hand over their inheritances.
It was an enormous fortune!
The political credibility the Immortal Sect had upheld for countless years had finally paid off.
Had it been someone like the Ancient God Patriarch, even destroying them would not have yielded their upper-realm inheritances. Even if the heirs of the upper-realm Immortal Orders were defeated, they could easily destroy their own inheritances.
Even seizing their bodies would never yield the complete inheritances of the Immortal Orders.
This immense trove of knowledge sent shock waves through the Immortal Sect. A meeting at the highest level of immortal-path research was swiftly convened, and no one thought trading a domain for it was a losing bargain.
"We've struck it rich!"
"The Immortal Sect's foundations in the immortal path have increased eightfold in an instant! Eightfold!"
Myriad Mechanisms said excitedly, "These are complete inheritances leading all the way to the pinnacle of the Celestial Realm. They cover artifact refining, spirit plants, arrays, talismans, incense offerings, beast taming, alchemy... almost every field imaginable!"
"We may not like Black Tortoise's path of incense offerings, but it has tremendous research value. At the very least, it will help us avoid being harmed by incense offerings in the future."
"The Immortal Sect's immortal-path sciences and technology