The upper realm.
In the Central Domain, within the Heavenly River Sword Domain.
This was an ancient domain of the upper realm. The strongest cultivators it could accommodate were Celestials, let alone cultivators at the Dao Integration or Void Refining stages.
Its rich environment, the many eighth-rank spiritual veins scattered across its lands, its countless opportunities, and its great and small sects with ancient inheritances all played a part. Together with the Fallen Immortal Realm's uniquely complete Dao resonance, they had made this a land where powerful cultivators arose in droves since ancient times. It had even once produced a Supreme.
This place now belonged to the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm. It was the Spiritual Treasure Realm territory the sword realm had seized from the Former Immortal Sect near the end of the great calamity.
Had it been called the Treasure River Domain several hundred thousand years ago?
That was unclear.
Across the entire Central Domain, perhaps only the senior cultivators at the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm's Heavenly River Palace knew of such matters. Other cultivators, even Dao Integration Divine Lords, lacked the relevant records. In the cultivation world, only those who reached the upper echelons earned the right to learn its history.
After the great calamity, the strong had only grown stronger.
The human race had once had the Nine Great Immortal Sects. After the calamity, it had the Seven Great Immortal Sects. In its later stages, the three oldest Immortal Orders had swallowed up lands in every direction like whales, seizing numerous upper, middle, and lower domains, along with countless greater and lesser worlds beyond the realm. Their foundations far surpassed those of the newly established Immortal Orders.
The Immortal Artifact Sect was one example.
Compared with its former territory in the Spiritual Treasure Realm, the Immortal Artifact