Before anyone knew it, a hundred years had passed.
Throughout that century, construction had continued across every facet of the Divine-Buddha Great Thousand World. A generation of mortals had come and gone, and the bone-deep influence of the divine faith had greatly faded.
The new generation of human mortals no longer felt their ancestors' heartfelt reverence for the gods. They regarded them as no more than straw dogs.
Only then did the Immortal Sect and the star-domain prodigies begin recruiting mortals they could train as cultivators.
For now, the Divine-Buddha Great Thousand World operated under a dual-track system.
The Immortal Sect and the star-domain prodigies governed the Divine-Buddha Great Thousand World together. The prodigies treated the Immortal Sect much as they treated the Tushan Maid Corps, handling matters according to the methods of cooperation established in the Time Rift.
The star-domain prodigies were building a force of sword cultivator soldiers called the Supreme Great Sun Sword Dao Soldiers. One day, this force would become the Human Emperor's imperial guard, the strongest Dao soldiers beneath the stars—the mightiest spear under the True Immortal Heir, forged from sword Dao prodigies across the endless starry sky. It would stand alongside the Myriad Laws Ancient Emperor's Myriad Laws Heavenly Yuan Dao Soldiers.
The Limitless Sword Heir, Burial Heaven Sword Heir, Desolate Flame Sword Heir, and other human sword heirs commanded Dao soldier forces such as Seven Killings.
But they were also members of the Supreme Great Sun Sword Dao Soldiers. That identity mattered even more, for it placed them closer to the True Immortal Heir.
Supreme Great Sun Sword Dao cultivators had begun to emerge, selected from the finest prodigies in the Divine-Buddha Great Thousand World. Over the century, ten thousand candidates had been found and had begun cultivating the immortal-grade Supreme Great Sun