The Supreme Great Sun Heavenly Palace.
Jiang Ding was receiving the current grand elder of the Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Sect.
He was a doddering old man with gray-white hair and a face covered in age spots. At the peak of the Celestial Realm, he had tried and failed to break through to Supreme several years ago. The attempt had greatly depleted his lifespan; he likely had only a few decades left.
Even that was tremendous luck.
Plenty of Celestial cultivators died while advancing to Supreme, their souls utterly destroyed, leaving not even a body to bury in their sect's graveyard.
In recent years, the stable, peaceful environment of the seven star domains, including Big Dipper University's, had given many Celestial-level sects a chance to reach Supreme. Restrictions had been lifted, and policies even encouraged Celestials to forge their own paths and advance to the limits of the rules as Supremes.
The Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Sect was a typical example of such a weak power.
Over the past several hundred thousand years, they had attempted to produce a Supreme seven times. Each time, the entire sect had thrown its strength behind the effort, and each time, it had failed. Their ability to secure resources was too weak, and the peerless prodigy the sect had awaited for so long had never appeared.
Now that the humans of the seven star domains were united and people could move freely, peerless prodigies tended to choose stronger sects. Those with greater ambition studied the Supreme Great Sun Sword Scripture; at worst, they joined a Supreme sect. The Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Sect held little appeal for such talent.
Unless someone appeared who was exceptionally suited to the Supreme Clarity Spiritual Treasure Great Dao, the sect might struggle to revive even after another million