Chaos Among the Eight Great Immortal Sects

When Heavenly Lord Dingding, palace master of the Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace, placed the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect Armistice Treaty on the table, the entire assembly fell silent. A dropped needle could have been heard.

Heavenly Lord Dingding set aside the draft Eight Sects Alliance Pact in his hand. He rose without a word, walked to the window, and gazed out over the sea of clouds.

The assembly's venue was called the Ascension Tower.

Fifty thousand years ago, the Nine Great Immortal Sects, including the Great Sun Sword Pavilion, had built and refined it together into a Void Refining treasure of unfathomable power.

They had built the tower to celebrate the birth of this lesser world, the Lesser Spirit Realm. That was why they had named it Ascension Tower.

The Lesser Spirit Realm gathered the resources of every lesser world in the entire star region. It had the potential to become a middle world and, in theory, to produce cultivators above Void Refining. In that ancient age, the Nine Great Immortal Sects had made a joint effort to reach beyond Void Refining.

Unfortunately, the Great Dao served only the self.

Before the Lesser Spirit Realm was even complete, bloody civil war broke out among the Nine Great Immortal Sects. The Great Sun Sword Pavilion rose amid the fighting and gradually came to dominate, nearly succeeding. Then the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect appeared, the Great Sun Sword Pavilion fell, and matters reached their present state.

Though the Lesser Spirit Realm had never met the standards expected of a middle world, it still far surpassed ordinary lesser worlds, including the pocket realms that housed each of the Nine Great Immortal Sects' headquarters. It was exceptionally favorable for cultivation.

After the Great Sun Sword Pavilion's destruction, the Eight Great Immortal Sects shut out