Xu Realm.
This was a typical minor world within the realm domains. Before it was named the Xu Realm, it had been called the Ten Thousand Mountains Realm. Mountains of every kind filled it, producing all manner of bluestone, Black Stone, jade, and bloodstone, from first grade to fifth. They sold well across the realm domains.
Two thousand years ago, the Ten-Thousand Mountains Minor Realm belonged to the Immortal Sect, which had seized it during the civil war among the Eight Great Immortal Sects.
About a century later, Xu Yan, a Spirit Transformation cultivator of the Xu Clan, was goaded by the great powers of Black Tortoise Heavenly Palace. Driven by his longing for Void Refining and his confidence in his own talent and wisdom, he launched a rebellion. He successfully split the Ten-Thousand Mountains Minor Realm and the Wang Realm away from the Immortal Sect, becoming lord of a realm.
In that era, Xu Yan and the other rebel received the backing of eight great powers. They signed a peace treaty with the Central Array-Spirit Computer and became a nail driven into the Immortal Sect.
The eight great powers hoped this would create further divisions within the Immortal Sect, letting them sit back and reap the fisherman's profit.
But their hopes came to nothing.
The Immortal Sect did not descend into civil strife. Instead, it concealed its strength and bided its time as its immortal-path industry, technology, and military formations were continually upgraded and refined. Finally, several decades ago, it repelled the allied forces of the Eight Great Immortal Sects in a war across the realm domains, nearly doubling the territory under its influence.
The Immortal Sect had entered a resurgence.
It was from that moment that the Immortal Sect's army blockaded the realm passages to the Xu and