Two years later.
The Nine-Heavens Immortal Alliance secretly began directly taking over the Upper Pure Heavenly Palace's industries.
Although quite a few important figures had fled, and many industries had been abandoned and carved up by numerous factions, the industrial network left behind over the years remained. Taking it over was no difficult matter.
Besides, this was how the Nine-Heavens Immortal Alliance had risen to prominence in the first place. They were simply treading an old path.
The imprisoned core-line disciples of the Upper Pure Heavenly Palace were driven into the world by Myriad Beasts Mountain as though they were being herded away, while Star Pivot and Five Aggregates Spirit Manor also began appearing under the Upper Pure Heavenly Palace's banner...
After all, artifacts that emerged from local forces were more easily accepted by local cultivators, sparing them plenty of trouble.
At first, the Upper Pure Heavenly Palace's disciples resisted fiercely. They knew their fates were being manipulated.
In merely thirty years.
Star Pivot's marvels suddenly ignited the eight wilds of the Cosmic Sea... The Upper Pure Heavenly Palace's Immortal Domain gradually became the hottest Immortal Domain in the entire Cosmic Sea. Everyone came here to purchase Star Pivot artifacts, while Five Aggregates Spirit Manor caused scarcely any stir.
Good heavens...
The Heavenly Palace disciples were dumbstruck. Even now, they could not understand how such epoch-defining rule Immortal Artifacts had been refined.
Their range of coverage had already surpassed the limits of their imagination. They were incomparably more profound than their own sound-transmission artifacts.
Cosmic Sea, Grand Abyss Immortal Palace.
"This object contains the creation of heaven and earth. It was not refined by Fellow Daoist Supreme Clarity, nor is it an object born of the Cosmic Sea's rules."
"Martial Ancestor, it is likely from the Myriad Beasts Mountain of