``` [Your trip to the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds had not taken much time.]
[After wiping out the Nine Nether Church, your second Nascent Soul came to wait outside Secluded Mountain.]
[It also brought along the resources and treasures the Nine Nether Church had accumulated over many years.]
[You shared a single consciousness with your second Nascent Soul and knew everything it had experienced, so there was no need to check.]
[Compared with the spoils from the Nine Nether Church, you valued your gains from the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds far more.]
[True dragon blood? The Primordial Spirit Pill? The Five-Elemental Thunder Stone? The shell of the Tortoise King of the Black Tortoise Bloodline?]
[Every single one was exceedingly rare, even in Elder Antiquity.]
["What a haul..."]
[Your spirits soared. Your gains from the Secluded Realm Trial Grounds had swept away some of the bottlenecks standing between you and your attempt to reach the spirit transformation period.]
[The Primordial Spirit Pill and Five-Elemental Thunder Stone, for instance? Who knew how much scheming and calculation it would take to acquire resources of this caliber in the outside world?]
["What a wonderful place!"]
[You took one last look at Secluded Mountain beneath your feet.]
["The Nine Nether Church has fallen..."]
[Your thoughts shifted, and you looked toward the Nine Nether Church.]
[As a Nascent Soul-level power with a legacy spanning ten thousand years, the Nine Nether Church wielded considerable influence throughout the surrounding domains.]
[But since you had dared to act, you had naturally performed extensive divination and calculations beforehand.]
[According to your divinations, the destruction of the Nine Nether Church would initially leave the True Lords of the surrounding domains fearing for their own safety.]
[If the Nine Nether Church could be destroyed, what about the other Nascent Soul-level powers?]