But the Three Thousand Immortal Territories were the exception.
Now, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories also wanted to keep pace with the sweeping tide of the Immortal Realm Great Era, selling their "spiritual pills, Dao artifacts," and other wares far beyond their borders in exchange for countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures, Immortal Dao legacies and cultivation methods, and more.
Unfortunately.
In the Immortal Realm of today, goods from the Three Thousand Immortal Territories were like "inferior spirit stones." Cultivators of the Ten Thousand Clans in the Outer Domain discarded them like worn-out shoes, not even considering their value for money. They were simply too far behind the times.
Later.
After reflecting bitterly on their painful experience, the Three Thousand Immortal Territories began exporting their finest goods-the works of master alchemists, artifact refiners, and others-to the wider Immortal Realm. Only then did they secure a modest market.
But another problem arose: this was no lasting solution.
Raising the overall strength of the Myriad Races of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories meant throwing open the gates of the Heavenly Palace. Heavenly Elder and the Heavenly Palace disciples were not particularly willing to do that, and they were even less willing to let other powers within the Three Thousand Immortal Territories ride above their heads.
And so.
The myriad Dao legacies of the Three Thousand Immortal Territories remained stuck in a bygone era, proclaimed to be eternal legacies left by the world-opening sages that had once held the entire Immortal Realm in awe.
The cultivators of the Ten Thousand Clans continued practicing those old Immortal Dao cultivation methods, revering them as the ultimate standard.
Because that was indeed what history recorded.
Thus, the older a cultivation method was, the stronger it naturally had to be!
Then.
They were slaughtered so brutally in