Several months later, South Sea, Canglang Ruins.
"Yo, isn't this our Mr. Han, the Grand Cultivator?"
"Brother Han, you've finally deed it suitable to leave your retreat!"
"After a hundred years of seclusion, Brother Han must have gained quite a lot, right?"
"It seems that in a short while, we'll have to start addressing you as senior."
"What senior, we should be calling Han the Supre Elder!"
"Hahaha!"
Within a private room of a tavern, a group of cultivators gathered, their lively banter never-ending.
With a smile in his eyes, Han Li sat amidst everyone, exchanging cups and toasting with several old friends. In midst of mirth, he also sighed nostalgically, "In the cave, there are neither sun nor moon, cultivation blinds one to the passing years, ti flies, ti flies indeed!"
Upon hearing this, a few old friends burst into teasing laughter again.
"Brother Han is rely how old, and yet he's lanting about the passage of ti?"
"Indeed, who in Canglang Ruins does not know, Supre Elder Han is barely two thousand years old and has already achieved the fruit of Deity Transformation, with hopes of Return to Void to co. What's a re hundred years in comparison?"
"Given Brother Han's talent, surely before the age of two thousand, you will ascend to Return to Void!"
"When that ti cos, don't forget to look out for us!"
Faced with friends' teasing, Han Li laughed openly and drained the wine in his cup in one gulp.
One thousand five hundred years had passed, ti had slipped away, the sea had turned into mulberry fields, and he had made significant progress in his cultivation, no longer the small Qi Refinent cultivator he used to be.
Even so, the mories of those years remained firmly etched in his heart, inspiring and alerting him to keep diligently pressing on without stopping.
Thinking of this, he felt even more sentintal, glanced out the window at the street, then turned to face Ning Que who was sitting opposite: "Brother Ning, do you still rember the ti we first t?"
"Of course I rember!"
The youthful-looking Ning Que, now much more mature, was also full of nostalgia: "Canglang Ruins, oh Canglang Ruins, in the blink of an eye, it's already been one thousand five hundred years, ti flies, and the world changes!"
"Indeed!"
Han Li continued the conversation, murmuring: "Without these Canglang Ruins, where would we be today?"
"Hey, hey, hey, it's not easy for us to gather here, let's have less of these reflections on the past, shall we?"
Seeing his deanor, everyone shook their heads and promptly changed the topic: "Brother Han, you've missed a major event during your hundred-year retreat!"
"Oh?"
Han Li raised an eyebrow: "What event?"
"You don't know?"
Everyone looked at him in surprise and said, "The Honored Wandao has completed the Nine Tribulations, achieved True Immortality, and the Wandao School has held the Ten Thousand Dao Conference in the Central Plains. All the Nine Great Immortal Sects and true cultivators from the four directions have attended this grand event, with universal celebration!"
"Could this be true?"
Upon hearing this, Han Li was also startled: "I had no idea at all!"
"That's why we say you missed out!"
Everyone shook their heads and expressed their pity.
"The Honored Wandao, truly the First Immortal of the Northern Region, in just fifteen hundred years, has perfectly achieved divinity and creation."
"With such speed, throughout ancient and modern tis, he must be second to none, right?"
"It is said that the Nine Great Immortal Sects of the Central Plains, as well as the outlying Four Wilds Frontier, every sect and every faction, received an invitation from the Wandao School to attend this grand event."
"Furthermore, so high-cultivation Loose Cultivators known far and wide have also received invitations."
"Too bad you were in seclusion and didn't erge, otherwise, together with us nine friends from Canglang, we would surely have been able to obtain an invitation to go together."
"It is said that at this Ten Thousand Dao Conference, the Nine Great Immortal Sects and various factions from the sidelines have prepared generous gifts, especially those Nine Great Immortal Sects, each one of them spared no expense and delivered an Immortal Treasure of the Ninth Order."
"Among them, Taixuan Tao Mountain and Haoyu Heavenly Sect were the most generous. Although the gifts from the other seven Immortal Sects were also Ninth Order Immortal Treasures, they were mostly incomplete and damaged, only theirs were intact and flawless."
"A complete Ninth Order Immortal Treasure, this must be the first ti such a hefty gift has been presented at an Ascension Conference held by the Immortal Sects of the past generations, right?"
"As expected of the two great Immortal Sects that held sway over the Tao Veins in the ancient tis, their foundation truly is extraordinary!"
"No matter how deep their foundation, what can they do before the Wandao School but offer treasures in order to seek security?"
"That's to be expected, originally the Ten Great Immortal Sects were branches of the sa tree, with nurous disputes with the Wandao School. Even though they bowed their heads after the fall of the Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion, their submission was only superficial; in fact, they even undertook quite a few secret actions behind the scenes."
"Now that the Honored Wandao has completed the Nine Tribulations, achieving True Immortality, and now possesses the power to Scour the Court and Sweep the Den, if they do not make a clear statent, the price they must pay won't just be a few Immortal Treasures."
"As the various factions have delivered hefty gifts, the Wandao School didn't treat them poorly either. It is said that there was a segnt in the Ten Thousand Dao Conference called the Pill Origin Gathering, where attendees could enjoy the Grass Returning Immortal Pills personally refined by the Honored Wandao and listen to his teachings. I don't know how many cultivators have benefited greatly, with so achieving breakthroughs during the eting."
"It's a sha that our strength is insufficient and our cultivation is low, preventing us from attending this grand event."
"..."
Listening to everyone's discussions, Han Li frowned deeply, speaking in a serious tone: "The Honored Wandao has beco a True Immortal?"
Frowning deeply, not because I missed the Ten Thousand Dao Conference, but because of concerns for the future.
Han Li is well aware that as a low-tier Yellow Spirit Root loose cultivator with no family background to rely on, it's clear what has brought him to this point.
Canglang Ruins!
Wandao School!
Endless Sea!
If it weren't for the school establishing the way and the legal system, investing heavily in opening up the Endless Sea, and exploring the Five Domains' routes, providing ample developnt opportunities, he, who could only be a consultant in the marketplace, would have long beco a skeleton in a tomb, with no chance to advance to Deity Transformation and be known by others as Old Ancestor Han.
His achievents today are indeed due to his own efforts, but the environnt created by Wandao School is even more important. Otherwise, even if he had sufficient talent and luck, it would still be difficult for him to rise in the Southern Sea, a place of alternative paths. One misstep and he could easily beco food for Evil Cultivators or prey for Robbing Cultivators.
Although he has achieved so success now, to maintain this success, and even advance to a higher realm, he still depends on Wandao School.
Because once he leaves the Wandao School, the environnt and order will collapse, and the Southern Sea Cultivation Realm will revert to its forr state, where alternative paths struggle, the Central Plains suppress, the Righteous Path bullies, and nurous Demons and Evil Cultivators roam rampant.
Let alone him just at Deity Transformation, even at Integration or even Mahayana, there is the possibility of dying and having one's Dao vanish, as was the case with the South Sea Sect and Mysterious Yin Island in the past.
Therefore, the Southern Sea cannot be without Wandao School, and even more so the Northern Domain.
But the foundation of Wandao School in the Northern Domain lies in the unmatched Honored Wandao.
It was he, with his own strength, who slew the forr First Sword Cultivator of the Northern Region from Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion, the Immortal Taishang, and subdued the nine great Immortal Sects, allowing the Wandao School to take root in the Northern Domain and create today's situation.
Now that he has reached Complete Nine Tribulations, if he ascends, can Wandao School without his absolute combat power still suppress the Northern Domain and subdue the nine great Immortal Sects?
This worries Han Li imnsely.
Seeing his expression, everyone knows what's on his mind.
"Brother Han, no need to worry!"
"With Honored Wandao's wisdom, we all know the crux of the matter, how could he possibly not understand?"
"Complete Nine Tribulations does not necessarily an Ascension to the Upper Realm. The ancestors of the Ten Great Immortal Sects had Residence thods to stay in the mortal world for a long ti, and now Honored Wandao can do the sa."
"Wandao School and Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion have a vendetta, would he rashly ascend and face the Upper Realm ancestors of Ninth Heaven Sword Pavilion without making full preparations?"
"Even if he ascends, Wandao School can still suppress the situation with the Heavenly chanics thods. This Ten Thousand Dao Conference wasn't held in vain; all the great Immortal Sects have made their stance, and there are rumors that nurous Calamity Immortals have sworn a Heart Demon Great Oath to Honored Wandao that should they cause chaos in the Northern Domain or rebel against the school, they must face divine retribution and annihilation!"
"That makes sense…"
Hearing everyone's words, Han Li wakes up and releases his concerns.
"Compared to these, there is sothing more critical!"
"Oh? What matters?"
"It is a resolution announced at the Ten Thousand Dao Conference by the school."
"Wandao School has decided to strengthen the developnt of the four borders of the Northern Domain!"
"There's no need to ntion the Southern Sea; in these years we've opened up the Endless Sea, not only finding many Ancestor's Treasures and Secret Realm Dongting, but also outlining routes to the other Four Domains. Wandao School will next cross the sea for trade, allowing the Five Domains to exchange what each lacks and further utilize and develop the Endless Sea."
"The interest and opportunities in this are imnse; just grabbing a piece can give us hope to advance to Return to Void or even Integration."
"As for the other three borders, the North Border being the Cold Ice Extre Region will not be developed for the ti being, but the monsters and demons in the east and west must be Scouring the Court and Sweeping the Den."
"It is rumored that Wandao School has issued a final ultimatum, ordering the east and west demons to submit within a set ti, or else they will take up arms to level the two demon domains."
"Among those demons, many have survived Seven or Eight Calamities, and so have Treasures from Ancient Tis, barely qualifying as True Immortals. The reason why True Immortals did not eradicate them in the past in the Northern Domain was, firstly, to avoid mutual destruction, and secondly, to save the face of the Gods and Demon Masters in the Upper Realm."
"But now, well, Honored Wandao is not an ordinary True Immortal, those old monsters among the demon race definitely cannot stop him, and even less ntioned is the Upper Realm pressure; in debt one does not feel burdened, to kill one is to kill, to kill two or three is still to kill, Wandao School doesn't care at all."
"So…"
Everyone looked towards Han Li: "Brother Han, what are your plans?"
"This…"
Han Li is taken aback, his brows slightly furrowed: "I will continue to develop in Canglang Ruins."
"I and others plan to do the sa, but there are rumors that the risks of opening up the Endless Sea will increase and inter-domain conflict will be inevitable with the Five Domains interconnected. Though Wandao School leads the way, those who follow are not entirely safe, and the passing fleets could be attacked by cultivators from other domains."
"The two demon domains are different; under the pressure of Honored Wandao, the demon domains will surely be stabilized, but it is inevitable that so remnants will counterattack."
"And Wandao School will also utilize the resources of the two domains, engage in large-scale production, cultivate Spirit Fields, breed Spirit Beasts, and mine various Spirit Mines, among others; all of which will require manpower."
"Honored Wandao being a gentleman of virtue, will not slaughter the demon races outright; it is highly likely that he will undertake a teaching and civilizing mission, which will greatly constrain Wandao School's manpower, so recruiting external laborers is inevitable."
"Now many people are considering whether to shift their developnt to the east and west domains, as it is comfortable under a big tree."
"…"
Everyone speaks, analyzing the situation, weighing pros and cons.
This scenario isn't just in their group; every small and large cultivator group in Canglang Ruins is doing the sa.
The tide of the era is surging; everyone is striving, no one wants to miss the opportunity.
anwhile, on the other side...
In the Northern Domain, Eastern Abyss, Monster Nation.
"Li Xuanyuan, we the Demon Race, would rather die than submit!"
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