Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery

In the Endless Starry Sky, life for mid to low-level cultivators began to grow difficult.

In contrast, top-tier cultivators suddenly found themselves with an abundance of Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, along with various cultivation resources, benefiting almost all of them.

For a time, post-war conflicts eased unprecedentedly, and the warlike atmosphere in the Endless Starry Sky gradually dissipated.

Objectively speaking, the Tushan Maiden Corps, the seven super-tier elite Taoist Soldiers were not very satisfied with the current distribution of benefits. The Xianmen Sect single-handedly claimed fifty percent of the Immortal Dynasty’s tax revenue, while they collectively only received forty percent, which was far too little for many to accept.

But how to express this?

Even with only forty percent of the tax revenue, it far surpassed what they had received in the past, bringing them great wealth. So even if there was dissatisfaction, it did not escalate to the point of fighting to the death; the resolute will to fight was lacking.

It is worth mentioning that the Xianmen Sect initially sought to eradicate the Supreme Great Sun Sword Cultivator, banning their legacy.

They could accomplish this, as the Supreme Great Sun Sword Cultivators were besieged and defeated during the civil war, but they were forcibly stopped by numerous super-tier elite Taoist Soldiers.

This reflects the deep fear many super-tier elites have towards the Xianmen Sect; they need the Supreme Great Sun Sword Dao Soldiers, ranked second among elite Taoist Soldiers in the Immortal Dynasty, to restrain the Xianmen Sect.

Overall, the post-war order is generally stable.

Although not everyone is satisfied, especially the mid to lower-level cultivators who are in great uproar, often leading to rebellions. Their life and cultivation pale in comparison to the Ancient Emperor Era. Yet, the top-tier cultivators are satisfied, thus all rebellions have been suppressed.

This order formed in the aftermath of the Ancient Emperor Era of Supreme Great Sun.

And so, the days slowly pass.

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Time flows silently.

Unknowingly, twenty million years have elapsed.

The Great Sun Forbidden Area.

The Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor has long transitioned from light sleep to deep sleep, with all signs of life halted; within the Forbidden Area, space, rules, and matter have ceased their flow.

All that remains is an emotionless clone silently sitting on a hillside.

This is a minuscule soul fragment, resembling yet not quite a life, which periodically reforms its divine soul; otherwise, it cannot endure the long passage of time.

As a creation akin to a watchtower for the Great Sun Forbidden Area, it continually records every occurrence in the Endless Starry Sky.

This is an act performed by almost all Forbidden Area Ancient Emperors; in the early stages of slumber, they still have nostalgic concerns in the starry sky. Yet after several eras pass during their slumber, the watchtower will close, completely entering a state of self-contained slumber, severing all cause and effect of the human world, only the Golden Era is worthy of attention.

Suddenly, the pupil of this minuscule soul fragment twitched slightly, enlarging as it gazed towards the Ziwei Star Domain.

This signals a significant event occurring in the Endless Starry Sky; the soul fragment begins to record the details of the process more thoroughly, to be kept for future examination by the awakened Forbidden Area Ancient Emperors.

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Ziwei Star Domain, Ziwei Tianzhu.

Only a brief twenty million years have passed, and it has completely changed its appearance.

After the disappearance of the Supreme Great Sun Celestial Pivot, Immortal Dynasty cultivators established the Ziwei Tianzhu from a distance, governing affairs throughout the Endless Starry Sky. Here, the Immortal Dao Civilization shines brightly, akin to stars, with various creations of Immortal Technology in profusion; indeed, it’s a civilization flourishing to the extreme.

However, nowadays many changes have occurred.

The Central Star Ring remains unchanged, enveloped in dense white mist, with numerous stately high-rise buildings interspersed, encircled by tracks of star rings. Immortals and fairies cultivate, entertain themselves, resembling the Heavenly Court, which fleetingly gives the illusion that this is still the era of Ancient Emperors, with the Immortal Dynasty unchanged.

Yet upon closer examination of the outer star rings, a shocking scene unfolds.

Numerous cultivators in shabby clothes practice and labor between shanties, manual magic work with no trace of the advanced Immortal Dao Civilization’s automated agricultural progress, which fleetingly gives the illusion of stepping into a Minor Thousand World with low Immortal Dao Civilization standards, where cultivators struggle and production efficiency is low.

Only the occasional wind stirred by the outdated model Herb-87233 Spirit Wheat automatic seeding and weeding machine flying overhead alerts people to the presence of a high-level Immortal Dao Civilization, but it is all concentrated in the most fertile high-level Spirit Fields, available only for high-tier cultivators’ assets.

The struggling cultivators’ low-grade Spirit Fields aren’t deemed worthy of such agricultural Immortal Dao instruments.

And this is the center of the Endless Starry Sky, the most prosperous place, the Ziwei Star Domain!

To look towards the more distant and remote star domains, the regression of Immortal Dao Civilization becomes even more astonishing; cultivators die in droves in many worlds, civilians perish from hunger, demon cultivators holding banners of Ten Thousand Soul Banner occasionally fly in the sky, reaping masses of vital souls and blood and flesh.

Almost every star domain is embroiled in warfare, vast armies of cultivators brandishing various flags are locked in battling, chaos reigns everywhere.

Seeing further, one may notice that in these conflicts, one side often commands warships, the other wields Tower Ship Immortal Mountain Treasures, both sides under their respective banners fight with abandon, in the starry sky blood flows freely, every cultivator believing their life unimportant.

The cruelty and chaos of these wars far exceed the past.

Within the Ziwei Tianzhu, a prolonged debate and chaos continue.

Compared to the beginning of stabilized order in the post-Ancient Emperor Era of Supreme Great Sun, when the Ziwei Tianzhu hosted cultivators from various Immortal Sects and representatives from various super-tier elite Taoist Soldiers, including many Supreme Great Sun Sword Cultivators, the current personnel of Ziwei Tianzhu is much more simplistic.

They are almost entirely Immortal Sect citizens.

Though a few are not Immortal Sect citizens, they are extremely few in number, only one or two scattered here and there, sitting in distant corners with their heads down, not participating in the debates unless called upon.

”What’s going on with the Vega Star Domain conflict? Defeated again!”

”Emperor Yuanri should be executed immediately! Repeated defeats, consecutive failures, constantly sacrificing the Immortal Sect’s armies, leading countless Immortal Sect citizens to die in battle with no results, if such a person is not executed, where is military justice placed?”

An Immortal Sect representative roared.

”Execute Emperor Yuanri?”

”This is one of the only three Emperor Realm cultivators of the Immortal Sect, execute him? You’re a traitor from the Rebel Immortal Alliance!”

An Immortal Sect representative shouted angrily.

Many Immortal Sect representatives were very emotional because since the Tianzhu New Policy Reform and the establishment of the Immortal Sect Cabinet, messages of defeat repeatedly arrived, with barely any good news, making their nerves extremely fragile, prone to exploding over the slightest provocation.

Ten thousand years ago, the Immortal Dynasty underwent a reform.

It had to be reformed!

The Immortal Dynasty system established by the Supreme Great Sun Ancient Emperor had deteriorated beyond recognition after twenty million years had passed, with Immortal Tao Industrial chains disappearing everywhere, refugees proliferating, yet taxation yields fell desperately low, year after year.

In contrast, the population of Immortal Sect citizens, members of the Tushan Maiden Corps and their supporters, Supreme Great Sun Sword Dao Soldiers, seven super-tier elite Taoist Soldiers, and other rent-seeking classes expanded numerous times over two million years; their terrifying greed for resources exacerbated the situation again.

The year before the Tianzhu New Policy Reform, the Immortal Dynasty’s taxation was insufficient to maintain even the most basic army and bureaucratic payroll!

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