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Chapter 566 - 537: Submitting the Surrender Letter
Time flowed on.
The Divine Kingdom Store advanced to Tier Ten.
This set off a frenzy of harvesting Contribution Points throughout the entire Cyan Yang Divine Court.
Who doesn’t want to become an Immortal.
Who doesn’t want eternal life.
Now.
The path of Ascension to Immortality and long life without end was laid right before their eyes, enough to drive everyone mad.
Even though, strictly speaking, becoming an Immortal still wasn’t true eternal life; there were still the Three Calamities and Five Tribulations, and failing to cross them meant body and soul annihilated.
But the thing was.
If one could cross them, then in a sense, a Tier Ten could live forever.
Taking a step back.
Even if one couldn’t get through the tribulations, so what.
Even the weakest Immortal could live for 129,600 years.
A hundred and twenty thousand years!
This was an utterly terrifying number.
Ordinary folk at most lived a hundred years; even ninth-tier and Quasi-Immortal powerhouses only had lifespans of a few thousand years.
By comparison.
The weakest Immortal lived over a dozen times longer than a Quasi-Immortal.
Not to mention.
If one could pass the tribulations, they could live another 129,600 years, and if they could take a step further and step into Tier Eleven, a lifespan of 360,000 years would be the most basic thing.
As the Divine Kingdom Store advanced to Tier Ten, and as the Cyan Yang Divine Court grew ever stronger and unearthed many ancient secrets, countless secrets about Immortals were revealed to the public eye.
Therefore.
Many people now had some understanding of how long an Immortal could live.
In the past, when longevity was hopeless, now that the road to longevity lay at their feet, how could they not be excited.
Moreover—
With the appearance of the Immortal Vein, all cultivators of the Cyan Yang Divine Realm had their strength greatly enhanced.
As a result.
The pace at which the Cyan Yang Divine Court suppressed the starry sky quickened once again.
In just three years.
The star systems under the Cyan Yang Divine Court’s control surged from the previous one hundred thousand straight up to three hundred thousand.
Three hundred thousand star systems.
Countless living beings.
Among them.
Just ninth-tier cultivators alone numbered no fewer than six figures.
A six-figure number of ninth-tier powerhouses, if in the past, would have been enough to shock the entire Cyan Yang Divine Court.
After all, Immortal Extinction State back then was so powerful that even during a Golden Era, it could only produce a single ninth-tier Great Emperor; even looking over the entire history of Immortal Extinction State across millions of years, the total number of true ninth-tier powerhouses that emerged barely reached a few thousand.
Now.
Just the living ninth-tier cultivators directly under the Cyan Yang Divine Court’s control numbered no fewer than a hundred thousand; the impact this brought was self-evident.
However.
When one remembered that the Cyan Yang Divine Court now ruled three hundred thousand star systems, others felt at ease about these hundred thousand ninth-tier powerhouses.
Three hundred thousand star systems.
Spread out evenly.
Only one or two ninth-tier powerhouses per three star systems on average; in that light, this number didn’t seem that large.
At present.
The renown of the Cyan Yang Divine Court had already spread throughout the starry sky.
This was a newly risen colossal behemoth, an Overlord Level entity that might one day stand shoulder to shoulder with the Ancient Taichu Immortal Court.
Even forces not within the territory of the Cyan Yang Divine Court had now heard of this Overlord Level power; when they learned that the Cyan Yang Divine Court controlled three hundred thousand star systems and boasted over a hundred thousand ninth-tier powerhouses, these forces were all struck with terror.
These forces feared that one day, the armies of the Cyan Yang Divine Court would step into their own star systems, plunging them into a sea of slaughter; so before the Cyan Yang Divine Court even acted, they rushed to submit letters of surrender, decisively choosing to yield.
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"The six Imperial Dynasties and thirty-six Sacred Lands of the Pegasus Star System have already jointly submitted letters of surrender!"
In the Imperial City of the Cyan Yang Divine Realm, a subordinate delivered a thick stack of surrender letters into Ji Xuan’s hands.
Ji Xuan glanced at those letters and said indifferently, "Inform the Pegasus Star System that the Divine Court has seen their sincerity. Within half a year, the Divine Court’s armies will arrive to take over the Pegasus Star System. Also, have all cultivators in that star system devote their faith to His Majesty the God Emperor.
As for specific details, let the people below handle the negotiations."
Ji Xuan was somewhat familiar with the Pegasus Star System.
It was a star system neither too big nor too small, with intricate power structures and considerable strength. Those six Imperial Dynasties and thirty-six Sacred Lands each had a ninth-tier powerhouse sitting in town.
In other words.
Within a single star system, just ninth-tier powerhouses alone numbered in the dozens to over a hundred; such strength, among the many star systems, counted as upper-tier.
If it had been the Cyan Yang Divine Court several decades ago, facing such a star system offering a letter of surrender, they would have given it one hundred percent of their attention.
But now.
A single letter of surrender from the Pegasus Star System no longer stirred up many ripples.
A hundred thousand ninth-tiers!
Enough for the Cyan Yang Divine Court to sweep across the entire starry sky.
If the Pegasus Star System refused to submit, only annihilation awaited them.
Even if the Pegasus Star System were a hundred times stronger, they still couldn’t possibly be a match for the Cyan Yang Divine Court.
Anyone with eyes could see that the Cyan Yang Divine Court was already the undisputed Overlord of the starry sky; it was only because the starry sky was boundless and the armies of the Cyan Yang Divine Court had yet to reach the end of the universe.
Otherwise.
The entire universe would already be planted with the flags of the Cyan Yang Divine Court.
"That one in Cyan Cloud State is probably about to break through!"
Ji Xuan looked in the direction of Cyan Cloud State, his expression slightly solemn.
When the Immortal Vein appeared a few years ago and the Tier Ten Store advanced, the Cyan Emperor had already gone into seclusion.
And one year ago.
Cyan Cloud State had already manifested heaven-and-earth anomalies.
Any cultivator who stepped into Cyan Cloud State could feel an immense pressure. This pressure could not be seen nor touched, yet it was ever-present.
As for the anomalies in Cyan Cloud State, anyone who wasn’t a fool could guess they were connected to the Cyan Emperor.
Very clearly.
The Cyan Emperor was attacking the Immortal Realm.
And as a Divine Court Elder, Ji Xuan could vaguely sense the changes in the Cyan Yang Divine Court’s fortune.
After all, "under heaven, every piece of land belongs to the king; along the borders, all are his subjects." Even sect forces independent of the court and hidden experts, strictly speaking, still fell under the Divine Court’s jurisdiction.
Whenever a powerhouse appeared, the Divine Court’s fortune would grow.
But the Cyan Yang Divine Court’s fortune was now so vast that ordinary cultivators breaking through to the ninth tier could hardly stir it.
Only powerhouses stronger than the ninth tier could hope to bring about such changes.
Ji Xuan had a premonition.
The Cyan Emperor’s ascension to Immortality was likely not far off.
If the Cyan Emperor could become an Immortal, it would mean that the Cyan Yang Divine Court had officially opened the Immortal Era; the path that had once been severed would truly be reconnected.
This was different from the Demon Venerable Xuan Yin.
Demon Venerable Xuan Yin had long since become an Immortal, but he was originally an Upper Realm True Immortal, and now was only regaining a portion of his former cultivation.
By comparison.
The Cyan Emperor was a powerhouse who had truly climbed step by step from the mortal world to Immortality.
Ji Xuan was certain that once the Cyan Emperor became an Immortal, it would trigger an immense impact; at that time, the entire Cyan Yang Divine Court would be shaken.
"Ascension to Immortality!"
"I wonder when I will be able to step into such a realm!"
Ji Xuan mused inwardly.
He had only just barely broken through to lower-grade Tier Eight; there was still a considerable gap between him and Immortality, and it would take some time if he wanted to truly catch up.