Wu Shattered Star River

The Central Domain lowered its banners and silenced its drums, entering a defensive state. Naturally, the other four domains wouldn't proactively attack.

In reality, the main force of the attack was the Northern and Western Domains. The Western Domain had lost a Great Emperor last time, and many Dao Ancestor Realm cultivators had died in battle, severely damaging their vitality. Now, the only main force capable of attacking was the Northern Domain. However, the Northern Domain couldn't support itself alone, and Zhen Ji had come to the Southern Domain, so they couldn't attack for the time being.

The five domains fell into a temporary calm, each secretly accumulating strength, nurturing experts, and recuperating.

The Southern Domain suffered considerable losses in this internal and external war, so the major clans initiated a full-scale 'army-building' mode. This wasn't building ordinary soldiers, but rather cultivating super elites.

A large number of elites were gathered and joined either the Qing Yu Clan or the five major clans, beginning to receive comprehensive training.

Previously, when those elites joined the major forces, although they received focused cultivation, it was far less intense than this time.

This time, as long as they were top elites, after joining, they enjoyed the same treatment as the core disciples of each clan. Naturally, those elites from smaller clans were willing to join.

The addition of countless elites from smaller clans had an unexpected benefit—the native disciples of the major clans had recently become crazy about cultivation.

There was no other way; the resources of each clan were limited. With the foreign elites joining, the competition increased.

If the native disciples didn't work hard, the resource positions would be occupied by foreign elites in the future. They felt the crisis and began to cultivate diligently.

The Qing Yu Clan had the most elites joining, firstly because the Qing Yu Clan had annexed the Ice Snow Clan's territory, and now the territory had become much larger. Secondly, Qing Ning's influence had increased, and the allegiance of the various clans allowed those smaller clans to see the hope of the Qing Yu Clan's rise.

Now, joining the Qing Yu Clan would allow them to grow and strengthen together with the Qing Yu Clan. In the future, when Qing Ning broke through to the seventh level of the Dao Ancestor Realm and completely rose, they would all benefit.

Moreover, the Qing Yu Clan didn't have many experts under its command, and the Qing Yu Clan had accumulated a lot of resources over millions of years. Joining the Qing Yu Clan could obtain more resources and have the opportunity to seize better positions.

Jiang Han, a cultivator from another domain who was expelled from the Eastern Domain, joined the Qing Yu Clan and was now able to become an Iron-Cap King. This gave many small clan cultivators hope.

They also hoped to rise to the sky in one step like Jiang Han and have a hereditary title that would allow the family to prosper for generations.

Qing Ning also issued an imperial decree that internal wars were prohibited in the Southern Domain during this period. If there were irreconcilable contradictions, they should be reported for adjudication.

No infighting, opening up various treasure lands, providing a large amount of resources, universal procreation, and universal cultivation!

The Southern Domain entered a very good mode. As long as there were no foreign enemies invading, given the Southern Domain a few hundred or thousand years, the Southern Domain would be able to nurture a large number of King-level and Emperor-level experts.

A small number of these King-level and Emperor-level experts might break through to the Holy Monarch realm, and some might break through to the Dao Ancestor Realm.

Seventh Ancestor didn't let Qing Ning handle trivial matters; he and Qing Xueyun and Qing Qi handled various miscellaneous affairs. He let Qing Shenshu, Jiang Han, and Ye Wanqiu accompany Qing Ning to Tianfu Cave, allowing Qing Ning to cultivate in seclusion there all year round.

Now, Seventh Ancestor and Qing Xueyun didn't even need to protect her, because Zhen Ji had gone to Tianfu Cave. With Zhen Ji there, no one could hurt Qing Ning.

After entering Tianfu Cave, Zhen Ji liked Tianfu Cave very much and decided to cultivate in seclusion there all year round.

This was the number one sacred ground in the Southern Domain, and she was confident that her strength would be improved after cultivating in seclusion there for a period of time.

Of course…

It might not be possible to break through to the eighth level of the Dao Ancestor Realm. The further one goes in the Dao Ancestor Realm, the harder it is to improve.

Jiang Han cultivated in seclusion inside for half a year, and he felt a little confused and stopped cultivating.

There was no great significance for him to cultivate in seclusion, because he was not a Law cultivator, and it was useless to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth here.

His Void Realm refining had encountered a bottleneck. At this moment, he even suspected whether he was refining the Void Realm. Zhen Ji said that it didn't look like the Void Realm.

If according to the normal refining logic, he was about to carry out the fifth step—to sever this space and peel it off from the Great World to form an independent space.

But he felt that the Other Shore space itself was not in this world, but more like it was in another world.

His physical body was the bridge connecting this world and the Other Shore space.

So he didn't know how to complete the fifth step. Should he skip the fifth step directly and carry out the sixth step to make this space come alive and begin to evolve on its own?

How to make this space come alive?

He felt that his space had already come alive, because this space could generate the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on its own, and it could grow slowly on its own. Did it feel like it had come alive? Was it evolving on its own?

So Jiang Han fell into confusion and didn't know what to do.

After Jiang Han was in a daze for a long time, Zhen Ji, who was sitting cross-legged beside him, opened her eyes. She looked at Jiang Han and said, "Don't stay here. Go out and walk around more. Go and see the Great Worlds below, and absorb some of the strange energy of this world."

"Go out and take a look?"

Jiang Han frowned. Would taking a look be useful?

Zhen Ji paused and said, "There are three thousand Great Daos, but they all lead to the same goal. The construction of the entire world is the same."

"Go and see this Great World, go and walk around, go and see all kinds of strange places, and absorb all kinds of strange energy."

"It will definitely help the evolution of your world. What's the use of you staying here? You can't comprehend anything by building a car behind closed doors."

"Yes!"

Jiang Han understood. Ye Wanqiu, who was over there, opened her eyes and looked at Jiang Han and said, "Do you need me to accompany you?"

"No need!"

Jiang Han waved his hand and said, "I'm not leaving the Southern Domain. I'm just going to wander around the Southern Domain and see the Great Worlds below in the Southern Domain. If something happens, I'll send you a message. If something happens in the Southern Domain, you also notify me."

Jiang Han threw a few jade talismans to Ye Wanqiu, and the latter threw a few jade talismans over and said, "Okay, then I'll continue to cultivate in seclusion here. It's good for you to walk around and see, but don't leave the Southern Domain."

"Okay!"

Jiang Han nodded and glanced at Qing Ning who was cultivating in seclusion in a corner in the distance.

It seemed that Qing Ning was in deep cultivation? He didn't go over to disturb her. After explaining a few words to Ye Wanqiu, his body flashed and he left.

After leaving Tianfu Cave, he went to Tianfu City nearby, and then teleported to Qingwang City from the city.

He found Seventh Ancestor. Since he was going to wander around all the treasure lands and dangerous places, and also go to see the Great Worlds below, he definitely had to say hello to Seventh Ancestor.

At the same time, he needed a map, and all the information about these dangerous places, treasure lands, and Great Worlds.

After hearing this, Seventh Ancestor naturally agreed without hesitation, and immediately asked Qing Qi to fetch the information.

Qing Qi brought a large stack of information after half an hour. He said, "Prince Jiang, this is the information on all the treasure lands and dangerous places in the Southern Domain, and the situation of our fifty-plus Great Worlds below is all inside."

Seventh Ancestor threw out a golden token and said, "This is the Qingwang Token. With this token, you can go to any place in the Southern Domain. Of course... Prince Jiang, with your status, if you want to enter any treasure land, who would dare to stop you from any clan?"

"Hahaha!"

Jiang Han laughed, put away the information and said, "I'm leaving. Send me a signal if something happens. I'm going to walk around and see this colorful world."