Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

The eight great empires occupy their respective continents, and their influence extends to every corner of the continent.

Whether you are a cultivator or a mortal, as long as you live in the Nine Domains, you can only follow the will of the eight great empires and live by their whims.

At the same time, due to the perfection of the Heavenly Dao, the Nine Realms entered a new golden age of cultivation.

The number of terrestrial immortals that the heavens and earth can support has doubled, and the number of high-level cultivators in the realms of refining spirit and returning to emptiness and refining emptiness and merging with the Dao has increased several times over.

In terms of high-level combat power, although no native Golden Immortals have yet emerged, the number of Profound Immortals in the world has increased considerably.

In the Nine Realms today, there are seven Mysterious Immortals who can be given the title of Supreme Saint of Heaven and Earth.

Zhang Lingyun, son of the Great Celestial Venerable Zhang Ming'an, is the contemporary Celestial Master of Sixiang Mountain.

Meng Yan, the Sage of Literature and Dao of Tianming Domain and the former Palace Master of Wenhua Palace.

Jun Xiangyang, the former emperor of the Western Qi Empire, is now the emperor of the Qiming Empire.

The old sword saint of the Wuji Sword Sect, whose sect was destroyed, and the wandering sword god Jian Daoming.

Lord of the Holy Spirits of the Realm of No Life, Holy King of the Heavenly Court of the Holy Spirits.

Cang Yue, the Lord of the Myriad Spirits Demon Court in the Myriad Spirits Domain, is also known as the Myriad Spirits Demon Emperor.

The guardian deity of the Holy Spirit Heavenly Court, formerly the sacred beast of the Heavenly Bright Domain, the Nine Heavens Thunder Qilin.

The seven immortals entrusted their divine souls to the heavens and earth, and when they were in the Nine Realms, they possessed mysterious and unfathomable power.

If we turn back time a thousand years, they were great beings known as the supreme saints of heaven and earth, powerful figures who could rival the old Celestial Master of that era.

However, in the context of the Nine Realms today...

Even a Xuanxian, whose soul resides in the Nine Realms and can wield the power of heaven and earth, is merely a slightly larger ant, who could be slapped to death by a passing powerful being at any moment.

There are only seven Xuanxian who belong to the Nine Realms and are controlled by the Heavenly Dao, but the number of Xuanxian active in the Nine Realms is far more than that.

Putting everything else aside, even Qinghe, who's always acting like a salted fish, could easily defeat these seven Xuanxian.

Mu Yong, Mu Zhaoyang, Mu Yuncheng, Ao Yun, Zhuge Xiang, Qing Xi, Bai Ling, Bai Xi, Zhong Hu.

Including the Great Era Empire, which merged with the Great Spirit Empire four hundred years ago, the current empire has nine Mystic Immortals in charge.

If we include the Five Elements Holy Sect, which betrayed the empire, and the Five Spirit Mystic Maidens who ascended to the highest level along with heaven and earth, the number of Mystic Immortals can be increased by three more.

The difference is that the Xuanxian of the Empire did not entrust their divine souls to the Nine Realms, but instead attained the Xuanxian status through the newly created Star Realm.

The Great Spirit Empire was like this, as were other empires backed by powerful forces.

In the Nine Realms today, the three empires supported by the Heavenly Dao are the weakest. If it weren't for the Heavenly Dao's sake, anyone could bully them.

Under the oppression of the five great empires, the Myriad Spirits Demon Court, the Enlightened Empire, and the Holy Spirit Heavenly Court, backed by the Heavenly Dao, appear weak and helpless, and can only try to balance the relationships between the various parties in the cracks.

They are both called empires and are seen by the world as the rulers of the continent.

However, compared to the other five great empires, the three empires supported by the Heavenly Dao were extremely humble.

For the past five hundred years, they have mediated the conflicts between the five great empires time and time again, making concessions time and time again, all in order to prevent a larger-scale war from breaking out.

The Nine Realms are too small to withstand the machinations of powerful beings.

Even though the world underwent an upgrade, in the face of these inhuman monsters, the Nine Realms were still as weak and vulnerable as a sickly beauty.

Any conflict that erupts between the monsters can have irreversible consequences for the world.

The Nine Realms Heavenly Dao stated that it could bring calamities upon all living beings, but it could not accept these powerful forces causing chaos throughout the Nine Realms.

The former are merely dead beings, part of the world's evolution, and have little impact on the world itself.

The latter is different. If these five empires were to really fight, the entire Nine Realms could be sunk.

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Against this complex backdrop, the Nine Realms have maintained relative peace.

Although small-scale wars break out between empires from time to time, various cultivation sects and martial arts circles in different regions often cause trouble.

However, for thousands of years, no war broke out in the Nine Realms that was enough to affect the entire world.

There are only minor conflicts such as the struggle between good and evil, martial arts alliances, immortal cultivation gatherings, and exploration of secret realms.

A conflict between immortals and gods can only be witnessed once every few hundred years, and its scale is never large, usually ending only briefly.

It's not because these terrestrial deities have become more docile, nor because they no longer want to compete for more resources.

It's simply because there are too many powerful figures in the sky. The more they act up now, the faster they'll die.

Until the older generation of terrestrial immortals passed away due to the exhaustion of their lifespan, the Nine Realms did not undergo any major changes.

The Great Spirit Empire is racing towards a theocratic system, and its internal immortal and technological civilizations have also made significant progress.

Although rebellions occasionally broke out across the empire under the name of the Five Spirits Mystic Maiden, these rebellions never shook the foundation of the empire.

The powerful imperial army can suppress any rebellion within twelve hours.

Compared to the Great Spirit Empire, the Great Harmony Federation of Tianming Domain is much more chaotic.

For two thousand years, the Datong Federation oscillated between centralization and decentralization, and each change of parliament would trigger a considerable upheaval.

But no matter how large the turmoil was, or how many ambitious people wanted to seize power in the Federation, the Great Union did not perish as a result.

Wenhua Palace resolved all overt dissent with absolute power.

While their methods were not as ruthless as those of the Great Spirit Empire, they did not fall into trouble due to unnecessary mercy.

This was especially true of the Enlightened Empire, established by the Jun family.

Having experienced the destruction of the Great Qi Dynasty, the current Qiming Empire has taken centralized power to its extreme.

Any sign of trouble would be forcefully suppressed by the Jun family.

The emperors of the Jun family learned from past lessons and established an intelligence agency covering the entire Tianyuan Domain.

These intelligence agencies do nothing but keep an eye on those who awaken extremely quickly and are suspected of being "protagonists".

Anyone who seems to be the protagonist will ultimately face only three fates.

To marry into another family; to die.

The man marries into the Jun family, and the woman marries into the Jun family.

Those who neither married into the family nor joined the household were all placed on the Jun family's kill list.

If a mission fails even once, the patriarchs of the Jun family will personally take action to kill those who are suspected of being "protagonists," denying them any chance to grow.

Under absolute power, the traditional dynastic cycle was gradually overturned.

The major empires have undergone round after round of power reshuffling, but their core power has remained firmly in the hands of the gods, without any change.

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The Gregorian calendar is 2400.

At the center of the celestial realm, on an unnamed, aquamarine planet.

Qing'an County, Mu Prefecture.

"Da'an! Da'an! I don't want to sleep yet, tell me two more stories!"