If you die, I will be able to inherit your cultivation.

A thousand years have passed by in the blink of an eye.

For ordinary mortals, a thousand years is a long period of time spanning several generations.

However, for cultivators who have stepped into the realm of immortals, a thousand years is extremely short, equivalent to a single period of seclusion, and it passes in the blink of an eye.

For a full thousand years, Zhou Ming remained secluded in the Qiankun World, diligently cultivating his skills.

Aside from occasionally returning to the Ming Dynasty to be with Su Mingyue and Bai Jie.

He spent a peaceful period of leisure time, and for the rest of his time, he was in his newly renovated little world.

Continuously digest the massive amount of resources that have accumulated, repeatedly refine and familiarize yourself with the new power brought about by the surge in your realm.

A thousand years of continuous refining had completely emptied all the resources accumulated in his small world.

The cultivation resources accumulated by half of the immortal sects over tens of thousands of years were all absorbed and transformed by the Qiankun World.

As resources were completely exhausted and the Qiankun World continued to expand, Zhou Ming's cultivation also advanced rapidly, steadily stepping into the late stage of Quasi-Saint.

The long period of honing his skills allowed him to completely overcome the problem of becoming rusty in his power due to the rapid increase in his cultivation level.

Zhou Ming had reached the pinnacle of control over his late-stage Quasi-Saint power, using every bit of power and every strand of the Great Dao's rules with ease, achieving complete physical and mental perfection.

After fully understanding his own power, Zhou Ming couldn't sit still any longer.

He raised his hand and tore open a tiny spatial rift, connecting his consciousness with the divided souls within the dragon clan.

With the help of the memories of the divided soul, we can learn about the changes that have taken place in the immortal realm over the past thousand years.

Over the course of a thousand years, the immortal realm appeared peaceful on the surface, but in reality, undercurrents were surging and many major events occurred that overturned the original order.

The first major event is the continued deterioration of the situation on the battlefield outside the region.

The nine saints and thousands of quasi-saints who guarded the front line and resisted the invaders from beyond the realm a thousand years ago have not yet withdrawn from the battlefield and seem to still be fighting in the chaos.

Apart from saints and quasi-saints, all the Grand Luo Golden Immortal cultivators under the command of the major forces in the Immortal Realm were conscripted to participate in the battle on the Chaos Battlefield.

To this day, the vast Immortal Realm is practically devoid of top-tier combat power.

Each top power left only one or two Grand Luo Golden Immortals to guard the sect's territory, barely maintaining the sect's basic operations and the order of the immortal realm.

According to the Dragon Clan's intelligence personnel, the war in the Chaos Realm is estimated to be intensifying, and it may not be long before the flames of war spread to the Immortal Realm.

However, Zhou Ming, who had seen the memories, did not think so. What could a Great Luo Golden Immortal do on the battlefield between Saints and Quasi-Saints?

To put it bluntly, a Great Luo Golden Immortal is like a child compared to a strong man in front of a Quasi-Saint.

Take Zhou Ming for example. Even if tens of thousands of Grand Luo Golden Immortals fought against him, they might not be able to harm him in the slightest.

However, he could instantly defeat a Grand Luo Golden Immortal. Although he couldn't kill them instantly, he could easily prevent them from participating in the battle for a short period of time.

The conflict outside the Chaos Realm is far less tense than the Immortal Realm claims to be.

On the contrary, it is possible that they have already driven back the outsiders, and may even be launching a reverse invasion now.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible to mobilize all high-level combat forces to the front lines and deplete the entire Immortal Realm's homeland defense capabilities.

The second major event was the purge that occurred a thousand years ago after the sage returned to the immortal realm.

Back then, the sage returned to the Immortal Realm to thoroughly investigate the theft of treasures from the major sects.

To this day, the culprit remains at large, with no clues whatsoever, and the entire theft case has ultimately been left unsolved.

But the sage did not stop there. Instead, he took advantage of this opportunity to launch a great purge that covered the entire immortal realm and affected the human realm.

The sage personally took action, slaughtering and killing millions of cultivators who had successfully ascended to the immortal realm nearly a thousand years ago.

After the purge was completed, the sage issued a decree that henceforth, any cultivator who ascends from the lower realms must have their foundation and cultivation method thoroughly investigated.

Once someone has practiced forbidden techniques, they can be killed on the spot without any interrogation.

The forbidden practice mentioned by the sage is a scripture of only three thousand characters, called the "Scripture of Crossing the World".

This imperial edict covered all forces, large and small, in the Immortal Realm, requiring a thorough investigation and reporting at every level, and absolutely forbidding any cultivator who practiced the "Scripture of Crossing the World" from hiding in the Immortal Realm.

Moreover, the sage went a step further and issued instructions.

The various forces in the Immortal Realm were ordered to select Mahayana cultivators from their sects, and the Sage personally opened the passage between the Immortal and Mortal Realms.

This group of Mahayana cultivators was sent to the human realm in large numbers, specifically to wipe out and slaughter all practitioners of the "Scripture of Salvation" in the human realm.

The official explanation from the Immortal Realm is that the "Scripture of Crossing the World" is a secret technique deliberately left in this universe by people from outside the realm, and it is a forbidden cultivation method specifically used to cultivate puppets.

Once one cultivates this scripture and reaches a certain level of cultivation, their true spirit and physical body will be forcibly taken over by powerful beings from beyond the realm, causing them to completely lose themselves and become puppets of these invaders.

The third major event was that the sage publicly revealed the criteria for identifying people from outside the realm and issued a wanted list.

To facilitate the investigation and hunting of cultivators across the heavens, the Sage publicly disclosed the common characteristics of people from beyond the realm to the entire Immortal Realm.

His style of doing things is different from that of local cultivators, his cultivation progress is far faster than that of ordinary people, he is flamboyant and loves to show off, he considers himself to be extraordinary and considers himself the son of the Heavenly Dao, etc.

At the same time, a list of individuals highly suspected of being cultivators from outside the region was also published.

Most of these people are cultivators who ascended from the mortal realm to the immortal realm.

Zhou Ming and Su Mingyue's names were prominently listed, and the suspicion level was extremely high, making them key targets of the investigation by the Immortal Realm.

The sage issued a reward, stating that these people, suspected to be from beyond the realm, generally had low cultivation levels and limited combat power.

Any immortal cultivator who captures or kills someone on the list will receive an unparalleled opportunity and generous reward personally bestowed by the sage.

For millennia, driven by the instructions of sages, the celestial realm has been engaged in an endless campaign of slaughter.

Immortal cultivators investigated those who had ascended to immortality, indiscriminately slaughtering those who had ascended from the lower realms. Anyone who bore traces of the "Scripture of Crossing the World" was not spared.

In addition, tens of millions of Mahayana cultivators from the Immortal Realm have entered the mortal realm, initiating a large-scale cleanup campaign.

Massacre of mortals and cultivators in the human realm who practice the "Scripture of Salvation".

The Mahayana cultivators sent by the Dragon Clan to the human world would send back a report of their success in the cleanup every one or two years, reporting the number of people killed and the progress of the cleanup.

As intelligence reports flooded his mind, Zhou Ming's eyes were filled with shock.

He had previously guessed that the Sage would target transmigrators and those who cultivated cheat codes.

They also knew that Lu Chen, Lie Yang, and Zhang Jiao would be eliminated.

But he never expected that the saint's scope of cleanup would be so wide and his methods so ruthless.

The sage not only killed the transmigrators who possessed complete cheat abilities.

Even the local cultivators in the surrounding area who had only practiced the "Scripture of Crossing the World" were all slaughtered.

The cleanup covered both the celestial realm and the mortal realm, sparing no one who had practiced forbidden scriptures.

Moreover, after a thousand years of investigation, the celestial realm finally pinpointed the Ming Dynasty.

They discovered the faction that first popularized the practice of the "Scripture of Salvation," and listed him and Su Mingyue as wanted extraterrestrial suspects.

Moreover, as long as either Su Mingyue or Zhou Ming is traced, one can personally listen to the sage's teachings and become a disciple of the sage.

The bounty was undeniably high. After a brief moment of shock, Zhou Ming quickly calmed down and began to analyze the information, a great deal of doubt arising in his mind.