The music ended and the guests dispersed; the grand feast had concluded.
The bustling and lively Central Heavenly Palace returned to tranquility once more. Within the vast expanse of the palace, only Ye Chen sat alone upon the throne, motionless, his entire being radiating a fearsome pressure of the Great Dao.
On the second day after establishing the sect and founding the school, unexpectedly, the Sacred Domain made no further moves. As the master of the Sacred Domain, Ye Chen once again went into seclusion, withdrawing from worldly affairs.
However, it could be foreseen that with the invincible Qian establishing the sect and founding the school, the Sacred Domain, centered on the Central Heavenly Palace of the Imperial City, would rapidly rise on the Ancient Emperor Continent, unstoppable.
No one in the world opposed this, for with the imperial clan and the three great Sacred Lands not making a move, who on the Ancient Emperor Continent could contend with the invincible Qian?
Moreover, Qian did not seek to completely unify the Ancient Emperor Continent. His purpose was merely to temporarily unite the forces of various major powers through alliance when the great change in the world arrived, in order to respond accordingly.
This gained the recognition of countless people across the world, for Qian possessed formidable cultivation and was followed by a group of powerful individuals led by the Nine Great Heavenly Kings, making him the most suitable candidate.
Over these years, news of the great change in the world gradually spread throughout the world. Various major powers began to grasp the situation, and many of the slightly weaker forces started to panic. Even the Thirty-Six Empires and Seventy-Two Ancient Kingdoms grew solemn.
They vaguely sensed that the beginning of the great change in the world might be a tremendous disaster for the entire world, urgently requiring them to seek protectors.
Now that Qian had appeared, establishing the Sacred Domain to command the various major powers of the world, it aligned with the wishes of the vast majority of forces and gained the recognition of the world.
However, there were also some forces that speculated about the true purpose behind Qian establishing the Sacred Domain.
Especially those powerful individuals who had once attended the imperial clan's grand feast, their expressions changed slightly, harboring suspicions in their hearts.
Not long after, a Heavenly King emerged from the Central Heavenly Palace, which now served as the hall of the Sacred Domain. Standing in the sky above the Imperial City, he proclaimed to the world that the master of the Sacred Domain, Qian, would use the Central Heavenly Palace of the Imperial City as the center to recruit powerful individuals from across the world, gathering them in the Imperial City to establish the main hall of the Sacred Domain and open an immortal page in its history.
He would also incorporate that area of the heavenly palaces on the Central Immortal Mountain of the Imperial City, and even the Immortal Mountain itself, into the Sacred Domain's halls, using it as a base to construct even more magnificent palaces and towers.
Moreover, and more importantly, within the Sacred Domain's Heavenly Palace, a Scripture Treasure Pavilion would be established, named the Martial Arts Divine Pavilion. It would display and store a vast number of scriptures related to the path of cultivation, starting from the lowest Houtian realm. Related martial arts combat techniques, divine abilities and dao techniques, personal notes, and even precious profound arts and ancient scriptures, etc., would be included. There would even be no shortage of precious personal notes and scriptures related to cultivation up to the Heavenly King realm.
All powerful individuals who joined the Sacred Domain would have a certain qualification to peruse the various precious materials within the Martial Arts Divine Pavilion.
On the other side of the Sacred Domain's hall, an Alchemy Hall would also be opened.
As the name implied, the Alchemy Hall was an important hall for refining and storing precious elixirs. It would contain various precious elixirs for healing, foundation building, enhancing cultivation, breaking through realms, calming the mind during seclusion, and more—almost all-encompassing. There would even be no shortage of extremely precious elixirs capable of reviving someone on the brink of death.
Undoubtedly, as soon as these two announcements from the Sacred Domain were made, they immediately caused a huge sensation across the entire Ancient Emperor Continent.
A single stone stirred up a thousand waves!
Each of these announcements was immensely sensational.
The appearance of the Martial Arts Divine Pavilion stirred the hearts of countless people.
For after the glorious and prosperous Age of Gods in the Primordial Times, not only were there no Heavenly Kings in the world, but with the demise of that era and the fall of the gods, many powerful and ancient legacies also vanished successively during that period.
Countless precious ancient scriptures and texts disappeared. For people of the world to cultivate to the Heavenly King realm had become extremely difficult, incomparable to the Age of Gods.
So many tens of thousands of years had passed since the Age of Gods, and the Heavenly Kings born could be counted on one's fingers.
Take the three great races—the human race, the demon race, and the beast race—each with billions of living beings. Era after era passed, but at most, only Samsara-level supreme experts were born. And these so-called supreme experts had basically all struggled through the crossing within Samsara, attempting to break into the Heavenly King realm. Unfortunately, they all failed at critical moments.
Due to various reasons, they fortunately did not die and thus remained at a special Samsara level, stronger than the Saint Vault realm but below the Heavenly King realm.
But more people failed in their struggle through the crossing within the Reincarnation realm and perished directly.
Even some forces that had produced Heavenly Kings knew very little about achieving the Heavenly King realm. Moreover, due to the rules of the Ancient Emperor Continent, Heavenly King ancestors either entered the Divine Realm or were sealed away. Under normal circumstances, they rarely emerged to avoid accelerating the loss of their lifespan, let alone fully understanding how to better cultivate to the Heavenly King realm.
It could be said that the appearance of the Martial Arts Divine Pavilion attracted the attention of those super experts who had been stuck at the Saint Vault realm for many years, eliciting responses from countless people. Even some reclusive ancient monsters at the peak of the Saint Vault realm or super experts in their prime quickly rushed to the Imperial City, hoping to peruse the Samsara scrolls within and grasp the secrets of Transcending Reincarnation.
Then their chances of breaking through to the Heavenly King realm would greatly increase.
If the appearance of the Martial Arts Divine Pavilion gave the world hope of achieving the Heavenly King realm, then the emergence of the Alchemy Hall caused an even more intense uproar across the Ancient Emperor Continent.
Although the brilliant civilization of the Age of Gods had emerged, the era when elixirs truly flourished was the Mythical Epoch. In later ages, they became scarce, even in the myriad realms, let alone on the Ancient Emperor Continent.
Moreover, the elixirs refined by ordinary people of the world were mostly crude and simple. Their efficacy was somewhat better than that of Heaven and Earth Treasures or spirit herbs in their plant state, but compared to true elixirs, they fell far short.
Cultivators all knew that cultivation easily led to injuries, especially some Dao injuries that were difficult to heal. Often, these injuries would not disappear with the advancement of cultivation; on the contrary, they might exacerbate the outbreak of the Dao injuries.
Sometimes, Dao injuries would even suddenly erupt during seclusion and cultivation, causing the cultivator to suffer Qi deviation and demonic possession, directly perishing, their Dao extinguished.
Many people also suffered unexpected injuries that prevented them from continuing their cultivation. Ordinary Heaven and Earth Treasures and elixirs could only temporarily alleviate the injuries; only true elixirs could allow the injuries to recover completely.
Furthermore, many people remained stuck at a certain realm, unable to break through for a long time, while some elixirs could assist in breakthroughs.
It was easy to imagine the tremendous sensation caused by the appearance of the Alchemy Hall. It held immense attraction for anyone, even for Heavenly Kings, it held great attraction.
Many powerful individuals traveled from afar to obtain the precious elixirs within the Alchemy Hall.
Later on, even Samsara-level supreme experts were moved and successively rushed over, because not long after, the Sacred Domain released another shocking announcement.