Cultivation is just so scientific! Chapter 1711 - 902: Pinnacle

Grandmaster Hu guided the massive flying boat with steady control, and after covering more than a thousand miles to reach the Sun Concealing Sect's entrance, he inspected the sect's formation.

Right then, the formation remained half-shut, its expected protective barrier entirely missing.

"We're now entering the Sun Concealing Sect, Brother Ding—please direct the combat cultivators to round up the prisoners, while the other cultivators seize control of the sect!" he commanded in a grave tone.

The enormous flying boat sailed through the Sun Concealing Sect's gates, revealing a sect plunged into deathly silence, save for one lone figure hovering in the empty sky.

Master Ding's eyes narrowed faintly at that silhouette—Li Shiming's late-stage Golden Corpse, which had single-handedly crushed the entire Sun Concealing Sect.

Next, he spotted several Great Cultivator corpses. Given the limited number of Great Cultivators on the Dongqi Continent, their identities were instantly clear to him.

Shifting his attention from those Great Cultivator remains, his eyes swept across the sect's grounds, where he noted with shock that the Sun Concealing Sect's main gate stood utterly intact.

This bold strike against the Sun Concealing Sect promised massive gains.

With a gesture, he directed the combat cultivators to descend.

From that point, resistance vanished entirely; the sheer might of the late-stage Golden Corpse had utterly broken the morale of every Sun Concealing Sect cultivator.

Learning that the Ten Thousand Beast Sect was capturing them made the sect members even more compliant.

That solitary figure in the void—they desperately hoped never to encounter it again.

Grandmaster Hu got a message from Li Shiming via the late-stage Golden Corpse, guiding him to the valley entrance of the Grotto Heaven.

Stepping inside the Grotto Heaven, he beheld pristine spirit fields brimming with thriving Spirit Plants, igniting an intense desire to roar in triumph.

Securing these assets meant the Ten Thousand Beast Sect could merge the wealth of the former three great sects; all they required now was time to expand.

Given enough time for development, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect would produce far more Great Cultivators, securing true dominance over the Dongqi Continent.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect moved with lightning speed—by the moment their second wave of cultivators crossed the Sun Concealing Sect's gates, news of its fall had only just reached the rest of the Dongqi Continent.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect declared the creation of a second branch sect at the Sun Concealing Sect's location, dubbing it the Sun Concealing Branch Sect.

Their conquest of the Sun Concealing Sect proved total; every record, legacy, and even the treasury fell completely into their hands.

Moreover, expansive lands once held by the Sun Concealing Sect—home to countless mortals who supplied its disciples—were also claimed.

Every cultivator on the Dongqi Continent realized the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's unification of the continent was inevitable.

At the same time, certain superpowers suspected Li Shizhen had planted a safeguard in the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, strong enough to thwart at least a Peak Great Cultivator.

Nearly all Sun Concealing Sect disciples survived its destruction, allowing battle details to spread far and wide.

These survivors, peaking at Nascent Soul Middle Stage, failed to identify the late-stage Golden Corpse; they only knew the two Ten Thousand Beast Sect Great Cultivators shattered the sect's grand formation in mere dozens of breaths and wiped out all Great Cultivators.

This level of battle power rivaled the late Master Wang He and Great Cultivator Yan Gao, who once assaulted the Sun Concealing Sect's gates yet failed to take them so rapidly.

The White Emperor Sect's retreat from the Dongqi Continent forced those superpowers to reassess the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's might.

Regardless, no superpower would target the Dongqi Continent in the near future.

The Dongqi Continent lacked abundant resources, making it unworthy of the steep cost to conquer.

Now, the heaviest burden on the Dongqi Continent fell upon Lianhua Temple, the last remaining major sect.

As the whole Dongqi Continent buzzed with guesses on when the Ten Thousand Beast Sect would crush Lianhua Temple, the temple took the initiative to announce its exit from the continent to safeguard its lineage.

Naturally, all irremovable assets like resource sites, the mountain gate, Grotto Heaven, and more were handed over to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect in return for a vow of non-aggression against Lianhua Temple.

Negotiations unfolded without a hitch; Grandmaster Hu refrained from pressing too hard, given Lianhua Temple's links to the Buddhist superpower, which opted to stay out of these affairs.

However, should the Ten Thousand Beast Sect truly seek to annihilate Lianhua Temple, the Buddhist superpower's neutrality remained in doubt.

In the Cultivation World, Buddhists form a distinctive faction, bound together more tightly than any other.

After only a month's preparations, Lianhua Temple fully retreated from the Dongqi Continent, resettling on an island bridging the Central State and West Yan Continents to reconstruct.

The Ten Thousand Beast Sect promptly seized Lianhua Temple's abandoned mountain gate, establishing it as the sect's third branch, known as the Lianhua Branch Sect.

In this way, the full Dongqi Continent came under the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's dominion, rendering it a superpower in all but name.

This status arises because the Ten Thousand Beast Sect has no great power figure and thus isn't officially a superpower, yet it rules an entire continent and wields strength to overpower a Peak Great Cultivator, scarcely differing from a superpower aside from missing that pivotal powerhouse.

With the Ten Thousand Beast Sect's unchallenged grip on the Dongqi Continent, fresh streams of potential disciples flowed in, dramatically boosting the sect's disciple numbers.