All the affairs were moving forward accordingly on the Nephilic Judge Tribe's side.
Nobody knew that the Virgen who had been frequently participating in the formal affairs during this period of time was not Kylie herself, but one of Bloody's clones.
Meanwhile, Bloody's clone who was disguised as Kylie had a subordinate with her—Kina, Kylie's dependent.
Kina was the dependent that Kylie had mentioned to Lin Huang before. Her rank was at Pseudo Pure Spirit rank-5.5, while her combat strength was at sixth-rank heavenly god-level.
Under Bloody's arrangement, not only had Kina joined the Nephilic Judge Tribe successfully, she had recognized "Kylie" as her sister now.
She had even become the Nephilic Judge Tribe's Virgen whose status was only second to Kylie.
As Nephilic Judge Tribe's "Virgen Kylie" moved things along, the Nephilic Judge Tribe soon came to an agreement for an in-depth collaboration with the Sword Alliance.
Everything went better than what Bloody expected.
Meanwhile, Kylie had turned into a giant cocoon. She had begun her journey of elevation to lord-level.
Bloody was standing guard by her side.
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The people at the Sword Alliance had not been able to stay idle at all.
The assessment for new members was ongoing.
Although Lin Huang had got himself out of it, he had merely rested for less than two days before becoming immersed in the Sword Alliance's tasks again.
The reason for that was the in-depth collaboration discussions with the Nephilic Judge Tribe and Death Sickle had entered the negotiation stage.
Due to the negotiations, Sword 1 got Sword 2 to take over the new members' assessment entirely.
Though Sword 2 was unwilling, he could only take it with a frown on his face.
For over one week, Lin Huang and Sword 1 spent most of their time in all sorts of video conferences.
It was going alright at Death Sickle's side. However, the Nephilic Judge Tribe only signed the agreement after it had undergone over ten different versions of amendments.
The negotiation with the Nephilic Judge Tribe was very tough. If not for Bloody, who helped to amend the terms and mediated things with Kylie's status, it might not have been signed even half a month later.
Apart from in-depth collaborations, the collaborations the Sword Alliance had with the other grade-6 and grade-7 organizations were developing gradually.
They had more intel and trading channels now.
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Time flew and over a month had passed.
The Sword Alliance had been established in the God Territory for three months now, and they were finally getting things on track.
They had exceeded a million members. Among them were over 4,000 Heavenly Gods.
They would still have new applications everyday, but the number had reduced to over 10,000 applications per day.
As Yang Ling had created a smart filtering program, the applications that Sword 1 received was actually less than one-tenth of the applications sent. It reduced his workload significantly.
Lin Xin and the rest were excused from the filtering process of new members with the help of the smart filter program Yang Ling created.
Though that was the case, they vented their frustrations to Lin Huang.
"Brother, I feel like puking whenever I see emails now…" Lin Xin looked wronged.
"Don't ask me to do such a thing again." Lin Xuan looked quite terrible too.
"Please exclude me as well." Chan Dou looked cold.
"You can get me to fight, but administrative work isn't for me." It was Xiao Mo who said that.
"Just pretend that I'm illiterate from now on." It was Huang Wuji who said that.
Lin Huang took some time to comfort the few of them and promised that they would never be given administrative work again. He then sent them back into the Kingdom in his body to continue grinding the Bug Tribe instance dungeon.
Meanwhile, the imperial monsters like Bai and the rest entered the queue again to go into the virtual realm for cultivation as soon as they were excused from the administrative work.
All of them were unwilling to delay their cultivation for even a second.
Apart from those who had yet to complete their missions, Lin Huang got the rest of the Sword Servants to join the Heavenly God League.
Each of the Sword Servants after Sword 38 was a team leader who led a Heavenly God Squad of nine to ten people.
Sword 13 to Sword 37 were the commanders.
Each of them led over ten Heavenly God Squads.
Sword 11 and Sword 12 were the captains.
In the beginning, some of the new members from the Heavenly God League were upset about the group arrangements. They wanted to challenge the team leaders, but were subdued easily.
After all, the Sword Servants were at ninth-rank heavenly god-level now. Not only that, sword cultivators were experts in attacking after all.
Even if they were fighting someone who had the same level of combat strength, it was hard for them to meet a worthy opponent.
Moreover, some of these Heavenly Gods who had joined the Sword Alliance only had low to middle-rank combat strength. Barely over one-tenth of them had high-rank combat strength.
There was only one who was at ninth-rank.
This person was a rogue sword cultivator before. It was almost the limit to which he could cultivate. Though they had the same combat strength, his ability could not compare with the Sword Servants who had trained with the system.
After initiating the challenge, he lost to Sword 38 within a minute.
Seeing that he was defeated directly, those who wanted to challenge the team leaders dismissed their plan immediately.
Lin Huang did not assign Sword 1 to Sword 10 to the Heavenly God League. Instead, he handed the ten of them the Sword Dao inheritances tailor-made for the Swordmaster's bodyguards that he spent some time to prepare previously. After that, he sent the ten of them into the Great Heaven Palace, accelerating the time flow to 10,000 times faster.
One must know that Lin Huang had consolidated over 200 Sword seals.
This meant that he had created his own methods in the over 200 Sword Dao cultivation directions.
The Sword Dao he cultivated included Great Heaven and the Sword Servants' inheritances. He knew very well of each Sword Servants' capabilities, and which paths they were suited for in terms of cultivation.
Since Sword 1 and the rest obtained the inheritances, they immersed themselves in it quickly. Like a sponge soaked in water, they were absorbing the nutrients in the inheritances madly.
In the inheritances Lin Huang gave them, he chose at least three cultivation directions for each of them.
They could consolidate Sword seals no matter which direction they took and elevate themselves to lord-level.
Among them, it was Sword 1 who had the most comprehensive cultivation in Sword Dao, and he was given 12 different directions to consolidate Sword seals in the inheritances Lin Huang had customized.
The person who obtained the second most inheritances was Sword 8. She had the most talent and potential among all of the Sword Servants. Lin Huang picked nine ways for her to elevate to Lord.
This girl had the purest heart among all of the Sword Servants. To Lin Huang, she might even surpass Sword 1 and go further on the path of cultivation.
It was not discrimination for Lin Huang to do so. Instead, he curated it according to everyone's actual situation.
For instance, the Sword Dao Sword 10 cultivated only had three directions at most to consolidate Sword seals if he were to go further. In order to consolidate more Sword seals, he would have to rebuild his foundation all over again and cultivate more sword skills. Therefore, the inheritances Lin Huang gave him only contained the methods to consolidate three Sword seals.
Naturally, the Sword Servants knew that the inheritances each of them obtained were different. However, they had no idea the difference would be so great.
Lin Huang had also taken the effort to inform them not to share the inheritances they received with the other Sword Servants. The reason being was that each of them had different requirements. The inheritances he provided were customized to each of them. Them sharing amongst each other might result in them misleading one another, holding up each others' cultivation.
Under the 10,000 times accelerated time flow, within half a day, Lin Huang sensed Sword 1's aura fluctuation.
Without any hesitation, he directly teleported Sword 1 from the Great Heaven Palace to the barren star zone in his Kingdom.
He did not teleport him to the God Territory because a Lord's unification would create too big of a commotion.
It would still be fine if there were only one or two people performing unification. If ten people were to do that consecutively, people would definitely notice the abnormality of the situation.
It was within Lin Huang's expectations that Sword 1 would be the first one to perform unification.
In reality, he had been in the state where he had half his foot in unification this entire time. It was just that he could not find the exact direction that he wanted to venture toward for years. Therefore, he had been staying stagnant in the state prior to unification.
When he received Lin Huang's inheritances, he had actually only glanced at the 12 directions that Lin Huang chose for him and quickly picked out one that he had the most confidence in; that he would succeed in during the unification. He then began to absorb the information madly.
Within ten years, he had digested the inheritance of the chosen direction and began the unification process automatically…