Chapter 1197 Expanding Star Shattering Sect
Expanding the Star Shattering Sect during the war was far easier than Elder Song and the rest of the elders had expected, as they pretty much encountered no resistance from the local forces who were more than willing to go under a powerful sect that had the backing of two experts in the Soul Ascension Realm. Even though the same could not be said for the territory under the control of the Onyx, given that the Onyx Empire didn't want to fall out with the Star Shattering Sect, the expansion of the Star Shattering Sect in that place didn't encounter that much more resistance compared to the other region that the Star Shattering Sect was expanding into.
Outside of that, with the different independent sects beginning the process of integrating more with the Star Shattering Sect during this period of time. The main way that this took place was through the elders of the different sect joining the Star Shattering Sect elders in the process of expanding the territory of the Star Shattering Sect, while the younger disciples who couldn't participate in this began to interact with the disciples of the Star Shattering Sect.
The main way that this happened was through the disciples of the independent sects and the disciples of the Star Shattering Sect taking on missions from the Star Shattering Sect's Grand Mission Pavilion together.
In the end, because of the stream of disciples from the independent sects that entered the Star Shattering Sect over the past few weeks, Elder Song and Feng Chen even ended up implementing plans to construct a new Mission Pavilion outside the Star Shattering Sect in the Falling Star City for the disciple of the different independent sects to use.
Not only lowering the number of people in the Star Shattering Sect's mission pavilion, but at the same time also giving the disciples of the different independent sects a chance to take on missions without having to go through one of the disciples from the Star Shattering Sect.
During all of this, Elder Song also made sure to enlist the help of Elder Dust Fairy who was in charge of the servant quarters and the information gathering of the sect. Having her establish a network across the territory of the Star Shattering Sect where the different mortal towns and different powers under the Star Shattering Sect could directly make a request for help if a problem like a demon beast or a demonic cultivator appeared.
In the end, even though she had only been working on the network for barely a week at this point in time, the number of request flooding into the mission pavilion through it was more than enough to keep the increasingly large number of disciples flocking to the mission pavilion busy for a long time.
At the same time, it was only after the initial parts of this network had been established that Elder Song and the rest of the elders in charge of the Star Shattering Sect realized just how dangerous it was for ordinary people without any cultivation to roam around on their own.
Just the number of requests to deal with rampaging demon beasts exceeded 5000 in less than a day after the initial part of the network had been set up by Elder Dust Fairy... And the area covered by this only encompassed the former Heavenly Sky Kingdom and a small part of the Azure Sky Kingdom...
In the end, because of this, a weird stability and coexistence emerged between the people from the Star Shattering Sect and the people from the Onyx Empire, neither of them wanting to needlessly fight the other party.
Given that the Onyx Empire didn't have any energy to spare when it came to dealing with the Star Shattering Sect at the moment and the fact that they managed to keep the different critical resources in the region under their control, the Onyx Empire was more than happy with such an outcome.
At least... Until they finished off the Sky Empire and divided the resources in the core region of the Sky Empire between themselves and the other invading empires, they would exist peacefully with the different branch sects of the Star Shattering Sect that had begun to pop around them.
As for after the war ended... There was no way the Onyx Empire would allow such a powerful sect to emerge at its borders after it had just finished dealing with its long-standing enemy, that would simply be asking for trouble in the future when the Star Shattering Sect ended up growing stronger and stabilized its position as a force comparable to the empires around it!
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Outside just the Onyx Empire finding itself on edge regarding the newly emerged Star Shattering Sect, the other empires located farther away from the Star Shattering Sect were also starting to pay attention to this newly emerged power that had appeared at the border of the Sky Empire right next to the Onyx Empire.
The only difference between them and the Onyx Empire being that they weren't so much afraid of a possible war with the Star Shattering Sect. Instead, they were far more interested in the possibility of using the Star Shattering Sect to weaken the Onyx Empire further.
After all, the information about the sudden loss of three Soul Ascension Realm Experts on the side of the Onyx Empire had already spread far and wide. Making them appear far weaker than in the past, while at the same time also making some of the empires in the process of invading the Sky Empire think about taking the chance while the Onyx Empire was down to attack them as well.
Even though this might have been difficult to do considering that the Onyx Empire was still strong with their imperial family intact, things might change if the Star Shattering Sect could cause enough damage to the Onyx Empire and make them lose another two or three Soul Ascension Realm Experts.
Because of this, quite a few envoys belonging to different empires had begun to set off in the direction of the Star Shattering Sect.
All with the simple goal of sparking a fight between the Star Shattering Sect and the Onyx Empire...