"All five of your first sequence Demon Pills have advanced to Eighth Grade Creation Demon Pills, solely based on this, you are already a Taiyi Second Tier True Immortal."

"Your Bloodline Evolution Level has therefore increased by 5%, but due to the Blood Curse Celestial Punishment you are currently enduring, it cannot be effectively acquired. Current Bloodline Evolution Level is 80.5%, 70% used, 10% unaccounted for. Your chance to break through the Blood Curse Celestial Punishment is 87%."

"You have gained ten thousand years of Shou, current Shou is 47,505 years."

"Your Qi Blood Limit has increased, currently at 30 million points."

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"All three Ruyi Spirit Pills in your second sequence have advanced to Ninth Grade Creation Spirit Pills."

"You have gained three thousand years of Shou, current Shou is 50,505 years."

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"All two Ruyi Spirit Pills in your third sequence have advanced to Ninth Grade Creation Spirit Pills."

"You have gained two thousand years of Shou, current Shou is 52,505 years."

"Due to full advancement in all three sequences, your Creation Immortal Body has become stronger, reaching 98% completion, basically achieving the level of an ordinary Taiyi Fifth Tier, capable of exempting up to 50 million points of instantaneous peak damage, with a recovery rate of up to 2 million points per second."

"Your Life Value Comprehensive Limit is approximately 10 million points (calculating, please wait)."

"Your Physical Strength, Basic Agility, Basic Power, Basic Defense Value temporarily closed, as they seem meaningless now; the presence of the Creation Immortal Body is extraordinarily against them."

"Your Divine Soul reached Fifth Grade, Divine Thought limit reached 108 threads."

"Your comprehensive strength is being evaluated..."

"Confirmed, your comprehensive strength is approximately between Taiyi Fifth Tier and Taiyi Sixth Tier, but this is assuming you reveal all your trump cards; if only using conventional combat mode, your comprehensive strength is about Taiyi Third Tier, as for your apparent strength, it can only barely be counted as Taiyi Second Tier."

"Warning! Due to your Blood Curse Celestial Punishment, and your overly average third sequence, you will be very easily underestimated, then cursed as an ’old six’ who pretends to be weak and eats tigers. Suggest keeping mentally healthy and not too cunning!"

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Habitually glancing at the report sent by the Four Clowns, Wang Wu faintly smiled, it’s fine, this time he could leave closed cultivation.

Dispersing the Yin and Yang Qi projection, dismantling the White Tiger Heaven and Earth Needle, he then saw the Hao Mao Monarch still diligently cultivating, seemingly never disturbed.

This millennium has truly been quiet.

Casually retrieving Hao Mao Monarch, Wang Wu instantly teleported out the Hidden Origin Bell, and his first task was to find Frost Monarch’s location. He then breathed a sigh of relief; fortunately, Frost Monarch was still alive; he was really afraid that she had played herself to death.

However, Cyan Frost City is quite quiet, also, almost everyone is in closed cultivation, a millennium of closed cultivation is standard.

Additionally, he was sure Qingxue hadn’t come out of closed cultivation because the Dao foundation of Path of Sincerity she gave him hadn’t changed at all.

The next moment, Wang Wu appeared at the top of Cyan Frost City, where Frost Monarch stood, wearing a black robe, with a gentle gaze. A thousand years flicking her fingers, she hadn’t changed much.

And apparently, she had indeed been standing here for a millennium, because she was handling Cyan Frost City’s affairs; Taiyi had entered closed cultivation, but beings of Earth Immortal level still needed to work hard, and many matters needed people to preside and decide. Furthermore, Cyan Frost City had a Nine Heavens Passage, an important commercial pass for the Hidden Origin Association, which couldn’t be delayed.

Originally, this was Zhuang Bufei and Feng Muhai’s matter.

"Wang Wu, subordinate, pays respects to Lord Frost Monarch."

Wang Wu approached sincerely to greet, in broad daylight, it was inappropriate to offend.

Frost Monarch glanced at him indifferently, nodded, and continued handling affairs.

Wang Wu quietly stood aside, 90% of the matters Frost Monarch had to handle came from the Nine Heavens Passage, resources acquired from Outer Heaven by various forces had to return to the Cultivation Realm through the Nine Heavens Passage. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Thus quite busy; the reason the Hidden Origin Association could rank among the Nine Alliances, Three Conferences, and Two Sects was due to its three Nine Heavens Passages.

Wang Wu stood beside Frost Monarch for three full days; only then did she finally have a moment’s free time, turning to look at Wang Wu for a bit, a trace of an imperceptible smile appeared on her lips.

"There seem to be changes in Outer Heaven; three Nine Heavens Passages have been destroyed, so transportation of commercial resources could only be diverted here; your millennium of closed cultivation seems to have not yielded much harvest."

Wang Wu solemnly replied, "You’ve worked hard, Lord, would you need me to take over?"

"It’s not exactly hard work, nor does it need you to take over; let me show you someone."

Frost Monarch beckoned, a golden light flashed through Cyan Frost City, the next second, an extraordinarily handsome young man appeared, facing Frost Monarch with an impeccable bow.

"Disciple Lu Wuchang greets Master!"

"Rise, Wang Wu, look who he is?"

Frost Monarch asked with a smile.

Wang Wu naturally had long recognized him and couldn’t hold back, stepping up to pat the guy’s shoulder, who else could it be - the reincarnated form of Lu Tong, but wait, Taiyi Second Tier, you’ve reincarnated and retrained so fast, seems not yet 1,200 years!

"Subordinate greets Lord Wang Wu!" Lu Wuchang was pleasantly surprised but still greeted properly and gave him an eye signal, brother, what are you joking about, in front of my master, you’re being too casual, that’s too much!

Wang Wu also cupped his fist in return, pretending to understand, "Congratulations to Lord Frost Monarch for having an outstanding disciple, our Frost Domain will certainly be as powerful as a tiger with added wings."

"Lord Wang Wu flatters, all thanks to Master’s nurturing, of course, never forget Lord’s helping hand back then." Lu Wuchang spoke sincerely.

At this moment, Frost Monarch suddenly said, "Zhuang Bufei is about to leave closed cultivation."

As her words fell, a streak of rosy light soared to the sky, faintly visible Yin and Yang Qi swirling, then slowly dispersed, extremely mystical, uh-huh, from Wang Wu’s viewpoint, there already were traces resembling Five Elements Creatures and Nine Extremes as Tribulation.

No doubt, after visiting Profound Celestial Sect for the ceremony last time, Zhuang Bufei also gained significantly, thus after a millennium of closed cultivation could achieve this breakthrough.

Taiyi Seventh Tier should be secured.

A moment later, Zhuang Bufei appeared clad in layers of rosy light, which represented the double reinforcement of his Creation Immortal Body.

The so-called doubling reinforcement means that after reaching 100% completion, it is doubled again.

Compared to Wang Wu’s current 98% Creation Immortal Body completion, the difference is clear.

"Disciple Zhuang Bufei, pays respects to Master!"

Arriving here, Zhuang Bufei knelt down with a thud, first performing a grand salute, then said aloud: "Disciple has no virtue or ability, yet Master sheltered us for a millennium. Fortunately, although the disciple is dull, I did not let down Master’s expectations. After closing for a thousand years this time, the disciple has advanced to Taiyi Seventh Tier."

"Good! From this moment forward, you will take over the Nine Heavens Passage, bring Lu Wuchang."

"Understood!" Zhuang Bufei accepted the command.

At this time, at the Hidden Origin Bell in Cyan Frost City, rays of light flashed again. Feng Muhai, Qu Shenglian, and others came out of seclusion, because they all entered seclusion together on the same day and all set a millennium as the limit, so naturally, their emergence from seclusion was in heaps.

Not only them, but also on the Shuang Family’s side, some Taiyi emerged from seclusion one after another, each advancing in rank.

The most exaggerated was Shuang Liuyun, who was originally at Taiyi Seventh Tier, yet this time she successfully broke through to Taiyi Eighth Tier, becoming the third Taiyi True Immortal at Eighth Tier in the Frost Domain.

After such a lively mass emergence from seclusion, the people from both sides were distinctly divided, falling into two groups.

On Shuang Jun’s side, led by Zhuang Bufei, Feng Muhai, Qu Shenglian, and Lu Wuchang, there were one hundred forty-five Taiyi True Immortals.

On the Shuang Family’s side, led by Shuang Liuyun, plus various elders of the Shuang Family, there were one hundred sixty-five Taiyi True Immortals.

The Taiyi who chose to go into seclusion in Cyan Frost City were almost all here.

Those not here either went into seclusion in Outer Heaven or had seclusion periods of only five hundred or eight hundred years and had long gone to Outer Heaven or were sent out.

However, even so, so many Taiyi going into seclusion placed considerable operational pressure on the Frost Domain, so Shuang Jun indeed endured for a millennium!

Seeing the distinct separation between the two sides, Wang Wu was expecting Shuang Liuyun to stir up trouble again.

But she obediently stepped forward to pay respects to her sister, then all Shuang family elders, and all Taiyi, came forward in groups to pay their respects.

The whole process was as quiet as a kitten, with no one daring to cause trouble or jump around.

It was the first time Wang Wu had seen Shuang Jun act with such authority, her divine might was like a prison. Even if her strength seemed significantly impaired, at this moment, her aura still managed to suppress these more than three hundred Taiyi, including the recently advanced Taiyi Eighth Tier Shuang Liuyun, making them behave obediently.

This was not suppression brought by power, identity, or status.

But suppression by strength.

Even the tip of the iceberg could make people despair.

Presumably, only in the presence of Shuang Jun’s father would she back down three steps.

In any case, from Wang Wu’s perspective, he even suspected whether Qingxue had already emerged from seclusion and merged with Shuang Jun?

Her strength wasn’t lost at all.

Next, Shuang Jun issued orders, assigning these over three hundred Taiyi to their respective positions, as running a place as large as the Frost Domain required many tasks to be done.

Among all this, Wang Wu found it interesting that Xu Taiping also closed for a millennium, and by now he is already a legitimate Taiyi Fifth Tier, progressing rapidly, evidently a rising star of the Shuang Family.

After settling everything, Shuang Jun departed on her own, and the Frost Domain returned to normal operations.

However, she seemed to have forgotten to assign Wang Wu, everyone else had something to do, leaving him free and unconstrained.

Well, it wasn’t so bad.

Wang Wu, after exchanging pleasantries with Zhuang Bufei, Feng Muhai, Qu Shenglian, and Lu Wuchang for a while, also left. Everyone was busy, even Shuang Liuyun and those Shuang family elders hurried straight to Outer Heaven, as the foundation of the Shuang Family was still in Outer Heaven, where the core industries of the Frost Domain were.

A moment later, Wang Wu entered Shuang Jun’s cave residence. She was already waiting, but looked serious.

"Qingxue still needs five thousand years to emerge from seclusion. She is evolving the Three Calamities. However, within the next thousand years, the Hidden Origin Association is likely to erupt into war with the Dubhe Immortal Alliance again. I plan to die in this war, so I need your cooperation to complete this false death plan. Shuang Jun will no longer exist, and only Qingxue will remain in the world."

"Can I refuse?"

Wang Wu asked helplessly.

"No. This is the only escape method. I handed over the Vermilion Bird Array Soul, leading to serious injuries, which is well known. Over the past millennium, everyone knows I haven’t had a chance to retreat and recover, and even got targeted. These are all very conducive to my fake death escape."

"Wang Wu, don’t be stubborn, only if I fake my death can you and Qingxue have a future."

"Don’t say it like that, as if you and Qingxue are two different people."

"Exactly, so I don’t understand what you’re struggling with. We are one and the same, is there really any difference?"

"Alright, I will do my best to cooperate. What is the specific plan?"

Wang Wu said nothing more, knowing Shuang Jun’s scheme wasn’t made overnight, so he couldn’t be persuaded or convinced.

"The specific plan is that the Auditing Bureau will scrutinize the Frost Domain’s accounts a month later, and then it will uncover your corruption, sentencing you to 1,500 years in prison."

"What? Are you kidding!"

Wang Wu was dumbfounded.

Shuang Jun shook her head, "The upcoming war with the Dubhe Immortal Alliance will be incredibly fierce, unprecedented! Because it is essentially a battle between the Hidden Origin Divine Monarch and the Tianshu Divine Monarch, two half-step Daluo, neither can back down or be patient. Whoever retreats a step, their future attempt to attack Daluo is almost destined to fail."

"Now, there is continuous friction between the Hidden Origin Association and the Dubhe Immortal Alliance in Outer Heaven. A full-scale war is likely to erupt. I don’t want you to die or get into any trouble."

"Your strength is still too weak. I know you have some secrets, but at most, you’re only a Taiyi Fifth Tier."

"In this level of war, that’s really insignificant."