“Haha, treasures? We brothers have plenty of’m!” Ninedust had transformed into a vast wave, but he now manifested his upper body and sent out one powerful treasure after another to appear in front of him. The Daolords of this world didn’t have that many treasures, but Ninedust and Ji Ning came from the Endless Territories. As a result, they had quite a few.


    “What?!” The three silver men saw the many treasures hovering in front of the distant Ninedust and could sense the terrifying ripples of power emanating from them.


    “Even the weaker Daolord has that many treasures on him?”


    “Where the hell did they find so many treasures? Isn’t the secret location essible to our three ns alone? We’vepletely searched through every corner of this entire world; the only ce with many treasures secreted within it is that secret ce. The other ces shouldn’t have that many treasures. Where did these two Daolords find so many?”


    The three silver men were extremely anxious. They exchanged nces at each other. “Fall back for now,” the muscr silver manmanded. Whoosh. Whoosh. The five-colored rope and the tri-colored rope began to retreat, moving towards the three silver men.


    Ninedust and the three golems flew towards Ning. The two sides stared at each other from afar.


    “If you want to fight, let’s fight,” Ninedust called out loudly. “What’s the point of just standing there nkly? It’s gonna be a war of attrition via treasures, right? Come on! You use one, I use one... let’s see who has more. I want to see if you end up dead or if we end up dead!”


    “Damn.” The three silver men were absolutely enraged. They were exalted figures who were the absolute rulers over this world. They have never been challenged and mocked like this before! They were enraged, but after this battle they realized that there was nothing they could do in battle to this Daolord Darknorth. His defenses were incredibly tough and airtight, giving them no chance to win at all; if they wanted to win, they would have to use the treasures the Sithe had left behind. Unfortunately, they had extremely few of those treasures! Their treasures possessed great power... but it seemed as though these two Daolords also had quite a few treasures of simr power.


    “If we really dopete against them in treasures, once we clean out their stockpile we might be able to kill... but what if we’re the ones who are cleaned out instead? What should we do?” the skinny silver man sent mentally.


    “If we use up all the treasures, we won’t be able to pose any threat to Daolord Darknorth at all.” The silver-haired man sent back mentally, “By then, he’ll have nothing to fear at all and will be even more of a problem.”


    “Agreed.”


    The many treasures they had umted were the final cards they had to y. They weren’t willing to use them all up. If they did, they might win... but they might also lose! They weren’t willing to ept what losing would entail.


    “Daolord Darknorth... let’s just wait and see who has thestugh.” The muscr silver man let out a cold snort. “Let’s go.”


    Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! The three silver men led the eight Emperor-ss golems soaring through the skies as they departed.


    Ning watched from afar as they left, a hint of a smile ying around his lips.


    “Darknorth, what should we do next?” Ninedust began to worry. “They are more powerful than us, after all. Your sword-arts are defensively strong enough to ensure they can’t do anything to us, but we can’t do anything to them either. If this stalemate continues, there’s no way we’ll be able to find the treasures hidden within this Stone Hellephant Wall.”


    Ning nodded. The reason why they were fighting and risking their lives was to gain the treasures of the Sithe! Just from the Emperor-ss golems and the three silver men alone, both Ning and Ninedust felt absolutely certain that there was definitely a Sithe treasure trove here!


    “Let’s establish ourselves in this world first,” Ning said. “Then we’ll search for that secret ce.”


    “That’s our only choice.” Ninedust nodded.


    “Arise.” Ning turned to nce at thend behind him. The Cranesoar Mountains had been leveled long ago, but with but a thought Ning caused his heartworld projection to descend, using it to take control over the local earth and stones to establish a new, towering mountain that was ten thousand kilometers tall. At the very peak of the mountain, a top-grade Eternal estate descended in the form of an Immortal’s pce. At the very top of the pce gates, two characters could be seen: ‘DARK’ ‘NORTH’!


    “I, Daolord Darknorth, on this day do establish the Darknorth Pce here. I do not seek hegemony; I only seek to cultivate the Dao. Those who stand in the way of my Dao shall end up like the mountains and rivers around the three great ns... destroyed!” Ning flew towards the entrance of the Darknorth Pce, sending his voice out to fill every single inch of this entire world. At the same time, he enveloped the entire with his heartworld projection, sending it smashing downwards towards the three great ns.


    The three great ns were protected byyers of formations and barriers, but the surrounding mountains and rivers were instantly annihted by the tremendous force of Ning’s heartworld projection, strong enough to y even Daolords of the Fourth Step with ease. The area around the three great ns was instantly obliterated and rendered incredibly unsightly.


    Everyone in the world from ordinary mortals to the three great ns all heard his voice.


    “H-he actually dares to trample over our...” the silver-haired silver man’s face was ugly to behold.


    “Damn him. Damn him!” The skinny silver man was enraged as well.


    Ning was trampling over the three great n’s dignity, so as to establish his own power. This was a way for him to show that the Darknorth Pce didn’t give a damn about the three great ns at all!


    “He ims that he doesn’t seek hegemony and only seeks to cultivate the Dao?” The muscr silver man sent puzzledly to the others, “If he only seeks to cultivate the Dao, why has he chosen to challenge our ns?”


    “I think his true goal lies with that secret ce of ours,” the skinny silver man said with a cold smile.


    “Yes, that has to be it.” The silver-haired man’s voice was equally cold. The secret ce was what the three great ns relied upon and was for their use only. There was no way any other cultivators would be permitted to so much as find it. As they saw it, given how Daolord Darknorth already stood at the very apex of power in this world and had nothing to fear, he definitely was coveting their secret ce.


    ......


    Ning’s voice echoed throughout this entire world, with even mortal children able to hear it clearly. Everyone knew that this ‘Daolord Darknorth’ was incredibly powerful and had established a ce known as the Darknorth Pce. He didn’t even hold the three great ns in any regard at all.


    “I can’t believe this was the end result of it all.”


    “The three great ns are transcendent, supreme entities that have governed this world since time immemorial. The three n leaders in particr are unfathomably powerful; supposedly, they are far more terrifying than even Emperor-ss golems. They can cause hurricanes with a flick of their fingers that can annihte even Daolords of the Fourth Step... but they actually weren’t able to do anything to this Daolord Darknorth.”


    “He established Darknorth Pce... that means our world is no longerpletely under the control of the three great ns.”


    “The heavens themselves are changing before our very eyes!”


    ......


    The many ns in this world all understood exactly what was happening... and just as they expected, the rise of Darknorth Pce really did symbolize that there were now two supreme powers within this world! This was now a bipr world. On one side were the three great ns; on the other, Darknorth Pce.


    The advantage of the three great nsy in the fact that they had extremely deep resources and tremendous power. Darknorth Pce, however, had an advantage in that Ning’s heartworld projection was able to instantly epass this entire... in other words, if he wanted to attack, he had the power to annihte everything outside the headquarters of the three great ns!


    This power of absolute, instantly annihtion caused quite a few ns to fear Darknorth Pce even more. Some particrly ambitious ns chose to make a rather risky bet... they chose to submit to the rule of Darknorth Pce. Ning didn’t refuse anyers.


    “Haha, leave these matters to me. I used tomand the Ninedust Sect; organizing andmanding these minor ns is simplicity itself.” Ninedust was quite eager to take on this task. “If we can’t find the secret ce ourselves, we might be able to learn some information about it from these ns.”


    ......


    Under Ninedust’s leadership and with more and more ns joining their ranks, Darknorth Pce began to grow in power at an exponential rate. This was quite a troubling matter for the three great ns.


    “We have no choice but to bear it for now. Those weaker ns are nothing; if and when we choose to attack, we can wipe them out with ease. Our greatest foe remains Daolord Darknorth.” The three n leaders forebore from taking action.


    “From this day forth, once our ns enter the secret ce we need to spare no expense in finding a treasure that can be used against Daolord Darknorth.”


    ......


    Time flowed on. In the blink of an eye, two thousand years passed after Ning had established Darknorth Pce in this world. He had continuously searched for the secret ce this entire time, while Ninedust had coordinated the many ns under the banner of Darknorth Pce to do the same.


    Nightfall. A cold wind was howling through the skies. Ning was seated atop a dais within Darknorth Pce, staring at the vast world before him as he trained in the [Heartsword] art.


    “Pce Lord, the Hallmaster of the First Southern Hall has something important to report,” an attendant said respectfully.


    “Something important?” Ning opened his eyes.


    In recent years, Ninedust had divided Darknorth Pce up into many different branches, with the First Southern Hall being one of them.


    “Have hime see me,” Ning instructed.


    “Yes, Pce Lord.” The attendant immediately left.


    A short whileter, a ck-armored man walked in, then fell to his knees and said respectfully, “Your subordinate greets you, Pce Lord.”


    “You may rise. Speak. What is it?” Ning asked.


    The ck-armored man rose to his feet, a hint of eagerness in his eyes as he looked at Ning. It was Pce Lord Darknorth who was able to ensure that the three great ns were helpless against them, after all.


    “Your subordinate hase into possession of certain information... and I think there is at least an 80% chance that it has to do with that secret ce,” the ck-armored man said respectfully.