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Among the nine new branches, many have acknowledged this view and taken it upon themselves to restore the Nine Spirits Sect’s teachings, tirelessly working towards this goal.

Representing this group are, naturally, the five Immortal Sects that have openly rebelled within the Changqing Domain—Giant Spirit Sect, Purple Cloud Sect, Azure Dragon Sect, Danding Sect, and Haiyun Pavilion.

After the fall of Changqing Immortal Sect’s Great True Person, they almost immediately returned to the Changqing Domain and engaged Changqing Immortal Sect in a fiercely active confrontation.

However, just as some wish to revive the grand cause of their ancestors, naturally there are others who consider it unrelated to themselves, not wishing to recognize an ancestor who has been dead for seventy thousand years.

The other four remaining Jiuzhou Immortal Gates—Jade Toad Path, Radiant Emperor Dynasty, Wind and Thunder Path, and Heavenly River Sect—took little interest in the revival of the Nine Spirits Sect.

The Radiant Emperor Dynasty didn’t even consider themselves part of the Nine Spirits Sect’s lineage.

The reason is simple.

As the first Emperor of Jiuzhou, after Ascension, the Dynasty established by Emperor Hua Guang is famous for cultivating the Fortune Dao, pursuing a path different from all orthodox Jiuzhou Immortal Methods, a difference visible to the naked eye.

If the paths are divergent, one cannot be considered part of the Nine Spirits Sect’s lineage.

Even back in the Jiuzhou Boundary, during the ancient times, cultivators of the Fortune Dao and those of the orthodox Immortal Method seldom got along, with both sides covertly opposing each other and often coming to blows.

The two factions were simply not part of the same camp.

Therefore, the Radiant Emperor Dynasty paid no heed to the affairs of the Nine Spirits Sect, or even those of the Changqing Domain.

Upon Ascension to the Immortal Realm and learning the details here, Emperor Hua Guang chose to far flee across the sea, settling in a location two to three Boundary Domains away from the Changqing Domain, where he claimed a territory for himself, founded a new Immortal Dynasty, and has continued its legacy to this day.

It became one of the well-known Immortal Dynasties in the Immortal Realm.

The remaining three, although not to the extreme of the Radiant Emperor Dynasty, only Heavenly River Sect considered itself a branch of the Nine Spirits lineage.

In years past, when assisting these five Immortal Sects with their restoration, it was the Heavenly River Sect that contributed the most, on several occasions committing their forces to the battlefields of the Changqing Domain.

Even now, there are still hundreds of disciples from the Heavenly River Sect active on the northern and central battlefields of the domain.

This level of initiative was not much less than that of the five Immortal Sects themselves.

The Jade Toad Path and Wind and Thunder Path, on the other hand, merely recognized themselves as Jiuzhou Immortal Gates, sharing merely a hint of kinship with the Nine Spirits Sect but hardly more than a familial relationship.

They did not see themselves as one and the same, nor did they claim to be descendants of the Nine Spirits Sect.

So, if you were to say they were part of the Nine Spirits Sect’s lineage, these two Sects would disagree; but if you called them Jiuzhou Immortal Gates, they would happily concur.

Therefore, out of a sentiment of camaraderie as fellow Jiuzhou Immortal Gates, the Jade Toad Path and Wind and Thunder Path didn’t mind lending a hand.

But to expect them to provide support as generously as Heavenly River Sect—well, that was out of the question.

It was merely a matter of neighborly fellowship.

If you’re in trouble, lending a hand is no issue.

But to go beyond that, worrying about your needs and even your future development—that’s asking too much.

We’re not your parents; you can’t expect that much.

This was also why Duan Ming and Xiao Yizhi were not very optimistic about Yan Youyi’s proposal to seek aid from the other Jiuzhou lineages.

In the past, when they had just returned home ready to restore the Nine Spirits Sect, conditions were most dire. The Purple Cloud Sect and other Jiuzhou Immortal Gates faced the danger of obliteration on several occasions.

At that time, the Winds and Thunder Path, and other sects that did not wish to return, pinched their noses and reluctantly offered their strong support out of old neighborhood ties and various entangled interests.

Even the Radiant Emperor Dynasty, upon hearing the news, symbolically dispatched forces to take part in the battle, providing some support out of neighborly consideration.

It was precisely because of help from the other four Immortal Gates that Purple Cloud Sect and the rest managed to pull off the feat of directly facing off against a Heavenly Immortal Sect and forcibly taking over one quarter of a Great Domain’s territory.

It’s not that the Changqing Immortal Sect was too weak; the enemy was just too strong.

What they were facing was akin to nine powerful Immortal Sects with the heritage of Earth Immortals banding together to invade.

One dominant power in the Great Domain, facing the war triggered by nine major forces, whoever it might be would be overwhelmed, and retreat was only to be expected.

But things were no longer as they were ten thousand years ago.

The Jiuzhou Immortal Gates had now firmly established themselves in the Western Domain and even had spare strength to expand further.

Changqing Immortal Sect no longer possessed the strength and opportunity to annihilate the Jiuzhou Immortal Gates.

And the other forces, having fought a war for ten thousand years, were also exhausted.

It even began to affect the stability of their core territories.

So over the past few thousand years, the Heavenly River Sect has scaled back the number of disciples it sends to the battlefield in the Changqing Domain; the Wind and Thunder Path and Jade Toad Path began to only provide supply support, and the Radiant Emperor Dynasty once again cut off contact.

The four Immortal Gates almost unanimously reduced their support for sects like the Purple Cloud Sect.

Everyone was tired of the fighting, unable to continue.

In such circumstances, it was unrealistic to expect them to dispatch Earth Immortal True Persons to the Changqing Domain to help the Purple Cloud Sect in a war against a Great Immortal Gate.

It was exceedingly difficult.

If the Purple Cloud Sect and the others were in existential crisis, with the Changqing Immortal Sect and the Taiping Dao advancing into the Western Domain, threatening the very survival of the Jiuzhou lineage,

perhaps then, it might be possible to persuade the others.

But currently, there is evidently no such situation; the Jiuzhou Immortal Gates are still as stable as ever, thus naturally there is no reason to invoke assistance from them.