Demon Sword Sect’s Undercover
Chapter 848: 847: Anchor Chain Trial [Seeking Guaranteed Monthly Ticket]

Chapter 848: Chapter 847: Anchor Chain Trial [Seeking Guaranteed Monthly Ticket]

Anchor Chain, once a glorious, but now declining, cosmic cultivation power.

Before the beginning of the Epoch, it was considered a significant part of the cosmic cultivation powers,

it’s a star system, a constellation of domains, made up of a series of celestial bodies, sketching out in the universe like an anchor chain.

During the transition two thousand years ago to the New Era, the actions of the Anchor Chain star system were conservative, hesitant, which left them with little to gain in the division of interests in the New Era, pushed aside by more ambitious domains.

In terms of the number of Immortals—rightfully the most valued aspect in the cultivation world—a mass of Immortals fell during the Epoch change, with numerous human immortals rising, yet not a single Immortal was born in the part of the universe belonging to the Anchor Chain star domain, sealing their fate of decline.

Yet, they originally did have a chance.

When the dust settled, and the Immortal Court newly formed, only then did the cultivators of the Anchor Chain wake up, realizing they had dropped out of the first lineup in the cosmic cultivation powers. If they didn’t strive for strength, they would become increasingly inadequate, which led to their shamed realization to pursue strength, though slightly late, a series of revitalization measures were finally fully launched.

The Epoch change is a significant time window, but changes cannot be completed in a short period, so the thousands of years following the New Era’s initiation were also important; there were still plenty of opportunities.

These matters involve levels too high for ordinary small cultivators to understand; they only vaguely knew some fuzzy things because actually moving to these hidden levels is a bit early even at the Nascent Soul Realm.

Just happily cultivate; for most people, it’s unnecessary to know too much, only adding unnecessary troubles.

The Three Cave Realm is one of the Anchor Chain Eight Main Stars, home to countless Daoist lineages, but basically reproductions and developments of the True Inheritors of the “Dongzhen Scripture,” “Dongxuan Scripture,” and “Dongshen Scripture.” Over hundreds of thousands of years, it formed a certain inertia and tradition, with strong exclusivity, where other spiritual lineages can’t survive, let alone the Buddhist and Demon sects; even other Daoist factions find no soil to survive here.

Deep roots with flourishing branches, their position is unshakable.

Accordingly, there are three main sects in the domain: Dongzhen Sect, Dongxuan Sect, and Dongshen Sect, considered the backbone; outside of these are countless offshoots, merely different interpretations in certain directions.

The general situation of the Anchor Chain Eight Main Stars is like this, with dominant Dao lines leading the domain, holding a ruling position. The advantage is that the domains are more united and cohesive with a consistent direction; the downside is the risk of arrogance, limiting oneself to a certain shackle, unable to see the broader sky.

They gained nothing in the New Era primarily due to this reason, thinking too highly of themselves and lacking a cultivation atmosphere of a hundred schools contending.

If all cultivators in a domain have the same ancestors, are close relatives, what new creations can be expected in such a cultivation environment? Cultivation is fundamentally a process of drawing strengths from various schools, refining one’s Daoist line with different ideas and philosophies is the right way.

But this situation can’t be fundamentally changed; who has the courage to invite wolves into the house? Fearfully the wolves will turn into tigers and lions and end up devouring themselves.

Reform is imperative, but the foundation can’t be abandoned. After much thought, the Anchor Chain people came up with a compromise, establishing Trial Arenas on each of the Eight Main Stars, helping middle and low-rank disciples to understand each other through spiritual connections, allowing them to sense the collision of different cultivation ideas early on, opening minds, and broadening horizons.

Waiting until after the Nascent Soul is a bit too late, even Nascent Soul Masters theoretically have the condition to wander the universe, but in truth, they can’t fly far. Only at the True Monarch stage can they truly venture out, but by this phase, the foundation is already set, difficult to change.

The Golden Core Realm is a bridge between what preceded and what follows, a phase to accept new ideas and thoughts; exposing Foundation Establishment to these things too early will disrupt the foundation, while for Nascent Soul it’s a bit late, so the cultivation world of the Anchor Chain makes a huge investment into this Golden Core stage, with the core investment being: the Trial Arena.

It acts as a device for time-space projection, connecting the eight main stars, providing mid to low-rank cultivators who can’t travel freely across the universe a stage for competition, later expanding beyond the eight main stars to some other cultivation star domains, eventually connecting the whole system into the Hell Star’s convict transmission system, forming a more three-dimensional network, gradually maturing.

This approach preserves the independence of each domain’s Dao lines while exposing young Golden Core disciples to different cosmic cultivation Dao lines, broadening horizons. Many ways of contact are possible, but combat is undeniably the most direct, fastest, and most impactful.

Only by throwing cultivators into the melting pot of the universal cultivation world can they quickly improve and find their true cultivation path.

Under such initiatives, over the past two thousand years in the Anchor Chain star system and surrounding star domains, many young talents have emerged, proving this method to be very effective.

However, judging by the final results, two thousand years is far from enough!

The Trial Arena, in essence, is a large space transmission device, allowing cultivators from different domains to meet through it, but such encounters for living forms require a massive energy cost. It can be used for force gathering in emergencies but never frequently in daily trials; there’s a degree limit, resources can’t be wasted endlessly.

The stock of Golden Core cultivators in the Anchor Chain Eight Stars is nearly a million; even if not everyone is keen on trials, if only part frequently uses the Trial Arena, it is still an astronomical figure, unbearable.

Daily trials can’t stop, and the massive consumption is unaffordable, so as a compromise, cultivators devised a way to replace physical crossing with spiritual energy traversal, compared to direct body transmission, the energy cost of such space transmission is minimal, entirely bearable, and over a thousand years has gradually become the only trial method.

Every day, Golden Core cultivators apply to enter the Trial Arena, randomly selecting desired contacts, using a replaceable trial body to test what they’ve learned. In this sense, the Trial Arena makes a significant contribution to developing the cultivators of this universe.

Results are visible; strength has improved, horizons broadened, and countless new ideas have emerged within the star domain, though most attempts fail, this trying is itself a kind of progress.

Enthusiastically.