Chapter 2163: Chapter 2162: Three Years in Seclusion, Breaking Through to First Grade Again!

Without a doubt, under such circumstances, over ninety percent of the people in the Immortal Sun Sect would choose to surrender.

They are not fools and understand the concept of wise individuals bending to circumstances.

Continuing to resist stubbornly would only lead to one outcome: death!

Therefore, when Su Han finished speaking, the people of the Immortal Sun Sect gave up resisting.

Even if some wanted to resist, the situation was beyond their control, and they had no choice but to submit.

On the side of the Phoenix Sect, they indeed followed Su Han’s command. Seeing the Immortal Sun Sect surrender, they ceased their attack.

Thus——

The once dominant sect reigning over nearly ten thousand stars, the Immortal Sun Sect, was completely annihilated!

While the Phoenix Sect became the true ruler!

During the existence of the Immortal Sun Sect, it was always a thorn in the heart of the Phoenix Sect, like a malignant growth on its body.

Now, with the growth removed, an expanse of over ten thousand stars centered around the Phoenix Sect will be its territory!

...

Over the next several months, the Phoenix Sect dispatched a full ten Divine Kings.

They led the Phoenix Sect disciples across the eight directions, using an unbeatable force to subdue all subordinate sects that previously belonged to the Immortal Sun Sect.

These subordinate sects were not foolish either; knowing the Immortal Sun Sect had perished, they had already prepared for the arrival of the Phoenix Sect.

The actions of the Phoenix Sect were extremely domineering.

With the Immortal Sun Sect already destroyed, they would not allow the presence of any other forces within those nearly ten thousand stars.

If there is to be a force, it can only be the Phoenix Sect!

Of course, Heavenly Mountain Pavilion is an exception, as it is a special existence.

Once all these forces were subdued by the Phoenix Sect, their overall power naturally surged tremendously.

Just in terms of the number of disciples, it increased by two billion, making the total number of disciples reach a full five billion!

As for strong ones like the Void Heaven Realm and Divine Sea Realm, their number increased immensely.

Yet, the Fusion Realm experts still only belonged to the Phoenix Sect.

Apart from the Fusion Realm, the overall strength of the Phoenix Sect is advancing towards the Seventy-Two Sects.

Each of the Seventy-Two Sect has at least a hundred billion disciples.

The stronger ones even have several hundred billion.

At this moment, in terms of the number of disciples, the Phoenix Sect has already reached half of the weakest among them.

Of course, merely looking at disciple numbers is useless; a powerful sect ultimately needs to have peak experts to endure over time.

Nonetheless, this cannot erase the terrifying power of the Phoenix Sect today.

Looking across the entire Lower-Class Star Region, under the Seventy-Two Sects, the Phoenix Sect can absolutely rank in the top three.

...

The pace of expansion never stops.

Half a year later, the Phoenix Sect began expanding to regions beyond ten thousand stars.

Naturally, they first dealt with those scattered small forces.

However, the current expansion is not as frantic as before.

After all, the Lower-Class Star Region is not the only place where powerful sects exist.

Many small to medium-sized forces are actually subordinate sects to a major sect, requiring careful investigation before taking action.

While the Phoenix Sect continued its expansion, Su Han once again entered the Xumi Ring of the Holy Son for closed cultivation.

Time flowed by, one year, two years, three years...

Inside the Xumi Ring of the Holy Son, twelve hundred years flashed by.

As for Su Qing’s matter, Su Han plans to resolve it upon coming out of closed cultivation and then head to the Divine Dream Sect.

After all, the Divine Dream Sect, one of the Nine Factions, is in a High-Grade Planet area, and without a Starry Battleship, Su Han can only travel alone.

The round trip would take at least several years.

However, it is only three years until Gongyang Qing’s marriage to Luoo Ning.

Thus, Su Han spent these three years in closed cultivation.

After coming out of closed cultivation, he would first deal with these matters and then help Su Qing with a marriage proposal to the Divine Dream Sect.

It is worth mentioning——

During these three years, the Lower-Class Star Region’s snowflakes transformed into a multitude of blood water.

Previously, standing in the starry sky, under its pitch blackness, it wasn’t entirely visible.

But now, standing in the starry sky, one can clearly see the blood water with the naked eye.

It seems to be accelerating in form.

The entire Lower-Class Star Region is shrouded in a haze because of the blood water’s presence.

Everyone knows this is the precursor to a great calamity.

Under such catastrophe, not only small forces but even the Three Teachings and Nine Schools, including the Seventy-Two Sects, might not successfully pass through.

Each sect and faction have already begun preparing.

Perhaps it is precisely because of these preparations that the Sect of Battle Heaven did not act against the Phoenix Sect over the Immortal Sun Sect’s destruction during these three years.

The Gongyang Family also did not cause trouble for Su Han over the assassination of that young man.

Everything seems so peaceful.

Everything seems so turbulent.

A storm is brewing!

...

On this day, Su Han came out of closed cultivation.

Twelve hundred years left Su Han’s face looking worn with the traces of time.

His appearance is still as refined as ever, but beneath this fineness are etched the marks of passing time.

"Twelve hundred years, sixty-eight hundred billion Spirit Crystals, plus countless pills, finally let my Cultivation Base reach the Fourth Grade Divine Sea Realm..." Su Han muttered to himself.

As he spoke, there was a bit of sighing and a feeling of being flesh-torn.

From the beginning, Su Han believed using Spirit Crystals for a breakthrough was a waste.

And indeed, it was like that.

However, during these three years, Su Han had no better items, nor did he have great blessings; if he wanted to cultivate, he could only use Spirit Crystals and pills.

Thankfully, due to the Phoenix Sect’s expansion, their financial resources were robust.

Otherwise, how could Su Han bear to use Spirit Crystals for cultivation?

According to his current calculations, to break through to the Fifth Grade Divine Sea Realm, using Star Crystals would require nearly twenty trillion Spirit Crystals.

For advancing from Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade, it would likely need close to one hundred trillion...

The exponential growth is simply terrifying!!!

Of course, the consumption of Spirit Crystals is vast, but the power it brings Su Han is indisputable.

"My current strength..."

Su Han looked down at his white, slender, and almost translucent palms, with light flickering in his eyes manifesting.

"First Grade Unity, like an ant!"

"Second Grade Unity, can be crushed!"

"Third-Grade Unity Order, I can also kill!"

"Fourth Grade... not saying I can kill, but at least, more than eighty percent of ordinary Fourth Grade Fusion Realm are no match for me!"

"And besides battle power, in terms of sheer speed..."

"Even a Seventh Grade Unity Realm couldn’t affect me much!"