The compass was rather unique, its surface covered with stars.
Each star represented a world, and countless worlds came together to form a magnificent star domain.
Among this star domain, one star shone with particular brilliance.
Its fluctuations of light were also quite peculiar, resembling a leader that influenced the changes of the entire star domain.
A formation!!!
A super formation that encompassed an entire star domain.
"Oh?"
"This compass has reacted."
"Could it be that the remnants of the Heavenly Master God Sect are truly still alive?"
Upon seeing this compass, the voice inside Jie Tianran's body grew more solemn.
"Mm."
"I had thought they were all dead."
"Who would have thought they were still alive, hiding for so long, and now finally about to reveal themselves."
"I wonder what kind of strength they've accumulated," Jie Tianran said.
In the early era, every Heavenly River had its overlords.
Only the Seven Realms Heavenly River was jointly controlled by two great powers — the Seven Realms Holy Mansion and the Heavenly Master God Sect.
But during that era, the most powerful Heavenly River was still the Ancestral Martial Heavenly River.
The Ancestral Martial Heavenly River stood supreme and alone, while all other Heavenly Rivers saw heroes rising in droves.
The Seven Realms Holy Mansion and the Heavenly Master God Sect, in order to solidify the Seven Realms Heavenly River's position within the entire Martial Cultivation World, had remained in an alliance.
However, as numerous powerful forces departed from the Ancestral Martial Heavenly River, the landscape of the Martial Cultivation World began to shift.
In particular, after the departure of the Ancestral Martial Realm Sect, the two Spirit World Master forces — the Seven Realms Holy Mansion and the Heavenly Master God Sect — began competing over Spirit World Master resources.
The two great Spirit World Master powers transformed from allies into direct rivals.
An inevitable war followed.
In the end, it was the Seven Realms Holy Mansion that emerged victorious.
Though the Heavenly Master God Sect suffered devastating losses and was nearly annihilated, it was inevitable that some of their experts would escape.
The Seven Realms Holy Mansion, in order to eliminate all future threats, never ceased hunting down the remnants of the Heavenly Master God Sect.
Yet, although they did find and eliminate some, the truly powerful survivors of the Heavenly Master God Sect had always eluded detection.
This was also related to the differing philosophies of the two sects.
The Seven Realms Holy Mansion advocated cultivating the barrier arts to strengthen themselves.
The Heavenly Master God Sect placed greater reliance on the use of supreme barrier treasures.
While the Seven Realms Holy Mansion held the advantage in direct confrontation, with the power of supreme barrier treasures bolstering their defenses, as long as the Heavenly Master God Sect chose to hide, finding them was indeed no easy task.
However, as the Seven Realms Holy Mansion fully assumed control over the territories formerly held by the Ancestral Martial Realm Sect, their strength grew ever more formidable.
Their mastery of supreme barrier treasures also gradually improved.
With the enhancement of these treasures, they finally located a hiding place where members of the Heavenly Master God Sect had taken refuge.
And this place was within the Seven Realms Heavenly River.
Yet the Seven Realms Holy Mansion discovered that the Heavenly Master God Sect had condensed tens of thousands of supreme treasures into a concealed guardian grand formation.
This formation encompassed the entire star domain.
A forced assault would be extremely difficult.
So they pretended not to have found the place, while secretly setting up a corresponding counter-formation in the shadows.
And the hiding place of the Heavenly Master God Sect was exactly the location marked on the compass in Jie Tianran's hands.
Because this matter was of the utmost importance, only the Sect Masters of each generation were permitted to inherit this compass, and only the Sect Masters knew of its existence.
"Jie Tianran, since there really are remnants of the Heavenly Master God Sect still alive…"
"There could very well be figures from the early era among them."
"The fact that they dare to come out means they now have the confidence to do so."
"Even if your ancestors in the Seven Realms Holy Mansion left behind a formation to counter them, are you certain you can deal with them?" said the voice inside Jie Tianran.
Though Jie Tianran had considerable potential, he was still quite far removed from those existences of the early era.
If the ones hiding in there included figures from the Heavenly Master God Sect's early era who had since recovered their strength, they would indeed be formidable opponents.
"I trust that the formation left behind by our ancestors in the Seven Realms Holy Mansion is no mere decoration."
"Besides, isn't there also you, Senior?"
"Moreover, the Heavenly Master God Sect possesses many supreme treasures useful to Spirit World Masters, and they would be of tremendous help to a Heavenly Dragon Spirit World Master."
"When they escaped back then, they took the majority of those treasures with them."