Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan Chapter 1912: 1425: Anchoring

“With the secret technique now fully developed, I need to head back to the palace and inform Father, so I can find out his intentions for handling things.” While uttering these lines, an easygoing grin surfaced on the Third Prince's countenance before he even noticed.

“Wait a moment, Your Highness!”

Right when he was set to depart in high spirits, the Confucian Saint interjected, declaring: “His Majesty has commanded that the moment the secret technique proves successful, Your Highness ought to put it into action right away without any postponement.”

The grin on the Third Prince’s features hardened in an instant, yet considering what he knew about his father, such a directive felt entirely in character.

“In that event, I’ll adhere to Father’s instructions.”

What choice did he have? Resistance wasn’t an option for him, and defying the Emperor’s decree was beyond his courage.

“This way, if you please!” The Confucian Saint offered a faint smile and gestured toward a different spot.

The test space-time rift drew little focus from the onlookers, since confirming its stability demanded a considerable amount of time. Mobilizing and positioning forces would require multiple hours.

As a result, the space-time rift capable of enduring a full day and night ended up squandering half that duration.

“Master, might we venture to observe this Outer World?” One disciple from the Hundred Schools inquired with eager anticipation.

The teacher gave a nod of approval, “This serves as your trial. If you feel prepared, proceed.”

The preliminary secret technique for traversing space-time didn’t demand abundant spiritual items, yet they had to supplement with spiritual objects to prolong the rift’s duration.

Although these items weren’t overly rare, wasting them outright wasn’t feasible. Therefore, they permitted the top disciples of the Hundred Schools to venture through and check if they could gather resources from the other side to offset the expenditure.

Beyond that, this presented a chance to test out a specific concept. Should it work, it would immensely aid their forthcoming ventures into the Outer World!

It might even transform basic world scouting and swift resource gathering into outright domination, claiming a whole world as their domain!

And that concept involved creating a space-time rift targeted at a precise world.

Still, at present, it remained just an idea, not yet initiated, because they continued refining the core approaches and had no prior experience with world traversal, thus missing practical data.

The Hundred Schools’ disciples swiftly stepped into the space-time rift, leaving the once-packed valley feeling far roomier all of a sudden.

“I’m curious if they’ll run into any perils…”

“Venturing into an unknown world always carries risks. Given their abilities, they ought to manage it with ease.”

“Let’s just hope they keep track of the time and avoid getting held up by distractions.”

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Among the instructors, a natural worry lingered for these ordeals faced by the rising stars of the new generation, yet as raw jade must endure shaping to form a vessel, these youths required such challenges to mature.

In the meantime, thanks to his Token, the Third Prince had gathered a force of ten thousand bearing the Black Flag of Xuanwu and led them forward.

Abruptly, the nearby surroundings shifted wildly, and the intense, combative vibe of the battlefield cast an unexpected hush over the assembly.

“Could this be the Xuanshan Army?”

Among Daqian’s four premier forces, this one excelled particularly in defense, capable of withstanding a hundred thousand foes for three days straight without falling!

A person voiced astonishment but whispered it softly; the rest kept composed faces, as if they’d anticipated this revelation.

“It looks like His Majesty holds this secret technique in high regard…”

“Naturally! At this point, the lands in the Southern Domain have mostly stabilized. Absent some upheaval, pushing the imperial court’s borders further would cost far too dearly.”

However, the advent of the space-time crossover secret technique allowed this Emperor to envision a fresh path for territorial growth and population expansion—namely, subjugating other worlds!

“That said, the secret technique has only just achieved its first milestone. Isn’t dispatching an army of this caliber a tad premature?”

“True enough, even supposing the rift’s far side brims with threats, unleashing the Xuanshan Army feels excessive.”

An elite force proves its worth not merely through reputation but through superior performance across various fields.

This doubt echoed in the minds of the numerous Hundred Schools cultivators on site. The space-time rift would persist only a day and a night, and despite the Xuanshan Army’s prowess, conquering a full world in that span proved impossible.

Deploying a ten-thousand-man elite unit appeared to inflate the affair disproportionately.

Yet nobody viewed it as an error from the reigning Emperor; instead, they assumed some hidden profound intent lurked behind it, perhaps a covert scheme!

After nearly a hundred incantations, the Third Prince had etched the spell deeply into his being, turning it into instinctive reflex; a mere gesture of his hand revealed his command of it.

Before long, a squarely shaped space-time rift materialized in view of all.

“Xuanshan Army! Forward march!”

At the commanding officer’s directive, the troops moved with astonishing swiftness, vanishing entirely in a blink.

“Truly, it lives up to its status as one of Daqian’s four elite legions, the Xuanshan Army!” Another voice rang out in praise.

“What about the Third Prince—where is he?”

All at once, a question arose from the gathering.

The group jolted in alarm and scanned the area frantically, truly failing to locate him, which sparked a wave of unease over how to account for his absence.

“Stay calm, everyone—the Third Prince hasn’t vanished; he has also crossed into the space-time rift and is likely in the other world at this moment.” A steady voice reassured them.