Chapter 923 – Descending Upon the Immortal Realm

From the moment the first volley struck the boundary membrane to the establishment of the contract… the entire process lasted less than three seconds. The second wave of attacks hadn’t even been launched before the Immortal Realm chose to submit.

It hadn’t even held out as long as the Mystic Spirit Realm—the first world to be “persuaded by force.”

No fierce resistance, no stubborn defense, no prolonged war of attrition as anticipated. After sensing that they truly possessed the devastating power shown in the documentary—power that exceeded the limits of what it could withstand—the Immortal Realm surrendered without hesitation.

The enormous contrast left Mo Lan and the others momentarily dazed.

In the “Immortal Realm Expedition” group chat:

【Vasida: I wasn’t imagining things just now, was I? The contract is already signed?】

【Carmela: You weren’t imagining it!】

【Traci: It probably hasn’t been nurturing any more Dao Ancestor cultivators. Its world level is only Thirteenth Rank now. The only reason it could even withstand our first volley was because of the thick source power it had accumulated in the past. Surrendering as quickly as possible was its best option.】

【Anita: That was way too fast. The Immortal Realm really is as “pragmatic” as ever!】

【Eliana: Should we cease the attack? I’ve already exchanged the Magic Cards for the second wave. If we don’t need them, can I keep them?】

【Moira: You can keep them or choose to return them, but trading them to anyone else in any form is strictly prohibited.】

Although Anita’s fireworks magic was no longer exclusive to Sorceresses and Witches, what was sold to other races was always a truncated version.

With the same Mana investment, if a Firework Blast could achieve 100% effectiveness in Anita’s hands, then in the hands of Witches and other Sorceresses it could only achieve 80%. The version learned by other races in Valen maxed out at 50% effectiveness, and versions learned by races from other worlds were even weaker.

As for fireworks magic Magic Cards, they were slightly less effective than Anita casting the spells herself—roughly 80%, about the same as the fireworks magic mastered by Witches and Sorceresses. They could freely purchase and use these cards. But other races could only buy Magic Cards with a maximum of 60% effectiveness.

To conserve Mana expenditure, the “Immortal Realm Expedition” plan had temporarily granted Elf race and Dragon participants purchasing access to the strongest version of Firework Blast Magic Cards, but only for use during the operation.

However, the contracts that the Elves and dragons had signed before the operation all contained clauses like “prohibited from actively harming Witches and Sorceresses.” Letting them keep a few extra cards for self-defense, as long as they weren’t traded to others, posed no real concern.

【Moira: Everyone, park your vehicles inside my mirror space’s boundary membrane! Prepare to enter the Immortal Realm’s boundary membrane!】

The signing of the contract meant the Immortal Realm’s world consciousness was bound by rules and could no longer pose a direct threat to them.

It had to cooperate with the promotion of Card Magic and even provide certain conveniences.

However, the cultivators inside the Immortal Realm were not to be taken lightly—not for the vast majority of them.

Although the Immortal Realm no longer had Dao Ancestor realm cultivators, its foundations remained deep, and there were still quite a number of Daluo realm cultivators within the world.

These Daluo realm cultivators were genuinely comparable to Eighth Rank spellcasters.

Their only weakness was that, because all their power bore the Immortal Realm’s brand, they could hardly sustain themselves in the void outside the Immortal Realm.

Were it not for this, the Immortal Realm wouldn’t have been limited to sending only Dao Ancestor realm cultivators out.

Without relying on Magic Cards, only Mo Lan and Anita among the group had absolute confidence in facing Daluo realm cultivators head-on.

Mo Lan went without saying. Over the years, she had pushed the mirror space’s time-flow adjustment function to its absolute limits, squeezing out time to practice magic and elevating all schools of Witch Magic to Eighth Rank. However, in the area of Mage Magic, due to a lack of higher-tier, systematic knowledge for reference and support, her progress had been slow. Only her psychic, fire, ice, and wood schools had reached Eighth Rank, while the other schools remained stagnant.

But even so, with her Eighth Rank Witch Magic, partial Eighth Rank Mage Magic, and a total Mana pool at the ten-billion-Mana level, she was more than capable of crushing any Daluo realm cultivator.

Anita’s situation was even more unique.

Her fireworks magic was essentially a fusion of her Sorceress Talent and Artifact Spirit, with its power directly tied to her Mana rank.

At Eighth Rank Mana, her fireworks magic’s destructive power had already surpassed the Eighth Rank—more than enough to handle Daluo realm cultivators with ease.

In contrast, the others—whether Traci, Carmela, Lilith, Vasida, or even the high-ranking Witches, Elves, and dragons—their greatest improvement had been the explosive growth of their total Mana reserves.

But the advancement of their magic proficiency, which required time and the accumulation of knowledge, currently lagged severely behind their Mana growth.

Although Traci and the others’ Sorceress Magic had also grown stronger alongside their rising Mana ranks, it wasn’t like fireworks magic, which directly translated into combat power.

Even Vasida’s devouring magic required time to accumulate.

They possessed vast reserves of Mana, yet found it extremely difficult to bring their current magical abilities to a level comparable to the Eighth Rank.

Against experienced Daluo realm cultivators, the risk was extremely high.

And using Magic Cards against them would be far too wasteful.

Therefore, only Mo Lan and Anita would descend directly into the Immortal Realm this time.

The two of them would be responsible for locating and making contact with the Immortal Realm’s existing Daluo realm cultivators, and systematically collecting the Immortal Realm’s cultivation techniques, divine abilities, secret arts, formation knowledge, alchemy, and other fields of knowledge.

This invaluable knowledge would serve as crucial reference material for future research into Eighth Rank Mage Magic, filling the gap in the Valen world’s high-end Mage Magic knowledge.

As for the other members, they would operate from the mirror space, negotiating with the Immortal Realm’s world consciousness and preparing for the comprehensive rollout of Card Magic throughout the Immortal Realm.

Mo Lan had already designed the Immortal Realm version of Card Magic well in advance, based on the knowledge of the Immortal Realm she had previously extracted from the memories of those Dao Ancestors.

The content for the dream revelations had also been prepared.

Now they only needed to wait for the Immortal Realm to stop converting its source power into cultivation foundations and immortal spiritual energy, and then they could begin introducing Card Magic into the Immortal Realm through dream revelations.

Mo Lan didn’t hold back either. Within the Immortal Realm’s dreamscape, she unhesitatingly exposed the truth that every cultivator’s hard-won power was held in the hands of the heavenly dao, which could reclaim it at any time. She attributed the mass downfall of the Dao Ancestor cultivators entirely to the Immortal Realm itself, thoroughly laying bare the sinister intentions of the Immortal Realm’s heavenly dao.

No matter how displeased the Immortal Realm’s heavenly dao was, bound by the contract, it could only comply.

No one could tolerate the idea that the power they had painstakingly cultivated could be taken away at any moment—even if the one holding that power was the lofty heavenly dao.

All the more so when someone was offering them another, more “free” path.