Chapter 198: Fate of the Suspended Realm [4K]
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart and had a clear judgment of the situation that would follow.
At this point in the battle, most of the islands affiliated with Luoxia Sect have been lost, leaving only five core shallow sea islands near Luoxia Continent.
Now, most of the combat forces coming from the Luoxia Sea and the Sanyuan Alliance for support are gathered in these shallow sea archipelagos, and the defensive pressure they face is much smaller.
According to his calculations, the Luoxia Sect will definitely not sit still and wait for death, but will at least make one last attempt before losing the last half of the core islands.
Today, the Tianxing Sword Sect has an absolute advantage in terms of combat power at the fake elixir level, but that does not mean that the combat power at the higher level of golden elixir will be much stronger.
The Sanyuan League and Luoxia Sect have a total of five golden elixirs, which is one more than the four sword masters of the Tianxing Sword Sect.
Although the Lord of the Desolate Sword is said to be as powerful as a mid-stage Jindan, the Sanyuan League and the Luoxia Sect are not without capable people.
In the Luoxia Sect, Taoist Luoxia achieved enlightenment by using the setting sun to melt gold. Although his elixir is not a superior golden elixir, it can be considered a top-grade one.
Moreover, this person's cultivation has reached the third level of the Golden Core for many years, and he also has the foundation left by two generations of Golden Core of the Luoxia Sect. He should be considered a leader among the early stage of the Golden Core.
In the Sanyuan Alliance, there are three powerful golden elixir masters, namely the Old Man of Five Elements, the Taoist Qingwei, and the Old Ancestor Tianhe.
Among these three great Jindan masters, the Five Elements Old Man is a lower-level Jindan, and his cultivation has remained at the second level of Jindan for many years.
Taoist Qingwei took the shortest time to achieve enlightenment, and he is only over 330 years old this year, but he is also a powerful figure who has reached the second level of Golden Elixir.
The last Tianhe ancestor is no ordinary person. He practices the Tianhe Orthodox Law, and his strength is at the top level among those in the early stage of the Golden Core.
It is said that Patriarch Tianhe lived for more than 700 years and was one of the oldest cultivators in the Seven Domain Alliance. He was also the founder of the Loose Cultivator Alliance.
With the blessing of seven hundred years of heritage, Patriarch Tianhe is extraordinary in both strength and heritage. It is said that he has mastered a variety of cultivation skills and is a third-level mid-grade formation master and third-level puppeteer.
Therefore, most people believe that Patriarch Tianhe is the strongest person in the early Jindan stage in the Seven Domain Alliance, and he is at least at the same level as the Lord of the Desolate Sword.
Ye Linyuan believed that the strength of this Tianhe Patriarch was typical among the old-school golden elixirs.
Even among the best early Jindan masters he had met in his previous life, few were stronger than this Tianhe ancestor.
Unfortunately, sometimes luck and foundation are also the key to achieving enlightenment. The Tianhe Patriarch has been planning for many years, but has never cultivated a fellow practitioner at the Jindan level, so he cannot break through the middle Jindan stage.
Therefore, no matter how powerful the Tianhe Patriarch is, he can only dominate in the early stage of Jindan.
In comparison, even if the Taoist Master Jingnie has just reached the middle stage of the Golden Core, his strength should be enough to slightly surpass that of the Tianhe Patriarch, and there may even be more room for him to thrive in the future.
"No matter how powerful an old-fashioned golden elixir is, it can only dominate among its peers."
"On the road of cultivation, realm is the most important thing. If you can't break through the realm, relying on lifespan and time to accumulate foundation will eventually be in vain when you grow old."
Ye Linyuan's mind was in turmoil. According to his estimation, the life span of this Tianhe ancestor should only be about sixty years.
After sixty years, when this old master achieves enlightenment, there will probably be a lot of chaos, and it is unknown who will benefit from his life's good fortune and trump card.
Getting back to the topic, after repeated analysis, Ye Linyuan believed that the two sides would inevitably fight a fierce battle in the last few shallow sea islands.
This time it will not only be a war at the foundation-building level, but the Luoxia Sect and the Sanyuan Alliance will also inevitably have Golden Core masters take action to prevent the outcome of defeat.
Once a powerful Jindan makes a move, an extremely rare Jindan fight will inevitably break out between the two sides.
Golden Core masters rarely fight each other. Ye Linyuan has lived for more than 120 years in this world and has experienced a battle of this level once.
That was Liu Xuanheng's battle of enlightenment, and that battle was an inevitable war.
As for the battle to encircle and suppress the Teng Snake Demon King, Ye Linyuan had only heard about it and had never witnessed such a war.
This battle is likely to trigger another rare golden elixir war, which is very rare under normal circumstances. It will also be a chance for Taoist Wuyun to gain military merit.
Since there was an appointment in advance, Ye Linyuan naturally did not delay. He crossed the vast ocean and came to the Luoxia Sea.
Finally, he stopped in front of a vast shallow sea in the depths of the Luoxia Sea.
"Qingling Islands."
Looking at the Qingling Islands in front of him, Ye Linyuan couldn't help but think deeply.
The Qingling Islands are one of the five strongest shallow sea islands in the Luoxia Sea. It is the trump card of a very powerful foundation-building family, the Qingling Zhang family.
This lineage is at the peak of its fortune, and is one of the three strongest families under the Luoxia Sect. It is said that it has more than 20 foundation-building cultivators, including one who has reached the great perfection of foundation-building.
It is said that Zhang is good at breeding spirit fish, and raises a group of spirit fish called Qingling fish in the Qingling Islands.
The green spirit fish tastes delicious, and eating it can improve one's cultivation and even produce precious fish stones.
It ranks second among the top ten specialties of the Luoxia Islands, bringing it extremely rich profits every year.
However, Zhang family and Luoxia Sect have very strict control over the fish fry, and the fry of these spiritual fish have never been lost.
"After we take over this island, we may be able to bring some of these blue spirit fish fry back with us."
Ye Linyuan pondered in his heart and became somewhat interested in this green spirit fish.
The delicious taste of the green spirit fish is secondary, but the fish stone is a top-grade spiritual object. Not only can it be used as medicine in making pills, but also just adding high-grade fish stone to make pills can increase the success rate of making pills.
The Ye family of immortals happens to have a large production of blood spirit grass and blood jade flowers, which can enhance the bloodlines of the demon race and spirit beasts. The surplus is most suitable for breeding large-scale green spirit fish.
"The golden monkey tribe has all transformed into the golden-backed giant ape tribe. It is no longer useful to take the first-level blood spirit grass."
"In the future, there will be extra first-level blood spirit grass, which can be used to cultivate new spirit beasts."
Ye Linyuan whispered in his heart, and then withdrew the thought.
He looked towards the depths of the Qingling Islands and discovered that all the formations on the island had been activated, and there were countless powerful cultivators' auras within.
Outside the island, thousands of large ships have surrounded it, and it is obvious that a major war is about to break out.
At the same time, Ye Linyuan sensed the breath of Taoist Wu Yun on one of the large ships.
Taoist Wuyun looked solemn at this moment, and a hint of deep concentration appeared in his eyes as he looked towards the Qingling Islands.
The Zhang clan of the Qingling Islands was a large clan, and his fellow enemy Zhang Xuanyu was from this clan.
Therefore, this battle is not only a war between two major forces, but also a battle between his fellow participants.
Zhang Xuanyu's cultivation has reached the state of perfection in the middle stage of foundation building. Once Taoist Wuyun kills him, his cultivation will surely break through to the state of great perfection in foundation building.
At that time, Taoist Wuyun will also face the most terrifying life and death catastrophe in his life.
"I've already arrived."
It was at this time that Taoist Wuyun suddenly heard a voice.
When Taoist Wuyun heard the voice, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and suppressed all distracting thoughts. Since Ye Linyuan had arrived, the fake pill puppet must have arrived as well.
Even though this battle was dangerous, as long as he had the fake pill puppet as a trump card, he still had a chance to achieve enlightenment. After completing the voice transmission, Ye Linyuan dived into the deep sea, quietly waiting for the battle to begin.
At the same time, as the army continued to arrive, the war finally broke out.
Thousands of treasure ships arrived outside the Qingling Islands. Faced with the shallow sea islands with the formation fully activated, countless cultivators began to attack the protective formation.
This formation is obviously a strengthened third-order formation, and it is still powerful enough to withstand the fierce attack of seventy to eighty thousand Qi-cultivating monks.
Seeing that the formation could not be broken, one second-level treasure ship after another headed for it.
These second-level treasure ships all carry second-level cannons, which are powerful enough to severely damage foundation-building repairs. There are even two second-level top-grade treasure ships that carry second-level top-grade cannons, which are powerful enough to deter the fake Dan masters.
These treasure ships were almost equivalent to spiritual veins on the sea. As they continued to attack, the formation of the Qingling Islands finally began to tremble. After a month, it was finally broken through.
"kill."
Seeing that the formation was broken, countless cultivators rushed in like crazy.
A large number of treasure ships rushed into the Qingling Islands, and the monks in the Qingling Islands naturally would not sit idly by and wait for death, so a fierce battle soon broke out.
Ye Linyuan didn't care about the war among low-level cultivators, because he knew very well that the ones who could really decide the direction of the war were the people above the sky clouds.
He kept looking up at the clouds calmly and found that countless foundation-building monks had already entered the archipelago. Taoist Wuyun was even at the forefront, leading the giant Vajra Ape directly into the deepest part of the Qingling Islands.
"Father, I beg you, please let me go."
At the same time, inside the Zhang family’s ancestral hall on Qingling Island, two figures, one old and one young, gathered together.
The old man had an astonishing aura, and was a great cultivator who had reached the great perfection of the foundation building stage. The young man's cultivation level was as high as the middle stage of the foundation building stage, and he was also a genius of his generation.
But at this time, the old man was standing in front of the ancestral hall, but the young man was pierced through the scapula by a chain made of black iron and was locked firmly in the ancestral hall.
The old man looked at the young man in front of him, tears welling up in his eyes.
"Yuer..."
He grabbed the boy and knelt down in front of him tremblingly, choking and saying, "Yu'er, your father is incompetent and cannot protect you."
"Your fate is determined."
The old man grabbed the young man tremblingly, his eyes revealing a hatred that reaches the sky, but in the end it turned into a trace of helplessness.
He slid down weakly and then said tremblingly: "This is a deal. Those people use your life to feed another stronger Gu."
"In exchange for this, we get their full support."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Xuanyu immediately revealed a miserable smile, with a hint of overwhelming hatred on his face.
How could he not know his own destiny?
When he was young, Luoxia Sect summoned the geniuses of its forces to comprehend the Five Elements Taoist Scripture. He studied it painstakingly for seven days and seven nights and finally comprehended this superior technique.
How proud he was at that time.
He thought that he was a genius of his generation, a peerless hero, and that he would become a powerful golden elixir master in the future. In ancient times, he would even be a seed of the Nascent Soul.
But at that time, he did not see the pity in those people's eyes.
Later, when he was older, he made rapid progress in his cultivation and reached the stage of foundation building, and only then did he get a glimpse of his own destiny.
It turned out that he was just a bait, a feed to feed the fish in the water, and his fate had already been determined.
Later, he struggled and asked his father to bear the pressure and let him leave Luoxia Sea to kill Taoist Wuyun.
If that battle is successful, he might be able to replace Taoist Wuyun and become the fish in the water that the other person has his eyes on.
Unfortunately, he failed in the end. He could only become feed for that person, waiting for the day of his own death.
"Son."
The old man trembled, almost kneeling in front of Zhang Xuanyu, tears streaming down his face as he said, "Father is powerless, father can't do it. Now all the clan members have been transferred to Luoxia Sect."
"If you don't die, then all 3,443 monks and more than 100,000 mortals in the family will die."
"As a father, there is nothing I can do. The only thing I can do today is to die with you."
The old man spoke with trembling voice, and finally looked outside the ancestral temple.
But there was a loud noise, and a light broke through the clouds from outside the sky, and the formation that covered the sky and the sun was blasted open.
The old man picked up the spear, his eyes flashing with a complicated expression, and finally said with a sad smile: "Father will go ahead and test the quality of the Five Elements Taoist for you."
"Om-"
After he finished speaking, the old man slowly stood up and walked out of the ancestral hall.
Outside the ancestral temple, four monks had already been guarding it firmly.
The old man glanced at the four people, and a hint of coldness appeared in his eyes.
These four people were all Luoxia Sect's masters who had completed their foundation building, but they had no intention of joining the battle. Instead, they hid in the back to guard the place.
But the old man was powerless to say anything. He could only hold the spear in his hand, fly into the air, and kill towards the sky.
At this moment, a great war had completely broken out above the vast sky.
Taoist Wuyun used the Five Elements Formation along the way, and killed all the gods that stood in his way, even beheading several foundation-building monks.
They fought all the way to Qingling Island, only to be stopped by a spear.
When he first saw this person, Taoist Wu Yun said in surprise: "Master Zhang, how are you?"
The old man nodded. One of them was the clan leader of one of the strongest foundation-building immortal clans in the Luoxia Sea, and the other was the strongest independent cultivator in the Tianxing Sea. Naturally, they had interacted with each other before.
At this time, the two of them stood calmly in the air, and the Taoist Wu Yun finally said: "You and I are both pitiful people, why don't we join forces to rebel against the Luoxia Sect?"
"Do you think they will give me a chance to fight back?"
The old man spoke expressionlessly, with a hint of hatred in his eyes.
Taoist Wu Yun nodded, probably understanding something, and said with a sigh: "It seems that you and I will still have a fierce battle today."
"Unfortunately, I don't want to waste too much mana."
Having said this, Taoist Wu Yun said, "Little ape, you go."
"boom--"
As soon as he finished speaking, a giant golden ape appeared from nowhere, holding a black golden stick and rushed forward.
(End of this chapter)
