Chapter 890
War Erupts in the Ancient Realm!
Chapter 890 War Erupts in the Ancient Realm! (Seeking monthly votes~)
On this day, Gu Yuanqing was studying the mysteries of the operation of the Taixu Creation True Talisman.
This contains the way of creation, but the path of gods and the path of immortals are fundamentally different!
In comparison, Shinto cultivation takes a shortcut.
The power of the divine artifacts of the rules is drawn into the body, thereby gaining corresponding power, rather than comprehending the Dao and principles at the level of immortals and transforming them into one's own path.
It is precisely for this reason that Gu Yuanqing, despite having already condensed the Dao Source Seed, was still able to ignite the Divine Fire.
To be honest, the path of visualization in the Nine Realms Divine Continent seems to be located at the center of the divine path in the Linglong Realm and the celestial and human world path in the Spirit Realm.
Just like Gu Yuanqing, who clearly condensed the True Symbol of Creation of the Great Void and could use the power of the Dao of Creation, but did not truly understand the fundamental principles behind it.
The way of creation seems to exist everywhere, but in reality, its wonder is hard to fathom.
With Gu Yuanqing's current level of cultivation in the immortal path, scattering seeds and having them sprout, grow, blossom, and bear fruit in an instant is just a matter of a thought; bringing withered trees back to life is also easy, but this is because there was already vitality in them, and it is just a matter of making that vitality stronger.
But the true way of creation is to create something from nothing, just as heaven and earth create all things, and can give birth to spirituality from inanimate objects.
With the help of this Taixu Creation True Talisman, Gu Yuanqing easily accomplished many things that he could not do with his immortal cultivation, and he was using the changes within it to explore its mysteries.
Suddenly, he turned his head and looked down at the foot of the mountain.
However, they sensed that the auras of several cultivators from the Qian Yuan Sect were changing one after another.
As the master of the grotto-heaven, Gu Yuanqing was fully aware of what was happening within it, but he generally did not pay much attention to these details of the Qian Yuan Sect, nor did he spy on others.
But this time the commotion was different, causing a slight change in the spiritual energy of the cave.
At first, he didn't pay much attention, but soon several people were in the same situation. Moreover, these people were all cultivators above the Void Realm, and most of them were in seclusion in their own caves.
Looking with his all-seeing eyes, he saw that these cultivators seemed to have suffered damage to their souls and were seriously injured.
Gu Yuanqing raised an eyebrow, wondering if the Ancient Divine Sect had made a move. But this was inside a cave heaven, where the power of a rule-based divine artifact should not be able to reach.
"Or...the Ancient Realm?"
Just then, he noticed that Li Chengyi was hurrying towards the main peak of the mountain.
In just a few breaths, Li Chengyi arrived at the small courtyard.
"Father, something's happened!"
Gu Yuanqing stood up and said calmly, "I saw it. Tell me slowly."
Li Chengyi wasn't too surprised. With his father's cultivation level, how could he not have noticed such a big commotion? He said in a deep voice, "There's a problem in the Ancient Realm. People from the Great Wei Divine Dynasty suddenly attacked the cultivators of the Linglong Realm. Many cultivators from my Qianyuan Sect were ambushed."
Moreover, when the child's clone entered the ancient realm, he discovered that the Great Wei Divine Dynasty's army had also appeared around Mount Jiuqu. Judging from their aura, there were experts from the Chaos Realm among them!
"With my current level of cultivation, I fear I am no match for him. I can only beg Father for assistance!"
"The Great Wei Dynasty?" Gu Yuanqing asked.
“That’s right, it’s the Great Wei Divine Dynasty. I also find it strange. People from the Ancient Realm have always been unwilling to get involved in the affairs of my Spirit Realm. This sudden move without any warning is really too bizarre.” Li Chengyi’s expression was slightly solemn.
With a father capable of fighting true gods, he wasn't truly afraid of the Great Wei Divine Dynasty's attacks.
However, the original inhabitants of the ancient world are more troublesome; killing them is useless, as they will still revive on the next full moon night.
Moreover, once the natives are killed, they will be shrouded in resentment and malevolent energy. If they get close to any person from the ancient realm, they will be transformed into a Yin spirit and attacked madly.
The trouble was endless, so no one wanted to be an enemy of the indigenous people.
"Did they attack only our Qian Yuan Sect members, or were they attacked by other sects as well?" Gu Yuanqing asked again.
Li Chengyi said, "Judging from the information we have now, it seems that the attack is aimed at all people in the Linglong Realm, but it is still unknown whether other sects' bases have been attacked."
"Is that so?" Gu Yuanqing asked thoughtfully.
Seeing his father's expression, Li Chengyi asked, "Father, have you guessed something?"
Gu Yuanqing stood with his hands behind his back and said, "If it's targeting my Qianyuan Sect alone, then it must be related to the Taigu Divine Sect. But if it's targeting cultivators from the Linglong Realm, we'll have to wait and see what else is involved. I'll send a clone in first to take a look!"
As he spoke, Gu Yuanqing closed his eyes for a moment, and a part of his spirit entered the ancient realm.
Over the years, he has either been cultivating or on guard against attacks from the Ancient Divine Sect, so his avatar that was stationed at Jiuqu Mountain has long been withdrawn.
Over the years, the imprint of the ancient rules on Jiuqu Mountain has also disappeared.
Therefore, he entered directly into the original teleportation array this time.
He was already a nascent immortal. As soon as he entered, the rules of heaven and earth condensed into his form, and the surrounding primordial energy rapidly gathered and transformed into a vortex.
Before Gu Yuanqing could even open his eyes or extend his divine sense, he heard a sharp shout: "Attack!"
As he spoke, he felt a sword light approaching, and judging from the power of the approaching sword light, the person who made the move was at the Celestial level.
Gu Yuanqing opened his Celestial Realm, and the incoming sword light instantly solidified in the void, transforming into a three-foot flying sword that gleamed with cold light.
He flicked his finger, and the longsword shattered. He then glanced at the person who had made the move, and sure enough, it was a soldier from the Great Wei Dynasty.
At the same time, even more magical treasures attacked. These treasures were arranged in formation and worked together to unleash their power to the realm of Yin and Yang.
Gu Yuanqing raised his hand and waved it, a strong wind suddenly rose, the incoming weapons shattered and fell, all the cultivators spat out a mouthful of blood, their bodies were blown about and twisted, and the great formation was broken as a result.
Gu Yuanqing didn't kill these people either, because it would be useless; one step away would take them a thousand miles away.
The figure flickered continuously in the void, heading towards Jiuqu Mountain.
Back when he first entered the Ancient Realm, he was only at the Void Heaven Realm. It would have taken him more than ten days to travel from here to Nine Turns Mountain. With his current cultivation level, even if he only entered the Ancient Realm as an avatar, he could travel tens of millions of miles in a day. He arrived there in less than an hour.
Just as Li Chengyi said, the great army of the Great Wei Dynasty surrounded Jiuqu Mountain.
As far as the eye could see, the world lost its color, and the light of magical treasures and supernatural powers intertwined to form a net of destruction, constantly bombarding the protective array of Nine Turns Mountain.
Outside the formation, the dark, imposing Wei army was grim, their blood and killing intent mingling and soaring into the sky.
At the very front of the army formation, three figures in mid-air stood out.
The leader, clad in a dark black dragon armor and wielding a dark red halberd, had his face shrouded in a dark helmet, except for his eyes which shone like cold stars. His aura was perfectly integrated, clearly indicating that he was a Grandmaster of the Chaotic Undying Realm and the commander of this army.
To the left and right, several miles apart, there were also two people, one wielding a giant hammer crackling with lightning, and the other wielding a long sword, both exuding the aura of the Shattering Heaven Realm.
The commander wielded his halberd, each strike drawing together spiritual energy from hundreds of miles around, transforming it into a massive blade of light that tore through the void, slamming fiercely into the protective shield of the great formation and creating violent ripples.
The two Shattering Heaven Realm cultivators also unleashed their full power, their thunder hammers crashing down like a heavenly tribulation, their blades violently tearing through the void.
Together with their commander-in-chief, they launched a coordinated attack, steadily eroding the power of the great formation. Behind them, thousands of soldiers roared in unison, unleashing a torrential downpour of flying swords, magical seals, and spiritual arrows.
Although these cultivators were individually limited in strength, when they formed a military formation with some Yin-Yang Realm generals at its core, their combined momentum was quite terrifying.
Inside the Nine-Bend Mountain, at the main battleground, Li Chengyi's clone had a solemn expression, with beads of sweat visible on his forehead.
Although he was exceptionally talented, his physical cultivation was ultimately only at the Yin-Yang Breaking Void stage, which was far inferior to the three powerful enemies outside the mountain. Only by relying on the great formation left by his father and by burning spirit stones at any cost to activate the spiritual veins of the formation's core, was he able to maintain the formation from breaking.
Moreover, although there are other Qian Yuan Sect cultivators on this mountain, their cultivation levels are too weak, at most at the Celestial Realm level, and the help they can give him is too little.
Each activation of the great formation drained his mental energy.
However, he was not too alarmed, as he knew his father would arrive soon.
Even if they eventually can't hold on any longer, at most everyone will simply have to leave the ancient realm.
Outside the mountain, the commander of the Chaotic Undying Realm was about to strike again with his halberd when he suddenly paused and turned to look at the void to his side.
The space rippled slightly, and a figure in a green robe silently appeared—it was Gu Yuanqing.
The man's pupils constricted sharply, and he shouted, "An expert from beyond the realm? Stop him!"
Before he finished speaking, the halberd in his hand had already changed direction, and a streak of dark light tore through the sky, shooting straight at Gu Yuanqing.
At the same time, the Shattering Heaven Realm cultivator wielding the thunder hammer roared and hurled the giant hammer in his hand, which transformed into a blazing ball of thunder the size of a house, directly attacking Gu Yuanqing.
They could sense that the person inside the formation was not very powerful and could not fully unleash the power of the formation. The newcomer had torn through space and arrived silently, so he was at least a cultivator at the Chaotic Heaven Realm. If they waited for him to enter the formation, it would be even more difficult to break it.
Faced with the attack, Gu Yuanqing remained calm and didn't even glance at the halberd light and lightning. He simply took a step forward and disappeared again.
The dark light of the halberd pierced through the afterimage he left behind, and the lightning ball exploded, blasting the void into chaos, yet it didn't even touch the hem of his clothes.
The commander raised an eyebrow: "Want to join the battle?"
He opened his celestial realm and swung his halberd again, intending to force Gu Yuanqing out of the void.
But it was no use at all; Gu Yuanqing's figure had already directly entered the Nine-Bend Soul-Sweeping Array.
"Father! You've finally arrived!" Li Chengyi was overjoyed, and his tense heartstrings instantly relaxed.
The cultivators of the Qian Yuan Sect within the mountain also relaxed.
"It's the Mountain Lord! The Mountain Lord himself has arrived!"
"Great! The mountain lord has arrived, we have nothing to worry about now!"
"Lord Gu's supernatural powers are unparalleled; what are mere people from the ancient realm worth mentioning!"
The gloom in everyone's hearts was swept away, and their morale soared.
They knew Gu Yuanqing's true strength all too well. He alone could overpower the Ancient Divine Sect and was said to be able to slay a true god. With him around, Mount Jiuqu was as solid as an iron barrel.
Gu Yuanqing nodded slightly to Li Chengyi, his gaze sweeping over the other cultivators of the Qian Yuan Realm. He raised his hand and pressed down, his vast true essence quietly guiding the changes of the Nine-Bend Soul-Sweeping Array within the great formation.
The originally dim magic array stabilized instantly, and the protective light became several times more solid. The rain of attacks from the outside world fell on it, but could only splash up a few specks of light and could not be shaken in the slightest.
Gu Yuanqing then turned around, stood in mid-air, and focused his gaze on the commander-in-chief of the Great Wei Dynasty.
"Why did the Great Wei Dynasty send troops to besiege my Nine Turns Mountain and injure my disciples without cause?"
When the commander of the Chaotic Undying Realm saw Gu Yuanqing break through the blockade and enter the formation so easily, and then stabilize the formation with a wave of his hand, he was alarmed and knew that a real expert had arrived.
However, as a Chaotic Undying cultivator, his memories do not disappear on every full moon night, and he knows the secrets of the ancient realm.
In the ancient realm, they fear no one whatsoever!
Death? He couldn't ask for more!
Upon hearing Gu Yuanqing's question, he paused in his attack with his halberd, and snorted coldly: "Why? You outsiders are greedy and insatiable, stealing the spiritual energy of my ancient realm, plundering its treasures, and disrupting the balance of yin and yang."
You are like termites, parasitic on this world!
Today, His Majesty the Great Emperor of Wei issues an order to eliminate the threat beyond the borders!
If you want to live, immediately lead these ants under your command out of the ancient realm!
Otherwise, once my army breaks through your formation, I will ensure your complete annihilation, body and soul, so that you may never be reincarnated!
His words stirred the killing intent of the army, adding to their power. A rolling roar, accompanied by murderous intent, soared into the sky, tearing the clouds apart.
Gu Yuanqing's eyes narrowed slightly upon hearing this.
The reason given by the other party seemed plausible, but the ancient realm has existed since ancient times, and it is difficult to verify exactly how long it has existed. The Linglong Realm has always been accessible, and such a thing has never happened before, so how could it be like this without reason?
There must be another reason behind this.
Either the ancient realm itself has undergone some changes, or... someone is secretly pushing things along!
He smiled calmly: "It's not that simple, is it? You are neither alive nor dead, and you have no fear of life or death, so why not speak frankly? Why bother with all this pretense?"
"There's nothing to say to you outsiders. Either get lost, or... die!"
The general of the Great Wei Dynasty gave a cold shout and attacked again, showing no intention of further discussion.
The light of countless magical treasures once again engulfed Mount Jiuqu.
Gu Yuanqing said calmly, "Then do as you please!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand and waved it, causing mist to rise from the ground and completely cover the entire Jiuqu Mountain.
The attacks from the Great Wei Dynasty continued relentlessly, but no matter what they did, they could not shake the dynasty in the slightest.
The commander frowned, sheathed his halberd, and turned to ask coldly, "Has Wang Ce arrived yet?"
"Reporting to the General, a message just arrived that they will arrive in about an incense stick's time!" A general at the Yin-Yang level bowed and said.
"Let's sound the retreat first and wait for him to arrive. I refuse to believe we can't break this formation!"
Immediately, someone activated the bronze gong, and many soldiers landed back on a nearby hilltop to rest temporarily.
Inside the Nine-Bend Formation, Gu Yuanqing told the Qian Yuan Sect cultivators to rest, and stood with Li Chengyi in the mountains, watching the soldiers of the Great Wei Dynasty not far away.
“They certainly won’t give up easily; they must still be waiting for someone else to arrive,” Gu Yuanqing said.
Li Chengyi's expression was complicated, and his brows were slightly furrowed: "The Ancient Realm is special. These people are almost immortal, and it's useless to kill them. If the Great Wei Divine Dynasty really wants to expel the people of the Linglong Realm, I'm afraid the Ancient Realm will be temporarily unable to stay."
The Ancient Realm is a very important resource for cultivators in the Linglong Realm, especially the Dao Soul of the Boundless River and the Divine Soul Medicine of the Misty Forest, which are of great use from the Void Heaven to the Yin-Yang Realm. If they lose them, even the development of the Qian Yuan Sect will be affected!
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