Chapter 280
Anomaly
Chapter 280 Anomaly
Nine Heavens Sacred Land.
The leader of the nine immortal sects, the absolute overlord of the True Immortal Great World, dominating the Central Continent, with countless powerful figures within its ranks, its might suppressing the world.
First, there was the brilliant and ambitious Lord Ji Chunjun of Juntian, who led the sect to flourish and make great progress day by day. Then, there was the Lord Liu Xianyi of Xuantian, who emerged out of nowhere and established endless legends with his dazzling presence throughout the heavens.
If it weren't for the appearance of Tianyuan Daoist...
As early as ten thousand years ago, the Nine Heavens Holy Land was already planning to conquer the world, bring the entire True Immortal Great World under one rule, and unify the True Immortal Great World by suppressing the Ten Lands with the Nine Heavens.
Even today, although the humiliation brought by Tianyuan Daoren is still vivid in their minds, everyone in the Nine Heavens Holy Land is still holding their breath, unwilling to accept defeat, and instead, they are motivated by shame and determined to forge ahead.
Within the Nine Heavens Sacred Land, a vibrant scene of life unfolds.
All disciples in the sect still consider themselves to be from the same sect.
No matter how strong Tianyuan Daoist is, he is still just one person and cannot break into the gates of the Nine Heavens Holy Land.
Unless he is willing to sever his own path and remain in the mortal realm forever, even if he doesn't ascend for nearly 10,000 or 20,000 years, he still can't endure 30,000 or 40,000 years, or 50,000 or 60,000 years.
With its own resources, the Nine Heavens Holy Land will eventually wear down Daoist Tianyuan.
In the end, time was on their side.
Furthermore, Tianyuan Daoren would not bully the weak, and he would not attack some Dao Realm cultivators or even some Loose Immortals. Although these people grew up hearing the legends of Tianyuan Daoren, they would not directly face his pressure. As a result, the disciples of the Nine Heavens Holy Land were naturally confident and arrogant, looking down on the world and regarding the cultivators of the other eight sects as subordinates or servants.
But at this moment...
In the Heavenly Fate Hall of the Nine Heavens Holy Land, where all the core disciples were kept, an atmosphere of panic quickly spread.
"Something terrible has happened! Something terrible has happened!"
The elder in charge of inspecting the life lamps watched as fourteen lamps were extinguished in an instant...
Especially when it included two silver lamps, my whole body trembled slightly.
"Zhang Shengzi, Elder Sheng, Elder He... they... they went to participate in the Immortal Realm War, didn't they? In the Immortal Realm, anyone with immortal power who enters will have their pure yang immortal power drained by the still-recovering Immortal Realm Gate. Only those at the Dao Realm can venture there, but who at the Dao Realm... who at the Dao Realm can kill Zhang Taiyuan, the Holy Son of our sect!?"
Filled with disbelief, he quickly reported the news.
The news quickly reached Qinglu, the Palace Master of the Heavenly Mandate Hall, who immediately reported it to the Supreme Elders Council.
In an instant, the Supreme Elders on duty and the pre-selected Supreme Elders of the Supreme Elders Council were in an uproar.
"Who is it?! Zhang Taiyuan is a supreme expert in the Dao Realm, how could he possibly die in the Immortal Realm?!"
“Zhang Taiyuan is invincible! He is the unparalleled genius of our Nine Heavens Holy Land. He already had the foundation to undergo physical tribulation three hundred years ago. In order to wait for the opportunity of the opening of the Immortal Realm, he stayed in the Dao Realm for more than three hundred years. This time when he went to the Immortal Realm, the sect bestowed upon him the top-level Dao artifact, the Eight Desolate Primordial Armor. No one in the Immortal Realm can kill him!”
"Indeed, in a one-on-one fight, no one can kill Zhang Taiyuan of my sect! It must be a combined attack from many forces, outnumbering the enemy, that will surround and kill Taiyuan!"
"No! The Heavenly Monarchs and top True Monarchs of the other nine Immortal Sects combined are no match for Zhang Taiyuan! They must have colluded with the Demon Race, the God Race, the Demon Cultivator, and the Buddhist Cultivator to kill our sect's prodigy! We must make them pay for their blood debt!"
The members of the Supreme Elder Council of the Nine Heavens Holy Land discussed the matter and unanimously agreed that no one could kill Zhang Taiyuan.
Unless several major immortal sects, demonic cultivators, Buddhist cultivators, and numerous alien races join forces and use many bizarre methods, they cannot threaten Zhang Taiyuan's life or death. Otherwise, with his top-tier Dao artifact armor, he could never have perished in the Immortal Realm.
This conclusion infuriated the members of the Supreme Elders' Association.
"If Zhang Taiyuan is dead, then everyone else in this Immortal Realm War should also die!"
“Indeed, the nearest void coordinates to the Immortal Realm Gate are above our Central Continent! Report to the Holy Lord Juntian, and I propose that we activate the Nine Heavens Divine Mirror, aim it at the Immortal Realm, and once the Immortal Realm opens, leave no one alive!”
“Zhang Taiyuan, Sheng Yang, He Qing, and the others—weren’t they all the pride of our Nine Heavens Holy Land, about to undergo their tribulations? And yet they all perished in this battle of the Immortal Realm… Ha, they dared to do such a thing, so they can’t blame our Nine Heavens Holy Land!”
They, the Nine Heavens Holy Land, have always been the ones bullying others; how could they allow others to bully them?
The Supreme Elder, Zhi Shu, roared menacingly, "If Daoist Tianyuan insists on coming to our door again, then we'll fight him to the death! We've tolerated him for ten thousand years! Does he really think we're afraid of him? At worst, we'll sink Zhongzhou!"
However, there was no response to his words.
Some people even moved a few steps away from him.
Ultimately, after discussions among the senior elders on duty, the plan was directly passed on to Ji Chunjun, the Holy Lord of Juntian, who was responsible for maintaining the operation of the Nine Heavens Holy Land and was equivalent to the sect leader.
"Nine Heavens Divine Mirror".
The Holy Lord of Juntian looked at the proposal submitted by the Supreme Elders Council and gave a single word indifferently.
"allow."
……
Immortal Realm.
The gates to the celestial realm opened once more, accompanied by an even more powerful surge of void energy erupting from within.
This time, the void ripples that burst forth had almost transformed into visible waves, like shockwaves from the entire world level, sweeping towards Li Xian's body who was guarding the door.
Even though Li Xian's Void Dao Body was nearly perfect and he wielded the Purple Cloud Dao Palace, which had the power to suppress the void, he still felt the surrounding space changing at this moment. He was almost unable to stand firm at the gate of the Immortal Realm due to the impact.
especially……
This time, the number of scattered immortal corpses that emerged with the ripples in the void suddenly soared to eleven.
It wasn't the initial six, or the subsequent seven or eight, but rather a breakthrough to double digits in one go.
These scattered immortal corpses were numerous, and when they were swept out, they were accompanied by strong ripples in the void, which even Li Xian could not effectively intercept.
Of the eleven corpses, only four were salvaged.
especially……
Just before the ripples in the void subsided, a strange object, distinct from magical treasures and Dao artifacts, suddenly flew out of the gate to the Immortal Realm. Moreover, its speed surpassed that of the corpses of scattered immortals.
Almost as soon as Li Xian noticed the strange object, it was about to disappear from his sight. Fortunately, the object happened to be flying in his direction, so before it passed by, he precisely used Void Freeze to freeze the object in mid-air, and then with a wave of his hand, he had already taken it in his hand.
The strange object they acquired turned out to be a precious jade.
Li Xian carefully sensed it and immediately felt that the precious jade contained a kind of extremely pure and vast energy fluctuation.
He examined it with his divine sense and felt as if his divine sense was about to be burned.
"This power... Pure Yang Immortal Power!?"
Li Xian immediately realized something: "This is a Celestial Artifact-grade material!?"
Immortal artifacts are different from Dao artifacts!
Dao artifacts are crafted with a Dao-inspired treasure nurtured by heaven and earth as their core.
And immortal artifacts...
It all comes down to practice!
Using raw materials capable of bearing pure Yang energy, and through the tireless efforts of immortals day and night, pure Yang components are forged and refined. These components are then used to construct the entire structure, which is made from hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of parts.
To some extent, the grade of a celestial artifact can be discerned from the precision and quantity of its components.
In theory, a primordial spirit immortal can forge immortal artifacts.
However, with only a tiny bit of pure yang immortal power within the body of a primordial spirit immortal, even if one worked oneself to death, it's unlikely that one could forge even one or two immortal artifact components.
But that's not the point. The point is...
The value of each piece of immortal artifact material rivals that of a top-grade Dao artifact.
The key is that once the materials for immortal artifacts are refined with pure Yang power, it's like having a safety net.
For a cultivator at the peak of the Spirit Refining Realm...
Even if one fails to transcend the tribulation, one can still reside one's Yin spirit within a celestial artifact material containing pure Yang power, transforming into a ghost immortal.
By obtaining the pure Yang power from the materials of immortal artifacts, one can transform into the Yin spirit of a ghost immortal and gain a lifespan of 10,800 years.
Lifespan increased tenfold!
This characteristic alone is enough to drive any peak-level cultivator crazy for materials used in immortal artifacts.
Some immortals, especially those who dote on their younger generations, would even go so far as to go bankrupt to exchange for such immortal artifact materials, thus providing them with a way out.
"Although we reaped quite a bit from those scattered immortal corpses, they all had some problems due to the long passage of time. There were only two Dao artifacts that could truly be considered intact. Although the value of the other items combined was equivalent to those two Dao artifacts, they were still far inferior to this set of intact immortal artifact materials..."
Li Xian happily accepted the materials for the immortal artifact.
Judging by the time, this is only the third day since the Immortal Realm opened.
In less than three days, he had already gained the equivalent of four Dao artifacts and one superior Dao artifact.
No wonder, every time the Immortal Realm opens, even though everyone knows it is full of dangers, countless people, including some Seven-Scar True Monarchs who are nearing their end, and even some peak Refinement Gods, still venture in.
If one were lucky enough to find even a single corpse of a wandering immortal...
While I wouldn't dare say I've obtained a Dao artifact, the total gains are almost enough to buy a ninth-realm tribulation-crossing magic weapon.
……
The ripples emanating from the gate to the celestial realm continue to spread.
It continues in a way that is beyond everyone else's frequency.
By the seventh day, each ripple, even accompanied by the shaking of the gate to the immortal realm, would often result in more than ten corpses of wandering immortals flying out from within.
The largest number ever recorded was twenty-one.
Everyone could sense the abnormality of the Gate to the Immortal Realm.
But no one bothered to investigate the reasons.
After all, there are too many corpses of wandering immortals; seizing the corpses is the priority.
Li Xian personally intercepted 40% of these scattered immortal corpses.
After seven days, he was running out of space in his storage ring to hold the remains of the scattered immortals, so he had to summon the Shadow Sword Immortal once to help him share some of the burden.
However, while the large number of corpses of wandering immortals made other cultivators rich, it also aroused deep jealousy among many towards Mr. Li, who monopolized 40% of the resources.
Furthermore, the demon race, Buddhist cultivators, and demonic cultivators were all stirring things up behind the scenes...
Greed gradually filled the hearts of these people.
No matter how you look at it, Li Xian is nothing more than a Refining God.
A being at the same Refining God Realm as them.
However, compared to others, he was simply invincible in the Dao realm.
but……
Even if someone is invincible in the Dao Realm, they are still still in the Dao Realm.
Pride that he was no less than others, a sense of self-importance fueled by wishful thinking, an uncontrollable greed, and constant instigation from foreign races...
Ultimately, it all boiled down to one thought: fortune favors the bold.
These forces actually organized themselves spontaneously.
A surging undercurrent condensed and took shape in a very short time.
(End of this chapter)