Chapter 1831
A Vicious Plan
As early as half a month ago, when the Hunyuan lineage led its army to attack the Ghost Realm, the Black Serpent Ghost King realized that it would be difficult to defend the Ghost Realm on its own.
Therefore, it had long ago sought help from several ghost path refining forces that the Black Serpent Ghost Clan was familiar with in the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm.
However, those Ghost Dao Refining Void forces are concerned that the current situation is too close to the chaos of the realms, and that friction has even occurred between various parts of the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm and the Qingxia Realm. If things go wrong, it could easily lead to a major conflict.
In addition, every conflict between realms is extremely dangerous.
Therefore, they were unwilling to get involved in the chaos of supporting the Black Serpent Clan, who were stationed in small realms, and instead planned to conserve their strength to prepare for the chaos in the realms.
They had even suggested to the Black Serpent Ghost Clan that they abandon that Ghost Clan's small realm, so as to avoid the loss of powerful members while the Black Serpent Ghost Clan was stationed in that small realm.
After all, this matter could affect the upcoming chaos in the realms.
Moreover, although the small Ghost Realm under the Black Serpent Ghost Realm clan is of good value, it is not particularly high. Furthermore, the Black Serpent Ghost Realm clan also has several other such large small realms, and even countless realms of various sizes.
Under such circumstances, even if the Black Serpent Ghost Clan were to abandon their current small realm, it wouldn't be too devastating; at most, it would just be a painful loss.
However... the Black Serpent Demon Lord was really reluctant to do that.
Although this suggestion is relatively safe, unfortunately... the situation of the Black Serpent Ghost Clan is really bad.
In its early years, it suffered a major injury due to a power conflict in the Ghost Realm. Afterwards, it almost emptied itself of its own resources, and even nearly half of its family's wealth, before it could barely recover.
While this is a good thing, it has also somewhat shaken the foundation of the Black Serpent Ghost Clan.
Furthermore, the Black Serpent Ghost Lord's lifespan is already nearly 60-70% over. If he fails to reach the mid-stage of the Void Refinement realm, he may not have to wait another few thousand years before he exhausts his lifespan and passes away.
Therefore, he has recently been trying to gather resources to cultivate a new Void Refinement cultivator to succeed him in overseeing the Black Serpent Ghost Path clan.
In this way, the Black Serpent Ghost Clan's great ship can continue to exist in the future.
However, nurturing a newly promoted Void Refinement cultivator requires a considerable amount of resources, at least tens of thousands of sixth-tier spirit crystals.
Furthermore, the Black Serpent Ghost Clan's current financial situation is not good. Under such circumstances, if they were to lose this Ghost Realm, which could generate considerable profits, it would be extremely troublesome.
After all, that small ghost realm was of the highest rank, the fifth grade, with numerous ghost veins, including some fifth-grade ghost veins.
Upon closer examination, that land alone could generate nearly a number of sixth-tier spirit crystals in profit each year.
If this continues for thousands of years, it would amount to thousands, or even tens of thousands, of sixth-order spirit crystals.
Secondly, if we back down today, there's no guarantee that when chaos erupts in the realm, the Hunyuan lineage will take advantage of its formidable strength and become even more arrogant.
Therefore, unless the small ghost realm here is truly undefendable, the Black Serpent Ghost Lord does not intend to retreat easily.
"Furthermore, given the current situation, it is estimated that this place can only be held for a few more months at most."
Seeing the current battle situation, the Black Serpent Demon King sighed repeatedly in his heart.
Then, it had a special inspiration from the fact that Hunyuan Tianjun had left the battle earlier.
'Since my clan's familiar forces in the Ghost Realm are unreliable, it would be better to seek help from... the righteous sects of the Qingxia Realm.'
After pondering for a long time, the Black Serpent Ghost Lord gritted its teeth and made an extremely unusual decision. Then, it silently returned to the Black Serpent Ghost Clan's territory in the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm through the realm teleportation array in this small realm, and entered the depths of the Black Serpent Ghost Clan's treasury.
Many treasures are displayed here.
However, the Black Serpent Ghost Lord didn't care about most of them, and only took a rare sixth-order communication array that was placed there.
Its communication capabilities are extremely powerful; as long as the protective formation of the Myriad Souls Ghost Realm does not obstruct it, it can completely traverse countless miles to transmit messages to the Qingxia Realm.
In addition, such communication methods are not uncommon in the Ghost Realm, and almost all major forces have some of them, but they are just unwilling to use them on a regular basis.
Secondly, although there are some limitations to using this kind of formation within the Ghost Realm, it would be different if it were brought to a smaller realm outside.
This can be considered exploiting a loophole.
Therefore, the Black Ghost Lord quickly brought him to the small ghost realm that had been attacked earlier.
Using this formation as a source, and through some special channels, they contacted the righteous Void Refining forces in the Qingxia Realm who had always had a special interest in the Hunyuan lineage.
In exchange for the coordinates of several fifth-tier top-grade small realms hidden in the shadows by the Black Serpent Ghost Clan, which were discovered in earlier years by the Ten Thousand Souls Ghost Realm's Void Refining forces, they would help the Hunyuan Clan cause some trouble in the Qingxia Realm, trying to see if they could make the Hunyuan Clan temporarily abandon this attack, or withdraw a batch of troops.
Thus, the Black Serpent Ghost Clan could be somewhat safe in that small realm.
Furthermore, the information he intentionally revealed regarding the coordinates of those few fifth-tier top-grade minor realms is indeed true.
The Black Serpent Ghost Clan had long wanted to take action against those few fifth-tier top-grade minor realms, but unfortunately, the strength of the Void Refining Ghost Clan forces behind those minor ghost realms was about the same as that of the Black Serpent Ghost Clan.
Under such circumstances, if the Black Serpent Ghost Clan rashly attacks those small realms, it is likely that both sides will suffer heavy losses.
Therefore, even if he knew the spatial coordinates, he dared not take any risks and never revealed the matter to the outside world.
Instead, they planned to wait until the Black Serpent Ghost Clan was prosperous before taking action.
However, the situation is not good now, so the Black Serpent Ghost King has no choice but to use the spatial coordinates of those realms as a condition for the transaction.
The conditions they offered were quite good, after all.
Furthermore, the Void Refinement forces it associated with had long coveted the Primordial Chaos lineage.
Therefore, three Void Refinement forces in the Qingxia Realm were quite interested in this and agreed to the Black Serpent Ghost Clan's proposal.
The three Void Refinement forces immediately joined forces and dispatched troops, intending to cause some trouble for the Hunyuan lineage.
And this moment.
In a quiet room within that small, attacked territory.
'Three righteous Void Refinement forces are willing to help? In that case, I'd like to see what gives the Primordial Chaos lineage the audacity to attack a minor realm under my clan's control.'
The Black Serpent Demon Lord coldly gazed at the Hunyuan lineage army beyond the boundary, muttering a mocking tone to himself. (End of Chapter)