Chapter 264: A Lucky Coincidence?
The Seven Great Clans and Thirteen Sects are now all more or less connected to Su Xun.
Even if they weren’t connected, the people of the Seven Clans had heard that a few years ago, Su Xun had directly killed Wu Yuan’s nephew, a Nascent Soul expert, right in front of Wu Yuan.
And in these past few years, his strength has improved tremendously.
How much has it improved?
The Barbarian King of the Barbarian Territory, a supreme expert whose strength was enough to rival several Spirit Transformation Great Powers, was also severely injured by Su Xun.
Not to mention that he also had some ambiguous relationship with their Your Majesty……
Prince?
And now, he says he has found a way out……
They naturally wouldn’t think that their Prince, their future Sect Master, and their Alliance Leader would harm them.
Except for those within the Demon Sect.
Yunxingzi was unwilling to travel with people of the Righteous Path, and even the Yin Yang Scholar of the Evil Heaven Pavilion didn’t trust Righteous Path cultivators. If it weren’t for Real Person Kuxin’s forceful order, he probably wouldn’t have come here.
After the two sects discussed, they continued to advance towards the Qian Territory.
Even if many disciples were to be sacrificed along the way……
What did it have to do with them?
With their strength, the chances of them leaving alive were extremely high.
And Yun Honggu of the Outer Image Realm laughed flirtatiously for a while, and said to Yuanshen, “Fellow Daoist Yuanshen, this time, the lives of all the disciples of my Outer Image Realm are entrusted to you. I hope you can show the same methods you used to deal with our demonic path, and not let us die miserably in this blood water.”
“Don’t worry, I trust my disciples.”
After everyone made their plans, they didn’t say much more.
Closely following behind Real Person Kuxin, they sped towards the way they came.
This journey……
They didn’t encounter any enemies, but the danger was far greater than the previous battles between the barbarians and the Qian people.
From time to time, disciples would be unable to endure the miasma of the blood-colored true essence. If they accidentally inhaled even a little bit, they would become lightheaded and almost lose control of themselves, screaming as they fell.
And some didn’t fall directly, but instead danced wildly like demons, even attacking the enemies around them without hesitation.
But they were all blocked by Yuanshen and others who had been prepared.
Then, they avoided them from afar. For those infected by the blood mist, the only thing they could do was abandon them!
It was because in recent years, regardless of whether they were from the Righteous Path or the Demonic Sect, they had carefully studied these sect cultivation techniques and had some understanding of their characteristics. Under Yuanshen’s guidance, everyone held their breath and allowed their bodies to become a space of their own.
Completely isolating themselves from the outside.
If they could do it, they could survive in the air above the blood water for a short time. If they couldn’t, they would really die.
Even though Yuanshen and the others had high cultivation levels, they were completely helpless against this blood water.
It wasn’t difficult to evaporate it, but once it was evaporated, the damage to the lower-level disciples would be even greater…… They didn’t even dare to take action.
The journey of a thousand miles was extremely difficult and arduous.
When everyone arrived at the edge of the formation that Real Person Kuxin had passed through before.
At this time, the blood water had already risen to the point where all the buildings were submerged…… Only some towering mountain peaks and their summits remained.
Everyone landed on the peaks, looking at the endless ocean below.
The entrance to the formation was in a crevice in the mountainside…… But now, the crevice was completely submerged by the blood water, and the entrance could not be seen at all.
And at this time, the number of disciples had already dropped to fifteen or sixteen out of ten.
The power of the blood water was almost increasing geometrically.
Everyone was extremely grateful…… Judging from this, if they hadn’t followed Su Xun’s instructions and had all rushed to the Qian Territory, then probably all the cultivators except the Spirit Transformation cultivators present would have been completely annihilated halfway.
And having arrived here, if there was no turning point, then all of them, including Yuanshen and the others, would be in danger.
Now, apart from the mountain peaks they were standing on.
There was no other place to stand, and the Qian Territory was now more than five thousand kilometers away from them.
The possibility of flying over safely was now infinitely close to zero.
The disciples all showed anxious expressions. This was clearly a dead end.
Real Person Kuxin looked at Yuanshen and asked, “The entrance has been sealed off by the blood water, and we probably can’t touch this blood water. How do we get down?”
“My connection with Su Xun is still ongoing. He’s nearby. As for the location……”
Yuanshen looked at the Sunlight Divine Mirror in his hand in shock and exclaimed, “Under……the blood water?”
“What?”
Real Person Kuxin was immediately shocked.
And at this time, at the location of the previous entrance.
The originally calm blood water suddenly began to bubble.
Then, the blood water slowly pushed the waves to both sides…… It seemed that something was slowly rising from the middle.
A stone peak, like a spring bud breaking through the soil, slowly rose up and gradually emerged from the blood water.
It rose higher and higher. In just half an hour, this mountain peak had already surpassed the mountain peaks where Yuanshen and the others were standing.
And in this half hour, dozens more cultivators could no longer withstand the corrosion of the blood-colored miasma and died.
And at this time, Yuanshen and the others realized that these people, including those who had died before, didn’t fall into the blood water because they had lost control. Instead, they had actively thrown themselves into the blood water to end their own lives.
Just like these people……
They suddenly fell into a state of madness, then howled and forcibly threw themselves into the blood water, completely disappearing.
What a strange situation.
Everyone fell silent, just silently watching the mountain peak rise…… Until the end……
The entrance that had been buried was once again revealed, and it was even getting further and further away from the blood water.
And at this time, Su Xun was standing at the entrance. There was a layer of light covering the outer perimeter of the entrance. Clearly, it was this light that was blocking the invasion of the blood water.
Seeing that Yuanshen and Kuxin and the others were safe and sound.
Su Xun breathed a sigh of relief and shouted, “Master, quickly lead the disciples in.”
“Okay x2!”
Yuanshen and Kuxin responded at the same time, then looked at each other, with a slightly strange expression on their faces.
But now was not the time to care about these things.
Immediately, the two quickly gathered the disciples, and those with the lowest cultivation entered first…… This time, the Seven Great Clans and Thirteen Sects had no objections, and even the people of the Demonic Path couldn’t have any selfish thoughts.
People streamed in continuously.
It took thousands of people a full half an hour to finally enter the secret realm, and with the entry of Spirit Transformation cultivators like Yuanshen, there was no one left outside.
Only then did Su Xun make a hand seal and activate the formation, directly closing the light barrier.
He looked back at the disciples.
He said, “Alright, we’re safe.”
A narrow escape from death.
Some disciples had already collapsed to the ground, exhausted.
“It’s far from time to relax.”
Su Xun shouted, “Alright, the spiritual energy here is pure. Those of you with Earth Spiritual Roots, lend me a hand and push this mountain body further up. It’s best to protect this entrance from being touched by the blood water. Although this formation can resist the erosion of the blood water, it’s best to be as high as possible for safety’s sake.”
“Understood!”
Among the cultivators, a large group of cultivators immediately stood up.
Only then did they realize that the mountain body had just risen into the air because Su Xun alone used his Earth Spiritual Root to release Earth Element spells, creating a mountain.
How could this person’s cultivation be so high?
Was this something a Nascent Soul cultivator could do?
This time, not only the disciples, but even Yuanshen looked at Su Xun with reverence…… They knew that Yuanshen also had an Earth Spiritual Root, but he was confident that he couldn’t do this.
They didn’t know that the abundance of spells that Su Xun controlled had already far surpassed Yuanshen’s scope.
A Nascent Soul body, fighting against a Spirit Transformation cultivator, was not a joke.
“I’ll teach you a spell called Earth Explosion Heavenly Star. It can gather all the mountain bodies in one place and then forcibly lift them into the air…… We can pile up the mountain bodies below to create an artificial mountain.”
Su Xun said seriously, “Listen carefully.”
As he spoke, he described in great detail the spell that he had learned from the small world and improved to near perfection.
And the disciples, after only hearing a few sentences, couldn’t help but show fascinated expressions. As cultivators, they had a natural obsession with spells…… And the subtlety of the spell that Su Xun was explaining surpassed any spell they knew.
Although it wasn’t very powerful, it was perfect for this situation.
But even if it was subtle, the fact that it wasn’t powerful was still a fact.
Everyone quickly mastered this spell…… Even if they were unfamiliar with it, it was enough to help Su Xun.
And so.
Everyone used their full strength to cast the spell, their Earth Element true essence was incomparably thick.
Along with this, everyone felt that the ground beneath them began to tremble.
Under everyone’s combined efforts……
The mountain body began to gradually climb upwards.
And the surrounding soil moved along with it.
The mountain bodies that Yuanshen and the others had stood on before slowly sank, becoming the foundation of the entrance to this formation, allowing it to climb even higher.
After a long time…… The mountain body had climbed to an extremely high altitude.
Su Xun then breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Alright, now it’s completely safe. Follow me, I’ll take you back to the Qian Territory.”
“What exactly happened?”
Yuanshen asked with a solemn expression, “Su Xun, was the blood water you obtained before from here?”
“More or less.”
Su Xun sighed deeply.
He said, “Anyway, it doesn’t matter whether it was obtained from here or not. Isn’t this blood water the same as the one I gave you before, Master?”
Yuanshen asked, “You arrived so quickly. Did you know that there was a sea of blood water underground?”
“I only just found out about this problem.”
Su Xun shook his head and said, “I know the threat of the blood water, so I’ve been trying to solve these problems for years. Later, I had an idea about the Isolation Array, which is the formation at the Isolated Place that prevents the barbarians and the Qian people from communicating with each other. And this formation was created by Qianqiu Zi, the founder of the Thousand Clouds Dao.”
“Qianqiu Zi?”
Zen Master Wanye looked at Su Xun in surprise and said in amazement, “This matter is actually related to our Thousand Clouds Dao?”
“For this matter, I made a special trip to the Thousand Clouds Dao.”
Su Xun shook his head and said, “Then, I discovered a secret. This Isolation Array is actually not as simple as it seems. Although the external manifestation of this formation is only on the path between the Barbarian Territory and the Qian Territory, in fact, the main body of this formation is extremely large. It uses the earth energy of the Nine Provinces and Seven Realms to form a balance, and its center point is the Isolated Place!”
Zen Master Wanye’s eyes lit up when he heard this and asked, “So, it’s like a lever?”
“That’s right. At the time, I guessed that although the Isolation Array was visible on the border between the Qian and Barbarian Territories, in fact, the thing it was suppressing shouldn’t be below it, but on both sides…… So when I learned about this, I determined that when you, Master, and the others entered the Barbarian Territory, the formation would definitely lose its balance, and the thing that was suppressed would definitely escape.”
Su Xun shook his head and said with a wry smile, “But I really didn’t expect that what had been suppressed by the Isolation Array for thousands of years would actually be the blood tide that I had been trying to solve but couldn’t find a way to!”
This could really be considered a lucky coincidence.
Su Xun believed that the Isolation Array could suppress the blood tide, so he wanted to understand this formation. But who knew that the true purpose of creating this formation was actually to suppress the blood tide.
From this point of view, this Isolation Array was indeed the nemesis of the blood tide.
And if you think about it more deeply.
The blood tide in the small world appeared entirely because that world was actually an evolution of Su Xun’s body…… And in Su Xun’s previous life, he suffered from a terminal illness. This terminal illness combined with spiritual energy, which led to the appearance of the blood tide.
Then what about this world?
Could it be that the main plane I’m in is actually just someone else’s small world?
Su Xun shook his head. Now was not the time to delve into this problem……
In this way, the most difficult problem was actually…… The small world was troubled by the blood tide, and the blood tide had also begun to appear in the main plane.
If it wasn’t handled properly, it wouldn’t just be as simple as him, Su Xun, losing his Golden Finger.
The entire main plane would be destroyed.
At that time, no one would be able to survive in the blood tide.
“Let’s go. The formation has lost its balance. We have to get back to the Great Qian Capital as soon as possible. It’s not just the Barbarian Territory. There’s probably also a blood tide underground on the border of the Great Qian, but it’s suppressed by the earth energy and can’t move. But now that the Barbarian Territory is out of control, just to be safe, it’s best to defend the border of the Great Qian as well!”
“There’s actually such a strange thing within our Great Qian?”
Lin Meng exclaimed, “Then we have to go back quickly. This blood tide destroyed all the living beings in the Barbarian Territory in just a blink of an eye. If it breaks out in our Great Qian, I’m afraid the fate of the Great Qian Territory won’t be much better than the Barbarian Territory. Fellow Daoist Su……”
“Don’t worry, I’ve already understood the Isolation Array thoroughly. It won’t be a problem to seal the gaps.”
Su Xun seemed to want to say something, but after hesitating for a moment, he finally just sighed and said with a wry smile, “In this situation, we can only take things one step at a time. Let’s count the number of people and talk about it when we get back.”
“Alright.”
Yuanshen and the others all nodded. After Su Xun arrived, even though his cultivation was not the highest, at this time, he showed signs of becoming the leader of everyone.
