In the end, although we exterminated the invading Corpse Race, both Silver Snake Valley and Mount Suru suffered heavy casualties and significant losses in their foundations.
Before we had ti to handle the aftermath, Pang Huanyin led a large group of cultivators to attack!
Almost without much resistance, the two secret realms bowed in submission.
It was only at this mont that they learned that a large group of cultivators from the Nine Provinces had arrived on the Unparalleled Continent and, with their help, the Corpse calamity was eradicated!
The cultivators of the two secret realms were all dumbfounded.
Pang Huanyin had no intention of incorporating these two secret realms into Ziwei Dao Palace. The Ziwei Dao Palace and these two realms had never been aligned, and forcibly incorporating them would be of no benefit to the Dao Palace. She simply subdued them; she needed these two secret realms to follow orders!
A few days later, at the spirit mountaintop cottage where Lu Ye and others used to stay within the Ziwei Dao Palace, Pang Huanyin stood with her hands behind her back, before the ten-zhang tall Heaven's Augury Pillar, looking up at it. From her expression, it seed as if she was listening intently to sothing, yet oddly, there was no one else in sight besides her.
After a mont, she nodded solemnly and spoke, "I understand. I agree. Let's start now!"
As she finished speaking, the Heaven's Augury Pillar in front of her suddenly emitted a soft glow, like a warm sun spreading its light everywhere, enveloping the entire Ziwei Dao Palace and continuing to spread deeper into the world.
Not only did the Heaven's Augury Pillar of the Ziwei Dao Palace exhibit this unusual reaction, but the Heaven's Augury Pillars in the remaining three secret realms also reacted similarly.
In a matter of monts, the entire desolate Unparalleled Continent was shrouded in a layer of gentle light.
No one knew what was happening. As everyone remained puzzled and uncertain, the heavens suddenly humd.
The world was astounded to see that the once murky and old sun in the sky was rapidly receding.
In that instant, a commanding voice, carried by the gentle light, resounded across every corner of the Unparalleled Continent: "I am Pang Huanyin, the master of Ziwei Dao Palace..."
...
The location at which the Nine Provinces cultivators would return through the enormous portal was not fixed and they would randomly scatter into various Heaven's Augury rcantile Unions across the Cloud River battlefield.
Thus, it wouldn't appear crowded all of a sudden.
Lu Ye and his group were considered the last batch to return to the Cloud River battlefield.
Stepping back into this familiar world, they couldn't help but take a deep breath.
The Unparalleled Continent, broken and barren, was an oppressive environnt, with Spiritual Energy extrely scarce everywhere except in the four great secret realms. The environnt of the Cloud River battlefield was undoubtedly much more pleasant for them.
This journey to the Unparalleled Continent had left a deep impact on Lu Ye.
People of the sa race, yet so are blessed with extrely favorable cultivation environnts from birth, while others struggle for re survival.
The current cultivation frawork of the Nine Provinces is naturally closely connected to the operations of Heaven's Augury.
When he was in the Spirit Stream Realm, there existed the Spirit Stream battlefield for cultivators to train with peace of mind. Although they might encounter so insurmountable strong opponents, all the pressure and the reachable goals within the sa realm instead motivated people to strive harder.
In the Cloud River Realm, there was the Cloud River battlefield.
The existence of these two battlefields alone ensured the continuous ergence of a vast number of grassroots cultivators in the Nine Provinces.
Cultivators did not even need to worry about artifact refining and alchemy; as long as they had enough rits, the Heaven's Augury treasure vault had everything one might need.
Any Spiritual Artifact used by a cultivator here would be considered a rare treasure on the Unparalleled Continent, and the elixirs they consud were what cultivators there could only dream of.
Lu Ye still rembered when he and Ying Wuji encountered Yooi Zhen, who was poisoned by Primordial Corpse Poison. He took out a common Detoxification Pill, yet even in the face of death, Yooi Zhen hesitated to consu it, as such elixirs were extrely precious to them!
Fortunately, the hard work on this trip was ultimately worth it. The vanguard team braved countless difficulties to install four Heaven's Augury Pillars, allowing a large force from the Nine Provinces to arrive and help eradicate the Corpse calamity from the Unparalleled Continent.
As for the future fate of the Unparalleled Continent, whether it would beco a secret realm linked to the Nine Provinces, Lu Ye did not know, but it was enough to have co this far.
Without the Corpse calamity, the Unparalleled Continent should only get better and better.
"Little junior brother, shall we rest here for the night or set off imdiately?" Li Baxian asked for Lu Ye's opinion, "I just checked the ten-part map. We are on the outskirts of the Great Wilderness Mountain, not far from the Great Reversal Valley Spirit Ground. If we leave now, it will take only a day."
"It's up to you, senior brother!" Lu Ye had no particular opinion.
Li Baxian said, "Then let's set off now. We've gained many benefits from this journey; turning them into actual power as soon as possible is important. Little junior brother, it's ti for you to start thinking about advancing to the True Lake Realm."
Lu Ye nodded; he indeed had this in mind. He had also ntioned this to Pang Huanyin when they said their farewells.
Although advancing to the True Lake Realm ant he could no longer stay in the comfortable environnt of the Cloud River battlefield and might have to face greater dangers, he couldn't delay his advancent forever.
Moreover, for cultivators, moderate danger and urgency could be beneficial.
"I'm not going with you," Hua Ci said with a smile. "I need to go elsewhere."
Before the journey to the Unparalleled Continent, she had planned to go into solitary cultivation at the Five Poisons Pond. Lu Ye had escorted her there, but midway through, they received guidance from Heaven's Augury and left the Five Poisons Pond one after the other.
The greatest gain Lu Ye had on this trip was battle rit, but Hua Ci's greatest gain was the severed palm left by the Golden Corpse King.
With that severed palm and the unique cultivation environnt of the Five Poisons Pond, Hua Ci's cultivation level would undoubtedly improve rapidly in the future.
Everyone has their own path to cultivation. Hua Ci needed to go to the Five Poisons Pond, and it wasn't good to stop her.
"I'll escort you," Lu Ye offered.
"No need, I'll go by myself."
The last ti Lu Ye had escorted her, it was mainly because they might not see each other for a long ti after parting, so she had displayed a bit of a girlish deanor.
Given her abilities, why would she ever need an escort?
Even when she was trapped with Lan Ziyi on Mount Suru, she remained calm.
In the Cloud River battlefield, anyone who dared to make a move against her would certainly et a grueso end and probably wouldn't even know how they had died.
She was a decisive person. Once she made up her mind, she wasted no ti in leaving and was the first to depart.
After watching her figure disappear, Lu Ye and others began their journey ho.
A day later, the Great Reversal Valley Spirit Ground ca into view.
The great array covering the area was intact, and large demon wolves constantly ca and went.
Today, the Great Reversal Valley Spirit Ground is sowhat renowned within the entire Cloud River battlefield. It is Lu Ye's spirit ground, enduring several attacks from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators without falling.
Even on the ten-part map, its label had been updated. It wasn't clear what the Heaven's Augury rcantile Union intended, but while other spirit grounds were simply marked, the Great Reversal Valley Spirit Ground was labeled with blood-red characters.
The sight of it gave an eerie sense of impending danger, as if an invisible killing intent was present.
This kind of marking was usually reserved for forbidden lands and territories of Overlord-level Demon Generals.
Many cultivators newly arriving in the Cloud River battlefield would buy a ten-part map from the rcantile union and find the marking on this spirit ground perplexing, often mistaking it for a forbidden land at first glance.
Landing, the group of four strolled leisurely into the spirit ground.
Lu Ye headed straight for the Spiritual Spring, taking out a box from his storage space.
Curious, Li Baxian followed and, with a glance at the box's contents, exclaid in surprise, "A Spring Spirit?"
He suddenly realized, "Is this the Spring Spirit from the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground?"
The destruction of the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground had caused quite a stir. While it was not the first spirit ground to be destroyed, the fall of such a large spirit ground was rare.
The Sacred Fire Order and the Universe Sect had managed it for hundreds of years, building it to its grand scale. For both sects, it was one of their foundational bases in the Cloud River battlefield.
The sects benefitted greatly from this spirit ground, as it shortened the growing ti for Cloud River Realm cultivators, yielding vast rewards over the centuries.
But after being targeted by Lu Ye, it was destroyed, and even the Spring Spirit was plundered, causing severe losses, though not crippling the sects.
Survivors from the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground had spread the tale of how Lu Ye single-handedly shattered the spirit ground.
So, spotting this plump Spring Spirit, Li Baxian knew its origin imdiately.
"Indeed, it's from the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground," Lu Ye confird. Under Li Baxian's watchful eye, he placed the Spring Spirit into the spring.
"How much do you think the spirit ground will expand?"
The Great Reversal Valley Spirit Ground was already a Class A Spirit Ground. Adding the Spring Spirit wouldn't improve its quality, as Class A was the highest.
But it could expand the spirit ground's area.
The Great Reversal Valley Spirit Ground was small, only accommodating a few cultivators before efficiency declined. Expanding its scale would allow it to accommodate more cultivators.
"The Sacred Universe Spirit Ground was a super-large spirit ground, accommodating two hundred cultivators for training and survival. With so degradation in quality from plundering, it could still expand our spirit ground to a large scale here, likely accommodating a hundred cultivators."
"That's more than enough!" Lu Ye nodded.
His goal in developing the spirit ground was to provide a haven for the junior brothers and sisters of the Righteous Blood Sect, a place for cultivation and refuge.
The Righteous Blood Sect had taken on many disciples over the years. Lu Ye had heard the sect master was unrelenting, continually scouting talent from other major sects, causing distress in the Bingzhou sects. They now ranked him as the most unwelco Divine Sea Realm cultivator.
But cultivation takes ti.
To date, apart from Lu Ye, Giant Armor, and Hua Ci, there were no other Cloud River Realm cultivators in the Righteous Blood Sect.
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