Is This the Legendary Haotian Palace?
The Ning Clan's current status is not due to their tolerance.
After figuring out that the Vast Heaven Sect must be the mastermind behind everything, I have to say that the Clan Head Ning is quick-witted!
In a short time, the Clan Head Ning came up with a way to counter the Vast Heaven Sect.
After all, the means to counter the Vast Heaven Sect can no longer rely on such underhanded tricks... Gu Mingchao is a despicable and shameless person. On the surface, he talks about being upright and honorable, but behind the scenes, his Vast Heaven Sect is constantly plotting.
But you, Gu Mingchao, say we should come openly and fairly, right? Do you think the Ning Clan doesn't have any fair and aboveboard methods?
Not only that! We can also make your Vast Heaven Sect so defeated that they won't be able to utter a single word!
The Vast Heaven Sect is a large and powerful organization... but among all Vast Heaven Sect industries, the one that most reliably generates resources is undoubtedly spiritual herbs...
In the present day, the Vast Heaven Sect has a near monopoly on the spiritual herbs of both the Blazing Sun Continent and the Demon Star Continent.
But if you're talking about spiritual herbs, the Clan Head Ning says, no matter how potent the spiritual herbs of the Vast Heaven Sect are... can they be more potent than those of our Ning Clan, who possess the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring?
Our Ning Clan has come this far thanks to the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring!
What elixir in this world could be more perfect than our Earth Spirit Gushing Spring?
It's said that the spiritual herbs of the Vast Heaven Sect can be grown directly... that's very convenient, but did your Vast Heaven Sect know that?
Our Ning Clan's Earth Spirit Gushing Spring doesn't even need planting; we can use the spring water directly as a spiritual medicine!
Therefore, when we sell our Earth Spirit Gushing Spring to your Blazing Sun Continent and Demon Star Continent, we can sell it at a much lower price than your spiritual herbs...
We can seize all of your elixirs' market share in the very first moment!
If the Vast Heaven Sect loses its elixir business, it will suffer huge losses!
What nonsense about Chu Xinghe's unconventional ideas... that every move he makes will bring huge profits to the sect?
Hehe... With our Ning Clan making a move this time, your Vast Heaven Sect will suffer a huge loss... The unpredictable Chu Xinghe will surely be ended by our Ning Clan... This time, our Ning Clan will make sure Chu Xinghe suffers a bloody loss!
With the Clan Head Ning proposing this method, the entire Ning Clan unanimously approved it!
Everyone agreed that the clan leader was perfectly fine!
We've openly and honestly seized the spiritual medicine business from the Vast Heaven Sect. Our Earth Spirit Gushing Spring is invincible... The Vast Heaven Sect will have to pay the price for the despicable tactics they used against us!
Subsequently, many Ning Clan began discussing how to specifically utilize the Earth Spirit Gushing Spring to attack the Vast Heaven Sect...
The discussion went smoothly, except for one thing... in the middle of the discussion... the main hall collapsed...
A group of the Ning Clan leaders who crawled out of the main hall, disregarding their disheveled appearance, all exclaimed that the Vast Heaven Sect was too despicable!
They... made their move again!
Chu Xinghe, who had just finished his seclusion at the Vast Heaven Sect, ate a light breakfast in the kitchen to cleanse himself up, consisting of only four bowls of braised pork and two pork knuckles.
Chu Xinghe didn't care at all about who won or lost this battle between the Demonic Sects... Chu Xinghe only cared that... his Vast Heaven Sect didn't win...
Even so, with almost everyone in the world losing some of their stakes, the Vast Heaven Sect became the sole winner!
In response, Ma Liang said, "Senior Brother Xinghe, did you see through Tantai Jing's scheme all along? Luckily we didn't place any bets, or we would have been scammed..."
Chu Xinghe remained silent... He'd seen through Tantai Jing's methods all along? Seen through them my foot...
As for not placing a bet, Chu Xinghe wasn't upset at all!
What the heck? You're saying that letting Ma Liang place the bets would maximize the losses?
Chu Xinghe retorted, "Even though I don't understand the Misfortune Compass, don't I know Tantai Jing?"
If I were to enter the game this time... you have no idea what Tantai Jing would come up with... I don't know if he dares to cheat us on other people's resources... but he would absolutely never dare to cheat me, Chu Xinghe, on my resources...
Believe it or not, once Ma Liang places a bet, even if the whole world is fooled... the next day, the Vast Heaven Sect will receive a mysterious sum of resources, and the amount of these resources will be exactly the same as the resources we won after placing the bet...
So even though we didn't lose this round, we certainly didn't win either!
This is considered timely profit-taking!
Regarding this battle between the Demonic Sects, Chu Xinghe declared, "As long as they don't harm our family, even if they beat the dogs senseless, we absolutely will not participate in the slightest..."
Recently, I, Chu Xinghe, have been lying down... Taking advantage of my injuries, I've been secluded and slacking off every few days. Look at Mu Xiaoqi, she's teary-eyed and adorable every day when she sees me, she's full of envy, jealousy, and hatred!
The main reason why Chu Xinghe was forced to lie down like this lies with the Beast God Spirit Temple.
The Beast God Spirit Temple in the Spirit Beast Continent was renowned far and wide. After the Three Continents merged, all parties immediately went to investigate the Beast God Spirit Temple.
However, the Beast God Spirit Temple is not open all the time; it is only open for one month each year.
The next opening of the Beast God Spirit Temple is not far off.
All parties are preparing for the Beast God Spirit Temple, because only by bringing spirit beasts into the Beast God Spirit Temple can the spirit beasts be sublimated, and at the same time, their own combat power can be improved.
All parties are basically preparing everything needed for the Beast God Spirit Temple.
Chu Xinghe was the only one who was completely unprepared...
It's not that I don't want to prepare, it's just that I'm afraid to prepare... As the saying goes, the more you prepare, the more you gain...
During his recent period of seclusion, Chu Xinghe once again summarized the problems he had encountered in the past.
After summarizing, Chu Xinghe discovered that many times, the Misfortune Compass didn't cause any strange things at the beginning... it was only later, as things developed, that problems arose.
Therefore, it seems that the Misfortune Compass actually requires some reaction time.
So if I, Chu Xinghe, am fast enough to not give the Misfortune Compass time to react... then wouldn't the Misfortune Compass be unable to do anything to me?
So for this Beast God Spirit Temple, whether anyone prepares or not is irrelevant; I, Chu Xinghe, am not preparing at all... I'll just send my fellow disciples inside the moment it opens, completely unprepared, and consume all the resources without giving the Misfortune Compass a chance to react... Tell me, how can we lose this time?
And I, Chu Xinghe, am now preparing. So not only am I preparing, but I am also giving the Misfortune Compass time to prepare... This time, we'll focus on a blitzkrieg!
Before the Misfortune Compass could even register what was happening, we were already ripped off!
While Chu Xinghe was pondering whether to take a casual stroll or go back to his secluded cultivation... cough cough... Senior Brother Shen Chun suddenly appeared from some unexpected corner!
"Junior Brother Xinghe... hurry, hurry, hurry... the Grand Elder wants you to rush to the mountain gate..."
"The mountain gate? Have important guests arrived?"
"It seems that Queen Ji Ya of the Spirit Beast Continent has arrived!"
Upon hearing what Senior Brother Shen Chun said, Chu Xinghe dared not delay and immediately got up and headed to the mountain gate.
Upon arriving at the mountain gate, the Grand Elder was already standing outside. In this day and age, there are very few people in the world who can be greeted by the Grand Elder coming out of the mountain gate.
However, Empress Ji Ya, being at the Peak Mystic God, still has the qualifications.
From afar, Empress Ji Ya's Beast King Chariot could be seen coming from the ends of the sky, landing in front of the Vast Heaven Sect's mountain gate with four-colored divine light all the way.
The chariot started, and Empress Ji Ya slowly stepped down from it.
The Grand Elder stepped forward and exchanged a few polite words with Empress Ji Ya, after which Chu Xinghe also paid his respects to Empress Ji Ya.
Ji Ya's purpose in coming to the Vast Heaven Sect this time was very simple: with the merger of the Three Continents, as the ruler of the Spirit Beast Continent, Empress Ji Ya had to pay her respects to Gu Mingchao, the number one in the world, no matter how unwilling she was.
Firstly, it's a matter of etiquette; secondly, Ji Ya is genuinely curious—is Gu Mingchao's Dao of Watching and Waiting really that terrifying?
Ji Ya was completely skeptical of the Dao of Watching and Waiting, so she wanted to take this opportunity to find out how Gu Mingchao had become the number one person in the world!
Under the guidance of the Grand Elder and Chu Xinghe, Ji Ya entered the Vast Heaven Sect. Even Ji Ya was shocked by the Vast Heaven Sect's formidable strength that she witnessed in the various palaces along the way.
Although the merger of the Three Continents hadn't been long, Ji Ya had already done countless investigations into the Vast Heaven Sect... But only after truly seeing everything about the Vast Heaven Sect did Ji Ya realize that those radicals were still somewhat conservative...
No wonder everyone says the Vast Heaven Sect is only a step away from becoming a holy land...
As she traveled through the various palaces, Ji Ya witnessed the extravagance of the Spirit Crane Palace... the grandeur of the Azure Wood Palace... the magnificence of the Thunder Palace...
This also filled Ji Ya with curiosity about the legendary Haotian Palace...
Just as Ji Ya was imagining how magnificent the Haotian Palace, the legendary center of the Vast Heaven Sect and the residence of Gu Mingchao, Half-Step Main God, must be, Ji Ya arrived at the legendary Haotian Palace...
Looking out... Haotian Palace... jagged rocks... billowing black smoke?
Just as Ji Ya was wondering what the mystery of this black smoke was... she heard a shout coming from ahead...
"Fire!... Quickly put out the fire! The sect leader has set the front mountain on fire..."
The next moment, countless disciples responsible for guarding Haotian Palace frantically began using various secret techniques to extinguish the fire...
The fire at the Haotian Palace was quickly extinguished... but the fire in the Grand Elder's heart was still burning!
The Grand Elder was furious... After returning to the sect, the Sect Master announced that he would go into seclusion to consolidate his cultivation...
Although the Grand Elder said, "Sect Master... your Physical Half-Step Main God... isn't it a bit unreasonable for you to go into seclusion to stabilize your cultivation?"
It may be unreasonable... but isn't it better for the sect leader to go into seclusion than to steal resources from the treasure vault for rewards?
But can anyone tell me... how did the Sect Master manage to set the entire front mountain of the Haotian Palace on fire during his seclusion?
What strange thing has the sect leader done this time?
Soon, the Grand Elder stopped a disciple who was responsible for guarding Haotian Palace.
Faced with the Grand Elder's questioning, the disciple dared not conceal a single word.
The disciple explained that the sect leader said the stone carvings could no longer fully express his majestic presence as Half-Step Main God, so the sect leader had built several porcelain kilns in the area in front of the Haotian Palace these past few days... and started firing porcelain without warning...
As you've seen, Elder... the fire in this kiln is a bit too intense. Counting this time, this is the eighth time the front mountain has been ignited... Oh... the back mountain has been burned twelve times too...
Grand Elder: "???"
Ji Ya: "???????????"
Ji Ya was completely stunned... When she saw the billowing black smoke, she thought Gu Mingchao was practicing some kind of unparalleled secret technique... but it turns out... it's... a fire?
Is this the legendary Haotian Palace?