Sage Ancestor

Within the boundaries of war.

The cultivators of the Xuanzhen Domain were flying in unison toward the detected boundary node.

The group flew for some time, but were still several hundred miles away from that node.

Meanwhile, the personnel who had set out ahead to infiltrate and gather intelligence, thanks to the Secret Method bestowed upon them by Ning Qi, were able to operate with extreme secrecy and once again sent back a message.

Intelligence chief Xia Xing was not far from Ning Qi within the main force, and he immediately said to Ning Qi:

"Leader, a battle is currently breaking out at that node!"

Ning Qi looked at him and asked, "Who are fighting?"

Xia Xing said, "They are cultivators from the Vast Realm. They are engaged in a fierce battle with the Fierce Beasts suppressing the node."

"That group of cultivators from the Vast Realm is extremely powerful. According to the intelligence they sent back, their leaders include two Nascent Soul Venerables, one a top-tier Venerable and the other a Limit Venerable. They also have several ordinary Nascent Soul Venerables under their command, and even more Void Dao Venerables and Primordial Spirit Venerables!"

Ning Qi nodded, "Have we encountered immortal cultivators from the Vast Realm?"

Xia Xing hesitated for a moment, then said, "It should be."

Their conversation was not concealed, so all the cultivators in the Xuanzhen Domain heard about it.

Upon hearing that they had encountered immortal cultivators from the Vast Realm, including top-tier Limit Venerables, they showed no fear whatsoever.

Even though their strongest leader was only at the Integrated Body Late Stage.

Moreover, Ning Qi bestowed upon them a method for joint combat, so now that they are at the Void Dao Realm, they can also engage in a combined battle.

"With such a formidable lineup, how many Fierce Beasts are there at the node?" Ning Qi asked.

Xia Xing replied, "There was only one Fierce Beasts, a dragon!"

Ning Qi understood.

"No wonder they were able to withstand the attacks of so many people from the Immortal Sect; the strength of these Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts should not be underestimated."

Boundary nodes are divided into three levels: small, medium, and large.

The locations of these nodes are often the places with the most abundant Spiritual Qi, so Fierce Beasts will be found nearby.

The Fierce Beasts near each node are different, ranging from one to dozens or even hundreds.

These Fierce Beasts all come from the Boundary Sea, and the Fierce Beasts within the Boundary Sea are the most ferocious.

They usually crash into the boundaries of different worlds, attempting to break into the worlds and wreak havoc.

Now that they have moved from the chaotic and disorderly Boundary Sea to the relatively stable War Zone, they are thriving even more.

It took half a year for the Mountain and Sea Realm and the Vast Realm to stabilize the war zone between them, and no one knows how many Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts had entered.

With a wave of his hand, Ning Qi set up a concealment array for the entire Xuanzhen Domain cultivators, preparing to silently conceal the army's presence as they headed towards that node.

Those inside the formation felt a special energy surging around them.

They also had a vague feeling that this great formation completely connected everyone together, keeping everyone's forward speed consistent.

They were as if they were riding on a ship shrouded in Formation, which was truly extraordinary, and they couldn't help but admire the alliance leader's methods.

Once the formation was set up, Ning Qi immediately said, "Speed up!"

Everyone's bodies were suddenly pulled as if they were being pulled, rushing towards the node at high speed, but they could not be seen in the entire void, and there was not a trace of energy fluctuation.

Ning Qi decided to charge over immediately.

Otherwise, if the cultivators of the Vast Realm were to capture that boundary node, they would be put on the defensive.

If they were to establish an altar at the node, the will of the Vast Realm would be strengthened within this war zone, making things even more troublesome for them.

When the entrance to the War Realm opens.

Not only are the wills of both realms watching the developments within, but the sects that hold sway within both realms are also paying attention, as the success or failure within is closely related to their fate.

The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm swept across all war zones.

Although the War Zone has only recently been established, major battles have already broken out in many places.

It could be a battle against cultivators from the Vast Realm, a battle against Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts, or... a battle against cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm!

Eighty percent of the cultivators in the Mountain and Sea Realm were teleported to the War Realm. With so many people present, there must be some with deep-seated hatred among them.

Even though the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm had warned everyone not to fight each other within the realm, some people were still blinded by hatred and couldn't resist once they arrived here.

The will of the Mountain and Sea Realm immediately condensed several bolts of tribulation lightning within the war domain, instantly killing those cultivators who disregarded the overall situation.

Immediately, its will resounded once more in the hearts of all the cultivators in the Mountain and Sea Realm.

"Let me remind you one more time: just now, some people disregarded the overall situation and fought amongst themselves, and I killed them all!"

Everyone was stunned upon hearing this.

The monks who shared the same thoughts as those people couldn't help but suppress their impulse of hatred.

Among them are those who are good at forbearance; they have not truly let go of their hatred, but are waiting for an opportunity that the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm cannot detect.

Furthermore, once you enter the realm of war, personally taking action is not the only way to eliminate your enemies.

Luring in some Fierce Beasts or using the hands of cultivators from the Vast Realm is also an excellent method.

How could the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm know everything?

The Mountain Ancestor and the Sea Ancestor gaze at each other across the endless void, and no one knows what they are thinking.

At this moment, they shifted their gaze from the opposite side and focused their attention on the war zone.

The first thing the two illusory figures scanned was naturally the sects under their command.

Upon seeing the forces led by the two sects of cultivators kill the cultivators from the Vast Realm opposite them, the two illusory figures remained calm.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Vast Realm...

The patriarch of the Haoran Immortal Sect is unknown by name, but the cultivators within the sect all refer to him as the Holy Ancestor.

At this moment, the Holy Ancestor was still atop a solitary immortal peak within the sect.

This immortal peak is not as ethereal and shrouded in clouds and mist as the other immortal peaks within the Haoran Immortal Sect.

It is like an ordinary yet beautiful mountain peak, with a crooked stone path leading from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside.

There is a large flat area halfway up the mountain.

On the far left, there is a pavilion suspended in the air, offering a panoramic view of the vast blue sky and leisurely drifting clouds.

On the right, a waterfall cascades down a mountain valley amidst lush bamboo groves, the rising mist shimmering with rainbow colors in the sunlight.

In the middle is an extremely simple courtyard.

There is a wide wooden table in front of the courtyard, on which are placed the Four Treasures of the Study (writing brush, ink stick, inkstone, and paper).

Behind the table stood an elderly man with white hair and beard, his white hair tied back with a simple wooden hairpin.

He was dressed in a greyish-white scholar's robe, giving him the appearance of a down-on-his-luck scholar.

Yet this very old man is revered as the Holy Ancestor throughout the entire Vast Realm.

Compared to the two patriarchs of the Mountain and Sea Realm, the old man seemed more composed. He picked up his brush and continued to write as usual, ignoring the situation within the war zone.

Only the sect leader of the Haoran Immortal Sect and the will of the Haoran Realm were paying attention to everything. They would occasionally exchange a few words, but they never dared to disturb the old man.

The current war zones are not just one place; in general, they can be divided into nine.

There are nine war zones in total, including the four cardinal directions (east, west, south, north), the four cardinal directions (southeast, southwest, northeast, northwest), and the central region.

Each war zone corresponds to the spiritual zone within the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Cultivators from multiple spirit domains will enter their corresponding war domains, and the Xuanzhen Domain where Ning Qi and his group are located corresponds to the Southeast War Domain.

However, from the perspective of the Vast Realm, there are naturally nine war zones.

However, the directions corresponding to the various spiritual realms within this realm are different from those corresponding to the Mountain and Sea Realm.

The two realms are exactly opposite in position.

For example, the Southeast War Zone where Ning Qi and his group were located did not correspond to the Southeast of the Vast Realm, but rather to the Northwest.

Within the Mountain and Sea Realm, the Xuanzhen Domain is a relatively peripheral spiritual domain, but the corresponding Northwest Spiritual Domain of the Haoran Realm is a mid-level spiritual domain.

Therefore, in the war realm where Ning Qi and his group are located, the Haoran Realm has a greater advantage overall!

Ning Qi and his group were heading towards the boundary node.

At this very moment, a fierce battle is raging at that boundary node!

The one that appeared here is the White Crane Immortal Sect of the Flying Bird Spirit Domain of the Vast Realm.

The White Crane Immortal Inheritance for 500,000 years.

Two Perfection Venerables of the White Crane Immortal Sect are exchanging ideas.

Limit Venerable Shu Lingyu glanced at the several Nascent Soul Realm cultivators who were fighting a black dragon, and seeing that they were gradually suppressing the ferocious black dragon, he stopped paying attention to them.

He said to another top-tier Venerable beside him:

"Junior Brother Hao, according to the divination of the Daoist technique 'Heavenly Calculation' of the Haoran Immortal Sect, the realm we've encountered here should be a low-level spiritual realm within the Mountain and Sea Realm, so it should be an easy task."

Hao Qiuran nodded and replied, "Senior Brother Shu, you are absolutely right, which is why the sect has dispatched four teams to explore this realm."

He smiled and said, "In my opinion, even if we split into eight teams, we could still crush the people from the Spirit Realm. There are so many heavenly materials and earthly treasures here; splitting into four teams would only slow down our exploration of the realm."

Shu Lingyu shook her head and gestured towards the black dragon with her lips.

"Junior Brother Hao, don't forget that there are not only cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm within this domain, but also Boundary Sea Fierce Beasts. If our people are too scattered, we may also find ourselves in danger."

Hao Qiuran narrowed her eyes, which could be interpreted as agreement.

They looked towards the black dragon.

Apart from them, all their subordinate cultivators were fighting against the black dragon.

With the Integration Realm in front, the Void Realm in the middle, and the Primordial Spirit Realm behind, they had completely surrounded the black dragon.

However, the black dragon remained exceptionally ferocious, its entire body covered in black scales that shone like obsidian, and its body occupied a radius of a thousand feet.

Each time its claws slashed through the void, they tore out deep, unhealable black holes.

Each tail swing seemed to overturn the heavens and earth, its momentum terrifying.

Unfortunately, the black dragon was ultimately just Fierce Beasts that had just entered the Integration Realm.

Faced with the combined power of nine Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, a hundred Void Dao cultivators, and a thousand Primordial Spirit Realm cultivators, every single one of its attacks was blocked!

Its thousand-foot-long, twisting body was being continuously compressed and shrunk, and terrifying magical fluctuations poured towards the black dragon.

From the void, chains of divine rules emerged, forming a Heavenly Net that relentlessly pressed down on the black dragon!

The black dragon's eyes were bloodshot, and it let out roars, but it was ultimately helpless.

Suddenly, its massive, gaping maw, filled with fangs, spewed forth streams of black flames, which swirled around its body like clouds.

As soon as it appeared, it burned away most of the inescapable Heavenly Net, and even burned away half of the void.

The cultivators of the White Crane Immortal Sect were immediately startled, and then anger rose in their hearts.

It's quite shameful that so many of them couldn't defeat a Black Dragon from the Boundary Sea.

Immediately, the nine Nascent Soul cultivators at the forefront formed a three-star formation, grouping into threes.

One star represents the sun, shining brightly; one star represents the moon, its light gentle; and one star represents a star, its light scattering!

The three lights separated from the nine people and immediately headed towards the black dragon in the center to suppress it.

The black dragon continued to spew black flames, but the black flames that could previously burn down the void and extinguish the rules of Spiritual Qi now seemed to have encountered a higher level of existence.

The black flames tried to incinerate the three luminaries, but to no avail.

The black dragon roared even louder, but as the three-colored light orbs of the sun, moon, and stars continued to approach, its body shrank smaller and smaller.

In the blink of an eye, it was compressed to only five hundred feet!

Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran, who were watching the battle, were slightly moved, but their emotions quickly subsided.

The two completely looked away and continued their conversation.

"This time, the Mountain and Sea Realm dared to take the initiative to distort the order of the Boundary Sea and abduct my Vast Realm, forcing the two realms to fight. They deserve to die!" Shu Lingyu said bitterly.

Upon hearing this, Hao Qiuran's expression also turned somewhat unpleasant, and she replied:

"Our Haoran Realm has always valued peace. Encountering this Shanhai Realm, which is obsessed with advancement, is truly like a good person meeting a bandit!"

Shu Lingyu said, "Therefore, we must win a great victory this time and teach the will of the Mountain and Sea Realm a lesson."

"Once we've captured all the nodes in this domain, we'll cross over to help other sects."

Hao Qiuran frowned slightly. "Crossing this war zone won't be easy, will it? This isn't like crossing the various spirit domains of the Vast Realm."

Shu Lingyu nodded, "Of course it's not simple, but it's not impossible. As long as we take over all the nodes in this domain, the will of the Vast Realm will be able to completely control this domain, and then we can open the path to other war domains."

Upon hearing this, Hao Qiuran immediately understood.

He said, "Then why don't we hurry up and kill this black dragon, and complete our cross-domain feat as soon as possible?"

Shu Lingyu extended her right index finger, wiggled it slightly, and laughed, "Not at all, not at all. How could such a haste attract cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm?"

Hao Qiuran finally realized what was going on.

Their battle with the black dragon has kept them occupied. If cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm were nearby, they would arrive quickly.

The fact that the node was swallowed by the black dragon adds to the temptation; any cultivator from the Mountain and Sea Realm nearby would certainly not miss such a golden opportunity!

"As expected of Senior Brother Shu, so this was your plan all along."

Shu Lingyu smiled and looked around at the horizon, her Primordial Spirit power radiating outwards, but she still couldn't find any trace of the cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm.

He sighed, "It's a pity that the cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm haven't shown themselves yet. I wonder if we're just lucky and discovered the node as soon as we entered."

In any case, even without the cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm, their gains were still enormous.

After they finished speaking, they looked at the black dragon.

At this moment, the black dragon's enormous body was compressed from five hundred feet to a range of one hundred feet.

At this moment, the black dragon's shimmering scales suddenly oozed a large amount of dragon blood. It was now completely bathed in black flames, its eyes fixed on the cultivators from the Vast Realm surrounding it, its eyes seemingly burning, spewing out streaks of black flame tinged with blood.

Before the cultivators could react, the two flames swiftly coalesced into two black-red laser beams, which slashed towards the direction the dragon's eyes were looking.

Click!

One of the three lights, Starlight, was instantly cleaved in two. The two black and red lasers did not dissipate and instead slashed towards the Nascent Soul cultivator behind them.

Those three were at the early stage of the Integration Realm, making them the weakest three in the Integration Realm among their team.

For a moment, the three of them were stunned. The laser had already slashed diagonally across their bodies, instantly cutting them in two!

"You beast!"

Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran shouted angrily, and the two of them instantly appeared in front of the three of them.

Several extremely fine threads of regularity emerged from Hao Qiuran's body, and began to stitch the three people's bodies back together, which had been broken into two pieces.

Fortunately, those who have fused the rules into their bodies at the Integration Realm are not so easy to kill, but the three of them will be seriously injured from now on!

The black dragon intended to break through the encirclement while killing the three, but the appearance of Shu Lingyu and the other person blocked its way again.

Shu Lingyu directly conjured a giant hand covered with the rules of feathers, which reached out to grab the black dragon.

Seeing that the two had also made their move, the cultivators of the White Crane Immortal Sect immediately followed suit, determined to capture the black dragon in the next few attacks.

The net of rules they formed grew increasingly tight, radiating terrifying fluctuations as it enveloped the black dragon with all its might!

At that moment, clouds seemed to surge in the void.

The people of the White Crane Immortal Sect felt as if dark clouds were appearing in the sky, and the light before their eyes was dim.

"Kill!"

Then, a perfectly synchronized shout filled with boundless killing intent rang in their ears.

Endless magical attacks rained down from the sky, like falling meteors, heavenly fire, torrential rain, hail, and Tribulation Lightning...

Like a river of swords, like knives, like spears, like the web of rules they themselves have woven together...

The members of the White Crane Immortal Sect were immediately alarmed!

Cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm?

They couldn't understand why cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm would suddenly appear!

Their only thought was to redirect their attacks from the black dragon upwards, while simultaneously tilting their heads back.

When they saw the densely packed figures in the sky, the members of the White Crane Immortal Sect widened their eyes in disbelief, as if they simply couldn't believe what they were seeing.

The number of cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm is actually greater than theirs!

Whether it's the Primordial Spirit Realm, the Void Dao Realm, or the Body Integration Realm, there are far more cultivators in each of these realms than they are.

The only consolation for them was that, based on their initial glimpse into the Primordial Spirit, it seemed that none of them were at the level of a Perfection Venerable.

Immediately, the attacks from the two sides collided at a point just above the heads of the White Crane Immortal Sect members!

The Xuanzhen Domain launched a surprise attack, but the cultivators of the White Crane Immortal Sect eventually reacted.

But at most, all they can do is make the attack erupt overhead.

Rumble!

The continuous, deafening sounds made every cultivator from the White Crane Immortal Sect feel as if they were being shaken unconscious by the immense noise.

A thought crossed their minds: Are the cultivators of the Mountain and Sea Realm really that strong?

Then, many people inside suddenly felt dizzy, as if they had been banished to a completely dark void, losing all senses.

Then he lost consciousness and fell into complete oblivion.

All that could be seen were figures turning into ashes in the air; perhaps, these people never realized they were dead until their very last breath.

After all, the sacred place in their hearts, the Haoran Immortal Sect, had someone within it who had used the Divine Calculation of Heaven to predict which spiritual domains within the Mountain and Sea Realm each war domain would correspond to.

Their White Crane Immortal Sect corresponds to the cultivators of the Spirit Realm at the very end of the Mountain and Sea Realm. They will have no problems and will surely win the war!

Everyone who held this belief died in ignorance.

The black dragon was given a moment of freedom because the appearance of the Xuanzhen Domain cultivator interrupted the White Crane Immortal Sect's attack on it.

It flicked its tail, and its body moved like lightning, as if trying to escape from this place.

But the next second, it seemed to be out of its control, feeling its body getting smaller and smaller, and its internal strength getting weaker and weaker.

Once it could see everything clearly, it realized that it was being held upside down in the hand of a young man dressed in pure white.

In that instant, the black dragon felt a chill that penetrated deep into its soul, completely freezing its body!

It shook its head, momentarily thinking it was in a nightmare.

However, the nightmare did not end with its head shaking.

It looked down and saw that all the attacks below had vanished into thin air, countless Daoist figures had perished, and countless cultivators dressed in uniform were attacking the still-living White Crane Immortal Sect cultivators.

Among them, only eight of the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators from the White Crane Immortal Sect survived the attack.

Six of them were shot down to various locations on the ground below, where cultivators from the Mountain and Sea Realm were surrounding and killing them.

Two others, however, only fell halfway down from the sky before stopping. These were Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran, the two strongest cultivators on the opposite side.