Chapter 19

At minimum, top-grade spiritual treasures or Innate Spiritual Roots were needed as catalysts, and the five elements had to be of comparable rank. Above all, one element must never dominate the rest.

Ordinary cultivators often specialized in a single element.

Focusing on one Origin Law could indeed save them the effort of comprehending other Daos. It was not a bad shortcut.

But for Lu Tian, balance among the five elements was the superior path.

With his comprehension, simultaneously grasping the five elements and even the Space-Time Law was no difficult matter.

The mediocre sought specialization; the accomplished sought perfection.

How could a true seeker of the Dao allow a fatal flaw to exist within himself?

Look at the Six Sages of the primordial world. Which one of them was not proficient in every aspect?

The Sages merely had their own specialties:

Taiching in Pill Dao, Yuqing in artifact refinement, Shangqing in sword arts, Nuwa in creation.

Though his two masters appeared rather balanced, they had pushed the method of Dao Enlightenment in Dreams to its absolute peak. It secretly aligned with a new Dao and was nearly beyond the bounds of the Profound Sect.

Even if figures like them had weaknesses, they were not openings ordinary people could exploit.

The strongest beings of the primordial world had always been flawless in every regard.

What Lu Tian sought should naturally be the same.

Therefore, he had to choose the treasures for condensing the five elemental energies within his chest with utmost care. Only five rare treasures most compatible with him could ensure that the Five Elements Body would be complete and flawless.

Unfortunately, it was far too difficult...

Lu Tian sighed softly.

He knew the Western Teachings' resources like the back of his hand.

His two masters were not incapable of producing treasures to help him forge the Five Elements Body. Jieyin and Zhunti had once traveled through the east; with their abilities, they had surely gathered quite a few good things. But if they took out those treasured possessions, they would likely suffer a serious loss of vitality.

It seemed that personally traveling through the Blessed Lands and gathering more Five Elements Spiritual Items was still the best option.

Lu Tian secretly made up his mind. Once the Blood Sea Trial ended, he would officially head east and step into the most magnificent world of the primordial land!

The Witch-Demon Calamity was currently underway. The primordial world had yet to shatter, making this the grandest calamity since the creation of heaven and earth. At that thought, Lu Tian could barely suppress his urge to take part in this great tide of heaven and earth, and heroic ambition surged in his chest.

Just then—

Rumble!

The entire cave abode shook violently, and a mountain range stretching thousands of miles was annihilated in an instant! The cave abode teetered on the verge of collapse as broken stones rained down. Lu Tian casually opened a protective barrier. Without the formation's protection, that strike just now would likely have destroyed both him and the cave abode.

He frowned slightly, withdrew the formation, and looked outside.

There stood an Origin Golden Immortal in the air, divine flames swirling around him and Immortal Light blazing brilliantly.

You've hidden yourself well! If not for my exceptional spirit eyes, you nearly would have fooled me!

With a cold sneer, the other party condensed another blazing sun and smashed it down!

Lu Tian did not move an inch. He merely cast a cold glance over.

Ssh!

A streak of blade light flashed out, instantly cleaving his opponent in two. Lu Tian teleported forward and devoured the man's memories, only then learning the current situation.

The Four Great Tribes were besieging the Allied Forces War Zone?

Only twenty years had passed since the war began. That was not too long.

The discovery made Lu Tian's eyes light up. It turned out that during his eight hundred years of seclusion, the Blood Sea Continent had undergone drastic changes. Because he had slain three thousand Golden Immortals, the number of Golden Immortals had plummeted. Many Taiyi Golden Immortals had emerged to search for his trail. Friction between the various powers intensified, eventually developing into the current situation.

His place of seclusion was not far from the war zone. Since experts from the Four Great Tribes had found him, it meant that the encirclement had already tightened to its limit, and a great battle was about to erupt.

With the four major forces joining hands for a campaign of extermination and experts everywhere, how could he stay out of it?

Without hesitation, Lu Tian activated his escape light and shot toward the battlefield.

How could he miss such a feast?

It was a perfect opportunity to devour Golden Immortals!

After this battle, he might be able to completely make up for the deficiencies in his foundation. How could he miss such an opportunity?

The closer he drew to the battlefield, the denser the auras of powerful cultivators became.

In that short journey alone, he encountered more than thirty Golden Immortals blocking his way.

After killing them all, he finally arrived at the heart of the battlefield.

The moment he stepped into the war zone, an unusual atmosphere washed over him.

Within the towering city, the Allied Forces cultivators wore grave expressions.

It's all Moon Washing's fault. The war actually erupted ahead of schedule!

By convention, the Four Great Tribes should not have launched their final assault for at least another two thousand years. It has only been a few hundred years now!

Isn't it because Moon Washing was too sharp and forced them into a desperate corner?

Curses rang endlessly through the tavern.

Eighty percent of the people were cursing.

Without that person, they would have had more time to increase their strength.

Now that powerful enemies were pressing down on them, even staying alive had become a luxury.

Though the rest remained silent, their expressions were equally grim.

Throughout the trials of the past, the Allied Forces had always had only a slim chance of victory.

Although the Four Great Tribes had fewer people, they held the advantage in the number of Taiyi Golden Immortals.

Such strategic power was enough to determine the course of the battle.

The original two-thousand-year buffer period had been the critical window for breakthroughs.

By unspoken rules, it had been time reserved for the weak to grow.

Unfortunately, everything had been disrupted.

Because of the terrifying potential Lu Tian had displayed, every Taiyi Golden Immortal felt as though they were sitting on pins and needles!

After failing to find him for so long, the Four Great Tribes launched an all-out war, vowing to dig three feet into the ground if necessary.

Lu Tian withdrew his Spiritual Sense and calmly drank his wine.

He had not expected that he was actually the reason behind this war **.

The battle at Star Burial Sea had shaken every side!

Those Taiyi Golden Immortals had concluded that if they allowed him to break through, he would become unstoppable.

Naturally, they had to eliminate him as early as possible.

As he pondered, someone suddenly...

He turned his head, the corners of his lips lifting into a gentle smile. "Captain, why are you here?"

The person who had patted his shoulder was the old captain who had guided his blade training for ten years in the Golden Immortal Squad.

In his memories, this captain had only just touched the Law Threshold. Yet now he had grasped an Origin Law. He must have gained greatly in the dangerous lands.

The old captain sat down beside Lu Tian with practiced familiarity. "In such a short time, you've gone from the early Golden Immortal stage to the peak? I remember your aptitude was **, and your cultivation speed wasn't fast. It seems the opportunities in the dangerous lands were considerable."

Lu Tian smiled and nodded. "My luck has been decent."

He secretly studied the other man—the old captain clearly did not know that he was the one renowned throughout the Crimson Continent. That was no surprise. There were many members of the Asura Race who resembled him, and the truly distinctive Moon Washing Blade had not been revealed when they formed their team back then.

"With your comprehension in the blade Dao, you're at least a Law Golden Immortal by now, right?" The old captain lowered his voice. "The Four Great Tribes have been making frequent moves recently. War is about to begin. I've gathered more than eighty skilled cultivators, and the weakest among them are Law Golden Immortals. We plan to join forces and break out. Are you willing to join us?"

Lu Tian readily agreed. He had nothing else to do, so he could treat it as amusement. As for how he acted on the battlefield, these people naturally could not restrain him.

Seeing Lu Tian nod, the old captain happily patted his shoulder. Back in the early Golden Immortal stage, Lu Tian had already been a ruthless figure capable of killing peak Golden Immortals across realms. Now, he would surely be a sharp blade for breaking through the encirclement.

Afterward, Lu Tian met the team. Among the more than eighty people were quite a few Origin Law Golden Immortals. Such a lineup truly had a chance to carve a way out in the chaos of battle.

On such an enormous battlefield, completely annihilating the enemy was ultimately a fool's dream.

Otherwise, the Blood Sea Trials recorded in ancient texts would not have repeatedly produced legends of the weak turning defeat into victory.

Everyone gathered to discuss a strategy for breaking through. Beneath their seemingly cautious planning lay hidden madness. Each of them harbored the ambition of a flood dragon breaking free from its trap, and that crazed mentality interested Lu Tian even more than their tactics.

Time passed swiftly, and eight months vanished in the blink of an eye.

Apart from their daily tactical discussions, everyone often sparred and discussed the Dao.

Lu Tian kept his strength suppressed at the level of an ordinary Law Golden Immortal the entire time, never arousing the slightest suspicion.

He was waiting for the final battle. Revealing his true identity now would only invite ridicule.

Until one dawn—

Black clouds crushed the city!

Blood-red clouds that blotted out the sky gathered from every direction, stretching for tens of millions of miles and swallowing even the blazing sun.

The entire Crimson Continent fell into a shadow like eternal night.

The terrifying pressure made mountains and rivers tremble!

Before anyone could react, four earthshaking auras had already arrived beneath the city walls, surrounding the massive city like an iron barrel.

Lu Tian received a message from the old captain and tore through space to reach the gathering point.

According to the original plan, they would avoid the enemy's edge once the battle began. After the first wave of cannon fodder had all died, they would use the chaos to find a weak point and break out!

A direct clash meant certain death. Only amid disorder was there still a sliver of hope.

The old captain emphasized this repeatedly.

They had risked remaining in the great city precisely so they could escape amid the greatest chaos of the war—

The Four Great Tribes had previously divided their forces into four routes and encircled the center from the edges of the continent. If they attempted to break out early, they would certainly suffer a thunderous strike.

Only now, when war had fully erupted, did they have a chance to snatch chestnuts from the fire.

Lu Tian remained at the rear of the group, but his Spiritual Sense had already enveloped the surroundings.

The allied army of the Four Great Tribes numbered over ten thousand, every one of them a Golden Immortal cultivator!

The vast immortal army rode the clouds, jointly forming that blood curtain which covered the heavens.

Before such a formation, a feeling of insignificance like that of an ant naturally arose.

The Allied Forces had barely arrived when ten thousand immortal arts poured down like a torrential storm!

This was their battle method—

They would sweep through the enemy with absolute power and wash away all life with a torrent of myriad techniques!

Ten thousand immortals cast their arts, and stars fell while land sank!

The deadly killing techniques in the sky had already taken shape, carrying a destructive force as they charged straight toward the Allied Forces' position!

This offensive was vicious to the extreme, cutting off every path to survival.

Countless people witnessed the scene and felt all hope vanish.

The members of Lu Tian's breakout squad underwent a drastic change in expression.

They wanted to escape amid the chaos?

That was far too naive!

The Four Great Tribes' strategy was simple and brutal—they would drain the entire lake dry, leaving not even a chance to fish in muddy waters.

At this moment, they had only one final hope—

With a thunderous boom, heaven-shaking might erupted from within the great city!

A crimson-gold pillar of light pierced the clouds. An aura scorching like the blazing sun enveloped the entire city, while vast spiritual pressure swept across thousands of miles!

The Taiyi Golden Immortal of the Allied Forces tribe had finally acted!

For the first time, Lu Tian clearly saw this expert's appearance: a single horn grew from his forehead, he wore a crimson-gold Daoist robe, and nine Flying Swords circled his body like meteors.

Facing the combined strike of ten thousand Golden Immortals, he solemnly formed a Dao Seal.

"Everyone, follow me and face the enemy!"

With that sharp shout, the nine Flying Swords tore through the air, directly meeting the overwhelming offensive!

The awakened Allied Forces Golden Immortals brought out their trump cards one after another and attacked with all their strength!

Lu Tian's Spiritual Sense swept over the entire city. Only a little more than a thousand Golden Immortals remained.

Those cultivators who had refused to believe it and departed ahead of time had long since become souls beneath the iron hooves of the Four Great Tribes.

Lu Tian also launched a Dao technique toward the sky.

Silence.

The clash between ten thousand Golden Immortals and the thousand Golden Immortals led by a Taiyi expert strangely produced not the slightest sound.

In the collision of these two forces, even sound was annihilated.

And not just sound.

In a confrontation at this level, even the concepts of time and space lost their meaning!

In the end...

The Allied Forces' side actually gained a slight advantage!

More precisely, that Taiyi Golden Immortal had neutralized eighty percent of the enemy's offensive with his own strength.

The gap between Taiyi and Golden Immortals was truly terrifying!

Even with the situation so dire, some people still developed boundless reverence for that Taiyi expert.

The old captain's voice transmission exploded beside Lu Tian's ear.

In an instant, every survivor began frantically breaking through the encirclement!

High above, the Golden Immortals of the Four Great Tribes had already split into forces and surrounded them, sealing off the great city from above and below without a single gap.

They drew their weapons one after another, their killing intent soaring into the heavens.

Just as Lu Tian began to feel puzzled—

Three more terrifying auras comparable to Taiyi erupted from the horizon!

The moment the three newly appeared experts entered the scene, the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy began madly converging toward them!

The spiritual energy around them suddenly thinned.

The power of the Five Elements Origin was also rapidly drawn away.

Within a hundred-thousand-mile radius centered on them, an area devoid of spiritual power and Five Elements Origin had actually formed!

No, it had not completely vanished. Rather, it was rushing madly into their bodies.

Affected by this, the Golden Immortals could no longer draw upon external spiritual energy or Power of Origin. They could only rely on the Immortal Power stored within their bodies to fight!

The four Taiyi experts needed no communication. They instantly erupted into battle.

The Allied Forces tribe's Taiyi expert showed signs of being overwhelmed as soon as the fighting began.

Clearly, he was not a Taiyi Realm expert capable of fighting several opponents alone.

"While the Taiyi experts are fighting, break out quickly!"

"Only by escaping the encirclement can we survive!"

The old captain's roar rang out once more.