In the heart of Spirit City.
Dozens of massive Azure Dolphins, nearly two meters tall, were each battling a crawling Anomaly monster.
The crawling Anomaly creatures pouring in from another world were clearly no match in strength for these enormous Azure Dolphins.
The huge Azure Dolphins kept knocking the crawling Anomaly creatures to the ground, driving them back step by step.
Behind these Azure Dolphins, a stout, middle-aged man watched the scene with a broad smile as he said:
"Puny otherworld creatures, you dare run wild before my Azure Dolphin Sect? My dolphins! Ram them hard!"
The Azure Dolphin Sect was a cultivation sect specializing in raising and breeding spirit pigs and spirit fowl. Most of the Azure Dolphins reared within the sect were in the Houtian Realm, but they were also spirit beasts, with delicious, firm meat.
Nearly a third of Spirit City's pork market was now controlled by the Azure Dolphin Sect.
It was not impossible to manifest things from the Sect World in reality.
As long as certain conditions were met, things from the Sect World could also be manifested in the real world.
But bringing certain items from the real world into the Sect World was as difficult as ascending to heaven.
This had also given rise to a large number of sects devoted to raising spirit fowl or cultivating spirit crops.
Aside from the Azure Dolphin Sect, dozens of civilian Qi Refining Sects, large and small, were also bringing their sects' strength to bear, resisting these invading otherworld creatures.
Clearly, these civilian Qi Refining Sects could handle the Houtian Realm creatures that had just invaded from another world with ease.
But as time passed, Qi Refining Realm otherworld creatures had begun crossing over from that world.
These civilian Qi Refining Sects, whose combat strength was relatively weak, began struggling to hold them off.
Fortunately, Spirit City's official guardian cultivators had already begun arriving in succession.
By immediately preventing the Anomaly creatures from spreading, those civilian cultivator sects had given the authorities ample time to move ordinary people away from the area.
With the official guardian cultivators arriving on the battlefield, the situation instantly reversed. Those Qi Refining Stage otherworld creatures that had just crossed over had initially been exceedingly arrogant and overbearing.
But as numerous official Qi Refining Sects joined in and fierce fighting broke out, the Qi Refining otherworld creatures that had crossed over began retreating steadily.
But the good times did not last. The small-scale world fusion occurring in Spirit City this time had drawn far more otherworld creatures than usual.
As more and more Qi Refining Realm otherworld creatures crossed over and set foot in Spirit City, the pressure on those official cultivator sects rose sharply.
By then, the Spirit City High School seniors whose sects had advanced to Qi Refining Sects had also arrived.
Led by their homeroom teachers, they too began joining the battle, fighting the otherworld creatures that had crossed over.
Among the crowd, Lin Daqiang looked all around. When he spotted both Lin Feng and Lin Wan'er nearby, he felt a little more reassured.
Lin Daqiang could not be certain of the cultivation levels of everyone else present.
But Lin Wan'er should at least be a powerful late Qi Refining cultivator, while Lin Feng should be a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Lin Daqiang had another reason for locating the two: if powerful creatures crossed over from that other world later, he could promptly seek shelter.
"Those damned otherworld creatures actually dare invade our Spirit City! They don't take me, Lin Daqiang, seriously! Disciples of the Supreme Strength Sect, heed my command! Crush these otherworlders!"
Upon receiving his order, the three Qi Refining disciples behind Lin Daqiang swiftly charged at the otherworld creatures.
Lin Daqiang had evidently enjoyed some fortuitous encounters as well. His sect now had one disciple at Qi Refining Third Layer and two at Qi Refining First Layer.
For a sect that had initially awakened at A rank, having a disciple break through to Qi Refining Third Layer within two weeks already made it a fairly good A-rank sect.
Lin Daqiang did not personally join the fighting, instead holding the line for his three sect disciples.
For most sects, disciples could be lost, but they themselves, as sect masters, could not be put in danger.
After all, lost disciples could be recruited again, but if the sect master died, the entire sect would be destroyed.
There were actually not many seniors who had rushed over from Spirit City High School, only a few dozen.
The disciples sent out by most of their sects were essentially at Qi Refining First Layer or Qi Refining Second Layer. At present, only Lin Daqiang's sect had sent out a Qi Refining Third Layer disciple.
For a time, Lin Daqiang became Spirit City High School's main fighting force. The other students also began drawing closer to him, fighting shoulder to shoulder with him.
Off to the side, seeing that Lin Feng still had not made a move, Lin Wan'er stopped waiting and took the lead in summoning her sect's spirit beast.
An azure luan bird appeared beneath Lin Wan'er's feet.
Judging from the aura it gave off, it should have been a mid-to-late Qi Refining spirit beast.
The moment the azure luan bird appeared, it lightly beat its wings, instantly sending several wind blades slashing toward the otherworld creatures pouring into Spirit City from the other world.
Those otherworld creatures, most of them at Qi Refining First or Second Layer, fell apart the instant they touched the wind blades.
Clearly, those wind blades were immensely powerful.
When the other Spirit City High School seniors saw Lin Wan'er's spirit beast instantly and cleanly slaughter a swath of otherworld creatures with just a gentle flap of its wings, they were all somewhat shocked, with a measure of envy in their expressions.
As expected of a major sect ranked among the top three in their Sect World 999, its strength was simply on a different level from sects like theirs, which ranked in the top 50% or top 30%.
After seeing Lin Wan'er make her move, quite a few people turned their gazes toward Lin Feng.
But at that moment, Lin Feng had merely summoned two Qi Refining First Layer Azure Wolves and two Qi Refining Second Layer disciples to stand on either side of him.
They only killed the otherworld creatures that rushed up beside him, with no intention of taking the initiative to attack.
The other seniors might not have recognized those Azure Wolves, but when Lin Wan'er and Lin Daqiang saw the Azure Wolves Lin Feng had summoned, both wore expressions that said, "Just as expected."
Back in the Myriad Spirits Secret Realm, the spirit beasts guarding those high-level strongholds had been precisely these Azure Wolves.
Lin Feng keenly caught the looks in Lin Wan'er's and Lin Daqiang's eyes and felt somewhat helpless.
The fact that he was the Evergreen Sect's sect master was difficult to hide from people familiar with him, and there was no longer any need to hide it.
The Evergreen Sect had now advanced to a Golden Core Sect and had some ability to protect itself, while these people still thought it was merely a Foundation Establishment Sect.
With the Hidden Sect Mystic Aura trait, coupled with the Evergreen Sect's rapidly increasing strength every day, he already had some confidence.
After confirming that the Evergreen Sect truly was Lin Feng's sect, Lin Wan'er also felt reassured. She stopped concealing her strength and began summoning all her sect's Qi Refining cultivators into battle.
As a Qi Refining Seventh Layer disciple of the Azure Luan Sect appeared, the otherworld creatures that had just poured out from the other world were cut down.
But soon, everyone sensed a powerful aura approaching the boundary between the two worlds, instantly putting them all on full alert.