The Six Alliances within the country are mutually hostile.
Originally, the Vast Waves Alliance, where the Jade Spring Sect was located, was only hostile to the neighboring Holy Origin Alliance, and the Buddhist Alliance, which it had behind, was initially not taken seriously.
This is because among the Six Alliances in the country, the Buddhist Alliance is the weakest in terms of power and strength.
It only encompassed the territory of the Yuan Kingdom.
It's not as good as the Vast Waves Alliance, which monopolizes the Wu Country, Jing Kingdom, and Qian Kingdom, nor as good as the Holy Origin Alliance, which monopolizes the Xu Kingdom and West Kingdom...
Furthermore, the Compassionate Chan Way at this moment also seeks to overthrow the orthodox Lotus Temple and eliminate the demonic Outer Dao of Buddhism in the world...
In short, it's just a roadside stall.
But a few years ago, for some unknown reason, the Buddhist Alliance sent an envoy saying that they had a great treasure that had fallen into the hands of the Jade Spring Sect, and hoped that the Jade Spring Sect would hand it over.
For this reason, Lotus Temple is willing to offer a valuable treasure in exchange.
However, the entire Jade Spring Sect found this matter utterly inexplicable, so they expelled the person.
Of the entire sect, only True Person Mei and True Lord Jihai knew what had happened.
After returning from Pengyu Heaven, Chen Shuangbai told him everything that had happened in the Grotto-Heaven, and entrusted the mysterious stone lotus to True Person Mei, where it is now sealed away somewhere.
The Jade Spring Sect was determined not to give this item away.
Although it is unknown how Lotus Temple knew about this... as long as Jade Spring Sect insists that they did not know, then the moral high ground in this matter will naturally be on the side of the Vast Waves Alliance and Jade Spring Sect.
Lotus Temple was also quite determined. Although it did not intend to start a formal war, its frequent harassment of the Jing Kingdom's borders caused the Jade Spring Sect to shift some of its attention to this matter.
"Don't worry about their families. You stay in Sha Province and make sure that every Buddhist cultivator who falls into the territory of my Jing Kingdom... is dealt with without exception."
After a moment's thought, True Person Mei said this.
Wei Zheng clasped his hands in a fist salute and replied, "Yes." His figure suddenly became dazed—it turned out that he was just a divine thought summoned by Law Technique to participate in the discussion.
"The most urgent task is still the final finishing touches on the [ Nine-Bend Azure Waves Dragon-Binding Grand Array ]!"
This fourth-order grand formation has been under construction for nearly forty years.
Despite the fact that the construction of the nine key cities had consumed more than 60% of the entire Vast Waves Alliance's spiritual resources.
The foundation of the three major sects, Jade Spring, Turbid Wave, and Flower Washing, rests on this formation, yet in the past forty years, not a single person has questioned or suggested interrupting its repair.
Now, after more than forty years, this fourth-order grand formation is finally entering its final stage.
The lower and middle-level cultivators were still completely baffled by the wonders of this formation; only those Nascent Soul Cultivator or Golden Core True Person cultivators like True Person Mei, who temporarily held power in their sects, were qualified to know about it.
But after so many years, how could the Holy Origin Alliance not understand the repairs to the nine key cities of the array?
This formation had already been completely repaired five years ago.
However, the Holy Origin Alliance intervened, choosing to interfere even after two Nascent Soul had fallen.
First, they began to intensify the deployment of troops to the border of the Vast Waves Alliance, and launched several large-scale raids in recent years.
Although the Vast Waves Alliance's defenses pushed them back, this undoubtedly greatly hampered the Vast Waves Alliance's manpower and spiritual resources, causing the repair of the great formation to be delayed again and again.
If it weren't for the support of the three major sects, Jade Spring Sect, Turbid Wave Pavilion, and Flower Washing Sword Sect, this grand formation would probably have been abandoned halfway through.
now.
This fourth-order grand formation has finally reached its final stage, but everyone understands that the Holy Origin Alliance will definitely not do nothing and sit idly by while the formation is successfully completed.
The next ten, or even twenty years, will be the most difficult period of this protracted struggle.
It was during their discussion that...
A jade sword carrying a message flew in from inside the hall, breaking through the seal and landing in Ding Chengyu's hand.
Ding Chengyu scanned the sword with his Divine Sense, and the relevant information was immediately reflected in his mind, causing the Golden Core True Person to suddenly stand up, his face so gloomy it seemed as if water was about to drip from it.
" Senior Brother Ding, what's wrong?"
The people inside the hall looked at Ding Chengyu with concern.
Facing the concerned gazes of his fellow disciples, Ding Chengyu said through gritted teeth, "These damned beasts, I don't know what provoked them, to stir up trouble and cut off all the trade routes along the coast. Now, the domestic and overseas markets are completely cut off!"
Upon hearing this, the expressions of the several Golden Core cultivators in the hall all changed.
Ding Chengyu continued.
"The message from True Lord Jihai said that the True Lord had fought another battle against the other side, but..." Ding Chengyu's expression was extremely ugly as he coldly said, "After the Demon Lord Earth Scale of Gen Earth Cave was killed by Sword Intent Sword Lord Yuan Jun wielding his sword intent, three more demon lords came from the sea, causing storms and forcing True Lord Jihai and the others back into the sea."
True Person Mei's face darkened.
The atmosphere inside the hall was so heavy it felt like ice was about to form.
Da da da.
True Person Mei rose and walked to the huge map in the hall. Several red and blue rays of light crisscrossed on it, symbolizing the confrontation between his own family and the Holy Origin Alliance. In addition, there were several black lines, which represented the Demon Cultivator who had returned from the sea.
Her gaze fell upon the border between Ning Country and the sea, where at least hundreds of shipping routes originated from the eight great immortal cities at sea, maintaining communication between the domestic and maritime regions.
If there were more than five Nascent Soul Demon Lord here now, and if they were truly determined to seal off the communication between the two sides... it wouldn't be impossible.
"But... aren't they afraid that the other four alliances will also be dissatisfied with what they're doing?"
Lin Jingtao, a newly promoted Golden Core cultivator, pondered for a moment before speaking.
These hundreds of shipping routes are not all closely related to the Vast Waves Alliance... Furthermore, it is impossible for the Nascent Soul sects among the other four alliances to have no spiritual resources exchange with the eight immortal markets at sea!
"The words of the five Nascent Soul Demon Lord..."
Yi Chongyue frowned slightly and said, "I think we should let them go. Besides Ning Country, there's also Yuan Kingdom..."
But Yi Chongyue stopped halfway through his sentence, as if he had remembered something.
The Yuan Kingdom is currently in a mess, and it's not even part of the Vast Waves Alliance's territory. Moreover, the Lotus Temple has already shown obvious discord with the Jade Spring Sect.
True Person Mei's voice resounded throughout the hall, still as calm as ever. "It's clear that this is the advice the Holy Origin Alliance gave to those Nascent Soul Demon Lord."
"Damn it, those people are treacherous!"
Several Golden Core cultivators were filled with righteous indignation.
Everyone was filled with anger, wishing they could slay the demons and monsters and kill them all as soon as possible.
But at this very moment, trouble broke out again on the Ning Country battlefield.
Despite the Holy Origin Alliance's repeated defeats at the three defensive lines of the Xu Kingdom, West Kingdom, and Qian Kingdom, low-level magical creations continued to pour in.
The Nascent Soul True Lord of the Vast Waves Alliance all understood that this was a perfectly legitimate and open conspiracy by the Holy Origin Alliance!
After a long while, True Person Mei's clear, cold voice rang out from inside the hall.
"Reopen the treasure vault and supply spiritual resources... As for the issues at sea, True Lord Jihai and the others should have a decision."