Born with immortal seed

Chapter 306 Nascent Soul Tribulation Cultivator
On that day, the three Nascent Soul True Monarchs of the Five Phoenix Sword Sect quietly watched the relocation of the Heavenly Principle Sect, without making any move.

For them, being able to acquire a fourth-order spiritual vein and make it their junior brother's new training ground was already a perfect achievement.

The Tenri Sect, with its tens of thousands of years of accumulated wealth, didn't care much about it.

For these super-large corporations in the Central Region, each of them controls more than one stable secret realm.

Some treasures that seem priceless to outsiders are nothing special in the eyes of super-rich investors.

Only spiritual veins are non-renewable, and the number of cultivators continues to increase, making the territorial crisis in the Central Region a thousand times more severe than that in the surrounding four regions.

Nascent Soul True Monarchs have long proclaimed the slogan of exploring the outer seas, and at the same time predicted that within a thousand years, a terrifying war would break out in the Central Region due to the struggle for spiritual lands, sweeping across all sects.

However, even now, people are still more accustomed to seizing living space from fellow cultivators than from the mysterious and unknowable outer sea.

In the Central Region, it is commonplace for newly born Nascent Soul True Monarchs to challenge others to duels for the sake of their own cultivation grounds.

At most, one could say that the Five Phoenix Sword Sect disregarded the Five Virtues, and with several fellow disciples joining forces, the Heavenly Principle Sect lost all fighting spirit and simply fled.

However, to exterminate them completely and leave them no way to survive would break the rules of the cultivation world in the Central Region.

The Heavenly Principle Sect was not guarding against the Five Phoenix Sword Sect, but rather against several mysterious tribulation cultivator organizations in the Central Region.

This group of people are elusive and ruthless; it is rumored that a Nascent Soul True Monarch is among them.

Despite years of joint efforts by several major sects, they have failed to completely destroy it.

The entire Tenri sect migrated, and the wealth they carried with them over tens of thousands of years must have been an astronomical figure.

In addition, once they left the mountain gate, the sect's protective array was no longer in place.

Even when faced with a behemoth like the Heavenly Principle Sect, these treacherous cultivator organizations could not resist the temptation of money and gifts.

Moreover, with such fierce competition in the Central Region, how could the Heavenly Principle Sect, which has been rooted for tens of thousands of years, not have a few enemies?

During the long journey, there was a fear that someone might take advantage of the chaos to rob and settle old scores.

The Heavenly Principles Sect raised its alert level to the highest level and successfully left Dali, but just as they were about to cross the mountains and enter the Northern Region, they were attacked from all directions.

The three major calamity cultivator organizations in the Central Region actually joined forces and, for the first time ever, targeted a Nascent Soul sect for robbery.

The three groups of thieves all came out, totaling no more than two thousand cultivators, far fewer than the Heavenly Principle Sect.

There was no weakling in the team; their average strength was much greater than that of the disciples of the Heavenly Principle Sect.

Among them was indeed a Nascent Soul True Monarch, wearing a special mask that could isolate divine sense, resembling a celestial official or divine messenger from mythology.

This person was on par with the leader of the Heavenly Principle Sect in terms of strength. The two of them flew into the sky and displayed their skills to the fullest.

Even if the remaining thousand cultivators had more than twenty Core Formation True Persons in their team, they would still be unable to break through the defenses of the five floating ships of the Heavenly Principle Sect that were linked together and formed a mobile array.

The amount of materials used to forge these five airships is astronomical, and the forging time for each one exceeds a century.

Each ship is equipped with an independent third-tier grand array, using top-grade spirit stones instead of spirit veins, supplemented by a dozen rare spirit eye artifacts, and tens of thousands of restrictions, creating this miraculous product of weapon forging.

Not to mention the large magical artifacts arranged on the deck, including over a hundred Divine Thunder Towers, Taiyi Thunder Cannons, Fire Demon Crossbows, and so on.

It was once a powerful weapon for the Heavenly Principle Sect in its conquests and suppression of rebellions, achieving the remarkable feat of breaking through the protective formations of three Core Formation-level sects in a single day.

Later, due to the exorbitant cost of refining and the unbearable maintenance costs, the refining of the fifth airship was halted.

At this moment, the five airships were connected, and the five types of third-tier formations that had been selected and matched beforehand were perfectly integrated, which was equivalent to becoming a top-grade third-tier formation.

At the same time, the large magical artifact that had been erected unleashed its power, instantly killing dozens of cultivators who had undergone tribulation.

Even a Core Formation cultivator who was singled out and fiercely attacked escaped in disarray, nearly having his protective magic treasure shattered by dozens of lightning bolts.

At this rate, let alone the three mysterious Tribulation Cultivation organizations joining forces, even if the Heavenly Principle Sect had twice as many Tribulation Cultivation cultivators, they could easily handle it.

Just as the five airships were reinforcing their formation and slowly advancing while firing at the Jiexiu from a distance with their Fire Demon Crossbows, a giant fleshy hand descended from the sky.

Like a small mountain, covering the sky and the sun, the palm directly pressed down on the airships.

The five-colored light circle formed by the third-tier top-grade array actually dented down, emitting an unbearable creaking sound.

"Old devil Cui, how dare you do this!"

With a roar, the Heavenly Principle Sect leader caused the gale-force winds to recede from the sky and the clouds to disperse.

A Bagua diagram fell down, rotated and expanded, and in an instant it grew to the size of a hundred acres, about to engulf the palm of my hand.

"Lord Po Jun, if you continue to obstruct me, you will be mortal enemies with my Heavenly Principle Sect!"

The leader of the Heavenly Principle Sect had a blood-red face as he pushed open the space between the two people with a jade ruler in front of him.

Wearing a mask, the Nascent Soul cultivator dressed as a Heavenly Official remained silent, not taking his opponent's threat to heart.

Having committed so many major crimes, offending six or seven Nascent Soul sects, and still maintaining a mysterious identity unknown to outsiders, while managing to expand his force through repeated encirclements, he must possess unique abilities.

He held a pair of bronze flying swords, exuding an ancient charm. With a flick of his sword light, he disrupted the invisible barrier of energy in front of him and continued to entangle the leader of the Heavenly Principle Sect.

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"Is that Cui Xu from the Hundred Puppet Sect?"

This was the first time Yan Rulong had learned about the battle situation during the sect's retreat from his master-uncle, the sect leader.

Since arriving in Liang Kingdom and requesting a place to stay from the Holy Lotus Sect, Shi Chengdong, the leader of the Heavenly Principle Sect, has been in seclusion recuperating from his injuries and has not seen anyone.

The cultivators in the sect could only view the entire attack process from their own perspective, unlike Shi Chengdong who had a comprehensive analysis from a higher vantage point.

"That's right. The Hundred Puppet Sect has been enemies with our sect for ten thousand years. When the Heavenly Treasure was born, their ancestor was hit by our patriarch's foot, his physical body was rotten, and he could only escape with his nascent soul... This enmity is not so easy to resolve."

Shi Chengdong was tall with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and looked like a young man.

He coughed repeatedly after saying just one sentence, and his palm was covered in a smear of blood, clearly indicating that he was far from fully recovering from his injuries.

Ten thousand years ago, news of a Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure spread throughout the Central Region, causing all cultivators to go mad.

From Nascent Soul True Monarchs to Qi Refining cultivators, everyone was caught up in this frenzy, because someone saw that after the Heavenly Treasure was born, it lost its brilliance and turned towards the mortal city.

But even after turning the entire city upside down, there was still no sign of the Heavenly Treasure.

The two Nascent Soul patriarchs of the Heavenly Principle Sect and the Hundred Puppet Sect also couldn't resist the allure of the Heavenly Treasure and joined the treasure-hunting army.

Instead of finding the Heavenly Treasure, the two clashed and fought a fierce battle.

In the end, the Nascent Soul Ancestor of the Heavenly Principle Sect prevailed, forcing the Hundred Puppet Sect Ancestor to flee in his Nascent Soul form.

From then on, the two families became enemies.

Over thousands of years, the constant fighting and hatred have accumulated to an unbreakable bond.

Moreover, that Heavenly Treasure from back then ultimately had nothing to do with the Heavenly Principle Sect.

In the end, they provoked several old monsters, who were either Nascent Soul cultivators at their peak or Nascent Soul cultivators.

After a fierce and earth-shattering battle, no one knew who had gotten the Heavenly Treasure, and the matter gradually faded away, with no one paying any more attention to it.

"I took a sword from the Star Lord of the Broken Army before I could drag Old Ghost Cui into the battlefield... but it was still too much of a stretch for the airship to fight against the Nascent Soul True Monarch. He used the Palm Transformation Heaven and Earth method, which broke the formation and knocked down an airship with a single palm strike."

Shi Chengdong's face was ashen. He did not explain how he managed to escape unscathed from the attack of two Nascent Soul True Monarchs, or even force them back, thus leading the remaining cultivators of the Heavenly Principle Sect through the mountains into the Northern Region.

Judging from his condition, he must have been working himself to the bone.

"How many of our sect's disciples are still alive and have made it to the Liang Kingdom?"

"Over 14,000 people, three of our Core Formation disciples have perished..."

Yan Rulong gritted his teeth, and his heart was still bleeding as he spoke of this shocking number of casualties again after three years.

Cui Xu slammed the two airships to the ground, killing almost all the disciples on board. The airships exploded and were reduced to ashes.

Only two Core Formation cultivators managed to escape with their bodies broken and their lives spared.

The other three airships also suffered heavy casualties.

When sorting through the resources, at least one-third of the supplies were left behind.

Fortunately, the most important treasures were stored in Shi Chengdong's storage magic treasure.

Such damage is unprecedented since the founding of the Tenri Sect.

"With most of my disciples dead, how can I face my ancestors and my senior brother who told me to revitalize the Xiangxin lineage before he passed away... Old Ghost Cui, Lord Po Jun, I swear I will not be a man if I do not avenge this!"

Shi Chengdong coughed up a mouthful of blood, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace as he pointed to the sky and swore an oath, his voice hoarse and strained.

“Junior Nephew Yan, why haven’t you taken Black Mountain yet… This place is only a third-tier spiritual land, which is not conducive to my recovery. Moreover, it’s not good to stay under someone else’s roof for too long.”

"Reporting to Master Uncle, your disciple is incompetent and has failed to complete the task."

Yan Rulong blushed and recounted in detail what had happened to his group after they arrived in Liang.

"Although Qingfeng Sect is only a Core Formation level sect, it has produced two Core Formation True Persons... I'm afraid even if we mobilize a large number of Core Formation junior brothers, we might not be able to achieve a complete success. At such a time when our strength is greatly depleted, I dare not make decisions on such important matters on my own."

"Such a figure exists in the small kingdom of Liang..."

Shi Chengdong sighed helplessly and said.

"This is not your fault. According to you, these two are undoubtedly core disciples even in the Heavenly Star Sect and the Five Phoenix Sword Sect, and may even be established as holy sons... That's right, our sect cannot afford any more losses."

“The Holy Lotus Sect keeps urging us, saying they will create conditions for us to advance into Black Mountain… but I always brush them off by saying I’m tired from the journey and need to reorganize and recuperate.”

Yan Rulong presented several visiting cards from the Holy Lotus Sect, all of which were invitations from True Monarch Nine Lotus to Shi Chengdong or junior Core Formation True Persons to pay their respects.

"Nine Lotus was unsure of my injuries and wanted to test me... But with your strength, taking down Black Mountain will indeed be difficult."

Shi Chengdong rubbed his eyes and said, "It will take me at least thirty more years before I can act without being affected. Let's just take over a third-tier spiritual vein to settle the sect's disciples for now. Staying under Jiu Lian's nose is bothersome for me, and he can't feel at ease either."

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