ah?The palace fighting system can also cultivate immortality

Chapter 252

The fog gates opened, and across the land, cries of agony filled the air.

The spirit beasts, their minds manipulated by the fog gate, relentlessly and repeatedly attack the living. Even lone cultivators are powerless to resist, while mortals have nowhere to escape, forced to kneel and beg for divine mercy, or futilely fight back with their crude farming tools.

This scenario plays out repeatedly across the entire continent.

The Immortal Alliance's plans had some effect, but they couldn't protect all sects. In areas where the Immortal Alliance couldn't reach, many sects and mortal towns remained unaware of the news, unable to evacuate, and consequently lost contact with the Immortal Alliance.

"Wenxing, have you figured out how to solve this formation yet—"

"I'm already thinking about it!!!"

Chi Wenxing glared fiercely at Zhu Tianya: "As for you, you better take responsibility as the leader of the Immortal Alliance and immediately arrange for evacuation and the mountain protection formation!"

Zhu Tianya didn't dare say a word more, and quietly ran away with his tail between his legs.

"Senior Chi! Regarding formations—"

Just as Chi Wenxing, already mentally exhausted, was about to explode, Shu Jiuqing excitedly squeezed in through the crack in the door and casually picked up a charcoal pencil to sketch on the array copybook in front of her:
"—My master sent me a message; she has a way to break it! Senior Chi, what do you think? If we modify the formation like this, and then add an additional superimposed formation..."

Chi Wenxing's eyes widened as she watched the modified formation. Countless questions filled her mind, but her brain was also rapidly calculating the effects and uses of this improved formation.

Absurd? Absolutely absurd! She had never seen such a formation before!

But, it seems, it really can work?
Chi Wenxing didn't care about anything else. She gritted her teeth, picked up the copybook, grabbed the Shujiuqing with one hand, and rushed out: "Let's go, we need to change the formation at the mountain gate right away!"

Xuandu.

This magnificent capital city is now in utter chaos.

The entire city rose from the ground and seemed to continue ascending. Strange and terrifying fog caves appeared in the surrounding sky, and mythical beasts stirred, attacking humans in packs. Not to mention the spectacle within the palace:
The Xuan Emperor grew to be as big as a mountain, and was yelling and slapping himself all over!

No, Your Majesty, what are you doing? Is this some new cultivation method?
Du Xinghe had no time to care what the people of Xuandu thought. She was struggling to fly towards the face of this mountain-like enemy, enduring the Xuan Emperor's soaring cultivation and pressure.

The misty caves appearing in all parts of the world are continuously absorbing the spiritual power of spirit beasts and humans. This spiritual power is offered as a sacrifice to the Heavenly Dao, and the cultivation gained is fed back to the Xuan Emperor.

It can be said that Du Xinghe is currently fighting against the Heavenly Dao and almost the entire cultivation world!
"Master!"

Xuan Di unleashed another palm strike, which Du Xinghe narrowly avoided, only getting grazed by the edge of the palm.

Even this minor scratch caused Du Xinghe's mind to tremble violently, and the bones and meridians of one of his arms shattered inch by inch!
Xin Yue struggled to fly up despite the terrifying pressure from the Xuan Emperor. She grabbed Du Xinghe's limp arm and used her internal energy to heal her, tears streaming down her face.

"Truly, as expected of someone with a water elemental root, she sheds far more tears than I have..."

Du Xinghe wanted to lighten the mood with a joke, but her head was throbbing. The battle had consumed too much spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy accumulated by the Five Poison Immortal Gu was almost depleted.

With the help of the mist cave, Emperor Xuan has increased his cultivation to the Great Perfection of the Integration Realm, and is only one step away from ascension.

To inflict real harm on him, we must exert all our strength, exhausting ourselves time and time again!

"Master, please listen to me!"

Xin Yue grasped Du Xinghe's slowly healing hand, her face resolute as she gritted her teeth: "I...actually, I have another way!"

Du Xinghe was taken aback: "What's your idea?"

Xin Yue said, "Master, do you still remember how we met in the first place?" In order to escape, a little girl named Gong Qi sacrificed herself and gained the power to help her fight against fate.

At that time, she wanted to rebel against a household official.

Now, what she wants to rebel against is the emperor, the half-step ascension supported by the power of the whole world, and the entire distorted Heavenly Dao!
If that's the case, then the power she can gain in return should be even greater, right?
Xin Yue released Du Xinghe's hand. Du Xinghe's heart tightened, and he hurriedly reached forward to grab it, but found nothing.

This was the first time Xin Yue had taken the initiative to let go of Du Xinghe. She smiled at Du Xinghe, and suddenly an extremely profound and terrifying water vapor spiritual power was brewing around her.

A phantom that seemed to reach the heavens and earth enveloped Xin Yue. He lowered his head and asked indifferently, "What do you want to exchange with me this time?"

Xin Yue looked up and replied:

"I'll give everything I own to make this unjust God die!"

The water god Gonggong let out a wild laugh that shook heaven and earth.

"—Fine, fine! Then let this unjust heaven die!"

Xin Yue's figure began to dissipate, and Du Xinghe's heart almost stopped beating. She rushed into the illusory figure to try to pull Xin Yue out, but Xin Yue was left only as a drifting breeze in her hand.

Until the very end, Xinyue was still smiling:
"Master, you must always remember me!"

Crossing the Milky Way, her hand trembled and fell limply. She looked up at the sky; the remnant spirit of the Water God, bought with Xin Yue's life, had grown stronger. Its immense power was in no way inferior to that of the Xuan Emperor, and its battle roar was like that of a wild beast, ferocious and savage—

"I want your sky to fall down!!!"

The Water God crashed headfirst into the Xuan Emperor, and with a deafening roar, the world shattered. The Xuan Emperor's screams echoed from above, and the oppressive aura emanating from him vanished without a trace.

The Water God severed the connection between the Xuan Emperor and Baiyujing!
Having lost the support of the Heavenly Dao, Emperor Xuan has no chance of ascending to immortality now!

"Master! Master!"

Du Xinghe suddenly heard a call, and her previously bewildered heart began to beat again. Instinctively, she called out, "Xinyue!"

"Master, this is Shu Jiuqing!" The voice on the other end of the line was somewhat intermittent. "The Fog Cave is no longer absorbing spiritual energy, Master, can you hear me? Is the signal bad?"

Du Xinghe was stunned for a long time. She felt a piece of her heart was empty, and she mechanically replied, "...I heard you. This is a good thing. It wasn't in vain..."

Upon receiving a response, Shu Jiuqing immediately reported an even more important development: "Senior Chi and I have tried to improve the formation. After setting it up according to the ideas you gave, Master, the formation can operate perfectly! Now all the cultivators in the Immortal Alliance who are capable of fighting have gone to the formation sites in various places to make modifications. Master, please hold on!"

Du Xinghe looked up, but the Water God's phantom had already faded away, and she seemed unable to find any trace of Xin Yue.

She couldn't waste Xinyue's sacrifice; she had to seize this opportunity and press her advantage!

"Activate all the modified magic arrays. I want this dog emperor to... hear properly... the voices beneath the wealth he enjoys from the people!"

The solution Du Xinghe found was to fight fire with fire.

What the Xuan Emperor has always done is plunder and exploitation, taking all the essence of the world for his own use. He has drained the spiritual power of all people, yet he pays no heed to their voices.

Now, what Du Xinghe is doing is to widen the absorption range of the fog cave.

Remove the filtering function from the formation, expand the absorption range, and amplify the "sound" during absorption!
Listen to the cries of the people, listen to their resentment!
That damned emperor, she's going to bring you destruction, along with all the suffocating weeds in the world!
To add to that, the poem Consort Ji used to distract Emperor Xuan in the previous chapter, "Heaven and earth are a furnace, I know it myself," does exist historically. I added it mainly because it fits the "Heaven and Earth Furnace" subplot. The original poem was about Taoist cultivation insights; the full version is: "Heaven and earth are a furnace, I know it myself; without foresight, doubt will arise." It actually has a kind of inspirational, feel-good feel to it.