Dragon Devouring Cultivation

Chapter 403 Nanyue
Li Da's business development is extremely good. Although Li Da himself is only at the Golden Core stage, the Golden Core stage is considered a good cultivation level among cultivators in the ancient world. With the two fourth-order puppets given by Li Zhen, he can even deal with Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

With such strong capabilities, and the presence of many secondary-level cultivators gathered from various cities, this commercial industry has a solid foundation.

Li Zhen left Li Da with a resource that would help him advance to the Nascent Soul stage; this was his reward for Li Da.

Although he looked down on Li Da's businesses, he admired Li Da's dedication to his work. He understood why Li Da used nearly half of his profits to build an intelligence network.

As for whether Li Da can advance to the Nascent Soul stage, Li Zhen has no intention of interfering.

After staying with Li Da for a while, Li Zhen left.

He transformed into the body of a chaotic dragon, unleashed his spatial powers, and vanished from his spot. He used the obtained medieval world map to locate himself, and when he reappeared, he was already on a mountaintop 500 kilometers away from the Southern Mountain Divine Sect.

He stood atop a pine tree on the mountaintop, his gaze fixed on the direction of the Southern Mountain Divine Temple.

The place appeared to be empty, but as someone skilled in formations, he could see hidden formation runes floating in the void, completely concealing the mountain gate of the Southern Mountain Divine Sect.

Li Zhen waved his hand, and a fifth-level Wukong appeared beside him.

He flashed into the subspace, focusing most of his attention on the fifth-tier Wukong's body, directing Wukong's actions.

The fifth-tier Wukong's necromantic energy was contained within. Apart from the strange soul fire in his eyes, his entire body was like a dead object, without any signs of life.

Li Zhen controlled the body of the fifth-tier Wukong, and the fifth-tier Wukong soared into the air.

The terrifying fifth-order divine sense, carrying the chilling aura unique to the undead, swept across a radius of sixty kilometers.

This radius of sixty kilometers is the range of a fifth-order Wukong's divine sense, which is considered a normal to slightly above-normal distance.

The reason it possesses such strong spiritual sense is thanks to the fifth-order yin energy absorbed by the fifth-order Wukong during his tribulation. Otherwise, with the cultivation level of a fifth-order undead who has just advanced, it would be quite good if its spiritual sense could reach a distance of forty kilometers.

Although the fifth-order Wukong's divine sense only swept across a radius of sixty kilometers, the fifth-order undead aura he emitted was sensed by the protective array of the Nanyue Divine Sect.

The protective array, originally an illusory and seamless defensive shield, was activated at full power on its own without any command, causing a protective shield emitting a glowing light to appear outside the Nanyue Divine Sect.

Inside the main hall of the Nanyue Divine Sect, Sect Master Changtong was listening to the reports from the elders.

In recent months, the distribution of benefits in the medieval world has been in full swing. Even the well-informed Sect Master Changtong was astonished by the benefits that the Southern Mountain Divine Sect has received.

With external access routes now blocked and so many resources available, he has developed an extremely strong ambition.

In fact, resources were only one aspect. What attracted him most was the sphere of influence in half of the medieval world, where all the promising cultivators who appeared belonged to the Southern Mountain Divine Sect.

With such a large population, the Southern Mountain Divine Sect can acquire more talented cultivators.

With the added resources, five hundred years is enough for the Southern Mountain Divine Sect to recover its strength, and it may even become stronger than before.

Just as the sect leader of Changtong was feeling extremely confident and listening to the elders report on the benefits, he sensed the movement of the sect's protective formation.

He immediately contacted the sect's protective formation, and the information he received changed his expression drastically.

He quickly took out a talisman and activated it with his finger.

"Sect Master, what happened?" An elder asked with concern, noticing the strange expression on Sect Master Changtong's face and sensing the changes in the great formation.

"A fifth-order undead has appeared outside the sect. Immediately order all disciples to enter the array points, and the elders will be in charge of command. I have already notified the Divine Lord!" Sect Master Changtong ordered in a deep voice.

The elders quickly accepted the order and went down to their posts, and the entire Nanyue Divine Sect was busy.

Sect Master Changtong sat in his sect master's chair, his expression still grave. Because of the destruction of the Eastern Absolute Divine Sect and the Western Heavenly Temple, although the medieval world had driven away the Immortal Kingdom invaders and sealed off the space, it was precisely this battle with the Immortal Kingdom invaders that deepened Sect Master Changtong's suspicions.

Previously, it was believed that the destruction of the Eastern Absolute Divine Sect and the Western Heaven Divine Temple was 99% likely the work of the Immortal Kingdom. Although there was no substantial evidence and it was unclear what methods the Immortal Kingdom used, after the Immortal Kingdom's invasion, two super-large sects that had existed for over ten thousand years were inexplicably destroyed. No one would believe that it had nothing to do with the Immortal Kingdom.

For this reason, during the battle with the Immortal Kingdom, the Southern Peak Divine Sect and the Northern Sea Divine Sect mobilized almost all their resources, sending out all their secluded cultivators, along with two Nascent Soul cultivators, in response to the Immortal Kingdom's ability to annihilate Nascent Soul cultivators.

In fact, in the battle against the Immortal Kingdom, although the Immortal Kingdom was indeed quite strong, it was not strong enough to threaten the Nascent Soul stage.

The two Nascent Soul cultivators didn't need to intervene at all, and the final battle ended just like that.

The sect leader of Changtong changed his initial thoughts. The destruction of the Eastern Absolute Divine Sect and the Western Heaven Divine Temple might be related to the Immortal Kingdom, but it was more likely to be the work of other forces.

The sudden appearance of a fifth-order undead outside the sect reminded him of the previous incident of a fifth-order undead undergoing tribulation. It was only because of the appearance of the Buddha Mingxin from the Western Heaven Temple that the Southern Mountain Divine Sect did not go to investigate.

What the sect leader of Changtong was most worried about was the fifth-order undead and the forces behind them, who were the masterminds behind the destruction of the two great sects.

What puzzled him most was what this force was and how it developed.

It should be noted that the vast majority of high-level resources in the medieval world were controlled by the four major divine sects. Even if some high-level resources were occasionally leaked out, they would not be enough to support a hidden force with the strength of a Destruction Divine Sect.

Not to mention that it can also cultivate fifth-tier combat power. Even the four great sects don't have much of this kind of resource. Each time a fifth-tier combat power is cultivated, it takes the entire sect's millennia of accumulation to try once.

The more the sect leader thought about it, the more worried he became. He now only hoped that the fifth-order undead would not attack the sect immediately.

He knew very well that no matter how powerful the sect's protective formation was, it was only at the fourth-order high-grade level. With all the sect's disciples sitting in the formation's core, it could at most withstand one or two attacks from the fifth-order level.

If a fifth-order undead is willing to pay the price, then the Southern Mountain Divine Sect will be reduced to ruins, just like the Eastern Absolute Divine Sect and the Western Heaven Divine Temple.

He spent every second in a state of mental turmoil, while the fifth-level Wukong outside did not attack the mountain gate of the Nanyue Divine Sect first, but instead set his sights on the spirit mine on the outskirts of the sect.

These spirit mines near the Nanyue Divine Sect were all moved here by powerful beings, and most of them are high-level spirit mines of the third or fourth rank.

Furthermore, thanks to the meticulous management of the Nanyue Divine Sect and the introduction of corresponding grade spiritual veins specifically for the spirit mining areas, these third and fourth grade spirit mining areas have become stably producing spirit mining areas.

In order to make a big splash, Li Zhen deliberately did not prioritize attacking the Nanyue Divine Sect, but instead focused his attention on these high-level spirit mines.

The fifth-tier Wukong probed his divine sense into the underground of a fourth-tier spirit mine. His divine sense quickly enveloped the entire underground part of the spirit mine, including the fourth-tier spirit vein that provided continuous energy for it.

With a sudden tremor, his divine sense severed the connection between the fourth-tier spirit mine and the earth, forcibly separating the entire fourth-tier spirit mine.

He stored the fourth-tier spirit mine in Li Zhen's Eastern Absolute Divine Palace. As soon as the fourth-tier spirit mine entered the Eastern Absolute Divine Palace, it was sealed by array talismans and floated in the air.

He had his own plans for the fourth-tier spirit mine area, intending to place it in his small world cave.

His small world cave dwelling is made up of fragments of the main world. He hopes to restore the small world cave dwelling to a level that is infinitely close to the main world, which requires enriching the resources of the small world.

The Immortal Kingdom has been researching the topic of the growth of small worlds for thousands of years, and while it has achieved many results, it has been unable to actually implement them.

The reason is that to promote the growth of a small world, a large amount of fourth-order resources must be invested. For the Immortal Kingdom, such an investment is not worthwhile and does not align with its interests.

Therefore, research on the small world remains only on paper, with perhaps some small-scale experiments, but that's about it.

When Li Zhen discovered these high-level mining areas outside the Nanyue Divine Sect, he had the idea of ​​promoting the growth of his small world cave dwelling, which was just something he did incidentally.

(End of this chapter)