The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 230 Alliance
Wang Qinshi, standing to the side, stared blankly. It turned out that not only were the disciples single-mindedly striving for progress, but even the patriarch was so eager to unify the four directions. Was this what it meant to be of one mind from top to bottom?

He came to his senses and respectfully said, "I understand the Master's intentions."

"Keep a close eye on Qifeng. The sect can continue to function even without Qiling Peak, but if something happens to Qifeng Peak, it means Qiling's will is shaken, the disciples will be filled with anxiety, and the sect will be in great turmoil." Yuan Chu Daoist turned around and gave him a special instruction.

"Yes! This disciple will certainly keep it in mind!" Wang Qinshi clasped his hands in a salute and took his leave.

Not long after he left, a black crow flew down from the mountain, landed under the peach tree, and transformed into the appearance of Li Yuan. His face was quite pale, and his aura was much stronger than before.

"I need to go into seclusion for at least 60 years. Can you handle it?"

Yuan Chu Dao Ren smiled and said, "If there are no more battles among the Golden Core cultivators, we can naturally hold on."

You just need to focus on your seclusion and recover from your injuries. It shouldn't be long before the disciples begin attempting to ascend to higher ranks. At that time, we'll need to work together to increase our chances of success.

“If they want to ascend to the throne, they cannot avoid the Golden Core Battle.” Li Yuan looked calmly into the distance. “There is only one turning point, and that is within a hundred years.”

Otherwise, if Nangong Yuan were to re-enter the situation after escaping the suppression of the White Bone Altar, he would surely intervene to stop him.

“Then we will need to rely on external forces.” Yuan Chu Dao Ren pondered for a moment before saying, “Nowadays, all the forces in the Southern Continent may have the ambition to dominate, but not everyone is only eyeing this one position of True Monarch.”

Tianyao Valley can be an ally. With Xuan Yuan present, Gui Yin will try every means to help Gui Shui escape suppression.

Without the help of the True Lord of Gui Water, he would not have had the opportunity to attain the rank of True Lord. Therefore, he is a natural ally to us.

“But he still has entanglements with the Thousand Swords Sect, and the strength of the Thousand Swords Sect should not be underestimated. The sword cultivation of True Person Lan Yi is not something that you and I can withstand right now,” Li Yuan said, frowning.

"Since we are allies, we must bear the enemies they bring." Yuan Chu Dao Ren laughed and said, "Moreover, with Gui Yin's help, we can also win over the Southern River Demon King."

We can also compete with the one in Wanzhuhai in the outer sea. Even if it brings pressure from the outer sea, at least someone can keep an eye on Shangxuanhai and Kehai, so that we won't be the only ones who get suppressed.

In addition, we can also try to contend with the distant Samsara Realm and the Mirage Realm. If these two realms are willing to cooperate with us in both offense and defense, then the overall situation can remain stable for hundreds of years.

Alliances must be formed, even at the cost of some sacrifices. Otherwise, with multiple factions embroiled in chaos and conflict, we cannot remain uninvolved. Only through alliances can the situation in the Southern Continent be stabilized.

What we in Qiling need most right now is time. If we can maintain stability for another two or three hundred years, many disciples will surely ascend to higher levels, and the number of Golden Core cultivators will be plentiful. Then we will have seized the initiative.

"Then... aside from the two True Lords Wei and Wu, who else in the mountain is capable of ascending to the throne?" Li Yuan pressed.

"Who can ascend the throne?" Yuan Chu chuckled. "Do you remember when Tai Chi Xing was still in the mountains, he once said something like, 'Everyone is like a dragon.'"

Whoever has the will will have the opportunity.

"What? You... your Golden Core destiny is predetermined by heaven, where did you find so many destinies?" Li Yuan was startled, then quickly came to his senses, "You... is my true self really in the Xuan Yuan Realm?"

The Primordial Daoist smiled and said, "With the Mysterious Origin above, it is naturally in the New Realm."

Li Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Where does the destiny of the Golden Core come from?"

“Borrow it from Xuanming,” Yuanchu Daoist replied.

Is Xuanming really reliable?

"Our only hope for survival under the rule of the Heavenly Palace is Xuanming, and we have no choice but to believe in him," Yuan Chu Dao Ren said with certainty.

"Can you handle it?" Li Yuan was still not entirely at ease.

"Don't worry, Qi Ling has been under my control for four or five hundred years. I can wait for it to last for several hundred more years." Yuan Chu Dao Ren comforted him, "Go into seclusion with peace of mind. When you come out of seclusion, you may be able to overcome the calamity and cultivate the second life. At that time, our situation will naturally be better."

Li Yuan nodded solemnly, said no more, turned around and disappeared into a flock of crows.

When the peak fell silent once more, the Primordial Daoist slowly sat down beneath the peach tree. The wind blew, petals fell, and the temple gates behind him opened wide, revealing the Xuan Yuan position and the statue of Li Yuan. He pondered quietly in his heart that in a hundred years, neither Bai Ziyao nor Wang Lingyun, who were currently the most promising candidates, would be able to cultivate to the Nine Revolutions Perfection and be ready to ascend to the throne.

As for the others, Li Hanxing had only recently risen to power and was far from being fully developed. Although Xiang Xi of the Xiang family possessed extraordinary spiritual roots and good aptitude, she was only at the third stage of cultivation.

The rest of the people were naturally even further behind. True cultivators without the destiny of a Golden Core must gather the three elements of nature, fate, and destiny in order to ascend to the throne. The Nine-Turn True Cultivator who ascended to the throne on Nanjue Island spent most of his life on these three elements.

People like Wang Mingyuan, Xiang Zexi, and the ancestor of the Qian family all achieved the Nine Cycles of Perfection at the age of four or five hundred, but it took them five or six hundred years to accumulate the necessary energy to ascend to the throne.

Yuan Chu Dao Ren was silently calculating in his heart how much longer he could hold on.

He completely abandoned cultivation, even going so far as to silently oversee the Enforcement Peak, all in order to draw upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from all directions to infuse Qiling, subtly assisting the cultivation of tens of thousands of disciples of Qiling with the characteristics of the Yuanshui lineage.

Spirits from all directions will come to influence you, and spiritual beings from all realms of heaven and earth will also be drawn here in the darkness. To support a Golden Core lineage, you need a million miles of land. If there are several more Golden Core cultivators, even a million miles of land will not be enough to support their cultivation.

All of this is only beneficial to Qi Ling.

For him, there was only harm.

Because he, the Primordial Daoist, did not possess such great supernatural powers to command all things in heaven and earth. The reason he was able to do this was because he used himself as a guide, using the original characteristics of the primordial water to attract all things to yearn for life and thus create Qi Ling disciples.

In other words, the Primordial Daoist was like a source of living water on the Enforcement Peak, nourishing the Qiling Mountain Gate and creating a beautiful spring scene filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

However, if this spring scenery is not stable enough, then its primordial beginning will become scattered water, turning from living water into dead water.

At that time, Yuan Chu was no longer Yuan Chu.

And Li Yuan Zhenren will also disappear from the world, perhaps from now on there will never be a truly pure Li Yuan again.

Borrowing life from Xuanming is not so easy.
Most of the original body's will has been integrated into the Xuan Yuan Realm and can no longer break free, thus becoming Xuan Yuan.

It was precisely because of the harmony between Xuanming Yuanshui that he was able to borrow so many destinies.

The idea that everyone can be a dragon is not just empty talk.

……

Inside the Hall of Control, Wang Chaochen looked at the decree passed down by the Ancestor, his brow twitching. The Ancestor instructed him to send people to the Heavenly Demon Valley, the Samsara Realm, the Illusionary Sea Realm, and even the Land of the Departing Sea to seek aid and form alliances.

Is our ancestor taking precautions before things happen and planning to conquer the world?
He clenched his fists involuntarily, his ambition swelling once more. The Qiling Sect had gradually prospered since the eighteenth generation under the leadership of Ancestor Li Yuan, and continued to flourish under the leadership of Chen Guan and Bai Suwen, until it was finally brought to its full glory under his rule.

He did not want to be remembered by future generations as a mere figurehead who carried on the legacy of his predecessors; he, Wang Chaochen, was determined to achieve accomplishments no less than those of his forefathers.

Wang Chaochen pondered deeply all night until the sun rose the next day, when he issued an order to the ten peaks to spread the Dharma to various places.

He sat quietly in the position of sect leader, closing his eyes to rest. After a good half hour, all nine peak masters arrived in the main hall. No one made a sound to interrupt his rest, because they knew how hard it was to be a sect leader.

Wang Chaochen opened his eyes, his gaze regaining its sharpness. He looked at the peak masters below. After decades of spiritual nourishment, the cultivation levels of the nine peak masters had all made considerable progress.

Li Hanxing had already reached the seventh level of cultivation and become one of the few elders in the sect.

The peak masters of Qi and Ling peaks, Wang Qinshi and Fang Yan, have already reached the middle stage of the fourth level. Qian Liuyu, Bai Xuanhua, and Shen Qingfeng of Qi Peak, Lingzhi Peak, and Lingkuang Peak have all cultivated to the third level in less than a hundred years.

Due to his mastery of alchemy, Li Yiyan, the peak master of Danfeng, has reached the fifth level of alchemy, making him second only to Li Hanxing among the nine peaks.

But the most surprising one is Xiang Xi of the Xiang family, the peak master of the array formation. Not only is he proficient in array formation, but his cultivation speed also far surpasses that of his peers. He is the youngest among the peak masters, but his cultivation level has already reached the fourth stage.

What's even more terrifying is that his talent and cultivation in array formations far surpass that of Lü Fei in the past, and he can now control and arrange incomplete Yuan arrays.

Seeing this scene, Wang Chaochen couldn't help but sigh. Among all the peaks, only his cultivation was mediocre, at only the third stage.

However, the peak masters now held him in higher esteem than before. This was because as the Qiling Sect continued to expand its disciples and recruited disciples from the Jingyuan Xuan Palace, the number of disciples had approached 20,000. Even though they were true cultivators and had to multitask, and with the deputy peak masters managing other affairs, they still found it quite tiring.

Wang Chaochen, on the other hand, was in charge of the entire sect, and the things he needed to think about and the energy he needed to expend far exceeded those of the others.

Li Hanxing smiled gently and said, "Sect Leader, you summoned us here in such a hurry, is there something important?"

Wang Chaochen stood up and said slowly, "Indeed, there are a few important matters I need to discuss with you all."

The first matter, naturally, is the most important one entrusted to us by our ancestor. Please take a look.

With a flick of his hand, the imperial edict from the Enforcement Peak floated in mid-air, displaying the various characters on it.

The peak masters looked up and their expressions changed, and they fell into deep thought.

Li Hanxing was the first to speak, asking, "An alliance? Then how should we proceed?"

Wang Chaochen smiled and said, "The reason I have invited everyone here today is precisely because of this matter. Our ancestor wanted to take precautions and formed an alliance with these families, all of whom have a long history with our sect. Since our ancestor has made this decision, he must have communicated with the Golden Core cultivators of these families. Therefore, what we need to do is to establish an alliance agreement and some detailed rules."

And, most importantly, is the selection of the envoy. He must be of noble status, but also not someone a talented individual from the mountains would easily leave his seclusion and put in danger. In addition, he must be skilled at winning people's hearts and minds in order for the mission to succeed.

Does anyone here have a candidate in mind?

All the peak masters began to think, considering their own preferred candidates.

Aside from the four major families, it seems there are no other people of high status in the mountains. Surely, a Golden Core Ancestor couldn't possibly need to personally attend to a formal alliance?

Li Hanxing pondered for a moment and said, "Why don't I go? According to seniority and experience, I should be the one to do it."

Upon hearing this, everyone felt it made a lot of sense, but none of them expressed their opinions; instead, they looked at the sect leader.

Wang Chaochen smiled and said, "We all know of Senior Brother's sincere heart for the sect and the Dao."

However, to be honest, taking on this task would be quite risky.

Nowadays, the various sects are fighting each other. If my senior brother goes to one sect, then the other sects will also have to go and form an alliance. But in this way, all the talents in the mountains will be traveling outside, which is too risky.

What I'm thinking is that the four peak masters of Lingzhi Peak, Lingkuang Peak, Qi Peak, and Ling Peak will each go to a different place and, in accordance with their status as peak masters, sign an alliance.

In the past, the Linglong Sect on Nanjue Island was renowned throughout the world, and its six mountains, four halls, and one sect were famous throughout the world. All the mountain lords were well-known figures.

It is time for the world to know the talents of our Qiling Sect!
Would the four peak masters be willing?

"This……"

All four were taken aback, but after a moment, Qi Feng and the Lingfeng Peak Master replied in unison, "We will obey the Sect Leader's orders!"

The remaining Bai Xuanhua and Shen Qingfeng immediately came to their senses and said in unison, "We are willing to obey the sect leader's decree."

"Very well, thanks to the four peak masters, this will make the matter of establishing an alliance much easier. Please wait for me to draft the details before proceeding carefully."

Wang Chaochen smiled broadly and continued, "The second thing is that we need to have an open and honest discussion with the peak masters."

From now on, all miscellaneous affairs and general matters of the Nine Peaks will be handled by the deputy peak managers, and the nine peak masters will no longer need to interfere in the affairs of their respective peaks.

"What?!" Everyone was shocked. Was the sect leader going to reclaim power?

Seeing their reactions, Wang Chaochen smiled and explained, "We are doing this for the sake of the sect's grand plan."

Although you all do not interfere in administrative affairs, you are still the decision-makers of the Nine Peaks, and the deputy peak masters must also obey the orders of the peak masters.

"

Li Hanxing seemed to sense something and asked, "Does the sect leader intend to implement the old system of peak masters?"

“That’s right, what you said is exactly what I was thinking.” Wang Chaochen smiled and said, “Since the fifteenth generation took over, the mountain has followed the practice of supporting one true cultivator with one peak.”

Now, if this system is implemented again, it will only be to use the power of one peak to nurture a Golden Core cultivator!
The nine peak masters have all gone towards the Golden Core stage!

"Golden elixir?"

Apart from Li Hanxing and Xiang Xi, the other peak masters were all shocked. They only dared to dream about the Golden Core stage, and in reality, most of them dared not even think about it.

"Excellent, esteemed peak masters, would you be willing to try for the Golden Core stage? Would you like to see what the scenery is like from the Golden Core stage? And how magnificent the clouds above the nine heavens are?" Wang Chaochen looked intently at the crowd and spoke again: "With the full strength of the Qiling Sect, we will support you all and prepare you for the opportunity to ascend to the Golden Core stage!"

The most seductive voice of Wang Chaochen echoed in the main hall: the Golden Core stage was a dream realm for any true cultivator!
Their hearts were pounding, and their youthful ambitions seemed to be awakened as well. Golden Elixir, who wouldn't want that?
(End of this chapter)