fairy family

Chapter 334 War Arises, Ignoring Worldly Affairs

The two overseas immortals, despite their desperate efforts, managed to unleash their black and white energies, but they vanished without a trace, achieving nothing.

This truly shocked and terrified them.

But then, their eyes gleamed as they stared intently at the map depicting mountains and rivers, and a look of great joy appeared on their faces:
"Why is this thing closed?"

"If this child has refined this thing, why doesn't he unfold it and use it to grab and suppress the two of us?!"

Their hearts pounded with a last vestige of resentment and anticipation, and they each unleashed their magic, striking at Yu Que in an attempt to test him.

Yu Que was fully aware of the two men's intentions when faced with this action.

He smiled.

Now that he had already revealed the "Map of Mountains and Rivers" and the other party had seen through his disguise, he would no longer conceal it.

He neither put away the Map of Mountains and Rivers nor made any show of force to scare the two people. Instead, he pointed at the two True Immortals.

With a thunderous roar, the Jade Palace descended with celestial light, visible for thousands of miles.

These celestial lights, flowing in succession, transformed into a net that encompassed the three of them.

Yu Quezhong chanted:

"If you two fellow Daoists will not enter my garden, then you may enter the cycle of reincarnation!"

Owl!
The cries of the three-legged golden crow, Tianhuo, resounded throughout the surrounding area, making the net of heaven and earth, which extended for thousands of miles, even tighter.

At this moment, the pressure on the two True Immortals increased significantly.

They could feel as if the sky above them was about to collapse and crush them at any moment.

At this moment, the two old men finally couldn't hold back any longer and spoke up:
“Fellow Daoist, since you have not yet refined the Mountain and River Map, you must have encountered difficulties. Why don’t we stop fighting here and lend you a hand to help you refine this map?”

“Fellow Daoist, we were in the wrong today. You are a celestial being, why bother arguing with us?”

Yu Que smiled.

He hadn't expected that these two old guys would be just like ordinary old men, completely lacking any air of otherworldly grace.

Yu Que did not choose to deceive the two before killing them, but shook his head and said directly:
"You have no chance. If you are willing to die, you can become nourishment for my immortal garden."

I can still preserve your souls so that you may be reincarnated in my celestial garden.

Deng!
These words enraged the two overseas True Immortals, who shouted again, "You brat!"

But as soon as they spoke, several golden sword beams shot towards them, forcing them to shut up immediately and not daring to speak out of turn.

Just like the two of them had refined Yu Que before, Yu Que now made the Immortal Garden seem to transform into a giant millstone, spitting out bursts of golden light, as if to grind and crush the two of them.

In this critical situation, the two overseas immortals actually did something similar to the old Taoist who had possessed the body.

They concealed their physical forms to the extreme, wandering around aimlessly, bumping into things, trying to break through the remaining pressure of the Immortal Garden and escape.

However, their actions were destined to be fruitless.

After all, Baiyujing at this moment had been forged by their own hands, and its toughness was in no way inferior to that of a blessed land of immortals.

In the end, this earth-shattering battle gradually faded into obscurity.

Yu Que gradually reduced the area covered by Bai Yujing, eventually reducing it to a size of one foot, which appeared only in front of him, like a pill furnace.

Inside the alchemy furnace, there were two "copper peas" that could neither be fried nor steamed, jumping around and refusing to enter the inner world to submit.

These two True Immortals are now fighting against Yu Que with their last breath, hoping that another unexpected event will occur, creating a loophole in Yu Que's defenses so that they can escape.

However, given Yu Que's previous experience in refining and possessing the old Taoist, he would not give them that chance again.

He simply reached out and beckoned.

Crack! Crack! The fortune above the capital city shifted. The seven ancestral temples, which had been shattered, reformed under the control of the fortune, then shrank back to form an array, pressing down on the shrunken Jade Capital.

Thus, the great battle between Yu Que and the overseas True Immortals came to an end.

He only needs to spend a few more months, years, or decades to completely grind away the immortal power of the two overseas immortals and absorb it into the Jade Capital.

In addition, one can also convert the cultivator's fortune within the two True Immortals into one's own use.

Of course. If Yu Que's Jade Capital were to suddenly be promoted to a blessed land, then there would be no need for such a long and drawn-out process. He could kill or cripple two True Immortals in one go and turn them into resources.

"The opportunity of an Earth Immortal, the opportunity of a Celestial Immortal..."

Yu Que pondered to himself, then slowly shifted his gaze to the landscape map in his hand.

Within this picture, it was as if he was refining those two true immortals. The boundless dragon energy and spiritual energy within the picture were eroding the old Taoist who had possessed his body, attempting to refine him away.

Furthermore, it seems to be trying to completely refine it, attempting to break its Celestial Immortal status!
This process is not something that can be easily completed; it may take even longer than when Yu Que refined two True Immortals, and there is no guarantee of success.

So Yu Que gazed at the map of mountains and rivers, and thought to himself:

"Since that's the case, I'll lend you a hand and give you some assistance. Let's see if you can truly refine that thing and transform it into a blessed land, or even a grotto-heaven!"

Because Yu Que had previously walked through the map, he was now somewhat familiar with the Mountain and River Map and knew what kind of spiritual energy and dragon energy it could refine and absorb, so that he could add fuel to its fire.

With a whoosh, he immediately channeled his magical power into the Mountain and River Map.

Every now and then, he would also extract various kinds of spiritual energy from Baiyujing and inject them into it.

All of a sudden.

After finishing the battle with the True Immortals, Yu Que immediately entered the state of refining the supreme treasure.

Those immortals and people from the capital below all looked on in a daze.

"Did he win? Did Yu Zhenxian win?"

"Since he won, why didn't Immortal Yu come down? Instead, he's meditating with his eyes closed. Could it be that Immortal Yu suffered a serious injury?"

Various opinions, both good and bad, arose in the capital.

However, after observing carefully for a long time, everyone realized that even if Yu Que did not win, he definitely had the upper hand; he just couldn't extricate himself for the time being.

Just as they were pondering how to clean up the mess they were in and whether they could help Yu Que.

A celestial melody descended from where Yuque was:
"The imperial family has failed in its duty of maintaining the incense offerings, and the emperor has been deposed. I will temporarily assume the position."

"Issue my decree: All Daoist temples in the Central Plains, with Huangshan as their leader, shall immediately launch a counterattack against the overseas cultivators!"

Upon hearing this decree, the capital was in an uproar, especially among the princes and nobles of the imperial family.

Many people, including those from powerful immortal families or aristocratic clans, even attempted to ascend to the heavens to kowtow to Yu Que and argue their case. However, these foolish individuals were all subdued before they could even collide with the protective immortal light surrounding Yu Que.

Amidst the chaos, the peak master of Huangshan Tiandu Peak, who had already arrived, had a strange expression on his face, with an unbelievable surprise in his eyes.

This person immediately accepted Yu Que's decree, began to command the other Dao Palaces, opened the granaries in the Imperial Capital Immortal City to take grain, dispatched Dao Army troops, and contacted the 108 Dao Palaces in the Central Plains.

Within a few days, the decree for the counterattack had been issued throughout the Central Plains, and the Dao Palaces in various places dared not slack off. They dispatched half-step Nascent Soul cultivators to the capital to pay their respects to Yu Que, while also sending out Dao soldiers to fight overseas.

Within a month, the immortals of the Central Plains and the cultivators from overseas were intertwined in a fierce and complex situation.

The overseas cultivators still held the upper hand because they still had ten Nascent Soul Immortals remaining.

However, after all the half-step Nascent Soul cultivators from the Central Plains came to the capital and paid their respects to Yu Que, a year later, Nascent Soul immortals began to emerge on their own.

In just three years, the great war between the immortals of the Central Plains and the cultivators from overseas became completely evenly matched.

However, the battle between the two sides had already reached a point where neither side could gain the upper hand.

When forces are evenly matched, it often means that the battle will be brutal and tragic.

On one hand, cultivators were occupying territory in the breached city, burning, killing, and looting. On the other hand, the Central Plains sent elite immortals to sea to retaliate against the sects left overseas by these cultivators.

Thus, an extremely terrifying scene unfolded in the Dao Secret Realm.

Both sides suffered heavy casualties among their respective cultivators, and the plight of ordinary people was even more tragic.

In the Central Plains, sometimes a city is lost in a single day, and more than half of its people are slaughtered. After only a few rounds of fighting, the city is not damaged by the forces of both sides, but the population of the city becomes sparse and pitiful, as if it has been combed through, resembling a ghost town.

The situation wasn't much better for the overseas cultivators.

In just three years, six of the Daoist strongholds, which were known as the Ten Great Immortal Sects, were breached by the immortals of the Central Plains. Not only were their treasures looted, but the cultivators within were either wiped out or abducted to the Central Plains to be cultivated in the manner of the immortals.

It can be said that the long-standing feuds between people at home and abroad, once erupted, were unstoppable by anyone, not even those cultivators and immortals at the Nascent Soul level.

not to mention.

Those immortals or cultivators who have achieved the primordial spirit are particularly delighted by the great battle, to the point that they rejoice at the mere mention of war.

Among them, those immortals whose ancestral estates had been seized by ancient cultivators showed obvious resistance to the great war, but they had no choice but to fight.

This is because, thanks to the war that left the city in a sea of ​​blood and filled with souls, the spiritual energy in the Dao Secret Realm is recovering much faster than people had previously guessed.

Thus, the immortals and cultivators of both sides, while competing with each other, were all delighted.

Furthermore, the soul of a living being contains spirituality, and it is itself the greatest source of spiritual energy.

The souls of those who died in this war also added to the spiritual energy of the Daoist Mystic Realm.

Such a tragic war situation naturally came to Yu Que's attention.

However, he had no intention of interfering in this matter.

The Dao lineages of the immortals in the Central Plains and the cultivators overseas have continued to this day, clearly distinct. They have long needed a thorough and decisive battle to prove who is superior.

Although Yu Que already knew the answer, the correct solution was to cultivate both meridians simultaneously.

However, those in the secret realm do not understand.

Both sides often harbor a sense of arrogance and need to be thoroughly taught a lesson by the other before they can face the reality that immortals (cultivators) are not necessarily inferior to themselves.

In this great war, countless Taoist methods and lineages either declined or broke, while many others arose and flourished.

For example, the Tai Sui lineage, which was just released by Yu Que, although small in number, achieved remarkable results in the great battle, making the world directly aware of the Tai Sui lineage's combat strength.

Now, without Yu Que issuing orders to call on everyone in the world to cultivate the Tai Sui lineage, many immortals in the folk spontaneously joined the Tai Sui lineage.

Furthermore, due to the great war, the immortals of the Tai Sui lineage did not pay much attention to their origins or backgrounds, but instead focused on cultivating their Dao through killing, and their cultivation speed was also rapid.

There were even immortals who practiced Qi Refining who, by changing their main cultivation lineage to the Tai Sui lineage and reversing the primary and secondary paths, actually took a half-step forward in the realm they could not break through, becoming half-step Yuan Shen realm!
As such.

All of this great battle brought bloody yet undeniable excitement and change to the Daoist secret world.

Of course, this is only the case for now. Yu Que will not choose to sit idly by and use the lives of hundreds of millions of living beings in the world as a price to gain the above benefits.

After all, the aforementioned advantages could be achieved slowly and gradually on a small scale, by trading time for space, under the suppression of insightful individuals.

The more important reason why Yu Que didn't make a move was that he had more important things to do right now...

Under the catalysis of the great battle, the Mountain and River Map also changed unpredictably, and its speed of refining the old Taoist who had seized the body suddenly increased, far surpassing that before.

With Yu Que by its side, continuously adding spiritual energy and dragon energy, its speed increased even further.

Within three years.

The consciousness of the old Taoist who had possessed his body had been completely erased, leaving only a trace of his celestial origin within.

Because of the long-term nourishment, Yu Que has also established a weak connection with the Map of Mountains and Rivers and has learned a lot of secrets.

He also threw the two True Immortals, who had been almost completely suppressed and drained by him, into the Mountain and River Map as a test.

As it turned out, the old Taoist priest was in a state of mental chaos, devoid of any sense of self, with only a wisp of celestial essence remaining to function. Even when a true immortal entered, he did not attempt to seize the body or prolong his own existence.

At this moment, Yu Que felt much more at ease and immediately sent a wisp of his spirit into the Mountain and River Map to observe the old Taoist's Celestial Origin up close.

Under such pressure from both inside and outside, time continued to pass.

In the blink of an eye, another ten years have passed.

During this period, the Central Plains were almost completely destroyed by fighting. Even Mount Huang, where the Huangshan Taoist Palace was located, was nearly breached.

Fortunately, with the Six Ding and Six Jia Dao Soldiers of the Liandu Peak lineage, and the fact that the Palace Master of Huangshan Palace had already become an immortal and advanced to the primordial spirit level, returning to the palace, they were able to completely stabilize the situation.

During these ten years, as one after another, primordial spirit immortals emerged from the immortal families of the Central Plains, their probability of success was actually higher than that of cultivators.

They couldn't hold back any longer and once again resorted to the strategy of quick victory they had used back then.

As a result, as many as twelve Nascent Soul cultivators, along with spies from the Central Plains Immortal Clan, converged on the capital, eyeing Yu Que, who had been in seclusion in the high sky for over a decade.

(End of this chapter)