Chapter 228: Chapter 228: The Five Great Sects, Gathering of the Strong (4th Update)
“Taiyuan, our Inquiry Immortal Pavilion disciples have arrived. Open a breach for us to enter Mount Shu.”
While Taiyuan was maintaining Mount Shu’s Mountain Protection Array, he suddenly received a transmission from Fairy Su.
“The Inquiry Immortal Pavilion has come. Everyone heed my command, open a breach at the southeast position of the barrier and let them in.”
Taiyuan transmitted his orders to the Mount Shu Elders and disciples who were together maintaining the Great Formation.
“Thank goodness, reinforcements have finally arrived!”
“We must hold Mount Shu at all costs!”
The morale of Mount Shu’s Elders and disciples soared.
With Lu Changsheng emerging from seclusion and reinforcements from the four major sects arriving one after another, Mount Shu might still stand a chance to overturn the desperate situation.
A gap was made in Mount Shu’s defense barrier, and the Pavilion Master of the Inquiry Immortal Pavilion, Su Qian, led the Elders of her sect, risking their lives to break through the blockade of the three Great Demon Sects and the Demon Race of Huang State, using Earth Escape Talismans to enter Mount Shu.
No sooner had the people of Inquiry Immortal Pavilion set foot in Mount Shu than the defense barrier was immediately closed up, preventing the three Great Demon Sects and the Demon Race of Huang State from taking advantage of the situation to break into Mount Shu.
Many of the Inquiry Immortal Pavilion’s powerhouses had arrived.
“Taiyuan, are you injured?”
Su Qian sensed that Taiyuan was not as powerful as before and couldn’t help worrying.
“The Demon Lord’s strength is too great, and his magical treasure is an ancient profound relic; even I am no match for him. Fortunately, I used the Heavenly Fragrance Life Renewal Pill, and my injury is now recovering. Have you entered the Unity Realm?”
Taiyuan detected that Su Qian had successfully taken that step and, just like him, had entered the first layer of the Unity Realm.
At the first layer of the Unity Realm, one’s strength was much greater than at the ninth peak of the Void Refinement Realm because one had withstood the Heavenly Tribulation.
With an icy expression, Su Qian huffed, “Hmph, I, Su Qian, have no intention of losing to you.”
Taiyuan couldn’t help but give a wry smile of resignation. What an inappropriate time for Su Qian to be contrary.
A clear and unparalleled figure stood among the ranks of Inquiry Immortal Pavilion, her gaze sweeping around, yet she did not find Lu Changsheng’s figure in Mount Shu’s main hall.
Seeing her disciple Xia Ningxue’s worry, Su Qian took the initiative to ask Taiyuan, “What about your young disciple? Why isn’t he here? Don’t tell me the Demon Lord killed him?”
“My disciple has gone into seclusion to cultivate a powerful cultivation technique, hoping to further enhance his combat power before the decisive battle with the Demon Lord,” Taiyuan replied.
“Can last-minute efforts really make a difference? I see that your formation won’t hold for many days. Does he really have confidence in mastering a powerful cultivation technique in just these last few days?”
“Others might not be able to, but my disciple very likely can.”
Taiyuan was full of confidence in Lu Changsheng.
After all, Lu Changsheng was someone who, at the seventh layer of Void Refinement Realm, had already grasped the ninth layer of the Supreme Purity Limitless Technique and had reached the tenth layer upon entering the ninth layer of the Void Refinement Realm. Taiyuan had never seen such talent before.
“People from the Martial Alliance have arrived.”
Taiyuan once again ordered the Mount Shu people to open a breach in the barrier to let the people from the Martial Alliance in.
Grandmaster Chen, along with Ye Wen and other Body Tempering powerhouses of the Martial Alliance in the Void Refinement Realm, arrived at Mount Shu’s main hall to join forces with Mount Shu and Inquiry Immortal Pavilion.
“Ever since your disciple exchanged the ‘Hundredfold Desolate Force’ for my ‘Baji Fist,’ I’ve had a premonition that as long as I mastered the Hundredfold Desolate Force, I would definitely be able to pass through the sixfold Heavenly Tribulation and step into the Unity Realm. Regrettably, time was not on my side. Before I could take that final step, the Demon Lord attacked,” said Grandmaster Chen, pouring out his troubles to Taiyuan.
Taiyuan the True Man knew that for a strong body tempered practitioner like Grandmaster Chen, who had practiced both martial and cultivation dual practice, the Heavenly Tribulation would be even more terrifying than for normal cultivators.
And once Grandmaster Chen stepped into the first layer of the Unity Realm, he would also be more powerful than ordinary practitioners at the same level of the Unity Realm.
Lu Changsheng had exchanged the “Hundredfold Desolate Force” for one of the Martial Alliance’s ultimate skills, the “Baji Fist,” giving Grandmaster Chen the opportunity to face the Tribulation.
However, sensing that if he continued to delay, the strength of the five major sects would increase further, the Demon Lord launched a catastrophe.
Grandmaster Chen was unable to transcend the Tribulation at the last moment.
If Grandmaster Chen had not prepared and tried to transcend the Tribulation unprepared, falling during the Heavenly Tribulation, then Xia State’s righteous path would lack a strong body tempered practitioner at the ninth layer peak of the Void Refinement Realm.
Subsequently, Yu Xuanji himself, from Hidden Dragon Temple, led a team, using their profound secret techniques for deduction, to avoid the Demon Race of Huang State and the three great Demon Sects. They secretly contacted Taiyuan the True Man, and at the moment when the barriers of Mount Shu were opened, the people of Hidden Dragon Temple used talismans to escape into Mount Shu.
The last to enter Mount Shu was Immeasurable Temple, but the process was somewhat tortuous.
The Demon Race of Huang State and the three great Demon Sects knew that the major sects were coming to support Mount Shu, so they lay in ambush and clashed fiercely with the monks from Immeasurable Temple.
When Immeasurable Temple risked their lives to enter Mount Shu, they lost three individuals at the peak of the Void Refinement Realm.
“I had not expected the Demon Lord’s cultivation to have reached such a level, and his magical artifact is even an ancient heavy treasure, this catastrophe… I’m afraid is not easy to overcome, Amitabha Buddha.”
The Abbot of Immeasurable Temple, Master Wuxiang, pressed his palms together, a look of worry filling his eyes as he performed rites for the souls of the three fallen brothers.
Yu Xuanji asked softly, “Is that one godly monk from Immeasurable Temple still alive?”
Master Wuxiang shook his head, “Neither dead nor alive.”
“It looks like this is all the strength we have.”
Yu Xuanji surveyed the people present.
Situ Kong, the Sect Leader Uncle of Mount Shu, Taiyuan the True Man, and Su Qian’er, the Fairy Pavilion Master of Inquiry Immortal Pavilion, making a total of three strong practitioners of the Unity Realm.
Below the Unity Realm were strong practitioners at the ninth layer peak of the Void Refinement Realm such as Master Wuxiang, Grandmaster Chen, and the Peak Master of Bimoon Peak.
Beyond that, were the eighth Emperor of Xia Kingdom, the Old National Master of Great Xia, and the Peak Master of Chao Yuan Peak, all of whom were practitioners at the eighth layer of the Void Refinement Realm.
Additionally, there were Fairy Yi’an, Fairy Duanmu, Master Ma, and Li Changye, Supreme Elders of the Void Refinement Realm that had not reached great accomplishment.
All five major sects had gathered, and a decisive battle with the Demon Lord and the three great Demon Sects was inevitable.
However, the odds of victory were truly hard to calculate.
“Once my injuries and my uncle’s have healed, and we operate our Mount Shu’s attack formation, there might be a chance of victory. Moreover, my young disciple, although still in the Void Refinement Realm, possesses the combat power of an early-stage Unity Realm… ”
Taiyuan the True Man, with his hands clasped behind him, looked up at the enormous ancient cauldron that eclipsed the sky. The Demon Lord and the sect masters of the three great Demon Sects were still trying to dismantle Mount Shu’s defensive great formation.
Mount Shu’s visible defensive formation was just the superficial Mountain Protection Array, but the real Mountain Protection Array was actually an offensive formation, and this formation could only be operated by those who practiced the Taiqing Wuji Technique.
As the Sect-Defending Skill of Mount Shu, the first nine layers of the Taiqing Wuji Technique might not necessarily be stronger than Taiyuan the True Man’s Taiji True Formula. The true value lay in its synergy with an unparalleled offensive formation within Mount Shu.
Currently, the individuals with the highest realm in Mount Shu were the Sect Leader Uncle and Taiyuan the True Man. If both of them acted as the focal points of the supreme attack formation, it might be possible to slay the Demon Lord…
On Qingyun Peak, Lu Changsheng used the Golden Crow Divine Furnace to successfully concoct the Body Refinement Elixir needed for the Nine Revolutions Divine Body. He immersed his entire body in the Body Refinement Elixir, and his Innate Taoist Body voraciously absorbed the immense medicinal power, tempering each bone and every cell within his body.
The Demonic Qi of Lu Changsheng’s Eight Revolutions Demonic Body gradually dissipated, replaced by the divine radiance of the God Body.