Spirit Realm Chapter 659-661

Chapter 659: Returning to the Scarlet Tide Continent!

With a flash of bloody light Qin Lie’s group was transported from Flaming Sun Island straight to the ultimate blood ground through the teleportation formation.

There were a dozen or so Blood Spear martial practitioners around the teleportation platform, and plenty of Blood Fiend Sect martial practitioners scattered across the place too. They were all using the ultimate blood ground to cultivate the Blood Spirit Art.

Ever since the teleportation formation was constructed many Blood Fiend Sect martial practitioners would come over to cultivate.

Therefore, the ultimate blood ground beneath the Scarlet Tide Continent hadn’t become desolate just because the Blood Spear had left. On the contrary, it had become even more lively than before.

Qin Lie even knew that Xue Li was currently cultivating somewhere in the ultimate blood ground.

“Instructor Feng, Elder Mo, Qin Lie…”

A Blood Spear martial practitioner immediately came forward and saluted them respectfully when he saw them exiting the teleportation formation.

The Blood Spear used to belong to Armament Sect. Mo Hai, Feng Rong and Qin Lie were former Armament Sect members. Thus, Blood Spear members addressed them the way they used to in the past.

“We’re going back up to the Scarlet Tide Continent for a bit,” said Feng Rong as she looked at this Blood Spear martial practitioner. “Scarlet Tide Continent’s martial practitioners didn’t attack the Nether Battlefield during this period, did they? And the Horned Demon Race of the Nether Realm probably didn’t try to charge up there by force, right?”

“No. Since that last battle, the Nether Battlefield had become incredibly peaceful. The evil races had all retreated back underground, and Profound Heaven Alliance and Eight Extreme Temple hadn’t tried to invade the Nether Realm either,” the Blood Spear martial practitioner said respectfully.

“Good.” Feng Rong relaxed.

“You may go back to your posts. We’ll be returning to the surface and head for the Scarlet Tide Continent.” Qin Lie talked a little with the Blood Fiend Sect disciples.

Those Blood Fiend Sect disciples knew of Qin Lie’s respected status. They all nodded in acknowledgement.

And so, Qin Lie and his friends climbed up through the Nether Battlefield’s floors using the Heaven Stairway.

As the Blood Spear martial practitioner had reported, they didn’t encounter any Horned Demon warrior or martial practitioners of Profound Heaven Alliance or Eight Extreme Temple along the way. Their journey was smooth and unhindered as they made their way straight to the topmost floor of the Nether Battlefield.

At the topmost floor, there was a slim and tall woman dressed in purple clothes who was roaming a watery zone lazily while she was accompanied by a few Purple Mist Sea martial practitioners.

They were one of the guardian teams dispatched by Purple Mist Sea.

For the past few years, the evil races of the Nether Realm had kept their word and never entered the Nether Battlefield or advanced to the Scarlet Tide Continent even once during this period.

Eight Extreme Temple and Profound Heaven Alliance had both received orders from Heavenly Sword Mountain not to slip into the Nether Realm or cause any trouble.

That was why the Nether Battlefield had suddenly become quiet after many years of war.

The forces of the Scarlet Tide Continent were unaware that Heavenly Sword Mountain and Nether Realm had come to an agreement and built a separate trading channel somewhere else. Even more so, they had no idea that the two sides had been benefiting through exchange of spirit materials.

Eight Extreme Temple and Profound Heaven Alliance were both vassal forces to Heavenly Sword Mountain. Naturally, they had to listen to Heavenly Sword Mountain’s every whim. If Heavenly Sword Mountain ordered them to stay put, then they would have to stay put like an obedient servant.

However, they didn’t realize that Heavenly Sword Mountain and the evil races of Nether Realm struck a deal a long while ago. Therefore, they didn’t dare to let their guard down even though Nether Battlefield hadn’t seen war for many years.

Eight Extreme Temple had posted a few small squads at the floor leading towards the Scarlet Tide Continent just in case the evil races of Nether Realm had decided to cause trouble.

This squad was one of them.

“How boring.” The beautiful woman leading the squad roamed around idly and said, “It’s been too peaceful for the past few years in Nether Battlefield. Who knows why those evil races had suddenly ceased charging our defense lines.” she sighed. “That bastard Yi Yuan had suddenly disappeared too. I wonder where he’s hiding himself right now.”

“What can you do? There’s still another half a year before our service is done, Sister Cang Li,” a big man said helplessly.

“It’s too boring. I’m going to find Pang Feng and fight him again!” Cang Li suddenly turned excited.

Cloud Sky Mountain’s Pang Feng was also a leader of a squad stationed at this place. For the past half a year, he had been one of the few entertainments Cang Li had at this place, she would often seek him out to fight.

Pang Feng and Cang Li had fought each other many times, but since they were both at the late stage of the Manifestation Realm, they both score a few victories and losses. None of them was able to decisively defeat the other person.

“We have something!” The blue crystal held by the man that just spoke suddenly lit up. “The spirit detection crystal detected many life forces, and their souls are very powerful! They’re not far away from us!”

Cang Li’s expression changed as she ordered, “Contact Pang Feng immediately!”

“Understood.”

A few minutes later, Pang Feng came with a few Cloud Sky Mountain martial practitioners while wearing a solemn expression on his face.

After they had met up with Cang Li, they immediately charged towards the direction where the spirit detection crystal had sensed the life forces.

There, at a swamp filled with Demon Cleansing Orchids, Qin Lie’s group had just entered the topmost floor of the Nether Battlefield. Xie Jingxuan and Yi Yuan were familiar with this area, and they were just about to identify a way back to the surface.

“Someone’s coming,” Qin Lie said carelessly.

Song Tingyu and the others looked as calm as ever. “It doesn’t matter who’s coming over. They will not be a threat to us. This is the Scarlet Tide Continent, this is our domain.”

Qin Lie smiled and looked just as calm as they were.

Currently, neither Profound Heaven Alliance nor Eight Extreme Temple would dare to do anything to him even if he were to tread on the Scarlet Tide Continent as himself.

After all, Profound Heaven Alliance and Eight Extreme Temple were both vassal forces of Heavenly Sword Mountain.

As for him, he not only shared a close friendship with Li Mu, but also earned Luo Nan and Yan Baiyi’s goodwill through his choice to deliver the ancient elite remains to Luo Chen and Du Xiangyang.

Luo Nan and Yan Baiyi both wielded great power in Heavenly Sword Mountain.

Li Mu also told him once that both Luo Nan and Yan Baiyi had sent word to the Scarlet Tide Continent’s Profound Heaven Alliance and Eight Extreme Temple. From that day onwards, he could do whatever he wanted on the Scarlet Tide Continent without fear, and Profound Heaven Alliance and Eight Extreme Temple wouldn’t dare raise a finger at him.

Moreover, since he was currently at the peak of the Netherpassage Realm and was accompanied by both Song Tingyu and Xie Jingxuan, he seriously wasn’t afraid of anyone on the Nether Battlefield.

“Let’s meet these people.” Yi Yuan had also stepped into the early stage of the Netherpassage Realm. With a smile on his face he said, “There are currently no big battles on the Nether Battlefield, so whoever’s stationed at this place must be from Cloud Sky Mountain or Purple Mist Sea. Hehe, I’ve been stationed here for a period of time myself, so these people should be familiar faces.”

Yi Yuan’s realm had improved by leaps and bounds after he had journeyed around the Land of Chaos for a short period of time. He was now a Netherpassage Realm martial practitioner, and not the middle stage Manifestation Realm martial practitioner he used to be.

The reason he managed to improve so quickly was because the pressure he faced in the Land of Chaos was too huge. He had no choice but to cultivate hard and improve himself.

Moreover, the cultivation system in the Land of Chaos was a lot clearer and in depth. There were plenty of high rank pills and spirit arts in the Land of Chaos, and they could even obtain some special books on the subject of cultivation.

While Qin Lie was dominating the Graveyard of Gods, Yi Yuan was led by Li Mu into a safe place inside Heavenly Sword Mountain. He was fortunate to be able to bask in Qin Lie’s light.

That was why he was able to ascend to the Netherpassage Realm.

“Here they come.” Feng Rong looked towards the direction where the sounds of the rapid footsteps were coming from with great interest. Before long, two differently clothed squads appeared before their eyes.

“Pang Feng!”

“Instructor Feng!”

“Yi Yuan!”

“Cang Li!”

Everyone exclaimed and wore strange expressions on their faces when they stumbled upon each other.

Pang Feng’s eyes abruptly burst with the light of excitement when he saw Feng Rong, Mo Hai and Tang Siqi, but he quickly regained his cool and put on a mask of solemnity an instant later.

Pang Feng was originally an Armament Sect disciple. His talents caught Feng Rong’s eyes, and she was going to absorb him into Blood Spear.

Unfortunately, the invasion of the five great forces happened before Pang Feng could take on more trials of Blood Spear. For his sister’s, Pang Shishi’s sake, and because he discovered that Armament Sect’s destruction was inevitable, Pang Feng had resolutely cut ties with Armament Sect and returned into Cloud Sky Mountain’s embrace.

When he was at Armament Sect, he was even secretly in love with Tang Siqi and had fought Qin Lie once in an intense battle because of it.

Now, a few years had passed by, and they met each other once more inside the Nether Battlefield.

“You’re still alive, Yi Yuan?” Cang Li purposely asked in an odd tone.

“I’m not only alive, but leading a very good life too. Heh, I didn’t think that Purple Mist Sea would send you to replace me after I walked out of this place.” Yi Yuan narrowed his eyes and stared at her with a lazy expression on his face. “The late stage of Manifestation Realm? Not bad. Too bad you’re still a little bit slower than me.”

“You’ve entered the Netherpassage Realm!”

Yi Yuan laughed brightly in response.

A Netherpassage Realm martial practitioner was absolutely not to be trifled withfor a mere Black Iron rank force like Purple Mist Sea.

This was especially true since Purple Mist Sea had suffered huge losses when they attacked Flame Volcano and lost many of their Netherpassage Realm martial practitioners.

Now that Yi Yuan had entered Netherpassage Realm, he was definitely going to be put at an important position, if he were to choose to return to Purple Mist Sea that is. He might even become an overseer of an entire Purple Mist Sea’s territory.

As long as Yi Yuan was willing to keep working hard for Purple Mist Sea, he might very well become the next master of Purple Mist Sea!

However, a small Black Iron rank force like Purple Mist Sea was no longer worthy in Yi Yuan’s eyes. This was especially true after he had seen the destructive abilities of Imperishable Realm experts like Jiang Zhuzhe, Pu Ze, Duan Qianjie and the Gongye brothers.

“Long time no see, Pang Feng,” Qin Lie spoke up of his own accord.

Pang Feng looked a little surprised as he stared deeply at Qin Lie and nodded. “Long time no see.”

After a pause, Pang Feng looked at Feng Rong and Mo Hai. A moment of hesitation later, he bowed slightly and said sincerely, “I’m very glad to see the two of you again, Instructor Feng, Elder Mo.”

“Hmph, how dare you claim that you’re happy to see us?” Lian Rou smiled coldly and ridiculed him. “Back when Armament Sect had been facing a great calamity, not only did you choose to run away from your responsibilities, you even returned to Cloud Sky Mountain and came with them to watch the destruction of your former sect. You’re heartless, you know?”

Pang Feng didn’t look disturbed by her accusation. He simply kept quiet without refuting her words.

“Let it be, Lian Rou.” Yi Yuan sighed. “Back then, Armament Sect’s fate looked about as hopeless as you could imagine. Forget Pang Feng, even I… didn’t believe that they would survive.”

Lian Rou immediately shut up after hearing Yi Yuan’s words. After a moment’s thought, she too fell silent.

“We’re going to return to the Scarlet Tide Continent. You guys… aren’t think about stopping us, are you?” Qin Lie smiled.

A moment of startlement later, Pang Feng immediately retreated a few steps and made it clear that he was giving way.

Purple Mist Sea’s Cang Li looked a little hesitant.

“You’re not trying to stop me, are you, Purple Mist Sea?” Song Tingyu looked at her smilingly.

“Of course I wouldn’t dare to stop you, but…” Cang Li looked at Qin Lie and the others, “They are the remnants of Armament Sect.”

“Not anymore from here on out.” Song Tingyu raised her eyebrows. “I guess Purple Mist Sea hasn’t heard anything from Eight Extreme Temple. Well, that makes sense. You are just one of their many vassal forces, so it’s only natural that Eight Extreme Temple wouldn’t tell you everything.”

While saying this, Song Tingyu led at the front and walked away with her friends.

“You may report to Purple Mist Sea that you’ve seen us today and then inform Eight Extreme Temple about it through them,” Song Tingyu added.

“Just let us through.” Yi Yuan smiled faintly. “Cang Li, the times have changed already. Now, you wouldn’t find even a blind man who would dare provoke Qin Lie and his people.”

Both Pang Feng and Cang Li were stunned at this remark.

Chapter 660: Their Status Today!

Pang Feng, Cang Li and the others simply watched as Qin Lie and his group left the place, not daring to stop them.

This was because Profound Heaven Alliance’s Song Tingyu and Xie Jingxuan were both invited by Heavenly Sword Mountain to enter the Land of Chaos’ Trial. As a result, their status in the Scarlet Tide Continent had soared to the point where no one dared to underestimate them.

Eight Extreme Temple was a vassal force of Heavenly Sword Mountain, and they couldn’t imagine what the consequences might be if the martial practitioners of Cloud Sky Mountain and Purple Mist Sea who were their vassal forces were to offend them.

“The world is constantly changing I see,” Cang Li said quietly with an odd expression on her face. “Just a few years ago, Qin Lie and these Blood Spear fellows were rats on the streets, hunted by everyone. Back then, Eight Extreme Temple, Profound Heaven Alliance, and Joyful Union Sect had laid down an unanimous order to hunt them down throughout the entire Scarlet Tide Continent.”

Cang Li let out a soft sigh before continuing, “Who knew that these people would return in just a few years’ time, and looking at their posture… it would seem that they are no longer afraid of Profound Heaven Alliance and Eight Extreme Temple’s threats.”

Pang Feng said with a steady look on his face, “The two Missus of Profound Heaven Alliance and Qin Lie were all seeds chosen by Heavenly Sword Mountain to participate in the Trial. I believe Zhao Xuan and Zhang Chendong were among them too. If we look at the time, the Trial should have ended by now. Zhang Xuan and Zheng Chendong haven’t returned yet, but these three people had suddenly shown up.

Cang Li looked surprised for a second when she recalled something abruptly. The color of her face changed as she exclaimed, “Are you saying that… Zhao Xuan and Zhang Chendong had failed to pass through the Trial and perished there? But the two Missus of Profound Heaven Alliance and Qin Lie had survived the Trial?”

“The truth is right before our eyes,” Pang Feng said calmly.

Shock appeared in Cang Li’s eyes as she exclaimed, “Those who have passed through the Trial would be acknowledged by Heavenly Sword Mountain, and there’s a high chance that they would be accepted into Heavenly Sword Mountain as core disciples too! Does this mean that Qin Lie and the two Missus of Profound Heaven Alliance are Heavenly Sword Mountain disciples now?”

“That is very likely,” Pang Feng said.

Those Cloud Sky Mountain and Purple Mist Sea martial practitioners were all shocked when they heard their conversation and recalled the way Qin Lie and his group had carried themselves.

“I see…” Cang Li’s expression was bitter as she said enviously, “Cloud Sky Mountain and Purple Mist Sea has to listen to Eight Extreme Temple’s orders, but Eight Extreme Temple… has to listen to Heavenly Sword Mountain’s orders. Now that they are disciples of Heavenly Sword Mountain, who could stop them even if they were to cause havoc on the Scarlet Tide Continent?”

The look in Pang Feng’s eyes was equally complicated.

Just a few years ago, him, Qin Lie, and Yi Yuan were all outer sect disciples of Armament Sect. In fact, he had entered Armament Sect a little earlier than both of them.

Back then, both his realm and his status in Armament Sect were higher than Qin Lie’s or Yi Yuan’s, who had just entered the sect.

A few years passed in the blink of an eye, but although his cultivation had improved at a relatively quick rate, he realized that he was now far, far behind Qin Lie, be it in terms of realm or status.

When he had conversed with Qin Lie, he had secretly tried to perceive what heights Qin Lie reached in his cultivation.

However, he discovered that Qin Lie was like a bottomless pond whose depths were impossible to fathom no matter how hard he tried.

Back then, he and Qin Lie were evenly matched. He had even said that he wished Qin Lie would fight him another time.

However, Qin Lie hadn’t expressed such a desire from the beginning to the end.

Pang Feng knew very well that it wasn’t because that Qin Lie was afraid of him. It was because Qin Lie knew that he, Pang Feng, would no longer be at his level. There was simply no need for Qin Lie to fight him.

Before he realized, Qin Lie had walked far ahead of him. Moreover, this distance might grow bigger and bigger as time went on.

One day, he might have to look up to Qin Lie’s achievements when he meets him once more.

Pang Feng couldn’t help but feel dejected, helpless, and stifled when he thought of such an outcome.

“Siqi, did you know that Pang Feng used to like you a lot? It was rumored that he admired you for a very long time,” Lian Rou said softly.

She spoke softly to Tang Siqi at the back of the group while they were walking towards the exit.

“What? There was no such thing. Stop talking nonsense…” Tang Siqi scolded her softly.

“It’s true! You just didn’t know about it!” Lian Rou let out a soft laugh and subconsciously looked back at where Pang Feng and Cang Li was with a sigh. “Looking back at the past, it’s only now that I realize just how acute your intuition was. Qin Lie… is way,

way, way more successful than Pang Feng.”

This day, Pang Feng was just a core martial practitioner in a Black Iron rank force, Cloud Sky Mountain. There were countless late stage Manifestation Realm martial practitioners on the Scarlet Tide Continent.

Qin Lie on the other hand, was a key figure in Blood Fiend Sect. He could control the eight god corpses and was friends with Imperishable Realm experts like Li Mu and Duan Qianjie.

On top of that, even the number one practitioner in the Land of Chaos, Forefather Terminator, seemed to think quite highly of him and hoped to take him in as a direct disciple.

Qin Lie himself was at the peak of the Netherpassage Realm, and he was just a tiny step away from the Fulfillment Realm.

Be it in terms of realm, strength, wealth, or influence, Qin Lie had long since surpassed Pang Feng on all fronts.

In a Black Iron rank force like Cloud Sky Mountain, their strongest martial practitioners were at best at the peak of Netherpassage Realm. Considering that Qin Lie could kill a Fulfillment Realm martial practitioner by himself, he alone was enough to destroy Cloud Sky Mountain several times over!

The gap between Pang Feng and Qin Lie was like a chasm already, and this gap would only grow wider over time.

“Yi Yuan may not be as bright as Qin Lie is, but he definitely isn’t lacking in insight.” Lian Rou pursed her lips into a smile and said, “He had already become acquaintances with Qin Lie back when Qin Lie had first stepped into Armament Sect. A few years ago, he resolutely gave up a wonderful future in Purple Mist Sea just to enter the Land of Chaos with me. He may not compare to Qin Lie, but he is still much, much better than Pang Feng…”

“Your Yi Yuan is your Yi Yuan, but Qin Lie… isn’t my Qin Lie, you know?” Tang Siqi stared grudgefully at the people in the front.

Right now, Qin Lie was chatting happily with Song Tingyu at the front of the group.

“You need to fight to get a good man!” Lian Rou swung her fist into her palm heavily and encouraged Tang Siqi. “Look at Miss Song! She brazenly chased after Qin Lie while the Ling Family’s Ling Yushi was not by Qin Lie’s side, and she had even stepped into the Graveyard of Gods with him. She ultimately succeeded in capturing Qin Lie’s heart, didn’t she?!”

Lian Rou clenched her teeth and said, “Your problem is that your skin is too thin! You must take the initiative if you wish to get someone like Qin Lie! You need to force him into action and stop him from running away!”

Tang Siqi’s beautiful eyes shone with a dazzling light as a blush turned her cheeks rosy red. After a moment’s thought, she said softly, “I’ll try to be more active in the future.”

“That’s the way!” Lian Rou giggled. “Look at Yi Yuan, that bastard. Have I not trained him into a perfectly obedient man? He’ll head east if I want him to head east, and he’ll head west if I want him to head west!”

“You’re most impressive, Sister Rou.” Tang Siqi was very envious.

Inside a huge, dry well at an island known as Ghost Isle on Purple Mist Sea, a rustling sound could be heard.

A group of martial practitioners slowly appeared from inside the dry well under cold moonlight as they walked out of the well entrance.

“We’re finally home!” Song Tingyu stretched her back, an unbelievably attractive curve appearing around her chest.

The dozens of martial practitioners stationed on Ghost Isle all let out cries of surprise when they saw the group who had emerged out of nowhere.

There were plenty of male martial practitioners who immediately grew spirited and lustful the second they saw her astounding beauty and throat-parching curves.

They were all martial practitioners of vassal forces under Eight Extreme Temple.

“Who are you people?” A Blue Feather Association martial practitioner immediately walked over with obvious lust in his eyes. He looked like he could wait to press his face into Song Tingyu’s firm and round breasts.

“We’re someone whom you cannot afford to provoke.” Song Tingyu gracefully made a grabbing gesture with her hand.

Five colorful rays of prismatic light appeared and wrapped around that martial practitioner like ribbons. They abruptly tightened around the man.

The martial practitioner immediately cried out loudly in fear and shock.

The man’s screams grew louder and louder as the light gradually contracted. The corner of his mouth was quickly stained by blood.

“I guess it’s been too peaceful for the past few years in the Nether Battlefield since my Profound Heaven Alliance hasn’t sent anyone over. All these defenders must be insignificant small fries; I can’t believe they didn’t even recognize us anymore.” Song Tingyu shook her head and smiled softly at Qin Lie and Xie Jingxuan.

“Alright, stop teasing them already,” Qin Lie didn’t waste any time. He rubbed his spatial ring and summoned several crystalline war chariots immediately.

Crystalline war chariots were small-sized flying spirit artifacts that were relatively common among Land of Chaos’ Copper rank forces.

Because flying spirit artifacts like crystalline war chariots were quite small, they could be put directly into a spatial ring, making them extremely convenient and practical vehicles.

When Gold Sun Island had fought against Black Cloud Palace and Heavenly Sea Pavilion, they had gotten a lot of crystalline war chariots as loot.

Later on, when Black Voodoo Cult and the three great families had attacked the Setting Sun Islands, fought an intense battle against Blood Fiend Sect and Gold Sun Island, and ultimately lost, they left behind even more crystalline war chariots for the winners.

Before they had come to the Scarlet Tide Continent, the reason Qin Lie had acquired a spatial ring with twenty or so crystalline war chariots was exactly because they would make their travel easier.

“Sister Tingyu, Sister Jingxuan, you two will get a crystalline war chariot each. As long as you put high-grade spirit stones in as fuel, they won’t fall too far behind your Flowing Cloud Rainbow Butterfly in terms of speed. You girls can return to Profound Heaven Alliance very quickly on the crystalline war chariots.” Qin Lie gave them two crystalline war chariots before turning to Feng Rong, Mo Hai and Tang Siqi, saying, “I’ll give you five crystalline war chariots, and you guys can go either to the poisonous bog or Armament Sect’s Flame Volcano. Try to seek out and invite those reliable former Armament Sect artificers if possible.”

“Won’t Eight Extreme Temple and Profound Heaven Alliance target us on purpose if we go around so ostentiously?” Feng Rong asked worriedly.

They hadn’t brought any Blood Fiend Sect experts with them this time. Feng Rong herself was only at the Fulfillment Realm, and Mo Hai’s realm was pretty average too.

“Both Eight Extreme Temple and Profound Heaven Alliance had been warned by Heavenly Sword Mountain not to act against us, so there’s no way they’d dare to act recklessly. As for their Black Iron rank forces, they’ll only bring trouble upon themselves if they try to fight you, so there’s nothing to be worried about,” Qin Lie said smilingly.

“Don’t worry, I’ll talk to father with Jingxuan after we return to Profound Heaven Alliance later and guarantee that their vassal forces won’t dare to raise a hand against you.” Song Tingyu consoled Feng Rong.

“That’ll be the best.” Feng Rong was finally at ease upon hearing this.

“What about you?” Song Tingyu looked back at Qin Lie with a dazzling smile on her beautiful face. “Are you going to act alone?”

“I’m going to meet some old friends before meeting up with Elder Mo at the poisonous bog.”

“That’s fine. Hehe, this is Profound Heaven Alliance’s domain. As long as you’re not purposely trying to hide yourself, it should be quite easy for Jingxuan and me to find you.”

After a short discussion, the group quickly ascertained their destinations and departed from the scene on their respective crystalline war chariots.

The Ghost Isle guardians could only watch as the expensive flying spirit artifacts flew away one after another. They were all scared out of their wits.

“Report to the Holy Temple! Report this to the Holy Temple! Quickly!”

Chapter 661: On The Verge of a Breakthrough

Skypiercing Mountain.

Eight Extreme Temple’s Holy Master, Li Yi, was currently meditating inside a grand palace and cleansing his mind with holy light.

Li Yi was at the late stage of the Fragmentation Realm, and he didn’t dare to get lazy in order to be able to enter Nirvana Realm as soon as possible.

A ray of golden light shot into the palace hall.

Li Yi opened his eyes and frowned. “What is it?”

The golden light slowly condensed into the gold robed envoy Chang Qi. The man stood respectfully in front of Li Yi and reported, “I’ve received a report from Blue Feather Association claiming that a group of strangers had suddenly appeared at Ghost Isle. These people possessed a large number of crystalline war chariots, and they had left after splitting up into several groups.”

“A large number of crystalline war chariots?” Li Yi’s expression changed slightly.

There were plenty of Copper rank forces in the Land of Chaos who possessed crystalline war chariots. They were really precious.

Thus, the appearance of any crystalline war chariot on the Scarlet Tide Continent couldn’t be treated as a trivial occurrence. It represented a powerful force and astounding wealth.

“From what I heard, these strangers should be Song Tingyu, Xie Jingxuan and… Qin Lie!” Chang Qi said.

“Qin Lie!”

Li Yi inhaled deeply as his expression grew more and more serious. A trace of bitterness passed the center of his forehead.

Back then, Eight Extreme Temple, Profound Heaven Alliance, and Joyful Union Sect had joined hands and gathered at Herb Mountain in attempt to eliminate the evil races, Qin Lie and the Ling Family clansmen completely. However, they had suffered tremendous losses in that battle.

Li Mu was one who showed up to reconcile things and ultimately ended that bloody battle.

Despite having paid a heavy price, not only did Profound Heaven Alliance, Eight Extreme Temple, and Joyful Union Sect fail to obtain words of praise from Heavenly Sword Mountain, they were even warned severely never to raise a hand against Qin Lie and his people or invade the Nether Battlefield ever again.

Qin Lie was the first person to make Li Yi feel helpless in his whole life.

“It should be Qin Lie and those Blood Spear people!” Chang Qi said affirmatively.

“Let them do whatever they want.” Li Yi sighed and waved his hands. He said helplessly, “Just a month ago, Heavenly Sword Mountain had sent down a handwritten order that Profound Heaven Alliance and Eight Extreme Temple are not to harm Qin Lie or Blood Spear no matter what, and that any transgression will be seen as an act of rebellion. That order had been signed by Luo Nan and Yan Baiyi themselves!”

Chang Qi couldn’t help but suck in a mouthful of cold air in shock. “How can this be?”

“This Qin Lie is like a fish in a water in the Land of Chaos. The acquaintances he made are all important figures we cannot afford to offend. In the future, Eight Extreme Temple would be… lucky to avoid his wrath. Therefore, we must not even think of provoking him, or we will suffer unimaginable consequences.” Li Yi’s eyes were bitter.

Chang Qi turned pale from shock.

Later on, he immediately sent a secret order to all of Eight Extreme Temple’s vassal forces and informed them that they were not to harm Qin Lie or Blood Spear under any circumstances. They also made a declaration and acknowledged Blood Spear’s existence on the Scarlet Tide Continent on their own accord.

This declaration meant that Qin Lie and all Blood Spear martial practitioners could walk openly on the soil of the Scarlet Tide Continent without fear from then on.

After Song Tingyu and Mo Hai had parted ways, Qin Lie drove a crystalline war chariot and flew away from Purple Mist Sea’s domain. He flew in Nebula Pavilion’s direction.

He didn’t encounter any Eight Extreme Temple martial practitioners along the way. Every martial practitioner within Eight Extreme Temple’s domain seemed to have gone blind all of a sudden and completely ignored his crystalline war chariot.

“So even the Eight Extreme Temple knows when to give in,” Qin Lie thought to himself.

Back when he was embroiled in a great war against Eight Extreme Temple and Profound Heaven Alliance, they thought nothing of the Ling Family, the Horned Demon Race, and him at all.

It was because there existed countless people in Eight Extreme Temple who could kill him back then.

Several years went by, and he had entered the Scarlet Tide Continent once more. But although Eight Extreme Temple obviously knew of his return, they could only pretend that they hadn’t seen him even though he was wantonly driving the crystalline war chariot around their domain.

This was the power of intimidation brought by status and position!

Today, not only was he closely connected to Heavenly Sword Mountain, he even held a considerable amount of influence in Blood Fiend Sect. He controlled the eight god corpses and possessed enough power to stand his ground against an Imperishable Realm expert.

His strength was so great that Eight Extreme Temple didn’t even dare to touch him. One wrong move and they would be met with utter destruction!

After he was baptized by the Land of Chaos, Qin Lie finally realized that he had been lacking in knowledge and experience. After he had returned to the Scarlet Tide Continent, he finally understood that there was a strict status quo between forces, and that there was an almost insurmountable wall between the superior and inferior forces.

He also understood that lower ranking forces could do nothing but to obey the rules that had been set down by their superiors.

However, the truly powerful forces and characters could set the rules themselves!

Back then, the reason Profound Heaven Alliance and Eight Extreme Temple were able to do whatever they wanted on the Scarlet Tide Continent was because they were the rule maker and the strongest forces around.

However, a single handwritten order and a single message from Heavenly Sword Mountain were enough to instantly tear Scarlet Tide Continent’s rules to shreds!

This was because, to the two strongest forces on Scarlet Tide Continent, the Profound Heaven Alliance and Eight Extreme Temple, Heavenly Sword Mountain was the rule!

Under such a strict status quo, they had no choice but to obey Heavenly Sword Mountain’s orders unconditionally, or be met with a very real threat of annihilation.

Atop the crystalline war chariot, Qin Lie’s eyes began to flash with lightning as his True Soul became pure as if it had been cleansed by invisible divine water after he had completely understood this principle.

At the same time, his dantian’s spirit sea began to grow turbulent as nine natal palaces abruptly overflowed with energy.

In that instant, the cyclones of ice, electricity, and bright yellow geocentric energies abruptly filled up his spirit sea and became entangled with one another. A terrifying pain that felt like tendrils being twisted into a knot assaulted his senses.

“I’m on the verge of a breakthrough…”

When Qin Lie realized this, he clenched his teeth and randomly chose a direction. Then, he drove the crystalline war chariot straight into a dense forest.

“Boom!”

The crystalline war chariot crashed heavily into the ground and broke several ancient trees so wide that it would take several people holding hands to hug around its trunk. Qin Lie had jumped off the crystalline war chariot beforehand and landed between the unharmed branches of other ancient trees. He immediately concentrated and tried to sort out his spirit sea and separate the mingled spirit energies.

His nine natal palaces contained the power of thunder, frost and earth. Normally, they were clearly separate and minded their own respective businesses.

However, for whatever reason, they had suddenly unleashed their powers all at once and were spiralling out of control inside his spirit sea. The mess made his head dizzy.

“Withdraw!”

Seated on top of the tree, he focused his mind and attempted again and again to withdraw the different elements of spirit energy back into their respective natal palaces.

However, these three normally docile and easily controllable energies had become unbelievably violent for whatever reason.

They didn’t heed his orders at all!

Inside his spirit sea, there was rampaging blizzard, with violent lightning bolts dancing about. The blizzard was firing innumerable ice beams and frosty mists with the temperature of absolute zero towards the surroundings, while the weakest power of earth had conjured many bright yellow shields and defended itself against the attacks passively.

This was the second time his spirit sea was in great chaos!

Qin Lie once heard from Li Mu that martial practitioners who cultivated different spirit arts would often encounter all kinds of storms of fiendish rebound when they were breaking through to a new realm.

The more spirit arts they cultivated, the scarier the storms would be.

It was only today that Qin Lie finally understood what he meant.

Just as he was fighting to regain control, to no avail, he sorrowfully realized that the blood inside his blood vessels was growing restless as well.

Dark tendrils of blood flowed in reverse from his veins into his spirit sea and formed the fourth front. Like countless bloody dragons, they joined the battle for supreme control of Qin Lie’s spirit sea!

In that instant, the pain grew so sharp that Qin Lie nearly fainted on the spot. The four kinds of violent energies tormented him with immeasurable pain.

At times, his body would become encased in ice, and at times lightning would shoot and shatter the ice to bits.

Wisps of bloody mist also poured out of every pore in his body as it grew thicker and thicker around Qin Lie.

It didn’t take long before the conflict between thunder and ice shattered this blood-colored mist into nothingness too.

Qin Lie felt like he was being stabbed with thousands of blades as he passively endured the intense battle rampaging throughout his body. He let out an animalistic roar of pain inside the quiet forest.

He attempted to enter the state of Thoughtless Tranquility through the Soul Suppressing Orb at a critical moment.

Unfortunately for him, the thought had just appeared when he blacked out completely.

The battle hadn’t ended just because he fainted.

His blackout didn’t last very long either. He was jolted back to consciousness by the pain just a few dozens of seconds later, and he realized immediately that the pain inside his spirit sea had actually climbed to another level!

The Demon Sealing Tombstone that should’ve been inside his spatial ring had magically appeared inside his dantian’s spirit sea. The blank tombstone positioned itself right at the place where the conflict was the greatest.

In that area, thunder rampaged, blizzard erupted, and bloody beams roared like giant dragons.

This place was at the center of the nine natal palaces!

The nine natal palaces were like nine dazzling suns that continuously unleashed their power and gathered towards that area.

These different powers seemed to be trying to obtain something of critical importance as he was ascending to Fulfillment Realm.

That was why they had gone all out!