Chapter 565: The Beginning of the Campaign

Chapter 565 – The Beginning of the Campaign
Zhang Lao paused and continued, “The rest of the cultivators who are not on the list must pay the corresponding merit or spirit stones in accordance with their cultivation to fund the war!”

Xu Chuniang nodded, “When will the conquest begin?”

Elder Zhang shook his head slightly, “There is no definite news at the moment, if nothing unexpected happens, it will not be more than ten days at most.”

Ten days seemed long, in reality, for such a great war, there were many preparations to be made, and this point of time was very tight.

From this, it could be seen that the nine great families were determined to compete with the Sea Race this time.

Xu Chuniang watched Zhang Lao leave and turned towards the exchange office.

This time, instead of exchanging for extreme spirit stones, she exchanged the several tens of thousands of merit honors on her body, all of which were exchanged for various types of healing and recovery-type medicines.

The Jiao Palace was the realm of the Sea Race, far away from the islands of the Human Race, so it was better to prepare some more pills to be prepared.

After learning that all cultivators who were on the merit list had to accompany the expedition, or else they would have to be deducted 100,000 merit honors, most of the cultivators expressed their support for this initiative.

“The Sea Race overthrew a continent of my Human Race, it’s simply too deceitful, instead of sitting back and waiting for them to drive the Sea Demon Beasts to eat away at my Human Race’s power, it’s better to unite and fight with our backs to the sea!”

“If we lose this battle, the Human Race will face an unprecedented crisis, rather than wither and defend, we’d rather fight!”

Under such a general environment, the few opponents couldn’t make any waves and had to pinch their noses and pay the fine of 100,000 merit badges.

The rest of the cultivators who weren’t on the top list, but whoever went to war, would be rewarded accordingly.

Those who were unwilling to accompany them to battle would need to pay a large sum of spirit stones in order to be exempted from going to battle.

Among the ten continents, Yanzhou and Jiao Palace are the closest, and in the next few days, a large number of cultivators from the other eight continents will rush to Yanzhou to meet up every day.

Some of these cultivators came from big families, and some of them were scattered cultivators without any sects.

Many of them only had Foundation Establishment cultivation, but they had no fear for the upcoming battle.

In just seven days, under the leadership of the nine great families, the cultivators of the Nine Continents had completed their pre-war assembly.

At dawn on the eighth day, hundreds of YuanYing cultivators, led by the nine great families, led tens of thousands of Jindan and hundreds of thousands of Foundation cultivators to take the war boats and head in the direction of the Jiao Palace.

Above the dozens of war boats, a solemn and tense pre-war atmosphere filled the air.

Many sea demonic beasts sensed this might and avoided retreating from afar.

The war boats traveled unhindered all the way towards the depths of the sea.

Xu Chuniang’s current location was precisely the Vermillion Bird Warboat.

She pushed open the window and looked at the sea ahead.

Yanzhou wasn’t too far from Jiao Palace, and with the speed of the war boat, it wouldn’t take more than five or six days to reach the boundaries of Jiao Palace.

The human race is very powerful, I think the sea tribe must have already received the news, I do not know how they will respond.

A little thought, Xu Chuniang urged the spiritual qi, with the Great Diffraction Art began to calculate up.

Great Diffraction Art three changes into a line, eighteen changes into the trigrams.

Unknowingly, she just projected the second change, before she had time to calculate the first lines, it was violently backfired, spraying a mouthful of blood, and the Great Diffusion Technique was also forced to interrupt.

Xu Chuniang calmly wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, these days, she had already tried for the third time to deduce the outcome of this battle with the Great Diffusion Technique.

But all three attempts, without exception, had failed.

The cause and effect of this battle is too great, far beyond what her current cultivation level can deduce.

Little White and Little Orange sensed the disturbance in her aura and looked over worriedly.

“There’s no harm, just need to meditate for a while.”

Because the Great Diffusion Technique had failed shortly after it had begun, the backlash Xu Chuniang had received was not strong.

Just after toning down, her Sea Walking Order trembled lightly.

After her divine sense had probed into it to check the message, she gave it a brief thought before explaining towards Little White and Little Orange. “You guys wait here, I’ll go and return.”

The number of cultivators who were crusading against the Jiao Palace was large, and in order to facilitate management, the nine great families had divided the tens of thousands of Jindan cultivators and hundreds of thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators into hundreds of teams.

In each team, there were hundreds of Jindan cultivators and five thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators.

These cultivators would be uniformly led by Yuan Ying True Lords.

The message Xu Chuniang had received was the rallying order issued by the leading Yuan Ying True Lord.

She walked out of the room and headed towards the fifth floor of the Vermillion Bird Battle Ark, following the guidelines and finding the room numbered Nonnyin.

There were already quite a few cultivators in the room who had arrived, and when they saw someone enter, they all looked towards the door.

When they saw the visitor, they all lit up.

“It’s actually Fairy Myriad, I can’t believe I’m on the same team as a fairy!”

“The great name of Fairy Miaofa, the Xiao Dao has heard of it long ago, and when I see it today, the fairy really does have an extraordinary temperament, with the posture of a Yuan Ying.”

“For the next battle, I will have to rely on Fairy a lot.”

Xu Chuniang nodded slightly as a salute.

These cultivators in front of her were all from Wind Thunder Island, and several of them looked quite familiar, and should have been seen on the battlefield before.

After she found a spot to sit down, she began to close her eyes and recuperate.

Seeing this, the other cultivators were very sensible and didn’t say much, but instead whispered about the YuanYing True Lord who was leading the group.

“The one leading the group is the Zhou Family’s YuanYing True Monarch, with a mid YuanYing cultivation.

However, I heard that she was severely injured in a battle a hundred years ago, and has not been able to recover fully, so I’m afraid that the strength she can utilize is extremely limited.”

“Although the Zhou Family’s old ancestor has an old illness, a thin dead camel is bigger than a horse, so how can she be stronger than an early YuanYing cultivator?”

“I don’t think that’s necessarily true, the strength of the YuanYing leader is crucial, and is closely related to our lives.

The strength of this Zhou Family’s YuanYing True Monarch, amongst the crowd of YuanYing cultivators, I’m afraid it can only be considered as medium to low.”

While the crowd was discussing, a cold snort could be heard, and a purple-robed female cultivator who looked to be no more than forty years old walked in.

She was simply dressed and looked plain, yet she had a certain unique aura that was impossible to ignore.

This purple-robed female cultivator was none other than the Zhou Family’s YuanYing cultivator, Zhou Ruoying, who was being talked about by the crowd.

“It looks like you guys are very unconvinced of my old self’s strength?”

Zhou Ruoying’s gaze was faint as she swept over the crowd of cultivators, her expression unable to tell if she was happy or angry.

The cultivators whose gazes were swept by her immediately had a feeling of chills running down their spines, subconsciously straightening their bodies and lowering their heads.

Especially the few who had just questioned her strength were so nervous that they were sweating like pulp, their hearts almost jumping out of their throats.

Even the YuanYing cultivator with the worst strength was not something they could afford to mess with.

“Dare not, how would the junior dare to doubt the senior’s strength, those words just now were just hearsay.”

“Elder knows his mistake, please don’t bother with me, senior.”

Zhou Ruoying snorted lightly, “If I am with you and so on, you think you can still sit here? It’s just that if I let you guys off the hook for this, wouldn’t the others think that YuanYing True Lords are something that you and the others can arbitrarily discuss?”

A few people hadn’t had time to breathe a sigh of relief, when they heard the second half of the sentence, a heart lifted up again.

“True Lord forgive me, senior really knows that I am wrong.”

“Please forgive True Lord, I won’t dare to do so next time.”

(End of chapter)