72. Chapter 72 – All of them are stepping stones for me to build my foundation.
Chapter 72 – Everyone is my Foundation Building Stepping Stone
“Who?”
Around Wanwei City, there were a large number of scouts in a hundred-mile radius, and there were also scouts active in key locations within a thousand-mile radius, and the rest of the remote places were no less scouts.
As long as there was any movement in the surrounding area, they were able to get a clear picture of it.
Upon hearing the movements, these scouts were also very nervous.
After all, if someone didn’t follow the rules and sent someone from the Foundation Establishment or Dragon Transformation Realm over wouldn’t that be the end of it.
But they didn’t know that the Great Election of Heaven was imminent, and that all the great Holy Lands were preparing for the Great Election of Heaven, so if the sects within the continent dared to look for trouble, it would really be a matter of taking death.
A twisted sound came, soon a short puppet into the eyes, the next moment staggered two steps fell to the ground, obviously inlaid spirit stone consumed.
Hiding in the shadows of the scouts, quietly waiting for a few moments, see indeed no movement, there is a scout carefully went forward to check.
He found that it was indeed just an ordinary puppet, but he soon saw several pieces of shadow-retaining stones with bloodstains.
He picked up the shadow-retaining stones and activated them, and in the next moment, the scene he saw was startling, causing him to stifle a gasp.
“Essence of Heaven and Earth!”
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“Report!”
Wanwei City, City Lord’s Mansion.
City Lord Zhu Xianming was a Yuan Spirit Realm Grand Cultivator, but this place was the Red Valley Battlefield, so as City Lord, he was not allowed to leave the boundaries of Wanwei City.
His presence was to deter the petty rats of Wanwei City, and at the same time, to hold fast to Wanwei City, so unless he had no choice, he was not allowed to take a single step out of Wanwei City.
This was the commission of the five Hengshan Clans.
After all, if he left for a moment and the other two domains knew about it, the moment Wanwei City was lost, then it was very likely that a star fire would start a prairie fire, causing the southern part of the Hengshan Domain to be lost.
Only this tacit understanding had already lasted for countless years, none of the three domains had broken the unspoken rules of the Red Valley Battlefield, and all of them had defaulted to this place as the battlefield for their outer disciples’ training.
A sound of ”report” disturbed Zhu Xianming’s moment of sipping tea.
“What is it?”
“My lord, an Essence of Heaven and Earth has been discovered in Soul Severing Valley.” The visitor knelt down on one knee and raised several shadow-retaining stones above his head with both hands.
Heaven and Earth Essence?
Zhu Xianming muttered, but there were no waves in his heart.
For one, he was a loose cultivator, his parents had long since passed away, he had no daoist partner, no heir, and even less disciples, so this thing would be of very little use to him.
The town of Wanwei City was also because there was something to ask the five clans, and he promised to guard the town for a hundred years.
Second, he is not an alchemist, naturally, he has little interest in the essence of heaven and earth.
Of course, it would be a beautiful thing if he could obtain a strain of Heaven and Earth Essence and go to the Holy Land to exchange it for resources.
Once he reached out and received the shadow-retaining stone, after activating it, what was presented in front of him was a place surrounded by a light mist.
This terrain at a glance is the Soul Breaking Cliff, only the Soul Breaking Cliff due to the reason of heaven and earth, perennial fog, although there is a road to the three domains, but not the main pass.
The main thing is that the terrain, forging, gathering qi army in the past, there is an ambush, basically will be wiped out, this terrain is really too stupid.
Only some traders who sell supplies will pass through here.
The perspective of the shadow-retaining stone was from the bottom to the top, and through the faint mist, one could vaguely see a dream-like spiritual flower on the cliffs of the valley.
With just one glance, Zhu Xianming knew that it was indeed an Essence of Heaven and Earth.
“Only, it’s a bit clumsy.”
It just so happened that the fog of the Soul Severing Cliff faded, and it just so happened that a plant of Heaven and Earth Essence appeared?
Although the image on the shadow-retaining stone was shaky, there was one fatal break, and that was the bloodstain on the shadow-retaining stone.
What? You’ve been beaten and bled during the battle, and you’re still holding the shadow-retaining stone to record it?
Thinking about it, Zhu Xianming sipped his tea and spoke, “Someone come.”
“My lord!”
“Go and release the city lord’s mission, recruit 30,000 troops, say that there is a heaven and earth essence in Broken Soul Valley, as long as it can be captured, then the whole army will be rewarded, let Gongsun Li lead the army this time.” “Yes, my lord.”
After giving the order, Zhu Xianming stopped caring about this matter.
As for why he still went over there knowing that it was a clumsy ploy, it was naturally because 30,000 troops were just a drop in the bucket for Wanwei City.
The entire Wanwei City has a total of more than 200 million people, not including the large number of counties, towns and villages around Wanwei City, adding up the number of cultivators who have forged their bodies and gathered qi is as many as the hair of the ox.
Wanwei City cultivators accounted for more than 70%, these people are mostly body forging, gas gathering, are to Wanwei City experience or take the task to earn spirit stone.
Although he didn’t care about the Heaven and Earth Essence, if he could get it, then naturally it would be best to take it.
It was better to have it than not to have it, and it was a good thing to befriend those great cultivators who loved their juniors.
As for sending scouts to investigate, wouldn’t that be a waste of time? Plus, with the terrain of Soul Breaking Valley, it’s useless to have more people, 30,000 troops is just right.
If you can’t get it, it’s just a waste of a little bit of time for the 30,000 strong army.
What if we’re ambushed? It’s only 30,000 dead, it’s affordable. Anyway, these people are here to practice, where not to practice?
Fragrant, this Dragon’s Leap tea is really fragrant, Zhu Xianming squinted his eyes and enjoyed it.
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Gongsun Li was an old man with white hair at the ninth level of Qi Gathering, and after he received the city lord’s mission, he naturally led the order.
Since it was a City Lord’s mission, coupled with the perennial war in the Red Valley Battlefield, the 30,000 strong army was recruited quickly and assembled quickly.
Coupled with the fact that Gongsun Knight was an experienced commander, many people who were still considering whether to take the mission or not made up their minds once they saw that it was him.
“The objective is the Soul Breaking Cliff, everyone on foot except for the major generals.”
Unless it was a demonic beast mount, as a cultivator there was no fear of a cavalry charge.
A plant of heaven and earth essence appeared, and since the city lord had recruited 30,000 troops, there was bound to be a bloody battle under the Soul Breaking Cliff when the time came.
Gongsun Li raised his head as if he had already seen a bloody and abnormal meat grinder.
“Depart!”
Although the Body Forging Realm and Qi Gathering Realm were not placed within the cultivator realm, they were again too powerful compared to mortals.
It was as if Foundation Establishment could slaughter Body Forging and Qi Gathering with their hands, they could slaughter mortals with their hands as well.
When Gongsun Li led the army has not yet arrived at the broken soul cliff, will hear ear-shattering noise, resounding the clouds shouting killing, that thick smell of blood even from a long distance, can be clearly smelled.
Gongsun Li’s face changed, he wasn’t surprised that there was someone here, because Lord City Lord didn’t inform him of the details, he only knew that there was an Essence of Heaven and Earth within the Soul Breaking Cliff.
And his purpose was to bring back the Heaven and Earth Essence.
Now that the shouts and killings inside the Soul Breaking Cliff were loud, Gongsun Li was afraid that someone would take advantage of the chaos to loot the Heaven and Earth Essence and take it away.
He first sent out a few teams of 9th level Qi Gathering to search for the Heaven and Earth Essence, and then led the rest of the people to rush directly into the thick fog.
“Kill!”
It was already evening, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on top of the Soul Breaking Cliff, illuminating the outline of this dangerous place even more grimly.
At the same time, it also gave the Soul Breaking Cliff a thin layer of golden veil, coupled with the fog surrounding it, just one glance and one would have to sigh, what a beautiful place like a fairyland.
However, in this beautiful place, blood and limbs could be seen flying through the mist.
It is a pity that there is a dense fog, otherwise and the setting sun reflect each other, must be a cruel and bloody battlefield picture.
Zhou Xuan, who was currently standing on top of the cliff, was expressionless, and when he saw that a Qi Gathering Realm had come forward to snatch the Dreamlike Illusion Flower, the flying sword at his waist flashed like a thunderous shadow.
These Qi Gathering cultivators only felt a flash of purple in their eyes, and before they could react, they had already been beheaded.
Not knowing how many Qi Gathering had been killed, when Zhou Xuan heard the sound of the earth shaking again from not far away, he could not help but reveal a cruel smile:
“Good good good! Finally here, to be able to become a stepping stone for my Foundation Establishment, your lives, are much more valuable than the others.”
Thanks to the mage drifting big brother’s alliance, the budding master plus more on the shelf to make up for it ^_^
(End of chapter)