Chapter 388: External and Internal Troubles

Chapter 386 – External and Internal Worries

Li Fan was obviously not the only one who realized this.

After the battle was over, looking at the Fallen Wood that was reduced to ashes in the blazing fire, Yan Hang and the others did not look the slightest bit excited.

“Damn it, these monsters seem to have gotten a little stronger again.” Yan Hang looked at a withered wound on his arm, his face ugly as he cursed angrily.

The remaining four were all more or less injured as well.

“Hurry up and report this battle, hopefully the top can come up with something good as soon as possible. Otherwise, I guess we won’t be able to last much longer.” The cultivator named Lai Shifeng among the four sighed and said.

Yan Hang snorted coldly and did not retort.

He opened the Governor Heaven Record and closed his eyes to report back.

Li Fan was likewise checking within the Record of Supervising Heaven.

Compared to when he had just entered the Five Elements Cave Heaven, the information recorded in it at this time was much richer.

“The overall completion progress of the grand formation is 78%.”

“In the middle of the plan, and even a few points faster than what was originally expected.”

“But apparently, what’s happening here has gotten a little out of hand.”

“I wonder what kind of measures the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance will take next.”

Li Fan’s gaze flickered slightly, and his hands did not stop moving.

Could the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance actually complete the construction of the Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation as scheduled?
Li Fan was almost certain that it would be able to.

At this time, within the Five Elements Cave Heaven, the vast majority of the main force of action was only YuanYing cultivators.

On the other hand, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance had no shortage of Spirit Transformation cultivators.

Obviously, they have not yet done all they can.

If it was found that the current strength in hand was insufficient to accomplish the target task, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance would naturally increase its investment.

As for whether or not the cultivators within the Five Elements Cave Sky at the moment could hold on and survive until the day the support arrived, that was another matter.

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As Li Fan had expected, the ever-growing strength of the Cave Heaven monsters was causing panic.

Qi Bu Yi quickly came out to calm the people.

First, she explained for the crowd that due to the principle of the five elements being mutually exclusive, the people thought that the fusion of the five attributes of the monsters was not going to happen.

In the most extreme cases, only four attribute fusion monsters would be born.

But the difficulty would only occur at the end of the [Five Elements Returning to One] process.

What everyone needed to deal with was still mainly the two and three attribute fusion monsters.

Secondly, the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was already aware of the current situation in the Five Elements Cave.

Support would be coming soon.

And to give, the scale of the reinforcements was huge, totaling more than the entire number of cultivators currently working in the Cave Heaven combined.

There is no need for anyone to worry.

Although the crowd held a skeptical attitude towards Qi Bu Yi’s words.

But having received a definite assurance, the crowd of cultivators were finally relieved.

Emotions were slightly soothed as they worked in apprehension, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

Time continued to pass in this atmosphere of constant tension.

In the blink of an eye, two years had passed before entering the Five Elements Cave Heaven.

During this period, cultivators did come one after another to provide support.

However, it was obvious that they were far from the large-scale reinforcements that Qi Buye had promised.

Under the inquiry, Qi Bu Yi also used various excuses to shirk.

However, there were two new Harmonized Dao cultivators, which made the crowd’s hearts much more relaxed.

And the new support cultivators more, through their mouth, the crowd also know why the delay in seeing reinforcements. The outside world in the past two years, really is the ups and downs, happened a lot of big things.

First of all, there is the external worry.

The Five Elders’ Association had re-staged their troops at the border, repeatedly with the intention of testing and provoking.

Unlike in the past, the other side did not seem to have any intention of opening a large-scale dispute.

It only focused all of its forces on the Wind and Thunder Continent, which was separated from the Heavenly Spirit State.

According to folk gossip, it seemed that the Five Elders Association coveted the mysteries of the Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation and wanted to snatch an entire state from the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.

The Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation was analyzed and researched in full detail.

Li Fan, however, knew that this was just a superficial excuse.

The real goal of the Five Elders’ Association should still be the void in Tian Ling Zhou that had birthed the Five Elements Cavern.

“It seems that paper can’t hold fire after all. Indeed, in two years’ time, the unusual movements of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance in the Heavenly Spirit State are enough to cause the other party to be alerted.” Li Fan secretly pondered.

Apart from the pressure brought about by the Five Elders Association.

The territory of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was also not calm.

Within this period of time, many voices against the popularization of the Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation suddenly emerged from all over the place.

And the ones who spoke out weren’t just some unknowns.

Most of them were cultivators at the level of Spirit Transformation and above who occupied important positions in various states.

Not knowing what had happened, these cultivators who not long ago had unanimously stated that they absolutely supported the Spirit Locking Array construction plan.

However, they suddenly changed their words and expressed their opposition in a clear manner.

And it is not for instead of anti, but has sufficient arguments as well as reasons.

This is their point of view:
As we all know, all formations, no matter how subtle, will always be penetrated and cracked one day.

In the past, there have been many cases where protective formations have been leaked and the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance knew nothing about it, and were taken by surprise by the other side.

This was also the reason why protective formations had to be replaced every so often.

Now that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance had gone to great lengths to build the Tian Xuan Spirit Locking Formation that covered all of their territory, could they guarantee that the locking formation would always be effective? If it had just been analyzed and cracked by the Five Elders’ Association’s side not long after it was constructed, wouldn’t that be a huge joke?
On top of that, these people were skeptical as to whether the Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation would be able to achieve the advertised effects.

This was because, that [Thousand Faces Demon] that had been haunting the territory of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance had become more and more rampant recently.

Quite a few cultivators in high positions within the state region had been hard pressed to escape him.

Even some of the states that had already completed the construction of the Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation had only slightly slowed down his killing pace.

In the end, he still let him slip away.

Besides, even if he was really caught, so what?
Since the Five Elders Association was able to cultivate a Thousand-faced Demon Sovereign, it was bound to be able to cultivate two or three Thousand-faced Demon Sovereigns.

When it was initially publicized, the greatest significance of the existence of the Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation was to make all the Five Elders Association cultivators in the territory have nothing to hide.

What about now?
Others are wreaking havoc within your territory openly and squarely, yet you are powerless to do anything about it.

What is the use of this Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation?

It had to be said that these people’s viewpoints were really reasonable.

So much so that when they questioned the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, it caused quite a few people to resonate with them.

The tide of opposition intensified, but the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance uncharacteristically did not punish these opponents, but instead fell into a bizarre silence.

It was against this backdrop that the Thousand Faces Demon Duke’s movements became more and more mysterious, and his butchery became more and more vicious.

On top of the internal and external troubles, Li Fan also heard an interesting story.

The situation is getting more and more tense, but in Nine Mountain State where the Five Elders Association of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance meets, the organization called the Spirit Element Sect has been making a lot of noise lately.

It had really attracted the attention of many cultivators.

Everything was only because there was a peculiar gong method within the Spirit Yuan Sect.

A technique that the more people who practiced it at the same time, the faster the speed of cultivation would be.

(End of chapter)