Chapter 414 - 389 World in Chaos_1

"My true body and true vigor have doubled compared with before."

Lu Yan discerned carefully, his face showing surprise and joy.

As expected of one of the Nine Extremes of the World, the extent of the enhancement is horrifying.

Doubling might not seem like much, but upon close thought, it’s pretty alarming.

How profound is Lu Yan’s cultivation level now?

Remember, with each breakthrough in the Primordial Spirit Realm, there will be a transformation of the true body and true vigor.

Lu Yan’s foundation has now become terrifyingly strong.

The stronger the foundation, the harder it is to improve.

And to directly double it means that he has elevated himself to the level that he previously was before the heavenly gifts were bestowed.

Before this round of heavenly gifts, Lu Yan had spent decades cultivating, had gained numerous opportunities, and had spent innumerable resources to develop his true body and true vigor to their respective levels.

But now, it only took him half a day to reach that level.

Of course, this only refers to his true body and true vigor, and not the power of his soul.

Next, Lu Yan activated the Yanluo Golden Body and True Dragon War Body, without a doubt, the enhancement of his true body and true vigor significantly increased their power when practicing Body Refining Martial Arts.

The Yanluo Golden Body itself had also achieved a significant breakthrough.

Let’s not talk about ranged attacks, but in close combat, Lu Yan had undeniably risen to another new realm.

"Now, even if one understood the rules of the Seventh Void, they might not be able to breach my defenses, right?"

Lu Yan mused.

Exhaling as his practice ended, stepping on starlight, Lu Yan met up with King Ming and the others.

Energies were still continuously flowing out of the Dao Book.

This time, he ingested two immortals at the Seventh Transformation of Primordial Spirit and two at the Sixth Rotation of the Yuan God, which was far more than enough energy needed to enhance the Yanluo Golden Body.

Lu Yan estimated that the enhancement of Yanluo Golden Body merely consumed the energy of one immortal at the Seventh Transformation of Primordial Spirit.

Next, Lu Yan prioritized the enhancement of the Five-Colored Heavenly Saber.

Because the Five-Colored Heavenly Saber was already close to the eleventh level, and the highest level of twelve wasn’t too far off.

As for the Demon Hunting, it was still a long way from the highest realm. Even if all the energy was used to enhance the Demon Hunting, it might not be enough.

It was better to first raise the Five-Colored Heavenly Saber to the highest level, and then enhance the Demon Hunting.

Returning to the territory of the Mansion of King Ming, everyone’s hearts were finally at ease. Lu Yan separated from King Ming and the others and led a fifty thousand strong army back to the Martial Alliance.

As soon as he got back to the Martial Alliance, after instructing Li Quan to send out scouts to monitor the situation everywhere, he entered the practice room.

Because, the Five-Colored Heavenly Saber was about to breakthrough to the highest level.

In fact, on the way, the Five-Colored Heavenly Saber was about to make a breakthrough, Lu Yan timely reverted the energy to the Demon Hunting. As soon as he got back to the Martial Alliance, he immediately gathered energy to enhance the Five-Colored Heavenly Saber.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh...

In the practice room, sword lights crisscrossed and sword shadows were like a woven net. The power of heaven and earth crazily converged towards Lu Yan.

Heavenly gifts, once again bestowed.

But this time, it ended quickly. After just two hours, the heavenly gifts had ended.

Lu Yan’s true body and true vigor were once again enhanced, but this time the magnitude of the enhancement was much smaller compared to that of the Yanluo Golden Body.

Firstly, when the Yanluo Golden Body was cultivated to the highest level, the scale of the enhancement was overwhelmingly large and the foundation excessively solid.

The stronger one is, the smaller the effect of the heavenly gifts, this is an unchanging law of all time.

A Limit Breaking Warrior who cultivates a top-grade martial art to the Unity of Man and Martial Arts and receives heavenly gifts will experience a shocking enhancement.

However, a Grandmaster who cultivates a top-grade martial arts skill to the Unity of Man and Martial Arts will experience limited enhancement.

The reason is that the Grandmaster is too strong in himself.

Now it’s the same case.

Another reason is that the Five-Colored Heavenly Saber itself is somewhat inferior to the Yanluo Golden Body.

Although the enhancement was not as great as that of the Yanluo Golden Body, it was still an enhancement, undoubtedly taking Lu Yan’s strength another step further.

In the blink of an eye, another two days passed, and the energy within the Dao Book was finally depleted.

And the Demon Hunting, just as Lu Yan had predicted, did not reach the highest level, but had achieved the twelfth level.

The twelfth level, about ten percent.

...

In an unnamed barren mountain range, the representatives of the nine immortal ruins and the Sect Hierarch of the Spirit Sect met again.

Of course, the representatives of the White Tiger Immortal Ruin and the Red Flame Immortal Ruins had changed.

"The Lifeblood Sword is about to be formed, but the energy within the Lifeblood Sword can only help one Immortal Lord break the shackles of the world at a time. After the energy is depleted, it will need time to be replenished. What we are here to discuss today is, who shall we save first?"

An immortal spoke.

"Of course it’s my Purple Wing Immortal Ruin. My Immortal Master Purple Wing’s cultivation surpasses everyone, he’s just one step away from Immortality. It’s the best choice to save him first," the Purple Wing Immortal Ruin’s immortal said preemptively.

However, the Sect Hierarch of the Spirit Sect shook his head and said, "Although the Immortal Master Purple Wing is strong, he is suppressed to a greater degree. It’s hard for the Lifeblood Sword to break it all at once. Similarly, the Immortal Master Golden Sun of the Golden Sun Immortal Ruins is like this, so we have to save these two Immortal Masters later."

When the Sect Hierarch of the Spirit Sect spoke, the representatives of the two big immortal ruins dared not refute and could only remain silent.

"How about this, the remaining seven immortal ruins, we can determine the order by drawing lots."

The representative of the Nanmang Immortal Ruin suggested.

The people from the other immortal ruin, all nodded in agreement, without any objections.

Soon, the results of the draw were out.

The first to be saved was the Immortal Lord of the White Tiger Immortal Ruin.

The second one was the Red Flame Immortal Ruin.

The third one was the Ice Wind Immortal Ruin...

...

Ten days later.

Pieces of news reached Lu Yan’s ears.

This time, a total of four feudal princes were ambushed.

They were the Mansion of King Ming, Youwang Manor, Ji Family, and Zuo Family.

Among them, the master of Youwang Manor was killed in battle, and tens of thousands of elites were lost. The remaining people joined the Mansion of King Ming.

The Zuo Family’s army was completely annihilated.

Other feudal princes fled back to their own strongholds, rallying the troops and defending their territory sternly.

Not long after, an even bigger event took place.

In the west of Da Chu.

The Shengwu Sect, under the leadership of its new sect master, led an army of 300,000 to attack the Ji Family.

The master of Cao Family led an army of 200,000 to assist the Shengwu Sect by heading north.

Meanwhile, the Zhenxi Army advanced southwards, and Zhou Yuandao led his troops westward.

Together, the four allied forces, with a total of a million troops, surrounded and attacked the Ji Family with overwhelming momentum.

The Ji Family abandoned all its territory, pulling back all its troops to defend their main city, while at the same time, sending people to ask for reinforcements in all directions.

Meanwhile, in the northwest, the whole of Yu Lei Sect marched out, invading the three states of Zuo Family.

Zhou Yuandao sent an elite force northwards as support.

The Lord of Zuo Family had recently died, and they had also lost 100,000 elite fighters. The Zuo Family was in a panic and couldn’t form effective resistance.

The combined forces of Yu Lei Sect and Zhou Yuandao, swept through Zuo Family’s territory, and besieged Zuo’s main city.

In the center, the Tianjian Sect, under the leadership of its new sect master, advanced north, the Nineyou Sect advanced south, and Zhou Yuandao’s troops marched east, attacking the territory of Youwang Manor.

The three allied forces, with their impressive momentum, made King Ming give up on the idea of leading troops to support Youwang Manor. Faced with these three forces, he could only step back.

Youwang Manor naturally lost ground continuously, some people escaped to the Mansion of King Ming, some scattered everywhere, and some were killed.

For a time, there was turmoil everywhere in Da Chu, and the populace was terrified.

The situation was unpredictable, and the unengaged feudal princes could only pull back their forces, strengthen their defenses, and didn’t dare to send troops to rescue anyone.

Once they sent out troops, their own main base could be looted.

"The Nine Immortal Ruins, Spirit Sect, Zhou Yuandao, Shengwu Sect, Tianjian Sect, Nineyou Sect, Yu Lei Sect, Cao Family, Zhenxi Army... it seems they’re all in on it."

"The Ji Family seems to have more bad luck than good."

"The situation is getting more and more ominous."

Lu Yan contemplated.

Once the Ji Family was wiped out, and the allied forces of the Immortal Ruins, Spirit Sect, and Zhou Yuandao had swept through the west and north of Da Chu, they would surely advance eastwards, and at that time, neither the Mansion of King Ming nor the Martial Alliance could stay out of it.

"Why did the Immortal Ruins and the Spirit Sect join forces? What’s the inside story here?"

"And also, what exactly is the ’Lifeblood Sword’ that the pangolin mentioned?"

Lu Yan furrowed his brows; he had many questions in his heart.

He had discussed these questions with King Ming and Chu Tianjiao before, but both King Ming and Chu Tianjiao had no idea.

Lu Yan felt a huge pressure bearing down on him.

It’s still not enough, his strength is still not enough.

He must break through again, at least to the Fifth Stage of Primordial Spirit, in order to be strong enough to stand his ground.

"Too bad, the Ji Family is besieged, and I still haven’t received the Soul Crystals I’m owed. I’m afraid I won’t be able to get them now."

Lu Yan sighed.

To ask him to go to assist the Ji Family was impossible.

The Ji Family was in the far west, and the Martial Alliance in the far east, the distances were too far. Even with his speed, it would take a long time to go back and forth. What would he do if the Immortal Ruins attacked while he was away?

Besides, even if he went, he might not be able to save the Ji Family.

Just Zhou Yuandao alone, who was considered the number one martial artist in the world, he might not be able to contend against.

Plus, there were the experts from the Spirit Sect and Immortal Ruins.

A few seven-turn Primordial Spirit immortals would be enough to tie him up.

"I need more Soul Crystals, now, all I can do is borrow some from the Mansion of King Ming."

Lu Yan made a trip to the Mansion of King Ming and told King Ming directly.

He could quickly refine the Soul Crystals to boost his cultivation level.

With the current situation, King Ming also felt a great pressure, and they had no way to quickly refine the Soul Crystals to enhance their cultivation level. So, King Ming decisively spent two days gathering all the Soul Crystals in the Mansion of King Ming and gave them to Lu Yan.

A total of about four thousand.

"It’s still not enough."

Lu Yan thought to himself.

He also had the spoils of war confiscated from Jian Wuji and others, and the Soul Crystals added up to a decent amount, but they were definitely not enough for a breakthrough.

He then turned his eyes towards the neighbor of the Martial Alliance, the Dongfang Family.

However, when Lu Yan arrived at the main city of the Dongfang Family, the Dongfang Family went into full alert, activated their formation, and mobilized all their elite fighters, wanting to have a do-or-die battle with Lu Yan.

All of Lu Yan’s explanations were useless.

Now, it was hard to tell friend from foe.

No one knew if Lu Yan was part of Zhou Yuandao’s party.

Lu Yan had no choice but to back down.

If he went all out, he might not be unable to break through the defense of the Dongfang Family.

But now, it was not necessary to start a war with the Dongfang Family for some Soul Crystals. That would only benefit the Spirit Sect, Immortal Ruins and Zhou Yuandao.

Lu Yan returned to the Martial Alliance and closed himself in to refine Soul Crystals.

While refining the Soul Crystals, Lu Yan sent out an avatar to handle matters outside.

Every day, new news was being reported.

For instance, the main city of Zuo Family was breached, the bloodline of Zuo Family was exterminated, marking the complete annihilation of the Zuo Family, one of the eighteen feudal princes.

After wiping out the Zuo Family, the forces of the Yu Lei Sect and Zhou Yuandao joined up and, after refitting, marched eastward towards Yuan Clan.

The Yuan Clan was greatly alarmed and, while resisting with all its might, sent people to request help from the Yin Clan and the Heavenly Dragon Army.

The Yin Clan and the Heavenly Dragon Army were both located in the north and neighboring each other, so they understood the idiom ’If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold.’

Therefore, the Yin Clan and Heavenly Dragon Army each dispatched a large army to support the Yuan Clan against the combined forces of the Yu Lei Sect and Zhou Yuandao and fought a bloody battle.