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Chapter 1834 - 963: Withdrawal (2)

At this moment, if Great Power Leng Luo had continued attacking, the White Emperor Sect’s mountain gate would definitely have been breached very quickly.

But he did not pursue; instead, with an ugly expression, he turned around and left, without the slightest pause.

Only when his figure disappeared and Great Power Xuan Yi sensed within the Grotto Heaven that Great Power Leng Luo’s figure had gone far enough away, did he finally come out from the Grotto Heaven.

With a wave of Great Power Xuan Yi’s hand, the scattered energy of his avatar in the void converged; although the majority of it had been shattered, it had not been completely annihilated. He had come out in time—so long as he replenished the energy, this avatar could still be used.

It was just that this avatar would not be able to return to its peak state for a very long time.

He looked coldly into the distance; that was exactly the direction in which Great Power Leng Luo had left.

”That sword of mine is not so easy to withstand!” he muttered to himself.

Only after Great Power Leng Luo had flown a certain distance did he slow his speed.

”Cowardly rat, a life of excessive comfort has even shrunk your guts; you don’t even make use of such a good opportunity!” Great Power Leng Luo said, shaking his head as he felt the injury at his waist.

The wound on his waist did not look severe, but it had been directly inflicted by a strike from a Great Power.

At the wound on his waist, there lingered a strange Rule Power, a mixture of multiple rules manifested in the form of a force field.

This Rule Power was continuously damaging his fleshly body, and he had also discovered that this kind of injury could not be healed in a short time; it would take a period of slowly expelling this Rule Power.

If, when he was injured, Great Power Xuan Yi’s true body had pursued, it would indeed have been somewhat troublesome.

However, after enjoying the offerings of the White Emperor Sect for many years, the blood courage in Great Power Xuan Yi’s heart had long since been worn away.

If Great Power Leng Luo hadn’t come knocking on his door, perhaps Great Power Xuan Yi wouldn’t even have had the confidence to employ his true body to launch a sneak attack and seriously injure Great Power Leng Luo.

This battle ended with both sides suffering losses.

In fact, Great Power Leng Luo’s strength was much greater than that of Great Power Xuan Yi, but he was very clear on how many enemies the Yuqing Sect currently had, which made him dare not employ too much Cave Heaven Energy.

During the battle, facing only Great Power Xuan Yi’s avatar, he had been fighting exclusively with Thunder Skills.

Only after being sneak-attacked by Great Power Xuan Yi’s true body did he draw on a large amount of energy from within the Grotto Heaven, producing a terrifying effect.

With a single strike he destroyed Great Power Xuan Yi’s avatar, but at the same time, the energy in the Grotto Heaven was consumed by a great deal—almost a hundred years of accumulation.

Unfortunately, Great Power Xuan Yi’s true body was too cunning; that strike of his had been aimed at Great Power Xuan Yi’s true body, so hitting the avatar was a waste.

Great Power Leng Luo was different from the Inheritor Great Ability; he carried his Grotto Heaven with him, allowing him to enter it at any time, so he did not fear being rejected by the Heaven and Earth Rules for using too much energy.

Anyway, once rejected by the Heaven and Earth Rules, he would simply hide inside the Grotto Heaven and wait until the Heaven and Earth Rules calmed down before coming out again.

The consequences triggered by the battle of these two Great Powers were severe.

Great Power Leng Luo’s act of proactively attacking the White Emperor Sect’s mountain gate aroused the dissatisfaction of many superpowers.

Originally, he had thought that by attacking the White Emperor Sect, he would make all the superpowers in the Cultivation World wary and afraid to take further action against the Yuqing Sect.

But he never imagined that his actions would anger almost all of the superpowers.

The Cultivation World has its own rules; he had directly escalated a conflict between superpowers to a battle at the Great Power level, and that was a violation of the rules.

While Great Power Leng Luo was back at the Yuqing Sect recuperating, the various superpowers jointly imposed a blockade on the Yuqing Sect.

This required no discussion; it was a tacit understanding—a tacit sanction against violating the rules of the Cultivation World.

All the forces on every continent that cooperated with the Yuqing Sect to seek out youths with lightning attributes were warned by the superpowers: if they continued to cooperate with the Yuqing Sect, what awaited these forces would be annihilation.

In addition, the Yuqing Sect’s affiliated forces also suffered the harshest suppression.

To be chosen by the Yuqing Sect and accepted as an affiliate, a force naturally would not be some small sect; at the very least, it had to be a large sect.

These large sects, beyond their own resource points, would also engage in some trade in order to support the cultivation of the cultivators in their sects.

But after being suppressed, not only were their resource points plundered, even their businesses were constantly sabotaged.

Four months later, the Yuqing Sect’s affiliated forces either moved their whole sects away from the West Yan Continent, or directly disbanded.

By the time Great Power Leng Luo had recuperated for a while and cleared the remaining Rule Power from his wound, he discovered that the Yuqing Sect’s troubles had not lessened because of his return; instead, they had worsened.

None of the affiliated forces could be contacted, and even the Yuqing Sect’s intelligence network had suffered a devastating blow.

The resource points they had previously reclaimed were now in an unguarded state, since all the cultivators they had sent to guard them had left.

The cultivators the Yuqing Sect currently had available numbered fewer than a hundred, and all of them were cultivators whose bodies had been severely contaminated by radiation.

Great Power Leng Luo would not admit defeat; he set out again. This time, he did not go after the White Emperor Sect, but instead launched reprisals against the hostile large sects.

In the days that followed, the various superpowers continuously received news that large sects had been wiped out, all at the hands of Great Power Leng Luo personally.

Through such means, Great Power Leng Luo acquired a massive amount of resources, but these resources were of limited use, because there were very few Disciples left to cultivate.

The reason a superpower might have tens of thousands or even over a hundred thousand Disciples is that it needs to pick out promising seedlings worth nurturing from among the masses of cultivators.

Apart from those promising seedlings, the rest of the Disciples are essentially left to graze; once they grow up, their role is also to collect resources for the sect.

After Great Power Leng Luo’s return, the Yuqing Sect had only recruited an extremely small number of new Disciples with lightning talent, a pitifully small amount.

To try to restore the Yuqing Sect’s prestige relying on that tiny number of new Disciples was simply a joke.

Great Power Leng Luo’s actions completely enraged all the superpowers; numerous Inheritor Great Abilities began contacting one another to discuss how to deal with the Yuqing Sect.

Under such circumstances, Li Yuanba chose to go into seclusion; the current situation could only be handled by Great Powers.

On the other side, Li Shiming was far more relaxed; he and Yin Shilan were sitting on a small island watching the sunrise, sipping Spiritual Tea and eating Spirit Fruit.

Along the way, the two of them had seen many wondrous sights and had also encountered rare spirit beasts.

However, given Li Shiming’s strength, he had not encountered any real danger.

He no longer needed to cultivate; the ”Infinite Immortal Fire” within his body automatically refined the energy within his five Nascent Souls, constantly purifying the energy in those five Nascent Souls.

This indirectly enhanced the quality of the energy in his Nascent Souls, causing his strength to continue growing.

One must know that upon reaching the Peak Great Cultivator Realm, under normal circumstances it is impossible to have any further increase.

But the fifth-grade ”Infinite Immortal Fire” had facilitated an improvement in the quality of the energy in his body—something he had not anticipated back then.

Because of its extreme preciousness, a fifth-grade ”Infinite Immortal Fire” could not be given to a Great Cultivator even within the Infinite Sect.

Of course, even if the Infinite Sect were willing to give a fifth-grade ”Infinite Immortal Fire” to some Great Cultivator, that Great Cultivator would still be unable to refine the ”Infinite Immortal Fire”; refining the ”Infinite Immortal Fire” was not something that could be done just because one possessed a flame-refining Secret Technique.

The ”Infinite Immortal Fire” could be regarded as a Heavenly Mechanism Treasure, and the Infinite Sect’s inheritance was precisely the cultivation of Fire Based Cultivation Methods. For a Peak Great Cultivator seeking to advance to the Half-step Great Power, the ”Infinite Immortal Fire” was the best choice.

Therefore, even after advancing to the Half-step Great Ability Realm, no Half-step Great Ability would go refine an ”Infinite Immortal Fire”, because the Infinite Sect would never grant a cultivator two strands of ”Infinite Immortal Fire”.

It could be said that the ”Infinite Immortal Fire” in the hands of Li Shiming and his avatar Li Yuanba was roughly equivalent to what the Infinite Sect could cultivate over at least four thousand years; there was no need to say more about how precious it was.

As the quality of the energy in his body continuously improved, he felt that the Half-step Great Ability Realm was right before his eyes.

But he did not dare break through. The five Nascent Souls were one factor; the ”Heavenly Human Technique” advancing to the Half-step Great Power was another. In this process, the slightest mistake would cause hundreds of years of cultivation to go up in smoke, and that was something he could not accept.