Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 947: Chapter 387: Cannon Fire Scorches the Earth, Ten Thousand Sword Killing Formation, Mountain Collapse Reappears, Canyon Collapses

A twenty-year internal war plagued the Yu Ding Sect.

Battles erupted incessantly, numerous struggles unfolded, and after many twists and turns, everything converged at the Accumulated Thunder Ninth Mountain, the current battlefield.

Luo Chen knew a lot about this internal war.

He had even specifically dispatched the intelligence department of the Luo Tian Creed to gather all sorts of information.

Whether it was true information or hearsay, he never stopped seeking to understand it.

He even reviewed the overall situation multiple times, sorting through the sequences of events, attempting to deduce when the war might end.

One could say that aside from the various Golden Core higher-ups of the Sects and those two elusive Nascent Soul True Masters, Luo Chen’s understanding far surpassed most Sect Disciples, as well as vassals and Rogue Cultivators.

The more Luo Chen understood, the more puzzled he became.

Because!

Wars are not fought like this!

In his view, if one side is strong and the other weak, it should be a blitzkrieg, an annihilation war.

With thunderous power, one strike secures victory!

Just like the Luo Tian Creed’s approach to the Fu and Duan Families.

Definitely not a protracted affair that drags on for twenty years.

If both sides are strong, there are two possibilities.

Either sit down and have a proper talk, or engage in a prolonged war of attrition.

The former is impossible, since it involves the Fourth Order Spirit Land necessary for the cultivation of Nascent Soul True Masters; negotiation is definitely out of the question.

Thus, the last possibility remains—a war of attrition!

Judging by the current situation, it seems to fit with common understanding.

But no, something’s not right!

A true war of attrition should at least have some significant objectives as a focus for attack.

The Fourth Order mineral vein of Accumulated Thunder Ninth Mountain seems to meet this requirement.

But the struggle for such resource lands can be conducted in a much more “civilized” manner.

Small-scale True Disciple sword fights, or if bolder, Ascendant Masters’ spell battles.

If those don’t suffice, a simple spar between two Nascent Soul True Masters could resolve the issue.

No need for such an extravagant display of force!

It can be said that, to the Nascent Soul True Masters, Accumulated Thunder Ninth Mountain is not worth mentioning at all!

If the Luo Yun Sect truly desired the Fourth Order Spirit Land, they should focus their war efforts on attacking the heartlands of the Yu Ding Sword Sect.

Even if they were to dispatch allied forces to wear down the living strength of the Sword Sect, they should target the Sword Sect’s heartlands, not a far-off enclave thousands of miles away.

The way they are fighting now is utterly pointless!

Other than whittling away the forces of Qingdan Valley, Ailao Mountain, Ice Castle, Flame Alliance, and the many vassals of the Sword Sect that reach a first-rate power level, it serves no purpose.

Oh, the most consumption among them has been the innumerable Rogue Cultivators.

And these are the elite among the Rogue Cultivators.

There lies the problem!

The word “except” in this context shows that perhaps the significance of this lengthy war of attrition is indeed focused on wearing down all forces in the Yu Ding Realm, aside from the two great Ascendant Sects!

Qingdan Valley has the largest force and the highest number of Cultivators, yet their combat power is just average.

On the battlefield, faced with peers, apart from prodigies like Tao Wen, their other Sect members are no match for Disciples from other Sects on a one-on-one basis.

The Ice Castle has too few vassals, and after its Sect Disciples were depleted as cannon fodder, they have begun to enter the fray bare-chested.

Ailao Mountain’s main force got tangled up in the Blackwater Marsh battlefield, where they have suffered substantial losses.

Even a Golden Core Ascendant Master has fallen.

This is the situation on the side of the Four Sects Alliance.

Meanwhile, among the Sword Sect Alliance, Luo Chen knows that three affiliated powers have been beaten to the brink of extinction.

Among them is the recently famous Sky Blade Sect, where aside from the Sect Leader, most of the Foundation Establishment members have been heavily wounded.

The Flame Alliance didn’t fare much better.

The Blackwater Marsh held them back for too long, and they too lost a Golden Core Ascendant Master there.

On the Accumulated Thunder Ninth Mountain battlefield, after dispatching heavy troops, their vassals suffered too many losses, and they’re almost ready to enter the fray themselves.

What about the two great Nascent Soul Ascendant Sects?

Luo Yun Sect Cultivators mostly use Puppets to fight the enemy.

Even if defeated, they can simply abandon the Puppets and save their own lives.

On the Yu Ding Sword Sect’s side, very few True Disciples are sent out.

In the two days Luo Chen and Chu Kui hunted, they were only fortunate enough to kill a late-stage Foundation Establishment True Disciple from the Sword Sect.

From this, it is evident that both great Sects are intentionally conserving their living forces.

“The current situation is eerily similar to another war I experienced in the past, a war without the smoke of gunpowder!”

Muttering to himself, Luo Chen remembered the time he led the Luo Tian Creed in relocating to the expansive Tian Lan Immortal City.

In order to break into the elixir market.

The Luo Tian Creed competed with the Rolling Dragon Ridge Zheng Family in a trade war over elixirs.

That commercial competition was fierce, and in the end, both parties won big, making a fortune!

So who lost?

The Dan Yuan Sect lost, the Qin Flower River Li family lost, Tanqiu’s Hu family lost…

When the top two fight, the third suffers the consequences.

Isn’t the current situation similar, where during the internal war of the two great Ascendant Sects, the ones who suffer the most are the others in the Yu Ding Realm?

Luo Chen remembered distinctly.

When he first arrived at Qingdan Valley to participate in the Seed Cultivator Battle, Tao Yisheng enthusiastically told him all about how powerful and numerically superior the Cultivators of Qingdan Valley were.

Tens of thousands of Qi Refinement Cultivators, over a thousand Foundation Establishment Cultivators, fifteen Golden Core Ascendant Masters!

This was only Qingdan Valley. What about the Ice Castle? The Flame Alliance? Ailao Mountain and Pill Valley?

Apart from the Hundred Flowers Palace, which had few disciples and only three Golden Cores, the other four Sects had an overwhelmingly large number of Cultivators.

Add to that, the Yu Ding Realm is close to the Million Mountains, a region rich in resources.

This has led to a constant emergence of elite Foundation Establishment True Cultivators among the Rogue Cultivators, with countless third and second-tier powers converging around the ten great Immortal Cities.

Over the years, even first-rate powers with Golden Core Ascendant Masters have sprung up in abundance.