Cultivation Starts with Rejuvenation

Before Xiaoqiao could speak, Zhao Zhiye had already acted from a distance.

In an instant, several strands of cyan magical power condensed into emerald sword qi, shooting towards Xiaoqiao.

The Core Formation middle-stage magical power crushed Xiaoqiao, making her instantly feel a life-and-death crisis.

She almost instinctively gathered the power of the earth to respond.

However, suddenly recalling the elder accompanying Zhao Zhiye, she could only forcibly suppress the impulse to gather the earth’s power.

Fortunately, Zhao Zhiye’s strike apparently wasn’t truly intending to kill her and wasn’t at full strength, its power only slightly higher than the strength Xiaoqiao had just displayed.

Xiaoqiao immediately went all out, unleashing her magical power without reservation.

Boom boom boom~

The next moment, several strands of sword qi had already pierced the body-protecting dharma shield Xiaoqiao had activated.

The dharma shield shook violently, perpetually on the verge of shattering, but ultimately, it didn’t break.

Did it hold?

”Hmm?” Zhao Zhiye frowned slightly, somewhat surprised.

Earlier, he sensed that her magical power was merely at the ordinary lower true pill level, hence he slightly increased the attack strength to match her endurance.

It was just in case the opponent was an Earth Spirit Master; injuring her wouldn’t be good.

Unexpectedly, this girl was actually holding back.

”Is this... a middle-grade true pill?”

In that moment of hesitation, Xiaoqiao urgently shouted from below, ”Senior, please calm your anger, there are many misunderstandings here. I have already reported to the Business Alliance Law Enforcement Team and am willing to accept their judgment.”

Zhao Zhiye’s face immediately darkened a few more shades.

He just wanted to force out the female cultivator’s trump card ahead and verify whether she was an Earth Spirit Master.

I thought one strike would be enough.

As a result, the female cultivator below tricked him.

”Humph! Don’t try to suppress me with the Business Alliance; you’re forcing my Zhao Clan Commerce Association to sell Foundation Establishment Pills, and now you have the nerve to seek the Business Alliance’s protection?

Die!”

The reason he had Danchenzi stationed in the Profound Sky Domain to sell Foundation Establishment Pills cheap was to create a reasonable causal link, avoiding the Business Alliance viewing his Zhao family as breaking their rules.

Now that the opponent has fallen into the trap, regardless of how he acts right now, even if the Business Alliance Law Enforcement Team arrives, he’s justified; after all, Danchenzi’s Foundation Establishment Pills are still in the opponent’s hands.

This time, he used fifty percent of his strength.

Boom~

A colossal pillar descended from the sky, while the ground sprouted with maddening vines, leaving Xiaoqiao and her companions escape-free.

Facing this overwhelming might, Xiaoqiao’s face turned ashen.

Her magical shield couldn’t possibly hold against it.

Crack~

In almost an instant, her body-protecting dharma shield developed cracks.

Just as she had no choice but to gather the protection of the earth spirit.

”Too much bullying! I’ll fight you!” Beside her, Qin Chuan suddenly roared, his face showing despair.

As the respected elder of the Qin Family of Purple Bamboo Mountain, right now, besides summoning the family’s ancestral artifact, the Celestial Spirit Cauldron, there was no other way.

Unfortunately, although the Celestial Spirit Cauldron was a Seventh Grade magical treasure, when the Qin family obtained it, they could at most stimulate ten percent of its might, and it had been severely damaged, falling to the level of a regular magical treasure prototype.

To restore its Seventh Grade magical treasure might, the Qin family nourished it for a hundred years, yet Qin Henian’s deep friendship efforts made it all for naught.

Over the years, it had finally been nurtured a bit, but now they had to make it exert its final effort.

”Self-detonating a treasure?”

The Celestial Spirit Cauldron passed through Xiaoqiao’s body-protecting dharma shield, colliding with the gigantic wooden pillar, and suddenly exploded.

Although its power was only at the level of a magical treasure prototype, its original essence was a seventh-grade magical treasure.

This self-detonation nonetheless obliterated Zhao Zhiye’s magical power pillar.

”Pff~” With his lifebound magical treasure self-detonating, Qin Chuan spat out a mouthful of blood mist, staggering, yet unwillingly looking at Zhao Zhiye above.

”A dignified Core Formation middle-stage expert, why are you humiliating us like this?”

”...” Zhao Zhiye frowned, quite puzzled as he looked at Qin Chuan below.

Shouldn’t a seventh-grade magical treasure be their invaluable asset? And they just self-detonated it like this?

Could it be that they are already out of cards?

”No, that female cultivator hasn’t reached her limit.” Ignoring Qin Chuan’s questioning, Zhao Zhiye squinted and assessed Xiaoqiao again, focusing his gaze.

However, just as he was about to take actions once more, a spiritual ship sped in from the horizon.

”Stop!”

Zhao Zhiye slightly furrowed his brow, reluctantly glancing at Xiaoqiao, then turned towards the approaching spiritual ship.

”Thank you all for your hard work. This old man is an elder of the Sky Crossing Zhao Clan.”

The spiritual ship halted, and a team of law enforcement cultivators disembarked.

The leader was a Core Formation middle-stage Honored Guest Elder of the Business Alliance.

Upon hearing this, the law enforcement cultivator glanced unexpectedly at Zhao Zhiye and then cupped his hands, ”So, it’s a fellow friend from the Sky Crossing Zhao Clan, much admiration.”

Sky Crossing is the exile area on the eastern edge of the Great Marsh Cultivation Realm’s Central Ten Domains—Profound Sky Domain, bordering the eastern region of the entire Great Marsh Cultivation Realm.

The Ten Thousand Merchants Domain must pass through here to enter the Central Ten Domains.

To the Central Ten Domains, this area is an exiled land, but to the eastern region of the Great Marsh Cultivation Realm, it is also a place of thriving cultivation. Once you pass through this area, you reach the Central Ten Domains of the Great Marsh Cultivation Realm, the Celestial Realm of this place, hence people habitually call it Sky Crossing, for crossing it means reaching the heavens!

And the Zhao Clan of Sky Crossing used to be a reputable force in the Profound Sky Domain, but due to a mistake, they were exiled to Sky Crossing by the Profound Green Immortal Sect of the Profound Sky Domain.

Yet their heritage remains, leading to ongoing trade cooperation with the Business Alliance every time they travel to the Central Ten Domains.

”No need for such formality.” Zhao Zhiye was very pleased with the law enforcement cultivator’s attitude.

The law enforcement Honored Guest Elder nodded with a smile, then surveyed the surroundings again, ”What exactly is going on here? Who sent the message for help?”

”Senior, save us. We were invited to attend the Evergreen Fairy’s celebration but were persecuted instead. We sent the message for help.” Qin Chuan immediately stepped forward.