Chapter 215
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Chapter 215: A Sudden Change of Fortune
The rhythmic clatter of hooves accompanied Wang Chen as he departed from Datong County.
The city gate had just creaked open, revealing a faint glow of dawn on the eastern horizon.
He journeyed northward along the official road.
Wang Chen intended to enter closed-door cultivation in the Star Observation Pavilion upon his return to South Shao County, aiming to advance to the Qi Training ninth level.
Thereafter, he planned to consolidate his foundation until he achieved perfect mastery.
This process could span one or two years, or perhaps even three to five.
Despite the advantage of his Cultivation Panel, Wang Chen knew that a shaky foundation could lead to dire consequences, even if he succeeded in breaking through to open a house. Thus, haste was not an option.
This was a lesson he had learned well through his practice of the Heavenly Dragon Vajra True Method!
As he hastened his pace, the sudden clatter of urgent hoofbeats arose from behind.
Wang Chen glanced back to see five or six riders rapidly closing in.
The riders, robust and wearing red headbands, were led by a burly man who bellowed, “Believe in Maitreya, and peace shall be yours!”
The others chorused, “May Maitreya bless us, and bring peace to the world!”
What a peculiar group!
Wang Chen initially chose to ignore them, but they quickly caught up and shouted, “Taoist, halt! Our Saintly maiden requests your presence!”
Surprised that they were after him, Wang Chen shook his head and replied, “I’m busy.”
“Whoa!”
The burly man yanked the reins, causing his steed to rear up and block Wang Chen’s path.
He and his companions encircled Wang Chen, threateningly stating, “Little Taoist, don’t refuse our hospitality and face the consequences!”
Though they appeared to be followers of the Maitreya Sect, their true colors as roughnecks soon surfaced.
They reeked of banditry!
Wang Chen’s eyes flashed, “Scram!”
Utilizing his Spirit Eye at the Perfected Level, he discerned a sinister aura of bloodshed cloaking the riders.
These were no virtuous men; their hands were stained with numerous lives.
Innocent blood was surely among their victims.
“Seeking death!”
The burly man, enraged, leapt into the air, his right hand forming into talons, aiming to seize Wang Chen’s throat.
In an instant, he was upon Wang Chen!
Clang!
Before the burly man’s talons could reach Wang Chen’s neck, a streak of sword light flashed across his throat.
A head soared into the air!
The sword light did not cease; it danced around the remaining riders like a swift dragon, severing their heads with lightning speed, leaving no time for reaction.
In just a breath’s time, six top-tier martial artists were decapitated.
The Fire Crow Sword slid back into its sheath as Wang Chen patted the large blue donkey’s head.
The donkey sneezed and then bolted forward, its speed rivaling that of a swift steed.
In the blink of an eye, Wang Chen’s figure vanished at the end of the road,
Leaving behind a gruesome scene of bloodshed, six lifeless bodies, and six bewildered, riderless mounts.
Before the sun dipped below the horizon, Wang Chen returned to South Shao County.
With countless spies keeping a watchful eye on the Celestial Guardians’ residences, he resorted to disguises to evade trouble. Thanks to the Perfected Level Breath Concealment Technique, even innate martial artists couldn’t sense his presence.
Back at the Celestial Guardians’ residences, Wang Chen summoned Xiao Wan: “When will you break through to the innate level?”
By now, Xiao Wan had become his most trusted aide.
She handled both internal and external affairs with impeccable efficiency, freeing Wang Chen to focus solely on his cultivation and monster hunting.
Given Xiao Wan’s pivotal role, he wanted her to ascend to a higher level before he entered closed-door cultivation.
In response to Wang Chen’s question, Xiao Wan pursed her lips and replied, “I’m ready anytime!”
For the past month, she had been diligently preparing to break through to the innate level.
However, achieving this breakthrough was no small feat. Despite her confidence and the Innate Pill bestowed upon her by Wang Chen, she still harbored doubts about her success.
“Then let’s do it now,”
Wang Chen declared firmly. “We’ll attempt it here. I’ll stand guard for you!”
Noticing Xiao Wan’s hesitation, he left her no room for second thoughts.
Xiao Wan steeled herself and said, “Thank you, Immortal Master!”
Two days later, when she emerged from the Star Observation Pavilion, she had successfully ascended to the innate level!
Meanwhile, Wang Chen activated the formations to their maximum destructive power and retreated into the hidden chamber for closed-door cultivation to advance his own level.
For Qi Training cultivators, the transition from the eighth to the ninth level is a critical juncture.
While this threshold isn’t insurmountable, it holds immense significance for future breakthroughs, leaving no room for error. Any misstep could lead to unforeseen consequences.
As Wang Chen began his seclusion, a storm brewed thousands of miles away in the Tianyun Mountain range!
Deep within the mountains, at a mine under the control of the Guiyuan Sect, a Purple Palace cultivator gazed up at three flying ships in the sky, his eyes ablaze with a mix of terror and fury.
He bellowed, “Yunyang Sect, what is the meaning of this?”
The five flying ships, emblazoned with the Yunyang Sect’s battle flags, had appeared without warning.
The cultivator tasked with guarding the mine had received no word from his sect.
Though he had activated the defensive formations, he felt no confidence in their ability to hold.
A sense of impending doom gripped him.
His instincts were correct. The moment his words echoed, devastating beams of light rained down from the sky, obliterating the defensive formations in an instant.
He and over a hundred Guiyuan Sect disciples were caught in the onslaught!
The simultaneous assault from five treasure-level flying ships was unstoppable—even a Golden Core true master would have been powerless. Their fates were sealed.
After swiftly dispatching the resistance, the hatches of two flying ships opened, and hundreds of Yunyang Sect disciples poured out.
They stormed into the mine like a pack of ravenous wolves, extracting spirit stones in a reckless and destructive manner.
The extraction of spirit stones is typically a meticulous process, requiring careful removal of rock layers to extract large spirit stone ore, followed by cutting, polishing, and refining.
The entire procedure is time-intensive.
Yet, the Yunyang Sect disciples acted like wild boars trampling through a rice field, using their treasures to blast apart the ore veins and hastily shove raw ore into their storage bags.
This method, while devastatingly wasteful, was alarmingly fast.
The same scene unfolded at two other spirit stone mines and various resource sites under the Guiyuan Sect’s control.
To make matters worse, dozens of Yunyang flying ships encircled the Guiyuan Sect’s outer sect, delivering a final ultimatum to their long-standing rivals!
In an instant, chaos erupted across the Tianyun Mountain range.
News of this spread like wildfire, leaving the major immortal sects in stunned disbelief. No one had anticipated that the Yunyang Sect would launch an unprovoked attack, nor that they would deploy such an overwhelming number of flying ships!
The uproar caused by the human hunting case had long since faded.
Everyone had assumed that, under the mediation of the higher sects, the Yunyang Sect and Guiyuan Sect had reconciled.
No one could have foreseen that the Yunyang Sect would defy all expectations and launch a full-scale assault on the Guiyuan Sect.
It was clear they held no regard for the authority of the higher sects!
Wufeng Mountain, Yaowang Valley, Qingyun Sect, Tianjian Pavilion, and other immortal sects within and around the Tianyun Mountain range watched with bated breath.
They were eager to see how the so-called number one sect, the Yunyang Sect, would meet its inevitable downfall!
