Chapter 304: Node
Xuanzhen Domain.
The armies of each Spiritual Realm entered the War Domain one by one.
The more powerful the Realm, the more Immortal Sects within it.
Among the people they dispatched, Integration Realm experts emerged like dragons, including many Top Venerables and even Peak Venerables.
At the very center of the Mountain Sea Realm continent, there was a mountain peak that pierced straight into the sky, named Jie Tian Peak.
It bore the ground below and connected to the sky above, the highest peak within the Mountain Sea Realm.
At this moment, a hazy tall human figure stood upon it, surrounded by what seemed like stars, with no one able to see clearly.
The human figure gazed toward the distant sky.
Above the vast Sea Area within the Mountain Sea Realm, there was also an incomparably magnificent water palace.
This palace was supported by endless waves and ice pillars, its horizontal level seemingly even higher than Jie Tian Peak.
A human figure shrouded in hazy moonlight gazed toward the direction of Jie Tian Peak, saying nothing.
But the aura on the human figure could make the surrounding ten Sea Areas completely still without a single ripple, as if frozen.
Those who had not yet entered the War Domain, even if they caught a glimpse of either of them with a spare glance, dared not look directly even if they were Peak Venerables.
In their hearts, the two had a title inherited from ancient times: Mountain Ancestor, Sea Ancestor!
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Haoran Realm.
The Haoran Realm and Mountain Sea Realm were similar in size, both Spiritual Realms.
Since half a year ago when the two Realms began connecting and constructing the War Domain, the Vast Radiance Realm Will had also mobilized the sects of each domain within it.
But unlike the Mountain Sea Realm, which was jointly governed by Mountain Ancestor and Sea Ancestor and generally divided into two major forces.
Within the Haoran Realm, however, one sect reigned supreme, named Vast Righteous Immortal Sect.
It could be said that the name of the Haoran Realm came from the Vast Righteous Immortal Sect.
The Vast Righteous Immortal Sect floated in the central sky of the Haoran Realm, its range radiating dozens of Spiritual Realms, the place most yearned for by all cultivators within.
Somewhat similar to the status of True Martial Immortal Sect in the True Martial Realm.
This two-Realm war that had been stirred up was an offensive against the Haoran Realm jointly formulated by the Mountain Sea Realm Will, Mountain Ancestor, and Sea Ancestor, so the Haoran Realm was passively meeting the enemy.
But the Vast Righteous Immortal Sect was not afraid of battle.
When the beings within the Mountain Sea Realm stepped toward the War Domain, from the Immortal Mountain of the Vast Righteous Immortal Sect, a celestial sound from the Nine Heavens rang out like the tolling of bells and beating of drums.
Only one word, “War!”
The words followed the law, instantly exciting the cultivators of each domain in the Haoran Realm, who shouted in unison:
“Swear to defend the Haoran Realm to the death!”
Afterward, the cultivators of each domain within the Haoran Realm also stepped into the War Domain at the same time.
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Traversing the void, mountains and rivers shifting.
All the participating cultivators from Xuanzhen Domain, under Ning Qi’s lead, underwent a full quarter-hour of Teleportation before seeing the light of day again.
Everyone landed in a barren area within the War Domain.
Just upon entering the War Domain, everyone immediately sensed the chaos of the energy within it.
They were like a group of fish living in familiar waters and familiar water temperatures, suddenly thrown into a place that retained only half their familiarity and was filled with temperature differences, everyone feeling a bout of discomfort.
However, given Alliance Leader Ning Qi’s many years of preparation, all of them reacted extremely quickly.
Just as they landed, the cultivators of each sect faintly formed a Great Formation.
Roar!
A Sea of Realms Fierce Beast resembling a tiger shark but with four claws happened to be nearby.
The instant the crowd appeared, it seemed to sniff out their scent from the void.
It immediately swung its huge tail shaped like a windmill, charging toward the crowd like a meteorite to bite.
Its massive beast body was three thousand zhang long and five hundred zhang wide, its gaping mouth revealing five rows of blood-red sharp teeth, each as large as a small mountain.
A layer of Gray Mist faintly rose around its body, appearing extremely ominous.
Rumble!
The Xuanzhen Domain cultivators instantly struck together, only to see spells slashing toward the tiger shark Fierce Beast like fireworks, exploding again upon nearing its body.
The tiger shark’s forward-charging body immediately stalled.
Then, huge gashes cracked open on its body, blood raining down from the sky.
The tiger shark let out endless roars from its mouth, in agony wanting to flee, but discovered it had already been bound by something.
A terrifyingly fused Sword Light directly cleaved it into several pieces, even annihilating the blood spilling from its body.
Facing this Fierce Beast that appeared just after arriving in the War Domain, the Xuanzhen Domain cultivators gave it only a glance of fate.
The crowd withdrew their forces, finally having time to survey the War Domain.
Within it was not a barren Realm, but also had mountains, rivers, similar to the external terrain.
The only difference was that the energy within was chaotic, with Mountain Sea Realm energy they were attuned to, Haoran Realm energy that made them feel suppressed, and chaotic Boundary Sea Energy.
Thus, exposed to the mixed three types of energy, the suppression on their strength was quite obvious.
After dealing with the tiger shark, the cultivators skilled in gathering intelligence among the Xuanzhen Domain cultivators directly flew in all directions.
They used long-familiar routines to gather as much intelligence as possible from the War Domain.
Soon, messages began returning one after another.
The one responsible for compiling the intelligence was Heavenly Star Upper Sect Sect Leader Xia Xing.
Their Heavenly Star Upper Sect had a star-gazing technique that could observe places far away through star power, beyond what the naked eye or Primordial Spirit could reach.
He walked before Ning Qi, bowed, and said:
“Reporting to Alliance Leader, the preliminary intelligence of the War Domain has been collected.”
Ning Qi nodded and said, “Speak, let everyone hear.”
Xia Xing thus cleared his throat lightly and said loudly:
“After our testing, upon entering the War Domain, the Spiritual Sense of Integration Realm experts is suppressed to around a hundred li, the attack power and range of spells are also greatly reduced, roughly halved.”
“As for Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, they are suppressed even more harshly. Of course, this is just the preliminary information our intelligence team has, and it will change with the environment later.”
The crowd heard this and thought of the tiger shark Fierce Beast that had attacked them earlier.
It was merely Late Void Dao Realm, but the crowd had indeed spent half again as much power as usual to deal with it.
Then Xia Xing said, “We have preliminarily determined that this place suppresses Haoran Realm cultivators the same way, so everyone need not worry.”
Hearing this, the crowd’s expressions indeed relaxed a bit.
Xia Xing continued, “You might ask, is there no benefit to this place at all?”
He smiled before saying, “Of course there is. The Spiritual Energy here is even denser and more abundant than in the peak Xuanzhen Domain, and there are many Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures not seen outside, so collect more if encountered.”
“But before that, hope you can first hand unknown items to our intelligence testing team; we have fellow cultivators specialized in Pill Refining and Artifact Refining who will determine their effects.”
The crowd also guessed the origins of these unknown objects.
Either unique products from the opposing Haoran Realm, or things absorbed from the Sea of Realms.
Seeing that the intelligence provided by Xia Xing was orderly, Ning Qi was very satisfied and interjected.
“Those who discover unknown objects, the first to hand them to the intelligence department, Xuanzhen Alliance will reward you with materials of equal value.”
The crowd was overjoyed to hear this.
Sure enough, following the Alliance Leader brought many benefits.
Next, Ning Qi continued to perceive the situation within.
What surprised him was that the suppressive power he received within was not strong, only reducing his strength by about a third.
Compared to others suppressed to only half their strength, Ning Qi was much better off.
After a brief thought, Ning Qi understood the reason.
His entire Cultivation was not solely sourced from the Mountain Sea Realm like others, but also from the True Martial Realm, and even the power of the Sea of Realms.
After all, the True Martial Realm continuously drew Rules from the Sea of Realms to supply itself, equivalent to supplying Ning Qi, even his Reincarnated Body.
If he secretly borrowed the Main Body’s power, the suppressive power would likely be even smaller.
Besides him, all the reincarnations from the True Martial Realm were, more or less, better off than the Mountain Sea Realm cultivators.
Ning Qi rose into the high air, his Primordial Spirit Power continuously spreading toward the four wilds.
His Spiritual Sense could extend to a range of three hundred li, twice that of an ordinary Integration Realm.
Ning Qi withdrew his Primordial Spirit Power and pondered inwardly.
Under his earlier perception, Ning Qi had seen even more clearly.
This War Domain was ultimately not a Spiritual Realm like the Mountain Sea Realm or Haoran Realm; the Rules within were not complete.
It was prepared purely for war, so even inferior to the True Martial Realm.
But it was much milder than the energy and Rules in the Sea of Realms.
Thus Ning Qi thought that if he could devour a large piece of the War Domain’s space, the current True Martial Realm should be able to directly absorb it.
Then, developing this way, his Main Body’s strength, let alone Minor Accomplishment in Rule Realm, could advance a great step even on the path to Major Accomplishment in Rule Realm!
Thinking of this, Ning Qi’s heart filled with anticipation; this would be one of his goals henceforth.
Of course, currently staying with the Xuanzhen Domain cultivators, he could not expose it and had to plan slowly.
He also must not be noticed by the two Realm Wills, or it would be seeking death.
Soon, the cultivators gathering War Domain intelligence sent back the second wave of information.
Xia Xing’s face lit up as he said to Ning Qi, “Alliance Leader, we discovered a Realm Node to the west!”
The so-called Realm Node was the place the two Realms’ cultivators needed to contend for within the War Domain.
Equivalent to the key victory points for the two Realms mutually contesting territory in the War Domain.
As long as each occupied a Realm Node and built a Mountain Sea Altar upon it, they could draw in more Mountain Sea Realm Will power, thereby gradually suppressing the Haoran Realm’s Will.
Just like playing chess, they could then approach the Haoran Realm Main Body step by step, slowly invading the Haoran Realm Main Body.
Thus, Ning Qi said to the crowd:
“We’ve discovered the node; our next target is this place.”
“There must be Fierce Beasts at the node location; all of you must remain vigilant!”
The cultivators responded in unison: “Yes!”
Ning Qi had one more sentence unsaid: be careful of Haoran Realm cultivators, and even careful of cultivators from other domains in the Mountain Sea Realm.
If that node was discovered by others, contention was inevitable.
But the crowd was well aware of this unmentioned matter.
They were not here for tourism, nor just to kill Sea of Realms Fierce Beasts; their enemies were Haoran Realm cultivators, and possibly even cultivators from other domains in the Mountain Sea Realm.
Ning Qi ordered: “Head toward the node!”
“Yes!”
The cultivators immediately moved in response, looking like a tide from afar.
Their formation completely disrupted the order, not arrayed by sect.
This half-year of drills had allowed all Xuanzhen Domain cultivators to form a unique cooperative style.
Those gathering intelligence had the intelligence team.
The main defense had the defense team; once encountering attacks from approaching cultivator groups, they had to hold the line.
There were also main attack, main restraint, and several other teams.
Fu Chen’s position was not far from Ning Qi.
Gazing at Ning Qi’s back, he had a moment of daze.
Since Fu Chen joined Boundless Sword Sect, five months had passed.
In these five months, at Xuanzhen Alliance Headquarters, sparring with cultivators from each sect and benefiting from Ning Qi’s guidance, he had now stepped into Late Void Dao Realm.
He had finally caught up to his former peers.
But in this period, he truly understood how powerful Ning Qi was, not just in strength.
Ning Qi teaching the crowd, his teaching ability was also incredibly strong, always pointing straight to the Origin, letting them see the path of Cultivation clearly.
Moreover, Ning Qi’s broad-mindedness made Fu Chen feel inferior.
Ning Qi had accepted him, though much due to Teacher Wei Wu Ya’s help, but Ning Qi did not treat him perfunctorily and had personally guided him several times.
Each time made Fu Chen blush; he finally realized the huge Gap between him and Ning Qi.
What terrified Fu Chen was that even proud as he was, he began to adore Ning Qi deep in his heart.
As for his teacher Wei Wu Ya, he had also followed into the War Domain this time.
But now this Pocket Grandpa was not continuing to follow him, instead directly possessing the ring in Ning Qi’s hand.
Fu Chen knew that this teacher who had accompanied him for over a hundred years had established an unbreakable relationship with Ning Qi.
Before entering the War Domain, the Sect Leader seemed to have reached some transaction with his teacher.
However, these were matters current Fu Chen could not intervene in.
Ning Qi slowly followed the main force in flight.
His consciousness sank into the ring in his hand.
Immediately, an elderly and respectful voice came from within, “Domain Lord!”
Wei Wu Ya’s strength had also improved considerably now; previously when following Fu Chen, he was barely one major Realm higher, at Early Integration Realm.
But in these months, Ning Qi directly raised him to Late Integration Realm, elevating his strength to the same level as Ning Qi.
The two exchanged much, talking about many secrets of the Bloodfire Immortal Sect he had been in back then.
Finally, Ning Qi glanced at the Dao Integration Profound Technique offered by Fu Chen.
It recorded a top-tier Cultivation Method from the Bloodfire Immortal Sect back then, named Golden Sun Body Forging Marvelous Method.
Since it was a Dao Integration Profound Technique, it was naturally closely related to Dao Integration Realm Cultivation, explaining how to achieve Rule Life.
Ning Qi absorbed its essence and created a more perfect and powerful version, the Sun Body Forging Marvelous Method.
He brought it out and shared it with everyone in Xuanzhen Alliance who had reached Integration Realm Cultivation.
Everyone was immediately grateful to tears.
Back then, the four top Upper Sects of the North and South Regions had searched for Dao Integration Profound Techniques without success, and now the Alliance Leader not only shared it but even launched a stronger version, nearly exciting the crowd to faint.
Of course, the version in Ning Qi’s hands was not just that one.
Combining the Cultivation Methods left by True Martial Immortal Sect back then, he created an even more perfect Cultivation Method, the Yin Yang Sun Divine Art, kept for his own use.
