Chapter 307: Reward
Ning Qi could not use Lord of Domain Power within the War Domain.
Mountain Sea Realm Will stipulated that they Domain Lords could only use it within the Spiritual Domain.
But to put it bluntly, Spirit Domain Realm Power originated from Mountain Sea Realm, so where it could be used was ultimately up to Mountain Sea Realm Will.
If the Hao Ran Realm Domain Lord opposite them could use Spirit Domain Realm Power within the War Domain, then they would be in trouble.
Of course, Mountain Sea Realm Will should not be that foolish.
As the node transformed into a Heavenly Star fixed in the sky above the War Domain, the powerful Mountain Sea Realm Will gained a greater advantage here.
But merely turning the node into a Heavenly Star was still not stable enough; it still needed a corresponding altar built underground.
Heaven above and earth below, working in coordination, could allow Mountain Sea Realm Will to completely suppress this area and prevent a counterattack by Haoran Realm cultivators.
Mountain Sea Realm Will had already transmitted the method for building the altar, so Ning Qi had his subordinate cultivators leave the formation to build it.
Immediately, a team of cultivators extremely skilled in formations emerged from the Xuanzhen Domain Army.
They first glanced at the Heavenly Star overhead, then selected the corresponding position below it.
Everyone surrounded the chosen spot, pinching hand seals, with spiritual energy or Rule Divine Chains constantly surging from their bodies, engraving the altar foundation on the ground surface.
Buzz!
The onlookers only felt an extremely profound and complex formation appear in their hands.
Then, they took out various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and began building the magic array altar on the foundation.
Soon, a six-pointed star Great Formation emitted white light, and at its center, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were piled up like bricks using an incomparably mysterious formation-setting method.
After a good while longer, a magnificent and complete altar appeared on the spot.
At the peak of the altar was placed a head-sized Crystal Spirit Jade, within which misty qi seemed to flow—this was the Earth Star corresponding to the Heavenly Star.
The instant the altar was fully completed, a beam of starlight suddenly shot vertically down from the Heavenly Star formed by the realm node in the sky.
The starlight was like an arrow, striking the Crystal Spirit Jade at the altar’s peak.
Immediately, the Crystal Spirit Jade continuously absorbed the starlight from above, while the altar and Great Formation below also activated, constantly drawing energy from the ground surface and injecting it into the Crystal Spirit Jade.
In that instant, the misty spiritual energy within seemed thoroughly activated, with the pure rising and the turbid sinking, causing the entire Great Formation to tremble uncontrollably.
Every cultivator who built the altar now had white sweat beading on their faces, appearing extremely fatigued.
Looking again into the Crystal Spirit Jade, the Pure and Turbid Qi had completely separated, turning into two distinct powers swirling at the upper and lower ends.
Most cultivators did not understand profound formations, but seeing this separated Pure and Turbid Qi, a thought emerged in their minds.
Could this be the energy of the Sea of Realms and Haoran Realm?
They looked up at the sky, where it seemed a great deal of cloud qi had been drawn away, and looked down at the ground, which also seemed much cleaner.
However, the energies of the two realms seemed not fully suppressed, still restless within the Crystal Spirit Jade.
And the cultivators maintaining the altar now seemed unable to suppress the energy gathered atop it!
Ning Qi made his move at the right time.
Like an immortal descending to the mortal world, his figure descended, and he stepped onto the Crystal Spirit Jade with one foot.
Suddenly, everyone saw the restless Pure and Turbid Qi within the Crystal Spirit Jade instantly calm down.
They could not help but think inwardly, “As expected of the Alliance Leader!”
And the cultivators setting up the formation around the altar immediately felt the pressure on their bodies eliminated.
“Thank you, Alliance Leader!”
Ning Qi nodded slightly and calmly descended from the Crystal Spirit Jade to the ground surface.
Because of this step of his, not only was the Pure and Turbid Qi within the Crystal Spirit Jade calmed, but it began exchanging between upper and lower.
Just like two Yin Yang Fish, continuously cycling within the Crystal Spirit Jade, forming Tai Chi.
And now with both Heavenly Star and Earth Altar complete, all the nearby Sea of Realms Haoran Realm energy was drawn into the Crystal Spirit Jade.
Mountain Sea Realm Will could now fully dominate this area, essentially turning it into part of Mountain Sea Realm.
In this instant, the pressure everyone had borne upon entering the War Domain completely vanished, also proving this from the side.
They showed joy on their faces; they had taken down a node in the War Domain so quickly, and they wondered what reward Mountain Sea Realm Will would give.
Mountain Sea Realm Will’s reward aside for now.
At this moment, Qin Minghao used a massive mana Giant Hand to hold the spoils of war seized after exterminating the Haoran Realm cultivators, offering them before Ning Qi.
Everyone stared at the pile of resources like a small mountain, containing all sorts of things.
Various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, mostly products of Haoran Realm, numerous Magic Treasures and Spirit Artifacts, pills for cultivators of various realms, and naturally, the cultivation methods practiced by the White Crane Immortal Sect congregation.
With a casual wave of his hand, Ning Qi stored this pile of spoils of war into his Storage Space.
“There seem to be many spoils of war, but if divided among each of you, it’s naturally impossible, so I will keep them for now. After leaving the War Domain or when necessary, I will distribute them to you in advance!”
The congregation chorally said, “We leave it to the Alliance Leader to decide.”
Not to mention the people from Boundless Sword Sect, Ox Demon Upper Sect, Heavenly Star Upper Sect, and other sects, even those from other Xuanzhen Domain sects had come to sufficiently understand Ning Qi over these years.
Ning Qi was absolutely not the kind of Alliance Leader who painted big pies; he had previously benefited the various sects greatly, so they absolutely trusted his words.
At that moment, a clear breeze swept over everyone.
Everyone’s robes fluttered slightly, hair swaying lightly in the wind, and a familiar voice appeared in everyone’s mind.
“Xuanzhen Domain has occupied a medium node, rewarding ten medium Rule Fragments, and based on the number of Haoran Realm cultivators you killed, an additional twenty micro Rule Fragments!”
The congregation all knew it was Mountain Sea Realm Will descending!
They looked around but never found Mountain Sea Realm Will truly appearing, and they did not know how the promised rewards from Mountain Sea Realm Will would be fulfilled.
Only Ning Qi seemed to sense something, looking toward the direction they had come from earlier, faintly feeling a surging and unfathomable power approaching.
It was formless and substanceless, impossible to see with the naked eye, and even viewing with Nascent Soul Heavenly Eye could not glimpse its appearance.
If not for Ning Qi’s Main Body being the World Lord and knowing what a realm’s will existence was like, plus this reincarnated body of his also being a Domain Lord, he still keenly sensed Mountain Sea Realm Will’s existence.
This was his first time contacting Mountain Sea Realm Will at such close range; one could only say Mountain Sea Realm Will was indeed extraordinary, incomparable to his True Martial Realm.
Although Ning Qi could not see its form, he faintly knew where Mountain Sea Realm Will was; but to fully perceive it was currently impossible!
Suddenly, the void was like a flowing stream of water, and from the water flow, a fish jumped out.
Thirty fragments emitting endless radiance jumped before Ning Qi, arranged in three rows.
The front row was medium Rule Fragments, the back two rows micro Rule Fragments.
Everyone watched the Rule Fragments teleported by Mountain Sea Realm Will, their eyes shining brightly.
These Rule Fragments: the medium ones were fist-sized, the micro ones only finger-sized; presumably the small ones in between were apricot-sized.
And not only was there a difference in volume between the two kinds of fragments, the power contained within was clearly different as well.
The micro ones probably contained only about ten rules each.
While the medium ones had about thirty.
Ning Qi could not help comparing them to the Rule Jades he had once obtained in the Profound True Secret Realm.
Rule Jades were products formed by the compression of two realms, extremely unstable, mostly polyhedrons, with fewer colors meaning more precious.
But the Rule Fragments brought out by Mountain Sea Realm Will were different from those Rule Jades; on the essential level, they were countless times higher than Rule Jades, and should be products condensed by Mountain Sea Realm Will using World Power.
Their nature was opposite to Rule Jades: the more rules contained within, the more precious.
Whoever obtained them could absorb them comfortably, with no worries afterward, unlike Rule Jades with so many restrictions.
Moreover, the quality of the rules within was extremely pure; for example, they were at the level between the Power of Rules of heaven and earth and Rule Origin.
Rule Jades were condensed from ordinary Power of Rules, while the Rule Fragments condensed by Mountain Sea Realm Will were closer to Rule Origin.
Ning Qi still stored them into his space, leaving only one in hand to fiddle with.
In his hand was a fist-sized medium Rule Fragment, faintly emitting multicolored rays of light; holding it in Ning Qi’s hand was like pinching a small starry sky.
Ning Qi closed his eyes, sensing the power upon it; just this one piece, if obtained by a mortal, could probably directly nurture them from mortal to Void Dao Realm cultivator, ascending in broad daylight, without any safety risks.
Ning Qi gripped it hard, and this Rule Fragment instantly shattered more thoroughly, turning into a stream of dust that drilled into his body like water.
Ning Qi only felt his body like long drought meeting sweet rain, every part greedily absorbing the power of the Rule Fragment.
In an instant, an extremely comfortable feeling spread from inside to out throughout Ning Qi’s body.
It was just like a gentle girl massaging and kissing his entire body inside and out!
Ning Qi’s mind remained as steady as a mountain, always focusing on the changes in his body.
He, at Late Integration Realm, clearly felt that after swallowing this Rule Fragment, he had advanced one percent of the distance to Integration Realm Perfection!
Such a powerful cultivation-enhancing effect startled even him!
Did that not mean that with a hundred Rule Fragments, he could break into Integration Realm Perfection and truly become the Five Elements Sword Venerable?
He still had nine medium Rule Fragments and twenty micro Rule Fragments; the energy of twenty micro Rule Fragments together could barely match one medium Rule Fragment, so Ning Qi had the equivalent of ten medium Rule Fragments.
As long as he swallowed them, he would advance ten percent of the distance to Integration Realm Perfection!
Ning Qi reopened his eyes, a faint smile on his face.
This War Domain was indeed an opportunity for him!
The congregation saw the Alliance Leader refine the Rule Fragment and had no dissatisfied thoughts; they had long held one idea.
The stronger the Alliance Leader, the more they benefited and the safer they would be!
Ning Qi suddenly took out another medium Rule Fragment; this time he did not absorb it directly.
Instead, he urged the energy within, turning it into a swath of light sand, sprinkling it toward the Xuanzhen Domain cultivators.
The cultivators bathed in the light sand, none left out, equally accepting Ning Qi’s gift.
Whether Nascent Soul Realm, Void Dao Realm, or even Integration Realm cultivators, all felt their cultivation grow a bit.
Some at critical points even broke through on the spot!
Immediately, everyone felt the benefits of the Rule Fragments.
Only then did Ning Qi say: “The effect of these Rule Fragments is extremely astonishing. Next, we take more realm nodes and Haoran Realm cultivators.”
Everyone chorally responded: “Yes!”
At the same time, everyone was calculating.
They had just taken a medium node, and Mountain Sea Realm bestowed ten medium Rule Fragments.
Yet for killing so many Haoran Realm cultivators, only twenty micro Rule Fragments were given.
Truly, cultivators’ lives were like dogs; nodes had better cost-performance!
Ning Qi was thinking of another issue.
Mountain Sea Realm Will seemed to appear every time after taking a node and fulfill the rewards on the spot.
He currently could not sense Mountain Sea Realm Will’s true existence, but later, as his cultivation improved, he would surely fully detect Mountain Sea Realm Will.
Thus, Ning Qi had one more goal to achieve in the War Domain.
He had not forgotten his previous goal.
Picking up the already knocked-out Shu Lingyu and Hao Qiuran again, he activated the Great Reverse Soul Technique, thoroughly squeezing out everything they knew, then retaining their Soul Imprints.
Ning Qi silently used a newly created Soul-Dissolving Secret Misfortune Technique, completely analyzing the structure of their two Soul Imprints!
He now knew the coordinates of Haoran Realm and could make a batch of disguised Soul Marks to reincarnate True Martial World Beings there.
He would leave this to his Main Body!
…
Within True Martial Realm.
World Lord Ning Qi received the intent from his reincarnated body and immediately handled this matter.
The battle between Mountain Sea Realm and Haoran Realm had already begun, and who knew when it would end.
Taking advantage of both realms’ wills being drawn to the situation in the War Domain, Ning Qi prepared to immediately arrange for True Martial Realm cultivators to be reborn into Haoran Realm.
At this moment, Haoran Realm’s defenses were the same as Mountain Sea Realm’s; Mountain Sea Realm had dispatched over eighty percent of its cultivators to participate in the war, and Haoran Realm was naturally similar, with the remaining cultivators—aside from the Dao Integration Realm experts of each Immortal Sect—barely able to maintain the safety of each sect.
If not now, when else to send them?
The Spirit Realm War would likely last decades or centuries; by then, the seeds he sent would once again become prodigies of each sect, directly turning into the new pillars of each sect.
If waiting until Dao Integration Realm also joined the war afterward, would not both Mountain Sea Realm and Haoran Realm be filled with his people?
This move of stealing beams and changing pillars excited Ning Qi just thinking about it.
After all, he was not helping Mountain Sea Realm win the war, but to devour both Spirit Realms in one go!
No matter what happened then, first reincarnate True Martial Realm cultivators there.
Now True Martial Realm’s area had expanded countless times, and the newly born beings within could not keep up with True Martial Realm’s expansion speed!
Vast territory and abundant resources, sparse population, endless resources still rapidly growing.
True Martial World Beings were living the best days; they did not need to compete to receive allocations of all resources.
But no one became decadent or lazy as a result, unmotivated to advance.
On the contrary, with abundant resources and no worries, they could focus entirely on cultivation.
They knew their future was broad, with endless hope.
And all this was bestowed upon them by World Lord Ning Qi.
So after the World Lord reappeared, asking them to reincarnate into Haoran Realm.
True Martial Realm cultivators immediately scrambled to sign up, and Ning Qi directly used his World Lord ability to select a million from all beings.
He originally wanted more, but for greater insurance, not to be noticed by the two realms’ wills, he took this safe number.
Then, the leaves of the Enlightenment Realm Tree unfurled, directly wrapping the million beings.
“You all try your best to go to Haoran Realm’s Immortal Sects; whether True Martial Realm can continue to survive in the future depends on you.”
“World Lord, rest assured; we will surely complete the mission!”
After a brief pre-reincarnation oath assembly, the Enlightenment Realm Tree leaves closed, directly putting the million beings into deep slumber.
And their wills had already been sent toward Haoran Realm.
With Ning Qi’s current strength, performing the reincarnation method was countless times stronger than at the beginning.
But Haoran Realm was after all another Spirit Realm, not like Mountain Sea Realm completely adjacent to True Martial Realm; True Martial Realm belonged to Mountain Sea Realm, counting as a Small World under Mountain Sea Realm.
So, Ning Qi still expended some effort before fully completing the reincarnation of the million.
Next, it was up to time.
Time would ripen the reincarnators in the two realms; with the boost of the Enlightenment Realm Tree and their experience of rebirth as humans, they would all become geniuses of the major Immortal Sects.
Time would also make True Martial Realm constantly stronger, and make Ning Qi constantly stronger!
Under this waxing and waning, the future was promising.
…
War Domain.
Ning Qi led the Xuanzhen Domain congregation away from the node, beginning to search for the whereabouts of the other three White Crane Immortal Sect teams and the remaining nodes.
Soon, Ning Qi used the previously captured White Crane Immortal Sect scouts to find their team’s position.
This team was extremely vigilant; upon receiving Hao Qiuran’s communication, they immediately contacted the other two teams.
Their initial thought was to rush to Shu Lingyu’s side and rescue if possible, but for safety, they sent out scouts first.
But later the scouts also lost contact, so they immediately fled, deciding to rendezvous with the other two teams first.
Unfortunately, Ning Qi’s reaction was extremely fast; how could he let them unite.
Activating the Concealment Grand Array again, he directly caught up to this team and swiftly captured it, just like the previous team of Shu Lingyu’s.
However, they once again crushed their Communication Jade Slips.
Presumably, those two White Crane Immortal Sect teams would absolutely not be alone.
Ning Qi did not mind.
Along the way, he focused more on searching for node existences.
But searching like a headless fly was truly too blind.
Thus, Ning Qi began observing heaven and earth thoroughly, using all the knowledge, spells, and heaven-defying comprehension he had mastered, searching while preparing to create a spell that could clearly point out node positions.
The energy within this War Domain was chaotic and mixed, but not without traces to follow.
As long as he fathomed the powers of Haoran, Mountain Sea, and the Sea of Realms, plus adding places rich in spiritual energy, he could fully grasp node existences.
Soon, Ning Qi’s figure halted, and the congregation followed suit.
They looked at the Alliance Leader in confusion, only to see a large Spirit Stone appear in Ning Qi’s hand.
Ning Qi pinched sword fingers, continuously carving on it; Spirit Stone fragments flew, and a magic tool gradually took shape in Ning Qi’s hand.
It was circular, covered externally by a Crystal Spirit Jade casing, with intricate formations engraved inside, and the panel marked with directions.
One glance revealed it implicitly contained Dao Rhyme; it was precisely a Compass.
The Compass’s needle was a highly spiritual High-grade Spirit Sword, shrunk by Ning Qi into a pointer.
“Kid, could this be?” Sword Ancestor said in surprise.
Ning Qi replied: “Soul Seeking Node Disc, which can directly point out the nearest node location!”
Hearing this, everyone was extremely excited.
