Chapter 2010: Late-stage Body Integration (Part 1)

After the Elder Council set the resolution for Green Dragon's death and Han Li's matter, everything in Tianyuan City was calm and normal for a period of time.

Just as the silver-haired old man said, with no one revealing the news, ordinary existences in the city didn't know that a top-tier mid-stage Body Integration existence of the human race had already perished.

Of course, this news was not hidden from Fairy Lin Luan.

After knowing this news, besides being shocked and somewhat losing her composure on the spot, she had no other strange actions afterward, but never mentioned Green Dragon Master again, as if she hadn't known this person before.

However, the matter of winning over Han Li didn't go smoothly.

Because during this period of time, Han Li never appeared again, and the external explanation was naturally that he was in closed-door cultivation for some great divine ability.

This made Great Master Jinyue feel like he had nowhere to start, and could only wait patiently.

He didn't believe that when the demon army started the decisive battle to attack the city, Han Li would still continue to be in closed-door cultivation.

However, apart from individual Body Integration existences like Great Master Jinyue and Silver Light Fairy, other Elders of the Elder Council were quickly attracted by the increasingly frequent harassment attacks of the demon race, and had no time to care about Han Li's matter.

Even the silver-haired old man, after asking a few times, plunged into the trivial matters of dealing with the demon race's tide-like attacks.

At this time, although the demon army hadn't started to use its main force to attack the city, the harassment attacks that were originally once every few days became fierce.

Even in these attacks, Void Refinement stage cultivators began to frequently appear and perish.

In this way, the Elders of Tianyuan City didn't dare to be negligent, and every time the demon race attacked, two or three Elders had to go out together to sit in town before they could feel slightly at ease.

Correspondingly, the entire Tianyuan City was fully operational!

All kinds of refining workshops were fully open, starting to refine some magic tools and spiritual equipment regardless of materials. Those cultivators who knew how to refine talismans were gathered together, also drawing a large number of low-tier spiritual talismans day and night.

With a war of this scale, some mid-to-high-tier spiritual talismans didn't play a greater role in the war, but these low-tier spiritual talismans played a greater role.

After all, with the materials and time to refine one mid-tier spiritual talisman, dozens or hundreds of low-tier spiritual talismans might have already been refined, not to mention the success rate between the two was like heaven and earth, and couldn't be compared at all.

As for those high-tier spiritual talismans, except for some talisman refining masters, others couldn't refine them at all.

Besides a large amount of refining and talisman drawing, many low-tier cultivators and ordinary laborers who had newly defected to the city were mobilized and organized into several huge teams of different numbers, used as the reserve force of Tianyuan City.

Besides these actions, Tianyuan City checked the various magic arrays and restrictions in the city several times from top to bottom to ensure that these reliance against the demon race had absolutely no problems.

In short, Tianyuan City was completely in the appearance

Just like that, time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, about half a year had gone by.

On this day, in the council hall of Tianyuan City, the silver-haired old man was discussing an urgent matter regarding the demons with Zen Master Jinyue, when suddenly the hall door was pushed open from the outside, and a guard wearing silver armor ran in hurriedly.

It was one of the Tianyuan Guards who had been guarding outside the door!

"Who allowed you to enter without permission!" Seeing this, the silver-haired old man's face sank, and he asked sternly, his voice carrying natural authority.

"Reporting to my lord, the spiritual energy outside is not quite right; it seems some senior is about to advance and undergo a tribulation!" The guard hurriedly saluted, but replied with some panic.

"Advancing? Could it be that some fellow Daoist is about to advance to the mid-stage of Body Integration? If so, that is a good thing. But you don't need to be so panicked." The silver-haired old man was startled, his expression softening slightly as he spoke.

"But the celestial phenomenon in the distance is too powerful; it doesn't look like an advancement to the mid-stage of Body Integration at all. It seems even more terrifying than the tribulation of a late-stage Body Integration cultivator as described in rumors." After swallowing his saliva, the guard said with some fear.

"There is such a thing! Master, let us go outside and take a look." The silver-haired old man was shocked, his thoughts turning rapidly, and he turned to Zen Master Jinyue and said.

"Very well, this old monk is also very interested in which fellow Daoist is undergoing tribulation at this time." Zen Master Jinyue agreed immediately.

Thus, led by the guard, the two walked toward the outside of the hall.

As soon as they stepped outside the hall's restrictions, the silver-haired old man's expression changed slightly.

With his mid-stage Body Integration spiritual sense, he naturally easily sensed the abnormality of the spiritual energy outside. The originally stable spiritual energy was now clearly becoming unusually active, as if some terrifying force was invisibly influencing it.

The old man's pace quickened involuntarily.

In the blink of an eye, he and Zen Master Jinyue arrived at a huge terrace dozens of feet wide.

On this terrace, a dozen guards were gathered together, staring in the same direction with their mouths agape.

The silver-haired old man frowned and couldn't help but snort coldly.

Only then did the guards realize the arrival of the old man and Zen Master Jinyue, and they stepped forward one after another to bow and salute with guilty consciences.

The silver-haired old man's eyes flashed with sharp light, and just as he was about to reprimand these subordinates, Zen Master Jinyue beside him suddenly let out a soft "Eh".

The silver-haired old man turned his head to look, only to find Zen Master Jinyue looking in the direction the guards had been staring at, his face full of shock.

The old man felt a chill in his heart, and disregarding the guards, he hurriedly looked in that direction as well.

He saw that at the end of the high sky, an unknown distance away, the horizon was completely red, with clusters of crimson fire clouds condensing and flowing, as if giant fireballs were rolling in the sky.

And below the fire clouds, countless wisps of five-colored light were rapidly converging and intertwining, vaguely forming seven-colored rainbow bridges.

With the red clouds and fireballs echoing each other, it was dazzling and eye-catching; nearly half of Tianyuan City was covered beneath it, and the momentum was extremely grand!

But all of this was not as heart-trembling as the immense spiritual pressure vaguely transmitted from the celestial phenomenon.

Although this spiritual pressure could only be sensed as the tip of the iceberg because it was too far away, it still gave people a terrifying feeling of near-suffocation, and it was still increasing and growing bit by bit, as if it were continuously brewing something even more terrifying.

"This celestial phenomenon really doesn't look like something that could be caused by a mid-stage cultivator undergoing tribulation. Fellow Daoist Jin, let us go over and take a look. If it really is some fellow Daoist undergoing the late-stage tribulation, it is truly a great fortune for our city. We must go over to protect them and prevent them from being disturbed." The silver-haired old man was exceptionally pleasantly surprised and said to the monk without hesitation.

"Naturally. Even if brother Gu hadn't said so, this poor monk would have gone to observe it. A late-stage cultivator undergoing tribulation is also a great opportunity for us. If we can observe it from close by, it will be of great benefit to our future cultivation." Zen Master Jinyue naturally had no reason to refuse, and replied with a solemn expression.

The silver-haired old man nodded, immediately shook his sleeve, and a stream of white light flew out, wrapping around his figure, and he immediately soared into the sky, breaking through the air toward the distance.

Zen Master Jinyue recited a Buddhist chant, and golden Sanskrit characters surged from his body, transforming into a ball of golden light as he followed closely behind.

Only then did the guards let out a sigh of relief, stood up, and gathered in groups of two or three to discuss the celestial phenomenon in the distance.

Not only the silver-haired old man and Zen Master Jinyue, but almost all the high-tier cultivators in Tianyuan City were alarmed.

Countless escape lights shot toward the source of the celestial phenomenon from all directions.

Although those mid-to-low-tier cultivators were also very interested in the source of this celestial phenomenon, seeing this, they knew it was not something they could get involved in, so they just watched eagerly from where they were; naturally, discussions with those nearby were unavoidable.

Their theories were also varied and diverse!

Some said it was the appearance of some rare spirit treasure, others said it was some great divine beast swallowing clouds and mist; of course, the most common theory was naturally that it was caused by some great divine cultivator undergoing tribulation.

Some of the more knowledgeable ones even vaguely guessed that only a Body Integration cultivator undergoing tribulation could have such astonishing momentum.

Of course, these cultivators could never have imagined that those Body Integration existences, who were high and unreachable in their minds, were equally shocked when they arrived near the celestial phenomenon!

The silver-haired old man and Zen Master Jinyue were not the first batch of cultivators to arrive near the celestial phenomenon; more than twenty other cultivators of the Void Refinement and Body Integration stages who were closer to the celestial phenomenon were already standing and hovering in the high sky over a hundred miles away, watching from afar.

Fairy Yinguang was among them.

She saw the silver-haired old man and Zen Master Jinyue at a glance, nodded at them from afar, and then looked back into the distance with a solemn expression.

Seeing that she had no intention of coming forward to talk, the silver-haired old man and Zen Master Jinyue exchanged glances and stopped their escape lights nearby.

"Master, if I remember correctly, it seems only fellow Daoist Han, a Body Integration cultivator, lives in this area." The silver-haired old man stroked his beard and asked Zen Master Jinyue suddenly.

"That is correct, fellow Daoist Han does indeed live nearby, and it seems he is exactly at the center of the celestial phenomenon!" Zen Master Jinyue said slowly.

"So, this celestial phenomenon was indeed triggered by fellow Daoist Han. Could it be that his seclusion this time was for the purpose of breaking through the late-stage bottleneck!" The silver-haired old man let out a soft breath and said with some hesitation.

"I fear that is indeed the case. This celestial phenomenon does look like it was caused by breaking through to the late-stage realm, but it seems much grander than any I have seen before. This makes this poor monk somewhat puzzled." Zen Master Jinyue gazed at the increasingly astonishing celestial anomaly not far away and said with some uncertainty.

"There is nothing strange about that. The celestial phenomenon for breaking through to the late-stage realm varies slightly from person to person. However, such grand momentum is not necessarily a good thing. Generally speaking, the more astonishing the celestial phenomenon, the more extraordinary the strength of the person undergoing tribulation, but the difficulty of the breakthrough must also far exceed the imagination of ordinary people. With such an astonishing celestial phenomenon, I don't think fellow Daoist Han will necessarily succeed." The silver-haired old man pondered for a moment before saying thoughtfully.

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