Chapter 34: The Three Great Demonic Sects, A Change of Heart (Tuesday, please follow and read)

Half a quarter-hour later.

As Qian Qianyun flew away a thousand li from the prefecture city, leaving the core range of that great formation.

The dim blood shadow that had been secretly following behind her.

Could no longer restrain the killing intent in its heart. Opening its mouth, it spat out a blood-colored demonic blade.

Growing with the wind, in an instant it transformed into the shadow of a river of blood, enveloping Qian Qianyun within.

In that instant, Qian Qianyun's heart was filled with despair. She sensed the blood-colored baleful aura at the Nascent Soul level, and watched as the six directions were all shrouded by the river of blood.

Countless demonic souls emerged within the river of blood, and in an instant shattered the layers of defenses around her.

She understood that a demonic Nascent Soul cultivator had struck against her.

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And just as Qian Qianyun despaired in her heart, awaiting death's arrival.

She discovered that the countless demonic souls corroding toward her were rapidly melting away in a flash.

She saw around her a mountain that alternated between illusion and reality, circulating with infinite profundity, along with a wisp of Chen Daoxuan's divine sense phantom.

Instantly, the despair in Qian Qianyun's heart was swept away.

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"What demon dares to harm my Green Thunder Sect Leader."

Qian Qianyun heard the Dao sound of the Green Ancestor ring out.

She saw that mountain of illusion and reality, its Great Dao radiance illuminating a hundred li.

In the unseen depths, sweeping away all demonic atmosphere.

She saw a blood-colored figure radiating the aura of Nascent Soul Late Stage, with endless demonic baleful aura billowing, appear out of thin air beneath that mountain of illusion and reality, frozen in place.

"Greetings, Green Ancestor. Many thanks to Green Ancestor for saving Qianyun's life."

Qian Qianyun directly knelt on the ground, thanking Chen Daoxuan for his life-saving grace.

With a single strike of the Karma Mountain Dharma Aspect to suppress that Nascent Soul Late Stage demonic cultivator, Chen Daoxuan sized up Qian Qianyun. Discovering that her emotions could still remain steady at this moment, he slightly nodded and said calmly:

"Rise. When you left the Mountain Gate, this seat sensed a trace of Cause and Effect shifting, that a tribulation had arisen.

Thus I secretly left a wisp of divine sense and a divine ability upon you, to guard against the unexpected."

"Now that you have smoothly overcome this tribulation, it should increase your chances of breaking through to Nascent Soul by one-tenth."

Having spoken, Chen Daoxuan's temporary incarnation of divine sense took a single step, merging together with the phantom of the Karma Mountain Dharma Aspect that contained the power of the Causality Great Dao.

In an instant, the phantom of the Karma Mountain Dharma Aspect that was suppressing the Nascent Soul Late Stage demonic cultivator transformed into a wisp of grey light and vanished.

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Several breaths later.

In Qing Lei Jun's prefecture city, the great formation erupted, manifesting a Heaven and Earth True Form that circulated Nascent Soul aura.

Like a golden lion, with three eyes and six wings, it was a Heaven and Earth variant true spirit—the form of 【True Strange】.

It was also the True Strange Kingdom's national fortune True Form.

The moment the True Form manifested, it crossed a thousand li in an instant and appeared before Qian Qianyun.

Seeing Qian Qianyun completely unharmed, the Qing Lei Jun Prefect who controlled this True Strange True Form felt a weight lift from his heart.

Green Thunder Sect's Nascent Soul Peak cultivator who had appeared three hundred years ago, True Person Qingzhu, had only just broken through to Divine Transformation.

If at this critical juncture, Qian Qianyun, this Green Thunder Sect Leader, were killed, then the situation throughout the entire Guqi Prefecture would likely fall into utter chaos.

Thus, the moment he sensed the Nascent Soul demonic resonance, he directly consumed his accumulated official fortune, erupting the might of the great formation, manifesting the True Strange True Form, crossing a thousand li at the fastest speed.

Now that Qian Qianyun was unharmed, that was for the best.

However, sensing that within a hundred li radius there was not a trace of demonic qi, the Qing Lei Jun Prefect, riding the True Strange True Form, inquired:

"Sect Leader Qian, what happened just now?"

Hearing this, Qian Qianyun understood what this Qing Lei Jun Prefect meant. With full respect, she cupped her hands in a bow toward Qinglei Mountain, then said:

"It was the Green Ancestor's protection. With supreme divine ability, he suppressed that demon, which is the only reason I escaped this calamity."

"Haha, I forgot. Your sect's True Person Qingzhu has achieved the Divine Transformation True Lord."

The two conversed for a while.

The True Strange True Form dissipated into nothing.

Qian Qianyun once again flew toward Green Thunder Sect.

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In Qing Lei Jun's prefecture city, within the Prefect's residence.

The Qing Lei Jun Prefect who had dismissed the great formation now wore a somewhat grave expression.

"Outside the sects of every prefecture and commandery, these heretical cultivators are also beginning to show themselves. I wonder if the Crown Prince's plan can succeed."

Thinking of the chaotic situation within the kingdom, although he possessed Nascent Soul cultivation, his heart was filled with a sense of powerlessness.

After a long while, he gathered his thoughts and began transmitting a report to the Crown Prince.

"Your Highness, Green Thunder Sect has already agreed."

"It's just that that True Person Qingzhu, half a quarter-hour ago, revealed the might of his Primordial Spirit and became a Divine Transformation True Lord."

The True Strange Crown Prince, whose manifested phantom listened to this information, saw his originally calm expression shift slightly.

"Minister Lei Xiao, do you say this Qingzhu, is he from the Heaven Thunder Sect?"

"I do not know. However, Green Thunder Sect and Iron Sword Sect are mortal enemies. If True Lord Qingzhu is a hidden agent of Heaven Thunder Sect, then that would break the unspoken rules originally observed by the various sects, and would恰好 drag in that one sect behind Iron Sword Sect."

"With the two sects opposing each other, naturally they will have no energy to meddle in the kingdom's affairs."

"Hopefully so!"

"Back then, His Majesty spent several thousand years of scheming before he could make these two sects with Upper Sect backgrounds become mortal enemies."

"Over these past several hundred years, it was also I who had you secretly assist, so that the Green Thunder Sect, when it had no Nascent Soul to hold the line, was not wiped out by the Iron Sword Sect."

"The appearance of this True Lord Green Bamboo was entirely unexpected. I hope he can truly be used by me."

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On Qinglei Mountain, the Green Thunder Sect.

Chen Daoxuan was performing a soul-search on that Nascent Soul Late Stage demonic cultivator.

After roughly a quarter of an hour, Chen Daoxuan finished the soul-search.

With a wave of his hand, the Nascent Soul demonic cultivator turned to flying ash.

"The Life Gate Sect, one of the myriad branch lineages derived from the Heaven-Slaughtering Holy Teaching."

"It has a total of three Divine Transformation elders and one Divine Transformation Zhangsun."

"They assassinate and sow discord among all sides, accelerating the decline of True Strange Nation's Fortune, sabotaging the True Strange Nation's Lord's life-extension efforts."

There are also the Plague God Sect and the Joy Spirit Sect, two great demonic factions, acting as allies, preparing together to destroy the Nation's Fortune and harvest a whole nation's qi fortune."

Reflecting on the information just obtained from the soul-search, Chen Daoxuan realized that the problems of this True Strange Nation were several times more severe than what he had originally known.

Above, the Zhenqi Prince seizes power; in the middle, the various sects obey orders but not commands, even occupying prefectures and commanderies; below, there are these外来 heretical outsiders.

"In that case, my original idea of merely obtaining the right to enlighten a single prefecture — is it perhaps a bit too conservative?"

"Is there a chance to become the True Strange Nation's Teaching, to preside over a hundred sects, to hold authority over the enlightenment of all nineteen prefectures?"

"But there's no rush. There should still be a hundred years."

"Before that, I should first obtain the recognition of the Green Thunder Sect's Upper Sect, the Heaven Thunder Sect, and obtain this realm's Divine Transformation heritage."

According to the Green Thunder Sect's records on the Heaven Thunder Sect, if a branch lower sect gives birth to a Divine Transformation True Lord, then within as little as three to five years, or as many as twenty to thirty, the Heaven Thunder Sect will dispatch an envoy.

This serves both as recognition — bestowing the Divine Transformation heritage — and as an inspection, to prevent the branch lower sect from being occupied by an external lineage.

In the span of a thought.

Chen Daoxuan split his focus: on one side, he began using the sole Thunder Bamboo Dharma Aspect method within the Green Thunder Scripture to condense the Thunder Bamboo Dharma Aspect.

On the other side, he continued to comprehend the Innate Heritage — the Innate Calamity-Destroying Immortal Thunder.

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