Chapter 228: Saint Yunzi

Once the information regarding the Eastern Wanggu Continent was released, every disciple within the Seven Blood Eyes was shaken. This feeling of having a veil lifted seemed to expand everyone's consciousness and open up their world.

Xu Qing felt the same, but he thought more deeply. The Seven Blood Eyes releasing this information at this time had profound significance; to Xu Qing, it felt as if they wanted the disciples to prepare in advance.

Xu Qing believed that he was definitely not the only one with such a feeling.

In reality, this was indeed the case. After this news was made public, for the Seven Blood Eyes disciples who had struggled their way out of the "insect-rearing" process, most of them tasted many different implications within it.

Especially since, in the news released by the sect, the other five major powers were glossed over, while the focus was placed on one of the six major powers within the Yinghuang District... the Seven Sect Alliance.

The Seven Sect Alliance was a single entity composed of 137 large and small sects, led by the seven most formidable among them.

Hence, it was called the Seven Sect Alliance.

The reason these seven sects could lead, aside from their astonishing high-level combat power, deep mid-level strength, and vast base, was due to one extremely important reason.

That was... among these 137 sects, they were the only seven that possessed Taboo Magic Treasures.

Magic treasures were not common within the Eastern Wanggu Continent; each possessed earth-shattering might and unfathomable power. However, they had to be used with extreme caution because every time the main body was activated, it would be strongly contaminated. If used frequently, the magic treasure would become a useless relic.

Therefore, not only did they need to restrain the number of uses, but they also had to constantly nurture them to dissipate the heterogenous contamination upon them.

And "Taboo"... was the name given to magic treasures once their level reached a certain degree. They were even rarer than ordinary magic treasures, and any magic treasure that reached the Taboo level possessed the power to annihilate a sect.

Only such magic treasures, capable of annihilating a sect, could form the ultimate deterrent against other sects within the Yinghuang District, thereby gaining the qualification to hold power.

The rise of the Seven Sects was exactly like this; it came from their high-end combat power, but even more so from their Taboo Magic Treasures. This was also why the Seven Sect Alliance became one of the six major powers of the Yinghuang District.

Possessing seven Taboo Magic Treasures, the Seven Sect Alliance had the qualification to leave powers like the Litu Sect, the Taisi Dao Gate, and the others severely crippled.

This qualification was status.

The seven strongest sects of the Seven Sect Alliance were, respectively... the Lingyun Sword Sect, the Lingxia Valley, the Lieyi Sect, the Dayan Dao Palace, the Tianming Pavilion, the Tianjian Treasure Sect, and the Xuanyou Sect!

In the time that followed, this information became the new hot topic among the Seven Blood Eyes disciples, surpassing the heated discussions about the three female cultivators from the Taisi Dao Gate.

Even Zhang San had transmitted his voice to Xu Qing to discuss it, but Xu Qing did not have much interest in this; his attention was entirely focused on the Wish Box that was about to finish being nurtured.

Of his two Wish Boxes, the one from the Mermaid Clan Young Master had originally been nurtured to the halfway point, while the one obtained from Ma Si had not been nurtured at all.

Therefore, the latter was still a long way from opening, but the former was already at about 98 or 99 percent. Xu Qing felt that at most, in three to five days, he could open it.

"I wonder what will be inside my Wish Box..." Xu Qing was very expectant, especially when he thought of the one Wu Jianwu had opened back then, which seemed very mysterious.

"What did he open?" Xu Qing was a bit curious, but he figured that fool couldn't possibly tell him.

Just like that, time passed. Every day, sects and clans from outside arrived. By the fifth day, when Xu Qing's Wish Box was about to open, seven vast giant ships arrived outside the Seven Blood Eyes.

These seven giant ships were extremely luxurious, thousands of feet in size, with an imposing momentum like a rainbow. If one looked closely, one could see that they were actually formed by refining living divine sea beasts.

The shape of each one was different; there were divine sea dragons, terrifying jellyfish, ferocious giant turtles... and even a three-clawed black-scaled dragon.

Their appearance stirred up a storm, sweeping across the entire Seven Blood Eyes harbor, causing countless boats to sway, and the sea to churn as if a tsunami were about to form and crash down.

It was incomparably majestic, shocking, and came breaking through the sea amidst a boom.

They even ignored the Seven Blood Eyes' protective formation, charging directly into the harbor. What was particularly shocking was that the Seven Blood Eyes' formation actually lost its effect on them.

It was as if, in the judgment of the Seven Blood Eyes' formation, the arriving cultivators had higher authority.

And so, on this day, for the first time in all these years, the disciples of the Seven Blood Eyes witnessed someone charging straight in without prior notification, and the sect, quite uncharacteristically, maintained its silence regarding the matter.

Consequently, those seven giant ships entered the seven harbors directly. The people who walked down from the six giant ships were each radiant, as if they could replace the brilliance of the firmament, reflecting in the hearts of the Seven Blood Eyes disciples.

These were the giant ships of the Seven Sect Alliance. The people walking down were the envoys of the Seven Sects visiting the Seven Blood Eyes, and furthermore, they were the respective prodigies of this generation of the Seven Sects.

There were men and women among them, none of them very old. Their clothing was extraordinarily luxurious, and their temperament was peerless. All of them shone with brilliant light, and their entire bodies exuded incomparable might.

Shockingly, they were all Four-Fire!

Each of the 120 Dharma Apertures within their bodies was like a shining star, causing everyone who saw them to have their minds shaken, inevitably feeling a sense of inferiority.

They seemed like true god-children who had descended into the mortal world.

The six people who walked down from the six giant ships were already prodigies and elites, but after walking out, they all looked toward that huge three-clawed black-scaled dragon.

That three-clawed black-scaled dragon roared toward the sky, its voice like thunder booming in all directions. At the same time, its head lowered gently, touching the harbor ground, and a crack split open from the center of its brow.

A young figure wearing golden straight-cut court robes, a golden silk spider-pattern belt of the same color tied at the waist, a jade-inlaid gilded crown on his head, and black hair tied up inside the crown, stepped out from the crack, carrying endless brilliance.

This figure's slender body was held straight, his calm face revealing an innate nobility. As he walked out, the six prodigies who were like god-children and god-maidens also lowered their heads to him.

It was as if his arrival made people feel high and unreachable, low to the dust.

Furthermore, as he walked, a seven-colored light manifested above his head, transforming into a canopy of extreme nobility; the sound of wind whistling echoed all around, and from a distance, this canopy looked exactly like a Seven-Colored Wind-Humming Lamp!

This lamp was incomparably brilliant amidst the seven-colored light, emitting earth-shattering might. While it boomed in all directions, it also stirred up massive waves in the minds of countless onlookers.

"Life Lamp!"

Someone exclaimed in surprise, and the next instant, the sound waves rose and fell, becoming increasingly intense.

That Seven-Colored Wind-Whispering Lamp was exactly... the legendary Life Lamp!

And this youth who possessed the Life Lamp had all 120 Dharma Apertures in his body opened in unison, reaching the sky. Behind him, there was faintly the shadow of a strange bird with a green body and red tail, emitting the intent to suppress all Dharma.

That was shockingly the shadow of an Imperial-level cultivation technique!

All of this gathered into an earth-shattering momentum, and combined with the power of his Life Lamp, it actually had the signs of suppressing the eternal past, suppressing all prodigies of an era.

This person was exactly the number one prodigy of this generation of the Seven Sect Alliance, coming from the Lingyun Sword Sect... Chu Sheng Yun.

Although he was not a Golden Core, he was better than a Golden Core, and thus was bestowed the Dao name Saint Yunzi by his grandfather, the ancestor of the Lingyun Sword Sect!

He was the Chief Sequence Daoist within the Lingyun Sword Sect, on whom high hopes were placed, intending to walk the path of the Ancient Emperor Sovereign.

Within the Seven Sect Alliance, this person's status was equally extremely high; he belonged to the peerlessly extraordinary son cultivated with all their might by the Seven Sect Alliance to match the Daoists of the other five major powers.

He was also the only cultivator among the countless disciples of the Seven Sect Alliance who simultaneously possessed a Life Lamp and an Imperial-level cultivation technique.

This person not only had an imposing momentum like a rainbow, but his appearance was also extraordinary. His clean, fair face revealed a sharp, cold edge, and his knife-carved features exuded a sense of looking down on the mortal world. Just looking at his appearance, this person was a rare peer who could compare to Xu Qing.

It was just that upon his body, there was more indifference toward all living things; the people he looked at in his eyes were like ants.

This point was different from Xu Qing.

Xu Qing was as calm as water; the people he looked at, he only looked at their necks.

And the tsunami stirred up here, as well as the pressure formed, swept across the entire harbor, also causing ripples on the sea surface of the 176th harbor where Xu Qing was, making Xu Qing, who was nurturing the Wish Box, frown slightly.

He felt the pressure outside, raised his head and stood up, walked out of the cabin, and looked far away toward the direction of the first harbor. With his cultivation, he could see clearly these prodigies who had arrived there, and also saw this great prodigy whose whole body shone with brilliant light, and even more so saw the Seven-Colored Wind-Whispering Lamp above his head and that strange bird with a green body and red tail.

The moment he saw the Seven-Colored Wind-Whispering Lamp, Xu Qing's mind shook violently, and a deep, profound light appeared in his eyes.

And when he saw that strange bird with a green body and red tail, the Jin Wu totem behind him also emitted a scorching intent, as if it wanted to manifest and suppress the strange bird.

Being able to make the Jin Wu react like this, Xu Qing immediately recognized that the shadow of the strange bird should also be the manifestation of an Imperial-level cultivation technique.

This was the first time Xu Qing had seen someone who, like himself, possessed a Life Lamp and also possessed an Imperial-level cultivation technique.

Xu Qing stared deeply for a moment, withdrew his gaze, and walked into the cabin.

Who the other party was, and how eye-catching they were, for the current Xu Qing, was not very important, unless that person had murderous intent toward him, then they would be remembered in Xu Qing's heart.

Otherwise, everything in the outside world was not as good as the... Wish Box that he had now completely nurtured!

Xu Qing sat cross-legged, looked down at the iron block in front of him, his breathing became slightly rapid, and a strong sense of expectation appeared in his eyes.

Unlike the strange actions Wu Jianwu had made before opening the Wish Box that day, Xu Qing did not do that. He just took a deep breath, closed his eyes to calm his mind, and the instant he opened them, his right hand waved slightly over the iron block.

Crack!

This Wish Box left for future generations from the previous era opened before Xu Qing!

Xu Qing immediately looked down, and the next instant, a strong light appeared in his eyes, his breathing slightly rapid.

Inside the Wish Box, there were two items.

A black elixir.

A jade slip that was somewhat black!

Involved in the first description of the Eastern Wanggu Continent, I didn't dare to be careless, so I wrote and changed, changed and wrote. I suddenly had better inspiration during my nap, so I got up and hurriedly revised it. Sorry everyone. ===== CHAPTER 229 =====