Chapter 1143: The Immortal Gate Must Hold a Dominant Position in the Post-War Order

The killing intent of the eight great powers was cold and sweeping, even affecting the existence of the Heavenly Dao law-net, making that law-net as cold and harsh as a freezing winter — yet not toward the outside, but toward the inside.

Many immortal-gate cultivators suddenly felt a chill in their hearts.

No, not just a chill — there was one, and then it vanished in an instant.

"What do you few mean by this?"

Yuan's smile faded slightly as he stared expressionlessly at the eight great powers of the Baweixian Sect.

Do you really think it's still like that, more than a thousand years before your ascension to Void Refinement?

The great powers of the Badaxian Sect felt a sudden jolt in their hearts.

The current Eastern Extreme Demon Sect is in its absolute period of dominance in history; some great powers even suspect that the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect already possesses the strength to sweep through the Nine Spirit Domain — it would only need to pay a terrible price nearly amounting to annihilation.

If it holds fast within its mountain-gate lair, it is nearly an invincible existence, fearing no joint siege by anyone.

If the Nine Spirit Domain were still a sealed boundary realm, all of this would have almost become reality.

Under such circumstances, very few things can threaten the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect anymore.

The faces of the great powers of the Badaxian Sect flickered between gloom and light.

After a moment, they restrained their own killing intent, no longer revealing it outwardly, frowning deeply as they began to ponder something.

A long while.

"Daoist Yuan,"

"Speak plainly."

The Tianji great power, with neither joy nor sorrow, asked: "What do you need?"

"Or shall you and I fight it out here, with the threat of Senior Jiao Minghuang looming at our side?"

"As you said, after burning essence-blood, our strength can surge dramatically, granting us Dao Merging combat power in the short term."

"And then, the Jiao Demon Imperial Clan reaps the spoils as the third party."

"What do I need? Do my fellow daoists truly not know?"

Yuan smiled faintly.

"I need — the immortal gate needs safety. I need the absolute safety of the immortal gate after your ascension. Otherwise, fellow daoists, you might as well burn your essence-blood and die here."

"Nine houses crying is always better than one house of the immortal gate crying."

This was a response to the threat of the Badaxian Sect in a more resolute, more ruthless posture.

The immortal gate has never feared war, never feared death!

This is not merely words spoken.

This is even more so the practice of the immortal gate over the past ten thousand years and more!

Every war, every battle has been like this — never retreating, never yielding; its citizens have faced death on the battlefield without flinching.

This is a reality as hard as steel!

The eight great powers of the Baweixian Sect, at this moment, felt a deep sense of helplessness.

They knew this old adversary too well; even though the great Dao's opportunity was right before their eyes at this very moment, they did not dare to fight to the death, because they knew it would end in mutual destruction.

"Speak."

"Your terms."

The great power of the Tianji Immortal Palace sighed.

Similar words, yet they carried a different meaning.

The Badaxian Sect, driven by their longing for the great Dao, were willing to make major concessions.

"Good!"

"Fellow daoists are indeed forthright and plain-spoken."

Yuan praised, then said with his usual expression: "The Nine Spirit Domain should place sincere unity above all else. What the immortal gate requires is merely two things."

"First, the immortal gate needs a strand of a Dao Merging cultivator's split soul."

"This split soul can be obtained from Jiao Minghuang. If Jiao Minghuang escapes or dies in battle and his split soul is not captured, then the immortal gate needs a prohibition laid within the divine soul of a cultivator on the verge of ascending to Dao Merging, in order to observe the ascension, emergence, and structure of a Dao Merging divine soul."

"Second, the immortal gate needs nine portions of Void Refinement opportunity. No matter where these Void Refinement opportunities come from, the immortal gate must have them."

"Just these two conditions — not a sliver can be missing, not a fraction can be discounted."

"Only with both of these in hand can the immortal gate have a place to stand within the post-war order of the newly born boundary realm, yielding not a single hair's breadth. Fellow daoists may choose to accept, or choose to refuse."

"However, the immortal gate will not yield even a fraction."

Yuan looked calmly at the eight great powers of the Baweixian Sect.

Unexpectedly, these eight great powers did not fly into a rage at such humiliating conditions, did not make any frenzied displays — instead, they were coldly calculating something in their expressions.

……

Mo Teng Xiao Gao Jie.

This place was a hub of the King of Equality's Yin-Yang Inversion Grand Array of Yama's Hell.

This terrifying domain-wide array unleashed a power that even the Dao Merging combat strength of the Nine Spirit Domain could not withstand, forcibly constraining nine million beings of Nascent Soul and below from the Nine Spirit Domain into this Minor Thousand World, to fight a life-and-death blood battle against an equal number of Jiao Demon Imperial Clan cultivators.

Boom!

Rumble!

At this moment, within the clan lands of the Mo Ye Family, ten dao-children of the Jiudaxian Sect were stationed within the array. The nine ancient emperor-children — Cangyan Ancient Emperor-Child, Mingtian Ancient Emperor-Child, and others — were commanding the military formations and launching a storm-like assault against this place alongside several hundred kings.

One after another, embryonic imperial weapons of the Jiao Demon Imperial Clan, each heavy as mountains, bore the terrifying momentum of military formations marshaled by a million elite Jiao Demon Imperial Clan disciplined lords — heavy as heaven and earth — and each strike shattered large swathes of the array's spiritual light.

Countless array patterns scattered under the bombardment of the embryonic imperial weapons; the surrounding mountains and earth shook violently, the ground cracked, lava spurted forth, as if the end of days had arrived.

The grand array of the ten great dao-children of the Nine Spirit Domain was being worn down ceaselessly, barely sustained only by a transcendent force of array dao within the military formation.

Yet even so, it looked as though it would not last much longer.

"King-tier Ancient Emperor-Child!"

"Soul Transformation cultivators!"

Brother Brother Xuanwu

had been at the very center of the army formation the whole time, absorbing the brunt of the damage. By now the tortoise shell on his back had even cracked, and he could not help cursing out loud: "We're only at Nascent Soul peak!"

"Nascent Soul peak!"

"These damned savages! No sense of propriety, justice, honesty, or shame at all!!"

"If we were at the same realm, I alone could single-handedly suppress three Ancient Emperor's Sons and cut them down in the shortest possible time!"

"If I'd known it would be like this, I should have broken through to Soul Transformation sooner!"

As the situation kept sliding downhill, he said in a rather wretched voice.

This was impossible.

The Yama Hell Equal King Yin-Yang Inversion Grand Array captured cultivators at Nascent Soul realm and below. The great powers of Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong would not allow them to advance, causing the situation to collapse completely, which in turn threatened the main combat forces on the Dao Merging battlefield.

"Where's Jiang Ding Zi?"

"Did he die of qi deviation?"

Taiyi Taiyi Qingmu Dao Child Ji Liuyue's little face was a wretched mess, her complexion deathly pale as paper.

Her body was trembling like sifting chaff. Over the long defensive war, in order to treat the wounds of the nine great Dao Children, even though Qingmuxian Sect's magic power was famed for being inexhaustible, it was now nearly drained dry, kept alive entirely by the Five Elements Dao Child's Five Elements circulation.

Under such exhaustion, she said quite bluntly.

"Jiang Ding is still slumbering."

Teacher Gu Lin said calmly.

She surveyed her surroundings. Of the first batch of nine million cultivators from Jiudaxian Sect, only a little over five million remained now; the rest were all dead, killed in the fighting not long ago — among them several hundred thousand of the Immortal Gate fleet.

This kind of sacrifice could not be avoided.

If Badaxian Sect would not yield, would not grant the Immortal Gate the right to survive in the post-war order, then Immortal Gate citizens would not mind dying together with Badaxian Sect.

"But we're going to die!"

"You bitch! Do you understand?!!"

Brother Brother Xuanwu stared fixedly at Teacher Gu Lin, his gaze blood-red, nearly going mad.

"Then die!"

Teacher Gu Lin cast a cold glance at the Dao Child who had spoken so rudely, then continued commanding the army formation to resist the joint siege of the many Emperor's Sons of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan.

At this life-and-death juncture, she had obtained command authority over all the cultivators of Jiudaxian Sect, and so had held on until now.

"She's gone mad!"

"Truly gone mad!"

"The Eastern Extreme Demon Sect has gone mad — they've been invaded in their divine souls by the savages…"

Ji Liuyue, An Tu Zi, Shadow Demon Dao Child and the others were in despair, letting out a powerless great roar.