Chapter 1341: Who Is Invading Our Sect's Great Array?

Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect.

On the Immortal Thunder Divine Peak, perpetually encircled by purple and green Lei Ting, the aura is yang, domineering, and fierce; ghosts, demons, and evil spirits are strictly forbidden, and no monster or demon dares approach even a hair's breadth, for they would instantly have their souls scattered and spirits dispersed.

The ancestral founders of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect arranged various formations upon this natural divine peak, refined them for over a hundred thousand years, further enhancing their power; the rules of Lei Ting spread everywhere, the pressure is terrifyingly immense, so that even a True Venerable of the Void Refinement realm would not dare approach within tens of thousands of kilometers.

This is the foundation of a True Sect hegemon within the domain!

At this moment, atop the Thunder Shanfeng, an old man, a youth, and a woman sat cross-legged, discussing the Dao and drinking together, with laughter and joy occasionally arising, utterly at ease.

These three were naturally the three Void Refinement experts of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect, known as the Three Ancestors of the Nine Heavens.

That old man with a purple face and thunderous hair was the current Ancestral Venerable of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect, Ten Thousand Thunder True Venerable, a mid-stage Void Refinement cultivator; relying on the many inherited treasures accumulated by the True Sect over a hundred thousand years, his strength was not inferior to a late-stage Void Refinement expert.

The three chatted and laughed, their voices filled with joy.

"Sigh!"

At a certain moment, the Daoist nun suddenly let out a long sigh: "Sitting idle at the mountain gate, how much longer must this last?"

"You and I have attained the Dao and reached Void Refinement; we should be roaming freely in all directions, traveling the Northern Sea in the morning and Cangwu in the evening, yet now we are like prisoners, trapped within a tiny mountain peak; how desolate!"

"That Blood Lake is truly too oppressive!"

She revealed murderous intent and anger.

It was not merely about being confined to one place.

Being confined at the mountain gate meant losing control over many sect territories in the outside world; many resources could no longer flow into the mountain gate. Relying solely on the spiritual vein output of the mountain gate and years of accumulated reserves made it impossible to sustain long-term cultivation; they could only cultivate intermittently for a while before being forced to stop, lest the spiritual vein's Qi become insufficient.

The movement of disciples under the sect was not a major problem; the Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain dared not openly besiege the True Sect for an extended period.

But how could one know this was not a trap set by the enemy to lure them out?

In fact, over the past several thousand years, this had happened twice; a total of three sect Void Refinement experts had died. The Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect was forced to activate its foundational reserves, promoting promising Soul Transformation peak cultivators, only then barely managing to maintain the situation.

The Daoist nun and the other two had been promoted under these circumstances.

Due to the state of war, the two had not cultivated properly even a few times over several thousand years, so their cultivation remained just at the threshold of Void Refinement, having improved little.

This was the reason for her anger and hatred.

"The Qi Sect does nothing internally; the Tribute Envoys are unjust. What can be done..."

The other two Void Refinement experts sighed mournfully.

"Has there been any abnormality from Blood Lake recently?"

"Are there signs of an offensive? The Tribute Envoy's prohibitions, he surely would not completely ignore them..."

The Daoist nun asked.

"Hard to say."

"The Blood Puppet faction is currently dominant within the Qi Sect; even a God of Dao has been born. The Zai Shan True Venerable may not be able to restrain him, let alone Zai Shan, that waste, who suffered a setback in the Golden Sea..."

Ten Thousand Thunder True Venerable's face grew gloomy; he revealed a trace of genuine feeling before his fellow sect brothers, then fell silent.

"According to reports from our sect's dead spies left at the Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain, there are currently no signs of a major mobilization from Blood Lake Corpse Bone Mountain; it seems the words of the Qi Sect's Tribute Envoy still hold weight."

He changed the subject.

"Within eight hundred years, perhaps there will be peace."

"Taking advantage of this time, we may use heavy bribes to ally with the Dead Puppet faction, the sworn enemies of the Blood Puppet faction; they might be able to stop Blood Lake's recklessness... Even if it means our sect becomes embroiled in the internal strife of the Qi Sect, we will not care."

Ten Thousand Thunder True Venerable suddenly made his decision.

The Dead Puppet faction was originally the mainstream of the Qi Sect, using Jin Shi, earth, wood, and the like to refine various puppets; many famous puppets of the Qi Sect, such as the Sleepless Puppet, were masterpieces of the Dead Puppet faction, and many of the sect's most precious treasures, the world-shocking Divine Puppets whose names echoed throughout the Upper Realm, all originated from the Dead Puppet faction.

The Blood Puppet faction, however, was a new Immortal Dao trend that had risen within the Qi Sect over the past tens of thousands of years, advocating the use of living beings, especially humans with the highest spiritual nature, as raw materials for refinement.

Because these living puppets possessed higher and stronger spiritual nature, the formations they composed were more flexible and powerful than those of the Dead Puppets, and placed less burden on the formation master.

Of course, alongside these advantages, there were many disadvantages, such as the fragility of living bodies, the difficulty of refinement, the inability to standardize production, and the ease with which they could trigger heart demons in the formation master... and so on.

This new trend and the old Dead Puppet viewpoint sparked huge debates within the Qi Sect.

Debates within the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong were not merely simple arguments; they involved countless bloodbaths, countless struggles for profit, political machinations, and even several Dao God experts of the Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong had died in inexplicable and terrifying ways.

No one knew what the highest levels of the Qi Sect looked like.

But in the middle and lower levels, and even among the high ranks, the Qi Sect had already split into a life-or-death struggle; both sides fought endlessly, not hesitating to draw swords against each other, even erupting into multiple open wars.

If the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect involved itself in the internal struggles of a Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong, a single wave could strike without warning, leaving them dead with no place to bury their bodies.

But Ten Thousand Thunder True Venerable had no choice.

"We can only do this."

The Daoist nun sighed and offered no objection.

"To befriend the great figures of the Dead Puppet faction of the Qi Sect, the outstanding disciples previously sent out by our sect could do it, but it requires vast amounts of heavenly treasures and earthly wonders; yet now, with our sect in this wretched state..."

Ten Thousand Thunder True Venerable pondered for a moment: "At this juncture, we can only drain the Minor Thousand Worlds dry; these are the only territories we currently control."

"Issue the order: for all Minor Worlds and Ascension Minor Worlds, the tribute must increase tenfold within eight hundred years."

"Even if the cultivators of entire worlds are worked to death, even if we slaughter all cultivators in the Minor Worlds, the tribute due must be paid within eight hundred years. At this critical moment of survival, we cannot care about the harvest of the next millennium."

"If we cannot cross this threshold, having more Minor Thousand Worlds is useless; it is better to let these cultivators of Minor Thousand Worlds, who have benefited from the sect's grace, perish alongside us."

Outside the Great Thousand World, numerous Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie and Minor Thousand Worlds are distributed.

Most belong to Taiyi Qingmu Xianzong and Jiang Jiang Jinxian-level powers; a small portion are controlled by various True Sects and Dao Sects, leveraging the natural gravity of the Great Thousand World to lay down ultra-long-range teleportation arrays with relatively lower difficulty.

Extremely distant Minor Thousand Worlds cannot have teleportation arrays laid down; they can only be indirectly controlled through the rules of the Ascension Platform.

Ten Thousand Thunder True Venerable's voice floated lightly; the life and death of billions upon billions of beings were decided in just a few words. From the power of the Upper Realm, they would have no ability to resist.

"Yes, senior brother."

The Daoist nun listened solemnly and accepted the order.

The three were planning major sect affairs, about to step into the bloody struggle within the Qi Sect; the entire sect was about to be swept into a tide of uncertain life and death, their minds fluctuating, unable to find peace.

Therefore, they somewhat overlooked it.

A subtle and formless force, after ten years of accumulation, began to silently invade the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect's Thunder Array, starting to affect some array nodes and transform them.

Numerous subtle array nodes were silently swallowed.

Gradually, this power began to invade some major array nodes, attempting to completely paralyze the array passed down by the True Sect for over a hundred thousand years.

Crack!

Snap!

At this moment, a booming sound erupted from the Thunder Array, followed by a sky-filling clamor of thunder warnings, as countless thunder rules bloomed like snowflakes.

"Still, it failed."

A voice sighed deeply.

"Who!"

"Who is invading our Sect's Great Array!"

The Ten Thousand Thunder True Sect was startled, breaking out in a cold sweat.

"Seeking death!"

He raged uncontrollably, instantly activating the array that guards the sect; lightning flashed, thunder rolled, dark clouds gathered densely, countless electric snakes bloomed, and within tens of thousands of kilometers, the space was entirely filled with twisted thunder rules.

Endless thunder killing arrays were densely packed, revealing a youth in green robes with hands clasped behind his back in the distance.