Chapter 819: The Chaotic Northern Plains

Jiang Ding appeared in the Spiritless Desert, spent some time, arrived at the long-range teleportation array, and vanished.

The next moment,

passing through multiple teleportation arrays and crossing vast distances, he appeared in Master Tushan Xiancheng.

"It has been several hundred years since I last saw this scenery with my own eyes…"

Jiang Ding Zi murmured.

At this moment, he recalled his childhood — the first time he came to the Three Kingdoms lands, the first time he opened up Master Tushan Xiancheng, and the many scenes of gaining and then losing it all again.

His divine sense connected to the scattered divine sense imprints of the maid corps in his Sea of Consciousness, gathering intelligence from all sides, especially that of the Darifa Sect.

Over fifty years had passed.

The 108,000 maids had dwindled somewhat — clearly due to war, or hostile forces conducting searches leading to personnel reductions, or simply Foundation Establishment maids failing to break through to Jin Dan, their lifespans exhausted, passing away helplessly.

Such things were very common.

Over fifty years was already most of a lifetime for a Qi Practicing cultivator, and for a Foundation Establishment cultivator it meant moving from prime of life into old age, no longer young.

During this period, many splendid, complicated affairs of love and hate would occur — quite unlike the dull, monotonous closed-door cultivation of high-level cultivators.

"108,000… it seems they carried out the covert orders well, without paying lip service while acting in defiance."

Jiang Ding was somewhat satisfied, somewhat regretful.

"As for the situation in the Northern Plains, with the rise of the rogue cultivator Master Dinghai Zhenjun, the changes have been enormous."

"Changing with each passing day, almost unrecognizable."

Jiang Ding browsed through the intelligence from Master Tushan Master Tushan Zhongting.

The 108,000 maids were scattered everywhere, 潜伏 under all manner of identities — identities that were often their original ones, their birthplaces, with very high concealment — giving them a great advantage in intelligence gathering.

"Forty-one years ago, driven by the longing and urging of many rogue cultivator Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun for the Great Dao, the Mo-Mo Alliance composed of nineteen Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun including Dong Xue Dong Xue Liuyun began their operation.

Their first target was the Liu Clan of the Joyful Union Sect, one of the twenty-eight families of the Northern Plains; the Liu Clan possessed a fourth-grade mid-quality spirit vein."

"In this battle, nineteen early Nascent Soul cultivators struck together — earth-shattering!"

Jiang Ding recalled briefly and felt it was still rather spectacular.

"The fourth-grade mid-grade grand formation of the Joyful Union Sect's Liu Clan shattered in an instant!"

"Joyful Union Master Dinghai Zhenjun was terrified to the extreme, striking out to resist — however, the nineteen Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun suppressed her cleanly and decisively; joined together, they instantly broke through her defenses, shattered her dharma treasure; mid-Nascent Soul cultivation was utterly useless!"

"In just a few breaths, Joyful Union Master Dinghai Zhenjun's physical body was shattered, her Nascent Soul fled in disgrace, abandoning the family inheritance accumulated over ten thousand years."

"The Mo-Mo Alliance won a great victory in its first battle."

"After this battle, the entire Liu Clan was slaughtered; the sect's beautiful and handsome disciples were captured in large numbers; the Mo-Mo Alliance's Dong Xue Dong Xue Liuyun and many other Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun divided up the Joyful Union Sect Liu Clan's ten-thousand-year accumulation, obtaining numerous Nascent Soul treasures, vast quantities of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, large amounts of Gong Fa and spells; every Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun's personal wealth skyrocketed tenfold or hundredfold, their strength increasing to a certain degree."

The three great difficulties of rogue cultivators: Gong Fa, dharma treasures, and spells.

This was the main reason their strength was far below that of cultivators of the same level.

The Joyful Union Sect Liu Clan's wealth and ten-thousand-year accumulation of Gong Fa and spells perfectly filled the gaps in these areas for them.

"Because of争夺 the spoils, Master Dinghai Zhenjun within the Mo-Mo Alliance erupted into open conflict, which was ultimately mediated and settled by people like Dong Xue Dong Xue Liuyun."

"But this did not dampen the Gao Ang morale within the Mo-Mo Alliance; many Master Dinghai Zhenjun were eager, their fighting spirit surging."

"After slaughtering the Joyful Union Sect's Liu Clan, they did not choose to occupy the territory, but instead erased their traces and fled instantly, vanishing into thin air.

By the time Joyful Union Master Dinghai Zhenjun's Nascent Soul returned with a large number of Zhengmo Alliance Master Dinghai Zhenjun, all they could see was ruins and barren ground, their roars and howls of fury in vain."

"Those who can cultivate to Nascent Soul are indeed all cunning old foxes."

Jiang Ding nodded slightly upon reading this.

If it came to a direct confrontation, the rogue cultivator Master Dinghai Zhenjun would absolutely not be a match for the Zhengmo Alliance Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun of even half their number — weaker cultivation, weaker dharma treasures and spells, and lacking internal unity; even a nearly twofold numerical advantage could not make up for these gaps.

"The Darifa Sect and the Darifa Sect watch like tigers eyeing their prey; for some unknown reason, there is again turmoil on the front lines."

"The many Nascent Soul cultivators of the Zhengmo Alliance could not linger long; they searched the surrounding area many times, even employing profound tracking techniques, yet still could not find the Mo-Mo Alliance's Nascent Soul cultivators, and could only withdraw helplessly."

This was only natural — they were all Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun, with no rank suppression; when one side was determined to hide and had prepared in advance, they were not so easy to find.

Not to mention, there might be the shadow of a great sect behind it.

Forces like the Darifa Sect were happy to see the Zhengmo Alliance's strength continually weaken; providing some talismans and spells for evading and concealing tracking was but a trivial effort, costing them nothing.

"A mere Joyful Union Sect could not satisfy the Mo-Mo Alliance's needs."

"Thirty-five years ago, after a brief silence of just six years, the Mo-Mo Alliance acted again; they raided the Blood Bone Sect's Li Clan, one of the Zhengmo Alliance's twenty-eight families, and likewise slaughtered them in an extremely short time; the family's accumulations and inheritance were seized in their entirety."

"Although Blood Bone Master Dinghai Zhenjun was mid-Nascent Soul, he too could not resist; under the encirclement and killing of nineteen Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun, his dharma body shattered and his Nascent Soul fled."

"Moreover, it was much faster than the destruction of the Joyful Union Sect; the Zhengmo Alliance's reinforcements could not arrive at all."

This was because, after absorbing the gains from the Joyful Union Sect, refining numerous Nascent Soul treasures for their own use, and cultivating fourth-grade spells, the strength of the Mo-Mo Alliance's Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun had been增强.

"Another five years later, thirty years ago, the Mo-Mo Alliance repeated the same trick, raiding Bingxuedian."

"In this battle, Bingxuedian's two great Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun relied on their mountain-gate formation to fight; Bingxue Master Dinghai Zhenjun was mid-Nascent Soul, and the newly-advanced Bingxue Master Dinghai Zhenjun Mu Mu Tianxue shone brilliantly in this battle, defeating five Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun including Dong Xue Dong Xue Liuyun, and together with Bingxue Master Dinghai Zhenjun held off the Zhengmo Alliance's attack, barely maintaining the局面."

"The Mo-Mo Alliance was greatly shocked and wanted to flee, but became entangled."

"By the time the Zhengmo Alliance's many Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun arrived in fury, three of the Mo-Mo Alliance's rogue cultivator Master Dinghai Zhenjun had their dharma bodies shattered, one died completely, and the rest fled in panic with injuries."

"The Zhengmo Alliance's morale rose somewhat."

"However, at this point, the Zhengmo Alliance's weakness had been exposed before all the cultivators of the Northern Plains."

"Darifa Sect cultivators and Darifa Sect cultivators waged war without declaration, and likewise joined the battlefield.

They imitated the Mo-Mo Alliance cultivators: after pinning down the Zhengmo Alliance's Nascent Soul cultivators on the main battlefield, large numbers of sect Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun successively raided the various families of the Zhengmo Alliance."

"Before these sect Nascent Soul cultivators, there was no resistance."

"Bingxuedian, Huagu Sect, Jin Chong Guang Sect… one after another, Northern Plains families were breached; if their family Nascent Soul cultivators fled in advance, all was well, but if they resisted, they were slain instantly."

"Whether the Northern Plains families fled or not, the slaughter of the families one by one had become a foregone conclusion."

"As the rear continued to collapse, the Zhengmo Alliance's main battlefield also lost without truly fighting; although the Darifa Sect and the Darifa Sect were Layered Contradictions, they still easily defeated the Zhengmo Alliance coalition; Nascent Soul ancestors fled, and family cultivators of the Jin Dan and Foundation Establishment levels suffered heavy losses."

"In the end, a large number of the Northern Plains families' Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun had their dharma bodies shattered and Nascent Souls slain, losing nearly all their territories."

"Only the Liu Dao Sect and the Gui Mountain Iron Family are barely holding on; for now, no one dares to move against them."

Jiang Ding saw this and understood the reason.

On the mountain gates of these two leading righteous and demonic families of the Northern Plains, the Soul Transformation-level array personally arranged by Master Canghai Canghai Tianjun in years past still stands; even though a Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun cannot make it operate fully, and even though it has lacked Soul Transformation-level maintenance for ten thousand years.

But it is, after all, a Soul Transformation-grade array!

Therefore, no one dares to move.

(End of this chapter)

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