Chapter 360: 360.Chapter 355 Qin Shi Huang Stirs the Universe

360. Chapter 355 Qin Shi Huang Stirs the Universe

Niu Jingtiansuddenly thought of something.

The Shaogui Sect's base had previously offended the Fuyang Sect, Bibo Palace, Tianlong Gate, and Zifu.

"Your Majesty.

When the Shaogui Sect's base attacks Lu Yan Valley, the four righteous sects will surely unite."

"No problem.

The four righteous sects are all selfish clods; I have long ordered Feng Youxiang and others to return to the four major sects to sow discord among their alliance.

All under heaven hustle and bustle for profit; vertical and horizontal alliances will be broken one by one.

The power structure of the Universe Cultivation World is due for a change."

Upon hearing this, Qin Shi Huang curled the corner of his mouth, his eyes flashing with fiery emotion.

Since the Shaogui Sect's base captured the cultivators of the four righteous sects, the four sects have sent people to secretly monitor every move of the Shaogui Sect's base.

The cultivators of Bibo Palace, Fuyang Sect, Tianlong Gate, and Zifu all wish to take revenge, but the Shaogui Sect is certainly one of the Universe's Ten Great Evil Sects, and the four orthodox sects dare not act rashly.

Now that it has released the captured righteous sect cultivators, the righteous sects will never imagine that those returned four sect cultivators have been converted and subdued by earth cultivators, thoroughly becoming earth cultivators' spies planted within the four righteous sects.

The Shaogui Sect's base secretly promised great profits for attacking Lu Yan Valley; the returning four sect spies will coordinate internally and externally with the earth cultivators.

Earth cultivators, aided by the Shaogui Sect's base attacking Lu Yan Valley, can achieve great success.

"Your Majesty's wisdom is truly admirable; I eagerly await the old face of Lu Sisitu Fang of Lu Yan Valley.

That old fellow, considering his physical strength in the Universe Cultivation World to be at the Wanfa Realm, one minor realm above me, has repeatedly provoked me.

This time, attacking Lu Yan Valley, I will surely refine him into the main soul within the Wan Soul Banner." Niu Jingtiansquinted his eyes, speaking excitedly.

In the Primordial Spiritual Realm, he and Situ Fang were both at the Great Perfection of the Earth Yuan Realm, neither could do anything to the other, but now it is different; the means of existences like Qin Shi Huang are incomparably heaven-defying, to the point that even he and the two Supreme Elders Gui Xiao and Gui Li cannot cope, and Situ Fang's outcome can easily be imagined.

Moreover, Situ Fang is ruthless and merciless; if he does not act, then once he acts, it will be a fatal blow.

Li Shixiong, upon hearing the three words "main soul of the Wan Soul Banner," had his eyes gleam with sharp light.

Merit is the foundation for exchanging resources at the Great Mercy Stronghold for various cultivation materials; attacking Lu Yan Valley will surely yield boundless merit, and exchanging resources at the Great Mercy Stronghold for cultivation will proceed more smoothly.

He has long yearned for the Zhenwu Hall of the Great Mercy Stronghold, having once heard other Universe cultivators speak of it.

Inside the Zhenwu Hall, each layer contains many mysterious statues: giants holding giant axes to cleave heaven, women with human bodies and serpentine bodies dragging five-colored divine stones to mend heaven, a youth holding a great banner atop the Nine Dragon Treasure, and a black-clad figure suspending a battle formation diagram, bearing four swords, furiously pointing at the azure heavens—each statue is immensely imposing.

It is rumored that these statues were personally commissioned by the Demon Masters of legend from the Great Mercy Stronghold to be forged; cultivators can gain boundless benefits from them, but unfortunately, at that time he and his fellow disciples of the Shaogui Sect were kneeling at Panlong Gate receiving punishment, as sinners unable to earn merit, only able to gaze longingly.

But now it is different.

The mighty ones of the Great Mercy Stronghold have opened clemency, forgiving his great sins, allowing him to earn merit through service; the cultivation resources within the Zhenwu Hall of the Great Mercy Stronghold are also available for his use.

Li Shixiong secretly made up his mind, a flash of icy cold light passing through his eyes.

This attack on Lu Yan Valley must strive to fully replenish the souls within the Wan Soul Banner, to fight desperately for merit for the Great Mercy Stronghold.

"Do not rush; before attacking Lu Yan Valley, we need to reveal Lu Yan Valley's crimes; when the time is ripe, opportunities to strike will arise.

Li Shixiong ordered the disciples of the Shaogui Sect in the Primordial Spiritual Realm to spread the news, that Lu Yan Valley uses Universe scattered cultivators as cauldrons, to stir up hatred among the relatives of deceased cultivators toward Lu Yan Valley.

Those attacking Lu Yan Valley are not only our Shaogui Sect's base and the persuaded various faction forces, but also Universe scattered cultivators." Qin Shi Huang's gaze was calm, yet his killing intent surged as he spoke.

Lu Yan Valley dares to seize the dragon source proxy business of earth cultivators and still wants to monopolize the silencing of earth cultivators like Sun Min; now that control has shifted to the Shaogui Sect's base, we must eradicate the harm of Lu Yan Valley's base, thereby planning more cultivation resources for earth cultivators.

"As you command." Li Shixiong, upon hearing this, took a deep breath and spoke firmly and decisively.

Qin Shi Huang steadily sat at the base, using scheming to stir the Universe Cultivation World; the great powers of righteousness and evil are like pieces on a chessboard, used to stir the great currents of the universe.

Qin Shi Huang's hand produced a medicinal compendium.

This is a record of some herbs investigated when Xu Fu of the ancient Qin Dynasty concocted the elixir of immortality, in which many elixirs' properties are detailed.

When Qin Shi Huang entered the Primordial Spiritual Realm and analyzed with Zuo Ci, many of the herbs in the compendium are the most ordinary herbs of the Primordial Spiritual Realm, yet their efficacy is far more potent than that of earthly herbs.

Some medicines must be fully prepared before attacking Lu Yan Valley.

This medicinal compendium is divided into upper and lower parts; the upper part records herb properties, while the lower part contains Zuo Ci's improved formulas for Hunpo San, Rougu San, Jile Kuang, Bing Shi, and others.

These not only have attacking effects, but also cause cultivators to become addicted and numb through extreme toxicity.

On the eve of the great battle, it is just right to order Li Shixiong and others to collect the herbs listed in the medicinal compendium, to be handed over to the Great Mercy Stronghold for refinement.

The formulas in the medicinal compendium have been carefully improved by earth cultivators; their impact is immense and must not be leaked.

The medicinal compendium handed by Qin Shi Huang to Li Shixiong is the upper part, mainly recording herb names, properties, and effects; even if Universe cultivators knew of it, they would have no use for it.

"The iron hooves of earth shall first begin from Lu Yan Valley in the Primordial Spiritual Realm." Qin Shi Huang narrowed his eyes, his face brimming with lofty battle spirit.

The next day.

With Sun Zhenbang, Zhao Jianhua, and the abbot of Xiguangsi returning from Yindu City to the Shaogui Sect's base in Huanyu City, the Primordial Spiritual Realm began to buzz with activity.

"Have you heard?

Yindu City has newly built a Shangqing Sect, seeking to seize a thread of life for all beings."

Rumors about the Daoist Qingwei spreading his teachings are spreading; cultivators originally scoffed at the exaggeration, but after understanding, they found that some major clans and major sects' disciples have gained boundless benefits from it, and began to feel restless.

Cultivators flocked in droves to Yindu City, unwilling to miss the opportunity to gain fortune.

"Seizing a thread of life for all beings?

I swear, this doctrine alone sounds incredibly awesome just hearing it."

"Everyone, the heavenly maiden of the Shui family gained insight from Qingwei Daozhang's lectures, achieving Great Perfection in the Earth Yuan Realm, deceiving people to death!"

A cultivator clad in a blue robe spoke excitedly; the heavenly maiden of the Shui family is a powerhouse of their lineage, having a chance to contend for the lineage's holy son, and this cultivator felt his blood boil with pride.

"I swear, Qingwei Daozhang is awesome to the heavens

The heavenly maiden of the Shui family has joined the Shangqing Sect, damn it, I'm going too."

Many cultivators within the cities of the Primordial Spiritual Realm were discussing, flocking in droves toward Yindu City.

Qingwei Daozhang established the Shangqing Sect in Yindu City and gave lectures, likewise drawing attention from other forces in the Universe Cultivation World.

Inside Lu Yan Valley.

Luyan Valley's Situ Fang furrowed her brow tightly, her face grim as she paced back and forth within Luyan Valley's base, having pulled out many strands of her white hair.

"Four hundred disciples, exactly four hundred disciples, their cultivated power sufficient to forge several Heavenly Spirit Realm true inheritors, yet all were lost in Silver Break City.

Damn it, what exactly is the Sha Gui Sect up to, sending out a cow-nosed old Taoist to establish a Shangqing Sect?

A proper evil sect trying to whitewash itself?

Recently, the Sha Gui Sect has provoked Fu Yang Sect, Bibo Palace, Tianlong Gate, and Zifu, the ten major righteous powers of Huanyu, and Luyan Valley has never ceased investigating the Sha Gui Sect, yet the spies sent out yielded no results whatsoever.

Now the Sha Gui Sect has annihilated Luyan Valley's four hundred disciples, even the soul of Elder Tu Tian Yue has been swallowed into the Holy Infant Banner, forever barred from reincarnation.

Situ Fang truly cannot comprehend this—even if the Sha Gui Sect is a major evil force in Huanyu, it's impossible for them to single-handedly challenge five major Huanyu powers.

One wave hasn't subsided, and the Sha Gui Sect has conjured another Shangqing Sect.

A proper major evil sect of Huanyu unwilling to cultivate the ghost path, seeking to whitewash itself into immortality cultivation?

Situ Fang found this increasingly implausible.

She racked her brains, her mind frayed, unable to discern the Sha Gui Sect's true intent.

At Fu Yang Sect's base, Ni Zhen Shu stared at the letter in his hand and spoke contemptuously.

"The Sha Gui Sect sending Qingwei to establish the Shangqing Sect is merely a bluff.

Seizing a sliver of life for all beings?

Cultivators pursue profit—who would undertake such thankless labor?

Survival of the fittest, natural selection—this is the fundamental law of the cultivation world!"

The Huanyu cultivation world has always been a struggle of you die or I live, growing through mutual resource plundering; among cultivators, there are only ants, fellow Daoists, and seniors.

Why would the strong aid the weak without cause? Where is the dignity of the strong?

Tianlong Gate's base.

Long Xiu Ao heard the report below, his face grim.

"Is the Sha Gui Sect gathering disciples in Huanyu City, possibly preparing a major move?" Long Xiu Ao said doubtfully.

The Sha Gui Sect suddenly summoned disciples from the Primordial Spirit Realm—could they be preparing to wage war against Huanyu's orthodox sects?

Challenging Fu Yang Sect, Bibo Palace, Tianlong Gate, and Zifu with one sect's strength is impossible, let alone with Luyan Valley now added.

For the Sha Gui Sect to challenge five of Huanyu's ten major righteous sects is even more impossible—unless the five major evil sects of Huanyu's ten evils unite, it's still unlikely.

Long Xiu Ao worried anxiously, inexplicable irritation rising in his heart.

"Do the other evil sects among Huanyu's ten major evils not know of the Sha Gui Sect's movements?

Fools, all fools.

Who let you plant spies in other evil sects to gather intelligence!

One Sha Gui Sect is enough to give Tianlong Gate a headache—must we also drag in the Blood Refinement Palace?"

Long Xiu Ao's face changed, he slammed the table hard and coldly cursed.

He had a premonition that the Sha Gui Sect would make a major move; for Tianlong Gate's safety in the Sha Gui Sect's base, he must uncover their purpose.

"Report to the Elder, has Elder Zhan Tian returned?" At that moment, a Tianlong Gate disciple rushed in, panting, to report urgently.

Upon hearing this, Long Xiu Ao's face filled with shock, he hastily rose and walked toward the outer hall.

He didn't know why, but he always felt the Sha Gui Sect would make a major move, and Tianlong Gate would be drawn into it.

Long Xiu Ao was vexed and restless; he must urgently find Long Zhan Tian, who returned from the Sha Gui Sect, to learn of their movements.

Within Zifu's base, Zihua Yue, the chief administrator, heard the other elders' opinions and hurriedly rebutted:

"Pull one hair and move the whole body—the newly established Shangqing Sect of the Sha Gui Sect must not be rashly provoked.

The divine soul of Elder Zitian Du is still imprisoned within the Sha Gui Sect—this is Zifu's renowned mighty combat power, absolutely not to be lost!"

Zifu recently received news.

The Sha Gui Sect has summoned all disciples currently training in the Primordial Spirit Realm—such action must have a purpose.

Zifu must not provoke the Sha Gui Sect's base before clarifying their intent.

Now, in Huanyu City, the Sha Gui Sect's base is sinister; an obscure Li Shixiong actually defeated Zifu's Wanfa Realm powerhouse, who had intimidated Huanyu for hundreds of years.

Even if Zitian Du suppresses his cultivation to the Great Perfection of the Earth Origin Realm with a secret artifact, his hundreds of years of combat experience and methods cannot be overcome by a young cultivator—unless Zifu's elders' cultivation levels are kneaded from clay.

Mysterious black Holy Infant Banner?

Strange nameless young cultivator of the Sha Gui Sect?

Still, the act of challenging Huanyu's five major righteous sects with a desperate, all-or-nothing resolve?

Every matter of the Sha Gui Sect reeks of strangeness, each overturning cultivators' behavioral cognition.

They would not think the Sha Gui Sect's cultivators are weary of life, recklessly courting death—after all, they are one of Huanyu's Ten Great Evil Sects, supreme above Huanyu for a thousand years.

"Elder Haoyue is correct—rashly provoking the Shangqing Sect will inevitably lead to war with the Sha Gui Sect.

Let alone the peril to Elder Zitian Du's divine soul; a great war will surely cost troops and generals—before the situation clears, rash action must be avoided." An elder beside Zihua Yue sighed lightly, speaking with a solemn expression.

Inside Bibo Palace.

Several women in warm jade blue silk robes sat solemnly in the council hall, faces full of vexation.

"Chief, the Sha Gui Sect's cultivators harbor wolfish ambitions.

In my view, we should first strike the Shangqing Sect, forcing them to release Elder Chumeng Ji and other disciples." A female elder beneath the council chief's seat said.

"Or we should intimidate with force, avoiding conflict with the Sha Gui Sect as much as possible."

"The cultivators of the Sha Gui Sect's base are eerily strange, their power even more terrifying than the old powerhouses that intimidate Huanyu." Bibo Palace's chief administrator, Nangong Fei, upon hearing this, leaned back in her chair, pondered, then said.

She recently received news via Dao.

Sha Gui Sect disciples, riding the ghost tide, descended upon Silver Break City, ruthlessly slaughtering hundreds of Luyan Valley disciples.

Even if Tu Tian Yue's strength were his own, he could not easily overcome it—yet at the hands of Sha Gui Sect cultivators, he failed to endure ten rounds, ultimately having his soul imprisoned in the Holy Infant Banner, becoming one of its soul puppets.

He, Nangong Fei, has roamed Huanyu for many years, yet this strange occurrence is the first he has ever encountered.

Now, no one can clearly say how many disciples of the Shaigui Sect can match the old-guard powerhouses.

The current situation is too chaotic; we cannot rashly engage in battle without clarifying the Shaigui Sect's base conditions.

Seeing that the elder wanted to speak further, Nangong Fei waved his hand to interrupt.

"All of you, retreat. Send more people to monitor the Shaigui Sect's movements," Nangong Fei said.

He watched as everyone left, then walked alone to the top of the pavilion to overlook the entire Huanyu City, his brows tightly furrowed.

At that moment, a disciple came forward to report: "Master, Elder Chumu Ji has returned from the Shaigui Sect!"

Upon hearing this, Nangong Fei's gaze froze, and he hurriedly said: "Quickly, invite him in?"

Such a scene unfolded as Qin Shi Huang released all captured orthodox cultivators, playing out correspondingly in each sect.

Inside the Shaigui Sect's base.

Sun Zhenbang and others watched a disciple of the Luyan Valley who had just consumed Bingchi.

Bingchi was personally refined by the Great Compassion Stronghold and sent to Huanyu City along with the captured disciples of Luyan Valley.

They discovered that Bingchi could numb Shaigui Sect cultivators, induce hallucinations, and lead to addiction; its toxicity also mingles with the cultivator's Spiritual Power within their body.

Once a Luyan Valley cultivator who has taken Bingchi has their Spiritual Power devoured by another, the toxin transfers to the other cultivator, and so on in a cycle—enough to paralyze an entire sect is no problem.

"Haha.

The First Emperor's wisdom is remarkable—he even thought of such a method.

Bingchi not only strips Luyan Valley cultivators of their combat power but can also be controlled.

With Bingchi in hand, we need not fear they will not obediently submit." Sun Zhenbang's eyes gleamed with sharp light as he spoke.

Upon hearing this, Qin Shi Huang's face showed sorrow and indignation.

This method came to him from the historical lessons of persecution against the Great Xia Ancient State by nations like Yingguo.

Similar items to Bingchi provoke deep hatred and anguish, causing many Earth members to suffer broken families and death.

Countless Xia heroes sacrificed their lives to ban such substances.

Earth cultivators entering the Primordial Spiritual Realm cannot match the power of Huanyu's great sects; Bingchi is the method to eradicate Luyan Valley while minimizing losses for Earth cultivators.

He has already ordered Wang Mei to bring this item back to the Shaigui Sect's main sect Law Enforcement Hall; those high-ranking officials, upon learning of Bingchi's vested interests, will surely promote it vigorously.

Once Earth cultivators expose Bingchi's toxicity, all major sects will surely rise up and attack the Shaigui Sect's main headquarters in Huanyu.

The Huanyu Shaigui Sect's main sect will find it hard to avoid destruction.

Earth cultivators are perfectly positioned to reap the benefits from behind. (End of Chapter)