Chapter 104: War Begins

On the very day the Di Xuan Realm Alliance was established.

Eighteen hegemonic powers each opened two to three spatial channels connecting to the lower realms, dispatching a Soul Transformation realm coalition army into the nine fallen minor worlds to begin a counteroffensive.

These nine fallen minor worlds were Xuanmu, Xuanhuo, Xuanyang, Xuanlei, Zixing, Jinyuan, Diyuan, Tianli, and Hongyue.

Among them, because the Xuantian Sect had long since constructed a spatial channel to the Xuanmu Realm and had already dispatched disciples to support Xuanmu,

the situation in Xuanmu was currently the best, though still far from optimistic.

After the Di Xuan Realm coalition entered the nine minor worlds, they did not expand blindly.

After blocking the first wave of the Green Demon Clan's assault, they began establishing arrays and building bases, relying on these arrays to resist the Green Demon Clan's initial offensives.

Then, they prepared to expand slowly outward, using the bases as centers.

After all, most of the nine minor worlds had already been transformed into Demon Domains, and the remainder had been largely converted.

If they rashly ventured deep into these minor worlds, the Soul Transformation realm experts of the Di Xuan Realm were not necessarily a match for the Green Demon Clan.

For now, they could only rely on arrays, advance steadily, and proceed cautiously.

The hegemonic powers also possessed methods to transform Demon Domains into Spirit Domains.

However, under the interference of the Green Demon Clan, they could not use such instant methods; they could only choose the slow, gradual transformation over a long period.

Within the Qing Xuan Blessed Land.

Although the current mobilization of the Di Xuan Realm coalition was unrelated to him, he had been silently monitoring the war's developments.

When a nest is overturned, how can there be an intact egg? If the Di Xuan Realm truly lost the war, even with his eternal lifespan, it would still be of no use.

Shortly after the Di Xuan Realm coalition descended, Ye Qingxuan's disciple token suddenly began to vibrate.

Ye Qingxuan looked and saw it was a message from Bai Zichun, the manager of the Fuxiu Academy: "Qingxuan, from now on, all Fuxiu of your generation are under my jurisdiction. From today, the Blessed Land will focus entirely on cultivating Pure Spirit Trees. Your original sect missions are temporarily suspended."

"For each Tier One Pure Spirit Tree, the Di Xuan Realm Alliance will purchase it for 9 Contribution Points."

As for the purchase price of Pure Spirit Trees above Tier One, since Ye Qingxuan was publicly only a Tier One Fuxiu, Bai Zichun did not mention it.

Although Pure Spirit Trees possess the ability to purify spiritual energy, a single Tier One Pure Spirit Tree has little effect, so the market price is very low, basically matching the price offered by the Di Xuan Realm Alliance.

Only Pure Spirit Trees above Tier Three can truly provide significant purification effects on their own.

Clearly, the Xuantian Sect ordered its Fuxiu disciples to plant Pure Spirit Trees to transplant them into the occupied areas of the lower realms, preparing to gradually purify the demonic qi.

However, since this was for the entire Di Xuan Realm, the Di Xuan Realm Alliance naturally provided the resources to purchase them.

Within the Di Xuan Realm Alliance, based on each sect's strength and foundation, every sect contributed a portion of resources as operating funds for the alliance.

And the Contribution Points of the Di Xuan Realm Alliance were the sole currency for exchanging these resources.

This currency could only be obtained by those who made contributions in the war between the two realms.

Although Fuxiu could not directly participate in the war, the Pure Spirit Trees they planted could still aid this protracted conflict.

Therefore, this time the Pure Spirit Trees were purchased using Di Xuan Realm Alliance Contribution Points, not Xuantian Sect Contribution Points.

Seeing the message from Bai Zichun, Ye Qingxuan understood the thinking of the Di Xuan Realm's high command, so he did not decline and replied directly:

"Yes, Manager. This disciple will go all out."

Although the Xuantian Sect had not specified a quantity, Ye Qingxuan prepared to do his part without exposing himself.

After receiving Ye Qingxuan's reply, Bai Zichun sent another message to remind him:

"The spirit veins within the nine fallen minor worlds below have all been completely contaminated by the primordial source of the Green Demon Realm. Unless the spirit veins are destroyed, the demonic qi cannot be fully purified under the Green Demon Clan's interference."

"Therefore, the high command of the Di Xuan Realm plans that for every area they conquer, they will destroy the spirit veins in that lower realm area, extract the source of the spirit veins, and bring them to the Di Xuan Realm for purification.

At that time, these spirit vein sources will be placed in the alliance's inventory and can be exchanged using alliance Contribution Points."

Before the Demon Domain is fully transformed into a Spirit Domain, even if the spirit vein source is purified, it will still be contaminated by the primordial source of the Demon Domain.

Furthermore, since the human population in the nine fallen minor worlds is now extremely scarce, after discussion, the Di Xuan Realm high command decided to simply destroy the spirit veins and extract their sources.

It can be foreseen that after this long war ends, these nine minor worlds will be unable to generate spiritual energy again for a short time.

Seeing the final message from Bai Zichun, a flash of light appeared in Ye Qingxuan's eyes. He replied gratefully: "Disciple Ye Qingxuan thanks the Manager for the guidance."

If he could obtain enough spirit vein sources and directly integrate them into the Qing Xuan Blessed Land, it would undoubtedly greatly accelerate the growth of the Qing Xuan Blessed Land.

Previously, Ye Qingxuan had not planned to use such a method to upgrade his Blessed Land, mainly because there was no source of spirit vein sources without consequences.

As for secretly excavating spirit veins in the Di Xuan Realm to upgrade his Blessed Land? Let's just say, do not treat the world's rules as fools.

Worlds of the Medium World level, although they have not yet condensed a Heavenly Dao, already possess perfect world rules.

You destroy the world for your own selfish desires, excavate the world's spirit veins, and upgrade your Blessed Land? In the later stages, while others cultivating Blessed Lands can avoid thunder tribulations upon breakthrough, your cultivation of a Blessed Land might result in a heavenly punishment with a ten-deaths-no-survival rate upon breakthrough. Moreover, before a Blessed Land detaches from the world, it is equivalent to an appendix of the world.

The world's management authority over Blessed Lands is no worse than yours.

So, setting aside the rules established by the various hegemonic powers, excavating spirit veins to upgrade a Blessed Land would lead to pursuit and killing by those hegemonic powers.

Just the barrier of world rules alone, you cannot pass.

After causing destructive damage to the world, you still want to breakthrough smoothly and ascend with your Blessed Land? Stop dreaming.

Even now, the primordial source generated daily by Ye Qingxuan's Qing Xuan Blessed Land from absorbing chaotic energy is passively taken a share by the Di Xuan Realm.

This is equivalent to a protection fee collected by the Di Xuan Realm; otherwise, why would the Blessed Land receive the Di Xuan Realm's protection? Why would Ye Qingxuan be exempt from thunder tribulations? In the end, if Ye Qingxuan dies, control of the Blessed Land will be completely received by the world it resides in, becoming the foundation of that world.

And if Ye Qingxuan reaches the end and wants to ascend with his Blessed Land, he must find a way to repay a karmic debt to the Di Xuan Realm.

Unless your strength far exceeds that of the world, on what grounds do you destroy a world with perfect rules and still successfully ascend and transcend? Do you really think the world will wait until you are strong enough before counterattacking and erasing you? Therefore, now that he can possess legal spirit vein sources to openly upgrade his Qing Xuan Blessed Land, Ye Qingxuan was extremely excited.

After ending the exchange with Bai Zichun, Ye Qingxuan immediately sent a message to Zhu Dafu: "Zhu Dafu, from today, the Tianfu Shop will purchase Pure Spirit Trees of all tiers in large quantities."

After receiving Ye Qingxuan's message, although Zhu Dafu did not yet know the reason, he never questioned Ye Qingxuan's affairs.

So after replying to Ye Qingxuan, Zhu Dafu simply carried out the order.

Ye Qingxuan did not expect the Tianfu Shop to actually purchase many Pure Spirit Trees.

Because once the news spread, Pure Spirit Trees would become hot commodities and could not be easily purchased.

He asked Zhu Dafu to purchase Pure Spirit Trees mainly to provide a reasonable explanation for the source of the numerous Pure Spirit Trees in his Qing Xuan Blessed Land.

After all, his Tianfu Shop did not care about the source of the goods purchased; later, taking the Pure Spirit Trees from his Blessed Land to the Tianfu Shop for a round would make it perfectly reasonable.

Spirit-Collecting Grass, Spirit-Purifying Trees, and Earth-Spirit Flowers—these three spiritual plants, greatly beneficial to grotto-heavens and blessed lands, Ye Qingxuan had always cultivated, and on a considerable scale.

Now, within Ye Qingxuan's blessed land, there were no first-, second-, or third-grade Spirit-Purifying Trees, but nearly a thousand fourth-grade ones.

The reason there were no first-, second-, or third-grade Spirit-Purifying Trees was that after the previously planted ones advanced to the fourth grade, Ye Qingxuan ceased planting new ones.

However, now that the Di Xuan Realm Alliance had issued a mission to purchase Spirit-Purifying Trees, Ye Qingxuan prepared to begin large-scale cultivation of them.

Just as Ye Qingxuan decided to cultivate Spirit-Purifying Trees on a large scale,

within the Outer Battlefield,

the long-sealed gate of the Green Demon Realm suddenly opened, from which surged over a hundred Tribulation-Crossing and Mahayana-grade Green Demon clansmen.

These Green Demon clansmen intended to catch the Di Xuan Realm off guard, rashly igniting war in the Outer Battlefield.

They sought to use the aftermath of battles among high-grade cultivators to slaughter some mid-grade cultivators of the Di Xuan Realm who were training in the Outer Battlefield.

Yet what awaited the Green Demon clansmen was a terrifying great formation and a similarly numerous force of human cultivators at the Tribulation-Crossing and Mahayana realms.

After the disturbance in the Lower Realm appeared, how could the people of the Di Xuan Realm do nothing?

Previously, the Di Xuan Realm cultivators in the Outer Battlefield had long been secretly withdrawn by the realm's high command.

This time, they were prepared to teach the Green Demon Realm a lesson and regain some lost ground.

Upon meeting, neither side spoke a word; they simultaneously struck with ruthless ferocity.

That terrifying formation, under the barrage of over twenty Mahayana cultivators, managed to obliterate only a dozen Tribulation-Crossing Green Demon clansmen before collapsing completely.

Instantly, terrifying elemental mysteries and laws deep within the Outer Battlefield began to run rampant.

The battlefield gradually split apart, slowly expanding until it covered the entire Outer Battlefield.

Within the whole Outer Battlefield, only hundreds of Tribulation-Crossing and Mahayana cultivators remained locked in chaotic combat.

This battle raged so fiercely that heaven and earth grew dark, and even the entire Outer Battlefield began to tremble slightly.

All previously existing demonic beasts and creatures perished instantly amidst the battle's aftermath, and the entire Outer Battlefield was swept through by a terrifying energy tide.

Had the Outer Battlefield not fused the world sources of both the Di Xuan Realm and the Green Demon Realm, it would likely already have been shattered into pieces.

Moreover, both sides tacitly refrained from deploying magic treasures of the Immortal Artifact grade.

For once the power of an Immortal Artifact was unleashed, the resulting combat fluctuations would surely exceed the upper limit of the Mahayana realm.

A single Outer Battlefield could certainly not endure for long under collisions of power surpassing the Mahayana limit.

The shattering of the Outer Battlefield was something neither realm's high command was willing to see, even temporarily.

Thus, without intervention by Immortal Artifact-grade forces, this battle between high-grade cultivators of the two realms was destined to last quite some time.

(End of chapter)