Chapter 461: Relocating Huangfeng City, The Ban

Huangfeng City.

At this moment, over a hundred cultivators stood on the city walls of Huangfeng City, waiting with great seriousness.

After seeing a figure flying at extreme speed from the distance.

The cultivators' eyes all lit up; they flew forward together and said:

"We welcome the arrival of the Lord of Dongxuan City!"

The newcomer was none other than Ye Qingxuan's external manifestation, the Lord of Xingluo·Dongxuan City.

Ever since Ye Qingxuan's external manifestation publicly suppressed the Zhenbao Pavilion and Xingluo City back then.

The cultivators within Xingluo State had all formed a very deep impression of this external manifestation of Ye Qingxuan.

Even those who had never met Ye Qingxuan face-to-face knew the appearance of this external manifestation.

This was the reason why the cultivators of Huangfeng City recognized Ye Qingxuan immediately upon his arrival.

Arriving above Huangfeng City, Ye Qingxuan stood suspended in mid-air.

Looking at the over hundred cultivators before him, Ye Qingxuan understood the situation.

It seemed that when Huangfeng Daoist signed the contract to merge Huangfeng City into Dongxuan City, everything had already been arranged.

Otherwise, the cultivators of Huangfeng City would not have been waiting here to welcome him in advance.

Nodding slightly, Ye Qingxuan asked in a somewhat casual tone:

"Are you the only cultivators remaining in Huangfeng City now?"

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's question.

Among the over hundred cultivators of Huangfeng City, a Nascent Soul realm early-stage cultivator at the head stepped forward and respectfully replied:

"Replying to the Lord of Dongxuan City, Huangfeng City currently has only us cultivators left."

These over hundred cultivators were trusted confidants specially selected by Huangfeng Daoist, the Lord of Huangfeng City, from his original thousands of subordinates.

Apart from this.

The other cultivators of Huangfeng City had long been dismissed by Huangfeng Daoist.

Because, once Huangfeng City merged into Dongxuan City and lost its sources of income.

Huangfeng Daoist could no longer support too many cultivators.

Therefore, Huangfeng Daoist could only painfully dismiss the remaining cultivators.

As for those dismissed cultivators, the vast majority had already gone to Dongxuan City earlier to seek their livelihood.

However, among those cultivators who went to Dongxuan City, very few actually chose to join the ranks of Dongxuan City.

Regarding this, Ye Qingxuan did not care.

Given the current might of Dongxuan City, ordinary cultivators were no longer worth Dongxuan City specifically recruiting.

Three years ago, he had already established a rule.

Henceforth, cultivators wishing to join Dongxuan City must, according to their cultivation base, serve Dongxuan City without pay for different lengths of time.

During this period, they must first complete three assessment tasks of different levels in sequence.

Only after reaching the required service period, passing the three assessment tasks, and making certain contributions to Dongxuan City.

Could a cultivator truly join Dongxuan City and become an outer member of Dongxuan City.

This was the reason why so many cultivators gathered in Dongxuan City, yet very few chose to join Dongxuan City.

It was not that they did not want to join Dongxuan City directly.

Rather, Dongxuan City had now raised the threshold, making the conditions for joining Dongxuan City too harsh.

Compared to some cultivators whose talent and combat power were quite ordinary.

Ye Qingxuan preferred to accept commoners and then cultivate cultivators loyal to himself from a young age through the Dongxuan Academy.

Currently, most of the core members of Dongxuan City who had sworn a Dao oath were cultivators who had graduated from the Dongxuan Academy.

As long as the base of commoners was large enough, he would never lack cultivators loyal to death in his ranks in the future.

Extending his spiritual sense, Ye Qingxuan counted the commoner residents within Huangfeng City.

Not many, only a mere thirty million.

With a wave of his hand, an ancient bell with a slightly weathered appearance flew out before Ye Qingxuan.

This was the Lower-grade Magic Treasure, the Zhen Tian Bell.

Since the other Lower-grade Magic Treasure, the Xingchen Hall, was needed to maintain the Seventh-Grade Star Array of Dongxuan City and guard Dongxuan City.

Ye Qingxuan could only bring the Zhen Tian Bell this time.

Under Ye Qingxuan's activation.

The Lower-grade Magic Treasure, the Zhen Tian Bell, quickly flew to the sky above Huangfeng City and then expanded at an extremely fast speed.

"Dong!"

Accompanied by the sound of the bell, the power of the Zhen Tian Bell instantly covered the entire Huangfeng City.

Then, as Ye Qingxuan spoke a low command:

"Seize!"

The entire Huangfeng City was instantly taken into the Zhen Tian Bell by Ye Qingxuan.

After taking in the entire Huangfeng City.

Ye Qingxuan waved his hand, and the Zhen Tian Bell instantly fell into his palm, slowly rotating and floating there.

"This?"

Seeing this scene, the over hundred cultivators nearby were immediately stunned.

Such a huge city was just taken away like that?

With their cultivation and knowledge, their understanding of Void Shattering realm experts was still too limited.

Many cultivators couldn't help but suck in a sharp breath, thinking in shock:

"Hiss! Is a Cave Void realm expert truly this terrifying?"

Ye Qingxuan paid no attention to the crowd's reaction.

After finishing all this,

he clasped one hand behind his back, held the bell in the other, looked at the hundred-plus cultivators beside him who were lost in shock, and asked:

"Will you follow this seat to Dongxuan City, or make your own arrangements?"

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words,

the group of cultivators snapped out of their shock, their faces instantly lighting up with joy.

The Nascent Soul realm cultivator at the head stepped forward, beaming, and said:

"We are willing to follow the Lord of Dongxuan City to Dongxuan City. This time, we trouble the Lord of Dongxuan City!"

It must be known that since Dongxuan City was relocated to the former Water Marsh Kingdom,

the distance between Huangfeng City and Dongxuan City has increased significantly.

In the past, it would have been fine.

Although the distance was far, flying there on their own wouldn't have posed too great a danger.

But now it is different; the Di Xuan Realm is suffering an invasion by the Green Demon Realm.

If they flew there on their own and happened to encounter a Soul Transformation realm Green Demon, they might be wiped out completely.

Although the Xingluo Region is vast, the probability of them being unlucky enough to meet a Soul Transformation realm Green Demon is not high.

But if they can avoid it, why take such a risk?

Hearing the choice of the hundred-plus cultivators from Huangfeng City, Ye Qingxuan was not surprised.

He simply waved his hand, taking all of them into the Zhen Tian Bell.

Afterwards, Ye Qingxuan stood in mid-air.

Brilliant light swirled in his twin eyes as he gazed at a fifth-rank spirit vein deep beneath the original site of Huangfeng City, a restless thought stirring in his heart.

Previously, when he relocated the other major cities,

he had not touched the spirit veins beneath the ground of their original sites.

At this moment, the high-ranking members of the Di Xuan Realm Alliance were still fighting the experts of the Green Demon Realm in the void.

Because the wormhole passage appeared suddenly,

the ban on destroying spirit veins in the Di Xuan Realm had not yet been lifted.

After many factions in the Di Xuan Realm relocated,

due to the existence of this ban, they still dared not destroy the spirit veins themselves to extract the spirit vein cores.

This ban was established based on the original laws of heaven and earth governing the Di Xuan Realm.

Once violated, one would not only face a siege by the numerous hegemon-level factions of the Di Xuan Realm but also suffer suppression from the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm.

Although it would not trigger thunder tribulation, causing immediate death and the dissolution of the Dao,

once marked by the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm,

cultivation within the Di Xuan Realm would henceforth yield half the results for double the effort, and the difficulty of crossing tribulations would increase greatly.

Therefore, as long as this ban remains in place for one day,

the numerous factions of the Di Xuan Realm basically will not risk being the first to violate the ban and destroy a spirit vein, becoming the one to stick their head out.

But leaving the spirit stones and the source of the spirit vein within these veins unmined,

Ye Qingxuan felt he was losing out greatly.

In Ye Qingxuan's view,

once the wormhole passage appeared and the Green Demon Clan could directly enter the interior of the Di Xuan Realm,

this ban had already become a mix of pros and cons, or even more harmful than beneficial.

Just like now, Huangfeng City had clearly relocated.

But due to the existence of the ban, the spirit vein of Huangfeng City could not have its core extracted to be relocated.

Given the current situation,

without Huangfeng City to guard it, leaving the spirit vein in its original place was no different from giving it away to the Green Demon Clan.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan pondered for a long time.

However, after deep contemplation, Ye Qingxuan finally slowly shook his head and said:

"Let it be!"

With the ban of the Di Xuan Realm still in effect, he did not want to be the first to break it.

Moreover, he did not want to create a karmic bond with the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm over a mere fifth-rank spirit vein source.

Even if this karmic bond was extremely small.

The laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm possessed no intelligence and could not weigh pros and cons like a cultivator.

Once the operating laws of heaven and earth were set, they would not change easily.

Therefore, even if the hegemon-level factions of the Di Xuan Realm did not hunt him down after he violated the ban,

he would still be marked by the laws of heaven and earth of the Di Xuan Realm and form a karmic bond with heaven and earth.

"Perhaps, if the ban continues to be maintained, it is not such a bad thing after all!"

Since matters had come to this, he could only look at the bright side.

Once the spirit vein core was extracted, it would inevitably destroy the original spirit vein.

Although the spirit vein core could nurture a new spirit vein elsewhere,

this process would consume a great deal of energy, destroy the energy channels of the spirit vein to the outside, and cause certain turmoil to the primordial source of the Di Xuan Realm.

Few instances matter little, but many would cause too great an impact on the Earthly Profound Realm.

This is why the ban was formed.

The Green Demon Clan invades, yet the Earthly Profound Realm remains the human race's home ground.

Most spirit veins can still be preserved under the guard of the human race's major powers.

But once the ban is lifted.

At that time, those who might excavate the source of the Earthly Profound Realm's spirit veins would not be limited to the Green Demon Clan.

For the sake of profit, Ye Qingxuan could not be certain whether some powers would.

Seize the chaos of the Earthly Profound Realm to seek gain, secretly attack other factions, and excavate the source of spirit veins to strengthen their own sect bases.

The human heart is the most unpredictable.

Not everyone will uphold the bottom line for the greater good.

With the ban in place, at least these powers can be deterred.

Unlike the Green Demon Clan.

The Green Demon Clan, being outsiders from beyond the realm, have life essences that do not belong to the Earthly Profound Realm, and they are further shielded by the concealment of the Green Demon Realm.

After destroying spirit veins and excavating their sources.

The Green Demon Clan would not be immediately sensed by the dominant powers of the Earthly Profound Realm.

But human cultivators are born in the Earthly Profound Realm and raised in the Earthly Profound Realm.

Essentially, their entire lives are under the canopy of the Earthly Profound Realm's heavenly and earthly rules.

Once they destroy a spirit vein and violate the ban, they will be instantly marked by the heavenly and earthly rules.

At that time, the many dominant powers of the Earthly Profound Realm would instantly sense such fluctuations and hunt down those who violated the ban.

This is why this ban has been maintained to this day, preventing human cultivators from lightly crossing the line.

In fact, with his strength.

He could now split the earth and relocate entire landmasses without damaging the spirit veins.

Just as he once relocated Dongxuan City.

Unfortunately, the present differs from the past.

Now, the restraint of the heavenly and earthly rules has greatly increased, and his flight speed is already slow.

If he were to carry a vast landmass while flying back to Dongxuan City, the time consumed would be far too long.

Right now is the moment of the Green Demon Clan's invasion.

He does not wish to draw too much attention from the Green Demon Clan for just a few mid-tier spirit vein sources.

If a Green Demon of the Void Penetration Realm were drawn and took the opportunity to strike at him or Dongxuan City, it would be a loss far outweighing the gain.

Therefore, Ye Qingxuan currently has no intention of splitting the earth and carrying it forward.

All in all, a mere fifth-tier spirit vein source is not worth such an effort.

"However, although it cannot be excavated, it can serve as bait!"

As he spoke, the corners of Ye Qingxuan's mouth curled slightly.

Afterwards, Ye Qingxuan split off a wisp of spiritual sense and attached it to the heart of the spirit vein beneath the original site of Huangfeng City.

At that time, if any Green Demon Clan member excavates the heart of the spirit vein here.

He will sense it instantly.

Then, using the spiritual sense on the spirit vein heart as a location marker, he will track the Green Demon Clan members invading the Starfall Province.

At that time, hehehe.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan's heart stirred.

He did not rush back to Dongxuan City but instead fled in another direction.

The several cities he relocated earlier, due to the short time interval, should still have the spirit veins left behind.

Since he was setting bait anyway, he might as well set several this time.

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, a day had gone by.

A beam of rosy light cut across the sky, flying toward a certain direction.

During this day.

Ye Qingxuan traveled through various places, beneath the original sites of several relocated cities.

He split his spiritual sense and marked the sources of four spirit veins.

Now, he is heading to the best destination—the original site of Guhuang City.

Among the several cities, Guhuang City was the one merged into Dongxuan City and relocated the longest time ago.

Since the relocation of this city, a full two years and five months have passed.

During these two years and five months.

Gu Wuzhao, the city lord of Guhuang City, formed the Guhuang Demon-Hunting Army, which has thrived within Dongxuan City.

After shedding the burden of guarding the city.

Gu Wuzhao led his Guhuang Demon-Hunting Army across the Starfall Province to track and encircle the invading Green Demon Clan members.

Ultimately, relying on the gradually accumulated corpses of the Green Demon Clan he hunted.

Plus his own accumulation of nearly two thousand years.

He broke through the shackle of the Nascent Soul Realm in one stroke and entered the Soul Transformation Realm.

Now, after breaking through to the Soul Transformation Realm.

Gu Wuzhao has even led his Guhuang Demon-Hunting Army through the wormhole channels opened by the Earthly Profound Realm to slaughter into the Green Demon Realm.

It was precisely because of the stimulation brought by Gu Wuzhao.

Many City Lords of Nascent Soul realm in Xingluozhou have thus chosen to merge their cities under the banners of the various Mahayana-level powers.

As for themselves, they led their trusted subordinates to operate independently, copying the model to form their own Demon-Hunting Armies to slaughter the Green Demon Clan.

In fact, the best choice for the numerous cities in Xingluozhou would be Dongxuan City.

However, many cities are too far from Dongxuan City.

Thus, they settled for the next best option, choosing to merge with the nearest Mahayana-level power.

(End of this chapter)