Chapter 542

Hearing Li Mu's words.

The many Void Penetration Realm powerhouses who had come to attend the auction wanted to refuse, but hindered by Dongxuan City's strength, not a single person dared to be the first to speak.

However, with gloomy expressions, more than a dozen Void Penetration Realm powerhouses inadvertently released their terrifying auras, which spread toward Li Mu in unison.

They attempted to use this method to secretly refute Dongxuan City's plan.

Even Xing Zejun and Xing Haokong, who knew that Ye Qingxuan was already a Void Meditation Realm powerhouse, wore embarrassed expressions; displeased, they also released their auras, attempting to lock onto Li Mu and apply pressure.

That's right, they had shifted their development focus out of Star Fall Continent, but that did not mean they were willing to abandon the territory they had inherited for so long within Star Fall Continent.

This included Liu Long of the Feiyu Sect, Cheng Yuan of the Huangji Sect, and Nan Yu Wentian of Nan Yu City; none of them had the intention of giving up their own territory in Star Fall Continent.

Furthermore, the strongest person in Dongxuan City, the City Lord, had not even shown his face. To think that a mere Deity Transformation Realm Li Mu could make them give up their territory in Star Fall Continent with just a few words—how could that be possible?

On the auction stage, Li Mu, who had originally been smiling, felt the dozen or so Void Penetration Realm auras sweeping toward him, and his face instantly turned pale.

When it came down to it, he was currently just a mere Deity Transformation Realm cultivator; he was fundamentally powerless to face the auras of more than a dozen Void Penetration Realm powerhouses.

And just as these dozen or so Void Penetration auras were about to reach Li Mu.

Bai Shuqing and Xue Yu, who had been standing silently behind Li Mu, stepped forward in unison, erupting with their own auras to block the auras released by the dozen or so Void Penetration Realm powerhouses for Li Mu.

"Hum!" "Hum!" "Hum!"

The clash between the Void Penetration auras stirred up layers of spatial ripples among the crowd, emitting light "humming" sounds.

However, the confrontation between the Void Penetration auras only lasted for a moment before everything returned to calm.

Although Bai Shuqing and Xue Yu were only two people, and the opposing side had a full dozen or so.

The auras released by the other Void Penetration Realm powerhouses were only released inadvertently; they did not dare to directly tear off the mask and severely injure Li Mu.

Therefore, blocking these dozen or so faint Void Penetration auras was not a difficult task for Bai Shuqing and Xue Yu.

After neutralizing the dozen or so Void Penetration auras, Bai Shuqing's expression sank, and he said:

"What? Do you all want to go to war with our Dongxuan City?"

Hearing this, the expressions of many Void Penetration Realm powerhouses, including Liu Long and Cheng Yuan, changed slightly, and finally, they all cast their gazes toward Xing Haokong, who had a Void Penetration Realm late-stage cultivation base.

Clearly, these Void Penetration Realm powerhouses were pinning their hopes on Xing Haokong, who had the highest cultivation base.

As long as Xing Haokong was willing to step forward, they could advance and retreat together to reject Dongxuan City's acquisition plan.

However, after sensing the gazes of the dozen or so Void Penetration Realm powerhouses, Xing Haokong felt somewhat caught in a dilemma.

He was different from the other Void Penetration Realm powerhouses in Star Fall Continent.

Although they had heard that Dongxuan City had annihilated the Gui Sect, because these forces had not chosen to go to the Eastern Extreme Province to develop, they did not know exactly how strong the Gui Sect annihilated by Dongxuan City had been.

They knew the Dongxuan City Lord's strength was unfathomable, but most of them were only early-stage Void Penetration Realm powerhouses; when Ye Qingxuan had stepped in to suppress Xue Yu of the Gui Sect not long ago, they had not noticed that Ye Qingxuan had erupted with Void Meditation Realm aura.

But Star Fall City, which had already moved into the Eastern Extreme Province to develop, knew of the Gui Sect's strength; Xing Haokong, whose cultivation had long since reached the late Void Penetration Realm, knew even better that Ye Qingxuan's cultivation had already reached the Void Meditation Realm.

Therefore, faced with Dongxuan City's acquisition plan, and even the fact that Dongxuan City was directly confiscating their Star Fall City territory, Xing Haokong did not have the guts to act as this "first bird."

But to make Xing Haokong admit defeat in front of so many people and hand over Star Fall City's territory on a silver platter, he could not let go of his pride.

Just as Xing Haokong was caught in this dilemma.

At the peak of Mount Wanling, Ye Qingxuan, who had been watching the auction, shook his head slightly.

"Since you are not sensible, then I will give you a little pressure."

Faced with a group of Void Penetration Realm cultivators, Ye Qingxuan did not want to tangle with them any longer.

As he spoke, Ye Qingxuan took out his natal magic treasure, the World Map, and tossed it out.

The next second, inside the "Dongxuan Dongxuan Fudi" where the seventh-order auction was being held, Ye Qingxuan's natal magic treasure, the World Map, suddenly tore through the air and appeared above the "Dongxuan Dongxuan Fudi," emitting waves of pressure.

"Boom!"

One could see mountains, rivers, birds, beasts, insects, fish, flowers, grass, and trees appearing and disappearing on the "World Map," emitting a faint seven-colored light as brilliant light flowed across it.

The terrifying pressure it emitted stirred up layers of progressive spatial ripples downward, suppressing the Void Penetration Realm powerhouses in the venue.

Seeing the suddenly appearing World Map, Bai Shuqing, Xue Yu, and Li Mu were overjoyed; they knew their City Lord, Ye Qingxuan, had personally intervened.

As for the other Void Penetration Realm powerhouses in the venue, looking at the suddenly appearing "World Map" and sensing the terrifying pressure suppressing them, they all panicked and said: "This... what is this?"

"Such strong pressure! This power has probably already exceeded the level of the Void Penetration Realm, right? But how is this possible?"

"Damn it, to suppress so many of us Void Penetration Realm powerhouses with just one magic treasure?"

"This... how is this possible? Hasn't Dongxuan City only been developing in Star Fall Continent for less than a thousand years? How could it possess power that exceeds the Void Penetration Realm?"

"Hoo!"

Xing Haokong took a deep breath. Upon seeing the "World Map," he already knew that Ye Qingxuan had intervened in all of this.

In the face of absolute strength, some persistence was insignificant, so... "I, Xing Haokong, on behalf of Star Fall City, accept Dongxuan City's suggestion."

It was just the foundation of Star Fall City in Star Fall Continent for tens of thousands of years, wasn't it? Anyway, Star Fall City's development focus was no longer in Star Fall Continent; if the foundation in Star Fall Continent was abandoned, then so be it. It was no big deal.

Abandoning the foundation in Star Fall Continent and dragging Dongxuan City's power into Star Fall Continent might actually be a good thing.

Once his Star Fall City rose in the Eastern Extreme Province, he could just take it back.

After finding a suitable excuse for himself, Xing Haokong, who had originally been somewhat embarrassed, felt much more at ease.

And the other Void Penetration Realm powerhouses, seeing that Xing Haokong, who was in the late Void Penetration Realm, had already yielded, looked up at the "World Map" suspended above their heads and also spoke one after another, agreeing to the acquisition plan proposed by Dongxuan City:

"My Feiyu Sect agrees to Dongxuan City's acquisition plan!"

"My Nan Yu City agrees to Dongxuan City's acquisition plan!"

"My Huangji Sect seconds the motion!"

"The Yinming Sect agrees!"

For a time, the many Void Penetration Realm powerhouses who had originally been hesitant finally chose to bow their heads under the might of Ye Qingxuan's natal magic treasure, the World Map.

And after everyone yielded, the World Map suspended above their heads immediately retracted its light and tore through the air, departing. At this moment, a smile finally reappeared on Li Mu's face, and he said with a chuckle:

"Everyone, please come up to the stage to sign the transfer contract."

After finishing, Li Mu took out the transfer contracts that had already been prepared and suspended them above the auction stage.

Seeing this, the many Void Penetration Realm powerhouses who had already resigned themselves to their fate no longer made any futile struggles and went up to the stage one after another to sign the transfer contracts for their respective force's bases and territories.

However, while signing the contracts, many Void Penetration Realm powerhouses were gritting their teeth and glaring fiercely at the smiling Li Mu.

Not long after, the many Void Penetration Realm powerhouses who had signed the transfer contracts left Dongxuan City at an extremely fast speed; they were afraid of causing any other trouble while in Dongxuan City.

These Void Penetration Realm powerhouses had already made up their minds: upon returning, they would immediately harvest all the resources that could be collected in their territory and take the cultivators who had been left behind in Star Fall Continent to migrate to the bases already established in other great provinces.

From now on, unless necessary, they never wanted to set foot in this Star Fall Continent again.

On the "Dongxuan Dongxuan Fudi" auction stage.

After all the Void Penetration Realm powerhouses had signed the transfer contracts and left, Xue Yu looked at Li Mu, frowned, and reminded him:

"Li Mu, you have offended so many Void Penetration Realm powerhouses this time; you should be careful when traveling outside in the future."

He and Li Mu had started following Ye Qingxuan early on, and the relationship between the two was quite good, so Xue Yu did not want to see anything happen to Li Mu.

Hearing Xue Yu's reminder, Li Mu put away the transfer contracts but said without the slightest worry:

"No matter, after this acquisition plan is over, I plan to head to the Southern Manzhou region to train and seek an opportunity to break through to the Void Penetration Realm."

"Before breaking through to the Void Penetration Realm, I will most likely not have any interaction with these Void Penetration Realm powerhouses."

Hearing this, Xue Yu and Bai Shuqing, who was to the side, could not help but nod.

After this auction ended, the two of them were also about to leave Star Fall Continent and head to other great regions of the Di Xuan Realm to train, in the hope of quickly improving their cultivation bases.

Moreover, if they wanted to obtain Dongxuan City's contribution points, besides completing various tasks for Dongxuan City, they could also use various resources from the Qingmo Realm to exchange for them.

After breaking through to the Void Penetration Realm, their demand for contribution points also rose significantly; especially after Ye Qingxuan enriched their exchange list, their shortage of contribution points became even greater.

Now it was time to start re-entering the Qingmo Realm to hunt.

Thinking of this, Bai Shuqing and Xue Yu no longer delayed and took Li Mu to Mount Wanling to find Ye Qingxuan to submit the task for this auction and hand over the auction proceeds to Ye Qingxuan.

After each of them received a generous reward of contribution points.

The three of them, under Ye Qingxuan's gaze, stepped into the boundary gate leading to the Qingxuan Cave Heaven and officially left Star Fall Dongxuan City.

Up to this point, now in the entire Star Fall Dongxuan City, except for Ye Qingxuan.

Only some low-order cultivators remained in the city, cultivating in seclusion while learning various cultivation knowledge in the various Dongxuan Academies.

After Bai Shuqing, Xue Yu, and Li Mu left.

Ye Qingxuan took out all the Qingmo Realm resources obtained from this auction and invested them all into the purification array of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven.

Using a violent purification method, he forcibly converted all these Qingmo Realm resources into source energy for the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi to absorb.

With the supply of this batch of resources, the source accumulation of the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi would inevitably advance by leaps and bounds in the future.

However, although the Qingmo Realm resources that the Dongxuan City auction had scraped from the various forces in Star Fall Continent this time were resources these forces had accumulated for over a hundred years.

These resources were of too low a grade; most were low-order resources, only a small portion were mid-order resources, and high-order resources were even more scarce.

Added to the fact that the current Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi was already at the mid-seventh order, the source required to accumulate for the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi to promote from mid-seventh order to late-seventh order was extremely vast.

Relying solely on the resources obtained from this auction, it was likely far from enough.

However, Ye Qingxuan was not worried about the problem of insufficient resources.

Now, the branch cities of Dongxuan City in various provinces of the Eastern Extreme Region had been gradually established and were beginning to develop slowly.

With cultivators under Dongxuan City scraping resources for him in the Qingmo Realm, and Ye Qingxuan being able to purchase Qingmo Realm resources throughout the Eastern Extreme Region through various branch cities in the future.

Plus the Void Penetration clones he had hunting in the Qingmo Realm, which could scrape a large amount of Qingmo Realm resources every year.

All of this was enough to continuously supply the Qingxuan Cave Heaven Dongxuan Fudi with sufficient resources, allowing it to accelerate its growth speed and shorten the time for promotion.

After investing all the Qingmo Realm resources obtained from this auction into the purification array.

Ye Qingxuan had no intention of counting the Supreme Grade spirit stones obtained from this auction; after casually piling these Supreme Grade spirit stones in a valley in the Qingxuan Cave Heaven, this external incarnation of Ye Qingxuan left the Qingxuan Cave Heaven again.

Next, it was time to wait for the various forces in Star Fall Continent to move away.

He would integrate more seventh-order array bases to expand the coverage of Dongxuan City's seventh-order Star Dou Array to the entire Star Fall Continent, bringing the entire Star Fall Continent under the control of Dongxuan City.

However, to realize this plan, quite a few seventh-order array bases were still needed.

But for Ye Qingxuan, this was not a difficult task; he didn't even need to disturb his main body.

Refining seventh-order array bases was much easier than refining a complete seventh-order array map.

Over the years, this external incarnation of Ye Qingxuan had had nothing to do on Mount Wanling and had refined quite a few blank seventh-order array bases that had not yet been imprinted with array patterns.

Now, he only needed to imprint these blank seventh-order array bases with seventh-order array patterns that matched the seventh-order Star Dou Array, and they could be integrated into the seventh-order Star Dou Array to expand its coverage.

After returning to Dongxuan City.

Ye Qingxuan began to take out the blank seventh-order array bases he had refined earlier and imprint them with the seventh-order array patterns that matched the seventh-order Star Dou Array.

As time slowly passed, one seventh-order array base after another, filled with starlight array patterns, was gradually perfected.

Three months later, Ye Qingxuan suddenly paused for a moment and muttered to himself: "Have they all left?"

After an interval of three months, the many Star Fall Continent forces that had signed the transfer contracts had finally all moved out of Star Fall Continent.

Added to the fact that after the wormhole passages in Star Fall Continent were destroyed, those forces below the Void Penetration level did not have the ability to occupy bases in two great provinces at the same time; for the sake of development, these forces had already moved out of Star Fall Continent before this.

So from now on, in the entire Star Fall Continent, besides Dongxuan City, only some medium and small cities presided over by cultivators below the Nascent Soul Realm remained, and no other forces existed.

(End of chapter)