Chapter 556: Bloody Secrets, Preparedness

Just as Shi Huang was in seclusion,

in the following days, various news about the grand finals of the Star Fall Continent Qi Refining Realm grand competition had begun to spread rapidly throughout Star Fall Continent.

Especially the ranking of the hundred strongest geniuses of this session in Star Fall Continent, although it had not yet spread to all parts of Star Fall Continent, it had already spread to all major county cities along with the return of the contestants.

For a time, the top three, Jun Moyan, Li Taibai, and Xiao Yuexian, suddenly became famous in Star Fall Continent.

While receiving praise from countless older generation powerhouses, they also harvested a large group of young teenagers who had not yet stepped onto the path of cultivation or had just stepped onto the path of cultivation.

Even Shi Huang, who came from a grassroots background and was ranked only twelfth, harvested quite a few fans.

It was just that Shi Huang, who was currently in seclusion, did not know about all this for the time being.

Shi Village.

At this time, the Shi Village chief was holding his Dongxuan Token, tears streaming down his face.

Although the news about the grand finals of the Star Fall Continent Qi Refining Realm grand competition had not yet reached Shi Village,

on the third day after the grand competition ended, which was today, Dongxuan City had already distributed the corresponding rewards to the major villages, towns, and cities.

And the rewards obtained by Shi Village were naturally distributed to the Dongxuan Token of the Shi Village chief.

The reward of two hundred thousand contribution points, and the information attached to it, had already let this white-haired old man know everything.

Looking at the two hundred thousand contribution points in the Dongxuan Token, the Shi Village chief sighed in his heart.

If he could have obtained resources worth two hundred thousand contribution points back then, how could his cultivation base have been stuck in the Qi Refining Realm? Wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes, the Shi Village chief hesitated for a moment, finally shook his head slowly, and said softly:

"Forget it, of these two hundred thousand contribution points, keep thirty thousand to cultivate the future new-generation cultivators of Shi Village, and leave the rest to Little Stone!"

He was already old, and his spirit was not as good as before.

Instead of wasting resources and continuing to stumble, it was better to leave the resources to the new generation of Shi Village and Shi Huang, to help them.

Time passed slowly, seven days later.

In the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi, Ye Qingxuan's four clones entangled with demonic evil energy had returned to the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi one after another.

The clones and Ye Qingxuan's main body were connected in heart.

Without needing Ye Qingxuan to say much, after the four clones returned to the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi, they each picked up a storage ring floating in the air, then dispersed to prepare for seclusion to improve their cultivation base.

A month later, four strong energy fluctuations were born in the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi one after another.

Once the cultivation base of the four clones was all raised to the pseudo-Void Meditation Realm, they left the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi again through the boundary gate of the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi.

Looking at the backs of the four clones leaving, Ye Qingxuan's eyes were deep, not knowing what he was thinking.

He did not have the qualifications to interfere with the overall situation between the two worlds for the time being, but this did not mean he could not lay out a secret move in advance for his own development, being prepared.

And this secret move was actually the wormhole channels opened by the Di Xuan Realm to connect to the Qingmo Realm.

Now the Star Fall Continent he controlled had lost the wormhole channel.

However, his Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi could condense a boundary gate, allowing the cultivators under his command to travel across regions, which could get rid of the development constraints of Star Fall Continent having no wormhole channel.

But if one day, the tacit understanding between the Di Xuan Realm and the Qingmo Realm broke, and they began to destroy the wormhole channels connecting the two worlds on a large scale.

To reduce the probability of the wormhole channels being discovered and destroyed by the Qingmo Realm, one could only reduce the cultivators transmitted through the wormhole channels and lower the influence of the wormhole channels on the Qingmo Realm side.

By then, coupled with the large-scale reduction in the number of wormhole channels,

the transmission of wormhole channels would highly likely be restricted, and the quota for going to the Qingmo Realm to hunt would inevitably be in short supply.

By then, the growth speed of the cultivators under Ye Qingxuan's command would likely drop significantly.

According to the situation of the Di Xuan Realm and the Qingmo Realm fighting to the death, the large-scale destruction of wormhole channels by both sides was a thing that was highly likely to happen.

After all, this unrestricted invasion by both sides would only cause large-scale casualties of mid- and low-order cultivators, and even secular clansmen, on both sides.

Since Ye Qingxuan's branch cities of Dongxuan City spread across all continents of the Eastern Extreme Region, Ye Qingxuan had a deep understanding of the situation.

Ye Qingxuan did not know the detailed situation of other major regions of the Di Xuan Realm.

But in the entire Eastern Extreme Region, since the appearance of wormhole channels, the mid- and high-order cultivators of the human race in the Eastern Extreme Region had increased, but the low-order cultivators of the human race had decreased by a full thirty percent or so.

This was still the rough data calculated under the situation where the number of human cultivators born in recent years was increasing day by day.

Among them, the total number of secular residents in the Eastern Extreme Region had decreased by fifty percent or so.

After all, in the early stages, not all continents in the Eastern Extreme Region were like Star Fall Continent, which had powerhouses like Ye Qingxuan sitting in town.

If it were not for the fact that in the last hundred years, Void Penetration Realm powerhouses had successively been born in the major continents of the Eastern Extreme Region, and Void Meditation Realm powerhouses had returned, which deterred the Qingmo race powerhouses invading the Qingmo Realm to a great extent,

I am afraid that the total number of secular residents in the Eastern Extreme Region would have shrunk by more than seventy percent.

The confrontation between the two worlds and the racial war were mutual killings with no way out and no bottom line.

The degree of bloodiness could be imagined.

Not to mention others, just Ye Qingxuan's many clones, hunting in the Qingmo Realm over the years, where they passed, was it not a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood? The reason why Star Fall Continent was calm and enjoyed rare peace

was nothing more than Ye Qingxuan's external incarnation sitting in Star Fall Continent, secretly suppressing and killing several invading Void Penetration Realm Qingmo race members, deterring other invading Qingmo race cultivators.

Even later, he directly took action to destroy the wormhole channel opened by the Qingmo Realm in Star Fall Continent, which led to the current stable situation.

Despite this, before Ye Qingxuan's cultivation base broke through to the Void Meditation Realm, the areas of Star Fall Continent far from Dongxuan City and other major forces were still washed in blood by the Qingmo race.

Otherwise, the number of secular residents in Star Fall Continent would be more than the current number! It would not have made the current Dongxuan City cultivators unable to gather enough secular residents needed to go out and build villages, towns, and cities, and they could only satisfy a part of the needs of Dongxuan City cultivators for the time being.

This bloody invasion process, although it also hit the other side, the large-scale casualties of one's own side were also not conducive to the long-term development of the world.

Therefore, once the true masters of the two worlds returned, this situation could absolutely not continue for long.

And there was no need to wait for those Mahayana Realm powerhouses of the Di Xuan Realm to return.

Even now, in the major continents of the Di Xuan Realm, powerhouses had already successively begun to search for and destroy the wormhole channels opened by the Qingmo Realm.

And in a tit-for-tat manner, the powerhouses on the Qingmo Realm side were also the same.

It was just that, because this behavior was temporarily only the private behavior of some powerhouses in the two worlds, it was still only spreading within a small range.

But this sign was already very obvious.

And Ye Qingxuan wanted to send four clones to the four outer regions of the Di Xuan Realm—the Eastern Extreme Region, Southern Manzhou, Western Wasteland, and Northern Li Region—before this, to occupy one wormhole channel opened by the Di Xuan Realm each. As long as his four clones each took one wormhole channel as the center to build a city and occupy the wormhole channel, temporarily not allowing other human cultivators to use these four wormhole channels.

This could avoid the exposure of these four wormhole channels at the entrance and exit on the Qingmo Realm side due to the traces of human cultivators' actions.

In this way, even if the Qingmo Realm side began to destroy the wormhole channels opened by the Di Xuan Realm on a large scale in the future,

he could also preserve and occupy four wormhole channels connecting to the Qingmo Realm in advance, as channels for the cultivators under his command to enter the Qingmo Realm to hunt and grow rapidly in the future.

However, although Ye Qingxuan wanted to occupy four wormhole channels in advance, he did not want to be enemies with too many powerhouses.

In the four outer regions of the Eastern Extreme Region, Southern Manzhou, Western Wasteland, and Northern Li Region, there were countless powerhouses in the major continents in the core and inner areas.

Even Ye Qingxuan, relying on a single ordinary clone, did not have the confidence to offend the cultivators of a continent in these major continents and forcibly occupy a wormhole channel.

But in the outer areas of the four outer regions of the Eastern Extreme Region, Southern Manzhou, Western Wasteland, and Northern Li Region, those border continents close to the Heavenly Abyss and sparsely populated, Ye Qingxuan could act recklessly.

This trip, besides the sixth-order array to stabilize the city, Ye Qingxuan's four clones did not carry too many things.

With Ye Qingxuan's current cultivation base, building a city no longer needed to be as troublesome as before.

With his understanding and application of the Earth Profound Meaning rules, he could make a giant city rise from the ground and take shape quickly with a single thought.

Therefore, this time Ye Qingxuan did not need to make a big fuss and let the cultivators of Dongxuan City refine a large number of city components.

As long as his four clones went to the Eastern Extreme Region, Southern Manzhou, Western Wasteland, and Northern Li Region and found a wormhole channel in the border continents of these four outer regions, the city would naturally be born out of thin air.

"Hum!"

At this moment, a special fluctuation sounded in front of him, which immediately attracted Ye Qingxuan's attention.

Coming back to his senses, Ye Qingxuan looked at the mini flying boat surrounded by two major rules and emitting verdant light in front of him, and smiled slightly:

"After refining for more than a hundred years, it's finally done."

The verdant flying boat in front of Ye Qingxuan was an eighth-order lower-grade flying boat he refined from the remains of an eighth-order Green Wood Ancient Tree, containing the Wood Rules and Life Rules of the Minor Accomplishment Realm.

"From now on, I'll call you Green Wood Flying Boat!"

As soon as the words fell, the verdant mini flying boat in front of Ye Qingxuan trembled slightly again.

"Hum!"

The Dao characters for "Green" and "Wood" were immediately branded into the core origin of this verdant flying boat.

The flying boat was a product of the combination of the artifact and array paths.

As an eighth-order lower-grade flying boat, the Green Wood Flying Boat was not only comparable to a mid-grade spirit treasure itself, but also had an eighth-order lower-grade array that integrated offense, defense, and assistance engraved on it.

After fully recovering, even without anyone to control it, it was enough to rival an ordinary early-stage Void Meditation Realm cultivator in a short time.

In terms of speed and defense alone, the Green Wood Flying Boat could even rival a mid-stage Void Meditation Realm cultivator.

With a wave of his hand, after putting the Green Wood Flying Boat into his spiritual power void realm to nourish it, Ye Qingxuan stood up lazily and stretched.

Sitting in the air for more than a hundred years, he was exhausted.

Although with his current cultivation realm, he would not feel tired.

Taking a step out, his figure disappeared.

When he appeared again, Ye Qingxuan had already arrived at the stone pavilion outside.

Taking out his dedicated rocking chair and tea set, Ye Qingxuan brewed tea while squinting his eyes and rocking on the rocking chair, looking very comfortable.

Three days later, Ye Qingxuan, who had just returned to the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi, was stunned for a moment.

With a flip of his palm, a scroll with flowing landscapes, faintly visible flowers, trees, birds, beasts, insects, and fish, emitting seven-colored light, floated in Ye Qingxuan's hand.

Looking at his natal magic treasure, World Scroll, a joyful smile appeared on Ye Qingxuan's face.

Ever since he used his natal magic treasure, World Scroll, to suppress the Gui Sect last time, the World Scroll had been placed in Ye Qingxuan's sea of consciousness, nourished day and night by his own rule origin.

After many years, his natal magic treasure, under the influence of his many Great Accomplishment Realm rule origins, finally took the lead in transforming to the level of a high-grade spirit treasure.

Although it was only a one-star high-grade spirit treasure, its power was not comparable to other mid-grade spirit treasures and Void Meditation Realm cultivators.

From this moment on, even without relying on the power of the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi, he finally had the power to contend with Tribulation Realm cultivators.

Just as Ye Qingxuan was looking at the World Scroll in his hand, four figures in the distance saw that Ye Qingxuan had come out of seclusion and flew towards Ye Qingxuan with great joy.

After arriving not far from Ye Qingxuan, the four of them suppressed the excitement in their hearts and bowed in unison:

"Zhaoheng (Zhaoyu) (Yun'er) (Cai'er) pays respects to Young Master, congratulations to Young Master for successfully coming out of seclusion!"

Seeing Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, and Liu Cai'er, Ye Qingxuan suddenly remembered something and coughed slightly awkwardly:

"Cough, get up! No need for formalities."

Hearing Ye Qingxuan's words, the four of them straightened their backs again, among whom Liu Cai'er looked at Ye Qingxuan pitifully:

"Young Master, why did you only come out of seclusion now? Did you forget about us?"

Not only Liu Cai'er, but even Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, and Liu Yun'er were staring at Ye Qingxuan with eager eyes.

At the beginning, Ye Qingxuan had promised that once Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu's cultivation base reached the peak of the Deity Transformation Realm, he would send them to the Qingmo Realm to temper themselves and seek the opportunity to break through to the Void Penetration Realm.

And once Liu Yun'er and Liu Cai'er's cultivation base broke through to the Deity Transformation Realm, they could extend the time permission to enter and exit the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi at will.

With the help of the Qingmo race corpses provided by Ye Qingxuan, the four of them met Ye Qingxuan's requirements a hundred years ago.

But when they came out of seclusion to find Ye Qingxuan, they found that Ye Qingxuan had already entered seclusion.

In order not to disturb Ye Qingxuan's seclusion, the four of them could only wait in the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi.

Without Ye Qingxuan's order, although Ye Zhaoheng and Ye Zhaoyu had the permission to enter and exit the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi at any time, they did not dare to leave the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi for too long and go to the Qingmo Realm to temper themselves without authorization.

It was just that Ye Zhaoheng, Ye Zhaoyu, Liu Yun'er, and Liu Cai'er did not expect that Ye Qingxuan's seclusion would last for more than a hundred years.

Now, even Liu Yun'er and Liu Cai'er's cultivation base had been raised to the peak of the Deity Transformation Realm with the help of a large amount of cultivation resources.

Fortunately, Ye Qingxuan, who had kept them waiting for a long time, had finally come out of seclusion.

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