Chapter 574: Cen Zhe returns to the sect

Above the Li Xuan Tian Peak in the core area of the Profound Heaven Sect.

Cen Zhe quietly tore through space and suddenly appeared at the peak of Li Xuan Tian Peak.

After adjusting his breath on the journey, although the injuries in Cen Zhe's body had not yet improved, the rules that were originally uncontrollable and leaking outside his body had been successfully internalized.

Not long after Cen Zhe appeared at the peak of Li Xuan Tian Peak, a figure appeared not far from Cen Zhe.

"Senior Brother, so it was you who returned, hmm? You are injured?"

The person who came was one of the Supreme Elders of the Profound Heaven Sect, the Mahayana Realm powerhouse, Yao Qiudao.

Ever since Cen Zhe represented the Profound Heaven Sect and entered the void with many human powerhouses to fight the Qingmo Clan.

Of the two Mahayana Realm Supreme Elders of the Profound Heaven Sect, Yao Qiudao had been staying in the Profound Heaven Sect to sit in town, while Tong Tong Yanye was on rotation in the Di Li Xuan Realm Alliance.

As a Supreme Elder of the Profound Heaven Sect, Yao Qiudao knew Cen Zhe's strength and foundation very well, and furthermore, Cen Zhe had one of the Profound Heaven Sect's inherited immortal artifacts, the Li Xuan Tian Sword, to protect him on this trip.

So, upon sensing the several rules carrying erosion in Cen Zhe's body, Yao Qiudao was so shocked.

"Hehe, this battle lasted for nearly six hundred years, and the opponent was a top powerhouse of the Qingmo Clan, how could I not be injured?"

Looking at Yao Qiudao's figure, Cen Zhe smiled bitterly.

Recalling the six hundred years of life-and-death fighting with the Qingmo Clan powerhouse in the void, Cen Zhe's eyes couldn't help but reveal the scene of over a thousand Tribulation Crossing Realm and Mahayana Realm powerhouses fighting in the void, and he said heavily:

"The strength of the Qingmo Clan should not be underestimated. In this battle, we even had seven Mahayana Realm fellow Daoists fall."

"If it weren't for the fact that I had the immortal artifact, the Li Xuan Tian Sword, to protect me, I'm afraid that even I would have been in danger of falling into the void in this battle."

Hearing this, Yao Qiudao's face moved slightly.

"In just six hundred years, seven Mahayana Realm fellow Daoists actually died in battle?"

"Could it be that those fellow Daoists were sneak-attacked by the Qingmo Clan's immortal artifact and fell because of bad luck?"

Yao Qiudao's guess was not without basis.

After all, among the Mahayana Realm powerhouses who participated in this battle, some were Mahayana Realm powerhouses from pseudo-hegemon-level forces and Mahayana Realm rogue cultivators.

These Mahayana Realm powerhouses did not have immortal artifacts to protect them.

If they faced the revival blow of an immortal artifact, it was naturally very easy to have their rule source wiped out and their vitality thoroughly cut off, leading to their fall.

However, after hearing Yao Qiudao's inquiry, Cen Zhe sighed and shook his head to deny it:

"No, the Qingmo Clan's immortal artifacts were watched closely by the immortal artifacts of our Di Li Xuan Realm, so how could we give them the opportunity to sneak-attack the Mahayana Realm fellow Daoists on our side?"

"The Mahayana Realm fellow Daoists who fell were suppressed by the Qingmo Clan's Mahayana Realm powerhouses in the battlefield, and were eroded and wiped out by the Qingmo Clan powerhouses' rule power and the chaotic rules rampant in the battlefield, and thus unfortunately fell."

A battlefield of over a thousand Tribulation Crossing Realm and Mahayana Realm powerhouses.

After being entangled for hundreds of years, the degree of chaos and danger of the various rule powers raging within it could be imagined.

Even now that the battle has ended, that void is still a scene of various rules clashing and moving.

If powerhouses below the Tribulation Crossing Realm were to fall into it carelessly, I'm afraid it would be ten deaths and no life.

"This..."

Hearing Cen Zhe's explanation, Yao Qiudao felt speechless.

He knew that fighting the Qingmo Clan was full of danger, but he didn't expect it to be this tragic.

You know, Mahayana Realm cultivators are already the peak powerhouses below the Immortal Realm.

Once one steps into the Mahayana Realm, it represents a perfection in three aspects: rules, spiritual power, and body, and before breaking through to the Immortal Realm, the cultivation base is already at a level where there is no further progress.

In a situation where cultivation cannot be broken through, Mahayana Realm powerhouses who want to continue to enhance their combat power can only continue to comprehend other rules and bring the second and third rules to the level of perfection.

However, comprehending more rules to the level of perfection only expands the width of the Mahayana Realm powerhouse's cultivation base, but cannot raise the upper limit of the Mahayana Realm powerhouse's cultivation base.

In this way, naturally, it cannot bring about a substantial transformation in the combat power of Mahayana Realm powerhouses.

Therefore, for every additional rule comprehended to the level of perfection, the combat power of a Mahayana Realm powerhouse will at most have a small upward float.

In this situation, wanting to suppress a Mahayana Realm powerhouse protected by a rule at the level of perfection and thoroughly wipe out the Mahayana Realm powerhouse's vitality.

Even for a Mahayana Realm powerhouse who has comprehended multiple perfect rules, the fastest it will take is a thousand years.

After all, even if it is a rule at the level of perfection, even if you have a large quantity, it cannot produce a qualitative change and cannot play a decisive victory; you can only rely on the long years to slowly wipe out the other party's rule source at the level of perfection before there is hope of thoroughly killing the other party.

If it is a life-and-death battle between Mahayana Realm cultivators who have only comprehended one perfect rule.

Without relying on external forces, it even takes more than three thousand years to have hope of wiping out the rule source in the other party's body and thoroughly killing the other party.

In the past years, for the sake of stability in the Di Li Xuan Realm, major hegemon-level forces rarely took action.

With hegemon-level forces not taking action and no one using immortal artifacts.

Even if disputes between Mahayana Realm cultivators occasionally broke out, very few Mahayana Realm powerhouses died in the internal fighting of the Di Li Xuan Realm.

This is also the reason why the cultivation world of the Di Li Xuan Realm can become more and more prosperous.

After all, only when the base of Mahayana Realm cultivators increases will the number of powerhouses who ascend increase.

Only when the number of powerhouses who ascend increases will the energy, rules, and even law fragments fed back by the upper realm when the Di Li Xuan Realm powerhouses ascend increase.

One after another, coupled with the fact that the interior of the Di Li Xuan Realm is very stable under the suppression of major hegemon-level forces and has not suffered too much damage.

The Di Li Xuan Realm will naturally become stronger and stronger as time passes.

The stronger the Di Li Xuan Realm, the more cultivators will naturally be born, and the easier it will be for cultivators to improve their cultivation.

Over a long period of time, it fell into a virtuous cycle.

This is also the main reason why the Di Li Xuan Realm did not lose the battle after encountering the invasion of the Qingmo Realm, but instead vaguely had the position of promoting to a Great Thousand World in the process of confronting the Qingmo Realm.

The Di Li Xuan Realm's ability to have the foundation to promote to a Great Thousand World among the countless Small Thousand Worlds in the Myriad Worlds is the result of the joint efforts of successive hegemon-level forces in the Di Li Xuan Realm, and the result of the virtuous cycle and continuous accumulation and strengthening of the Di Li Xuan Realm for tens of millions of years.

Why are there so many hegemon-level forces in the Di Li Xuan Realm?

Why don't major hegemon-level forces occupy more territory? In the case of having teleportation arrays, is it that they don't have the strength to occupy more territory? All of this has reasons.

The Dao of Immortality is not just about plundering and greed.

Sometimes giving up a part of the benefits and leaving enough space to give some hope to the lower-level cultivators and forces with ambition will make the situation better.

Therefore, for the disputes between major forces outside their own sphere of influence.

As long as they follow the principle that the disputes of high-order cultivators are resolved in the void and do not affect or destroy the environment of the entire Di Li Xuan Realm, the many hegemon-level forces in the Di Li Xuan Realm basically will not interfere.

Even if there are forces rising all the way in the process of fighting and growing to the level of hegemon-level forces.

Under the general trend already set by the predecessors of the Di Li Xuan Realm, a mere hegemon-level force cannot turn over any waves and can only obey the general trend of the Di Li Xuan Realm and join them to continue moving forward, strengthening the strength of the Di Li Xuan Realm.

Therefore, the hegemon-level forces in the Di Li Xuan Realm rarely participate in the various disputes in the Di Li Xuan Realm after setting various rules.

And the many Mahayana Realm powerhouses among the hegemon-level forces are basically focused on the Dao of Immortality, sitting high on the clouds, watching the changes in the Di Li Xuan Realm, and will not easily enter the chessboard to interfere with the situation in the Di Li Xuan Realm.

With many hegemon-level forces not coming forward to stir up the situation, and the many Mahayana Realm powerhouses among the hegemon-level powerhouses not participating in the disputes of other forces in the Di Li Xuan Realm.

Relying solely on those forces below the hegemon-level in the Di Li Xuan Realm and a few other rogue cultivators who were lucky enough to grow to the Mahayana Realm, naturally, they couldn't stir up any waves or threaten the growth of the Di Li Xuan Realm.

However, it was precisely because the situation in the Di Li Xuan Realm was too stable that few Mahayana Realm powerhouses died in internal fighting.

This made Yao Qiudao shocked that in the confrontation with the Qingmo Clan, seven Mahayana Realm fellow Daoists fell in just six hundred years.

As a Mahayana Realm powerhouse in the Di Li Xuan Realm, seven Mahayana Realm fellow Daoists fell directly in this battle, and Yao Qiudao felt more or less some sadness in his heart at this time.

Looking at Yao Qiudao's silent appearance, Cen Zhe couldn't help but speak again to ease the atmosphere:

"Alright, although we lost seven Mahayana Realm fellow Daoists, the Qingmo Clan didn't fare much better."

"Although the Qingmo Clan only lost six Mahayana Realm powerhouses on the spot, they also had a Mahayana Realm powerhouse whose rule source was crushed by us, almost falling out of the Mahayana Realm."

"Even if he didn't die, that Mahayana Realm Qingmo Clan member would need thousands of years to recover his Mahayana Realm combat power."

After all, having suffered Dao injuries, the rule power that invaded the body can only be removed by one's own rules, and the rule power of others can only play an auxiliary role.

In a situation where the rule source in the body has already collapsed, coupled with the foreign rule power that has invaded the body.

Even for a Mahayana Realm powerhouse, it would be impossible to recover from Dao injuries and restore peak combat power without spending thousands of years.

Not waiting for Yao Qiudao to continue speaking, Cen Zhe continued:

"Alright, I'll enter seclusion first to stabilize the injuries in my body. Ten years later, the Master Lingxiao Lingxiao Guanzhu will hold a council in the Di Li Xuan Realm Alliance in the Central Region to discuss the future development of the Di Li Xuan Realm. I'll need to go there at that time."

"I'll leave the sect's affairs to you, Junior Brother, to manage. You can send me the details of all the things that have happened in the Di Li Xuan Realm over the past few hundred years, as well as the current situation, so that I can understand the situation in the Di Li Xuan Realm before going to the Central Region."

"Alright!"

Hearing Cen Zhe's words, Yao Qiudao nodded.

For him, the miscellaneous affairs of the Profound Heaven Sect were handled by people below anyway, so he didn't need to worry about them.

It was nothing more than sitting in the sect, as long as it didn't affect his enlightenment and comprehension of his own Great Dao laws, Yao Qiudao didn't care.

Just as he was about to turn and leave, Yao Qiudao seemed to have suddenly remembered something, looked at Cen Zhe and hesitated for a moment, but finally spoke:

"By the way, that disciple of yours... is named Ye Ye Qingxuan, right? After you left, he used the exchange authority of the sect's seventh-order treasure vault to exchange for 10,000 square of seventh-order World-Suppressing Stones with over 10,000 square of seventh-order star light stones."

Ye Ye Qingxuan's seventh-order treasure vault exchange authority was authorized by Cen Zhe before.

Although it was unusual for a small third-order Blessed Land cultivator like Ye Ye Qingxuan to suddenly take out over 10,000 square of seventh-order spiritual minerals.

But Ye Ye Qingxuan's actions were all in accordance with the rules of the Profound Heaven Sect, and Yao Qiudao had no intention of prying into a disciple's privacy or secrets, and originally didn't intend to care much.

If it weren't for the fact that Ye Ye Qingxuan was Cen Zhe's disciple, and he had specifically instructed him to take care of him before leaving, he wouldn't have mentioned this to Cen Zhe.

"Ye Qingxuan? Over 10,000 square of seventh-order spiritual minerals?"

Hearing Yao Qiudao's words, Cen Zhe couldn't help but feel a little surprised in his heart.

However, when facing Yao Qiudao, Cen Zhe's face was still calm, as if this matter was within his expectations, and he said plainly:

"Hmm, I know about Ye Qingxuan's affairs, don't worry about him!"

Ye Ye Qingxuan was his disciple after all, no matter what, as a master, he still had to cover for his disciple.

Opposite, Yao Qiudao saw that Cen Zhe knew about Ye Ye Qingxuan's affairs, so he stopped worrying about this matter.

After saying goodbye to Cen Zhe, Yao Qiudao's figure disappeared directly and returned to his own cave dwelling palace.

After Yao Qiudao left, Cen Zhe smiled slightly and whispered: "Ye Qingxuan, my little disciple, I wonder how far you have walked on the path of the Blessed Land cultivator?"

Cen Zhe had already made up his mind that before going to the Central Region ten years later, he would first go to the Ye Qingxuan Blessed Land to see this little disciple he had taken in on a whim.

Although Ye Ye Qingxuan was only a Blessed Land cultivator, it seemed that his path was broken.

But when the path of the Blessed Land cultivator was first created, the predecessors of the Di Li Xuan Realm had high expectations for the path of the Blessed Land cultivator... otherwise, in the Di Li Xuan Realm today, major hegemon-level forces would not all have the inheritance of the path of the Blessed Land cultivator passed down.

The Blessed Land cultivator disciples in major hegemon forces seem inconspicuous, but the contribution of these Blessed Land cultivator disciples to major hegemon-level forces is definitely far beyond other middle and low-order disciples.

Without the existence of these Blessed Land cultivator disciples, the transformation and promotion speed of spirit veins within the sect territories of the various hegemon-level powers would absolutely not be this fast.

Besides this, the Blessed Lands opened up by Blessed Land cultivator disciples have greatly strengthened the conversion speed of spiritual veins to external void energy.

It has even increased the resources that can be cultivated by a single low spiritual vein by dozens or even hundreds of times.

If it weren't for a large number of Blessed Land cultivator disciples paying silently behind the scenes, supplying a large amount of middle and low-order resources for major hegemon-level forces.

The major hegemon-level forces in the Di Li Xuan Realm would not have so easily given up other territories around them.

If the path of the Blessed Land cultivator could be further perfected and more high-order Blessed Land cultivators could be born.

Cen Zhe estimated that besides enriching the Dao of Immortality in the Di Li Xuan Realm, the path of the Blessed Land cultivator could definitely provide no small help for the Di Li Xuan Realm to promote to a Great Thousand World.

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