Chapter 574: Cen Zhe returns to the sect

On the Profound Heaven Peak in the core area of the Profound Yi Tianzong.

Cen Zhe silently broke through space and suddenly appeared at the peak of the Profound Heaven 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 out of his body had been successfully restrained.

Not long after Cen Zhe appeared at the peak of the Profound Heaven Peak, a figure followed closely and 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 Yi Tianzong, the Mahayana realm powerhouse who had always been left to guard the Profound Yi Tianzong, Yao Qiu.

Ever since Cen Zhe represented the Profound Yi Tianzong and entered the void with many human powerhouses to fight the Green Demon Clan.

Of the two Mahayana realm Supreme Elders of the Profound Yi Tianzong, Yao Qiu had always been left to guard the Profound Yi Tianzong, while Tong Yan was on rotation in the Di Xuan Realm Alliance.

As a Supreme Elder of the Profound Yi Tianzong, Yao Qiu knew Cen Zhe's strength and foundation very well, and what's more, Cen Zhe had one of the inherited immortal artifacts of the Profound Yi Tianzong, the Profound Heaven Sword, to protect him on this trip.

So after sensing the several rules carrying erosion intent in Cen Zhe's body, Yao Qiu was so shocked.

"Hehe, this battle lasted for nearly six hundred years, and the opponent was a top-level powerhouse among the Green Demon Clan, so how could I not be injured?"

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

Recalling the six hundred years of life-and-death fighting with the Green Demon Clan powerhouses in the void in his mind, Cen Zhe couldn't help but have the scene of over a thousand Tribulation Crossing realm and Mahayana realm powerhouses fighting in the void emerge in his eyes, and said somewhat heavily:

"The strength of the Green Demon Clan cannot 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 Profound Heaven 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 Qiu'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 Green Demon Clan's immortal artifact and fell because of bad luck?"

Yao Qiu's guess was not without basis.

After all, among the Mahayana realm powerhouses who participated in the war this time, there were also some Mahayana realm powerhouses from pseudo-hegemon-level forces and Mahayana realm rogue cultivators.

These Mahayana realm powerhouses did not have immortal artifacts to protect their bodies.

If they faced the revival blow of an immortal artifact, it would naturally be easy to wipe out the source of rules in their bodies and completely cut off their vitality and fall.

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

"No, the immortal artifacts of the Green Demon Clan were watched to death by the immortal artifacts of our Di Xuan Realm, so how could we give the other side the opportunity to sneak-attack the Mahayana realm fellow Daoists on our side?"

"The Mahayana realm fellow Daoists who fell were inadvertently suppressed by the Green Demon Clan's Mahayana realm powerhouses in the battlefield, and under the erosion and wiping out of the Green Demon Clan powerhouses' rule power and the chaotic rules raging in the battlefield, they unfortunately fell."

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

After being entangled for hundreds of years, the chaotic and dangerous degree of the various rule powers raging within it can be imagined.

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

If powerhouses below the Tribulation Crossing realm inadvertently fall into it, I'm afraid it would be ten deaths and no life.

"This..."

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

He knew that fighting the Green Demon Clan was full of dangers, but he didn't expect it to be so tragic.

You know, Mahayana realm cultivators are already the peak powerhouses below the immortal realm.

Once they step into the Mahayana realm, it represents a perfection in three aspects: rules, spiritual power, and body, and before breaking through to the immortal realm, their cultivation base is already at a level where they cannot advance further.

In the situation where their cultivation base cannot break through, Mahayana realm powerhouses wanting to continue to enhance their combat power can only continue to comprehend other rules and bring the second and third rules to the perfect level.

But comprehending more rule powers to reach the perfect level at most 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 make the combat power of the Mahayana realm powerhouse have a substantial transformation.

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

In this situation, wanting to suppress and kill a Mahayana realm powerhouse protected by rules at the perfect level and completely wipe out the Mahayana realm powerhouse's vitality.

Even for Mahayana realm powerhouses who have comprehended multiple perfect-level rules, it would take at least a thousand years of time at the fastest.

After all, they are both perfect-level rules, even if your quantity is large, it cannot produce a qualitative change and cannot play an overwhelming victory; you can only rely on long years to slowly wipe out the other party's perfect-level rule source before there is hope of completely killing the other party.

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

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

In the past years, for the sake of stability in the Di 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 erupted, very few Mahayana realm powerhouses died in the internal strife of the Di Xuan Realm.

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

After all, only when the base of Mahayana realm cultivators is large will the number of powerhouses who ascend increase.

When more powerhouses ascend, the energy, rules, and even law fragments fed back by the upper realm when Di Xuan Realm powerhouses ascend will become more and more.

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

The Di Xuan Realm naturally becomes stronger and stronger as time passes.

The stronger the Di Xuan Realm, the more cultivators are born, and the easier it is for cultivators to improve their cultivation base.

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

This is also the main reason why the Di Xuan Realm, after encountering the invasion of the Green Demon Realm, not only did not lose the war, but also faintly had the status of promoting to a Great Thousand World in the process of confronting the Green Demon Realm.

The Di Xuan Realm being able to possess 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 Xuan Realm, and the result of the virtuous cycle and continuous accumulation and strengthening of the Di Xuan Realm for tens of millions of years.

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

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

The Immortal Dao is not just about plunder and greed.

Sometimes giving up a portion of benefits and leaving enough space to give hope to those 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 disputes between high-order cultivators are resolved in the void and do not affect or damage the environment of the entire Di Xuan Realm, the many hegemon-level forces in the Di Xuan Realm basically will not intervene.

Even if they rise all the way during the struggle and grow to the level of a hegemon-level force.

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

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

As for the Mahayana realm powerhouses among the hegemon-level factions, they are basically devoted to the Immortal Dao, residing high above the clouds and watching the shifting winds and clouds within the Di Xuan Realm; they will not easily enter the chessboard to interfere with the situation in the Di Xuan Realm.

With many hegemon-level forces not coming out 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 Xuan Realm.

Relying solely on the forces below the hegemon-level in the Di Xuan Realm and other few rogue cultivators who luckily grew to the Mahayana realm, naturally, they cannot make any waves or threaten the growth of the Di Xuan Realm.

However, it is precisely because the situation in the Di Xuan Realm is too stable that very few Mahayana realm powerhouses die in internal strife.

This made Yao Qiu shocked that in the confrontation with the Green Demon Clan, seven Mahayana realm fellow Daoists fell in just six hundred years.

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

Looking at Yao Qiu'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 Green Demon Clan side is not much better."

"Although the Green Demon Clan only lost six Mahayana realm powerhouses on the spot, they also had one Mahayana realm powerhouse whose rule source in his body was crushed by us, almost beaten to the point of falling out of the Mahayana realm."

"Even if he didn't die, that Mahayana realm Green Demon Clan powerhouse would need several thousand years of time to recover his Mahayana realm combat power."

After all, having suffered Dao injuries, the rule power invading the body can only be removed by one's own rules, and other people's rule power can only play an auxiliary role.

In the situation where the rule source in the body has already collapsed, coupled with the alien rule power invading the body.

Even for Mahayana realm powerhouses, they cannot recover from their Dao injuries and restore their peak combat power without spending several thousand years of time.

Without waiting for Yao Qiu to continue speaking, Cen Zhe continued:

"Alright, I will enter seclusion first to stabilize the injuries in my body. Ten years later, Master Lingxiao will hold a council in the Di Xuan Realm Alliance in the Central Domain to discuss the future development of the Di Xuan Realm. At that time, I will need to make a trip."

"The sect's affairs will be left to you, Junior Brother, to manage. You send me the various things that have happened in the Di Xuan Realm over these past few hundred years, as well as the details of the current situation, so that I can understand the situation of the Di Xuan Realm before going to the Central Domain."

"Alright!"

Hearing Cen Zhe's words, Yao Qiu nodded.

For him, the miscellaneous affairs of the Profound Yi Tianzong are handled by the people below anyway, and he doesn't need to worry about them.

It is nothing more than sitting in command of the sect; as long as it does not affect his enlightenment or the comprehension of his own Great Dao laws, Yao Qiu does not mind.

Just as he was about to turn and leave, Yao Qiu suddenly remembered something, looked at Cen Zhe and hesitated for a moment, finally speaking:

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

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

Although it is unusual for a small third-order Dongxuan Fudi cultivator like Ye Qingxuan to suddenly take out over 10,000 units of seventh-order spiritual minerals.

But Ye Qingxuan's actions were all in accordance with the rules of the Profound Yi Tianzong, and Yao Qiu had no intention of prying into a disciple's privacy and secrets, so he originally didn't intend to manage it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After Yao Qiu left, Cen Zhe smiled slightly and whispered: "Qingxuan, my little disciple, I wonder what step you have reached on the Dongxuan Fudi cultivation path?"

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

Although Ye Qingxuan is only a Dongxuan Fudi cultivator, it seems that his path is broken.

But when the Dongxuan Fudi cultivation path was first created, the predecessors of the Di Xuan Realm had high expectations for the Dongxuan Fudi cultivation path... otherwise, in the Di Xuan Realm, major hegemon-level forces would not all have the Dongxuan Fudi cultivation path inherited.

The Dongxuan Fudi disciples in major hegemon-level forces seem inconspicuous, but the contribution of these Dongxuan Fudi disciples to major hegemon-level forces is definitely far beyond other mid- and low-order disciples.

Without the existence of these Dongxuan Fudi disciples, the transformation and promotion speed of spiritual veins within the sect residence of major hegemon-level forces would definitely not be so fast.

Besides this, the Dongxuan Fudi opened up by Dongxuan Fudi disciples has significantly 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-level spiritual vein by dozens or even hundreds of times.

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

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

If the Dongxuan Fudi cultivation path can be further perfected and more high-order Dongxuan Fudi cultivators can be born.

Cen Zhe estimates that besides enriching the Immortal Dao in the Di Xuan Realm, the Dongxuan Fudi cultivation path can definitely provide no small help for the Di Xuan Realm to promote to a Great Thousand World.

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