Chapter 357: Gathering of the Powerful

"The place where a mighty figure fell?" Looking at the flickering images in the sky that resembled a mirage, Meng Yifan was incredibly excited.

A Fourth-Grade Powerhouse can hold down a prefecture, a Fifth-Grade Expert can roam across a province, and a Sixth Grade powerhouse can shake an entire nation with their might.

If a Sixth Grade powerhouse is willing to pledge loyalty to the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty, His Majesty the Emperor will lead all the civil and military officials to appoint them as Protector Dharma Master.

It is said that the National Teacher of the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty is only a Sixth Grade Peak powerhouse; his status in the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty is second only to His Majesty the Emperor, and when seeing the Emperor, he only needs to bow slightly to pay his respects.

It is currently the end of the dynasty; uprisings are constant on all sides, and natural and man-made disasters follow one after another. His Majesty the Emperor is working tirelessly and is filled with worry, relying even more on the National Teacher.

Many times, the words of the National Teacher are even more effective than those of His Majesty the Emperor.

It can be said that without the National Teacher holding down the Astronomical Bureau and leading numerous Immortal Masters to fight everywhere, this ancient dynasty of the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty, which has spanned a thousand years, would have long since collapsed with a crash.

Meng Yifan has now slain the Level 5 Peak Great Demon Ao Bi'an. After the news spread, the forces on all sides were surely shocked, knowing that Meng Yifan is not to be trifled with, yet he still appears to lack the strength to truly occupy Dongchuan Prefecture.

Because the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty has a Sixth Grade National Teacher, and the Demon Race also has corresponding Level 6 Great Demons.

After launching Mushroom Bombs and Hydrogen Balloons several times, Meng Yifan already knows that the ultimate weapons from Earth have a maximum power that can only eliminate a Fifth-Grade Expert.

A Sixth Grade expert already possesses their own world, and that world is filled with the power of laws and has a stable structure; even if one were to bomb it with Mushroom Bombs and Hydrogen Balloons, it would be very difficult to blow such a world open.

If Meng Yifan advances to a Sixth Grade Cultivator, then whether it is the Demon Race forces or the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty, neither would dare to provoke him once he occupies Dongchuan Prefecture.

"I must advance to Sixth Grade." Meng Yifan made up his mind, preparing to enter the broken world of the mighty figure to search for treasures, but before that, he had to deal with Lang Badi first.

"Do you want to live or die?" Meng Yifan looked at Lang Badi and asked coldly.

Even Lang Badi, a Level 5 Peak, had been scared out of his wits after being killed by Meng Yifan; the three explosions just now were more violent than the last, and any one of them could have blown him to smithereens.

Especially the last Hydrogen Balloon explosion; the power was too terrifying, the shockwave directly blew away a small mountain, and Ao Bi'an, despite having Canglong Protection, was also left at death's door.

"Little brother, surrender. Do not be an enemy of the Master; that is seeking your own death," Lang Batian advised.

Lang Badi knew he could not escape because his speed was much slower than Ao Bi'an's, and since even Ao Bi'an could not escape, he could escape even less.

"I am willing to surrender." Lang Badi hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he bowed his head and submitted.

"Good!" Meng Yifan was overjoyed. After killing Ao Bi'an, he harvested a massive amount of Experience Value, and now he had raised his strength to a Fifth Grade Middle Tier Cultivator; his Spiritual Power had improved once again, and he could already control a Level 5 Intermediate Great Demon.

"Later, prostrate yourself before my Soul Imprint and acknowledge me as your master," Meng Yifan said.

Meng Yifan was already well-versed in casting a Soul Imprint. Very quickly, he split a Soul Imprint from his Divine Soul Origin and sent it into Lang Badi's Consciousness Sea.

Lang Badi's Divine Soul Origin prostrated before this Soul Imprint, completing the master-acknowledgment ritual; from then on, his life and death were in Meng Yifan's hands with a single thought.

After subduing Lang Badi, Meng Yifan had two Level 5 Great Demons under his command, and adding himself, he had three Fifth-Grade combatants; this already counted as a powerful force within Dongzhou Province.

"Let's go, the three of us will go in to search for treasures and strive for all of us to advance to Sixth Grade powerhouses." Meng Yifan was full of fighting spirit and led the Lang brothers toward the cave entrance.

"Eh! Why can't we get in?" After the three of them approached the cave entrance, they discovered that runes were constantly flickering at the entrance, blocking the three of them from entering.

"Batian, you go try and see if you can break the seal," Meng Yifan said.

Lang Batian channeled his Demon Power, light flickered on his body, and he unleashed the Wolf God Horn. A spiral horn with a diameter of half a meter and a length of three meters appeared in the sky and slammed fiercely into the seal at the cave entrance.

The Wolf God Horn had strong penetrating power; even if it were a small mountain, it could drill a tunnel through it, but when it hit the seal at the cave entrance, it was like a mayfly shaking a tree; the seal did not move a single bit and remained unbreakable.

Even when Meng Yifan and Lang Badi joined the attack, they were still unable to break the seal.

Meng Yifan frowned, pondering ways to break the seal. If he had another Hydrogen Balloon equivalent to a 200,000-ton TNT explosion, perhaps he could violently blast the seal open.

However, strategic deterrent weapons like Hydrogen Balloons are hard to get even for Dayiwan; at least in the short term, Dayiwan could not provide a Hydrogen Balloon.

"Master, look, this seal seems to be gradually weakening?" Lang Batian said.

Meng Yifan used his Spiritual Power to carefully investigate the seal and discovered that the seal at the cave entrance was indeed slowly weakening. According to the rate of weakening, in about a day's time, the seal would weaken to a level that even a Fifth-Grade Expert could break.

"It seems this time I will have to compete for treasures with the experts of Dongzhou." Meng Yifan's expression was grave. He had originally wanted to be the first to get the benefits, taking the Lang brothers in first to scavenge the treasures within the world.

But now that the seal was blocking the way, one day was enough time for the Demon Race and human experts of Dongzhou to all gather here.

Meng Yifan sat cross-legged, closed his eyes to rest, and conserved his energy for the upcoming treasure hunt.

Lang Batian and Lang Badi sat on the left and right behind Meng Yifan.

The images in the sky rose higher and higher; as long as one was within the territory of Dongchuan Prefecture, one could see the celestial phenomenon here.

Zhang Yiqing in Dongchuan Prefecture also recognized that this was the world left behind after a mighty figure fell, an undeveloped Secret Realm containing precious treasures.

The strongest power on Zhang Yiqing's side was only a Fourth-Grade Expert; entering such a Secret Realm would be seeking death, so he reported the situation to Dong Prefecture Inspector Tan Qingyang with the fastest speed.

At the same time, the Demon Race within Dongchuan Prefecture also quickly reported this situation to the Fifth-Grade Great Demons.

In Dongzhou City, four Fifth-grade Cultivators led by Yin Jiuji were all Riding Clouds and Driving Mist, flying toward Luolong County.

Among the Demon Race army outside Dongzhou City, five Level 5 Great Demons also rose into the air and flew rapidly in the same direction.

These two forces, humans and the Demon Race, who were as incompatible as fire and water, were very taciturn at this moment; they did not slaughter each other but were all rushing on their way.

Compared to fighting for territory or killing each other, these Fifth-Grade experts were more eager to obtain the World Origin from the world of the fallen mighty figure and advance to Sixth Grade powerhouses.

Whether it was the Demon Race or humans, as long as one person could advance to a Sixth Grade powerhouse, they could easily sweep across the entire Dongzhou Province.

It might even break the balance of power and determine the life and death of the entire Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty.