Chapter 348: Yuding Civil War, Twenty Years Like One Day

On Danxia Peak.

Because of Luo Chen's return, the atmosphere that was still slightly restless almost calmed down in a short time.

A stabilizing force, nothing more than this.

It's just that today, in the Battle Hall, many cultivators were coming in and out.

The urgent and pressing expressions made those familiar with the Battle Hall cultivators curious.

"What happened?"

"It's rare to see so many Luowang cultivators appear at once, right?"

Facing these curious questions.

The Luowang cultivator responsible for intelligence collection and processing glared fiercely with falcon-like eyes.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask!"

After saying this, he held a large pile of dossiers and entered the Battle Hall.

"This is the latest intelligence from the year and a half since you left."

"This pile is the general intelligence of Tianlan Immortal City collected within five years after Luowang was established."

"This last pile of dossiers just sent over was collected by Su Xiaolin at great effort and cost from many channels after your instruction. It has been urgently organized, although still a bit messy and incomplete, but as long as it is related to the war between the sects, it is basically all here."

In the Battle Hall, Sima Huiniang placed the bamboo slips categorized in front of Luo Chen.

Battle Hall Master Sima Xian and subordinate Luowang Elder Su Xiaolin stood on both sides, listening to commands at any time.

Looking at the densely packed dossiers, Luo Chen took a deep breath.

Not disliking the trouble, Luo Chen spread out a bamboo slip and read it seriously.

"In the 3408th year of the Shanhai calendar, October, Luoyun Sect Supreme Elder Han Zhan broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, advocating the recovery of three large workshops and seven small workshops within the sphere of influence that were remotely controlled by the Yuding Sword Sect. The means were rough, causing protests from the Sword Sect, and finally ended with the Sword Sect cultivators withdrawing from the Luoyun Sect's sphere of influence."

"This matter was also defined as the fuse of the war between the sects."

Luo Chen paused, calculating according to the timeline.

At this time, he was probably at the ninth level of Qi Refining; at this time, Pang Renxiong had just died, and Dahe City had become a ghost city.

"In November of the same year, a Foundation Establishment true disciple of the Luoyun Sect was suspected to have died at the hands of a Sword Sect true disciple. At the same time, the Sword Sect suspected that the strange death of a Jin Dan superior under their sect was related to the Luoyun Sect. The conflict between the two sides intensified, and the sect masters of both sides came forward to negotiate, but to no avail."

"The Luoyun Sect proposed to recover a third-grade mineral vein, which was rejected by the Sword Sect. It is unknown which side made the first move, but a small-scale battle within the scope of the Foundation Establishment realm occurred near that third-grade mineral vein."

"Although this battle came quickly and ended quickly, it was recorded as the beginning of the civil war of the Yuding upper sect."

"The real outbreak stemmed from Mount Ailao refusing to repair the Immortal City for the Sword Sect, and a core disciple was killed by a Sword Sect true disciple. The master of that core true disciple, in a fit of rage, destroyed the Immortal City hub, causing a large-scale attack by nearby monsters."

"The Sword Sect was dissatisfied and sent three hundred sword cultivators to hold Mount Ailao accountable. Mount Ailao sought help from the Luoyun Sect, and the two sides broke out in a major battle of real significance outside the gate of Mount Ailao."

Luo Chen estimated the time.

After this major battle broke out, Tian Xingzi of the Zhenlong Black Market in Dahe Workshop hurried away.

That was in the spring of the second year.

He joined forces with Nangong Jin and led the crowd to kill their way up to Xiaohuan Mountain, annihilating the Duan family.

Afterwards, he successfully established Foundation with difficulty, and even left Dahe Workshop.

And in this process, the two great Nascent Soul sects in the Yuding Domain had deeper and deeper conflicts, and the friction intensified!

Battles of all sizes, centered on the true disciples of the two sects, broke out continuously.

The battlefield was also constantly expanding.

Within the Sword Sect, experts emerged, and even a Jin Dan superior led hundreds of sword cultivators, intending to kill into the hinterland of the Luoyun Sect, but was blocked by the strongmen of the Luoyun Sect.

The world thought the Luoyun Sect had a shallow foundation and couldn't block the thunderous power of the Sword Sect.

But no one expected that the Luoyun Sect's puppet technique, which was called a strange skill, erupted with powerful power in the early battles.

In terms of combat power, it was not inferior to the Yuding sword cultivators at all.

There were even examples of sword cultivators of the same level killing five puppets of Luoyun Sect disciples in a row, only to be blasted into blood foam by the other party.

Of course!

On the whole, the Sword Sect was still much stronger than the Luoyun Sect.

After the Luoyun Sect joined forces with Mount Ailao to block the first few waves of offensives, they felt that it was difficult to support alone.

It was also at this time that the Qingdan Valley cultivators joined the battlefield, and they were helping the Luoyun Sect side.

The Sword Sect side was not to be outdone and sent many first-rate subordinate forces to join the war.

Not only that, even the Yan Alliance joined them.

By this time, the battle between the two sides had involved five major sects and more than a dozen first-rate and second-rate forces.

It seemed that both sides also knew that spreading indefinitely like this was not good.

Therefore, they gradually narrowed the battlefield range, mainly concentrating on three major battlefields: Lingkong Secret Realm, Black Water Swamp, and Leiji Nine Mountains.

Although there were three battlefields, there was a clear distinction between primary and secondary.

The center of the battle was in the Lingkong Secret Realm.

That was a legendary ancient relic, which was later developed by the Sword Sect for a small half and dominated alone for hundreds of years.

There were even rumors.

The reason why the Yuding Sword Sect had more Jin Dan cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators than the wealthy Qingdan Valley in just a few hundred years was because they obtained a lot of benefits from the Lingkong relics.

The Luoyun Sect sent Jin Dan experts, trying to take down this relic and share it with Mount Ailao and Qingdan Valley.

The Sword Sect naturally refused and sent strong sword cultivators to compete with them.

And the other two battlefields.

The Black Water Swamp produced many resources, among which Black Demon Swamp Mud was the scarcest thing for Mount Ailao, and they had to spend a high price to buy it from the Sword Sect all year round.

Therefore, the main battlefield for Mount Ailao cultivators was here, joining forces with Luoyun Sect cultivators to try to dominate this place.

As for the Leiji Nine Mountains, it was even more complicated.

There was a super-large fourth-grade thunder mineral vein here, and under the erosion all year round, it even created the strange scene of the ten-thousand-mile quicksand wasteland.

Everyone wanted it, but no one could eat it.

Both sides sent a large number of low-level disciples to compete for dominance in a way of fighting for every inch of land.

And this battlefield was also the place with the most people and the most complex composition of forces.

Upper sects, great sects, first-rate and second-rate forces, and even many loose cultivators were involved.

Ten years ago, the Lingkong Secret Realm suddenly closed!

Declaring the end of one battlefield.

This led to the disappearance of the battlefield where the high-level cultivators of the two great upper sects directly fought.

They restrained slightly and no longer took action personally.

Instead, they led their subordinate forces and allies to launch a protracted war in the Black Water Swamp and Leiji Nine Mountains.

"So, this is why in the past few years, everyone felt that the intensity of the war between the Nascent Soul upper sects had decreased and eased?"

Luo Chen muttered.

With his powerful soul and clever mind.

In just half a day, he finished reading the summary of the dossiers of this so-called "Yuding Civil War."

There were many doubts and places worth savoring.

But these were not the key points.

At least, it didn't have much to do with him, Luo Chen.

He rubbed his eyebrows slightly and took the intelligence of the past few years from Su Xiaolin.

Compared to the previous summary dossiers, it was more detailed.

For example, in the Black Water Swamp, Mount Ailao seemed powerful, but under the allied army of subordinates led by the Yuding Sword Sect, they suffered heavy losses.

There were even two Jin Dan cultivators, one dead and one injured.

And in the Leiji Nine Mountains, the conflict between Qingdan Valley and the Yan Alliance was also becoming more and more serious.

Many true disciples of the Foundation Establishment stage fought with real fire, and the number of fallen cultivators was not small.

Among them were many first-rate and second-rate small forces that were scattered under the crushing of the general trend.

Like the descendants of the Ghost God Valley that Luo Chen was familiar with, they were because the family's Foundation Establishment cultivators died in battle one after another.

In the end, they were robbed by a group of loose cultivators, and their ancestral land was robbed clean.

There were many such examples!

"I only thought that Tianlan Immortal City was treacherous and survival was not easy."

"I didn't expect that in this world of immortal cultivation, there were even more tragic struggles happening every moment."

"Probably precisely because of this, the various Jin Dan great sects restrained themselves, wanting to control the losses of their subordinates. Even Qingdan Valley, under the pretext of re-establishing the Dao Seed and launching the Dao Seed Struggle, recalled many disciples from the battlefield."

From the evolution of the general trend, Luo Chen discovered many details.

He even deduced that some sects were no longer willing to continue fighting in this war quagmire.

Finally, Luo Chen looked at the intelligence collected by Luowang in the year and a half since he left.

"In the 3425th year of the Shanhai calendar, Luoyun Sect Supreme Elder Han Zhan and Sword Sect Supreme Elder Yuding True Person met publicly for the first time by the Qinhua River, and both sides parted on bad terms!"

Seeing this line, Luo Chen's face changed slightly.

He finally knew what major event had happened in the year and a half since he left.

By the Qinhua River, the two sects negotiated.

The True Persons met, and they parted on bad terms.

Everyone knew what this meant.

Of course, this Qinhua River was definitely not the riverbank on the Tianlan Immortal City side.

The Qinhua River ran through the entire Yuding Domain and was a veritable great river, second only to the Lancang River in scale.

The specific negotiation address was not detailed.

The specific negotiation content was also unknown.

But just a "parted on bad terms" meant that this Yuding civil war would continue!

It could even be said that the accumulated contradictions would be completely detonated, and the intensity of the war would also rise.

One year ago!

Wasn't that when the Dao Seed Struggle unfolded?

Luo Chen recalled the many Jin Dan superiors he saw on the Heavenly Palace.

He remembered very clearly that Tao Yisheng said that the Jin Dan cultivators from the four major sects of Luoyun Sect, Hundred Flower Palace, Ice Fortress, and Mount Ailao came to observe the ceremony.

However, he clearly didn't see the Luoyun Sect Jin Dan on the Heavenly Palace.

"Came but didn't show up, or came and left directly."

"What does it mean?"

"Notification!"

"Yes, it was to notify the result, and by the way, just go through the motions."

"In other words, after the end of the Dao Seed Struggle, the war machine of the Luoyun Sect side was completely running, Qingdan Valley and Mount Ailao still promised to take action, and even the Ice Fortress no longer hesitated, completely leaning towards the Luoyun Sect, preparing to join the war!"

After figuring all this out.

Time had reached late at night.

Luo Chen leaned on the back of the chair, his mind tired.

He said without lifting his eyelids: "You go down first, Huiniang stay."

Sima Xian and Su Xiaolin, who had been standing for a day, looked at each other, then respectfully withdrew.

Looking at the tired Luo Chen, Sima Huiniang stood behind him and massaged the acupoints on both sides for him.

"I haven't seen you care about the war between the sects before, why are you so concerned today?"

"I have to care!" Luo Chen closed his eyes and said heavily: "Because not long from now, we will participate in it."

"What did you say?"

Sima Huiniang's movements slowed down, as if she hadn't heard clearly.

Luo Chen sighed, "The Absolute Heart Fairy of the Ice Fortress requires my Luotian Society, everyone above the seventh level of Qi Refining, to join the war, and only one Foundation Establishment true cultivator can stay behind to guard Danxia Peak."

This was said.

The fingers on both sides of Luo Chen's face suddenly stiffened.

Sima Huiniang's pupils shook, and she sat opposite Luo Chen.

"Really?"

"How could I joke with you about such things?"

Sima Huiniang said astringently: "How could it be like this..."

Yes!

How could it be like this?

But thinking carefully, everything had signs.

If the Luotian Society was still like it was at the beginning, with only one or two Foundation Establishment cultivators, the Ice Fortress naturally wouldn't look at it.

But when Foundation Establishment true cultivators emerged one after another like bamboo shoots after rain.

The Ice Fortress had already included it in its eyes.

Foundation Establishment Ceremony!

No!

Perhaps when the Luotian Society was attacking everywhere, annihilating the Danyuan Sect and Shenggong Sect, and showing off its own martial power, the other party had already taken a fancy to the Luotian Society.

Even, they added fuel to the fire, and at the Foundation Establishment Ceremony, sent a Foundation Establishment Elixir that was completely useless to Sima Huiniang.

Didn't that mean the more Foundation Establishment true cultivators the Luotian Society had, the better?

At this moment, Sima Huiniang must have realized what consequences would occur if the Luotian Society participated in this level of war.

She revealed a shock she hadn't had for many years.

And, panic.

But when her gaze fell on Luo Chen, for some reason, her heart calmed down.

The woman smoothed her hair and said with realization:

"The situation is beyond one's control; for so many years, we have enjoyed the huge convenience brought by being a subordinate of the Ice Fortress."

"Now, it is only natural for the other party to ask us to contribute."

Luo Chen wanted to say that the Ice Fortress subordinate status was exchanged for Jade Dew Elixirs.

But when the words reached his lips, he stopped.

The Absolute Heart lineage buying Jade Dew Elixirs wasn't for free; they also paid a large number of spirit stones.

If calculated one by one.

Even without counting the threat brought by the Jin Dan superior, it was only natural for the Luotian Society to fight for the Ice Fortress.

In this world, there is no such thing as only taking benefits without paying a price!

But it was still a bit hard to accept when such a thing fell on himself.

Sima Huiniang took a deep breath and said urgently and clearly:

"If we really have to join the war, then the many decisions of the Luotian Society must be reconsidered."

"The branches everywhere should be banned and shrunk."

"The cooperation with loose cultivator Foundation Establishment agents should be stopped for now, otherwise it will cause a situation where the tail is too big to wag."

"Business with other forces must be negotiated for new ways of cooperation as soon as possible."

"The plan against the Bo family of Liuguang Workshop should also be canceled directly!"

"And..."

Luo Chen's wandering gaze fell on the pretty woman.

The other party seemed to have accepted this fact.

And entered the future situation extremely quickly.

What she thought and did was all for the future.

This adaptability was ridiculously strong!

"Since the Ice Fortress said that my Luotian Society can leave one Foundation Establishment true cultivator, President, you stay!"

"As for the battlefield, I will be responsible for regulation, trying my best to let more people come back alive!"

Speaking to the end, Sima Huiniang's tone was a bit low.

But the clanging sound was fearless.

Luo Chen laughed.

In Huiniang's stunned gaze, he reached out and pinched her upturned nose.

"Fool!"

"It's fine to let you show your face and manage the Luotian Society in normal times. When encountering such a life-threatening thing, how can I let you go."

Sima Huiniang was a bit unaccustomed.

Such doting little actions were not common in normal times.

But she still felt warm in her heart.

However, considering the unknown situation she would face on the battlefield, she was still extremely worried.

"But..."

"There is no 'but'." Luo Chen shook his head, "The Absolute Heart Fairy only said to leave one person, not including me. No matter what, I am also an alchemy master famous in the Yuding Domain; how can such a technical talent be consumed on the battlefield..."

As he spoke.

Luo Chen's voice lowered.

Alchemy master... consumed...

Vaguely, a thought appeared in his heart.