Chapter 1042: Eternal Life: My Steady Farming-Style Cultivation Chapter 1042 — Elite Assembly

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Who?

Mo Sha!

Who knows what this bastard went through, but he was covered in wounds.

A wound ran diagonally from his right shoulder to his left ribs, a hair's breadth from cleaving him in two.

Dark green mist still lingered at the wound's edges, continuously corroding the surrounding flesh and emitting a faint sizzling sound.

Yet in Mo Sha's hand, he clutched a dark red stone tablet tightly.

Not only was it undamaged, its surface was covered in ancient Barbarian Script.

Seeing this, Qin Baili's figure flashed and he caught him with one hand: "Are you alright?"

Mo Sha raised his head; though his face was covered in blood, he grinned: "This moldy old Spell nearly got this old man killed inside."

Having said this, he passed out.

Fortunately it was a close call with no disaster; the man made it out alive in the end.

By this point, everyone who entered the Night Crying Secret Realm and could come out had come out.

As for those who couldn't come out, there was nothing to be done either; the Secret Realm had already closed.

The dark red vortex dissipated completely, and the Sky once again resumed the Northern Domain's characteristic leaden gray.

Those glowing Totem Pillars, from base to tip, saw their Inscriptions extinguish one after another, ultimately transforming back into those inconspicuous ancient Stone Pillars.

Xu Zhangqing stood up, then walked to Mo Sha's side. His Divine Sense swept over the man's injuries and found only severe Flesh Body damage — Divine Soul and Consciousness were fine. He took a Lightly Vitality Pill from his Storage Item and stuffed it into the other's mouth: "Rest easy, he won't die."

About half an hour passed before Mo Sha finally woke.

Thanks to the Pill's effects, his injuries had also mostly recovered.

Qin Baili couldn't help but ask: "What exactly did you experience inside?"

Mo Sha was silent for a good while before opening his mouth: "The Northern Domain's earliest Totem, the Night Weeping Totem, wasn't used to summon a Secret Realm."

At these words, even Xu Zhangqing was startled: "What do you mean?"

Mo Sha took a ragged breath: "In fact, it was used to suppress something."

"Suppress?"

"What could make a Secret Realm suppress it?"

"This secret has never been recorded; are you sure it's true?"

Regarding Mo Sha's words, both Xu Zhangqing and Qin Baili found them somewhat hard to believe.

You have to understand, Xu Zhangqing had consulted many materials before coming and only knew part of the Night Crying Secret Realm's situation.

Mo Sha waved his hand and continued: "What's recorded on this stone tablet is even richer than the legends those old priests have chanted for thousands of years.

The Night Crying Secret Realm is absolutely not some blessed land of bestowed fortune, but a prison stuffed into a Time-Space Fold."

Qin Baili subconsciously pressed: "What was imprisoned?"

"It doesn't say on it."

Mo Sha shook his head, voice sinking: "But using this much blood to open the entrance, and it being locked for this long while still maintaining a Trial Mechanism, is enough to prove this thing is anything but simple."

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Time arrived at the next day.

The recovered Mo Sha actively took on the task of integrating the Northern Domain.

Now, the main forces of those large tribes had already lost combat power; the remaining Small Tribes either hid deeper in the Desert Depths or were still watching the situation.

He brought those elders of the Submitted Tribes and visited tribe by tribe.

This time, Mo Sha didn't reason with them, didn't bother with courtesy; he gave only two choices.

Survive.

Or go die.

Just like that, a period of time passed, and the Northern Domain's messy aftermath was basically cleaned up.

Mo Sha integrated the Small Tribes willing to submit and temporarily settled them in the Buffer Zone at the Northern Domain and Eastern Domain border, guarded by Disciples of Xuanming Peak and Jin Gang Peak.

At present, these tribes' allegiance to the Qingmu Sect is actually very fragile.

Going forward, only if Pills, Spirit Stones, and other Resources are continuously supplied, plus with Mo Sha this "One's Own People" mediating in the middle, can it be thoroughly stabilized.

At the Same Time, changes within the Eastern Domain were also accelerating.

The Seven Great Immortal Peaks' integration entered a substantive stage.

Xu Zhangqing re-divided functions among the Seven Peaks according to their respective strengths.

Tiexue Peak is responsible for conquest and Border Patrol Guard.

Shuixian Peak is responsible for defense layout and intelligence gathering.

Qingmu Peak is responsible for farming and Lingti supply.

Chi Huo Peak is responsible for alchemy and Medicinal Herb blending.

Jin Gang Peak is responsible for forging and defensive works.

Hou Tu Peak is responsible for maintenance and Spiritual Array Reinforcement.

Xuanming Peak and Jiuyou Sect are responsible for assassination and Infiltration.

The Seven Peaks each performed their duties, and the operational efficiency of the entire Qingmu Sect increased several times over compared to before.

Although the Earth Vein Heart Lamp was abandoned by Xu Zhangqing.

But he handed the task of improving the soil over to Hou Tu Peak for handling.

Hou Tu Peak Master Yue Kunlun personally led people to survey the Spiritual Veins of the major Spirit Fields in Dongyu, and combined with the Sect's improved Spirit Plant Seeds, caused the yield to double completely compared to previously.

Moreover, a new batch of Three-Eyed Spirit Marrow also matured in Qingmu Peak's Spirit Fields.

Not only that, Longhu Immortal Sect and Yao Yue Immortal Sect successively dispatched people to arrive in Dongyu.

The first to arrive was Fenglong; as the genius most valued by Longhu Immortal Sect, after he returned to the Immortal Sect last time, he not only obtained Sect Master Long Yuan's Recognition, but even gained various Benefits.

Long Yuan personally took him into the Thunder Pool for Tempering, and even transmitted the first four levels of Longhu Immortal Sect's bottom-of-box Nine Heavens Thunder Method to him.

Not only that, he also bestowed a Thunder Core nurtured for a thousand years in the Thunder Pool, raising Fenglong's Thunder Spirit Root Purity to a tier nearly at the source.

Yao Yue Immortal Sect's people arrived slightly later.

Mu Yunni did not come personally, but dispatched her Younger Sister Mu Qingshuang to lead the team.

This made Xu Zhangqing feel very Unexpected; he had thought it would be his Master's old friend, namely Immortal Maiden Qingyue, who would come, but Unexpectedly the person was changed.

Fortunately, this Mu Qingshuang's cultivation had also reached Second Stage Spirit Transformation Mid.

Her whole person looked to be only about thirty years old in appearance.

Features delicate, temperament cold and clear.

But when she spoke, she was unexpectedly straightforward and direct.

"Sect Master Xu, my Elder Sister said, Yao Yue Immortal Sect will cooperate fully!"

On the Three-Eyed Clan's side, Qiong did not personally lead the team.

Instead, two Elders from the clan were dispatched to lead, one male and one female, both comparable to Spirit Transformation cultivators.

The male was named Yun Xing, taciturn, three eyes always half-squinted, only opening a bit when seeing Three-Eyed Spirit Marrow.

The female was named Yue Jian, much more talkative than her companion.

On the day of arrival, she became familiar with several Elders of Qingmu Sect, and enthusiastically toured the Spirit Fields and Lian Dan Fang, and praised the Spirit Plants improved by Qingmu Peak incessantly.

The Three-Eyed Clan's elites were not many, only fifty people.

Fortunately, every single one was a top expert picked from a hundred li within the clan.

Right now, the elites of all parties have gathered together, yet this has also pushed the atmosphere to an unprecedented peak.

But the real reason making people feel war is near is the news coming from the border.

The Demon Race's harassment frequency rapidly climbed, from initially one wave every few days, turning into several waves every day now.

The scale is also continuously upgrading; previously it was still small groups of three to five lesser demons harassing, but now every deployment is a Demon King leading over a hundred demons to attack.

They do not raid and leave like before, but instead build nests at the border!