Chapter 647: Black Demon Sect (2400+ added)

After settling the family's various affairs, Aaron set down his Spirit Tea and looked at the Head of the Family, Li Linghai: "Although our family has gained much, small measures cannot withstand the great trend... The Far West is now surging with turmoil; you all must be extremely careful."

"We will strictly follow the Ancestor's orders..."

Li Linghai and the others bowed in salute: "Speaking of which... Ancestor, the matter you ordered us to inquire about last time has already yielded news."

"Oh? Tell me about it."

Aaron narrowed his eyes slightly.

"For these past years, the Immortal Cultivation World of our Far West has been restless. The key reason is that a force has invaded from the Great Qian Cultivation World... This point is now the consensus among all the major Immortal Sects."

Li Linghai said: "And over the past few decades, those originally top-secret messages have finally leaked... The one that invaded our Far West is a Nascent Soul force from Great Qian—the 'Black Demon Sect'... Because this sect failed in its expansion within Great Qian and faced suppression, it dispatched a branch to develop in the Far West... As soon as they arrived, they defeated the Haoran Sect, forcibly seized the territory of the entire Yuanchen Country, and have been continuously expanding outward, forcing the Haoran Sect to retreat west into the Wu Country. The Black Blood Sect was destroyed as a result..."

"Furthermore, after the Qingding Sect became the sole dominant power, its expansion has become increasingly terrifying, and its exploitation of the Foundation Establishment families under its command has grown more severe by the day."

Li Linghai was indeed worthy of being the Head of the Family personally chosen by Aaron; he was quite skilled at analyzing problems.

If he hadn't died at his own hands, perhaps he would have had a few more years to live.

After all, having Three Spirit Roots for aptitude is considered low-to-average among Foundation Establishment cultivators; it is normal to be stuck by bottlenecks from time to time!

This is also the reason why he wanted to refine the 'Black Jade Seal' as soon as possible.

After all... without a certain level of strength, one cannot hope to pass through the Black Demon Sect's blockade.

After dismissing Li Linghai and the others, Aaron fell into deep thought.

What he considered first was, naturally, his own problem.

And while Li Linghai racked his brains for the family, he could never get around the mountain that was the Qingding Sect.

He knew of one, called the 'Purple Clarity Barrier-Breaking Pill'; as long as the materials were gathered, it could be refined.

"There is no need to mention these; how should my Li Family preserve itself?" Aaron asked.

'After all, I am not that mentally ill patient like the fake Li Ruyu, who must focus all his heart on assisting the family's prosperity...'

"Under a collapsed nest, there are no intact eggs... Once the great war starts again, our Li Family will find it hard to stay out of it." Aaron sneered: "In your opinion, between this Extreme West Alliance and the Black Demon Sect branch, who will win?"

"In other words... Qingdan still has a hundred years to live? And I am only at the Foundation Establishment Mid-stage..."

Aaron had calculated Qingdan's age; for the other party to become a Golden Core, they might have had Heavenly Spirit Root aptitude. When they were chasing the Red Blood Carp King, they were only a Qi Refining cultivator, perhaps even less than twenty years old!

'Little did they know, if something really happened... I would run without the slightest hesitation.'

Aaron felt that his hope of personally killing his enemy and ending the blood case caused by a carp seemed slightly slim?

The average lifespan of a Golden Core Cultivator is five hundred years, not counting those who die from combat or Qi deviation.

After all, since his cultivation could not advance, rather than wasting the Essence Qi gained from daily practice, it was better to nourish this Spirit Tool.

However, the main material it required was a four-hundred-year-old Spirit Herb called 'Purple Clarity Spirit Mushroom'; even though the Li Family searched in many ways, they truly could not find it.

"But it doesn't matter if the Spirit Medicine cannot be found; at worst, I will just grind it out slowly over time, there is no major harm..."

In fact, Aaron even learned through the Shen Family that cultivators like Shen Qingchen, who had rich travel experience and had explored the Boundless Desert, were very popular recently and had received courteous treatment and even vigorous cultivation from the Extreme West Alliance.

Besides that, if one consumes some Spirit Pills and Spirit items that extend life, it is also possible to live a little longer.

"This Lin Kingdom is likely also surging with undercurrents; a great chaos is not far off..."

After cultivating the Mingyu Art to the twelfth-layer perfection, he discovered that he had fallen into a bottleneck again!

And at this time, Aaron was already four hundred years old.

The enemy of an enemy is a friend; Immortal Cultivators are also very familiar with this set of rules.

"Among the juniors, you are considered the most intelligent." Aaron nodded with satisfaction: "To solve the chaos in the Far West, the root lies in Great Qian!"

"Ancestor, I am afraid this is not important... Even if the Extreme West Alliance can win, wouldn't the Black Demon Sect send experts to reinforce the branch?"

"Actually... the ways to break through a bottleneck include combat and swallowing Spirit Pills... I don't want to think about combat, but what about Spirit Pills?"

Li Linghai gave a bitter smile: "If a Nascent Soul expert is sent, the Extreme West Alliance will surely collapse immediately..."

"Ancestor's insight is profound... This nephew believes that there are many smart people in the Extreme West Alliance who must have seen this point, so perhaps some have already attempted to head to Great Qian, especially... to contact the hostile sects of the Black Demon Sect and try to obtain support."

Spirit Pills that can assist a Foundation Establishment Mid-stage cultivator in breaking through to the Late-stage are very rare even in the Lin Kingdom.

This is a world where great power belongs to the individual; no matter how heaven-defying one's wisdom is, one still has to grope in the dark before a Nascent Soul expert!

This was all about things from decades ago, but Aaron, as a person who had experienced it personally, was still here. Hearing this, he showed neither joy nor anger on his face and said calmly: "Continue!"

This made Aaron have to sigh.

This is also one of the reasons why his Second-tier alchemy progresses slower the further he gets.

'Even with the pill formula and the craft... without raw materials, everything is still in vain!'

"Besides following the Qingding Sect closely, there is no other way... This nephew is ashamed." A look of shame appeared on Li Linghai's face.

"The Ancestors of various Golden Core Sects, feeling this, began to connect over a dozen years ago, wanting to form an alliance to jointly resist the 'Black Demon Sect' branch. And just recently... this alliance was finally officially established, named the 'Extreme West Alliance', and they pushed the Haoran Sect's 'Saint Heart Scholar', a great cultivator of the Golden Core Late-stage, to be the Alliance Leader. Our Lin Kingdom's Qingding Sect is also among them... According to the alliance treaty, sects are not allowed to attack each other and must join forces to resist the Black Demon Sect!"

"And the Immortal Cultivation Worlds of the various countries in our Far West have also risen to resist, with continuous great wars... The number of Immortal Cultivators who have died is countless. Only the Lin Kingdom has been able to be slightly more peaceful, but by now, signs of chaos are also emerging..."

If one dares to make the choice of rebellion, being wiped out is the only outcome!

'If Ancestor Qingdan makes the wrong choice and the Lin Kingdom is finished, the Li Family will likely be finished along with it...'

Aaron stroked his chin and fell into deep thought.

In other words, about the same age as Fang Yu!

However, it still belongs to the category of Foundation Establishment Second-tier pills.

'In the eyes of outsiders, I, this Supreme Elder of the Li Family, must be reluctant to part with the family and the Spirit Vein...'

"In this nephew's view, the great war is perhaps right before our eyes, and it will be a great war that sweeps across the entire Far West and affects countless Immortal Cultivators!"

For example, that Dongmen Xue; Aaron estimated that the other party was over two hundred years old.

And within a hundred-plus, at most two hundred years, can I reach Golden Core?

On this point, Xiaoqing seems to have a lot to say.

(End of chapter)