Chapter 423: Wu Zhangsheng Injured, The Battle for the Heavenly Path Treasure Road

If the words spoken by the bearded Dahan at this moment were to reach the ears of Ye Bai and the others in the Xuanyuan World, it would certainly make them lose their composure immediately! They would exclaim that it is impossible!

"Damn it!"

However, at this moment, Wu Zhangsheng only looked resentful.

Clearly, in the time since Ye Bai and the others left, an accident had occurred!

According to the information originally gathered by the Four Saints, the Ninth Grade Alien Race would only descend one year after the destruction of the Great Heaven Kingdom and the Great Sun Remnant.

Yet for some reason, the fact that the Four Saints had refined their External Incarnations into dolls and given them to Ye Bai, and that Ye Bai and Li Qingqing and the others had gone to the Xuanyuan World, was exposed!

It was not simply known by the Three Great Alien Races.

Rather, the Three Great Alien Races had suddenly received a notification from the Xuanyuan World and were informed of this intelligence.

Furthermore, they were ordered to launch a war by the Three Great Alien Races of Blue Star!

The Ninth Grade Alien Race would also descend half a year early!

That is to say, at this point in time, in two more months, the Ninth Grade Alien Race would descend upon Blue Star!

And the war between the Human Race and the Three Great Alien Races had already been fought for over three months.

The Great Xia had the strongest Martial Dao strength, so dealing with the offensive of the Three Great Alien Races was not much of a problem.

However, other human countries did not have the combat power of the Four Saints...

Therefore, during these three-plus months, the Four Saints had been constantly rushing to aid various countries.

This was while they no longer had their External Incarnations, and the injuries from forcibly splitting off a portion of their souls had not yet recovered!

Today, Wu Zhangsheng had come to aid the Great Bear Country.

After slaying many Alien Emperors for the Great Bear Country, he was resting here and had entrusted the bearded man to go and check on the situation of two other countries that had sent out distress signals over the past period.

And so far, the total number of human countries destroyed was not just two.

Instead, more than ten countries had been destroyed forever in the war launched by the Three Great Alien Races!

Back to the main topic.

"Cough, cough." Wu Zhangsheng could not even bother with resentment anymore.

Because he could not help but cough, and blood was coughed out.

Three months of frantic fighting had caused his injuries to pile up!

"Lord Martial Saint!!" The bearded man grew anxious at the sight.

"I am fine."

"These injuries of mine are nothing."

Wu Zhangsheng waved his hand, telling the man to calm down.

He calmed his emotions and looked toward the human territory in the rear, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

"Two more months; how many countries will still exist for the Human Race by then?

Can we survive the even greater crisis in two months?"

The more he thought, the more he felt there was no hope.

"Fortunately, I sent Master and Mistress and the others to the Xuanyuan World."

He even felt fortunate to have left a spark for Blue Star.

As for pinning his hopes on Ye Bai and the others returning to save Blue Star from fire and water, Wu Zhangsheng had long since abandoned that thought.

If it were the initial one-year period, there might have been a glimmer of possibility.

But there was only half a year in total, and now there were only two months left! To be precise, only about fifty days!

Ye Bai was a monster, that was true, but upon arriving in the Xuanyuan World, he was only among the very bottom tier of people!

In half a year, he might not even be able to walk out of a single realm, and it was impossible to find Ye Shanhe and Qiguan Xiuxiu! Even with the help of their partial souls!

The same applied to Li Qingqing and the others!

"However, we still cannot give up so easily..."

"At the very least, before the Human Race perishes, we must bite a piece of flesh off the invading enemies..."

Time passed in a flash.

Xuanyuan World, inside the Trial Secret Realm.

At this moment, 35 days had passed since the Trial Secret Realm officially opened!

It was also this day.

In the Center Region of the Secret Realm, beneath a mountain peak that towered into the clouds and which no cultivator had approached before, many cultivator figures suddenly appeared!

"Haha, Fellow Daoist Li Yi, you have come!"

"Fellow Daoist Wang Er, we have indeed met here! It seems we have a chance to have a bout this time!"

"Stop joking, I am only here to watch the show and witness the strength of the truly strong; I have no interest in participating in the upcoming competition for the Heavenly Path Treasure Road spots!

After all, although I am the strongest Dao Foundation Realm cultivator in my sect, there are only twenty spots in total for the Heavenly Path Treasure Road, and I don't think I have any hope of taking one!

I have no confidence in taking down the top geniuses of the Nine Sects and Five Schools, nor the top geniuses of other sects!"

"Alright, although I don't have much confidence either, I want to try."

Most of these cultivators knew each other.

Therefore, conversations of this kind arose from time to time beneath the mountain peak.

The Heavenly Path Treasure Road, this was what Dongguoming called the absolute top opportunity within the Secret Realm every time the Trial Secret Realm opened!

It would open at a fixed time, and after gathering 20 cultivators, it would teleport these twenty people into a Heavenly Path!

While not everyone has the heart to seize this top-tier opportunity, who would mind taking a look at a battle between the most elite geniuses, even if they lack the confidence to compete?

Therefore.

It was just around nine o'clock in the morning, Blue Star time.

Looking at the highest point of this mountain peak, there was a platform with a massive surface area situated above the clouds.

There were already over a hundred figures present! Divided into Righteous and Demonic factions!

These hundred figures, whether they were there simply to witness the event or truly had the heart to compete for a spot, were, without exception, all at the peak of the Dao Foundation Realm! They were the absolute top-tier Dao Foundation Realm cultivators from their respective sects!

As for how to determine whether a cultivator has secured one of the twenty spots, the method is simple.

In the very center of the platform, twenty prayer mats are placed.

As long as one sits on a prayer mat within today, and the number of people reaches twenty, those on the prayer mats are considered to have obtained a spot!

What? Why don't these cultivators who have already arrived, especially the first twenty to arrive, just sit on the prayer mats and take the spots?

It is possible to do so, and in fact, during past openings of the Trial Secret Realm, there really were twenty audacious Demonic cultivators who did exactly that.

As for the result, they got the benefits, but the consequence was that after the Secret Realm Trial ended, the Nine Sects directly launched an attack on the sects they belonged to!

The Demon Path Five Sects didn't even ask or intervene...

That time, those twenty Demonic cultivators, including their sects, all vanished...

From that time on, no one dared to harbor crooked thoughts regarding the competition for the Heavenly Path Treasure Road spots; everyone waits until the competition ends to let the twenty truly capable cultivators obtain the spots.

Basically, it is only late at night on this day that it can be officially determined which twenty cultivators will obtain the Heavenly Path Treasure Road spots!

And it was shortly after these hundred cultivators had gathered on the platform.

"Swish!"

A figure descended.

The moment they appeared, it drew exclamations from these hundred seed-level cultivators from their respective sects, regardless of whether they were of the Righteous Path or the Demonic Path!