Chapter 738: External Enemy Attacks Zheng State

With the Nascent Soul Formation Pills and Spirit-Nurturing Pills in hand, Su Fan's business in Yunzhou had concluded.

He had made friends with several fellow Daoists here, and after some discussion of the Dao, he had gained quite a bit.

With no regrets, after bidding farewell to Profound Wood, Su Fan left via the teleportation array.

On the islands of the South Sea, over the past ten or twenty years, he had also left behind quite a few hidden hands. In these few years, he had saved many human cultivators who were under siege by the Sea Clans.

Most were Purple Mansion and Golden Core cultivators, and there were even several Nascent Soul cultivators.

Most of them could be considered loose cultivators.

On these islands, because they were on the front lines, fighting the Sea Clans yielded the most benefits.

Loose cultivators had always lacked cultivation resources and techniques, but on the front lines of these islands, as long as one was brave enough to kill Sea Clans, the rewards from all sides were quite sufficient.

Therefore, in Yunzhou and these tens of thousands of islands, a new profession had been born: Monster Hunter, a profession dedicated to hunting Sea Clan demon beasts.

The resources in the sea were abundant, even better than those in the interior.

For the sake of development, humanity also had to contend with the Sea Clans.

Here in the Four Seas, resources were rich, and Su Fan naturally had secretly intervened, leaving behind a few chess pieces; perhaps they would be of some use in the future.

Returning to the Southern Wilderness Continent, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth between the two places was indeed different; closer to the Four Seas, the spiritual energy of Yunzhou was indeed higher.

Spirit veins could be seen everywhere.

Whereas in the Southern Wilderness Continent, it was like a desert, and the quality of the cultivators was also much worse.

In Yunzhou, Golden Core cultivators could be seen everywhere in every cultivation city, and on some of the slightly larger islands in the South Sea, Golden Core cultivators were even more ubiquitous.

On the islands scattered like stars, the number of Nascent Soul cultivators was even higher than in Yunzhou.

Most of them were loose cultivators from the interior surrounding the South Sea; many of them were making a living on these islands.

Returning to Zheng State, Su Fan suddenly sensed something different.

Zheng State seemed to have a hint of a murderous atmosphere.

In just half a day, he had learned quite a bit about the situation.

Zheng State or the Purple Firmament Sect had encountered an external enemy, and this external enemy was their "old friend": the Huangfu family and the Danhe Sect from Chen State.

In the thirty years Su Fan had been away, the strength of the Purple Firmament Sect had been flourishing; after annexing Yu State, the Purple Firmament Sect had obtained quite a few resources, and the disciples within the sect naturally reached a higher level.

In just thirty years, seven or eight Purple Mansion cultivators had been born.

As time passed, the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Purple Firmament Sect grew more and more; the Purple Firmament Sect was not like the original Yunyang Sect, which would deliberately control the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators.

The Purple Firmament Sect did not, so over these years, the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Purple Firmament Sect had exceeded five hundred, and naturally, the number of late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators was increasing.

More and more were attempting to break through, and some even attempted to break through without treasures to open the Purple Mansion.

Because they had the breakthrough experiences left behind by Su Fan and others, some succeeded, and some failed.

However, even if they failed, they had enough time; there were more and more family alchemists, and even third-grade alchemists numbered over a dozen.

The injuries caused by a failed breakthrough could be recovered in less than ten years.

And as long as they did not lose confidence, these people would have a greater possibility of breaking through to the Purple Mansion in the future.

Sometimes courage and temperament were even more important.

It was precisely under the philosophy promoted by Su Fan that the Purple Firmament Sect could be said to have always maintained a vigorous spirit in this regard.

Therefore, it was very normal for the strength of the Purple Firmament Sect to increase rapidly; there was no decaying atmosphere within the sect.

The bottom-level disciples were positive and upward-looking, which was easy to imagine.

Over these decades, the Purple Firmament Sect had changed again.

And it was precisely this change that had aroused the hostility of the outside world, especially the neighboring Chen State.

Originally, the Shangling Sect of Chen State occupied half of Chen State, and the rest was held by the Huangfu family, the Danhe Sect, and various large and small affiliated families.

But later, the two major forces allied with the Purple Firmament Sect to destroy the Shangling Sect and partition Chen State.

Over these decades, the Huangfu family and the Danhe Sect began to compete due to interests, and their original cooperative relationship had also broken down.

The two sides had fought quite a bit; while the casualties could not be called heavy, they had paid a not-insignificant price.

And while the two families were fighting, the Purple Firmament Sect was secretly developing on the side; the two major forces were not fools either.

Previously, the five Golden Core cultivators of the Purple Firmament Sect were enough to make them take it seriously; after the two families fought, their strength had decreased, even though they had annexed the Shangling Sect and gained a lot.

But these gains needed time to be slowly digested.

The two sides had been fighting, so the digestion was not good.

Yet the Purple Firmament Sect on the side was constantly improving its strength, which made the two families unable to sit still.

The high-level officials of the two families saw that if they continued to fight like this, sooner or later they would both suffer, ultimately benefiting the Purple Firmament Sect, so the two families secretly allied again.

They wanted to finish off the Purple Firmament Sect first, and then they would partition the territory of the Purple Firmament Sect.

This way, the territories of the two families would be larger, and they would not need to continue competing.

Therefore, in recent years, the two families had stopped fighting and began to actively prepare.

Such matters naturally attracted the attention of the high-level officials of the Purple Firmament Sect; one must know that the high-level officials of the Purple Firmament Sect.

Had never forgotten these two major forces and had always secretly sent people to keep an eye on them.

Even if the two major forces secretly allied, it was very difficult to hide it from the Purple Firmament Sect; after all, even if their battles were acting, they could not act too realistically.

Previously, Purple Mansion cultivators from both sides had died in battle, but now even Foundation Establishment cultivators rarely died.

Whether it was Su Wanjun or the original sect leader and elders of the Yunyang Sect, they were all very shrewd.

Added to the spies planted inside the two major forces.

Soon they figured it out, and Zheng State began to impose martial law.

"It seems I returned just in time."

After Su Fan learned of this, he smiled faintly in his heart.

That Huangfu family or Danhe Sect, even if they united, their strength was at most just a little higher than the Purple Firmament Sect.

But they could not possibly come out in full force and bring an army to Zheng State; previously, when they fought the Shangling Sect, the location was in Chen State, so they could come out in full force.

Now they could not.

Coming in small numbers was simply no match for the Purple Firmament Sect; they had the advantage of geographical location, and they also had the advantage of human harmony.

After all, they were defending their homeland, and everyone was of one mind; the loose cultivators and small families of Zheng State could also contribute some strength.

When the time came, these two major forces would inevitably end up with broken heads and bleeding faces.

Therefore, Su Fan did not take these two major forces seriously at all; even without him, the Purple Firmament Sect could absolutely make them return empty-handed.

Just Lu Qingshan alone at this moment was probably something those two major forces could not handle—a Golden Core ninth-layer cultivator with top-tier fourth-grade artifacts and even fifth-grade spirit talismans.

He alone could hold off several Golden Core cultivators. ===== CHAPTER 739 =====