Chapter 741: Breaking Through

"Bang!"

"Damn it! How is he so strong?"

The seventh-layer Golden Core cultivator of the Danhe Sect looked at the spiritual light on his magic sword, which had already dimmed, and his face turned ashen, with a hint of panic hidden deep in his eyes.

The other person joining hands with him, Huangfu Zhen, had a cultivation of the sixth-layer Golden Core, and his state was even worse, with a trace of blood overflowing from his mouth.

Facing Lu Qingshan, a ninth-layer Golden Core powerhouse holding that stone seal, who was extremely aggressive, the two could only defend passively.

Yet in just half a cup of tea's time, both had already been injured.

That stone seal artifact was much more powerful than their artifacts; every time the artifacts collided, the spiritual light of their artifacts would be smashed and dimmed a bit.

If this continued, their artifacts would likely be smashed and broken directly.

The two did not expect that Lu Qingshan had so many top-tier fourth-grade artifacts; the small black pagoda-shaped artifact above the other's head was fourth-grade high-tier, and looking at its defensive divine light, their artifacts could not cause any effect at all.

At most, they could only stir up ripples.

That stone seal was also a fourth-grade high-tier artifact, and the other's red bottle artifact was also a fourth-grade high-tier artifact.

One person with three fourth-grade high-tier artifacts—how wealthy was this?

There were many strange insects for fighting, such as the Golden-Devouring Insect, the Blazing Fire Ant, the Iron-Feather Frost Centipede, etc.; these ancient strange insects were all very powerful.

They were not single individuals; their main strength came when their numbers increased, which was very terrifying, especially the Ghost-Faced Fire Ladybug, which ranked third among ancient strange insects; it was an extremely terrifying type of strange insect.

It carried extremely cold fire, burning everything; once contaminated, it was very difficult to extinguish.

In ancient times, there was an insect controller who once controlled this kind of strange insect; with the cultivation of the early Primordial Spirit stage, he could fight against dozens of cultivators of the same rank.

In that battle, in order to extinguish this person, the Central Dynasty of ancient times paid a full thirty-two Primordial Spirit stage cultivators to finish off this insect controller from the Southern Border, and that Ghost-Faced Fire Ladybug disappeared from the Yuanyang Realm ever since.

So insect controllers were quite terrifying; once they controlled a terrifying strange insect, their combat power would be raised to the extreme.

Su Fan did not care about those strange insects that improved combat power; what he wanted were some auxiliary spirit insects.

However, wanting to control insects, you also needed the secret technique of controlling insects; relying on divine soul suppression alone was useless. Most strange insects had no intelligence.

And many were quite bloodthirsty; once they could not be controlled, once released, they would attack both friend and foe.

Su Fan was quite curious about that Hundred-Insect True Monarch; if he could obtain the other party's secret technique of controlling insects, not to mention improving his strength, at least he would have one more means.

In the current cultivation world, Su Fan had no opponents; first of all, in terms of cultivation, his strength was already the top among those below the Primordial Spirit stage, even that Sword Wuji of Yunzhou was not his opponent.

In a real life-and-death battle, he had too many trump cards.

Even without pure yang dharma treasures, he had weapons even more powerful than pure yang dharma treasures.

Having cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage, in these short few decades, his cultivation had improved again, and now he was already at the fourth layer of the Nascent Soul stage, and the power of the Star Heart in his body had not even been consumed by one percent.

Theoretically, this Star Heart could at least raise his physical body to the Domain Lord level; placed in the main world, Su Fan guessed it was at least enough for him to become an immortal.

In just a few decades, he broke through from the first layer of the Nascent Soul stage to the fourth layer of the Nascent Soul stage; even those who reincarnated and re-cultivated were far behind him.

Give him another hundred years, and he could reach the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul stage, and then start attempting to break through to the Primordial Spirit stage.

Once he reached the Primordial Spirit stage, even those late-stage Primordial Spirit half-immortal powerhouses could do nothing to him.

In the Yuanyang Realm, he had almost no threats; even if the Demon Clan invaded on a large scale two or three hundred years later, it would be nothing.

To tell the truth, the Demon Clan invasion had nothing to do with the Southern Wilderness Continent; the Demon Clan's many invasions were always from the East Sea.

After all, there was a void crack in the East Sea, which was the fetal membrane of the Yuanyang Realm that was hit into a crack during the Immortal-Demon Great War at the end of the ancient period of the Yuanyang Realm.

Naturally, invading from there was the most relaxed.

Otherwise, from other places, they would need to break the fetal membrane of the Yuanyang Realm, and the power consumed would be great.

The Yuanyang Realm was just one of the tens of thousands of worlds below the Immortal World, and the Demon Clan was not endless.

Every attack had a certain amount of power, so every time they attacked from the East Sea, and humans also established powerful defenses in the East Sea every time.

The thirty-six island cities of the East Sea were the most essential places for humanity in the East Sea, and they were much more powerful than the ten major islands of the South Sea.

On weekdays, these thirty-six island cities were stationed with at least three Primordial Spirit stage cultivators.

Once the Demon Clan invaded, not to mention that every island had a Primordial Spirit stage cultivator sitting in town, at least there were no less than twelve Primordial Spirit stage cultivators.

Even when the battle became intense, most of the Primordial Spirit stage cultivators of humanity would go to the East Sea to fight.

Now, there were less than three hundred years until the next Demon Clan invasion; once the Demon Clan invaded, cultivators from all over would have to go to the East Sea.

Every major continent needed to send people, and every great battle was extremely bloody; often many people went and could not return.

Not to mention Golden Core and Purple Mansion cultivators, even for Nascent Soul stage cultivators, the mortality rate there was also very high.

The Yuanding Sect back then, in its peak period, was quite powerful, and once even suppressed the Demon Emperor of the Poison Dragon Swamp to retreat thirty thousand miles, barely blocking the power of the Yuanding Sect.

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Although not many, it was a not-insignificant blow to the cultivators from Chen State who had come to offend.

By the time the battle reached this point, the casualties of the Purple Firmament Sect and Zheng State cultivators were also quite a few; Qi Refining cultivators had died by the dozens, and over a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators had died in battle.

And there were even more on the Chen State side.

Gradually, the Chen State cultivators finally could not hold on anymore.

"Run!"

A cultivator shouted, and then turned and fled; as soon as he fled, the entire team's morale leaked away.

The remaining people all fled toward the rear in panic.

"Damn it!"

"All of you, come back!"

Seeing this, several Golden Core cultivators had ashen faces; they did not expect that the disciples under their sect would actually flee in the face of battle.

As a result, the few Golden Core and Purple Mansion cultivators were suddenly caught in a dilemma.

"What to do?"

With those disciples leaving, only a dozen of them remained; facing thousands of Zheng State cultivators, they also became more dangerous.

The sense of crisis in the hearts of Huangfu Zhen and the others also surged.

"Bastards!"

The four Golden Core cultivators of the Huangfu family and Danhe Sect were increasingly anxious; seeing the people of the Purple Firmament Sect about to surround them, once they were really trapped, it would not be so simple to break through.

"Break through separately!"

The seventh-layer Golden Core elder of the Danhe Sect finally sighed; he knew that this failure meant that both the Danhe Sect and the Huangfu family would be in danger from now on.

The strength of the Purple Firmament Sect was flourishing, while their two families, not to mention being on the decline, at least had constant friction between them.

Even though they had already allied, as a high-level official of the Danhe Sect, he knew very well that the two families could no longer return to how they were before. ===== CHAPTER 742 =====