Chapter 798: A Visit from the Primordial Spirit

"Li Daoyou, you have kept this old Daoist in the dark for quite a while."

Qingmu Shangren looked at Su Fan, a smile on the corners of his mouth, teasing him slightly.

"Haha! Fellow Daoist, you jest. What could I possibly have kept from you?"

Su Fan smiled.

After the two exchanged greetings, Qingmu Shangren immediately introduced Su Fan: "Li Daoyou, let me introduce you. This is Baiyang Shangren."

"Brother Baiyang, this is the Li Daoyou I mentioned to you before. If not for Li Daoyou, my breakthrough to the Primordial Spirit Stage would surely have failed."

"I have met Brother Baiyang."

Facing Baiyang Shangren, Su Fan naturally became a bit more solemn; in this resistance against the Demon Race, Baiyang Shangren could be said to have stood on the front lines the entire time.

He had fought against Primordial Spirit Stage experts of the Demon Race more times than he could count.

The fact that the Xuanwu Zhendi could be held, and even that the Donghai could block the footsteps of the Demon Race, was inseparable from Baiyang Shangren.

Without Baiyang Shangren, the Demon Race would likely have broken through the Xuanwu Zhendi long ago.

The latter's cultivation was a cut above that of Ren Shui Lao Mo, and naturally, in terms of strength, Baiyang could certainly thrash him.

As a Primordial Spirit Stage cultivator of the Shangqing Sect, the oldest sect, Baiyang possessed not only a pseudo-Seventh-Tier spiritual treasure like the White Sheep Chart, but also two Sixth-Tier Pure Yang Dharma treasures.

In terms of wealth, even Su Fan could not compare; Su Fan only had two treasures comparable to the Sixth-Tier, and as for spiritual treasures like the White Sheep Chart, Su Fan had none.

Because many weapons from the Swallowing Star World were not suitable for Immortal Cultivators, Su Fan had not purchased them.

And those truly high-tier weapons were ones Su Fan could not afford, which resulted in Su Fan not having high-tier Dharma treasures.

The two Sixth-Tier Dharma treasures were not yet Pure Yang Dharma treasures, but in terms of power, they were not inferior to Pure Yang Dharma treasures.

One was the White Bone Spear, which was forged from the keel of a Sixth-Tier Primordial Spirit Dragon Clan member; after being nurtured and refined by Su Fan for several hundred years, it had become a Sixth-Tier artifact, and this White Bone Spear, having been infused with a great deal of metal, had even greater growth potential in the future.

The other, the Wind-Thunder Seal, was also forged by Su Fan, with materials taken from the wind-thunder stones of the Swallowing Star World, refined from thousands of stones.

A single wind-thunder stone, plus some other Fifth-Tier materials, was enough to forge a Fifth-Tier artifact, the Thunder Seal.

And Su Fan had consumed thousands of them, refining the wind-thunder stone Refined Gold; one could imagine how formidable the body of the Wind-Thunder Seal was.

Although this artifact was not Su Fan's Natal Dharma Treasure, it contained the Five Thunders divine ability and was extremely powerful.

After Su Fan survived the Thunder Tribulation many times, he had smelted the Thunder Origin extracted from the Thunder Tribulation into it.

This made the artifact increasingly powerful, and it had now transformed into a true Sixth-Tier Dharma treasure; the time Su Fan wiped out Ren Shui Lao Mo with a single strike earlier,

it was precisely by using this artifact to unleash the Blazing Sun Divine Thunder.

In terms of potential, this Wind-Thunder Seal was even greater than the White Bone Spear; after all, to refine this artifact, Su Fan had spent nearly a hundred years and infused it with countless materials.

Theoretically, in a thousand years, the Wind-Thunder Seal might be able to advance into a Seventh-Tier spiritual treasure, even more formidable than the White Sheep Chart in Baiyang Shangren's hands.

Of course, this was only theoretical; perhaps in a thousand years, Su Fan would have already become an immortal, and by then, the Wind-Thunder Seal might even ascend to an immortal artifact ahead of time.

But that would have to wait until the Wind-Thunder Seal advanced; for now, Su Fan still could not compare to the three Dharma treasures in Baiyang Shangren's hands.

It was precisely these three Dharma treasures that made Baiyang Shangren's strength not a whit inferior to those in the Primordial Spirit Late Stage; in a real one-on-one fight, Duquan Laomo, the Primordial Spirit Eighth Layer expert who entered the Yuanyang Jie this time, might not necessarily be his match.

The power of the White Sheep Chart was truly too formidable; the White Sheep True Spirit released had strength comparable to the Primordial Spirit Ninth Layer.

It could be said that this White Sheep Chart was the Shangqing Sect's greatest source of confidence.

There were several sects in the Yuanyang Jie that were no less ancient than the Shangqing Sect, but the one recognized as the number one sect in the Yuanyang Jie was still the Shangqing Sect.

Why? It was because of this White Sheep Chart; a single White Sheep Chart possessed the combat power of the Primordial Spirit Ninth Layer for a short time.

There were twenty or thirty Primordial Spirit Stage cultivators in the Yuanyang Jie, but as for possessing the Half-Immortal Stage cultivation of the Primordial Spirit Ninth Layer, there might not even be one.

After all, once one cultivated to the Primordial Spirit Ninth Layer, ascending to the Upper Realm was no longer difficult; why remain in the Lower Realm? Ascending early to the Upper Realm offered a chance to become an immortal, whereas becoming an immortal in the Lower Realm was almost impossible.

Now that the Yuanyang Jie had experienced the Great War of Immortals and Demons, its origin was damaged and could no longer support it.

In the ancient era, there were still cultivators who could become immortals in the Yuanyang Jie and then ascend, but that was impossible now.

Therefore, generally speaking, all those who reached the Primordial Spirit Late Stage and were capable of ascending chose to ascend, especially those sects that could connect to the Upper Realm; as long as the sect's strength was maintained, the surplus Primordial Spirit Stage cultivators would leave.

The Shangqing Sect had two Primordial Spirit Stage cultivators: Baiyang at the Primordial Spirit Fifth Layer peak, and another at the Primordial Spirit Third Layer; in terms of the number of Primordial Spirit Stage cultivators, they were not the most numerous, as they originally had one at the Primordial Spirit Eighth Layer who ascended ten thousand years ago.

In Zhongzhou, there was another sect that had three Primordial Spirit Stage cultivators, but in terms of overall strength, the Shangqing Sect was still stronger.

Baiyang Shangren was dispatched to the Xuanwu Zhendi this time also because of the White Sheep Chart, because the White Sheep Chart possessed the combat power of the Primordial Spirit Ninth Layer.

That was why he was able to hold the Xuanwu Zhendi and prevent the six Primordial Spirit Stage experts of the Demon Race from advancing further.

Of course, although Baiyang Shangren was strong, he could only hold one front.

If not for Su Fan, the Zhuque Zhendi would not have been able to hold out either, and the final result would likely have been the breaking of the Four Symbols Great Array.

Therefore, Baiyang Shangren did not neglect Su Fan.

"This time at the Zhuque Zhendi, it was thanks to your timely intervention, Li Daoyou; otherwise, once Zhuque Dao was broken, the Zhuque Zhendi would have been finished, and by then, the Xuanwu Zhendi that I guard would not have been able to hold either."

"At that time, the Yuanyang Jie would have been in trouble, and it is very likely that the Demon Race would have launched a full-scale invasion."

Speaking of this, a lingering fear still appeared on the face of Baiyang Laodao; it had been so dangerous at that time.

Back then, Zhuque Dao truly had no outside reinforcements, and the other three fronts had no strength left either.

And to hold the Zhuque Zhendi, nothing short of Primordial Spirit power would suffice.

But in the Yuanyang Jie, the Human Race was already powerless, and as for the Demon Race and the Sea Race, they were hoping for the Human Race to fail so they could let in a portion of the Demon Race.

Perhaps they could also fish in troubled waters.

Of course, they would not help the Demon Race; after all, if they really let the Demon Race break in, they would be finished too.

Their idea was for the Human Race and the Demon Race to both suffer, and then, wouldn't the Yuanyang Jie be theirs?

Naturally, they would not make a move at all.

So the Zhuque Zhendi was indeed very dangerous at the time; upon learning of the situation then, Baiyang Shangren had even wanted to arrange for Shanhe Daoren to go over—that is, the Primordial Spirit Second Layer cultivator who was defending the Xuanwu Zhendi with him.