Chapter 564: Unified War of the Youming Realm

After returning to his cave dwelling, Yan Buji began a period of closed‑door cultivation.

This time Yan Buji plans to finish cultivating the Yantian Technique.

To some extent, although Yan Buji's Magical Cultivation aptitude is poor, the Nine Turns, Nine Disperses, Nine Rests compensate for his magical power intensity issue.

Although the first attempt at cultivation requires many years to integrate a technique fully to its great completion, once that great completion is reached, using the Nine Turns to disperse and retrain means only resources become the problem.

"First I need to adjust the technique's pathway," Yan Buji said, examining the Yantian Technique's cultivation method against his own Heaven Gate Five Elements Method, and found many parts could not connect.

This time Yan Buji aims to break through to the Nascent Soul, so he must fully integrate all his techniques; without the aid of the Three Talents Celestial Pill, he must figure it out himself.

Altering the technique pathway isn't very hard; Yan Buji's current insight allows him to modify the pathway without first completing cultivation and then reconsidering, and even if his aptitude hasn't improved after so many years, his perspective should have grown.

After four or five years, once Yan Buji resolved the compatibility between the Yantian Technique and the Heaven Gate Five Elements Method, he began cultivation.

Youming Jie has no sun or moon; the world's changes are as vast as sea‑to‑field transformations, unpredictable.

On this day.

A few Rakshasa of the Dragon Scale Tribe sat in the nearby mountains and suddenly noticed a strange pit ahead.

"Have any powerful Youming beasts ever come through here?"

They saw the pit covered by nearby vines, but they also knew that normally such vines cling to tall, shadowy trees to draw nutrients and do not crawl on the ground.

There is little large forest nearby, so it would be impossible for so many vines to have grown here.

The situation in Youming Jie differs completely from the Five Realms; especially after the war between New Youming and Original Youming began a hundred years ago, the two realms merged again, causing Youming Jie's environment to revert to antiquity, and some Spiritual Materials thought extinct in New Youming are now being rediscovered.

As members of the Rakshasa clan, many Rakshasa of the Dragon Scale Tribe have begun venturing to desolate places to seek those rare Spiritual Materials in exchange for cultivation resources.

"Who knows? This place is far from the tribe to begin with; maybe a large Youming beast passed through here before?"

"Hey, what's this?!"

Seeing a crystal crimson fruit growing beneath the vines, the Rakshasa's eyes lit up, and they plucked it: "Second‑stage Raw Jade Fruit!"

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"You're really lucky."

"There are more nearby, lots of Raw Jade Fruits!"

"What a great discovery!!"

Immediately, the Rakshasa sent the harvested crimson fruits back into the Dragon Scale Tribe.

Now, Suo Ya, already a Golden Core cultivator, saw the returnees with so many crimson fruits and curiously asked, "Where did you find them?"

"Right there…"

The Rakshasa gave a vague location, and Suo Ya nodded, "Your luck is indeed good; these crimson fruits only appear when Youming qi and spiritual qi intersect, so that Youming beast is probably an ancient variant."

"Oh, so that's how it is!"

Youming Jie's environment has changed drastically from before; with the two‑realm war, Youming Jie gradually merged back into antiquity, not only bringing back extinct Spiritual Materials but also unveiling previously unseen ancient variants.

The Dragon Scale Tribe is far from the Rakshasa capital, having established a tribe in a remote area where there was originally little threat. Yet because of environmental changes, many dangers have arisen outside the tribe; fortunately, their leader Po Salo is close to a breakthrough, enough to protect the tribe from harm.

Suo Ya looked around and suddenly asked, "How are things at the Dragon Scale Mine?"

"No problem, everything's normal."

"That's good. Now that the leader is in seclusion, we must keep the tribe safe," Suo Ya said seriously.

Just then, a Rakshasa rushed over, shouting, "Trouble! Trouble!"

Suo Ya glared, "What's the hurry? Speak slowly!"

"The Starry Sky Sect… they're back!"

"What?!"

Suo Ya's complexion changed, and she immediately set off to meet them.

When they arrived outside the tribe and saw the group of Starry Sky cultists, her expression soured instantly.

"Everyone, feel free to come inside our tribe to discuss…"

"Not necessary." A Starry Sky cultist waved his hand: "We came here, and we have business; we can speak right here."

Suo Ya's face changed, realizing the visitors meant ill, yet she still bowed and asked, "May I know what business you have here?"

"By the priest's command, with the war tightening, the unlawful thieves of Original Youming have seized King Yan's throne, forged a false underworld, and act arrogantly! The Dragon Scale Tribe must, within two months, select three hundred cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage and send them to the battlefield, without error!"

"This… didn't we just go there in the first half of the year?" Suo Ya clenched her teeth and hurriedly asked.

"The first half was the first half's matter; now is the present matter. Do you wish to defy the priest's command, to defy your queen?!"

"Never!" Suo Ya gritted her teeth: "But our tribe is now thin on people; please grant us some leniency, we will certainly…"

"No. An order is an order; everyone is sacrificing lives for the unification of Youming Jie. Your tribe's current state means more will follow, which is absolutely unacceptable! Please make preparations promptly."

After speaking, the Starry Sky cultists departed, heading toward what seemed to be another Rakshasa tribe on the other side.

Suo Ya clenched her fist, inhaled deeply, "Dammit!!"

She had sworn, while Po Salo was in seclusion, to protect the tribe, but now the Rakshasa are dwindling—what can she do?!

"Starry Sky Sect!!" Suo Ya gritted her teeth.

Back then, the Starry Sky Sect suddenly rose, using methods that let even those without aptitude cultivate quickly, causing countless New Youming Rakshasa and Asuras to bow, and now they dominate the unification war against Original Youming.

This is actually not all bad; after all, everyone is a cultivator, and once Youming Jie is unified, a ruler will be chosen. Even if not a Rakshasa, they still cannot let that false underworld dominate; they will remain in remote mountains as before.

But now the Dragon Scale Tribe, because of the war, has lost people over a dozen times, and the once thriving mid‑size tribe is gradually shrinking to a small one.

And who knows when this war will end?

"Sigh, in the end it's us, the low‑lying remote tribes, who bear the hardship; this can't continue."

If the war drags on for decades, will the Dragon Scale Tribe cease to exist?