Chapter 343: Chapter 150: Four Sides Focus on Yunluan Mountain, The Second Cycle Begins! (End of Volume 1)

As the turmoil gradually subsided.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month had passed.

After decades of development, the Yunluan Sword Palace, which was once only at the ’True Sect’ level, had been promoted to a Dao Lineage. Although slightly weaker in foundation compared to those long-established powers renowned throughout the state.

But for Jixia, who was only in the first stage of the Primordial Pill, the Jade Liquid Realm, cultivating here to consolidate the foundation was more than sufficient.

Though lacking the replenishment of Demon Suppression Dao Qi, the Sword Viewing Forest of Yunluan Mountain was adept at nurturing Yunluan Sword Qi, ranking among the True Sect Qi grade.

If one continued to cultivate here for a long time, with Jixia’s profound talent, it would take at most thirty years to accumulate perfection and begin cultivating Qi Transformation Dragon and Tiger, a method to refine Dragon Tiger Divine Power.

It might sound extremely long.

But for a Primordial Pill Martial Artist with a life extension of two hundred years, it is actually more than sufficient.

Take Jixia, who reached the third-step Primordial Pill Realm at just over twenty years old, as an example.

At this pace, he would have the opportunity to make an assault to ’knock on the Celestial Gate, advancing to the fourth step’ before reaching one hundred years old.

Furthermore, having formed a top-grade Primordial Pill, his chance of knocking on the Celestial Gate was 30% higher than others, and after the breakthrough, the foundation would be even more solid!

If he revealed this, many elderly martial artists, either aged one hundred seventy or eighty or constantly plagued with hidden injuries, reaching the end of their life at a hundred, would envy him to no end.

After all,

ordinary people refining the ’Jade Liquid Void Pill’.

Without enduring seventy or eighty years of hardship, then spending another twenty or thirty years hardening the Dragon Tiger Divine Power, there’s no opportunity at all.

Knocking on the Celestial Gate and betting on a chance to achieve a True Master and soar high—that’s Celestial Pride.

Though from the Martial Gate Foundation Establishment to the Primordial Pill, there were hardly any fools.

But martial cultivation is like this when one stands out at the Great Innate, full of vigor, striving for further improvement, reaching the Primordial Pill...

When you look up, you’ll find.

It turns out the world is full of Primordial Pills. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

And you are merely one among the myriad Primordial Pills.

Only those who continue to progress with gusto after advancement are worthy of being called Celestial Pride!

And Jixia,

is that one-in-a-thousand Primordial Pill.

The ’revival of the Nirvana Corpse’ in Black Mountain City had already concluded, and after the disappearance of the Immortal Nirvana Palace, the Nirvana Corpse infiltrated various True Sects as if the Elder Ancestor had returned.

Over time, these scattered Nirvana Corpses across Baoping would inevitably become a hidden danger.

Wutong Prefecture was under the control of Jixia’s former subordinate ’Zheng Zizhen’.

With Tantai Yao recently promoted to True Master, sitting in the Prefecture City, establishing a sect and expelling demons from Wutong Prefecture completely.

The Xuanqing Demon Vein became a thing of the past, and Wutong Prefecture reestablished its connection with Great Zhao.

It was learned that the brother of one of the Great Zhao Military Family’s leaders, State Lord Lan Jingyi, Duke Liang ’Lan Jingyu’, personally led elite troops to Baoping State for aid.

Zheng Zizhen, under Jixia’s instruction, specifically used the Mansion Venerable Order to convey information to the State Mansion about how ’Nirvana Corpses’ needed to orchestrate a Nirvana Tribulation, inducing killing intent in living beings, thereby enhancing cultivation and drawing in blood energy.

Thus,

at this time...

Baoping Mansion!

During this time.

Three True Master-level masters from the Divine Capital, two giants, and one True Master.

Naming them: ’Duke Liang’ Lan Jingyu, Gu Wen, one of the major families from the Divine Capital, and Lu Xingshuang from Duke Lu’s Mansion, once married to Dragon-slaying Marquis Jiang Xiao, later separated, cultivated the highest inheritance of the Emotionless Dao, and advanced to True Master.

They rallied the entire power of Baoping State, gathered the military, and orchestrated three battles!

Directly,

causing the demons, which originally had half the land divided with Great Zhao amidst the flames of war, to retreat to the ’Demon Suppression Mansion’, using the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall as a natural barrier, engaging in a decisive battle with the Great Zhao Army.

All other areas were fully recovered.

In this continuous battle, Qin Wubai, the Master of Xuanbing Cave who revived decades ago, and Gu Lao Zu, the founder of the Baoping Gu Family, displayed extraordinary bravery, leading many summoned ’Nirvana Seekers’ into fierce combat with demons, achieving notable achievements.

Even...

After three major battles were over.

Their cultivation also advanced by leaps and bounds, seemingly only a step away from becoming giants!

However, the Northwest Wilderness was reluctant to yield this natural barrier, and even the Jing River Dragon King personally wielded a ’Hundred Moisture Map’, suspected to be a Grotto Heaven Treasure, flooding the three armies, causing the battlefield to be deadlocked for a time.

Thus, Baoping Mansion, bordering the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall, became the frontline where the two armies faced off, with True Masters, Primordial Pill Martial Artists, and experts emerging one after another.

Yet at this moment.

A message with the official seal from ’Wutong Prefecture’ broke the silence.

In the long night.

In Baoping Mansion, on the frontline, Dragon Burial City!

It was rumored that at the end of the Great Demon Hunter Master’s era, there were several theories about his fall.

Some said he died of exhaustion after killing immortals in the Grotto Heaven.

Some said he achieved enlightenment and ascended among the clouds.

Others said he fought too much throughout his life, leaving too many injuries he couldn’t heal, and sat down to await oblivion.

And one of the most widely spread among the populace.

Was the third theory.

Because the Great Demon Hunter Master was very peculiar.

Every so often, he would leave behind one of his ’figurative burial mounds’, scattered throughout the world. After spending decades roaming, many of them were recorded as having been left.

It was said,

in Baoping State, there was a ’legendary burial site’ that hadn’t emerged or been discovered, buried near the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall he personally built and used to expel invaders back in the day.

In later generations, as Great Zhao reestablished order in the five states, a massive city with a million households was built nearby and was named ’Dragon Burial City’.

Many True Masters and great figures lingered here, hoping to uncover some clue about his ’figurative burial mounds’, but in the end, most went away empty-handed.