Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension-Chapter 1531 - 829: Jiuxuan City, Ku Rong Forest

Rumble, rumble...

A series of sonic booms suddenly echoed across the sky as a streak of light shot from the horizon. Where it passed, the flying snow whipped upwards, and the ground was similarly torn open into a massive trench, quickly extending to the ends of the earth.

In an instant, countless lives were startled out of their hiding places, frantically fleeing into the distance.

Boom!

The streak of light crossed more than half of the snow plain and finally crashed into a high mountain ridge, leaving a bottomless hole at its midsection.

Zhao Sheng was deeply embedded in the mountain, feeling an intense pain throughout his entire body.

He waved away the stones piled on top of him and slowly stood up from the ground, immediately hearing the cracking sound of broken bones within his body.

Zhao Sheng furrowed his brow slightly, looked inward at himself, and found he had broken seven ribs and displaced four or five vertebrae.

"Hmm, a minor flaw in the formation’s initial version; I’ll improve it next time," Zhao Sheng muttered to himself.

As he spoke, a yellow light enveloped his entire body, and he quickly descended into the earth.

A moment later, he was already more than two thousand miles underground, then shredded a high-level Earth Escape Talisman, once again tunneling over five hundred and thirty miles horizontally, before finally establishing a temporary cave mansion as a hiding place.

The over two thousand miles thick earth layer was a natural barrier. Even a Half-Immortal of the Void could not penetrate such a deep layer to pull him out.

Indeed, it was so.

The Demon Emperor’s Divine Split, unwilling to give up, indeed tracked all the way to the nameless mountain ridge.

Unfortunately, it arrived too late, and all clues ended there. Despite its immense divine skills during its life, it could not locate the daring thief.

Helplessly, in its burning fury, the Demon Emperor’s Divine Split flattened the entire mountain ridge.

After venting some of its anger, it left with deep resentment.

On the other side, King Beiming finally resolved, regardless of what happened at the Sky-reaching Cliff, since the army had already destroyed Demon Vibration City, this war could not be abandoned halfway but must proceed as planned until the final goal was achieved.

In just one day, the Beiming Army first destroyed Demon Vibration City and then rapidly relocated to another place, starting a lightning-paced guerrilla warfare.

The Human Clan, upon receiving the shocking news of Demon Vibration City’s destruction, saw Mountain and River Sect’s top echelons quickly respond.

Within a few days, an elite force composed of five Divinity Transformations and over three hundred and forty Nascent Souls departed from the headquarters to pursue the Beiming Army with all their might.

Within a month, the two elite forces met at a place in the Outer Domain, and a cataclysmic battle erupted between them.

The battle raged fiercely, with rivers of blood flowing as both sides suffered heavy casualties.

At the most intense moment of the battle, Jun Beiming, disregarding appearances, was the first to strike at the Human Clan’s Divinity Transformation.

Fortunately, the Human Clan had prepared in advance, with the commander on their side, the previous Sect Leader of Mountain and River Sect, decisively unleashing the sect’s treasure, the Mountain and River Seal.

Moreover, within the Mountain and River Seal existed a Returning to Void Splitting God.

Under the control of the Returning to Void Splitting God, the True Form Spirit Treasure Mountain and River Seal was akin to a Half-Immortal of the Void, surprisingly holding its own against Jun Beiming for a time.

Before long, the Human Clan’s Returning to Void expert suddenly arrived at the battlefield, immediately slaying two Divinity Transformation Level Great Roc, tipping the scales significantly in their favor.

Seeing the unfavorable situation, Jun Beiming resolutely activated the Wind God Formation, using its power to unite his subordinate demon beasts into a whole, then swiftly piercing through the void, escaping into the First Dark Heaven, eventually disappearing without a trace.

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As flowers bloom twofold, each appears distinct!

To evade pursuit, Zhao Sheng hid underground for a full year.

Time flew by, seasons changed, and in the blink of an eye, it was winter again.

On this day, the sky was overcast with dark clouds, a biting wind howling through, the lake surface frozen into a thick, solid ice, heralding yet another heavy snowfall.

However, in such bone-chilling weather, a lush, verdant forest astonishingly stood by the lakeside.

No!

This wasn’t a forest, but rather... an impossibly gigantic ancient banyan tree.

The massive tree crown, like an umbrella blocking out the heavens, covered a span of a hundred miles, with countless enormous roots sinking into the ground like towering columns, upholding this expanse of sky and earth, making the surrounding palace complexes seem insignificant, like mere toys.

In fact, those palatial complexes, built upon this Ancient Spirit Root, were grand and towering, often over a hundred feet tall, in a style both understated and luxurious, far surpassing the high standards of workshop buildings in the Outer City.

This Ancient Kuro covered a hundred miles, considered immense, yet in comparison to Jiuxuan City it was but a drop in the ocean, insignificant.

Jiuxuan City was the oldest Immortal City in the Red Cloud Spirit Domain. Legend has it that it existed even before the Spirit Domain was established, with its founding date long lost to history.

Jiuxuan City was divided into thirty-six districts, each stretching a thousand miles and housing billions of people, equivalent to an entire nation.

This Ancient Kuro grew in the Immortal Grace Lake district of the sixth city, one of the city’s most famous sights. Each year, countless cultivators were drawn by its reputation, making it one of the dozen most flourishing locales in Jiuxuan City.

The headquarters of Wanyou Trading Company was situated in such a prime location.

In other words, Wanyou Trading Company was actually the owner of this Ancient Kuro and this land.

The profound heritage of Wanyou Trading Company was thus evident!