Chapter 556: Chapter 381: Seclusion! The Edge of War, Shattering the Core!

Zhong Heng’s Divine Sense penetrated into the Qiankun Five Elements Gourd.

Endless five-colored light gradually coalesced into a five-colored pill.

"Formed by the most refined essence of the Qi of the Five Elements..."

"Five Elements Great Pill."

[In the year 5314 of the New Source Era, you returned to the Celestial Rainbow Cultivation Realm.]

[After accepting the inheritance, both your cultivation and your Five Elements Spirit Body have greatly enhanced.]

[After briefly understanding the situation, you immediately returned to seclusion.]

[At this moment, the pressure from both the north and south is significant.]

[The Four Directions Cultivation Realm wants to head north and seize more territory. They have begun to put more pressure on the Celestial Rainbow Alliance.]

[The Guangyun Celestial Sect wants to use war as a reason to annex the Celestial Rainbow Alliance. Even Yunmiao Master is somewhat moved, but because you haven’t been in the Celestial Rainbow Alliance for these years, Yunmiao Master hasn’t confided in you.]

[Just as you thought, the Guangyun Celestial Sect and the Celestial Rainbow Alliance make no great difference to Yunmiao Master.]

[But you have to preserve the Celestial Rainbow Alliance because you don’t know how much the River Map’s deduction ability will degrade if you lose the position of Alliance Leader.]

[Now there is only one plan: Break the Core to Form an Infant!]

"Break the Core to Form an Infant!"

Zhong Heng sat cross-legged in the underground secret chamber of the Divine Strategy Valley.

The secret chamber was extremely vast, and layers of Spirit Gathering Arrays absorbed and compressed the already dense Spiritual Qi from the outside.

Neat piles of Upper-grade Spirit Stones were stacked in the chamber, and the Array was continuously dispersing their Spiritual Qi.

Visible mist of Spiritual Qi surged towards Zhong Heng’s pores and orifices.

"I’m just a hair’s breadth away from Golden Core Perfection."

"Pills can solve part of it, but there are not many pills that can remove impurities. If I consume too many ordinary Cultivation Pills, my foundation will be unstable, and the probability of breaking through will instead decrease..."

But...

Zhong Heng removed the plug from the gourd at his waist, and five-colored light spread into the space.

Over two thousand years, the Qiankun Five Elements Gourd had transformed an unknown quantity of the Qi of the Five Elements. Even Divinity Transformation Powerhouses would have to spend a considerable effort to gather ordinary Qi of the Five Elements.

But now the Qi of the Five Elements in the Five Elements Qiankun Gourd was nearly endless.

Five streams of Flowing Light shone on Zhong Heng’s body.

That was the Five Elements Body.

The Five Elements Sacred Beast Array was deployed, and five drops of True Blood had already been locked with this Array. It would require some effort to take them out.

Zhong Heng didn’t extract the True Blood and instead used the Array to enhance his cultivation.

Instead, he relied on the Five Elements Sacred Beast Array to suppress his cultivation and remove impurities.

Spirit Stones, pills, Qi of the Five Elements...

A vast amount of resources gradually elevated Zhong Heng’s cultivation.

............

The Guangyun Celestial Sect was already bustling.

But unlike two hundred years ago when the three major forces besieged the Guangyun Celestial Sect, now the Guangyun Celestial Sect had a Nascent Soul Ancestor overseeing it, and all the disciples and Elders performed their duties in an orderly manner.

The strength of the entire Qiuxu Cultivation Realm was mobilized.

"Ancestor, the current plan is to temporarily merge the Celestial Rainbow Alliance into our Qiuxu Cultivation Realm, thereby focusing our strength!"

"The Celestial Rainbow Alliance only defends and does not attack, which emboldens those thieves from the Four Directions Cultivation Realm!"

"I beg the Ancestor to see clearly!"

Each Elder, at least at the Late-Stage Golden Core, stood below in two neat rows, bowing toward the upper rank.

Sitting in the higher position was a woman.

The woman sat cross-legged, like a millennium-long iceberg.

Her high nose bridge and distinct lip line were not extraordinarily beautiful, yet there was an inexplicable appeal.

Her eyes were closed, as if isolated from the world, her face sculpted like ice, devoid of any expression.

She wore a deep blue robe, embroidered with intricate silver sword patterns. The robe’s hem draped gently like flowing water, yet its resilience mirrored a sword’s edge.

This was Yunmiao.

Yunmiao had her eyes slightly closed, hands resting softly on her knees, holding the Bladeless Longsword that emitted a faint chill.

Yunmiao did not speak.

The Elders below didn’t dare move; they felt as if an icy snowfield lay before them.

The Ancestor’s cultivation has increased!

This thought flashed through everyone’s mind.

Yunmiao slightly opened her eyes, a trace of impatience in them.

"Just as well, I’ve been wanting to leave this place too. I heard there are some interesting movements far to the north..."

The Elders were startled, dropping to one knee on the ground.

"Ancestor, you mustn’t!"

The Yunmiao Ancestor, as a Supreme, was not considered qualified, but she didn’t care at all and was protective of her own.

Without Yunmiao, these Golden Core Elders dared not gamble on Elder Zhu’s temperament.

"Alright, I owe the Guangyun Celestial Sect this."

"I’ll engage in another bout with that Old Ghost Zhu."

Before the Elders could speak, Yunmiao transformed into a Flowing Light and left.

The Elders could only smile wryly.

"Do not disturb Zhong Heng." Her departing figure left behind a voice.

The various Elders all agreed.

It seems their own Ancestor had already acquiesced.

Their Ancestor’s power reached the skies, yet that old monster Zhu, from a Secret Realm not even considered a Blessed Land, could hold his own against the Yunmiao Ancestor.

If either party was merely at the Early-Stage Nascent Soul, this war would have ended long ago.

Due to the even match at the Nascent Soul Level, the lower-level war was at a stalemate.

"The Celestial Rainbow Alliance is difficult to infiltrate; their system is too tight..."

"Since stealth is not possible, force them to make a move."