Divine Brilliance

Feng Taiji’s return didn’t cause any waves at all in Yuanjing Celestial Palace.

The entire Celestial Palace knew that a war was imminent a long time ago and none of them were hoping that they would be able to avoid it.

They also wouldn’t anticipate the 4 sides to really follow what Zong Shou said and each give up 5 small-sized worlds.

Just thinking about it, one would realize that it was impossible. If Great Gan wasn’t willing to let matters stand like this, then the only outcome was bloodshed on the battlefield.

Luckily, there were the 10 Taiyi God Lightning Ships and close to 100,000 sets of Xuan and Huang Grade Dao Soldier armors, as well as a God Realm Cultivator of unknown background which put the entire Celestial Dynasty at ease.

Zong Shou didn’t really go crazy and it wasn’t because the Great Gan Celestial Dynasty didn’t have a chance at all.

As for the 500 Spirit Realm Slaves, only the higher-ups within the palace knew about it.

Only Feng Taiji and a few others knew about the 100 Celestial Realm Cultivators.

The entire Celestial Palace was locked up tightly.

Zong Shou wasn’t afraid that people would scout out this information. Once the Imperial Demon Slaying Formation started, even the weakest Spiritual Energy reaction would be noticed by the people within the formation.

As long as one wasn’t at the Saint Realm cultivation, the formation would be able to smash someone easily within 1,000 miles!

Even if one was Saint Realm, they wouldn’t be able to hide from his World Burning Blood Eyes.

At this moment, Hong Jiuchen and the others had far from the ability they needed to spy on Great Gan’s true strength.

He purposely hid the 500 Spirit Realm Slaves to act in secret. Actually, it was okay even if others found out. He was even trying his best to not leak it out within the palace.

On the one hand, it was to stabilize the hearts of the troops and on the other, it was the confuse the opponent.

The only thing he wasn’t willing to let the Nine Capital Celestial Dynasty know about were the 140 Source Ocean Demon Slaying Warriors.

Zong Shou was not actually relying on that. To be able to refine all the Heaven Grade Dao Soldiers before the battle was a good thing.

If he hadn’t traded with Chahou Hu, it would have taken years for him to collect all these materials.

At this moment, he had to wrack his brain to think of a way to keep the presence of those Source Ocean Demon Slaying Warriors a secret.

He made a series of arrangements before tossing everything down and going into secluded meditation once more.

All the Source Ocean Demon Slaying Warriors and Spirit Changing Demon Slaying Warriors were restrained by restrictions.

Only by cultivating and advancing could they break free from their identities as Dao Soldiers.

Practicing the Imperial Demon Slaying Formation was the best way for them to cultivate.

With the strength of the formation, one could comprehend the Dao. When their Energy Meridians were connected they could actually help each other cultivate.

Each time they successfully cycled the Imperial Demon Slaying Formation, it would provide huge benefits in comprehending the cultivation method.

This was why without needing Zong Shou to rush them, they would all automatically cultivate and demand perfection by themselves.

As for the Black Fox Iron Cavalry, the Generals within were all people who Zong Shou brought over from the Cloud World. He didn’t need to monitor and rush them, he only needed to raise the issue up to them and the rest was fine.

Zong Shou was happy about the fact that under Aokun’s protection, Lu Wubing finally stepped across the God Realm line and could rush over to help him.

At this moment, Great Gan Celestial Dynasty’s various official matters were taken over by Lu Wubing.

This person had great ability and was also successful in God Realm cultivation, so everyone respected him.

There was no chaos at all and he dealt with everything well.

In a short few weeks, he was able to obtain the recognition of the entire Celestial Dynasty, dealing with all the governance matters of the Dynasty promptly and effectively.

As a result, Zhuang Yu was able to put all his focus into military matters.

Zong Shou could also slack once more and didn’t need to worry about such burdensome things.

Since he charged out of the Nine Extreme Death Jail, Zong Shou didn’t have any time to continue studying the Sword Intent and comprehending spells.

In the beginning, he studied the Imperial Demon Slaying Records, then he refined Source Ocean Demon Slaying and Spirit Changing Demon Slaying Warriors. He also needed time to perfect the Support Cultivation method of the Black Fox Iron Cavalry.

At this moment, all matters were prepared well and only then could he fully focus on cultivation.

On the one hand, he continued to study the Return to One Sword Intent which was in the Intermediate Spirit Realm to try to improve further.

After perfecting the Imperial Demon Slaying Record’s two Heaven and Earth Grade cultivation methods, the greatest gain for Zong Shou was comprehending the Demon Slaying Sword Intent and it wasn’t a low grade either.

Even if it didn’t reach Intermediate Spirit Realm, it was not far away from that.

Using it along with the Killing Path Sword Intent, it would make his sword sharp and tough to block! It was really domineering and strong!

However, to merge it together with the other Sword Intents would require some effort.

On one side, he had to continue to perfect his World Shocking Spiritual Art, Spirit and Martial Double Cultivation, Dual Meridian Body.

This cultivation method was only suitable for him. It was a unique technique that Zong Shou created himself, using the strengths of different schools.

Each time Zong Shou’s cultivation improved, he needed to closely observe and not forget to continue to improve and perfect it, to always strengthen his foundations.

A self-created technique was just like that. It was suitable to his own body and utilized his cultivation and skills to their greatest extent.

However, it was extremely problematic when one cultivated in it.

At this moment, Zong Shou had obtained the legacy from Lin Xuanshuang using the Spirit Sleep Inducing Technique. He understood all the mysteries and the true meaning of the Source Life Spirit Breathing Technique.

He couldn’t cultivate it but he was confident in merging some of the strengths of this technique into his World Shocking Spiritual Art.

He didn’t hope to have endless lifeforce like in the Source Life Spirit Breathing Technique but he just hoped that he could sustain his World Shocking Spiritual Art.

Dual Meridian Body gave him extremely strong explosive ability and his technique also had such a specialty.

This was why when Zong Shou fought with people, he would often win in the first or second rounds.

When the sword was out, life and death were already decided.

This was a strength and also a weakness. He couldn’t just say how he was going to use his strength to cover his weakness and then not bother about the weaknesses of the technique at all.

Next would be the Lu Family Sky Burning Blood and the evolution of the Water Qilin Bloodline. Some portions of them even merged together. It gave him vast amounts of information so that he was able to see the possibility of merging both abilities into his body.

For some reason, ever since he learned of that person conquering 10 worlds from Chahou Hu and the Taoist Faction buying 1,000 Spirit Realm slaves, he became really anxious and trepidation wrapped around his soul.

Since he came out of the Nine Extreme Death Jail, the various weird occurrences proved that something had occured in the Cloud World.

It seemed like the Common People’s Path wasn’t in a good state.

“Master Xuanshuang said that Wei Xu is trying to pass his End Realm tribulation. Did something happen? Speaking of which, news between Yuanlian World and Cloud World has been cut off for two months. It is indeed a little weird…”

At this moment, he really wanted to just rush back to the Cloud World to see what was happening there.

It wasn’t fully because of his relationship with the Common People’s Path but if the nest were to collapse, there would be no eggs left intact.

Even if he went all out to end his relationship with the Common People’s Path, he had to admit that the reason Great Gan was able to stand safely in the Cloud world was because of Common People’s Path’s protection in the dark.

The agreement with the Taoist Faction that year was also because they had stood by his side.

If anything happened to the Common People’s Vast Habitat, no one would be able to restrict the Taoist Faction and they would have nothing to worry about at all.

Then, his close family in the Cloud World would have nowhere to escape to.

Even without all this, just because of his own feelings, he didn’t want anything bad to happen to the Common People’s Path.

His heart was in a mess, it was like he was sitting on a bed of needles. However, he could only wait until the matter with Nine Capital Celestial Dynasty came to an end!

Before this, he would go all out to make himself stronger. This wouldn’t be wrong no matter what.

He fully focused on cultivation but this was the first time he felt like time passed really slowly.

Especially with the Book of Eon Extreme Life accelerating, each second and moment was torture.

Luckily, he was good at calming himself down and he could still bear with it and persist. Although he would be distracted sometimes, most of the time he could suppress the anxiousness in his heart to focus on cultivation.

Another half a month of painful waiting passed.

New news would spread nearly every day. At this moment, in the outer region, just the Nine Capital Celestial Dynasty alone had a total of 60 Spaceships.

Amongst these, there were 8 Cold Crystal Shadow Blade Ships that were the treasures of the Nine Capital Celestial Dynasty and on the same grade as the Taiyi God Lightning Ships.

Around the ship there were 18 Cold Crystal Shadow Blades which were really strong. With a Spiritual Formation supporting the ship from within, it could be compared to the full power strike of a Peak Celestial Realm Cultivator.

Apart from the ship, there were also around 100,000 Xuan and Huang Grade Dao Soldiers.

At this moment, outside of the World River, there were signs of God Realm Experts from the Nine Capital Celestial Dynasty, 17 of them.

As for whether there were any Saint Realm cultivators, that was currently unknown.

This was just for Nine Capital Celestial Dynasty. The others, Xuanling Guild, Jijue Celestial Dynasty, etc., although they weren’t as strong, they sent a total of 60,000 Dao Soldiers! There were around 20 Spaceships!

Tianfang Guild was on a similar level as those two as they were going almost all in and splashing nearly all their cash.

A storm like aura was charging straight for their faces.

With Zong Shou’s short few years in Yuanlian World, his news didn’t spread as quickly or widely compared to the others.

He was unable to scout out the number of troops and experts these few sides had.

Most of the information was sent over by Chahou Hu.

Zong Shou didn’t worry much about the military might of these few sides.

The strength of the Big Dipper Sword Soldiers and the Big Dipper Crossbow Soldiers were proven during the ancient Qin Era.

They were undoubtedly the strongest among Huang Grade Dao Soldiers.

As for the Black Fox Iron Cavalry, he was confident that they weren’t weaker than any Xuan Grade Dao Soldiers!

Nine Capital Celestial Dynasty had a million troops split up in various areas to defend many areas. They could at most gather around 100,000 people here.

Along with the other three sides, they had at most 180,000 troops.

The gap between numbers wasn’t that huge, only double. It would depend on the standards of the Commanders as well as the strength of the Dao Soldiers themselves…

As for the Spaceships in the World River, they had close to 6 times as many.

Could Shi Ruolan handle it?

The news he got received was all really secretive. However, the people of the Yuanjing Celestial Palace were more or less able to sense something and the atmosphere slowly became quite nervous.

Zong Shou could sense this within his room. He decided not to cultivate and just waited patiently instead.

He knew that the Nine Capital Celestial Dynasty was probably going to give him an answer in the near future.

As expected, in just a day, a golden decree was sent in from the void and into the Celestial Palace.

Many golden words shot out from the decree causing everyone within the palace to raise their heads to look over.

Zong Shou took one look and laughed coldly.