Chapter 111
Chapter 111
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Translator: Ace
Chapter: 111
Chapter Title: The Saint Sect That Pulls Hatred
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Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Jiangbei.
Three Golden Core True Lords joined forces to manifest their dharma bodies, anchoring the earth's ley lines and plucking a star from the sky with a single hand. The sheer grandeur of the scene left Lu Yang stunned for a long while.
"This is the Seizing the Dao Battle."
"But this time, the Seizing the Dao Battle is small-scale. Only Qi Refining disciples need to participate. In the true grand battles, even Perfected Beings must descend personally."
"And you're in luck. Those sword-wielding lunatics from Jiangnan didn't show up."
Beside him, Perfected Chongguang let out a deep sigh before explaining, "This star is actually a realm-heaven drifting beyond the skies."
"Every so often, a realm-heaven draws near from beyond. At that time, the various True Lords act to capture one that would otherwise merely brush past us. They refine it, then initiate the Seizing the Dao Battle. We are then tasked with entering it to seize the realm-heaven on behalf of the True Lords."
"Whoever wins, the realm-heaven belongs to them."
"The victorious True Lord can then use the 'realm-heaven' as a seed, nailing it into the territory of any defeated side, extending their own fruition's influence."
"The realm-heaven will thus transform into a wondrous spectacle."
At this point, Perfected Chongguang seemed to recall something and chuckled.
"For instance, that Ten Thousand Men Pit in Jiangnan was once won by Yin Shan. It was originally a realm-heaven as well, and the great shamans inside had some tricks up their sleeves."
"Unfortunately, those shamans were stubborn to the end. After Yin Shan and the others won, the True Lord couldn't be bothered to waste time on them, so he simply buried them all alive. He then embedded the realm-heaven into Jiangnan's territory, creating the Ten Thousand Men Pit—which has now become our Primal Saint Sect's bridgehead against the Sword Pavilion."
Lu Yang listened with rapt fascination.
With Perfected Chongguang explaining to this extent, how could he not understand? These so-called realm-heavens were clearly small worlds akin to technique-refining secret realms!
"I thought only Dao Lords possessed the great power to control minor realms." Lu Yang couldn't help sighing.
"Dao Lord, huh."
Perfected Chongguang shook his head. "You're talking about technique-refining secret realms. Those are different—they're created by Dao Lords, not captured."
Capturing realm-heavens, creating realm-heavens.
The gap between the two was perhaps precisely the gap between Golden Core True Lords and Nascent Soul Dao Lords. Lu Yang took a deep breath, swiftly clearing his stray thoughts.
No use overthinking. Business first.
Lu Yang's expression turned solemn as he spoke again. "Uncle Master, does that mean this realm-heaven also harbors some natives with extraordinary abilities?"
Perfected Chongguang nodded. "That's part of what you'll face. Some natives are no pushovers—especially after the realm-heaven senses its own doom upon being captured by a True Lord. It instinctively empowers its native chosen one out of survival instinct, and those heaven-destined sons are tough to deal with."
"But defeating them is also one of the victory conditions."
With those words, Perfected Chongguang tapped lightly, producing a scroll painting. It depicted mountains encircling a clear stream cascading from the peak.
"This is called the Abyss-Sinking Assembly-Halting Diagram, the fruition treasure of our Primal Saint Sect's Perfected Being Qingcheng Feixue for this battle."
"On the other side, the True Lords of Jiangdong's Tianwu Dao Court and Jiangxi's Shenle Pure Land will each embed one of their own fruition treasures into the realm-heaven as the standard for judgment."
"Your task is to destroy the opponent's fruition treasure."
"Or defeat the heaven-destined son within the realm-heaven, seize the realm-heaven's 'celestial allotment,' and fuse it into your own fruition treasure. Accomplishing either counts as victory."
With that, Perfected Chongguang handed the scroll to Lu Yang.
"Normally, this would only be given to the strongest participant in the Seizing the Dao Battle. You take it. How to use it and how to win is up to your judgment."
"Additionally, this item itself is a wondrous treasure. When unfurled, it manifests a stretch of mountains and ley lines as a fortress against enemies. Any non-Primal Saint Sect disciple who enters has their cultivation weakened by thirty percent, while our sect's disciples fighting inside see their divine abilities boosted by seventy percent in power."
Lu Yang received the Abyss-Sinking Assembly-Halting Diagram and carefully stowed it away.
A moment later, the star captured by the three True Lords blazed with sudden radiance. Lu Yang's disciple token vibrated faintly.
He clearly sensed a guiding force descend upon it.
It seemed that with a mere thought, this guiding force would carry him to an unfamiliar land.
"The time has come. Go."
Perfected Chongguang spoke at the right moment. "Once inside the realm-heaven, everyone will be randomly scattered. Remember, first rendezvous with the other true transmission disciples."
"Yuantu understands." Lu Yang nodded immediately.
The next second, a visible beam of guiding light erupted from his disciple token, enveloping his entire body before descending into the stellar realm-heaven.
Within the stellar realm-heaven.
As a minor realm-heaven that had existed for who knew how long, this day it welcomed a meteor shower of unprecedented, super-massive scale.
Jiangdong, Tianwu Dao Court.
Jiangxi, Shenle Pure Land.
Jiangbei, Primal Saint Sect.
Disciples from all three sides entered together. It should have been a random dispersal as Perfected Chongguang described, but this time, a variable arose.
In a mountain forest within the realm-heaven, as a robed monk with a compassionate face landed amid the trees and activated an intricately complex talisman, streams of light soon flashed. Three figures with fierce auras appeared beside him.
"You monks have quite the tricks."
One of them grinned. "This Heart-Linked Life-Binding Talisman lives up to its name. Now we can gather ahead of time."
"My thanks, Master."
Another was a burly man in black armor, hand resting on his sword hilt, his voice deep. "No time to waste. I need to assemble the troops immediately."
The monk pressed his palms together. "Amitabha. Indeed, we can't let the demonic path run rampant any longer."
The black-armored man was Wang Jinting, the Dao Court's commissioned "Pacification General," leading an entire contingent of Dao-guarding troops in this Seizing the Dao Battle.
Without question, he was the leader on the Tianwu Dao Court side.
The monk, named Guang Hai, was a disciple of a newly ascended Arhat from Shenle Pure Land, with prospects for the Guardian Vajra position. He too was the Pure Land's leader.
The Dao Court and Pure Land had long since joined forces!
In the previous Seizing the Dao Battle, Perfected Being Yin Shan had yet to establish his foundation, his divine abilities sweeping all before him. The Primal Saint Sect had dominated, even pushing into Jiangnan. This time, with the Dao Court and Pure Land secretly colluding for the battle, it was to suppress the demonic path's arrogance.
The next second, Wang Jinting drew a scroll from his bosom.
He unfurled it and pointed with a incantation gesture. Murky mists rose instantly, morphing into a grand vista of mountains and rivers.
Red dots flickered across the map besides.
"This is the Broad Cartography Panorama Chart. It can scan all auras great and small within the realm-heaven, then expend spirit power to teleport people to designated locations."
Heart-Linked Life-Binding Talisman, Broad Cartography Panorama Chart.
These were the fruition treasures specially condensed by the two True Lords from the Dao Court and Pure Land for this Seizing the Dao Battle—both effects highly targeted.
The former allowed randomly scattered disciples to swiftly regroup; the latter enabled immediate pinpointing of dispersed Primal Saint Sect disciples, concentrating forces for outnumbered fights, seizing the initiative. Used well, it could even secure victory from the start!
(End of chapter)