#1341 - Prepare

Li Zhixuan looked rather disheveled, but her eyes shone brightly, indicating she had gained a lot in the void.

Returning to Myriad Immortal Mountain, she handed several jade slips to Li Xiuyuan before flying straight into her cave dwelling to begin a closed-door cultivation session to digest her gains.

Although she hadn't broken through, her realm, cultivation, and strength had all improved significantly.

However, her greatest gains were the spiritual objects she obtained in the void and her understanding of the chaotic creatures.

When Li Zhixuan opened her eyes and stopped cultivating, she didn't choose to leave her seclusion. Instead, she took out two chaotic spiritual objects. One shimmered with golden light, emitting a sharp spiritual aura as soon as it appeared, while the other shone with silver light, its material extremely tough.

She didn't know the names of these two chaotic spiritual objects, but she knew that refining them into her Natal Magic Treasure would further enhance the power of her Profound Sword!

Therefore, for the next ten years or so, Li Zhixuan busied herself in her cave dwelling, tempering the spiritual objects and integrating them into her Profound Sword.

… …

Meanwhile, when Li Xiuyuan received those jade slips, he didn't immediately realize their significance. It wasn't until he read their contents that he understood how precious they were.

"These numerous records, I wonder how many dangers Zhixuan had to brave to summarize so many weaknesses and specialized divine abilities of these chaotic creatures."

These jade slips couldn't be made public just yet, but he could arrange for the clansmen to start copying them. When the time was right, they could be distributed directly, allowing the clansmen to understand the chaotic creatures, not necessarily to target them, but at least to broaden their horizons.

After all, before officially attacking the other world, the creatures of the Yuanling Realm would still need to traverse a stretch of void, facing the threat of the chaotic creatures hidden within!

Of course, this was only a problem faced by the vanguard.

Once the vanguard successfully invaded that world and established an anchor point, the two worlds would, under some great power, traverse layers of space and directly connect together.

And from that moment on, the true great war would erupt!

Li Zhirui wanted to be a member of the vanguard for a simple reason: the greater the risk, the greater the reward!

And he had extreme confidence in his own strength and self-preservation abilities.

Most importantly, the purification laws he controlled, if they could truly alleviate the suppression of the extraterritorial Heavenly Dao as the He family of Jade Gate said, then the sooner he entered the extraterritorial world, the greater his advantage would be!

When Li Zhirui emerged from his seclusion and saw the jade slips that Li Xiuyuan had specially sent him, he knew that Li Zhixuan had returned to the family.

"She has collected so much information on chaotic creatures; she must have worked hard."

Before long, he had finished reading the contents and couldn't help but sigh.

However, he certainly wouldn't let Li Zhixuan's hard work of so many years go to waste!

Thinking of this, Li Zhirui went to the treasury and exchanged a large number of spirit stones for contribution points. He planned to nurture a batch of Earth Immortal-grade spiritual objects to refine immortal pills.

He had already decided that in the next hundred years or so, besides his daily cultivation, he would spend the rest of his time refining pills!

Refining Earth Immortal-grade immortal pills required his full attention and meticulous completion, but immortal pills of other grades didn't require such tension.

With Li Zhirui's current level of alchemy, he could refine several furnaces or several different kinds of pills at the same time, ensuring a higher success rate.

This was the advantage of water-based alchemy!

However, the path of alchemy was already quite difficult, and water-based alchemy was even more so. If one didn't have enough talent, they wouldn't even be able to enter the door.

In the last two hundred years, Li Zhirui, Li Zhixuan, Jiang Fengwu, Daqing… all the Immortal Realm cultivators of the Li family were seizing the time to find ways to improve their strength.

Some chose to refine immortal pills; some chose to upgrade their Natal Magic Treasures; and some were exhaling and absorbing a large amount of spiritual energy, wanting to push their cultivation further.

Fortunately, the final result didn't disappoint Jiang Fengwu!

After obtaining the Innate Grand Array and secluding herself to comprehend it for hundreds of years, she finally stepped into the late stage of Human Immortal.

And the cultivation of people like Li Xianxun and Li Yunran also broke through one after another.

In addition, the family also gave birth to many newly promoted Loose Immortals.

As for the breakthroughs of the mortal realm clansmen, there were even more! After all, if they didn't make much progress with the large amount of resources provided by the family, then they would really be wasting spiritual objects.

Many people realized that the family was hiding something very important from them, but no one asked, because they knew that there was a reason why the family didn't want them to know.

Now it was just not the time, and when the time was right, they would definitely not hide it from them anymore!

At the same time.

In the distant West Continent, in the Demon Ancestor Mountain.

Countless Earth Immortal and Heavenly Immortal demon cultivators projected a wisp of their souls to this place.

"For such an important matter as the war between the two worlds, the gods of the Heavenly Court would rather tell the demon race, the sea race, and even those surviving ancient races, but they are unwilling to tell us in advance!"

Even though this Heavenly Immortal Great Demon had known about this matter for a long time, he still couldn't suppress his anger when he spoke of it now.

Initially, Ziwei revealed the news of the war between the two worlds to the representatives of various camps in the Heavenly Court, but none of them were gods from the demonic path!

So the demonic path really didn't know anything at first. It wasn't until later that they discovered that the immortal path, the demon race, and the sea race were all not quite right, that they realized something was wrong.

After all, the simultaneous retreat and defensive posture of these three forces was too suspicious.

The demonic path only needed to investigate a little deeper to get the answer.

The news had been spread to I don't know how many forces and cultivators, and it was no longer a secret.

"Now that there are still more than a hundred years before the war, what ideas do you have? Is anyone willing to go to the vanguard?"

Although the demonic path was notorious, it was also a creature of the Yuanling Realm. If the Yuanling Realm lost in the war, they would not have a good end, so they also wanted to do something and contribute their own strength.

The scene was silent! Not a single demon cultivator responded.

When the war broke out, they would devote their strength and fight for the Yuanling Realm, but no one was willing to risk this life-or-death danger.

"Since that's the case, then let's prepare well for the subsequent war."

Not only the demonic path, but also the immortal path, the divine path, the demon race, the sea race… all the major camps began to discuss frequently.

Because the war was about to come, they didn't hide it like before, so that they were discovered by rogue cultivators and noticed something was wrong.

Those high-level rogue cultivators all took action, visiting the major forces, wanting to know what exactly was going to happen.

Even the Li family welcomed a Land Immortal who came from a rogue cultivator background!

"Greetings, Senior Jinghong."

This person had quite a reputation among rogue cultivators, and Li Xiuyuan had also heard of his name.

"Clan Leader Li is too kind. I have come to visit suddenly this time, but I have something to ask. Now that various forces are acting frequently and purchasing various spiritual objects at high prices, is there some major event happening?"

"Since Senior Jinghong has asked, I naturally won't hide anything…" Li Xiuyuan directly told him about the war between the two realms.

Anyway, there was less than a hundred years left, and it was time to reveal everything, so there was no need to continue hiding it.

"War between the two realms!"

Jinghong's expression froze, and his face turned pale. He originally thought that the Yuanling Realm was experiencing a great calamity, and the major factions were engaged in a bloody battle. If that were the case, he could still shrink into a corner and hide until the end of the calamity.

But if it was a war between the two realms, I am afraid that he could not simply escape.

Because the Heavenly Dao would not let him hide!

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. As a Land Immortal, Jinghong's strength was not weak, so how could the Heavenly Dao let him go?

"Thank you, Clan Leader Li, for informing me. I won't disturb you any further. Farewell."

He now had no other thoughts, only to seize the last bit of time to prepare various spiritual objects and improve his ability to protect himself.

"Senior Jinghong, did the Li family tell you what's going on?"

Outside Wanjian Mountain, a group of rogue cultivators who had been waiting here for a long time immediately surrounded him.

Jinghong looked at this group of weak rogue cultivators and thought to himself that after this battle, I am afraid that less than one in a hundred rogue cultivators would survive!

"Alas!"

He sighed and told the truth.

"There are only a hundred years left. You should try your best to improve your strength."

After saying that, he ignored the group of stunned rogue cultivators and turned into a spiritual light, disappearing into the horizon.

After the news of the war between the two realms was made public, the first reaction of many rogue cultivators was as if they had been frozen in place, and it took a long time to recover.

Among them, some chose to seize the time to improve their strength; some chose to give up completely, indulging in debauchery all day long.

Some chose to join the Demonic Path, because they could quickly improve their cultivation and increase their strength; and some were mentally broken, feeling that they had no way to survive, and wanted to drag everyone else down with them!

The former two would not cause any damage to the vicinity, but the latter two would destroy the stable environment, which was not conducive to the final sprint of all living beings.

In response, the various forces would definitely suppress them with all their strength, not giving them a chance to cause any waves.

The entire Yuanling Realm fell into silence, as if all living beings were cultivating diligently, but under the calm lake, there was great pressure and surging undercurrents!

Waiting for an opportunity to erupt!

…

In the vast starry sky, the most dazzling area is the location of the Big Dipper Star System.

"Now that the news has been completely spread, you should publicly summon the creatures who are willing to participate in the vanguard team." The voice of Doumu Yuanjun came from nowhere.

"Your child understands."

Ziwei agreed to this matter without hesitation, turned into a purple light and disappeared, returning to his main body in the Heavenly Court.

"The war between the two realms is imminent. We are now publicly recruiting members for the vanguard team. The cultivation requirement is Land Immortal Realm. You need to traverse a long void, where you will encounter various dangers, and you need to face these dangers yourself. Not necessarily someone will come to help you…"

The recruitment content was written in great detail. The purpose of doing so was also to prevent some creatures with relatively weak strength from participating, so as to avoid bringing trouble.

"Those who voluntarily join the vanguard team can gather at the Nantian Gate of the Heavenly Court in one hundred and nine years!"

After Li Zhirui learned about this, he kept it in his heart, and even made a simple magic weapon to remind himself, so as not to miss the time.

"Ninth Brother, do you plan to join the vanguard team?"

One day, Li Zhixuan came to visit.

Li Zhirui nodded and asked, "But you don't plan to participate?"

"I previously obtained two Chaos Spiritual Objects in the void. After returning to the family, I wanted to integrate them into the Profound Sword to enhance the power of my natal magic weapon, but I didn't expect that the two spiritual objects were too difficult to refine."

Li Zhixuan sighed and continued, "I estimate that I won't be able to complete it before the vanguard team departs! I can only choose to give up."

Most of her strength lies in the Profound Sword. If the Profound Sword cannot be used, and her combat power decreases, she is not fully confident that she can safely cross the void.

Although Li Zhirui will help, he is only a Land Immortal, and it would be good enough to protect himself. How could he protect others?

Since this is the case, it is better to stay in the family and complete the promotion of her natal magic weapon as soon as possible. When the war breaks out, she can join the battlefield and show her skills!

"That's good too. It's good for the family to have a Land Immortal to guard against emergencies."

Li Zhirui was worried before that if both of them participated in the vanguard team, there would be no one to guard Wanjian Mountain, and what would happen if they encountered danger. Hearing that Li Zhixuan could not participate, he had no worries.

Don't talk about the empty words that everyone will unite in the face of a great enemy. Some people are just stupid and bad, with vicious minds!

"Then I'll go back first."

Before the words were finished, the whole person disappeared.

Li Zhirui didn't take it to heart at all, and immediately concentrated his mind, continuing to breathe and absorb spiritual energy, refining elixirs, and alternating between the two.

Time flies, and a hundred years seems like a moment.

Over the years, he didn't know how many kinds of elixirs he had refined, from the Land Immortal-level immortal elixirs to the first-order spiritual elixirs, he refined a lot.

And the spiritual elixirs below the Loose Immortal level, Li Zhirui would all leave to the family, and at the same time, he would also distribute the Human Immortal-level and Land Immortal-level immortal elixirs to Li Zhixuan, Jiang Fengwu and others.

"Ancestor Rui, so many elixirs…" Li Xiuyuan took the storage magic weapon and took a look, and was immediately stunned by the jade bottles that were almost full inside.

"Just consider it a little intention from me, the ancestor, for the clansmen."

Li Zhirui smiled and then said, "The time has come, I should set off!"

Just as he was about to leave, Jiang Fengwu, with an unstable aura and a pale face, rushed over, took out a formation plate, handed it over, and said:

"Zhirui, this is the formation plate that I have comprehended from that set of thirty-six major formations, sorted out and refined. Although it is only at the Human Immortal level, its defensive power is not much worse than that of the Land Immortal level major formation. You will definitely be able to use it."

"Good!"

Li Zhirui had previously left many immortal elixirs in front of Jiang Fengwu's cave, but he didn't see her at the time. He didn't expect that she was preparing this major formation for him.

"With your major formation, I am even more confident that I can come back safely!" (End of this chapter)