Chapter 775 - 720: Golden Wave Sect

Chapter 775: Chapter 720: Golden Wave Sect

Relying on luck and strength, everything went smoothly for Jiang Yuebai. In less than half a day, she managed to eliminate the three forces of the Xiong Family from the Nine Rivers Realm, the Heavenly Star Sect from the Nine Rivers Realm, and the Fang Family from the Loujin Realm.

The only hiccup was that the Jade Tokens held by the Fang Family were different from theirs. Along the way, they collected six Jade Tokens, but surprisingly, none of them were the same.

This left Jiang Yuebai feeling quite helpless; the luck brought by the Deer Horn was not omnipotent.

Seeing Jiang Yuebai emerge unscathed, Ge Yuchan and the others waiting outside breathed a sigh of relief while being amazed by her power.

However, Jiang Yuebai was not an enemy but their Senior Sister from the Heavenly Interence Sect. Everyone felt honored amidst their surprise.

"Let’s head home!"

Jiang Yuebai called out, and the group exchanged smiles, concealed their forms, and returned together.

*

Meanwhile, at the outskirts of the Qingyun Realm.

Initially, the Xiong Family and Heavenly Star Sect were hoping the Fang Family would help them turn the tables, but who would have thought that even the Fang Family couldn’t escape Jiang Yuebai’s decisiveness.

The Fang Clan Leader, upon seeing Fang Yongchang and Fang Jiehe being transported out, with their skin shriveled as if aged a hundred years in a blink, turned lividly pale, cursing them as useless!

Without a century’s worth of effort and a large supply of blood-replenishing Spiritual Elixirs, it would be hard for them to return to their peak.

Now that all Nascent Souls from the Fang Family participating in the Qingyun Conference were obliterated—despite still having eight Golden Core Disciples, and three Divinity Transformation cultivators left—the Fang Clan Leader could no longer stay and left with the two elders, saying only one sentence.

Thus, the feud between the Fang Family and the Heavenly Interence Sect was officially set in motion!

"Look, isn’t that Pei Shengyue from the Golden Wave Sect of the White Tiger Realm, engaged in a battle with another squad from the Heavenly Interence Sect? Wow, so strong!"

Cries of astonishment erupted from the crowd. Compared to the smooth progress on Jiang Yuebai’s side, Lu Nanzhi’s side seemed rather unlucky.

Earlier, after discovering Night Tianlang and his followers from the Red Sun Sect camped not far from their Floating Island, just as they had painstakingly uncovered the weaknesses in their Great Array with Tang Weimian and Muh Wushuang, they cautiously retreated.

Wanting to probe further ahead some thirty miles before doubling back, who would have guessed they’d fall into a trap and just so happened to run into the hands of the Golden Wave Sect.

When Lu Nanzhi sensed the intent to kill, she saw a yellow-robed female cultivator burst through from the rear flanks, waving the Horse-Cutting Saber and ferociously attacking the five of them.

At that moment, they all heard the roar of a tiger deafening the sky, watching the majestic blow descend like a fierce tiger from the mountain, its claw tearing through the air with vicious momentum.

Lu Nanzhi’s expression turned grim as she drew her sword to meet the attack, while Muh Wushuang and Tang Weimian each summoned an Array Flag.

Wenn Jian stepped forward, calling out ’solid as gold soup’, taking the blow himself, as Shen Huaxi furiously spun his fingers in the rear, green light spilling from his fingertips.

Boom!

The Horse-Cutting Saber collided fiercely with the Ice Soul Sword, a piercing cry reverberating, with waves oscillating furiously from the impact, shattering the uninhabited Floating Island into four pieces as dust filled the sky.

With a furrowed brow, Lu Nanzhi gripped her sword tightly, blocking the Horse-Cutting Saber while icy mist defended around her, cracking under the lingering Sword Aura.

Under that unstoppable blade aura, Muh Wushuang and Tang Weimian’s Array Flags snapped with a retaliatory force, their mouths spurting blood.

Golden light erupted from Wenn Jian’s body, tearing and bleeding profusely, with the Green Cloud Totem between her brows instantaneously emerging. Were it not for her bracing the front, Muh Wushuang and Tang Weimian’s injuries would be more severe.

As Wenn Jian was about to be forced out of the game, Shen Huaxi transformed the green light in his hand into ribbons wrapping around Wenn Jian’s body.

Shen Huaxi’s brows furrowed, as he fiercely used Medical Cultivation Magical Techniques to negate Wenn Jian’s injuries, forcibly suppressing the protruding Green Cloud Totem between her brows.

The yellow-robed female cultivator, witnessing the scene, cast a deep glance at Lu Nanzhi under the blade, retracting her sword and retreating, with an audacious smile.

"Being able to withstand a single blow from me, that too is an achievement!"

As soon as her words finished, two late-stage Nascent Soul male cultivators appeared, blocking the retreat route.

The three of them, all clad in yellow robes akin to the Red Sun Sect attire, bore the White Tiger Totem on their backs, representing the Golden Wave Sect of the White Tiger Realm.

Scanning the surrounding trio, Shen Huaxi saw that the Golden Wave Sect could arguably be the strongest force in this year’s Qingyun Conference, and there really was no need to clash head-on at this moment.

Moreover, Wenn Jian, Muh Wushuang, and Tang Weimian were all injured to varying extents. Even if they were to fight, they might not lose but would surely endure mutual destruction.

Shen Huaxi immediately transmitted to Lu Nanzhi, "Senior Sister Lu, Senior Sister Jiang is still waiting for us."

Clenching her sword, Lu Nanzhi encountered a formidable enemy that made it difficult to suppress her battle spirit, yet she could discern priorities. She immediately gave Shen Huaxi a concealed retreat gesture.

Activating the Blood Demon Pearl already poised in his hand, Shen Huaxi—the Earth Spiritual Realm’s Ghost Clan’s nine major ghost artifacts; most are lost, leaving the Blood Demon Pearl in Shen Huaxi’s control, the Taiyin Fan in Jiang Yuebai’s possession—created a haze of blood mist that swiftly enveloped them.

The two male cultivators at the rear immediately charged in, leaving Pei Shengyue unmoving as golden light howled around him, unsmudged by the blood mist.

When the two male cultivators dispersed the blood mist, no one was left inside.

Pei Shengyue sheathed his sword, saying, "There’s no need to waste efforts. That female Sword Cultivator’s weapon carried an Acquired Spiritual Treasure, fighting would not benefit us. This Night Tianlang sent a message leading me to ambush them without warning me of their Acquired Spiritual Treasure, truly ill-intentioned!"

Pei Shengyue led the two directly to the Red Sun Sect’s guarded Floating Island, readying to demand an explanation!

*

The journey back was relatively smooth. As the third day of the Qingyun Conference near its end, the two groups led by Lu Nanzhi and Jiang Yuebai returned to their guarded Thundercloud Floating Island one after the other.

Meeting outside the island, Jiang Yuebai keenly noticed Lu Nanzhi’s group did not look well, realizing they had surely encountered trouble.

She withheld from asking, stepping first onto the Floating Island.

Passing through layers of the Great Array, when they reached the center of the Floating Island, the scene that met their eyes caused a tremendous shock in everyone’s hearts.

They saw Li Shen Zhi pinned to the ground with a sword through his chest, barely clinging to life, while Hongye was chopped into eight pieces, blood flowing like a river.

Jiang Yuebai’s eyelids drooped, "Li Shen Zhi, aren’t you done playing!"

As her voice fell, everything around them vanished like an illusion.

Li Shen Zhi sat in perfect health beside a pile of unknown objects. Hongye too was curled into a ball, elegantly sleeping.

Standing up with a chuckle, Li Shen Zhi apologized, "Sorry, too many arrays, I forgot there was another Illusion Array."

Seeing his relaxed demeanor, the group realized the base hadn’t faced any major issues these two days, yet the pile of stuff beside him remained a baffling mystery.

While they still had time, the group hurried to sit together, informing each other of the encounters and events.

Interestingly, as Shen Huaxi placed everyone’s collected Jade Tokens together—eight in total—not a single pair matched, with each different from the others.

This probability, it was uncertain if there were simply too many Jade Token types or if they were just extremely unlucky.

Helplessly, Shen Huaxi placed the tokens aside, bringing out the Mountain and River Chessboard, and he began collating the intel.

Lu Nanzhi recounted their encounter with the Golden Wave Sect to Jiang Yuebai, who extracted the information Jade Scroll given by Xie Jingshan and referred to the content about Pei Shengyue.

"Pei Shengyue, 144 years old, late-stage Nascent Soul nearing peak, with the main cultivation techniques being Heavenly Grade ’White Tiger True Technique’ and Heavenly Grade ’Heavenly Slash Technique’. Her Lifebound Magic Treasure is the Heavenly Slash Saber, paired with her Saber Techniques, at Super First Grade Spiritual Artifact level. Apart from this, she also carries a Star Shattering Bow at First Grade Spiritual Artifact level and a Golden Gang Shield for defense also at First Grade Spiritual Artifact level."

"Whether there’s an Acquired Spiritual Treasure, it’s noted here by Xie Jingshan that an Immortal Monarch Bodu sits behind the Golden Wave Sect, and they likely would’ve provided her with a protective one, though the specifics remain unknown. Cultivators of the same level from the Red Sun Sect, Five Mountains Immortal Sect, and True Martial Immortal Sect have all been defeated by her."

After Jiang Yuebai finished speaking, Lu Nanzhi lowered her eyes and smirked, "A formidable opponent, yet one worthy of a battle!"