Chapter 280 - 278: War at the Top of the Two Realms

Chapter 280: Chapter 278: War at the Top of the Two Realms

Su Qing spent some more time synthesizing the Immortal Technique.

[Unknown Technique: Consume one’s own Magical Power to increase the power to expel all impurities, including spiritual and emotional ones, by 10,000 times. Alternatively, consume one ten-thousandth of one’s Magical Power to expel all impurities, including spiritual and emotional ones... The user can freely control its power. (In the location where this Immortal Technique is cast, negative auras can never appear again.)]

Su Qing was ready.

"Extract."

This time, it would take Su Qing even longer to learn how to use it.

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「On the Celestial Saint Continent.」

The strongest clan of the Demon Race had appeared.

The Devouring Demon Race.

This wasn’t a clan, but a Talent that could appear in any member of the Demon Race.

Devouring!

To devour all powerful existences, to devour everything and convert it into one’s own strength.

The apex existence of the Devouring Demon Race was dueling with their counterpart from the Spirit Realm.

Both sides unleashed their Realms, plunging the Continent into a state of absolute terror.

The entire sky turned gray as violent gales swept through. The epicenter of their battle was utterly ravaged; even the very land was shattered and sunk.

"Heaven Devourer, you should not have come to my Spirit Realm!" the Spirit Realm’s Great Power, Zhou Xuan, said coldly.

The surrounding Space began to tremble violently, but Heaven Devourer withstood the attack from the Space Dao Principle with his physical body alone.

His physical body was nearly invincible.

"Heh heh, I will devour everything in the Spirit Realm. And now, not even you, Zhou Xuan, can stop me!"

Suddenly, an unparalleled soul corrosion swept out. Wherever it passed, vegetation withered and the world lost its color.

He was in the middle of his battle with Heaven Devourer and noticed it too late to react.

"Fellow Daoist, I am here to help you." An elderly man appeared, blocking the terrifying soul corrosion with a single move.

With a sweep of the Duster in his hand, the Five Elements Dao manifested.

A Five Elements Seal appeared and struck a certain spot.

However, a terrifying, massive mouth appeared in the void and devoured half of the Five Elements Seal in one bite.

BOOM!

A disheveled, phantom-like figure with a liquid consistency appeared before the old man.

"Damn you, Shangyang! You old bastard, you’re still not dead!"

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"Heart Devouring!"

"Heaven Devourer!"

"So, you two have both come from the Demon Realm!" the old man said with a smile, but the Duster in his hand began to strike without mercy.

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This was the war between two realms.

The great war raged for over a month, until finally, another Eighth Realm Demon Race member appeared.

The Spirit Realm’s forces retreated, and the Eighth Realm Demon Race member pursued them to Qingsu Island.

There, it suddenly triggered the island’s Grand Array.

A Fire Dragon coiled in the sky, and the Soul Array launched an assassination strike.

The Immortal Puppet also struck once again.

Of the three Eighth Realm Cultivators from the Demon Race, one died and two were injured.

On this island, a Secret Realm manifested in the sky, and the Array within its borders was heaven-defying.

However, as long as one did not trespass on the island, there would be no repercussions. The Demon Race had paid with the life of an Eighth Realm expert to learn this terrifying lesson.

The one who died was the Great Demon, Heart Devouring, an Eighth Realm member of the Demon Race. He was abruptly slain by the Soul Array, his true body and soul utterly annihilated.

The Eighth Realm Cultivator from the Spirit Realm who had lured the Demon to this place was also gravely injured by the Fire Dragon Immortal Array.

This was because he couldn’t escape in time, and it also served as a lesson for leading the Demon Race to this place.

After this battle, both sides ceased hostilities.

They tacitly agreed to recuperate and nurse their wounds.

Only the Cultivators, families, and races of lower levels continued to fight, all for the sake of carving out an existence for themselves in the Spirit Realm.

Because of this, even the Yao Race, which had initially been on good terms with the Demon Race, came to hate them in the midst of the struggle for their homelands.

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Two months.

It took Su Qing a full two months before he could use the World-Purifying Immortal Technique again.

When Su Qing visited the Treasure Tower again, it was no longer Shopkeeper Fang at the counter.

"I’d like a report on the news from the past year."

"Fellow Daoist, would you like the summarized version or the detailed one?"

"The summary is just 10 Spirit Stones."

"The detailed report is 1,000 Spirit Stones."

"The detailed one." Su Qing wasn’t short on Spirit Stones.

He needed to get a good understanding of the outside world. He was usually reluctant to spend Spirit Stones on information.

After all, things had changed so much recently. Su Qing could even sense a great deal of Demonic Qi.

There was also a lot of resentful energy.

The number of Cultivators on Lingqing Island had dropped significantly.

Furthermore, Su Qing could feel that a large portion of the world’s Spiritual Qi seemed to have vanished.

The previous state of dense Spiritual Mist was gone.

Su Qing received a small booklet.

He had paid 1,000 Spirit Stones for it.

Su Qing quickly returned home and began to read it carefully.

However, as for the contents inside...

The more Su Qing read, the more astonished and unsettled he became.

Especially the part about the battle between Eighth Realm Cultivators in the war between realms.

An Eighth Realm Cultivator from the Spirit Realm had deliberately led an Eighth Realm Cultivator from the Demon Realm to Qingsu Island.

To Su Qing’s Array Plates.

In the end, both sides suffered a crushing defeat, with no victor.

Furthermore, the families of the Abyss Sea and the Demon Race on the Celestial Saint Continent were in constant negotiation.

Ultimately, they decided to cede one-third of the Continent’s territory to the Demon Race for them to inhabit.

After all, the Continent held the most resources.

Mineral resources, in particular, were much easier to harvest than those from the sea, and there was a great variety.

’There’s no way they’d just give so much land to the Demon Race to live on.’

’One-third... that’s practically a massive bloodletting.’

The races of the Demon Realm and the Spirit Realm, especially the intelligent ones, were not so different.

So, to cede a third of the Continent to them...

And that wasn’t all.

To prevent the Demon Race from indiscriminately slaughtering the living beings on the Continent, and to have the Demon Race themselves restrain their non-sapient clans from destroying the Continent, nearly every race gave them a Pocket World to use.

The great families of the Abyss Sea had paid a considerable price to achieve this goal.

Peaceful coexistence.

Although a Pocket World generates Spiritual Qi, it’s definitely not enough, and maintaining one also has its costs.

That’s how Su Qing finally understood why the world’s Spiritual Qi had become so scarce again.

Now, the Continent was divided into three: one-third for the Yao Race, one-third for the Human Race, and one-third for the Demon Race.

It was just as Xiaoqing had inferred.

The Demon Race had truly established a foothold in this world.

’Forget about the Demon Race.’

’But that Eighth Realm Cultivator from the Spirit Realm is so treacherous, actually luring an Eighth Realm Demon to my Qingsu Island!’

Su Qing was still confident in his Array Plates. He had learned his lesson this time: nothing could be allowed to get near any of his Array Plates.

’With the Array Plates and the Immortal Puppet here,’

’what can even an Eighth Realm Cultivator do?’

’They’ll still be crippled!’

When Su Qing learned that his Array Plate had killed a Demon, he felt a surge of happiness.

’I can kill even an Eighth Realm expert! Who dares to challenge that?’

’If I weren’t about to face my Divinity Transformation Tribulation, I would have shown myself long ago. Would I still need to hide?’

’I wonder if the Demon Race gets struck by lightning when they undergo their Divinity Transformation Tribulation.’

’Now that I’ve succeeded with the World-Purifying Immortal Technique,’

’I’m no longer afraid of the Demon Race.’

Well, Su Qing wasn’t afraid of low-level members of the Demon Race.

Not only was he unafraid, but he also planned to use the Immortal Technique to remove their Demonic Qi.

The prerequisite was that the Demon Race didn’t come looking for trouble with him.

Su Qing just wanted to live a good, peaceful life.

And, while he was at it, break through to Divinity Transformation in the Moon God Palace’s Secret Realm.

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Host: Su Qing

Realm: Acupoint Limit [Micro Acupoint Cave Heaven Technique: 3,214th Micro Acupoint]

Golden Core Limit [Great Dao Golden Core Quenching Pill Technique: Mastery (768/1000)]

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After two months, even without active Cultivation, Su Qing had improved a great deal.

This was the result of having a powerful Cultivation Technique and formidable aptitude.

Through his Reincarnation, he had spent only a little time to nearly catch up to his former self.

It was just that simple.

It was just a bit of a waste to have spent two months without synthesizing any Spirit Fruits.

This meant Su Qing had missed out on two months’ worth of aptitude enhancement.

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