The sects of the North Sea had taken Scarlet Mist Island seriously, but when Zhenling sent out more than ten Dharma adepts, led by a Great Adept, as well as a treasured ship and a North Sea Water Sword Deity, whose combat ability was no less than that of a Great Adept, the sects of the North Sea were at a loss.
His tyrannical strength, in addition to his prior judgment, allowed Zhenling to have the upper hand in the process of re-dividing Scarlet Mist Island!
The entire Scarlet Mist Island was a large island with a circumference of 800 miles. The outer area was eventually occupied by Zhenling's family, and the central area, which had the most training resources, was occupied by 70% of the area after Zhenling took the lead!
However, Zhenling's tyrannical behavior caused the first three to four days of the drastic change in Scarlet Mist Island. Although the sects dared not speak up because of the large number of Dharma adepts Zhenling had, after a few days, more or less reinforcements arrived on Scarlet Mist Island. The three Dharma adepts Laozu of the Blue Sea Sect, Dong Kun, Dong Guo, and Dong Yi, were jumping around the sects of the North Sea, trying to unite the sects to put pressure on Zhenling and give up part of the central area.
At this time, in order to relieve the pressure on the Zhen Ling Sect, and also because they were really short on manpower, Zhen Ling Sect had gathered so many Dharma adepts, but they still had their own responsibilities and could not stay here for long. Once they left, the adepts left behind would not be able to guard so many areas. Thus, under Mei Tianqin's plan, the east side of the central area was secretly given to a few small North Sea factions with Dharma adepts. At the same time, the west side was also given to a few other medium-sized sects that were slightly weaker but had good relations with the Zhen Ling Sect: the Yujian Sect, the Chong Ming Sect, and the Shuiyan Pavilion.
Of course, when Zhenling retreated from these two areas, he had already looted as much of the cultivation resources as possible. Even so, for a few of the smaller sects, being able to establish a foothold in the central area was already an extremely fortunate thing. Although the three sects on the west side had some complaints, they had benefited from Zhenling for free, so it was naturally not good for them to stand on the opposite side of Zhenling.
In this way, Zhenling already had a "barrier" on both the east and west sides of his territory. Even if the remaining few sects joined forces, Zhenling wouldn't have to worry about them.
However, a few days later, the clamoring voices of the various sects in the North Sea that were Zhenling and domineering began to die down. Even the Azure Sea Sect, which had been the most active before, quietened down. Just when the North Sea's cultivation world was confused, a piece of news that could shake the entire cultivation world came from the East Sea.
The patriarch of the Fire Phoenix Race, the Pure Yang cultivator Yan Jiuxiao, had fallen in the North Sea!
The mystery of why the Fire Phoenix Race had retreated from the North Sea in such a hurry seemed to have been instantly revealed!
The reason why Zhenling had been able to seize the initiative and occupy Scarlet Mist Island before the other sects, aside from the fact that Zhenling's own sect was able to divert more manpower during the process of hunting down the Fire Phoenix Race, was most likely because Zhenling had already made preparations for the Fire Phoenix Race's retreat. Didn't that mean that Zhenling had already known about Yan Jiuxiao's death?
But the problem was, how did Zhenling know about Yan Jiuxiao's death first?
When they thought of the enormous astronomical phenomenon that had risen from the central area of Scarlet Mist Island and hadn't dissipated until now, the North Sea cultivators were almost certain that Yan Jiuxiao's death had something to do with it. But how exactly did he die?
Very quickly, experienced and knowledgeable cultivators recognized that the astronomical phenomenon that hadn't dissipated in the central area of Scarlet Mist Island was a formation. Furthermore, it was a formation that didn't pass through the Earthfire Inferno Formation.
After that, when the various sects had entered the central area of Scarlet Mist Island, there had been people who had taken the risk to enter the central area to investigate. However, these people had all lost contact with each other after entering.
But then, there was news that said that on the day of the battle between the various sects and the Fire Phoenix Race, the Fire Phoenix Race leader had not appeared, but it was said that Zhenling and a few other cultivators had entered the central area of Scarlet Mist Island. Among them was Zhenling's Water Sword Deity, Lu Tianping!
After that, even more unbelievable news came from the Fire Phoenix Race of the East Sea, saying that Yan Jiuxiao had encountered the North Sea Zhenling cultivators in the central area. That North Sea Water Sword Deity, Lu Tianping, had single-handedly escaped from Yan Jiuxiao's hands!
When the news spread, it shocked the world of cultivation once again. However, this was clearly not something that a mid Dharma adept could do, so the world of cultivation guessed that the North Sea Water Sword Deity must have already advanced to the late Dharma stage. After Xiao Baiyu, there had been another person in the world of cultivation who could challenge a Pure Yang adept as a late Dharma adept.
But then, some people speculated that since Lu Tianping had the ability to escape unscathed from a Pure Yang adept, could Yan Jiuxiao's death this time have something to do with this North Sea Water Sword Deity?
After all, back then, the Fire Phoenix Race leader had sent away the other members of the race who had entered the central area of Scarlet Mist Island. Only his grandson, the Flame Coffin, had been left there. No one knew what they were doing. If they had really been ambushed by the hidden Lu Tianping at a critical juncture, it did not seem impossible!
It was precisely because of this news that the various sects of the North Sea were hesitant. A Lu Tianping who could go against a Pure Yang adept … It was no wonder that Zhenling had the guts to claim half of Scarlet Mist Island as his own territory, even at the expense of making the entire North Sea his enemy!
And just as the situation in the North Sea cultivation world was gradually calming down, a rumor once again piqued the interest of everyone in the world of cultivation, turning their attention to the North Sea cultivation world.
The Fire Phoenix Race had gone through so much trouble on Scarlet Mist Island. At the last moment, Yan Jiuxiao had even avoided the other practitioners in the race, only bringing his grandson and grandson to stay in the central area of Scarlet Mist Island. What were they looking for?
But no matter what it was, to be able to make a Pure Yang adept go to such lengths, it must be an earth-shattering treasure!
For a time, the entire world of cultivation had different opinions about what this treasure was, but most of the practitioners still guessed that it was Luan Daoist's heaven-opening relic.
Only then would it be worth it for a Pure Yang adept to lead his clan's elites on an expedition to the North Sea, and even risk becoming the enemy of the entire North Sea cultivation world to go to war with the various sects of the North Sea on Scarlet Mist Island.
However, from the beginning to the end, the Fire Phoenix Race did not make any response to the matter in the North Sea after returning to the East Sea. The death of a Pure Yang adept was enough to greatly damage the Fire Phoenix Race's vitality. Although the clan still had a Pure Yang adept, Laozu, he was an elder who was even more senior than Yan Jiuxiao. He had less than two or three hundred years left in his lifespan, and he rarely showed his face. Most of the time, he was just a deterrent within the clan. After the Fire Phoenix Race's cultivators hurriedly retreated from the North Sea, this Laozu gave the order to seal off the volcanoes, causing the entire Fire Phoenix Race to enter a half-sealed mountain.
Since they could not obtain any information about the heaven-opening relic from the hands of the Fire Phoenix Race, many practitioners rushed to Scarlet Mist Island in the North Sea in an attempt to personally understand the situation. These days, many practitioners from the outside world had snuck into Scarlet Mist Island in an attempt to enter the Great Inferno Formation to find out what was going on. However, after everyone had entered, there was no news of them, causing these people who had come from outside the North Sea to grow wary.
But soon, there was news that Yan Jiuxiao had finally died on Scarlet Mist Island. If he had really died at the hands of the North Sea Water Sword Deity, did that mean that the item that Yan Jiuxiao had obtained on Scarlet Mist Island was now in the hands of Lu Tianping?
So, there were people who tried to break a gap in the information from Zhenling. However, Zhenling was no longer a medium-sized sect in the North Sea. Even though their treasured ship had yet to set sail, Zhenling, who had 20 Dharma adepts, was already a behemoth in the North Sea training world, causing these practitioners from outside the North Sea to shrink back at the sight of them.
And in reality, their guess was right. Yan Jiuxiao had indeed died at the hands of Lu Ping, and Yan Jiuxiao's ultimate goal in coming to Scarlet Mist Island had long fallen into the hands of Zhenling. At this moment, Lu Ping was immersed in the joy of counting the spoils of war that he had obtained from Yan Jiuxiao and the Flame Coffin.
As the leader of the Fire Phoenix clan and the grandson of the first wife, Yan Jiuxiao and the Flame Coffin were undoubtedly extremely wealthy, to the extent that it left Lu Ping dumbfounded. And the most obvious evidence of this was the number of top-grade spirit stones in their storage artifacts!
As the only three Great Adepts in Zhenling, Lu Ping was very clear about Zhenling's wealth. However, when Lu Ping discovered that the number of top-grade spirit stones that Yan Jiuxiao alone had on him was equivalent to the five to six years' worth of all the Dharma adepts in Zhenling, even Lu Ping's experience of stealing thousands of top-grade spirit stones from the large spirit stone mine on Phantom Island paled in comparison.
One had to know that an early Dharma adept in Zhenling only received five top-grade spirit stones a year, a mid Dharma adept received ten, and Jiang Tianlin and the other two Great Adepts received no more than twenty each. This meant that the total amount of top-grade spirit stones they received in a year was less than 300.
And just the Flame Coffin alone, a mid Dharma adept, had nearly 200 top-grade spirit stones on him. This made Lu Ping sigh in awe. This pair of grandfather and grandson were truly wealthy. Even though the Fire Phoenix clan was a large clan with a long history in the world of practitioners, this level of wealth was still a little too much.
Unless they had the same fortuitous encounters as Lu Ping, Lu Ping could only suspect that the leader of the Fire Phoenix clan, Yan Jiuxiao, was simply stuffing his own pockets with his own wealth.
Aside from the top-grade spirit stones, when Lu Ping was taking inventory of Yan Jiuxiao's storage artifacts, the first thing that caught his eye was the jade scroll that recorded the secret techniques of the Fire Phoenix clan's Inferno Sky Burning Formation.
Lu Ping had not expected that this kind of secret technique, which could be considered the trump card of any clan, would actually be on Yan Jiuxiao's person. However, who would have thought that a Pure Yang adept would fall at the hands of Lu Ping!
This kind of large-scale formation that had been personally passed down by the Luan Daoist could actually be considered a remarkable technique. Furthermore, if the Inferno Sky Burning Formation could be completely set up, it could definitely be used as a protective formation to protect the clan.
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