At this time, Jiang Tianlin suddenly asked, "Such a treasure island is only about two thousand miles away from the coast of Tianxuan Sect. With Tianxuan Sect's strength, why didn't they investigate their own island? Why didn't they discover it before?"
Enlightened Master Xuanwei seemed to be prepared for this and said, "I wonder if Uncle-Master noticed the vegetation on the island when you arrived on this deserted island?"
Jiang Tianlin and Lu Ping were stunned. What did this have to do with the vegetation on the deserted island?
Enlightened Master Xuanwei continued to explain, "Although the vegetation on this deserted island was destroyed by Mara, the age of its growth is extremely limited. At least a few years, at most a few decades. When I was investigating the land veins of this deserted island, I discovered that the land veins of this island had undergone a drastic change in the past few decades. I suspect that this deserted island rose from the bottom of the sea because of an earthquake or volcanic eruption in the past few decades. In addition, the past few decades have been the period when Mara was wreaking havoc on the sea. It is normal that Tianxuan Sect didn't discover the treasure on this deserted island."
Enlightened Master Xuanwei's explanation cleared up everyone's doubts. The exploration on the deserted island continued, and good news was passed to Jiang Tianlin and Lu Ping from time to time on the treasure ship.
So far, Enlightened Master Xuanwei had confirmed that there was a large spirit stone vein, seven medium spirit veins, and eight associated veins on the deserted island. Furthermore, the reserves of the veins were extremely rich. There were seventeen types of spirit stones confirmed, and ten of them were of extremely high quality. They were extremely rare and precious spiritual materials in the cultivation world. Enlightened Master Xuanwei was right to say that this deserted island was a treasure island.
Two-thirds of the Zhenling disciples on the treasure ship had rushed to the deserted island to prepare for the mining of the various veins. At the same time, they occupied two medium spirit veins in the northeast of the deserted island and started to build garrisons. The spirit stone vein that had long been excavated by Mara's army had also started to be restored and mined.
At this time, Enlightened Master Xuanwei had become the busiest person in Zhenling. In the entire Zhenling, other than Jiang Tianlin and Lu Ping, everyone, including the Dharma adepts, listened to his orders. The development of the entire treasure island was planned and handled by him alone.
Inside the treasure cabin, Jiang Tianlin said, "We can't hide this matter any longer. This treasure island isn't something our sect can swallow alone."
Lu Ping nodded and said, "The treasure ship has been docked for another two days. The top priority is to do what we have planned before. This time, all the sects have joined hands to face the Crystal Palace. We can't wait any longer."
Jiang Tianlin said, "If that's the case, let's inform the Profound Sky Sect about the discovery of the island. Sooner or later, the other sects will find out about it. Since that's the case, why don't we be a bit more generous and take the initiative to inform the Profound Sky Sect, Heavenly Moon Sect, Sky-Splitting Sect, and Carefree Sect to jointly control the island with our sect? I believe that the alliance of the five great sects will be enough to resist the cultivation world's greed for this island."
Lu Ping agreed and said, "Indeed, in terms of spirit stone mines, the treasure island isn't as good as the Frost Island. However, if we include the other spirit stone mines, the variety, quality, and reserves far surpass the Frost Island. To be honest, this treasure island was first discovered by our sect. Now that we have to take the initiative to invite all the sects to share the benefits, I am more or less unwilling."
Jiang Tianlin smiled and said, "Sharing the benefits also means sharing the risks. This treasure island isn't something our sect can swallow alone. However, our sect has already gained the upper hand. According to the rules of the cultivation world, before the matter of the Crystal Palace is completed, this treasure island should be under our sect's custody. With this buffer period, I believe that Master Xuanwei will be able to achieve some results. Furthermore, our sect will also be able to get a bit more when we divide the profits in the future. This is already not bad."
"Then leave Master Uncle Guo, Master Uncle Tian Shu, and a group of our disciples to stay on the island to assist Master Xuanwei. The others will continue to stay on the treasure ship and chase away Mara who is on the sea according to the plan."
"Alright!"
Sure enough, when Zhen Ling Sect discovered the treasure island, it quickly caused a commotion in the Tianxuan Sect. A large spirit stone mine and several high-grade spirit material mine were enough to attract the covetous eyes of the entire cultivation world.
The Profound Sky Sect also knew that this matter was of great importance and immediately notified the Heavenly Moon Sect, Skyrend, and Carefree Pavilion. However, because of the unexpected incident of the Sky Demon appearing at the same time and the large scale mobilization of the five sects, it had already attracted the attention of the cultivation world. The Crystal Palace was also on guard. Currently, the various sects couldn't find the time to discuss the matter of the treasure island. They wanted to complete all the arrangements before the Crystal Palace could react. Thus, the matters of the treasure island could only be temporarily entrusted to Zhenling.
Just when Zhenling and the Profound Sky Sect were working together to chase Mara south in the sea, the Heavenly Moon Sect simultaneously changed their previous action of defending the coast. From the coastline, they began to advance in a large scale into the sea, all the way until they were a thousand miles deep into the sea.
This was also the distance that the Heavenly Moon Sect had shrunk to when they were being suppressed by the Crystal Palace. Until the Disaster of Mara broke out on the sea, the Heavenly Moon Sect, in order to turn the Disaster of Mara into a barrier that blocked the Crystal Palace, simply withdrew all of their strength from the sea to the shore.
This time, the Heavenly Moon Sect attacked again. The Pure Yang Cultivator, Full Moon Laozu, personally took command and once again pushed the battle line to a thousand miles deep into the sea. At the same time, Mara's army that had been driven south from the northern sea poured in. The Heavenly Moon Sect, who had long been prepared, firmly guarded their own sea defense line. Further south of the Heavenly Moon Sect's sea was the Ocean of Storms that led to the South Sea. There was no entrance to the South Sea, so Mara's army was completely squeezed in the narrow and long sea between the Heavenly Moon Sect and the Ocean of Storms.
In this sea, because the Crystal Palace was unwilling to give up their goal of penetrating deep into the Middle Land, they had never withdrawn the cultivators stationed in the East Sea. Instead, they built garrisons on islands of all sizes in this sea, tenaciously resisting the Mara's rampage on the sea.
In the process of fighting with Mara, the main force of the Crystal Palace cultivators, led by the Pure Yang Cultivator, Yuan Deng Laozu, to invade the Middle Land, although they had paid a great price in the process of fighting with Mara, they still left many garrisons of the Crystal Palace above the sea of the Heavenly Moon Sect. Once the Disaster of Mara was eliminated, the Crystal Palace could use these garrisons to launch a fierce counterattack against the Heavenly Moon Sect. Taking advantage of the fact that the Holy Lands of the Middle Land were busy with their own affairs, the Crystal Palace's power could penetrate deep into the Middle Land and lay down a foundation.
However, after the Heavenly Moon Sect re-advanced on the sea, the Mara in the sea suddenly became denser because of the Heavenly Moon Sect's driving, and the attacks on the garrisons of the Crystal Palace became more and more frequent.
However, after a long time of fighting with the Mara, the cultivators of the Crystal Palace easily repelled the Mara's attacks on the garrisons and did not take it seriously.
However, because they were trapped in the sea of the Heavenly Moon Sect for a long time, they could not detect the schemes of the Heavenly Moon Sect and other sects in time. When the Mara in the northern sea went south, the number of Mara in the whole sea increased by several times, and Yuan Deng Laozu and the others finally realized that something was wrong, the garrisons of the Crystal Palace on several islands had already fallen under the fierce attacks of Mara.
Yuan Deng Laozu was sent by the Crystal Palace to preside over the plan of expanding the territory of the Middle Earth, naturally because he was outstanding. At this time, he had already instinctively discovered the existence of danger, and immediately decided to lead the remaining cultivators of the Crystal Palace back to the East Sea.
However, as early as a few days ago, the two treasured ships of the Carefree Pavilion and Skyrend had been cruising in the East Sea under various pretexts. When they passed by the entrance of the Storm Ocean between the East Sea and the Middle Earth, they changed their course at the same time and plunged into the Storm Ocean.
When the Crystal Palace realized that something was wrong, it was also when Yuan Deng Laozu was preparing to retreat to the East Sea. At this time, at the entrance of the Storm Ocean between the sea of the Heavenly Moon Sect and the East Sea, two treasured ships appeared at the same time. On the treasured ships, there was Xiao Baiyu, the Sword Sage of the Sky Splitting, and they blocked the return route of the Crystal Palace.
At this time, it also marked that Skyrend and the Carefree Pavilion had completely fallen out with the Crystal Palace. Yuan Deng Laozu, who got the news, was so angry that he cursed loudly. However, he still did not dare to lead the remaining cultivators of the Crystal Palace to fight against the two treasured ships, not to mention that Xiao Baiyu was there!
In desperation, Yuan Deng Laozu had to take the risk to break through the north. However, unexpectedly, at the same time, the Extraterrestrial Demons, which had been driven south by Lu Ping, the treasured ships, and Qi Fan Laozu, finally met the army of Mara in the sea of the Heavenly Moon Sect at an "appropriate" time. They encountered the cultivators of the Crystal Palace who were as panic-stricken as stray dogs. A great battle unfolded when both sides were extremely unwilling but unable to break free!
Five days later, when the two treasured ships of the Crystal Palace, which were led by two Pure Yang cultivators, passed through the Storm Ocean and arrived at the sea of the Heavenly Moon Sect, they faced the three treasured ships of the True Spirit Sect, the Carefree Pavilion, and the Sky-Splitting Sect, the three Pure Yang cultivators, Qi Fan, Full Moon, and Xiao Baiyu, as well as Lu Tianping, who had become even more famous after defeating the Extraterrestrial Demons!
Behind them was the boundless sea of the Heavenly Mystery Sect, which was as calm as a mirror. Above this sea, the rampaging Mara, the ambitious Yuan Deng Laozu, and the other cultivators of the Crystal Palace had all sunk to the bottom of the sea and become food for the fish and shrimps.
The two treasured ships of the Crystal Palace finally retreated with hatred. This also meant that the plan of the Crystal Palace to enter the Central Plains had suffered a major blow, and all their previous efforts had gone down the drain.
The Crystal Palace then set off a storm of blood in the East Sea. The Carefree Pavilion suffered one setback after another under the suppression of the Crystal Palace, and their sphere of influence continued to shrink. Skyrend, on the other hand, was only at a slight disadvantage in the struggle against the Crystal Palace.
But soon, the Dharma adepts of the Heavenly Moon Sect appeared on the Carefree Island and helped in the struggle against the Crystal Palace. The cultivators of the Heavenly Mystery Sect also frequently appeared in the sphere of influence of Skyrend.
Soon after, the new large sect of the North Sea, Zhenling, suddenly made a series of moves in the Perish Mystic Realm. After connecting the sea of the Waking Island and the sea of the Listening Wave Island, and having a stable foundation, the nine Dharma adepts of the Zhenling, led by Jiang Tianlin, Mei Tianqin, and Guo Tianshan, went south to the East Sea and took control of the Three Families Island. They deterred the various forces in the sphere of influence of the former Northern Alliance and supported the Carefree Pavilion.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
