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As time passed, Broad Creed Mountain in the Spirit Inheritance Region of the Royal Reed Sea was still operating in an orderly manner.
The basic facilities here were already extremely complete.
Still, the entire sect did not relax.
The day when Kang Ping, Luo Zhiyuan and the others would escape from the deep sea of the Clear Scenic Region was already drawing closer and closer.
According to Yan Zhaoge's initial estimations, starting from this day, it would roughly be a year or two at best or three at worst. That would roughly be the time that Kang Ping and the others would escape.
That would likely be the time of the final battle.
Before that, King Xuancheng would sit over the capital of the Grand Xuan Dynasty, maintaining his defences as he would not leave at all.
As a result, Broad Creed Mountain, the North Sea Sword Pavilion, Copper Men Island and the Dim Darkness Sect and the other powers would find this troublesome for a time.
The Grand Xuan Dynasty's capital had been managed by three Kings of the Xuan Dynasty for over a hundred years, its sturdiness comparable to that of the North Sea Sword Pavilion's Grinding Hut Region's sword domain.
King Xuancheng of the mid Immortal Bridge Martial Saint realm had the home advantage as he possessed shocking strength.
Also, while the King Xuan Spear had been lost in the Royal Reed Sea, who knew if King Xuancheng had brought back another high-grade Sacred Artifact this time.
High-grade Sacred Artifacts were extremely hard to come by as not every Immortal Bridge Martial Saint possessed one. This was a fact.
However, the Grand Xuan Dynasty, Shen Lingzi and Daoist Shi clearly had extraordinary backgrounds as they could not be judged by normal standards.
The anti-Xuan forces had to be cautious as well.
Still, whatever the case, if Kang Ping, Gu Zhang and He Dongcheng managed to escape from the deep sea of the Clear Scenic Region, the Grand Xuan Dynasty would be even more powerful.
Dragging things out would not be the best outcome.
If they could first take care of King Xuancheng before Kang Ping and the others managed to escape, it would undoubtedly play a decisive role in the overall situation.
In order to take care of King Xuancheng, sufficient strength was required.
Yan Zhaoge had entered secluded cultivation with this in mind.
Aside from him, the others of Broad Creed Mountain and the peak experts of the anti-Xuan forces of the Royal Reed Sea were all making their own preparations as they raced against time.
One day, within a secluded room in Broad Creed Mountain.
A tall youth with a jade-like face opened his eyes and opened his eyes. It was Yan Zhaoge's Northern Ocean Clone.
Yan Zhaoge had headed to the Vast Ocean World himself while the Northern Ocean Clone remained here.
With the main body in death seclusion, the connection between the clone and the main body had become weak as even the Northern Ocean Clone's movements and reactions had become slightly sluggish.
However, it was still fine for him to meditate, cultivate, and interact with others.
As the Northern Ocean Clone left the secluded room, he saw Ying Longtu arriving, seemingly having something to ask of him.
Having answered Ying Longtu's doubts, the Northern Ocean Clone asked casually, "Has my father still not left seclusion?"
Roughly half a year ago, Yan Di had also entered Converting Lake Peak, entering secluded cultivation once more.
Ying Longtu replied, "Martial Uncle Sect Master once left a message saying that he would need roughly a year's time in total."
"There's still half a year …" The Northern Ocean Clone nodded, feeling rather expectant.
Yan Di had previously already attained the peak of the mid Seeing Divinity stage. If he succeeded in his secluded cultivation this time, he would likely be able to advance further.
At this time, it was even more necessary for Yuan Zhengfeng and the others to raise their vigilance to prevent Yan Di from being disturbed, lest all their previous efforts go to waste.
The same principle applied to Yan Zhaoge himself.
Just as he was thinking about this, Grandmaster Yuan Zhengfeng's voice suddenly sounded in his ears, "Zhaoge, come to the Heaven Rising Peak's main hall."
Yuan Zhengfeng's tone was somewhat solemn.
The Northern Ocean Clone's heart jolted slightly as he left some instructions for Ying Longtu before immediately heading to Heaven Rising Peak.
Entering the main hall, he saw that Yuan Zhengfeng and Fang Zhun were both present.
Besides Fu Enshu who was observing the situation in the vicinity of the Phoenix Bearing Region, Xu Fei and the other experts of Broad Creed Mountain with higher cultivation bases in the World beyond Worlds were all present.
Seeing the Northern Ocean Clone enter, Yuan Zhengfeng cut to the chase, "Zhaoge, I have bad news."
…
The east of the Royal Reed Sea, the Dragon Elephant Region.
This was where the peak power of the Royal Reed Sea, Copper Men Island, was located.
As compared to the Radiant Light Sect's Sun Moon Peak and the Dim Darkness Sect's main altar that had already been destroyed and the North Sea's Grinding Hut Region's sword domain that had nearly suffered the calamity of the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Thunder Formation and was besieged by countless experts of the Grand Xuan Dynasty, Copper Men Island of the Dragon Avatar Region had remained safe and sound all these years.
Because here were the treasures of the Copper Men Island passed down from generation to generation, the three giant copper men.
Possessing the geographical advantage of Copper Men Island, so long as they did not leave the island, these three copper men would be able to unleash the might of three Immortal Bridge Martial Saints.
The Royal Reed Sea's number one geographical advantage was well deserved.
This also caused Copper Men Island to become the most defensible place in the Royal Reed Sea, with even the Grand Xuan Dynasty not willing to directly bite down on this tough bone.
This had always been viewed as the final fortress and path of retreat of the anti-Xuan alliance.
It was just that Copper Men Island appeared to be more than sufficient in its defence, lacking in its offensive capabilities.
Chief Gongsun Wu was not someone who was content with the status quo as he had always been striving for greater improvements in his strength.
Firstly, he desired to break through the bottleneck that had always been present, stepping into the Immortal Bridge stage and stepping into the seventh level of the Martial Saint realm.
In the past, amongst the peak experts of the sixth level of the Martial Saint realm in the Royal Reed Sea, he, Gongsun Wu, the Chief of the Radiant Light Sect Luo Zhiyuan, the Chief of the Dim Darkness Sect Zhou Haosheng and the Grand Xuan Dynasty's King Xuanmu had been the strongest.
Comparatively speaking, Gongsun Wu had been a little weaker.
Now, however, Zhou Haosheng had been heavily injured by the Star Plucking Practitioner Guan Lide of the ninth level of the Martial Saint realm, having only just recovered these past few years.
Luo Zhiyuan had been imprisoned and trapped by a black hole, his strength and drive having been worn down while King Xuanmu had already perished.
Gongsun Wu had instead become the one in the lead.
Still, he could not be careless.
He could already feel how terrifying that newly arisen power from a lower world in the Spirit Inheritance Region was.
Those who had been able to cultivate to their current cultivation level were definitely not simple people.
Beneath the intermingling of pressure and motivation, Gongsun Wu had finally shown signs of breaking through his bottleneck in recent years as he was just a half-step away from the seventh level of the Martial Saint realm, the early Immortal Bridge stage, which he could cross at any time.
Today, however, there was only despair within his heart.
He had a premonition that he might never be able to cross this tribulation.
At this moment, the sky above Copper Men Island seemed to be shaking slightly like the light of water, somewhat hazy and indistinct. Yet, it could not be seen clearly as one would have to look very carefully before they would be able to vaguely discover some clues about it.
Enveloped by this radiance, the entire Copper Men Island seemed to have turned dry and dry.
The scenes lost their lustre, lifeforms lost their vitality as time came to a standstill.
The people on the island seemed to have lost their lives yet were still lifelike puppets.
The entire Dragon Avatar Region seemed to have frozen in time.
The only ones who were still barely able to move were the three massive bronze men who seemed indomitable as they shot into the skies, as well as Chief Gongsun Wu.
The three bronze men opened their mouths, emitting soundless roars as though they were alive.
Their six arms rose together, propping up the sky as they resisted that light of water which enveloped the entire island, not continuing to descend.
Gongsun Wu's tone was dry, "Such strength, such attainments in the Time Flowing Sword … Shen Lingzi!"
There was no response from the sky at all, only that sword-light which resembled water as time froze unceasingly wearing down the three great bronze men down below.
Beneath the corrosion of the sword-light, there was no sound of ghosts wailing or gods howling, no heaven-shocking, earth-shaking changes.
However, the surface of the bronze men was rapidly decaying and mottled as they showed signs of decline.
It was as though however powerful they were, they would still be hard pressed to resist the flow of time.
On this day, Copper Men Island, which had once been the number one defensive location in the Royal Reed Sea, was broken through. (To be continued.)
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