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"My Lord!?"

Wan Ling Palace was somewhat dazed, at a loss as to what it had just experienced.

"Don't be so curious; it's not good for you."

Xuan Huang didn't know how to console it.

To be honest, he himself didn't understand how strong his own divine soul was.

"It was my impertinence," Wan Ling Palace said uneasily.

Recalling just now, it had almost been Dao-transformed just because it remembered some memories, which was extremely terrifying.

It could be considered an old-timer, an old artifact spirit with two lifetimes of experience, having experienced the glorious era of the Old Ancestor Kong Shen.

But after following Xuan Huang for a short time, it discovered that its experiences were actually stronger than following its old master, Old Ancestor Kong Shen, for endless years.

In fact, the current state of Wan Ling Palace and Xuan Huang was very magical.

Generally speaking, a cultivator would be afraid of their supreme treasure becoming stronger.

Don't misunderstand; it's not just ordinary strengthening, but strengthening without certainty, especially strengthening far beyond one's control.

Generally, such a supreme treasure could easily exceed control, and if one wasn't careful, it would escape the master's control.

But Xuan Huang had no worries at all, allowing Wan Ling Palace to merge into one.

This required great confidence, not fearing that the strengthened supreme treasure would exceed his control.

"Returning to the previous topic, since you can infinitely suppress divine souls, do you want to open a new path and cultivate a separate batch of cultivators?" Xuan Huang asked.

Wan Ling Palace pondered for a moment and said, "My Lord, this subordinate feels it's unnecessary. This subordinate opening a separate path wouldn't have much effect, and it can't compare to the three fundamental techniques you taught. Like Qiao Liangyu, this subordinate feels that such cultivators wouldn't be able to compete with other cultivators, so it's not very meaningful."

It continued, "This subordinate would prefer to integrate into your cultivators and provide them with necessary assistance."

After Wan Ling Palace finished speaking, Xuan Huang shook his head.

In this way, Wan Ling Palace would be greatly constrained, unable to发挥 its due abilities.

Wan Ling Palace signing a contract with cultivators to provide them with growth meant sharing the cultivators' luck and gains.

This was the key to its ability to gather strength and grow.

But this point was precisely unacceptable to the cultivators under Xuan Huang's command.

Competing now was all about luck. After being bound to you, you still want to share my luck? How could that be acceptable?

In other words, any Qingyun Mountain cultivator, after understanding the operation of Wan Ling Palace, would very likely not sign a contract with it.

Because the gains didn't justify the付出.

Cultivators didn't lack cultivation methods, opportunities for experience, or various opportunities. Why would they sign a contract with Wan Ling Palace?

How good was it to cultivate in Qingyun Mountain?

Therefore, the contract was not attractive to Qingyun Mountain cultivators.

"If that's the case, half of your ability will be废除. Have you thought about it?" Xuan Huang said.

"My Lord, this subordinate has thought about it. Having half is already very good. Moreover, this subordinate doesn't just have instinctive strange 会所; this subordinate has self-awareness and can be flexible, such as using temporary contracts and other means," Wan Ling Palace said.

The reason it said half and not 90% was because Xuan Huang and Wan Ling Palace were focusing not on Qingyun Mountain.

Qingyun Mountain cultivators, not to mention 90%, even 99% wouldn't choose to bind a contract.

They were focusing on a larger range of ordinary cultivators.

This was the main force of cultivators, all normal cultivators.

As said before, Qingyun Mountain wasn't all of the cultivators, just the gathering of the most elite.

There were even countless ordinary cultivators who would never touch the edge of Qingyun Mountain in their lives, scattered in various places.

According to current statistics, there were already over ten million cultivators.

The most elite and strongest million were gathered around Nanshan and Nanshi, cities near Qingyun Mountain.

The 30,000 in Qingyun Mountain were the elite of the elite, each a legend.

There were also nine million who never had a shining moment in their lives, just having the qualifications to cultivate and then slowly cultivating, with no great future at all.

These were the targets of Wan Ling Palace.

For these, their pursuits were completely different from those of Qingyun Mountain and Nanshi cultivators.

If there was an opportunity to bind to Wan Ling Palace and become a contractor, they would definitely be willing.

Like the previous analogy, with Wan Ling Palace, there was still a chance to step into the extraordinary. Without Wan Ling Palace, it would be difficult to have a chance to step into the extraordinary in this life.

If given to you, what would you choose?

Naturally, you would first have the opportunity to step in.

"Temporary contract?"

Xuan Huang smiled slightly, waiting for Wan Ling Palace's explanation.

"My Lord, a temporary contract is something unique to this subordinate. For example, divine blood,霞光, and 紫韵. If cultivators want to obtain these, they must sign a temporary contract, which means that the results of this experience need to be shared with this subordinate. I think that even Qingyun Mountain cultivators would agree to this."

"Hmm, not bad." Xuan Huang nodded in approval.

These were unique to Wan Ling Palace. The so-called divine blood could催生 Qiao Liangyu to the third tier, so it was naturally extraordinary.

霞光 was a kind of气种, an essence containing the mysteries of Dao蕴. Cultivators could refine these 霞光 to enhance their cultivation and玄妙感悟.

紫韵 was also a kind of divine soul essence that greatly supplemented the divine soul.

These three could催生 a cultivator to a certain level without needing their own insights, like immortal pills.

But there were also side effects. Cultivators who were催生 without their own insights were weak and couldn't compare to those who cultivated on their own.

For example, Qiao Liangyu.

Although Qiao Liangyu was dead, he was still the best analogy.

"Moreover, this subordinate doesn't have any extravagant desires in terms of luck. You have replaced everything, and far exceeded it," Wan Ling Palace said.

This sentence was the most important.

Recognizing Xuan Huang as its master, plus Xuan Huang was going to reside within it, what luck was needed?

It was enough to hold on tight to the big thigh.

"Alright, let's do it this way. Let's go back first. Keep this place for now and let Jianmu control it," Xuan Huang said.

"Yes!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a root came from the void. This place, like the world inside the strange clock, was connected and controlled by Jianmu.

"My Lord, how should we deal with the monsters? This subordinate discovered that there are many monsters in a connected secret realm, which must be the source of Qiao Liangyu's投放 monsters."

"Oh?" Xuan Huang almost forgot about this.

"Are there any other living beings? Like humans?" Xuan Huang asked.

"My Lord, there are no other beings. Qiao Liangyu was very careful. This secret realm space is a very unstable space, with the risk of breaking at any time. It's only temporarily not broken because of me. If this subordinate withdraws support, this place will break."

Wan Ling Palace said after careful investigation.

"Then do as you see fit."

Xuan Huang was a little disappointed to hear this.

It would be great if he could find the source of the monsters through this secret realm, such as demon believers or the gods and demons of the abyss.

Obviously, Qiao Liangyu was very cautious and wouldn't let the demons know where he was hiding. Even the place of transit was unknown to anyone.

"Yes!"

Wan Ling Palace understood.

Handling it themselves meant they would devour this secret realm. As for the monster contamination source within?

It didn't exist. Their mastermind was only a Fourth-Order mid-stage King, and not even in their prime.

The monsters created by such a being were of no use to it.

With a "poof!" sound.

In an unknown corner, the secret realm and all the monsters within turned to dust, disappearing without a trace.

It became nourishment for the twelve worlds on the first level of Wan Ling Palace.

Finding it was necessary when coming, but going back was simple. Xuan Huang first appeared on Qingyun Mountain.

Afterward, with a wave of Xuan Huang's hand, an opening appeared, revealing the main body of Wan Ling Palace.

It didn't appear like Mount Tai pressing down, but under Xuan Huang's signal, it chose to integrate silently and imperceptibly.

While devouring the previous buildings, it replaced them with its own main body, slowly achieving the transfer and substitution without alarming anyone.

Before long, a palace with Fifth-Order essence will appear in Qingyun Mountain.

Becoming Xuan Huang's residence.

… …

On the other side, the Ghost Ship truly became famous after one battle.

No mistakes, one song, one release, one content, one appearance!

Its great name immediately spread throughout the entire cultivation world.

Everyone knew that cultivators were in great trouble, being attacked by Qiao Liangyu and the Abyss monsters.

They were destroying the teleportation arrays established by cultivators, contaminating the human realm.

The Ghost Ship was born out of nowhere, not only reconnecting the teleportation arrays in the first instance but also sucking up all the sources of contamination.

The existences led by the four major forces, who thought they would suffer huge losses, were pleasantly surprised to find that they only needed to handle the aftermath of the previous personnel losses.

The teleportation array didn't need to be rebuilt; it was already repaired.

And they didn't spend any resources or points.

This saved them a massive amount of points.

But that wasn't the most important thing. The most important thing was that the disconnected teleportation array had been restored.

Even though it was only disconnected for a short period of less than two days, it paralyzed the activities and transmission of cultivators.

They then realized that the teleportation array was more important than they thought, like a highway; without the highway, a lot of transportation would inevitably be interrupted.

Fortunately, fortunately, everything was safe and sound.

The four major forces contacted each other through their point tokens. For example, Minghui and Sun Hui went north, and Jiutong and Yan Lai went south.

Their purpose of support became a trip focused on comforting and handling the aftermath.

They personally went to the main teleportation array points in various places, comforting the cultivators who had suffered losses and doing their best to make amends and compensate.

By the way, they inadvertently inspected various places.

The four leaders were busier than Xuan Huang. To be honest, this was the first time they had experienced such a widespread inspection.

Every teleportation array was built in a large city or densely populated area so that it could exert its teleportation capabilities.

Taking this opportunity, they inspected the branches of the four families in various places.

The four families were the largest forces. Wherever there was Xuan Huang's Taoism or Qingyun's true cultivation, there would inevitably be their branches.

Yancheng, Sun Hui was furious.

Inside the Martial Dao Alliance headquarters in Yancheng.

Lying in the hall was a blood-covered existence. Upon closer inspection, those familiar would recognize that this was the curator of the Martial Dao Alliance here.

As for why he was in such a miserable state, with his bones seemingly broken and lying there covered in blood, being displayed in public?

Naturally, Sun Hui did it.

If you don't look, you won't know; if you look, you'll be shocked.

Yancheng had a strange scene: the Martial Dao Alliance and the Confucian School were the weakest, not just generally weak, but abnormally weak.

The reason was simple: it was the result of the infighting between the person lying in front of him and the local leader of the Confucian School.

The two were both big figures in Yancheng before. By chance and talent, they both became leaders of the city.

The two had great conflicts, or rather, they had been fighting all their lives.

Naturally, after becoming leaders of their respective cities, they didn't let go of their previous grievances.

They were still fighting each other.

And not just ordinary fighting, but bloody hacking and killing, scheming against each other and trying to put the other to death.

It also involved their own forces, and their subordinates were also involved in the disputes, resulting in the two sides consuming a lot in Yancheng and being very weak.

They were even weaker than the Eighth High School's power in Yancheng.

You can see how miserable they were.

Sun Hui was not a heartless person, nor was he unreasonable. Moreover, he was a warrior; how could he suppress his subordinates from not taking revenge?

But everything had a limit, especially since you are the curator of the Martial Dao Alliance here.

You can't drag the Yancheng Martial Dao Alliance down because of your own grievances. Only after being informed by the cultivators of the Martial Dao Alliance here did he know how miserable the losses of the Martial Dao Alliance here were.

They didn't die at the hands of the strange, fierce beasts, or the holy beings of the realm, but at the hands of 'their own' cultivators.

Similarly, many cultivators of the Confucian School on the opposite side also died at the hands of the Martial Dao Alliance.

This was the reason for his anger.

He thought, as soon as he entered this place, he felt something was wrong. It turned out the problem was here.

This damned guy wanted to hide it when he saw him coming to inspect this place.

If Minghui hadn't reminded him, he would still be kept in the dark.

Even if this bastard treats your family members as a threat and set up a Martial Dao Alliance community to monitor them separately.

But, as long as a message is sent to him, wouldn't he still be able to eliminate this bastard curator while protecting the safety of your family members?

Are you so unconfident in yourself and in the headquarters?

Do you really think that the headquarters is also so cruel and full of infighting?

Really… hopeless. The Martial Dao Alliance here needs to be rebuilt from scratch.

"Thank you, Master!"

Sun Hui didn't forget to send a message to Minghui to express his gratitude.

"Amitabha!" Minghui responded.

Minghui, including Jiutong and others, did they only know now?

Definitely not.

The Martial Dao Alliance and the Confucian School here were fighting fiercely. The Taoist and Buddhist Schools must have known about it long ago and passed the message to the headquarters.

Jiutong and Minghui wouldn't dare to say they definitely knew, but they definitely knew more than Sun Hui and Yan Lai.

They didn't tell Sun Hui and Yan Lai earlier, saying that the two families in Yancheng were fighting very miserably.

Under a series of coincidences, Sun Hui went north to save the teleportation array, but he didn't expect the Ghost Ship to make up for it.

Since he was already here, he thought he might as well inspect it since he didn't need to save it.

That's how he accidentally entered Yancheng.

That's how he received the reminder from his colleague Minghui.

However, even so, Sun Hui still had to thank him. It was reasonable for him not to say it, but it was a favor to say it.

From the perspective of the Taoist and Buddhist Schools, they couldn't wait for the Confucian School and the Martial Dao Alliance to fight to the death. The more miserable the fight, the more benefits their two families could earn and develop and grow.

… … (End of this chapter)