The thorough search conducted by the Jade God Sect and the Su Family didn’t turn up Xu Yan and Meng Chong. Instead, the previously hidden All Ages Alliance was exposed.
“Another force composed of loose cultivators?”
Jade God Sect and the Su Family, heated about the situation, were furious when they discovered the hidden All Ages Alliance. They even suspected that the reason Xu Yan and Meng Chong managed to avoid the search was likely because of aid from the All Ages Alliance.
Meanwhile, within the All Ages Alliance, the Alliance Hierarch and others were all greatly aggrieved.
Xu Yan and Meng Chong have indeed mastered the art of concealment. Yet, despite harnessing all their resources and manpower, Jade God Sect and the Su Family failed to locate them!
However, much to their despair, the All Ages Alliance, which had always remained hidden, was now exposed.
The only silver lining was that the Jade God Sect and the Su Family merely considered the All Ages Alliance as just another organization composed of loose cultivators, no different from the rest.
Even so, the Spirit Sects and prominent families in Yuzhou launched a campaign to eradicate the All Ages Alliance completely.
They were adamant about not permitting any form of organized group of loose cultivators with a certain degree of power.
Soon, chaos erupted in the martial arts world of Yuzhou, even leading to battles between Refining God Heavenly Men.
However, this chaos didn’t affect the tranquillity within the estate.
This place felt like an isolated world, unaffected by any external disturbances.
Li Xuan had already started investigating the fifth page of the Book of Tai Cang, simultaneously delineating the Laws of Heaven and Earth for his four disciples to comprehend.
This served as the foundation for using the Laws of Heaven and Earth in Divine Skills.
It was also to lay the groundwork for comprehending the Divine Skills.
“The number of Martial Art divine shadows is about to break through a hundred thousand.”
Li Xuan suddenly noticed that the count of Martial Art divine shadows was just one short of a hundred thousand.
The number of Great Wasteland Warriors was increasing, marking a high-speed development phase.
Eventually, a few days later, the divine shadows broke through the hundred-thousand mark.
“Your Martial Arts divine shadow has broken through a hundred thousand, granting you the Divine Martial True Body.”
Li Xuan was filled with exhilaration. The Divine Martial True Body was the result of the fusion of a hundred thousand divine shadows. It was both a clone and not. The Divine Martial True Body connected to his primary consciousness, completely under his control.
What mattered more was that the Divine Martial True Body held ninety percent of his main body’s strength!
“This is much stronger than the divine shadow. If my enemy and I are evenly matched, but I have the Divine Martial True Body, that is equivalent to a two-against-one fight, ensuring victory!”
His strength had increased again.
Li Xuan was in high spirits.
“Your disciple, Meng Chong, has broken through the first minor phase of the Undying Golden Body; your first phase of the Undying Golden Body has been perfected.”
Meng Chong had made a breakthrough.
Shortly after Meng Chong’s breakthrough, Su Lingxiu also broke through the minor phase of the Divine Intent State.
“Your disciple, Su Lingxiu, has broken through the minor phase of the Divine Intent State; your Divine Intent State of Pill Medicine Martial Arts has been perfected.”
The sensation of having improved abilities felt wonderful indeed.
Among his four disciples, currently, Fang Hao was the weakest; however, even he was nearing his breakthrough.
Li Xuan called over Fang Hao to give him some guidance. For instance, he was encouraged to refine a treasure that can be used for communication.
Communication methods of Ling Domain were relatively lagging.
Although Mother and Child Beads could convey some messages, their functionality was quite singular, like a particular bead breaking to represent a particular message, and so on.
For detailed communication, a special “Spirit Swallow”, similar to carrier pigeons in the inner domain, was used. However, this communication method carried a certain amount of risk, as it could potentially be intercepted.
While the Spirit Swallow was thrillingly fast, it wasn’t instant, especially when conveying messages across states, which could take several days.
Even within one state, conveying a message from the south to the north required a day even with the fast-paced Spirit Swallow. Plus, there was always the risk of it being intercepted on the way.
The cost of breeding Spirit Swallows was also high; establishing a communication system was extremely resource-intensive.
Second- and third-tier Spirit Sects and noble families weren’t even capable of building too wide a communication network and could only use it within their own territories.
Mother and Child Beads were used by Spirit Sects and noble families only for emergency communication.
For example, if a particular bead broke, it indicated a crisis. If another bead broke, it signaled a call for help, and so on.
Given that Artifact Refining, Formations, and Restrictions have all been introduced, how can communication treasures be left out?
Therefore, Li Xuan gave a few pointers to Fang Hao, encouraging him to refine a communication item for convenient contact.
Even if they couldn’t achieve instant communication across the entire Ling Domain, they at least needed to be capable of communicating within a certain range.
After receiving guidance from Li Xuan, a delighted Fang Hao began brainstorming on refining communication treasures.
At the outskirts of Qinglin City in Yuzhou.
Chairman Yu was standing in mid-air, with the left and right protectors of the Yuzhou branch of the All Ages Alliance standing behind him.
“You two are also loose cultivators, yet you willingly serve the Spirit Sects and noble families? Do you truly believe these Sects and families consider you to be one of their own?”
Chairman Yu asked in a solemn tone.
In front of them were two Refining God Heavenly Men loose cultivators who had some reputation in Yuzhou. They’d been recruited by the Jade God Sect and the Su Family during their large-scale search for Xu Yan and Meng Chong.
Today, they were the external affairs elders of the Jade God Sect!
Upon discovering the All Ages Alliance, the Jade God Sect provided them an opportunity to join their Sect. If they succeeded, they would officially become elders of the Jade God Sect and be considered Spiritual Sect Warriors!
That’s how these two ended up capturing warriors from the All Ages Alliance, leading to Chairman Yu stepping in to intercept them.
“The loose cultivators have no future. The Spirit Sects and noble families are the right path. This is how it is in the Ling Domain… it’s foolish to fantasize about changing the circumstances of the Ling Domain.”
A Refining God loose cultivator coldly retorted.
“Precisely because of people like you with such a mindset, we loose cultivators will never see the light of day!”