yasinovel Chapter 96 The Spread of Gu Dao
Chapter 96 The Spread of Gu Dao
Chapter 99 The Spread of Gu Dao (2k)
Outside the desolate forbidden zone, the battlefield where Sha Xiao and the Old Madman fought.
Three years have passed, and the place has returned to its former lush and verdant state.
It seems that the place is more lush than before, perhaps because of the nourishment from the monks who died in that great battle.
In just three short years, towering trees, nearly a century old, have grown here.
Countless spiritual herbs grow all over the mountains and fields, and scattered source blocks are turned up to the ground, further promoting the prosperity of this region.
Only when viewed from high above, judging from the abruptly flat terrain, can one discern that a great battle once took place here.
Unlike other places in the Eastern Wilderness that are full of life, there are not many monsters and strange insects inhabiting this lush forest.
Only occasionally can you find some inconspicuous little insects in certain places.
Whenever such insects appear, knights from many ancient clans flock to them.
After carefully conducting their test at high altitude, they would solemnly cordon off the area to ensure that the environment in which the insects were born was not disturbed.
This is what they have learned over the past three years: as long as the original environment is not destroyed, it can even become more spiritual.
Those insects will be born in an endless stream, and even stronger insects will be born.
However, normally, apart from a few places where training is being carried out, this place is usually only frequented by young cultivators who have just embarked on their cultivation journey.
The edge of Thunder Pool, near the center of the battle between Sha Xiao and the Old Madman, is completely different from the outer perimeter of the forest, which is open to everyone.
This place has been completely cleared away by various high-level cultivators, and no one below the Dao Palace level can see it.
All the slightly famous forces in the Eastern Wilderness have sent elders or even grand elders to be stationed here.
The Jiang family, the Ji family, the Yaochi Holy Land, the Yaoguang Holy Land, the Taixuan Sect, the Feng Clan, the Xiaoyao Sect, the Yin-Yang Sect, the Wanchu Sect, and many others are located here.
They joined forces and directly occupied the entire east and southeast.
The demons of the Southern Ridge were not to be outdone; they joined forces with the demons of the Eastern Wilderness and occupied the southwest.
The four major dynasties of Zhongzhou joined forces in a rare move to occupy the northwest.
Many independent cultivators either rely on a holy land or occupy a corner of the land on their own strength.
News travels are already slow in the Northern Regions and Western Deserts, and the other three parties are deliberately blocking information.
Apart from a few scattered practitioners, there were basically no major sects coming over.
Many forces flocked to Yan State, a desolate and remote place apart from the ancient forbidden land, mainly because of the fame Sha Xiao had earned in that battle.
Countless surviving eyewitnesses stated that Sha Xiao, a minor cultivator at the Sea of Wheels level, actually managed to defeat the Holy Lord of Yao Guang and several elders of the Jiang and Ji families by relying on the Azure Emperor's weapon and a strange set of techniques.
When the news first came out, everyone treated it as a joke.
However, as the Jiang family began to target the source mines in the northern region of Yaoguang, the Ji family also began to encroach on Yaoguang's influence.
When the Holy Lord of Yaoguang and the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron disappeared without a trace, people began to doubt whether the shocking news was true.
Subsequently, several major powers, especially the Great Xia Dynasty of Zhongzhou and the always closed-off Nanling Demon Clan, spent a great deal of time and effort to open up the domain gate.
Later, rumors circulated that the Emperor Sword had been seen carrying the old prince of the Great Xia Dynasty in a desperate escape into the void, heading straight for the Central Plains. The Void Mirror and the Hengyu Furnace had both spontaneously revived.
These reports were quickly confirmed.
The rumors are true!
In no time, every force with even a little bit of power sent people over.
The method that allows a Sea of Wheels to kill a Holy Lord wielding an Imperial Weapon is something everyone would want to learn.
When they arrived, they were shocked to discover that this plain, stretching for five hundred miles, had grown centuries-old medicinal herbs and ancient trees in just one year, as well as the ever-expanding Thunder Pool.
In an instant, everyone frantically searched for Sha Xiao's magic.
After such a great battle, the secret realm's methods can generally determine the strength and techniques of both sides by observing the remnants of the surrounding Great Dao.
However, what puzzled everyone was that no matter how hard they searched, they could not find the Daoist charm left behind by Sha Xiao's divine power connecting with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
The most unique feature is the lightning pool, which is slowly expanding as various types of tribulation lightning are injected from the void.
Everyone knew there was probably something wrong there, but since it was a pool of turmoil, no one dared to make any rash moves.
Until one day, a daring rogue cultivator from the Divine Bridge wanted to try the Heavenly Tribulation recorded in ancient books, and deliberately attracted a particularly weak Wood-type Heavenly Lightning.
After he used all his strength to withstand it, he discovered that there was an angry little insect hidden in the lightning bolt.
When he curiously and roughly used his divine power to forcefully activate the little insect, a bolt of wood-elemental lightning, several times stronger than the one he had previously summoned, blasted a passing dragon-transformation elder to death.
Only then did everyone realize that Sha Xiao's magic actually seemed to be these tiny insects!
For a time, the area around Leichi became very lively.
Not long after, a rogue cultivator from the fourth level of cultivation appeared and unleashed a Five Elements Tribulation Lightning using a Five-Turn Five Elements Thunder Gu he had collected.
Caught off guard, they directly killed the only Sendai Grand Elder of a small sect.
The news caused an uproar throughout the cultivation world.
A Daoist priest killed a Sendai? Are you kidding me? This is beyond the Eight Forbidden Zones!
But that's exactly what happened; a tiny insect was able to emit seven-colored lightning.
Even if a cultivator from the Bitter Sea had it in his hand, it would pose a huge threat not only to a powerful Immortal, but also to a third-level Immortal who had severed the Dao.
This has had an impact on the BeiDou cultivation community no less significant than the invention of the Maxim machine gun on Earth.
A mere cultivator, not even a fraction of your age, could easily kill you with a bug filled with heavenly lightning.
Where can you reason with this?
The crowd went even crazier when they discovered that some insects could combine to unleash even more powerful killing moves.
No one questioned whether Sha Xiao could kill Yao Guang Holy Lord anymore. What everyone wondered was, where did Sha Xiao go?
Why would such a blessed resource point be left here?
However, regardless of the circumstances, the primary issue for all the factions is to quickly establish a foothold, frantically collect Gu worms, and conduct research on them.
This process involved considerable struggle before a temporary peace was achieved.
Each person was assigned a void exit to enter the Thunder Pool and try to capture the Gu worms that were multiplying within it.
Through continuous cultivation, they quickly discovered the huge differences brought about by the varying number of transformations among the Gu worms.
Naturally, the number of cycles was divided into five realms, from the Sea of Wheels to the Sendai, and these Gu worms were given new names belonging to this world according to their functions and effects.
Of course, for the sake of simplicity and easy memorization, many people simply arrange them in numerical order from low to high. Even now, there are still occasional lucky Dao Palace or Transformation Dragons who obtain the Sendai-level Fifth Rank Gu and leap directly to the top.
"Rumble rumble—"
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A sound like thunder resounded through the sky.
"The Thunder Pool has erupted! Quick, quick, quick—the first wave of Void Thunder will definitely spawn a lot of Gu worms!"
The cultivators from various powerful families, wrapped in their clothes and armor, quickly rode their divine rainbows out of the camp.