On the very day the Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance was formed,
the eighteen overlord-level forces each opened two to three spatial passages connecting to the lower realms. They dispatched armies of Nascent Soul Stage cultivators into the nine fallen small thousand realms and began their counteroffensive.
These nine small thousand realms that had already fallen were: Xuan Mu, Xuan Huo, Xuan Yang, Xuan Lei, Zi Xing, Jin Yuan, Di Yuan, Tian Li, and Hong Yue.
Among them, because the Xuan Tian Sect had already set up a spatial passage to the Xuan Mu Realm long before, and had already sent their disciples into the Xuan Mu Realm to provide support,
the situation in the Xuan Mu Realm was currently the best, though it was still far from optimistic.
After the Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance’s forces entered the nine small thousand realms, they didn’t expand blindly.
After fending off the first wave of attacks from the Green Demon Race, they immediately began setting up formations and building bases. They relied on these formations to resist the early offensive of the Green Demon Race.
Then, they planned to slowly expand outward, using the bases as their centers.
After all, most of the nine small thousand realms had already been transformed into demon domains, and much of what remained had also been largely converted.
If they rashly ventured deep into these small thousand realms, the Nascent Soul Stage powerhouses from the Earth Mysticism Realm might not necessarily be a match for the Green Demon Race.
For now, the only option was to rely on formations, fight steadily, and proceed step by step.
The overlord-level forces also had ways to convert demon domains back into spiritual domains.
However, with the interference of the Green Demon Race, they couldn’t use any quick and easy methods. They could only choose a slow, gradual transformation over a long period of time.
Within the Qing Xuan Blessed Land,
although the current mobilization of the Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance’s army had nothing to do with him, he had been quietly paying attention to the direction of the war.
After all, when the nest is overturned, no egg remains intact.
If the Earth Mysticism Realm were truly defeated, even his eternal lifespan wouldn’t make a difference.
Soon after the Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance’s army descended to the lower realms, Ye Qingxuan’s disciple token suddenly began to vibrate.
Taking a look, Ye Qingxuan saw that it was a message from Bai Zichun, the manager of the Blessing Cultivator Academy:
“Qingxuan, all the blessing cultivators of your cohort are now under my supervision. Starting today, the Blessed Land will focus entirely on cultivating Spirit Purification Trees. Your original sect tasks are temporarily suspended.”
“The Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance will purchase first-grade Spirit Purification Trees for 9 contribution points each.”
As for the purchase price of Spirit Purification Trees above first-grade, since Ye Qingxuan was only openly a first-grade blessing cultivator for now, Bai Zichun didn’t mention it.
Although Spirit Purification Trees can purify spiritual energy, a single first-grade tree doesn’t have much effect on its own. That’s why the market price is very low, basically just the price offered by the Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance.
Only Spirit Purification Trees of third-grade or higher can truly have a significant purifying effect on their own.
Clearly, the Xuan Tian Sect had its blessing cultivator disciples plant these Spirit Purification Trees so they could be transplanted to the areas already occupied in the lower realms, with the goal of gradually purifying the demonic energy.
But since all this was for the sake of the entire Earth Mysticism Realm, it was naturally the Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance that provided the resources for the purchase.
Within the Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance, based on each sect’s strength and accumulated heritage, each sect contributed a portion of resources to serve as the alliance’s operating budget.
And the contribution points of the Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance were the sole currency for exchanging these resources.
Only those who made contributions in the war between the two realms had the chance to obtain this currency.
Although blessing cultivators couldn’t directly participate in the war, the Spirit Purification Trees they planted could still provide help for this protracted conflict.
So this time, the Spirit Purification Trees were purchased using the Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance’s contribution points, rather than the Xuan Tian Sect’s.
After reading the message from Bai Zichun, Ye Qingxuan understood the thinking of the Earth Mysticism Realm’s higher-ups, so he didn’t refuse and directly replied:
“Yes, Manager. This disciple will give it his all.”
Although the Xuan Tian Sect didn’t specify a quantity, Ye Qingxuan intended to do his part without exposing his true capabilities.
After receiving Ye Qingxuan’s reply, Bai Zichun sent another message to remind him:
“The spiritual veins within the nine fallen small thousand realms below have all been contaminated by the origin of the Green Demon Realm. Unless those spiritual veins are destroyed, the demonic energy can’t be completely purified as long as the Green Demon Race interferes.”
“Therefore, the higher-ups of the Earth Mysticism Realm plan to destroy the spiritual veins in each captured area as they advance, extract the origin of the spiritual veins, and bring it back to the Earth Mysticism Realm for purification.”
“When that happens, these spiritual vein origins will be placed in the alliance’s inventory, and you’ll be able to use alliance contribution points to exchange for them.”
Before a demon domain is fully transformed back into a spiritual domain, even if the origin of a spiritual vein is purified, it will still be contaminated again by the origin of the demon domain.
Moreover, since there are hardly any humans left in the nine fallen small thousand realms, after discussion, the higher-ups of the Earth Mysticism Realm decided to simply destroy the spiritual veins outright and extract their origins.
It’s foreseeable that after this long war ends, these nine small thousand realms won’t be able to generate spiritual energy again anytime soon.
Seeing the final message from Bai Zichun, a glint flashed in Ye Qingxuan’s eyes, and he replied gratefully:
“This disciple, Ye Qingxuan, thanks the Manager for his guidance.”
If he could obtain enough spiritual vein origins and integrate them directly into the Qing Xuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land, it would greatly accelerate its growth.
The reason Ye Qingxuan hadn’t considered using this method before was mainly because he had no source of spiritual vein origins without negative consequences.
As for secretly digging up spiritual veins in the Earth Mysticism Realm to upgrade his own Cave Heaven Blessed Land?
Let’s just say, don’t treat the rules of the world like they’re stupid.
A medium thousand realm, while not yet having condensed a Heavenly Dao, still has complete world rules.
If you destroy the world for your own selfish desires and dig up its spiritual veins to upgrade your own Cave Heaven Blessed Land,
then when others cultivate their blessed lands and can break through without being struck by lightning, you’ll be cultivating your Cave Heaven Blessed Land and might face a ten-dead-no-survival heavenly condemnation when you try to break through.
Furthermore, before a Cave Heaven Blessed Land has separated from the world, it’s essentially an附属天地 (subsidiary realm) of the world.
The world’s administrative authority over the Cave Heaven Blessed Land is no less than your own.
So, not to mention the rules set by the overlord-level forces—where digging up spiritual veins to upgrade your Cave Heaven Blessed Land would get you hunted down—
just getting past the world’s rules alone would be impossible.
After causing destructive damage to the world, do you really think you can still break through smoothly and ascend with your Cave Heaven Blessed Land? Don’t daydream.
Even now, with Ye Qingxuan’s Qing Xuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land, the origin energy converted from the chaotic energy it absorbs every day is passively shared with the Earth Mysticism Realm.
Think of it as protection money paid to the Earth Mysticism Realm. Otherwise, why would the Cave Heaven Blessed Land receive the Earth Mysticism Realm’s庇护 (shelter/protection)? And why would Ye Qingxuan be exempt from lightning strikes?
In the end, if Ye Qingxuan dies, the control of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land will be completely taken over by the world it resides in, turning into part of that world’s foundation.
And if Ye Qingxuan makes it to the end and wants to ascend together with his Cave Heaven Blessed Land, he’ll need to find a way to repay the Earth Mysticism Realm for that cause-and-effect connection.
Unless your strength far surpasses that of the world, why would you be allowed to wreak havoc in a world with complete rules and still succeed in ascending and transcending?
Do you really think the world will wait until you’re strong enough before it fights back and destroys you?
So, Ye Qingxuan was genuinely excited to have a legitimate source of spiritual vein origins to openly enhance his Qing Xuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
After finishing his conversation with Bai Zichun, Ye Qingxuan immediately sent a message to Zhu Dafu:
“Zhu Dafu, starting today, the Tianfu Shop will be buying up large quantities of Spirit Purification Trees of all grades.”
After receiving Ye Qingxuan’s message, Zhu Dafu didn’t know the reason for now, but he never questioned Ye Qingxuan’s affairs.
So, after replying to Ye Qingxuan’s message, he simply carried out the order.
Ye Qingxuan didn’t really expect the Tianfu Shop to actually buy up many Spirit Purification Trees.
Because once the news got out, Spirit Purification Trees would become a hot commodity and wouldn’t be easy to acquire.
His real reason for having Zhu Dafu buy Spirit Purification Trees was to provide a reasonable source explanation for the many Spirit Purification Trees in his own Qing Xuan Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
After all, his Tianfu Shop didn’t track the source of the goods it bought. He could just take the Spirit Purification Trees from his Cave Heaven Blessed Land, give them a spin through the Tianfu Shop, and that would make everything seem legitimate.
Ye Qingxuan had always been growing Spirit Juvenating Grass, Spirit Purification Trees, and Earth Spirit Flowers—three types of spiritual plants that greatly benefit a Cave Heaven Blessed Land—and he’d been growing them on a fairly large scale.
Currently, within Ye Qingxuan’s blessed land, there are no first, second, or third-grade Spirit Purification Trees, but there are nearly a thousand fourth-grade ones.
The reason there are no first, second, or third-grade trees is that after the previously planted ones advanced to the fourth grade, Ye Qingxuan stopped planting new ones.
However, now that the Earth Mysticism Realm Alliance has this task of purchasing Spirit Purification Trees, Ye Qingxuan plans to start cultivating them on a large scale.
Just as Ye Qingxuan decided to scale up cultivate Spirit Purification Trees,
on the extraterritorial battlefield,
the long-sealed gate of the Green Demon Realm suddenly opened, and over a hundred Green Demon Race cultivators at the Tribulation Crossing Stage and Mahayana Stage poured out.
These Green Demon cultivators intended to catch the Earth Mysticism Realm off guard and abruptly start a war on the extraterritorial battlefield.
They tried to use the residual energy from high-level cultivator battles to kill off a portion of the mid-level Earth Mysticism Realm cultivators who were training on the extraterritorial battlefield.
But what awaited the Green Demon Race was a terrifying great formation, along with a comparable number of human cultivators at the Tribulation Crossing Stage and Mahayana Stage.
After the sudden change in the lower realms, how could the people of the Earth Mysticism Realm have done nothing?
The Earth Mysticism Realm cultivators who had been on the extraterritorial battlefield had long been secretly withdrawn by their higher-ups.
And this time, they were ready to teach the Green Demon Realm a lesson and recover some of their losses.
As soon as the two sides met, without any unnecessary words, they all struck out viciously at each other.
That terrifying great formation, under the bombardment of over twenty Mahayana Stage cultivators, only managed to grind down about a dozen Tribulation Crossing Stage Green Demons before it completely collapsed.
For a while, various terrifying elemental, mystical, and rule-based powers began raging deep within the extraterritorial battlefield.
The battlefield was gradually split apart, slowly spreading until it covered the entire extraterritorial battlefield.
Now, only a few hundred Tribulation Crossing Stage and Mahayana Stage cultivators remained, fighting chaotically across the entire extraterritorial battlefield.
This battle was so intense that the sky darkened and the earth shook, and even the entire extraterritorial battlefield began to tremble slightly.
All the demon creatures that had been there perished instantly in the residual energy of the battle, and the whole extraterritorial battlefield was swept by a terrifying tide of energy.
If the extraterritorial battlefield hadn’t been fused with the world origins of both the Earth Mysticism Realm and the Green Demon Realm, it probably would have been torn apart by now.
Moreover, both sides very tacitly refrained from using immortal-tier magical treasures.
Because once the power of an immortal-tier treasure was unleashed, the resulting battle fluctuations would definitely exceed the upper limit of the Mahayana Stage.
The extraterritorial battlefield alone absolutely couldn’t withstand a collision of power beyond the Mahayana Stage limit for very long.
Neither side’s higher-ups wanted to see the extraterritorial battlefield shattered just yet.
So, without the intervention of immortal-tier treasures, this battle between the high-level cultivators of the two realms was destined to last for quite some time.
