“Either way, whether it works out or not, since they want to come after me, they’ll have to pay a price!” With this thought, killing intent surged in Qi Ping’s eyes.
He had only wanted to enter the Technique Pavilion to study knowledge as normal, yet he’d been targeted like this—there was no way his temper wouldn’t flare up.
But after witnessing all the things the three major factions of the Qingyuan Sect had done for the sake of cultivation, Qi Ping knew he would have to kill these people sooner or later. Fortunately, what made Qi Ping somewhat happy was that he had also seen the good side of the Qingyuan Sect, and that there were people within the sect willing to keep developing and strengthening the Qingtian Domain.
With them around, the Qingtian Domain could develop healthily under good policies and management.
“Hopefully everything goes smoothly!”
Qi Ping hoped that one day, with the help of some trusted people, he could bring the entire Qingtian Domain firmly under his control. That way, he could use the entire domain as his field and begin his great farming enterprise.
A Druid’s power comes from heaven, earth, and nature. As long as this world continues to grow stronger, his power would grow stronger too!
Moreover, Qi Ping had a premonition—once he thoroughly adjusted the nature and cultivator civilization of the Qingtian Domain, his Druid power would undergo a tremendous transformation. It might even be the opportunity for him to become a Civilization Druid.
This might also be the thing he could do that most aligned with the essence of Druid power, and the thing most capable of making his Druid rank leap forward.
At the same time, Qi Ping increasingly sensed that his Druid power system was gradually converging with the power system of the cultivation world.
And as Qi Ping gained more and more mastery over knowledge, and understood the essence of heaven and earth and the nature of power more thoroughly, his comprehension of Druid power would also gradually accelerate and deepen!
After successfully setting up the Yin-Yang Heaven Severing Formation, Qi Ping began using the yin-yang spirit items he had collected during this period to carve the formation bases for the Yin-Yang Heaven Severing Formation.
Meanwhile, at the same time as Starfall City’s planned explosion, it was also the time for the Little Stone Spirit to face its heavenly tribulation and break through to the Golden Core stage.
When the battle broke out, it would likely become two Golden Core-level battlefields at once. These would be the two most difficult and most important battles Qi Ping had planned since beginning his cultivation, so Qi Ping intended to go all out this time!
Therefore, this time Qi Ping would spare no expense, refining all his high-grade five-element spirit items and yin-yang spirit items into formation bases!
If he won, the Little Stone Spirit would achieve the Golden Core! And Qi Ping himself would rise rapidly within the Qingyuan Sect, grasping the knowledge repository that the Qingyuan Sect had accumulated over more than ten thousand years!
Amid Qi Ping’s all-out cultivation and battle preparations, time passed quickly.
Under Qi Ping’s comprehension, the Five-Element Birth-Destruction Formation advanced at an extremely rapid pace. One Yin-Yang Heaven Severing Formation after another was refined by Qi Ping and sent to Starfall City!
Honey suitable for Golden Core-level Old Mountain Ginseng to restore power, as well as honey with spirit-restoring and healing effects, was also continuously being sent to Starfall City!
At the same time, under the nourishment of the queen bee, batch after batch of Wind Blade Bees were being born!
Of course, as the cost, the resources Qi Ping had accumulated were also being consumed at a tremendous rate.
The spirit medicines on the territory were fine—given some time, they would slowly grow back. What was truly consumed the most were the yin-yang and five-element spirit items. The value of the spirit items consumed to set up a fully functional Yin-Yang Heaven Severing Formation was enough to drain a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s entire fortune for each formation!
This was also the cost of powerful formations. Although formations were said to be able to use all things in heaven and earth as their base, setting up a powerful formation required correspondingly powerful spirit items as support and maintenance to leverage more of heaven and earth’s power.
If three words had to describe Qi Ping right now, they would be: preparing for battle, preparing for battle, and still preparing for battle!
Only by winning this war could he use the Qingtian Domain as his field and launch his great farming enterprise!
And while Qi Ping was going all out in his preparations, an inexplicable atmosphere was also stirring within the Qingyuan Sect.
After many years, many disciples from the three major factions of the radical camp who had previously been at odds with each other rarely set aside their prejudices, and their behavior began to change dramatically from before.
And those familiar with this atmosphere also began to sense the killing intent in the air.
Some people clearly remembered that the last time this atmosphere appeared was when the upper echelons of the sect had a violent conflict over certain matters. That conflict had even directly led to the death of a Golden Core cultivator named Shou Cheng, with no small number of disciples dying indirectly as well.
The Shou Cheng faction had also accelerated its decline during that conflict.
If not for the intervention of a Nascent Soul-stage Grand Elder afterward, it might have led to even more deaths!
But even a Nascent Soul-stage Grand Elder would find it hard to quell the conflict single-handedly, because within the Qingyuan Sect, several forces had accumulated that were powerful enough to contend with Nascent Soul cultivators.
This was the foundation of a ten-thousand-year great sect! And the Qingyuan Sect’s heritage spanned more than ten thousand years!
Within the sect, the resources and efforts of countless generations had been spent accumulating numerous forces capable of contending with Nascent Souls—even enough to threaten Soul Formation cultivators.
This was the terrifying foundation of a great sect! Without power that could crush the Qingyuan Sect, it would be utterly impossible to conquer this place.
But it was precisely for this reason that some people, upon sensing this violent conflict about to unfold once again within the sect, immediately felt that something was terribly wrong.
If the violent conflict between factions played out again, the number of people who would die would truly be more than just one.
Yet the current anomalies within the sect were all releasing exactly this kind of signal.
After these abnormal signs appeared, even Han Li and Zhang Danlu, far away in Starfall City, received the news.
“Senior Brother Han, did you get the message?” Zhang Danlu looked at Han Li, whose brows were tightly furrowed, and asked somewhat uneasily.
“Got it!” Han Li nodded firmly. Clearly, he had received the message too.
“What on earth is the situation in the sect now? How could another conflict break out after such a short time?”
“It’s probably because resource output has been declining year after year, right? Because of this, the internal conflicts in the sect have always been very sharp. Senior Brother Lin Ya’s matter this time probably became the fuse that set off the explosion…”
“The three major factions have indeed been getting more and more excessive in their actions over the years. Decades ago, over the Beast Sect heritage, they chose to collude with raider cultivators to plunder the cultivators of our Qingtian Domain. Later, for the Beast Sect secret realm, they reached an agreement with the Immortal Alliance—they really have no shame when it comes to resources.”
But knowing all this, they were still powerless to do anything about it. Han Li and Zhang Danlu were already barely able to protect themselves.
With the madness and radicalism of the three major factions, this battle was bound to come sooner or later. The conservative faction and the neutral faction couldn’t keep yielding forever.
Everyone knew things were developing in an uncontrollable direction, but no one could stop it. They could only watch helplessly as the atmosphere within the sect grew increasingly tense…
However, just when everyone’s attention was focused on the movements of the Qingyuan Sect’s core members, something happened in Starfall City that made everyone’s jaws drop!
Lin Ya—massacred the city!
“What did you say? Lin Ya massacred the city?” Countless voices of disbelief rang out.
