My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 374 - 352: Action in the Forbidden Area

Chapter 374: Chapter 352: Action in the Forbidden Area

Afloat in the air, looking at the rolling mountains around the forbidden area spreading out, disciples flying through the forests, immortal cranes dancing in the sky, streaming lights rising everywhere.

On various mountain tops, the dense spiritual light could be vaguely seen gushing out from the spiritual veins, spreading out in all directions.

These were confined within a region by the Third-Class spiritual device protecting the sect, forming a spiritual environment that far exceeded the outside world.

On several main peaks, in various spiritual fields, many spiritual objects had already grown vigorously.

Originally, many couldn’t be used because they were planted too recently, but the spiritual energy tide allowed many to grow, including some that have existed for a hundred years.

Such scenes emerged in Wang Zijia’s mind, and he smiled satisfactorily.

This must have been what Wanyu Sect looked like in ancient times, right?

After thousands and thousands of years of development, Demon Suppression Sect should have gained a certain degree of momentum!

Especially in a few decades, or perhaps two to three hundred years, there should still be a third spiritual energy tide. If the last opportunity is seized, many Wine Monks and Perfected monks should be cultivated!

With various thoughts surfacing in his mind, Wang Zijia strolled around Demon Suppression Sect and then floated to the main peak.

"Greetings, Ancestor!"

"Salute to the Ancestor!"

"······"

It wasn’t until Wang Zijia landed on the peak’s great hall that many disciples reacted, stunned momentarily before quickly paying their respects.

Wang Zijia slightly nodded in response and entered the main hall on the main peak unconcernedly.

After a while, Li Lexin hurriedly arrived.

He was now mainly responsible for overall planning, while the other two deputy heads and Elder Mo Yunzi and Demonic Sovereign Ling Yanlan were running around the world.

"Greetings, Ancestor!" Li Lexin performed a full salute to Wang Zijia, as it was his first visit to the main peak’s great hall.

Wang Zijia, sitting on the large jade throne in the center of the hall, nodded and asked, "How is the collection of spiritual objects after the tide going?"

"Reporting to the Ancestor, it is currently progressing rapidly," Li Lexin hesitated for a moment and added:

"However, because we only have the core continent that hasn’t been breached, with the other two continents completely defeated, the collection of spiritual objects on the other two continents is almost zero."

Wang Zijia frowned and said, "Issue a decree to scatter and act. In case of danger, don’t need a meeting, just report to me directly."

"I will sit here for a month. The collection of spiritual objects on this continent, most of it needs to be done in a month or so."

"Respecting the Ancestor’s decree!" Li Lexin immediately saluted.

"Additionally, notify every sect. Gather at the Third Forbidden Area in a month and a half." Wang Zijia pondered for a moment and said solemnly:

"This matter cannot be delayed any longer. The second spiritual energy tide has just passed, and the power limit of the Qinglian Realm will only slowly increase."

"Once it rises to the Infant God Realm, a great catastrophe may occur in the Third Forbidden Area, even risking resurrection. By then, even I might be powerless!"

Upon hearing this, Li Lexin looked up at Wang Zijia in astonishment, his face revealing bewilderment and confusion.

Wang Zijia explained, "The Middle Third Boundary from the fourth to the sixth stage of cultivation is called the God Monarch Triple Realm."

"The reason for this is because the Divine Dao is the strongest at this stage."

"And the Third Forbidden Area is clearly a Demonic Divine Forbidden Area. A small world like Qinglian, once it erupts, will render the resurrection insignificant."

"What I told you is to hope you will notify each faction in your decree, understand its severity, and play fewer tricks."

Li Lexin saluted respectfully after recollecting himself for a moment, "Disciple understands. At that time, the sects all over the world will be mobilized to gather outside the Third Forbidden Area."

Wang Zijia nodded and said, "Notify the top tiers; it’s useless to tell the lower tiers about this kind of thing, it’s easy to cause panic, and it’s even more detrimental."

"Disciple understands!" Li Lexin replied.

Seeing this, Wang Zijia waved his hand, sent off the guests and said, "You may leave, I am waiting for requests from all directions."

"Yes!" Upon hearing this, Li Lexin saluted again and hurriedly retreated.

Wang Zijia then sat cross-legged in the middle of the hall.

And so, every day, Wang Zijia either seals a few techniques into books, or makes a couple of Jade Talisman, or is involved with disciples soliciting opinions, or sends avatars, or multitasks to go to various places for rescue in person.

After a month, Wang Zijia quickly became familiar with the changes in his own strength.

The feeling of self-inflation and discomfort brought about by a rapid increase in strength quickly faded away.

In addition, a steady stream of spiritual objects were brought into the gate, and various demonic corpses were also sent back one after another.

After extracting the value, the five ghosts of the Perfected Realm coupled with the continuously chasing Swallowing Void Toad, there was no longer a build-up of corpses.

Even because the scale of the holy land was not enough, there weren’t many people, even if the entire sect was deployed, it couldn’t fill the stomach of Five Ghosts and a Gu.

As for the Hundred Eyes Flesh Field carried back by the Five Ghosts, it could only be put aside for the time being.

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In a blink of an eye, it was a month and a half.

Under the overtime work of all sects, the collection of spiritual objects on the central continent where the human race lived gradually drew to a close.

At least the high-grade products that were created due to the spiritual energy tide with a second grade or above, most of them were collected.

Actually, there weren’t many. At least to Wang Zijia, there weren’t many.

When spread out across the Qinglian Realm that now had a population of over ten thousand Wine monks, the resources became even more scarce.

One day, at the perimeter of the Third Forbidden area.

Members of various sects gathered in a town that had been completely evacuated.

On the enormous square, a diverse crowd of several thousand people, almost entirely Wine Monks.

In the recent decade, Qing Lian Cultivation World’s development was extremely rapid. From an initial meager thousand wine monks, in ten years, it had multiplied more than tenfold.

Amongst them, disciples of the Holy Land accounted for more than half.

The other half was scattered across various sects of the continent, and there was an even larger influx of disciples in the Child Stage.

From the initial tens of thousands, the figure has grown to hundreds of thousands now.

In smaller sects, a Wine Monk would establish the sect as its founder, teaching several hundred Child Stage cultivators.

In large sects, several Wine Monk elders guided the growth of thousands of disciples.

The root cause of these changes was not only due to the dissemination of Immortal Venerate’s cultivation method, the opening of path to immortality, and the popularization of cultivation knowledge. It was also because with the tides of spiritual energy, there were just too many people having sudden understandings.

"Old man Bai, didn’t you say some time ago that you were considering assimilating your sect into the Holy Land? Why are you still choosing to struggle with the rest of us?"

"Hah, it’s not like I don’t want to, just that the circumstances have changed!"

"What do you mean? The Demon Suppression Holy Land isn’t even willing to integrate a sect anymore?"

"Do you think this is still the time more than a decade ago when the three major holy lands just merged and everything was still in ruin?"

"Actually, it’s not that they don’t want to, but it would only be a simple merger, restructuring everything. Trying to maintain the original structure and constituting it as a new faction would be somewhat unqualified. After thinking it over for a while, we decided to just continue as is!"

"Oh, speaking of that, wasn’t the White Cloud View established by old man Liu quite similar to ours back then? Look at them now, they’re already the faction leader of White Cloud faction, one of the 103 factions of Demon Suppression Sect."

"Exactly. Back then, several small sects and factions that we even didn’t care for managed to join the Holy Land in time. Now they have already become regional overlords. It’s really something that makes one feel discontented when thinking about it."

"There’s nothing we can do about it. With the Immortal Venerate there dictating teachings, having instant understandings time and again, how could they not soar to great heights!"

"Ah, Immortal Venerate... Indeed fitting of someone who is a Dao Child of the Upper Realm. The several hundred others who descended last time were not a match for the Immortal Venerate alone."

"Have you met any other real immortals who descended?"

"What real immortals? I did meet two immortal individuals who descended last time, but most of them were in the Child Stage. Unlike the Immortal Venerate, we don’t even know their exact cultivation."

"The Immortal Venerate should be of the Perfected Realm, right?"

"From my observation, it doesn’t seem to be the case. However, the Qinglian Realm’s current limitations can only bring forth the strength of a Perfected Cultivation Level."

"I don’t see it that way either. Even after having the fortune to meet the Yao Emperor and recently ascended Mo Yunzi, they didn’t possess the same indomitable demeanor as the Immortal Venerate."

"..."

Due to the different distances of the sects from this place, there were early and late arrivals. The earliest ones arrived yesterday, while the latest ones haven’t arrived yet.

At this moment, thousands of Wine monks, who could dominate their respective areas within the Qinglian Realm were gathered in the vast ruined square; each of them discussing with familiar faces and waiting.

During this process, there were sects that hurriedly arrived from time to time.

The bustle continued till midday. A vast majority of sects, that were noteworthy and had known Wine Monks in them, had already arrived.

"Chirp!!!"

As everyone waited, a phoenix’s call echoed through the Nine Heavens.

Everybody looked up almost simultaneously. A giant firebird, with its wings spanned several dozen meters, pierced through the clouds and descended from above the heavens.

The firebird was entirely fiery red, with beautifully radiant feathers reminiscent of a sunset. Under the sunlight, it shimmered with seven-colored golden lights.

A Spiritual Crown on its head, its tail held three long feathers that were each over ten meters long, appearing almost like the legendary phoenix.

Standing on the firebird’s back were several individuals. Leading the group was a handsome and elegant young man, whose demeanor was incomparable to that of ordinary humans.

That was none other than the Immortal Venerate of the Upper Realm.

Next to him was Mo Yunzi, the only surviving elder of the Demon Suppression Sect, who was the only Perfected Cultivation practitioner in this world.

Behind them were the three deputy sect leaders, formerly the masters of the three major holy lands.

The paper palace that towered behind the firebird was the traveling Magic-Driven Tool used by the Lingtang Mansion of the past.

After assimilating into the Demon Suppression Sect, several tool cultivators refined this Magic-Driven Tool several times, investing countless spiritual materials. It was on the verge of becoming a Third-Class Spiritual Device.

At this moment, those shouldering the palace were no longer the myriad paper figures, but four spiritual puppets, akin to living beings, brimming with wisdom and comparable to a Perfected Cultivation practitioner.

Due to various factors, this paper palace had become one of the Demon Suppression Sect’s Sect-guarding Magic Tools, symbolizing the sect’s prestige.

"Greetings to the Immortal Venerate!"

"Paying respects to the Immortal Venerate!"

"..."

When the firebird hovered above everyone in the sky, everyone instinctively paid their respects.

Wang Zijia stood on the back of the Spirit Fire Bird, with his hands behind his back. The strong wind blew his hair and robe constantly, fluttering in the wind. Under the resplendent halo of the Spirit Fire Bird, he emanated a domineering aura, as if he was the solitary ruler above all under the heavens, a sight that captured a supreme authority and dignity.

Moral character is something that can actually be nurtured under certain circumstances.