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Chapter 849 - 708: Immortal Venerate as Servant, Return to Spirit Suppressing Town

Chapter 849: Chapter 708: Immortal Venerate as Servant, Return to Spirit Suppressing Town

Spirit Suppressing Realm.

Since seven years ago, when the Four Sects convened the Immortal Dao Alliance conference in the Sun Family of the Delta, only to be ambushed by the Devil Gate, the entire Spirit Suppressing Realm had been plunged into chaos.

Rumors said that in that battle, the Devil Gate’s Big Shots all came out, even going so far as to awaken the Sect’s Patriarchs, who had been in slumber for many years, mobilizing ten great Tribulation Crossing Devil Lords.

Using a Great Array as a trap and the world as a pillar, they relocated the entire City of the Sun Family into the Void, attempting to annihilate all seven Tribulation Crossing Cultivators present at the meeting, thereby establishing their dominance over Qiankun.

The Devil Gate had prepared for years for this, and everything at the start went as perfectly as the Devil Gate had anticipated. However, the outcome was unexpected.

At the crucial moment between life and death, a reincarnated Guru from the Wanyu Sect, the God Monarch Chi Yang, appeared and broke the situation.

At a great cost, he summoned an ancient Immortal Venerate to this world, and with one hand, shattered the myriad arrangements made by the Devil Gate.

With his own strength, he shattered the Demonic Sect Conspiracy, slaughtering a group of Tribulation Crossing Devil Lords in the Void, and at an extreme cost, killed the Turbid Immortal of the Devil Gate: Qi Chounu.

He himself was also severely injured and has been wandering the Void, missing ever since.

At first, there were rumors of his demise, but the Wanyu Sect brought out the Soul Lamp of the God Monarch, and the rumors spontaneously dissipated.

The seven accompanying Tribulation Crossing Great Cultivators also suffered two deaths, one disappearance, and four severe injuries, greatly reducing the strength of the Spirit Suppressing Realm’s Righteous Path.

However, they did not decline because of this, as the Devil Gate’s losses were even more tragic. Nine Tribulation Crossing Cultivators and one Turbid Immortal fell, amounting to ten Gurus.

This caused the entire Devil Gate to teeter dangerously, as if built upon a precarious egg.

The Bone Soul Sect, which had led this Devil Gate operation, suffered an annihilation of its Tribulation Crossing Cultivators.

Before the Orthodox forces even struck their doors, the Sect disintegrated due to internal fears, with countless Bone Soul Sect disciples scattering like birds and beasts, leading a fleeing life to the ends of the earth.

The Blissful Gate and the Blood Demon Sect also urgently activated the depths of their Sect’s heritage, awakening all the Devil Lords who had been in slumber within the Sect, relying on four nearly decrepit Tribulation Crossing Cultivators to hole up and defend themselves firmly.

Yet, the Spirit Suppressing Realm did not immediately face a great battle but, strangely, remained calm for a full two years.

During those two years, the Devil Gate’s elite disciples holed up, and the Heterodox Dao Cultivators vanished. The entire Spirit Suppressing Realm was peaceful and serene as it had never been before.

Two years later, except for the missing individuals, the four Tribulation Crossing Cultivators who were injured in the Delta incident began to recover, joined forces with the remaining Tribulation Crossing Cultivators in their Sects, and officially commenced a comprehensive battle between the Righteous and Evil clans.

The Four Sects swept through the Three Great Devil Sects with an overwhelming momentum.

Wherever they went, Devil Cultivators vanished, and the Heterodox Dao emerged no more. Countless lands of devilry were liberated, and many humans and animals were reborn.

But all these surprises ceased to progress at the territories of the two remaining major Devil Sects.

Aside from the Bone Soul Sect, which disintegrated on its own and was quickly occupied by the Orthodox Alliance; the Blissful Gate and the Blood Demon Sect both relied on their Protecting Sect Array as their base and used their Sect as a stronghold to engage in a tug-of-war with the Righteous Path in their respective territories.

Whenever a Righteous Path Tribulation Crossing Great Cultivator made a move, they would shrink back within the Sect’s Great Array; otherwise, they engaged in street warfare with the Righteous Path disciples within the state territories of their Sect.

Moreover, since the Righteous Path’s Tribulation Crossing Cultivators also suffered heavy losses in the Delta incident, they now feared that the few old survivors from the Devil Gate would choose to self-destruct and drag others down with them.

Therefore, the Orthodox Alliance did not press too hard in the end, laid siege to the two Sects, and commenced a bloody battle that lasted five years, hoping to boil the frogs in warm water.

In the process, the territories previously belonging to the Bone Soul Sect that were breached because its elite had scattered in advance, hiding in various places.

This led to the swift recovery of their influence but also left endless troubles, making governance extremely difficult. Every now and then, little monsters would launch sneak attacks and cause trouble.

These issues were originally headaches, but somehow, internal strife seemed to have started within the Devil Gate.

Devil prodigies like "Demon Blade" and "Eternal Bone" suddenly rose up but did not fight the Righteous Path. Instead, they continuously hunted other Devil Cultivators, employing all means including devouring, sacrificing, refining souls, and controlling corpses.

During their rapid growth, they killed many Devil lords.

Perhaps because of the times, their reputation soared rapidly.

In the end, it alarmed the Tribulation Crossing Great Cultivators of the Four Sects. The Tower Master of the Wanyu Town Demon Tower, Li Zhengfang, fearing another Qi Chounu would emerge, personally took action to hunt them down, despite being of Tribulation Crossing status.

However, after a three-month hunt, for some unknown reason, he suddenly gave up.

Some said he could not find them, others said he was helpless against them, and some claimed that the two had grown to not fear Tribulation Crossing anymore.

Afterward, the Wanyu Sect even relaxed its control over the Bone Soul Sect’s Territory.

This added credibility to the rumors of new Gurus growing within the Devil Gate, and more individuals emerged, attempting to revitalize the Bone Soul Sect.

Yet in such a situation, the old figures emerging from the Devil Gate kept disappearing mysteriously, and the Bone Soul Sect’s Territory instead became more stable.

Seven years hurriedly passed, and the entire territory of the Devil Gate, particularly the unclear affiliation of the Bone Soul Sect’s areas, was ignored by the Righteous Path. Yet, barely any Devil Cultivators emerged, desiring to rebuild the Bone Soul Sect. It remained quite peaceful, creating a mysterious situation.

The Blissful Gate and the Blood Demon Sect were also forced to join forces, completely holing up, with the Blood Demon Sect’s headquarters at the core, relying on the turtle shell in their home state to engage in daily blood battles with the Four Sects’ Alliance, constantly struggling.

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On this day, outside the Blood Demon Sect Array, atop the Blood Battle Plain.

In the sky, the spells of six Tribulation Crossing Cultivators filled the air, while below, disciples of both the Righteous and Devil paths were also continuously battling.

The clashes below were genuine life and death struggles, while the Tribulation Crossing Cultivators above appeared fierce, carrying an air of "Daily Pay Taxes."

It’s not that there were conspirators among the Righteous Cultivators in collusion with the Magic sect, but rather, there was an unspoken understanding.

If the Devil Gate did not shrink back into their turtle shell and emerge, the Righteous Path would also not attack the Sect’s settlements with no regard for cost.

From time to time, a few old Devils who crawled out of their coffins from the Devil Gate would have to engage in a battle with a few Great Cultivators of the Righteous Path and hand over some "taxes."