Chapter 42: Cleanup

One million cultivators’ life essence totaled nearly forty million drops.
For cultivators at the Divine Weapon stage, the maximum number of spirit entities they could integrate in their bodies was also around one million. One drop of life essence could expand the number of spirit entities by ten thousand. It could be said that with 19,000 people in Tianfeng Fort, even if they were to expand all the spirit entities in their bodies to the limit, there would still be more than enough life essence.

Qu Yi brought everyone in Tianfeng Fort into the Dimensional Sphere, then looked at Wu Yuan and Qing Wugui, his face filled with joy.
“Qing Wugui, it’s your turn to fly through the stars and head to the center of the Galaxy Battlefield,” Qu Yi said with a faint smile.
Originally, Qu Yi would have been the fastest to handle such travel. But now that he had obtained a large amount of life essence, he first needed to expand the number of the four spirit entities in his own body to the limit, so he didn’t have the energy to fly through the stars.

Qing Wugui nodded calmly and said, “Leave it to me.”
Qu Yi immediately pulled Wu Yuan along, and the two entered the Dimensional Sphere, which then descended onto Qing Wugui.
Like a beam of light, Qing Wugui quickly flew through the stars.

As soon as Qu Yi entered the Dimensional Sphere, he made all the obtained life essence float above it. With a thought, each drop of life essence flew toward the members of Tianfeng Fort sitting on the ground.

Qu Yi already fully understood the physical conditions of each member of Tianfeng Fort and knew the maximum number of spirit entities they could integrate. Thus, he allocated the life essence accordingly.
Each member received about twenty drops of life essence.
Of course, the ten fort leaders—Zhu Chen, Zhao Jing, Zhen Lan, Zhuo Rui, Qing Yiyi, Yu Deming, Yu Chongxiu, Yu Zhuting, Meng Yan, and Fei Changxia—each received fifty drops. These ten leaders already had two to three hundred thousand spirit entities in their bodies, and with these fifty drops, they could reach the limit of spirit entities their bodies could accommodate.

Wu Yuan already had one million spirit entities integrated in his body, and Qu Yi gave him another fifty drops.

Qu Yi himself had six million of each of the four types of spirit entities—metal-wood, metal-water, metal-earth—and seven million for the metal-fire type. He kept five hundred drops of each type of life essence for himself.

As for the remaining life essence, Qu Yi gave it all to the twenty thousand blacksmiths who had already been subdued.

Once again, everyone entered a period of collective cultivation.
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During the great battle among the cultivators of the Eight Realms, Yan Tan and Wu Qin, along with the guardians from the Water Dike Divine Realm and the Fire Separation Divine Realm, fled immediately. Each of them led 100 million guardians and together wandered around the Galaxy Battlefield. With these 200 million cultivators, coupled with the strength of their guardians and powerful divine weapons, they could basically eliminate any search teams from the other six realms quickly. As a result, the last 200 million people from the Water Dike Divine Realm and the Fire Separation Divine Realm were largely preserved intact. However, while these 200 million survived, the other wandering cultivators from those realms were completely wiped out by the cultivators from the other six realms. The cultivators of the six realms gradually narrowed their search area from the periphery of the Galaxy Battlefield, squeezing the space available for Yan Tan and Wu Qin. As they approached the central area of the battlefield, Yan Tan and Wu Qin, along with their 200 million guardians, were finally surrounded by the cultivators from the Ze Dui Divine Realm and the Tian Qian Divine Realm. The sky was filled with a grim atmosphere at that moment. The Ze Dui Divine Realm had 3 billion cultivators, while the Tian Qian Divine Realm had 2.5 billion, surrounding the last 200 million guardians from the Water Dike Divine Realm and the Fire Separation Divine Realm. Moreover, more cultivators from those two realms were continuing to arrive. Gong Ye Bo and Jin Mu Qing stood in front of their respective realms’ cultivators, looking at the surrounded cultivators from the Water Dike Divine Realm and the Fire Separation Divine Realm with faces full of triumph and eyes filled with mockery toward Yan Tan and Wu Qin. In the rankings, Yan Tan was eighth, Wu Qin ninth, Gong Ye Bo eleventh, and Jin Mu Qing twelfth. Yet now, Yan Tan and Wu Qin were about to be eliminated by Gong Ye Bo and Jin Mu Qing. “Yan Tan, Wu Qin, you’ve also enjoyed a carefree life for hundreds of years. Now that you’re finally surrounded by our cultivators from these two realms, do you have anything to say?” Gong Ye Bo shouted triumphantly. These four leaders were all from the royal families of their respective realms and were often compared by cultivators across the divine world. With such an advantage, how could Gong Ye Bo not take the chance to mock them? “Yan Tan, Wu Qin, if you’re willing to surrender, I won’t exterminate you completely. You two can leave now and just leave these 200 million guardians behind,” Jin Mu Qing also shouted loudly, her tone full of sarcasm. Hearing this, Yan Tan and Wu Qin’s faces turned pale, their eyes filled with hatred, but they didn’t respond. When one is at a disadvantage, even suffering is hard to express.

“Brother Jin Mu, since Brother Yan Tan and Brother Wu Qin aren’t responding, it means they look down on us. We no longer need to consider brotherly bonds—let’s launch an attack now.” Gongye Bo laughed for a while, and upon seeing that Yan Tan and Wu Qin still didn’t respond, he shouted again loudly.
“Good. If Brother Yan Tan and Brother Wu Qin look down on us, don’t blame us for being ruthless. Let’s start attacking now,” Jin Mu Qing replied immediately.
Suddenly, the cultivators from the Ze Dui Divine Realm and the Tian Qian Divine Realm rushed forward and backward simultaneously, forming another wave formation. Each formation formed a layer, and over a dozen layers created a wave-like pattern that carried the momentum of waves crashing against cliffs as they flew straight at the cultivators from the Shui Kan Divine Realm and the Huo Li Divine Realm.
Seeing the wave formations approaching from both directions, Yan Tan and Wu Qin grew anxious, their faces filled with anger, but they were powerless to counteract them. With such a huge numerical disparity, even a strong will to resist was useless.
“Guardians of the Huo Li Divine Realm, scatter and flee!”
“Guardians of the Shui Kan Divine Realm, disband immediately and save yourselves!”
Desperate, Yan Tan and Wu Qin could only order their guardians to flee in order to preserve the last glimmer of hope.
With their strength, the guardians were faster than the cultivators from the Ze Dui Divine Realm and the Tian Qian Divine Realm. As long as they fled freely across the star battlefield, they still had a chance to escape from pursuit.
Whoosh…
In an instant, the cultivators from the Shui Kan Divine Realm and the Huo Li Divine Realm scattered like islands breaking apart, fleeing in all directions. At the same time, these guardians cast spells of attack, sending various spiritual entities out like volcanic eruptions to block the path of the cultivators from the Ze Dui Divine Realm and the Tian Qian Divine Realm, buying themselves some time to escape.
Soon, 200 million guardians had fled across the stars before the cultivators from the Ze Dui Divine Realm and the Tian Qian Divine Realm could encircle them. Guardians were scattered in all directions, making it difficult for those cultivators to decide which group to pursue.
“Cultivators of the Ze Dui Divine Realm, scatter and pursue them one by one.”
“Cultivators of the Tian Qian Divine Realm, scatter and pursue them one by one.”
Seeing the actions of the guardians from the Shui Kan Divine Realm and the Huo Li Divine Realm, Gongye Bo and Jin Mu Qing immediately understood their intentions. So, they ordered their 2–3 billion cultivators to scatter and pursue them separately.

Five point five billion cultivators were chasing after two hundred million cultivators. Even if they couldn’t kill all the guardians in the Water Dam Divine Realm and the Fire Separation Divine Realm, they could still eliminate the vast majority of them.
The entire starry sky instantly became a scene of chaos. Cultivators scattered in all directions, like bees suddenly flying out of a hive, flying far away across the sky.
“You guys from the Water Dam Divine Realm, you can’t escape! Stop and fight properly,” one of them shouted from somewhere. Five cultivators from the Ze Dui Divine Realm were chasing after a guardian from the Water Dam Divine Realm, and one of them yelled out.
That guardian dared not stop. Not only were those five chasing after him, but more cultivators kept arriving behind him. Stopping meant certain death.
“You idiots! Do you really think you can provoke me? Wait until you catch up!” The guardian flew even faster.
The five cultivators from the Ze Dui Divine Realm laughed upon hearing this. They quickly exchanged mental signals and nodded in unison. Suddenly, they flew together, end to end, forming a straight line, with their divine essences connecting as well.
Their divine essences merged, and their bodies became one. In an instant, the five became one entity, their divine essences rotating in sync, doubling their speed as they rushed ahead of the guardian. Then, they separated and simultaneously drew out their divine artifacts, casting a spell.
“Ah… No, please!” The guardian was terrified but too late to resist.
Five spells struck him at once, turning his entire body to ashes, leaving only thirty drops of his vital blood floating in the sky.
Such scenes occurred frequently across the starry sky. Cultivators from the Ze Dui Divine Realm and the Tian Qian Divine Realm trusted each other enough to connect their divine essences, boosting their speed to kill the guardians of the Water Dam Divine Realm and the Fire Separation Divine Realm one by one.
The guardians of those two realms died quickly, with eight or nine out of ten of them eliminated.
Not even ten million of their guardians had managed to escape.
Gongye Bo and Jin Muqing arrived at a certain location.
“It’s a pity that Yan Tan and Wu Qin are among the top-ranked figures. We can’t catch up to them. Otherwise, they too would be killed by us,” Gongye Bo said, his face filled with joy as he watched the scenes in the sky, though his tone still carried a hint of reluctance.

“It’s okay. The cultivators from the Water Dike Divine Realm and the Fire Separation Divine Core, as well as the ten million guardian members who have escaped now, cannot break free from our encirclement. I reckon they will soon be completely wiped out by the cultivators from our two realms who are arriving one after another,” said Jin Muqing with a smile.
Gongye Bo nodded.
It could be said that after this battle, the cultivators from the Water Dike Divine Realm and the Fire Separation Divine Realm were essentially wiped out.