Chapter 312: The Rat Pulling the Turtle
Already surrounded by eight Yuan Ying ancestors, did Su Che still want to escalate the situation? How many more Yuan Ying cultivators did he need to attract before he’d be satisfied? After Su Che and Hua Guang made their decision, Jufu suddenly took action that shocked Tai Xu and the others greatly.
Huhu huhu huhu…
The hundred-zhang-tall Jufu Palace began to desperately absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. In just an instant, it created a situation where such energy gathered in large quantities.
“What is it doing…?”
Tai Xu, the sect leader, pondered for a moment before realizing what was happening. He shouted, “It’s trying to create a celestial phenomenon that will bring forth treasures, attracting more experts here… Hurry! Stop it!”
The Yuan Ying ancestors were all extremely wise, understanding instantly that Jufu wanted to draw in Yuan Ying cultivators from other factions to create chaos and survive amidst the turmoil…
Without any need for words, the eight of them immediately divided tasks and coordinated their actions.
Tai Xu, the Demon Illusion Sect Leader, and the Blood Divine Sect Leader ascended high into the sky, intending to jointly create a barrier to cut off Jufu’s absorption of spiritual energy.
The other five Yuan Ying elders launched fierce attacks on Jufu, using their strongest spells without holding back.
Boom, boom, boom…
Various spells and divine powers struck Jufu’s protective barrier, causing bursts of golden light. The barrier surrounding the Jufu Palace seemed on the verge of collapsing at any moment.
Yet, as the best defensive treasure in the cultivation world, Jufu withstood all these attacks and continued to absorb spiritual energy, undisturbed.
Great Thunder Art!
Su Che, meanwhile, kept summoning heavenly thunder to strike at the barrier created by the three Tai Xu sect leaders.
A barrier like this could only block light, sound, energy, consciousness, and other intangible things; it had little defensive power on its own and shattered under the impact of heavenly thunder.
Although the three Tai Xu sect leaders could quickly set up protective arrays with isolation effects capable of withstanding heavenly thunder, the problem was that the Jufu Palace was enormous—already over a hundred zhang tall and capable of growing even larger. What scale of protective array would be needed to enclose it?
How many days would it take to construct such an array?
So, for now, the only option was to use the barrier to cut off Jufu’s absorption of spiritual energy. But with Su Che’s interference, the barrier couldn’t fully form before being shattered by thunder.
The thunder from the heavens could not be stopped, no matter how skilled the three Tai Xu sect leaders were.
Huhu huhu huhu…
In just a dozen breaths, the celestial anomalies caused by the accumulation of spiritual energy had already spread over a range of thousands of miles. Back then on Golden Sun Mountain, a top-grade spiritual treasure-level pill furnace could trigger such anomalies over thousands of miles; today, it was a top-grade Dao artifact that deliberately absorbed spiritual energy at an extreme rate—what kind of celestial anomalies would it create? Su Che estimated that once Jufu went berserk, the Wuji Gate in the east and the Yuan Ying-stage experts of the demon tribe, the Manli Tribe, in the southeast would all sense it. The Wuji Gate had four Yuan Ying-level ancestors; the Manli Tribe was one of the eight major demon tribes, and it was said to have five demon infant-level monsters. These Yuan Ying experts were extremely sensitive to celestial anomalies and would arrive here in no time. Boom! Boom! Boom… Crack! Crack… Standing at the highest point of Jufu’s palace, Su Che continuously used the Destruction Fist and Great Thunder Technique, doing everything in his power to prevent the three Tai Xu from creating a barrier. “Come on!” As he unleashed his divine powers, Su Che roared frantically in his heart, “All the Yuan Ying monsters in the vicinity, come here! Jufu is here—this is a rare opportunity! Come and fight for it!” Given the current situation, it no longer mattered how many Yuan Ying ancestors arrived. For Su Che, he wasn’t afraid of their numbers but rather of them working together as one. It was the most terrifying scenario if these eight Yuan Ying ancestors united to fight him. The three leaders of Tai Xu tried more than a dozen times, but each time the barrier they created was shattered by lightning, failing to stop Jufu from absorbing spiritual energy. Left with no choice, the three of them descended and each used their Dao artifacts to launch a fierce attack on Jufu. Now, the only hope was to break through Jufu’s defenses and eliminate this detestable Tian Yu first, in order to have a chance to seal Jufu completely… The lower-grade Dao artifact, the Illusion Demon Sky Umbrella, still hovered high in the sky, restraining Jufu in place and preventing it from escaping. Meanwhile, the leader of the Illusion Demon Sect wielded the lower-grade Dao artifact, the Illusion Demon Soul Subduing Token, releasing giant “Jue” symbols that struck Jufu. These “Jue” symbols didn’t produce loud explosions but instead carried a powerful corrosive and penetrating effect, capable of instantly piercing even walls dozens of feet thick. The leader of Tai Xu used his middle-grade Dao artifact, the Tai Yi Dragon Sword, releasing dragon-shaped sword energy with even more terrifying penetration power. Instead of blasting wildly, he focused on attacking a specific point in Jufu’s palace. Targeting one point to break through the whole—this was the most effective method for maximum penetration.
The Blood Sacred Sect Leader was also activating the Blood Sea Red Lotus, continuously firing streams of crimson blood arrows, aiming to pierce through the giant’s defensive barrier in the same way. The attacks of the three sect leaders didn’t seem fancy, but their power was countless times stronger than imagined. Su Che knew well that any of their attacks, if it landed on him, would result in his death no matter how many defensive measures he used.
Amidst the roaring sounds, the Giant Riches Palace resembled a small mound under a giant hammer, on the verge of collapsing at any moment.
“Elder, how is it?” Su Che asked anxiously through telepathy. “Can the Giant Riches Palace hold on?”
“For now, there’s no major problem,” replied Hua Guang Zhenren, who remained calm despite the life-and-death situation. “It’s just that the consumption of spirit stones is astonishing—like a river bursting its banks.”
“If the spirit stones run out, I still have plenty,” Su Che replied quickly. “Even high-grade spirit stones, there are over three thousand.”
Su Che already had over a thousand high-grade spirit stones. After capturing more than a dozen Golden Core elders on the Spirit Medicine Mountain, those elite alchemists were all extremely wealthy, adding another thousand high-grade spirit stones to his collection. As for low-grade and medium-grade spirit stones, there were countless of them.
At this moment, without the cultivation level of a Yuan Ying stage to power it, the Giant Riches Palace’s defensive talisman could only maintain its incredibly strong defensive barrier by consuming spirit stones. To some extent, the defensive power of the Giant Riches Palace could be seen as the protective array of a super sect. When the array was fully activated, it consumed massive amounts of spirit stones at all times, which was why Su Che was worried that its spirit stone reserves wouldn’t last long.
“Don’t worry!”
Hua Guang Zhenren took out a wine gourd, took a swig, and said leisurely, “There are plenty of spirit stones—there’s no way they’ll run out. I’m just used to poverty, so it feels a bit painful to see them being used like this.”
As a lone cultivator, though he had once been the island lord of Aurora Island, he had never seen a protective array of a super sect consume spirit stones at such a terrifying rate…
Boom… Boom… Boom…
The Giant Riches Palace, the number one defensive treasure in the Xiu Zhen world of Qi Yuan Star, could, even without anyone activating it, withstand the heavy attacks of eight Yuan Ying-level ancestors and three offensive talismans solely through the consumption of spirit stones.
This showed that if such a treasure fell into the hands of a Yuan Ying cultivator, they would already be in an unbeatable position when facing any opponent in the Xiu Zhen world.
Tai Xu and the others grew more and more alarmed as the battle progressed. They became more and more enraged, convinced that they must obtain this treasure at all costs.
With this treasure in hand, one is invincible in the world!
Huhuhuhu…
As the giant wealthy man greedily absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, he also transforms these spiritual artifacts into defensive power and infuses it into the barrier, thus saving a considerable amount of spirit stones.
The intense concentration of spiritual artifacts has created magnificent phenomena in the sky—colorful auroras and misty landscapes—clearly signs of a rare treasure emerging in the realm of cultivation.
Before long, many cultivators at the Foundation Establishment stage and a few Golden Core cultivators from the Wuji Sect arrived. From afar, they saw eight Yuan Ying ancestors surrounding a huge golden palace…
Wow, it was none other than the three most renowned sect leaders in the cultivation realm!
Swish swish swish…
Without hesitation, they all turned and fled; no one dared stay.
If one of those Yuan Ying ancestors suddenly turned around, a single glare could kill them…
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh…
All sorts of communication jade talismans streaked across the sky, spreading the news of the eight Yuan Ying ancestors attacking the golden palace at lightning speed. It was also added that the palace was suspected to be a top-grade Dao artifact that had been missing from the cultivation realm for thousands of years—a true treasure!
The sect leader of the Taixu Sect also noticed the arrival of these cultivators. In his urgency, he shouted, “This won’t work. The giant wealthy man’s defenses are like our sect’s mountain protection formation; it’s impossible to break through them in a short time. While those people haven’t arrived yet, we must work together to drag him into the territory of the Illusion Demon Sect. Holy Sect Leader, we must not act impulsively at such a critical moment!”
This location was the closest to the Illusion Demon Sect’s territory. Bringing the giant wealthy man to the Blood God Sect’s territory, as mentioned earlier, was clearly too late.
“Alright, let’s do it for now.”
The Holy Sect Leader of the Blood God Sect understood the urgency and stopped being stubborn, immediately agreeing.
“Drag away the giant wealthy man?”
Su Che laughed wildly at the sky: “With just you guys, can you even move him?”
With a loud crash, the giant wealthy man, who had been floating dozens of feet above the ground, plummeted to the earth along with Su Che’s laughter. It was like a stubborn, fat woman from the streets sitting down forcefully on the ground: “I’m not leaving! If you have the guts, then drag me away!”
The weight of the giant wealthy man was comparable to that of a mountain thousands of feet high. Once he took root on the ground, dragging him away would be an extremely daunting task.
Originally, Su Che’s Xuanyu Peak was also a giant peak six thousand feet high. It took the Tianxuan Sect a month to drag it from thousands of miles away to Su Che’s designated location…
Seeing this, the Patriarch of Tai Xu was instantly stunned. He had been too hasty just now and had forgotten about this matter. Jufu was an extremely special magical artifact; even considering only its weight, it was undeniably the best in the cultivation world of Qi Yuan Star.
Trapping Jufu in place so it couldn’t escape was relatively easy; however, forcing it to move would require considerable effort.
What to do?
The three patriarchs looked at each other, unable to come up with any good solution. They couldn’t fight it, nor could they drag it away. If they tried to seal it, Tian Yu would keep causing trouble…
It was truly a situation where they didn’t know where to start.