257: Chapter 249 Unnamed Magnificent Palace

Although the Spirit Clan also had two Ninth-Grade Alchemists, it was clearly not enough; Yao Chen and Cao Ying simply could not keep up with the workload.

Furthermore, in terms of Alchemy foundation and proficiency, they still could not compare to those veteran Elders of the Medicine Clan who had been deeply cultivating the art of Alchemy for many years.

It just so happened that the Medicine Clan needed protection, and the Spirit Clan needed manpower for Alchemy, so the two sides hit it off immediately and reached a stable cooperation.

The Medicine Clan was responsible for helping the Spirit Clan refine various types of Medicinal Pills, while the Spirit Clan provided absolute security for the Medicine Clan and gave them abundant cultivation resources as compensation.

The layout of the Fighting Qi Continent had also completely solidified over these past two years.

In the past, there were numerous ancient clans, and various forces such as the Gu Clan, Yan Clan, Lei Clan, and Shi Clan divided the continent's resources; the pie was scattered, so the resources each clan could obtain were limited, and their development speeds were held in check by one another.

But now that those veteran clans had been wiped out, the vast resources of the continent were left on the table for only the Spirit Clan and the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan, along with the Medicine Clan, who acted as the chef; after finishing the cooking, they could bring the leftovers home.

The two top-tier clans occupied the vast majority of the continent's cultivation resources, their development speed was advancing by leaps and bounds, and their foundations were accumulating rapidly.

With the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans no longer suppressing them, the Medicine Clan could still drink the soup and eat the leftovers, which they felt was quite good.

That was roughly the layout of the continent.

Then there was the fact that ever since Yao Ling came to deliver the ancient jade, she had never left and had taken up permanent residence in the Spirit Realm.

Her reason was to exchange Alchemy techniques with Cao Ying, striving to reach it sooner.

Cao Ying's operation to drag her sister into the water was being implemented quite well; in any case, Ling Yuan could feel that the look in that girl Yao Ling's eyes when she looked at him was becoming increasingly strange.

Cao Ying often dragged Yao Ling around in front of him.

If it weren't for the fact that Yao Ling had not yet achieved a Breakthrough to Dou Sheng, there were several times when Ling Yuan had wanted to bring both of them to justice right then and there.

However, Ling Yuan knew that day would not be too far off.

Because the Medicine Clan had gone all out this time, specifically refining a top-grade Medicinal Pill for Yao Ling, the Rank of which was only a hair's breadth away from a Grade 9 Profound Pill.

This Medicinal Pill was originally prepared for the Medicine Clan's number one Genius, Yao Tian, to use for his Breakthrough to Dou Sheng, but now it had been handed over to Yao Ling to refine, fully supporting her in her Breakthrough of her Realm.

The reason the Medicine Clan was sparing no cost to Cultivate Yao Ling was because their calculations were very shrewd.

The Spirit Clan was growing too fast; counting those Puppets, the number of Spirit Clan Dou Sheng far exceeded that of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan.

Looking at Yao Ling, she also had those kinds of feelings for Ling Yuan, which gave the Medicine Clan other ideas.

They also understood that Yao Ling could not compete with Zi Yan and did not dare to have such extravagant hopes.

But as long as Yao Ling could establish a connection with Ling Yuan, even if it was just an ordinary bond, it could allow the Medicine Clan and the Spirit Clan to be completely tied together.

For these kinds of things, those who understand, understand.

Ling Yuan had originally thought that the days ahead would remain this peaceful and dull.

He intended to just peaceably stay in seclusion to Cultivate, steadily improving his strength, and wait until he achieved a Breakthrough to the Dou Di Realm.

But no one had expected that the peaceful days would eventually be broken.

On this very day, Ling Yuan, who was sitting in meditation and Cultivating in the Spirit Realm, suddenly felt a jolt in his heart and sensed something unusual.

One of his Clones left in the outside world had completely vanished.

This Clone was the one he had specifically left in Dou Huang City to save his life!

The Clone was suddenly killed without any warning, and the Clone didn't even know who the murderer was.

Upon going to find his father and mother, Ling Yuan learned that it wasn't just his own Clone that had been killed; the Clones of those two had also met the same fate.

The three of them immediately became vigilant.

Dou Huang City was just a remote, small city in the Northwest Continent; it was located in a desolate area with barren resources and couldn't even be ranked on the entire Fighting Qi Continent.

The overall strength of that region was extremely weak; the strongest Cultivator there was at most at the Dou Wang level.

Yet the three Clones they had left there were all genuine Dou Sheng in terms of cultivation.

This level of combat power, placed in a place like Dou Huang City, was an existence that completely crushed everything; it was impossible for them to encounter any danger.

Yet now, the three Dou Sheng Clones had been instantly killed without even seeing the enemy's face, with absolutely no power to fight back.

The three of them looked at each other, and the same name flashed through their minds instantly.

"Hun Tiandi!"

Except for this person, Ling Yuan couldn't think of anyone else with this kind of strength.

Back then, when Hun Tiandi was defeated and fled, he had escaped all the way in the direction of the Northwest Continent.

Ling Yuan had not pursued him at the time, letting him escape.

He hadn't expected that he would actually escape to the remote Dou Huang City and kill their three Clones!

Ling Mie asked Ling Yuan: "Should we go and hunt him down?"

Now that the Spirit Clan and the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan were already very strong, and after Ling Yuan had reached the Late Stage of Eight Star Dou Sheng, he was already capable of going toe-to-toe with a Nine-Star Dou Sheng Middle Stage powerhouse.

With Zhu Kun and Ling Yuan, plus the Gu Yuan Puppet in Ling Yuan's hands, if the timing was right, they indeed had a chance to keep Hun Tiandi there.

After thinking for only 0.01 seconds, Ling Yuan shook his head directly: "Forget it, Hun Tiandi is not so easy to kill. It's still risky to go now; let's wait until we get stronger before taking action."

Ling Yuan was very clear about his own advantages.

In the entire Fighting Qi Continent, only he possessed Source Qi, making him the only person qualified and with the opportunity to achieve a Breakthrough to the Dou Di Realm.

As long as he steadily dragged out the time and waited until he successfully achieved a Breakthrough to the Dou Di Realm, no matter how many trump cards Hun Tiandi had or how deep his schemes were, they would not be worth mentioning.

At that time, he would be able to crush him with a wave of his hand, which would be no different from pinching an ant to death.

There was no need to take unnecessary risks for the sake of momentary impatience.

Developing steadily was the most correct choice.

There was nothing wrong with being a bit cautious.

Furthermore, Hun Tiandi was so cautious; having suddenly made a move to kill the three Dou Sheng Clones, he would inevitably sense something unusual afterward.

In a barren little place like Dou Huang City, the sudden appearance of three Dou Sheng level powerhouses was inherently extremely abnormal and did not conform to common sense at all.

Given Hun Tiandi's shrewdness, he would definitely not linger in the same spot and would certainly retreat immediately, hiding his tracks.

Trying to find him again would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

It didn't matter that one Clone had been killed; the three of them withdrew another Clone and quietly sent it to the uninhabited ice plains in the Far North of the Central Plains.

The environment there was harsh, making it hard to even find a person, so there would definitely be no accidents.

With one of the ten Clones dead, only nine remained; the three of them needed to wait for a period of time before they could condense the Clone again; this was a limitation of the Cultivation Technique.

The Spirit Clan also quietly sent some people with relatively weak strength to Dou Huang City to scout for information.

Not going to kill Hun Tiandi did not mean Ling Yuan didn't want to know Hun Tiandi's whereabouts.

The information that came back was indeed as Ling Yuan had guessed; there was not a single bit of information about Hun Tiandi.

Ling Yuan was not discouraged by this; he hadn't held out much hope in the first place. If there was information, it would be a pleasant surprise; if there wasn't, it was within reason.

Consequently, he let the scouts stay there and observe slowly.

Ling Yuan had originally thought this matter would just pass like that.

Unexpectedly, half a month later, the people he had sent out urgently transmitted information back.

It wasn't about Hun Tiandi, but something even bigger than Hun Tiandi's appearance!

In an uninhabited area tens of thousands of miles away from the region where Dou Huang City was located, a clap of thunder rose from flat ground, and an incomparably massive, gigantic palace rose abruptly from the ground.

The volume of this palace was extremely exaggerated; it was towering and massive, and its overall scale was almost on par with the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

Even from a vast distance of tens of thousands of miles away, one could clearly see the massive outline of that palace towering between heaven and earth, enough to imagine how magnificent it was.

When Ling Yuan saw the information transmitted by his subordinates, he was completely stunned.

What the hell was that? A palace tens of thousands of feet high rising from the ground?

Since his Transmigration, he had been familiar with the entire original plot, and he had never remembered such a gigantic palace appearing on the Fighting Qi Continent.

It was definitely something that had never existed in the original work!