293: Emperor Zong Dong Qiangji

"He is a new Disciple I've taken in. I'm taking him to get a handy weapon this time."

"So that's how it is. Wait a moment!" The Guard Elder opened the Magic Array.

First Elder Wu Fei led Jiang Ye into the treasury and arrived at the Spirit Stone storage area. Without a word, Jiang Ye directly collected all the Spirit Stones. Feeling the Soul power of those five thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, they indeed contained much stronger energy than Low-Grade Spirit Stones.

Next, Jiang Ye used his Soul Power to sense the surroundings, hoping to find some medicinal herbs to repair Xing Li's Soul trauma. However, the result disappointed him; the resources of a small power were very limited, and there was nothing at all related to healing Soul trauma.

Jiang Ye said, "Take me to your residence and find me a cultivation room."

"You still want to Cultivate and achieve a Breakthrough here? The people from the Earth Emperor Sect will be here within three days."

"One day is enough, hurry up! Stop talking nonsense. After I Breakthrough, I'll release you and restore your cultivation while I'm at it."

First Elder Wu Fei was shocked. "Didn't you completely cripple my cultivation?"

"It was just a Seal!" Jiang Ye thought for a moment and said, "I'll restore it for you now. When I'm breaking through, you guard the outside for me. Don't even think about calling for help. Once my Soul senses someone touching the measures I've left behind, I will immediately detonate your Soul, making your Soul Fly Away and Spirit Scattering!"

Returning to First Elder Wu Fei's residential palace, Jiang Ye immediately went into seclusion to Breakthrough. Just like before, he first tempered his God Slaying Bloodline. This time, using Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, the effect was much better than the previous hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, mainly because the difference in the purity of the spiritual energy between the two was vast.

Three days later.

Because First Elder Wu Fei was guarding outside, Jiang Ye's seclusion went smoothly, and the missing Spirit Stones in the Tianyun Sect treasury were not discovered.

Meanwhile, First Elder Wu Fei had been thinking these past few days about the power Jiang Ye used to suppress him that day. A fifth-stage Divine Spirit Realm could so easily suppress him, a third-stage Divine Master Realm—nearly a full major Realm higher! But no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't understand what was going on with Jiang Ye's power.

At this moment, a Disciple ran over in a panic and said, "Grand Elder! This is bad. An Elder from the Earth Emperor Sect has come to demand we hand over someone named Jiang Ye. He says Jiang Ye is a Disciple of our Tianyun Sect and crippled one of their Elite Disciples. Now, they not only want us to hand him over but also demand a hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones as compensation."

First Elder Wu Fei didn't have much of an emotional reaction. He knew it was only a matter of time before the Earth Emperor Sect came for him, but now they even wanted a hundred thousand Spirit Stones. Once they entered the treasury, they would know that he and Jiang Ye had taken all the Spirit Stones.

"I understand, you may leave now!" First Elder Wu Fei looked toward the secret room where Jiang Ye was breaking through with a complicated mood. Now, everything he had was in Jiang Ye's hands; whether he advanced or retreated, it was a dead end.

Inside the cultivation room.

The tempering of the God Slaying Bloodline was somewhat beyond Jiang Ye's expectations. This time, it actually cost double the amount of Spirit Stones compared to the last tempering. If not for these five thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, he wouldn't have been able to complete one tempering. Now, the remaining Spirit Stones weren't even enough to Cultivate and Breakthrough a minor Realm. At this time, he discovered that as long as there were enough Spirit Stones as a foundation, with the powerful boost of the God Slaying Bloodline, his speed of absorbing and refining Spirit Stone energy was more than a hundred times that of others. With a sufficient quantity of Spirit Stones, his Realm could soar.

"The resources of these small powers are too meager; subsequent Breakthroughs will only get harder. I need to find a few large powers to get some Spirit Stones. There are still eighteen years left. To overthrow the eight great God Emperors simultaneously, I must hurry and increase my strength!"

Just as Jiang Ye walked out of the cultivation room, First Elder Wu Fei stepped forward quickly and said, "The people from the Earth Emperor Sect are here. It's a ninth-stage Divine Master Realm Elder, two Realms higher than our Tianyun Sect's Old Ancestor. I estimate the disappearance of the Spirit Stones will be discovered soon, and they'll find their way here. What are your plans?"

Jiang Ye said nonchalantly, "Run! Why stay here if I can't win?"

"You... can you run? They will eventually find the Zhu Family, and those people from your Divine Profound Continent will also suffer." First Elder Wu Fei felt somewhat helpless, feeling like he was on a sinking ship he couldn't get off.

"Then your entire Tianyun Sect should attack together and just kill them."

"You make it sound so easy! A ninth-stage Divine Master Realm is already close to breaking through to the Divine Sovereign Realm. How can we fight? No matter how many people attack, it won't be enough to avoid death."

Rrip! Space suddenly tore open, and an old man and two young men stepped out. The old man wore yellow robes with the character for 'Human' embroidered on his chest.

When First Elder Wu Fei saw the newcomers, he was instantly shocked. "The... the Human Emperor Sect's Grand Elder?"

"Hmm? Wasn't the person who died from the Earth Emperor Sect?" Jiang Ye asked doubtfully.

The old man in the middle from the Human Emperor Sect said, "I am Zuo Qi, the Grand Elder of the Human Emperor Sect. I heard that a remarkable young man has come from the Lower Realm. Our Human Emperor Sect specifically recruits talented Disciples from the Lower Realm. Our current Sect Master also comes from a lower-tier Realm. I have come personally this time to invite you to join the Human Emperor Sect."

First Elder Wu Fei looked at Jiang Ye in surprise and noticed that after this seclusion, his Realm was still at the fifth stage of the Divine Spirit Realm and hadn't broken through. Yet, the Grand Elder of the Human Emperor Sect had personally come to invite him to join.

Jiang Ye said, "It seems you've investigated everything. Then you should also know that I brought over twenty people here. If I join, they all have to follow me. Otherwise, with their current strength, they won't be able to survive in the Divine Realm."

"We can only choose some with good talent to join. For all twenty-plus people to join might be difficult; after all, your strength and Realms are too low."

"Then we can only talk about it later. I can't just bring them here and then ignore them."

Rrip! Space tore open again, and three more people stepped out. Except for Jiang Ye, everyone else was somewhat shocked.

A middle-aged man said, "If the Human Emperor Sect is unwilling to take you in, my Heavenly Emperor Sect can take in everyone you brought!"

Zuo Qi's expression instantly changed as he said, "Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Emperor Sect! What is the meaning of this? Your Heavenly Emperor Sect never accepts people from lower-tier Realms. Why are you competing with my Human Emperor Sect for people?"

Jiang Ye learned from First Elder Wu Fei's mouth that this person was the vice sect master of the Heavenly Emperor Sect, Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Emperor Sect.

Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Emperor Sect said, "The intelligence your Human Emperor Sect can get, my Heavenly Emperor Sect won't be much slower in obtaining either."

Zuo Qi knew there was trouble now. He completely didn't expect the person sent by the Heavenly Emperor Sect to be Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Emperor Sect; they had been preempted.

Just then, the Tianyun Sect's Sect Master, Sect Master of the Heavenly Cloud Sect, arrived with the Elder from the Earth Emperor Sect. When they saw that people from these two major powers, the Heavenly Emperor Sect and Human Emperor Sect, had both come, they couldn't help but be startled.

Elder Xu of the Earth Emperor Sect said, "vice sect master Dong, Grand Elder Zuo, why have you both come here?"

Tianyun Sect's Sect Master Sect Master of the Heavenly Cloud Sect said to First Elder Wu Fei, "Is this the person you brought back who killed the Elite Disciple of the Earth Emperor Sect?"

Immediately, everyone looked at Jiang Ye. A Disciple from the Earth Emperor Sect said, "I'll take him down!"

"Since when is it a Disciple's turn from the Earth Emperor Sect to act presumptuously here?" Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Emperor Sect's eyes flashed with a fierce light as he looked at the several people from the Earth Emperor Sect.