76: Shocked to hear that the most important treasure in the East Wasteland

Wan Chuan later letting the Fire Cloud Sect fully support the Shi Family in destroying the Long Family was something Long Aotian did not know.

Ye Wen's departure meant he was about to return to report the situation to Emperor Ye. Long Aotian wanted to know Emperor Ye's attitude towards this matter, so he naturally had to set up an ambush within a five-million-mile radius of the imperial palace in advance.

The imperial palace was more than five million miles from the city gate, located in the central part of the Imperial City. Long Aotian's Divine Sense, covering a five-million-mile radius, couldn't even cover a tenth of the entire Imperial City.

The Imperial City was unimaginably vast.

In such a place, where hidden dragons and crouching tigers resided, Long Aotian naturally couldn't continue to be distracted by the Shi Family's affairs while rushing.

Several hours later, Long Aotian arrived in the Great Leaf District, which was the area where the imperial palace was located.

The entire Great Leaf District was as large as a royal city, and Long Aotian's Divine Sense, covering a five-million-mile radius, could barely encompass the entire Great Leaf District.

Under the prying of his Divine Sense, Ye Wen had not yet arrived in the Great Leaf District, but he should be close.

Indeed.

Within half a quarter of an hour, Ye Wen appeared within the range of Long Aotian's Divine Sense and flew towards the imperial palace at an extremely fast speed.

Before long, Ye Wen appeared in a place in the imperial palace where a large plaque above read "Eternal Leaf Hall."

Compared to the Shi Family's meeting, where no Divine Sense isolation Formation was set up, the imperial family was much more cautious. As long as a meeting was in progress inside, the eunuchs guarding the gate would set up a Level Six Divine Sense Isolation Formation.

"Fortunately, it's Level Six; any higher and I wouldn't be able to infiltrate with my Divine Sense!"

Long Aotian secretly thought it was a close call, and at the same time, he was very surprised. The imperial family's strength was indeed terrifying. The two eunuchs guarding the gate were not only Level Six Formation Masters, but their strength had both reached the Ninth Revolution Peak of the Out-of-Body Realm, just a step away from the Spirit Division Realm.

Spirit Division Realm experts, even among the Five Great Cultivation Families of the Imperial City, were Old Ancestor-level figures. Yet, the imperial family had two experts, just a step away from being Old Ancestor-level figures, serving as gate guards.

Seeing this, Long Aotian couldn't help but hold the imperial family in higher regard in his heart.

His Divine Sense infiltrated the Eternal Leaf Hall.

At this moment, there were twenty people in the Eternal Leaf Hall, thirteen of whom were all of the Mahayana Realm cultivation. Besides Ye Wen, there was also one Mahayana Realm expert who had reached the Ninth Revolution Peak Stage, while the remaining eleven were all in the Middle to Late Stage of the Mahayana Realm.

These thirteen Mahayana Realm experts alone made Long Aotian gasp, secretly thinking that the imperial family was indeed powerful. This was only the imperial family's openly displayed strength; just like the Shi Family, which had a hidden second ancestral lair, the imperial family surely had one too.

How strong was the imperial family's strength, after all?

Long Aotian was secretly astonished.

What surprised him was that Emperor Ye, who was sitting on the Dragon Throne, was actually also a Mahayana Realm expert, and he was the second Mahayana Realm Ninth Revolution Peak Stage expert besides Ye Wen, named Ye Tian.

"I never thought that Emperor Ye of the Eternal Leaf Dynasty would actually have reached the Ninth Revolution Peak of the Mahayana Realm... Hmm? Those two old men sitting on Emperor Ye's left and right are, hiss! Tribulation Realm Experts?!"

Long Aotian was stunned, never expecting that he would actually see two Tribulation Realm Experts in the imperial family, and even more so, that he could discern the cultivation of Tribulation Realm Experts.

Was it because he possessed the Chaos Dao Body or cultivated the Chaos Dao Art?

Long Aotian vaguely guessed why he could see through the cultivation Realm of everyone whose cultivation Realm was higher than his.

All Daos came from Chaos, and his existence inherently transcended all Daos.

When Mortals Cultivate Immortals, they mainly Cultivate one or several of the Ten Thousand Daos.

In contrast, his cultivation Realm was indeed lower than the opponent's, but his Dao far surpassed the opponent's Dao.

"They are both in the Middle Stage of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, but they give off a feeling of being ethereal and Immortal-like. Indeed, those who have been struck by lightning are different. Tribulation Realm Experts can truly be called Half-Immortals of the Lower Realm."

When breaking through from the Mahayana Realm to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, Cultivators begin to undergo Lightning Tribulation.

After that, for every minor Realm increase in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, a Lightning Tribulation must be undergone, and even when Ascending to the Upper Realm, an Ascension Lightning Tribulation must still be undergone.

Cultivating Immortals is an act of going against the Heavenly Dao.

Lightning Tribulation specifically punishes those who defy the Heavenly Dao!

Only by passing through the Lightning Tribulation can one become an existence acknowledged by the Heavenly Dao!

Those who can still be lively after being struck by lightning are truly the strong among Cultivators!

Two Tribulation Realm Experts.

Thirteen Mahayana Realm Experts.

The remaining five were Emperor Ye's children:

First Prince Ye Xianmeng

Second Prince Ye Xianxiang

Third Prince Ye Xiancheng

Fourth Prince Ye Xianzheng

Seventh Princess Ye Changxi.

Dreams come true?

Long Aotian's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly. Emperor Ye's desire to Ascend to the Immortal Realm and become an Immortal was truly painstaking.

But the Ascension Passage had not appeared for hundreds of thousands of years. Could his wish truly come true?

Long Aotian felt it was very unlikely!

At least, if Long Aotian wanted to go to the Immortal Realm, the first thing he thought of was not to enter through the Ascension Passage, but to traverse the endless Void Realm.

He had the conditions for this!

Dragon Essence Blood could enhance the strength of his physical body, and coupled with the Tai Xu Divine Steps, if he could Cultivate it to the ninth stage, with his Space Spiritual Root and the Void Rule hidden in his Bloodline, traversing the endless Void Realm should not take him hundreds of years to reach the Immortal Realm like Li Feng and Wu Fan...

Inside the Eternal Leaf Hall, Ye Wen truthfully reported his encounter in the Shi Family to Emperor Ye and put forward his suspicion that there might be an expert from outside the region who had entered the Eastern Barrens, and that this expert was very likely connected to the Long and Phoenix Families; he issued a warning that the situation in the Eastern Barrens might be at risk of being changed; he gave a suggestion that if the Imperial City Shi Family were to wantonly destroy the Hua Family, it would be a slap in the face to the imperial family, and to prevent the Shi Family from acting rashly, the imperial family should send a God Protector of the Nation to protect the Hua Family.

Everyone frowned slightly after hearing Ye Wen's words.

First Prince Ye Xianmeng said, "Father, God Protector of the Nation Ye Wen's words are not without reason. Just take the monk named Fan Xiu who suddenly appeared recently; I specifically investigated him.

When he first introduced himself, he claimed to be a monk of the Guiyi Sect, but later changed his statement, saying he was a monk of the Fan Shen Temple. Neither the Guiyi Sect nor the Fan Shen Temple are forces we have in the Eastern Barrens.

However, I did find some clues in ancient texts. There is a giant force in the Western Continent called the Guiyi Sect!"

...

Long Aotian was also a little surprised, never expecting Fan Xiu's background to be exposed so quickly. Fortunately, only people from the imperial family knew; otherwise, this bald man would probably be hunted down by billions of Cultivators in the Eastern Barrens.

"Guiyi Sect?"

A Tribulation Realm expert frowned slightly: "There is indeed such a Buddhist giant force in the Western Continent. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the largest Buddhist force in the Sky Ruins Continent, and its strength can contend with the Heavenly Pool Empire of the Western Continent!"

"Are you sure, Immortal Ancestor Li Er?"

"Confirmed!"

...

Immortal Ancestor?

Long Aotian's mouth couldn't help but twitch fiercely. With no Immortals present, a mere Tribulation Realm Cultivator dared to presumptuously call himself an Immortal Ancestor?

Ye Xiancheng: "This monk Fan Xiu is indeed problematic. What does he want by coming all the way to our Eastern Barrens? Could it be that there is some important treasure in our Eastern Barrens that attracts people from hundreds of millions of miles away?"

"Important treasure?"

Another Tribulation Realm expert was somewhat disdainful: "If there really is some important treasure, the biggest treasure would be the thundercloud in the Yunmeng Marsh. Does he dare to take it?"

"Immortal Ancestor Ren San is joking!"

...

Immortal Ancestor Li Er?

Immortal Ancestor Ren San?

Benevolence, Righteousness, Propriety, Wisdom, Trust?

The imperial family is indeed more clever than the Shi Family!

Long Aotian couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The Shi Family's Spirit Division Realm Old Ancestors were addressed by numerical sequence. Long Aotian only needed to know the number of the last Spirit Division Realm Old Ancestor to know how many Spirit Division Realm Old Ancestors the Shi Family had.

What about the imperial family?

Although they also used numerical sequencing for addresses, they were divided into countless branches. Currently, Long Aotian only knew of the Li branch and the Ren branch. He didn't know if there were other branches, how many other branches there were, or how many Tribulation Realm Experts each branch had.

Furthermore, the God Protectors of the Nation were simply addressed by their names followed by "God Protector of the Nation." Long Aotian also couldn't find out how many Mahayana Realm God Protectors of the Nation the imperial family actually had.

The imperial family, extremely cunning!

A giant force that had dominated the Eastern Barrens for hundreds of thousands of years indeed had its tricks.

"The greatest treasure in the Eastern Barrens is the thundercloud in the Yunmeng Marsh? This was not mentioned in Revered Master's memories... Or perhaps, I haven't browsed it yet?

Or perhaps, it is sealed within those ten memories?

It seems that I still haven't thoroughly understood the Eastern Barrens. At least, I don't know about the Divine Sense compression effect in the Yunmeng Mountain Range, nor what Immortal Ancestor Ren San of the imperial family said about the greatest treasure in the Eastern Barrens being the thundercloud in the Yunmeng Marsh!"