280: Chapter 280 Twenty years have passed, and one after another has followed!

Twenty winters and summers have gone by in the blink of an eye.

The Xuanling Continent has undergone great changes, and the chaos of the war-torn years has long since subsided.

The Wei State, Liang Kingdom, and Qingcang Kingdom stand in a tripartite balance, their territories intertwined like interlocking teeth.

Various forces check and balance each other, and the world has returned to a delicate state of equilibrium, just like the time when the Wei, Jin, and Liang states balanced each other.

However, in recent years, the Shangqing Sect of the Qingcang Kingdom has been in the limelight.

The bells within the Sect rang out across the heavens, and purple clouds came from the east for thirty thousand li; remarkably, a new Nascent Soul True Monarch has ascended, known as True Monarch Ziyan!

Counting this one, the Shangqing Sect now has thirteen Nascent Soul True Monarchs sitting in command, suppressing the four seas.

The entire Qingcang Kingdom's families and Schools have risen in status, and a trend of arrogance prevails.

Conversely, the Xuanqing Sect of the Wei State is like the setting sun.

Two older generation Nascent Soul True Monarchs have passed away one after another; the funeral bells toll long and mournfully.

The Sect is increasingly unable to bridge the gap between generations, with no successors.

Now, only six Nascent Soul remain, struggling to hold on.

One of the old True Monarchs has less than a hundred years of Lifespan left and is nearing the end of their life.

With one growing and the other waning, the Xuanqing Sect acts increasingly conservatively, beginning to seal its mountains and close its gates, ignoring worldly affairs to focus on cultivating the younger generation.

Great nations play their games, while small Sects seek to survive.

This relatively balanced situation has given White Cloud Temple a great space for development.

Although White Cloud Temple has been growing stronger over these years, it has never attracted suppression from the Shangqing Sect from start to finish.

It is not that the Shangqing Sect is arrogant, but in their view, while White Cloud Temple continues to grow, the Shangqing Sect is also increasing day by day.

The gap is truly too large to be worth their attention.

In these short two or three hundred years, the Shangqing Sect established the Qingcang Kingdom, then destroyed and annexed the Jin State, ruling over the Nine Provinces.

Within the Sect, there are thirteen Nascent Soul True Monarchs in command.

By comparison, the growth of White Cloud Temple remains within their tolerance; after all, Golden Core Cultivator forces throughout the Qingcang Kingdom have also grown.

Among them, there are many families and Schools with two or even three Golden Core Cultivators, so White Cloud Temple has never been oppressed.

On the Xuanling Continent, beneath the Nascent Soul, all are ants.

This is an absolute, ironclad rule!

Today, the Yunjian Mountain Range are a gathering place for merchants, with treasure ships weaving through like a loom.

Various trades under the administration of White Cloud Temple flow endlessly, and Spirit Pills, Magical Artifacts, and Yao Beast Materials are piled like mountains.

Branch altars everywhere are flourishing, and financial resources are pouring in.

Wealth nourishes people, and it also nourishes Spiritual Veins and great rivers.

With massive resources poured in, the two main veins of the Yunjian Mountain Range, north and south, have been forcibly raised to Third-Grade Peak Spiritual Veins.

Spiritual Qi turns into mist and condenses into dew, nourishing all things.

Although there is still a gap to the Fourth Grade, they are already the pinnacle of the Third Grade, sufficient to support the cultivation of several, or even over ten, Golden Core Cultivators.

It is worth noting that the changes in the Northern Mountain Range are earth-shattering.

One or two hundred years ago, this place was merely a desolate place for raising Yao Beasts, far less prosperous than the southern mountains, but today, the Northern Mountain Range has spiritual light soaring into the sky and Demonic Qi reaching the heavens; its foundation has even comprehensively surpassed the southern Human Race orthodoxy...

At the Peak of Zixiao Peak, thunderclouds never dissipate all year round.

After twenty years of precipitation in the Thunder Pool Blessed Land, as the purple-gold thunder liquid churns, it has remarkably gestated a wisp of a brand new heaven and earth qi of the Way of Thunder.

This wisp of energy is extremely Yang and rigid, wandering deep within the Thunder Pool, causing the surrounding lightning-struck wood to sprout and branch out one after another...

The Fengkou Valley, where the Wind Mouse Clan is entrenched, has also been transformed.

In the past, Rat Two sacrificed his life for the mountain, creating the foundation of Wanbao Mountain.

After Elder Shu Changfeng took over as Clan Chief, he worked diligently and, with the help of the qi of the wind dao, forcibly cultivated this Fengkou Valley from an embryonic form of a Blessed Land into a true Low Grade Blessed Land...

With this qi of the wind dao stored within the Blessed Land, one can use the heaven and earth qi to strengthen the Blessed Land, and also let the Blessed Land nourish the heaven and earth qi, thereby complementing each other; this can be considered making the best use of everything.

When the time comes for Elder Shu Changfeng to make his Breakthrough to the Golden Core, he will take it out to consume and refine it.

Gale winds howl in the valley, and wind-type Spiritual Plants are everywhere.

Rats shuttle back and forth, the clan is extremely prosperous, and there are even Great Demons flying and tunneling!

In addition, on Panshi Peak, the black rock is like iron.

Shi Pan's Golden Core cultivation is becoming increasingly profound, and his Earth Dao True Essence feeds back into the mountains and rivers, completing the transformation of the entire Peak; this Panshi Peak had originally shaped an embryonic form of a Blessed Land.

Now, after Shi Pan's Core Formation and all these years of cultivation and nurturing, a wisp of thick Earth Qi has been gestated deep within the mountain's belly.

The energy is heavy and lingering, continuous and endless.

Based on this calculation, in another fifty years, this place will surely gestate into shape and formally transform into an Earth Dao Blessed Land.

By then, the Earth Qi will be rejuvenated and transform into the true heaven and earth qi of the Earth Dao.

Whether used to cultivate a new Golden Core Great Demon or stored in the Blessed Land to feed back into the surrounding mountains and marshes, it will be the best choice, allowing this Panshi Lineage to continue its glory for ten thousand years.

Kuangdou Peak is also unwilling to fall behind.

The Black Dog Clan is fierce by nature, and Kuang Dou has been drawing Earth Fire into the mountain year-round, so the Chijiang Pool Blessed Land has also reached Major Achievement, and the Blessed Land has taken form!

Its magma churns, and fire poison fills the air; ordinary Cultivators die upon touching it, but it is a supreme treasure land for the Dog Yao to temper their Physical Body.

That Kuang Dou is also different from the past.

Tempering himself with Earth Fire magma and breathing in fire energy, he has reached the Peak of Foundation Establishment and has spent a full forty or fifty years settling in this Realm.

Although he has no heaven and earth qi of the Fire Dao to help him now, he has already decided.

In a few more years, he will forcibly Breakthrough the shackles!

Even if it means death, he will bite the bullet and give it a try.

However, while the various branches of the Yao Race are advancing triumphantly, the Dao is ruthless; cultivation is just like this, life and death are but in an instant.

In Mushou Mountain, under the administration of White Cloud Temple, the years are peaceful, and the vegetation is lush.

This place has been too comfortable for too long, but it has also become a deathbed.

The Moon-Gazing Rhino, Green Water Bull, and Shadow Python, three Foundation Establishment Great Demons, were quite powerful Great Demons among the thirty-six branches in the mountain at that time.

All three demons were nearing the end of their Lifespan and were unwilling to pass away.

Therefore, they successively forcibly attempted to impact the Golden Core Dao, but without the assistance of heaven and earth qi, and added to the fear of death in their hearts, their Dao Heart was not firm, and their Bloodline was insufficient...

This act was no different from a mayfly shaking a tree, falling short of success.

In the end, all fell during the three barriers of Core Formation, the second barrier, accommodating the heaven and earth qi.

Helplessly Dao-transformed, the three Great Demons' Physical Bodies disintegrated, their True Essence dissipated, and hundreds of years of cultivation were all fed back to this world.

The Moon-Gazing Rhino turned into a phantom of a waning moon, the Green Water Bull turned into a pool of green water, and the Shadow Python turned into the sky full of Yin Qi.

The three forces intertwined and collided, finally settling deep in the mountains and forests.

The place where these three demons fell actually turned a misfortune into a blessing, giving birth to an embryonic form of a Wood Dao Blessed Land, named: Fungus Wood Forest!

Giant mushrooms towering into the sky rose from the ground, their caps covering the sky and sun, emitting a faint fluorescent light.

Life and death, glory and withering, are all within the Reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao.

The cruelty of the Yao Race's cultivation can be seen from this; if you do not succeed, you become a forest.