296: Chapter 296 The Purple Sun Strikes, the Flood Dragon Stands to Block It!

At the peak of Zixiao Peak, the sea of clouds churned.

White Crane, wearing a white-feathered cloak, stood with his hands behind his back in the Void Realm. The pressure of his Early Stage Nascent Soul Realm spread outward like ripples in water.

"Good! A truly masterful sweep!"

White Crane laughed loudly, his voice shaking the area for a hundred miles.

At this moment, Shi Jian looked up at the horizon. The aura of the Great Dao, stirred by the formation of the Nascent Soul, was spreading across the entire Qingcang Kingdom at a terrifying speed.

A Nascent Soul is born, and Heaven and Earth resonate.

Such a commotion could not be hidden.

"Brother White, restrain your aura; the show is about to begin," Shi Jian said calmly.

Tens of millions of miles away, in the Qingcang Kingdom, at the Main Peak of the Shangqing Sect.

Deep within the grand hall, purple Qi swirled. True Monarch Ziyang, who was guarding the Sect, was sitting cross-legged in meditation. Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide, his gaze like lightning, piercing through the Void Realm.

"Cloud Dao aura? Someone is forming a Nascent Soul!"

True Monarch Ziyang's expression changed. His Divine Sense instantly crossed ten thousand miles, searching along that Great Dao aura, but the next moment...

His face turned ashen, and he stood up abruptly.

"Demonic Qi! It's actually the Yao Race!"

"The direction... Yunjian Mountain Range! White Cloud Temple!"

A murderous intent flared in True Monarch Ziyang's eyes. In the heart of the Qingcang Kingdom, right under the nose of the Shangqing Sect, a Yao King about to take human form was actually hiding!

This was simply a great humiliation and, even more, a major threat!

The most crucial point was that this great Yao forming a Nascent Soul was not the Shi Jian he had expected, but a strange entity he had never seen before.

"Senior Brother!" True Monarch Ziyang shouted in a deep voice.

From the shadows of the hall, another Nascent Soul True Monarch who was guarding the Sect walked out slowly. He had a gaunt face; it was True Monarch Tianxu.

"A Yao Race member forming a Nascent Soul must not be allowed to live!"

True Monarch Tianxu's voice was hoarse and filled with coldness.

"Let's go! While their Realm is not yet stable, you and I will kill them!"

True Monarch Ziyang waved his large sleeve, and the Void Realm in front of them was torn apart like a scroll. They stepped inside and headed straight for the Yunjian Mountain Range.

In the heart of the Qingcang Kingdom, no Yao Race Nascent Soul is allowed to be born!

Meanwhile, in the southern lands of Feng Prefecture.

Amidst the sky full of water vapor, Great Lord Ao Qin transformed into a Dragon-man and was confronting True Monarch Ziyan and three others from afar.

Suddenly, Great Lord Ao Qin's dark golden slit pupils contracted, and he suddenly turned his head to look toward the northern inland, with some surprise in his eyes.

"Hmm? Cloud Dao?"

He closed his eyes and sensed carefully, the corners of his mouth gradually curling into an arc.

"Demonic Qi soaring to the heavens... In the inland of the Xuanling Continent, there is actually a fellow Yao Race member forming a Nascent Soul?"

Great Lord Ao Qin laughed out loud.

A Yao Race Nascent Soul appearing in the heart of the Human Race territory—this was simply a god-given opportunity!

Just then, he keenly sensed that from the direction of the Shangqing Sect's Main Peak, two powerful Nascent Soul auras rose into the sky, tearing through the Void Realm and heading straight for the location where the Nascent Soul was being formed.

"Want to kill my Yao Race's new monarch? Dream on!"

A fierce light flared in Great Lord Ao Qin's eyes. He turned his head abruptly to look at the six Dragon Nascent Souls behind him.

"South Sea forces, listen to my command!"

"Ao Hai, Ao Lie, Ao Yuan, Ao Feng, you four, hold back those four pieces of trash, Ziyan and her group!"

"The remaining two, follow me!"

With Great Lord Ao Qin's command, his figure instantly grew, transforming into a golden dragon hundreds of feet long.

"Kill!"

The other six Dragon Yao Kings roared in unison, shaking Heaven and Earth.

True Monarch Ziyan's expression changed suddenly. She had also sensed the aura of the Nascent Soul formation in the inland, and she had also seen the movements of True Monarch Ziyang.

"Stop them!"

True Monarch Ziyan shouted sharply, her Immortal Foundation manifesting. Her Immortal Foundation was also that Cloud Dao Immortal Foundation, [Purple Cloud Smoke]. Instantly, the purple smoke filling the sky turned into chains, attempting to seal the Void Realm.

But it was too late.

The four Dragon Yao Kings, all fearless of death, smashed through Ziyan's blockade and entangled the four of them tightly...

Meanwhile, Great Lord Ao Qin, taking the other two Dragons, dove headfirst into the turbulent Void Realm, following the aura of True Monarch Ziyang!

In the heart of the Qingcang Kingdom, high above the sky.

Inside the Void Realm passage, True Monarch Ziyang and True Monarch Tianxu were traveling at high speed.

"Faster!"

"That beast has just formed its Nascent Soul; its Immortal Foundation is unstable. Kill it in one blow!"

True Monarch Ziyang sent a voice transmission, but before his words could finish, the Void Realm ahead suddenly twisted violently.

"Boom!"

A giant dragon claw covered in dark golden scales, carrying overwhelming force, forcibly shattered the Void Realm passage and descended upon True Monarch Ziyang's head.

"Great Lord Ao Qin!"

True Monarch Ziyang's eyes widened in anger, and he raised his hand to strike with a palm.

The purple Qi surged, transforming into a giant hand that covered the sky, colliding with the dragon claw.

The Void Realm collapsed over a large area, and violent spatial turbulence swept in all directions.

Great Lord Ao Qin stepped out of the Void Realm, blocking the path in front of True Monarch Ziyang, followed by two Middle Stage Nascent Soul Dragons.

"Old man Ziyang, where are you in such a rush to go?"

Great Lord Ao Qin laughed wildly, his Immortal Foundation [Boundless Sea] manifesting. An endless ocean appeared out of thin air in the Void Realm, completely sealing off the area for ten thousand miles.

True Monarch Ziyang's face was extremely ugly.

"Great Lord Ao Qin! How dare you obstruct my Shangqing Sect from cleaning up its own house?!"

"Cleaning up your own house?"

"A Yao King appeared in your Human Race heartland, so that makes them a fellow Yao Race member. How could I, this Great Lord, watch you launch a sneak attack on our clan's new monarch?"

Great Lord Ao Qin did not back down at all, his dark golden slit pupils full of mockery.

True Monarch Tianxu stepped out, his gaunt fingers forming a spell: "Junior Brother, don't waste words with him. Force your way through!"

"Force your way? Today, you won't even pass a half-step!"

Great Lord Ao Qin shouted loudly. The three Dragon Nascent Souls all revealed their true forms. Their massive dragon bodies rolled in the sea of clouds, breathing dragon breath, directly dragging the two of them into the battle.

Five old Nascent Soul monsters opened up a new battlefield above the heart of the Qingcang Kingdom. For a time, the sky went dark, and living beings were devastated...

True Monarch Ziyang was anxious, but he was held tightly by Great Lord Ao Qin and could not escape.

He watched helplessly in the direction of the Yunjian Mountain Range as the aura of the Nascent Soul formation grew more stable, but he was powerless to do anything...

Yunjian Mountain Range, Zixiao Peak.

The pressure from the horizon came from tens of millions of miles away, dull like thunder.

White Crane stood in the Void Realm, his brows slightly furrowed, looking north.

"The Sect Head of the Shangqing Sect has come."

White Crane's voice was low, and a trace of solemnity flashed in his eyes:

"And there is another Nascent Soul aura."

He had just formed his Nascent Soul; if he were to face an old-timer like True Monarch Ziyang at the Middle Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm, he would have no chance of winning.

But immediately after, White Crane was stunned.

He sensed that True Monarch Ziyang's aura had been forcibly intercepted halfway, and in its place were three violent auras of the Yao Race.

"The Dragon clan? They blocked the people from the Shangqing Sect?" White Crane was astonished.

Shi Jian smiled, having expected this, and said: "How about it? This is the Dao Protector I prepared for you. What do you think?"

Shi Jian smiled meaningfully; it had gone according to his plan.

White Crane gasped, turning his head abruptly to look at Shi Jian.

"You... you calculated that the Sea Yao would make a move?"

Shi Jian did not answer directly, only looking at the rolling clouds in the horizon, his tone plain.

"The Liang Kingdom is in chaos, fourteen Nascent Souls are fighting, and the main force of the Shangqing Sect is out. The South Sea Yao Race is launching an attack, and Feng Prefecture is about to fall."

"That old thing Ziyang only has True Monarch Tianxu as a card left in his hand."

"If he wants to kill you, the Sea Yao naturally won't agree."

"The enemy of an enemy is a friend. That old dragon Great Lord Ao Qin is very arrogant and would never watch the Human Race kill a Yao right under his nose."

"More importantly, the Human Race is strong and the Yao Race is weak. Naturally, the weaker side cherishes this opportunity to strengthen the Yao Race."

"After all, the changing of the times lies in these shifts between strength and weakness."

"The great trend of this world is the best Sect-protecting formation."

"Brother White, you are safe now."

White Crane looked at the Thunder Bear in front of him, his heart surging with stormy waves.

He finally understood why Shi Jian had let him endure for twenty years, and why he had waited until this moment of chaos in the world to let him form his Nascent Soul.

Everything was completely within this bear's calculations!

Borrowing the momentum of the Sea Yao to block the sword of the Shangqing Sect.

Without spilling a drop of blood, he had preserved the first Nascent Soul of the land-based Yao Race!

"Brother Shi's intelligence is like that of a Prodigy; I am truly impressed."

White Crane took a deep breath and bowed solemnly.

Shi Jian waved his paw.

"Alright, Brother White, you are too polite. In the future, I will still need to rely on you, Fellow Daoist, to protect me when I form my Nascent Soul. It is only right that we help each other."

"Hurry up and stabilize your Realm; this chaotic world has just begun."

"When they have finished fighting, we should also go down the mountain to eat meat."