Chapter 2135: Odd Encounter
Breaking through to the First Tribulation of the Soul Ascension Realm inside the ascension secret realm, Elder Song found himself unable to leave the place like he had originally wanted to do once he finished his breakthrough. Finding himself forced to remain in seclusion inside the ascension secret realm to stabilize his cultivation base following his breakthrough to the Soul Ascension Realm. Forcing him to grab one of the other elders within the ascension secret realm before informing them about the situation and getting their help in informing a few people outside about his situation and the fact that they would have to run things without him around for the foreseeable future.
Unexpected as this turn of events was, the current Star Shattering Sect was already stable and could function smoothly even without Elder Song around to run things personally. The only detriment being that the overall development speed slowed down a bit and a few planned events for the younger disciples had to be pushed back until he emerged from seclusion and finished stabilizing his cultivation base following his breakthrough.
Outside the sudden breakthrough of Elder Song, another unexpected turn of events happened to Qing Yi and Chun Hua, who had been spending an increased amount of time together studying the Dao of Alchemy, a Dao both had grown to enjoy over the years.
During a normal outing from the sect wandering around the territory of the sect that bordered the now fallen Blue Sea Empire that had fallen under the complete control of the demonic cultivators from the Frozen Wastelands, the two of them ended up finding an especially precious spiritual herb, but at the same time they spotted this precious spiritual herb and made their way towards it, a large number of other cultivators seemingly materialized from nowhere and rushed towards the precious spiritual herb as well.
Normally, the strength of wandering cultivators within the borders of the Star Shattering Sect normally didn’t exceeded the Domain Lord Realm, but these random cultivators who had popped up out of nowhere and seemingly even ignored their robes clearly showing them as someone belonging to the Star Shattering Sect had reached the Later Stages of the Domain Lord Realm or even the Soul Ascension Realm. Not exactly easy opponents, but Chun Hua and Qing Yi had no intention of giving up the spiritual herb they had found and quickly seized it before these random wandering cultivators could reach it, something that soon enough resulted in the two becoming the target of the group of wandering cultivators.
Attacked by over a dozen people with close to half of them having reached the Soul Ascension Realm, even Qing Yi and Chun Hua, who had already stepped into the Initial Stage of the Dao Domain Lord Realm found themselves struggling before long and were unable to push back the group of wandering cultivators that had seemingly come to a tacit understanding that they had to work together to deal with the two of them.
In the end, amidst this growing struggle between the two and the group of wandering cultivators, the battle that had originally been at the border between the Star Shattering Sect’s territory and the Blue Sea Empire now under the control of the demonic cultivators ended up moving to the neutral territory between the Wei Empire and the Blue Sea Empire over a few days of intense battle.
The scale of the battle itself escalating visibly over time as the number of wandering cultivators who joined in increased, though those joining the battle later clearly recognized the two of them and the fact they were part of the Star Shattering Sect and thus didn’t dare to attack the two of them like those who didn’t recognize them. Instead, these new wandering cultivators joining the increasingly large battle ended up targeting those weaker wandering cultivators attacking the two of them. Taking advantage of them being weakened to pick off an easy target while at the same time earning some goodwill with the local major power that was the Star Shattering Sect.
In fact, with the battle expanding and more people being drawn over, Chun Hua and Qing Yi found the pressure on them decreasing significantly to the point where they could now leave if they wanted to.
But... An opportunity to test themselves like the one currently standing before them didn’t come by easily, so, the two ultimately decided to stay and continue the fight against the wandering cultivators in the Soul Ascension Realm. Those below the Soul Ascension Realm having already perished upon their entry into the neutral territory between the Wei Empire and the demonic cultivators.
After all, the Star Shattering Sect had a clear relationship with the different neutral powers within the neutral territory, so it wasn’t that surprising for the people of these neutral factions to rush over upon learning about the battle to lend a hand.
Not just these neutral factions, but even a few cultivators belonging to the Wei Empire who happened to be in the neutral territory had rushed over to lend a hand to show some goodwill towards the Star Shattering Sect.
Unsurprisingly, as another day passed like this with the battle continuing through the neutral territory, the few remaining Soul Ascension Realm cultivators finally seemed to have reached their limit and went for a final attack against Qing Yi and Chun Hua. Not waiting to see the result of their combined attack before turning around to run away. Using the powerful attack as a distraction to run away and save their own skin.
Boom-!
The attack itself exploding with power far exceeding what these wandering cultivators had shown so far as it quickly broke past the defense of Qing Yi and Chun Hua with little to no effort before slamming into their bodies. Launching the two of them, flying into the distance and out of sight of the different people who had come to aid them after learning about their battle. Leaving them with nothing to do but try and chase down the group of escaping Soul Ascension Realm cultivators.
The power behind the attack itself had far exceeded that of the Soul Ascension Realm and had directly touched upon the Dao Seed Realm and normally wouldn’t be something that someone at the Initial Stage of the Dao Domain Lord Realm would have been able to survive, but luckily for Qing Yi and Chun Hua, Xuan Hao had long since left behind a few secret protections for his disciples and once such protective mechanism had activated when the two had been hit by the terrifying combined attack of the group of Soul Ascension Realm cultivators. Blocking the attack and saving them from any damage, though it didn’t stop them from being launched into the distance by the attack in question...
Bang!
Bang!
In the end, the two young women found themselves crashing into the ground somewhere far away from where they had originally been only a few minutes earlier. Inspecting their surroundings only to realize that they were in the middle of a lush forest.
"That last attack really caught me off guard. Never expected them to suddenly pull out such a powerful move at the last second, but... How come we weren’t hurt by it?" Being the first to get back on her feet following the rough landing, Chun Hua voiced out her thoughts with a clear look of confusion as she looked over her own unharmed body. Unable to believe how that powerful attack that had made her feel a sense of impending doom had been unable to leave as much as a single scratch on her body after it had easily torn through her defenses.
"It should be some protective measure left behind by master, as for the odd strength of that last attack... It should be some kind of talisman that increased their attack power and allowed their strength to surge so suddenly." Jumping to her feet shortly after Chun Hua, Qing Yi slowly answered her friend’s doubts. Having already seen through what happened earlier.
Although... It did leave her quite confused about the identity of these wandering cultivators that had seemingly gone all out attacking her and Chun Hua.
After all, during the battle that had ended up lasting a little over two days, it was clear that these people had no idea about their identity and even when those cultivators from the neutral territory came to lend a hand and directly mentioned the Star Shattering Sect, these people had shown no reaction.
Clear as day, they were completely unaware about the Star Shattering Sect.
Normally, it would be understandable given how small the Star Shattering Sect’s sphere of influence still was, but the name of the Star Shattering Sect had already spread throughout the Northern Central Region following her master’s involvement during the fall of the Blue Sea Empire.
By now, the Star Shattering Sect was not just a well-known sect within the Northern Central Region but was even known outside the Northern Central Region to some extent.
For someone to be completely unaware of the Star Shattering Sect was odd and indicated that these wandering cultivators weren’t from the Northern Central Region but somewhere outside the Northern Central Region.
But... With strength only between the Domain Lord Realm and the Soul Ascension Realm, how could people from beyond the Northern Central Region- and so many of them, even get to the borders of the Star Shattering Sect without learning about the Star Shattering Sect during the long journey they had to go on to even get within the borders of the Star Shattering Sect in the first place.
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