Chapter 646: 604 Convergence IV
"Bringing in outside enemies, the height of shamelessness." Daoist Qingyi said coldly. "Brother Yue, this last battle, the key point is you. Victory or defeat hinges on this single move, be cautious."
Yue Dewen did not reply, he merely turned around and looked up at the blue sky outside the great hall.
"Let’s go."
He took the lead, stepping forward and walking out.
"This time, it’s just the three of us."
Qingyi and Cosimo exchanged a glance, a hint of depth showed in both their eyes.
As top-tier Spirit Generals, standing by Yue Dewen now was undoubtedly following the major trend.
But more significantly, it was the will of the Divine behind them.
The gods unite, to reverse and strike against the azure sky.
This step has finally reached its crucial moment.
If victorious, it will establish the grand trend.
If defeated...
It’s just another round of heavenly and earthly convergence and reaping.
"This time, we shall surely win!" Cosimo said with a smile, following Yue Dewen out of the great hall.
Daoist Qingyi took one last look at the four statues placed at the rear of the hall, a hint of complexity flashing in his eyes.
He understood that from the start at the Jade Void Palace, at the moment of fully unveiling the mystery of the Spirit Flying Church.
It was the beginning of full-scale confrontation between the Grand Sect Alliance and the Spirit Flying Church.
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More than ten minutes later.
Outside the Great Capital, within the battlements of the city wall, a tall man in a deep blue cloak and dark golden armor was gazing toward the direction of the Celestial Sincerity Palace.
His armor was engraved with the exquisite patterns belonging to the royal court. Daoist script, Buddhist talismans, along with the representative patterns of various other sects, could all be found on him.
The man’s face was covered, wearing a deep blue hood, with a giant metallic longbow strapped to his back.
At this moment, he continued to gaze fixedly in the direction of the Great Dao Teaching headquarters, unmoving. Even with patrolling soldiers passing around him, he remained as still as a statue.
Suddenly.
The man’s eyes shifted slightly.
"He’s gone. That oppressive aura is quickly fading away."
"We’ve been waiting for this moment." A female voice quietly reached the man’s ear from the nearby air.
"I’m going to report to His Majesty." The man said deeply, turning around and hurrying towards the inner city.
With a flicker, he transformed into a shadow, crossing layers of checkpoints and hidden sentries, rushing into the depths of the imperial court.
In a consort’s garden in the inner palace.
Emperor Lingxin was leisurely accompanying his beloved consort, enjoying flowers and wine.
Suddenly, his expression shifted slightly, as if sensing something.
"Consort Rong, why don’t you return to the palace to rest for a while."
The petite Consort Rong, though shrewd, immediately understood something was amiss. She gracefully bowed, gave a few instructions, and left without hesitation.
Emperor Lingxin watched as she left under the escort of maids, the tenderness and smile on his face gradually disappearing.
"Is it finally starting?" he asked softly.
"Yes, my lord." The man in dark golden armor with a covered face silently appeared behind him, kneeling on one knee.
Interestingly, he didn’t call Emperor Lingxin ’Your Majesty’, instead addressing him as ’my lord’.
"Then, let us begin as well." Emperor Lingxin sighed lightly. "While we have the chance, let us remove the final shackles as well."
"My lord... do you intend to handle your own lineage as well?" the man hesitantly asked.
"All of them." Emperor Lingzhi turned to look at his most loyal shadow guard leader.
"Mirror, this is the will of the gods."
"Understood!" Mirror bowed his head and answered forcefully.
Snow Deer, Canglang, Divine Mountain, Jade Pool.
The four great branches, totaling just over two hundred people, and they had already been culled once by Yue Dewen.
Now only a little over a hundred people remained.
Yet Emperor Lingzhi wanted to eradicate even these remaining ones completely.
"Go." Emperor Lingzhi ordered.
Swish!
Mirror vanished instantly, the garden still blossoming with clusters of red and blue flowers.
Only this vivid scene, in Emperor Lingzhi’s eyes at this moment, seemed to carry some inexplicable meaning.
He sighed, turned around, and moved toward the palace where Consort Rong lived.
Suddenly he seemed to sense something, halting his steps.
Clearly, as a Spirit Emperor, with royal blood flowing through his veins, unable to worship gods, his martial skills were sparse and common, yet now, both his senses and the aura faintly emanating from him.
Were absolutely not something an ordinary person could exhibit.
"Holy Sentinel?" Emperor Lingzhi turned his head, looking toward a shadowy corner of the garden.
"Why aren’t you hurrying to activate the arrangements, what brings you here?"
"Hasn’t the Divine Son already set things up?" In that corner, a blue-robed elder with gold embroidery slowly materialized from thin air.
The elder’s countenance was calm and peaceful, his eyes full of a serene azure glow.
He was the current head of the Spirit Flying Church, the Supreme Holy Sentinel!
"I am merely going along with the flow." Emperor Lingxin sighed. "I hadn’t expected that Yue Dewen would suddenly push me to the forefront. Now everything is already beyond the plan."
He raised his right hand.
Buzz!!
An invisible wave instantly spread out from him, rapidly covering and sealing the surrounding area within dozens of meters.
The sounds from outside and inside were thoroughly severed into two distinct spaces.
"Initially, I thought I’d been exposed. Who would’ve thought, the National Master casually found someone to fill the position. A happy accident, indeed." Emperor Lingzhi said helplessly.
"This is for the best. Though in the end, their struggles won’t change the conclusion. Fewer twists are always a good thing." The Holy Sentinel chuckled.
"Now, the Grand Sect Alliance has absorbed all the resisting factions, attempting to defy the heavens and alter fate. Their entire focus is on the National Master.
This time, the intensity is even surpassing that of before. But that’s okay. Completely defeating it this time should bring peace for a long time.
Furthermore, being able to use external forces to completely sever the royal bloodline is killing two birds with one stone."
Hearing this, Emperor Lingxin, as a member of the royal family, actually nodded in agreement without concern.
"The royal bloodline is the final barrier preventing Divine’s descent. Once it’s completely severed, perhaps we will usher in a new era!"
"Using external forces doesn’t violate the divine covenant," said the Sacred Inspector with a smile.
The relationship between the royal family and the Spirit Flying Church is very complex.
Unlike the Great Dao Teaching Alliance, they have allowed the alliance to grow large, fat, and more appetizing. So that when heaven and earth converge, they can completely harvest it.
But the royal family was first founded by the Celestial Lighter and Spirit Flying Heaven’s covenant.
At that time, Spirit Flying Heaven was far less powerful than it is now.
And the Celestial Lighter of the royal family then, far exceeded the current royal family, being incomparably powerful.
In the end, the two formed an alliance, achieving greatness together. They restrained each other.
Divine power and royal power were separated.
However... as time went by, since the Great Spirit unified all territories, the initial Celestial Lighters of the royal family disappeared mysteriously one by one.
Today’s royal family has long been cultivated into a gathering of useless and rubbish individuals.
But useless or not, the original divine covenant remains effective. So using external forces to completely terminate the divine covenant has become the move that fits the current situation perfectly.
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Two days later.
Within the Human Immortal Cave.
Zhang Rongfang closed his eyes and sensed the information and news relayed back by the human puppets from various places.
He dispatched a Black Daoist as the main person in charge to coordinate this action of the Golden Wing Pavilion.
At this moment, information about the White Ten Sect, Great Dao Teaching Alliance, Spirit Court, and others were pouring in continuously.
Layer upon layer of information gathered in his mind, constantly completing his previous speculations.
"Yue Shi has left the Great Capital, destination unknown.
The Great Dao Teaching Alliance dispatched many experts, coordinating with local spirit troops, and began to encircle and annihilate the White Ten Sect’s raid troops, achieving a complete victory in the initial battle. They dismantled the main structure of the White Ten Sect’s vanguard forces.
Snow Rainbow Pavilion dispatched Fierce Generals to assist in the assault. Due to their passive performance, they clashed with the Great Dao Teaching Alliance’s Brahma Sect, resulting in several Fierce Generals being dismissed.
A large group of experts from the Sensing Sect gathered at the border, purpose unknown, and were forcibly dispersed by the alliance’s Grandmasters.
The Jade Void Palace suddenly sealed its gates, forbidding any entrance or exit?"
One piece of information after another converged, all pointing to one thing.
The Great Dao Teaching Alliance had commenced their counterattack.
This colossal entity, which encompassed many sects, with just a slight return to its senses, extended its incredibly powerful tendrils, causing everyone it touched to scatter.
Sitting beside the Blood Pool, Zhang Rongfang looked at the clear blood water. On the other side, Daoists started transporting and adding barrels of nutrient fluid.
"A three-day cycle, recurring once."
He stood up and stepped into the Blood Pool.
Nutrient infusion and his own absorption could be synchronized.
Time was pressing now; a decisive battle could erupt any moment over at Jade Void Palace.
He must, as quickly as possible, complete the full ancestral bloodline to elevate himself to the ultimate state.
After fully submerging his body into the blood water,
he again felt the kind of comfort akin to a hot spring.
The vast amount of blood within him began to rapidly diffuse into the surrounding blood water, exchanging nutrients and expelling metabolic waste.
The available attributes also began to rise rapidly, increasing continuously.
But this time, he did not fall into a complete sleep but rather divided his mind, waiting for the news to be delivered by the blood scent tracking.
Simultaneously, he switched the small puppet he sent out to investigate the situation.
Among the many experts carrying puppets within the Human Immortal Temple, the most crucial was the Black Daoist who was at this moment personally heading towards the Jade Void Palace.
Closing his eyes, Zhang Rongfang’s sight followed the bloodline of the Black Daoist, extending swiftly, far away.
In the blink of an eye, he found himself in a pitch-dark, enclosed environment.
All around him were the refined textures of animal leather. From outside, the light tapping of footsteps could be heard.
Zhang Rongfang moved his hands and feet, slipping out from the seam of the leather bag.
Outside was an expanse of majestic, continuous snowy mountains.
He grabbed onto the robe of the galloping Black Daoist to steady himself, gazing forward.
In the distance ahead, the grandeur of Jade Void Palace’s heavenly gate could be vaguely seen.
"How’s the situation?" Zhang Rongfang asked.
Upon hearing him speak, the Black Daoist was startled, pausing to see the tiny puppet grasping his waist.
He carefully removed it and placed it on his shoulder.
"Returning to the Temple Master, Jade Void Palace here has completely sealed all entry and exit routes. Even the disciples of the Twelve Sect Mansions outside have been ignored. It seems important matters are being handled internally.
We tried several times to disguise ourselves and infiltrate, but were unsuccessful."
"Have the people from the Great Dao Teaching Alliance arrived?" Zhang Rongfang asked.
The puppet, only palm-sized at this moment, had facial features outlined in red lines that could actually change with the tone, showing different expressions.
"Some have arrived. Quite a few experts from unknown forces have quietly arrived nearby. Subordinate suspects it’s the arrangement of the Great Dao Teaching Alliance. They seem to be waiting for something," the Black Daoist replied.
Zhang Rongfang understood; they were likely waiting for Yue Shi.
This battle might affect the major trends and fortune of the Great Spirit for hundreds of years to come.
Therefore, it’s not excessive for both sides to take it as seriously as possible.
"It seems Jade Void Palace is likely already under the control of the Spirit Flying Church," Zhang Rongfang thought to himself.
"Temple Master, isn’t our involvement in the dispute between the Great Dao Teaching Alliance and Spirit Flying Church, with our small resources, too dangerous?" The Black Daoist asked uneasily.
"Fool! You think we are direct participants??" Zhang Rongfang replied. "What we need to do is be the last straw that breaks the camel’s back, after a mutual loss at the critical moment."
"Temple Master is wise!" The Black Daoist flattered decisively.
"What do the rest of the Great Dao Teaching Alliance have to do with me? Those with blood debts innumerable, no matter how many die, they don’t deserve sympathy.
But Yue Shi, our Human Immortal Dao will protect him firmly!!" Zhang Rongfang said in a deep voice.
At this moment, looking far at Jade Void Palace, he could already see faint blue halos constantly twisting above.
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