Chapter 430: Chapter 322: Battle 7-Star
Celestial Demon Sect.
Within the Soul Destruction Hall.
At this moment, inside a small room within the hall, only the Spirit Destruction Hall Master and one Elder were present.
The seated Spirit Destruction Hall Master had just thought of something. He looked at the Elder before him and spoke.
"Elder Chen, contact the Demon Breeding Cave Master. Ask him what’s going on. Why hasn’t he come over yet?"
"Yes."
Elder Chen nodded and quickly began to make contact.
He followed the Spirit Destruction Hall Master’s instructions, and before long, he discovered a problem.
"Hall Master, I can’t reach the Demon Breeding Cave Master."
"What!"
The Spirit Destruction Hall Master thought, ’This shouldn’t be happening. There’s no reason why the Demon Breeding Cave Master would be unreachable. It’s impossible that he went into seclusion to cultivate during this time. The Demon Breeding Cave was just attacked by that mysterious Spirit Refiner. The chances of him being in the mood for secluded cultivation are slim. That leaves only one possibility.’
Thinking of this possibility, the Spirit Destruction Hall Master, in order to verify his suspicion, had Elder Chen try to contact the other two Foundation Establishment Cultivators from the Demon Breeding Cave. The result was the same—they were also unreachable.
"They’ve all fallen."
The Spirit Destruction Hall Master stated the only remaining possibility.
As for how they had fallen? The answer was easy to guess. Without a doubt, it had to be related to the mysterious Spirit Refiner.
If the mysterious Spirit Refiner wanted to deal with them on their way back, ambushing them at the Demon Breeding Cave would have been the best choice.
An ambush anywhere else might not have succeeded.
"To think that even after we retreated, the mysterious Spirit Refiner still decided to strike." The Spirit Destruction Hall Master had a bit of a headache; this was yet another loss for them.
Especially under the current circumstances.
Compared to before, the number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators among their subordinate Foundation Establishment Influences had been greatly reduced, all because of the mysterious Spirit Refiner.
This was not conducive to his future plans.
"Hall Master, should we retaliate?" Elder Chen asked, looking at the Spirit Destruction Hall Master.
"Retaliate with what?" the Spirit Destruction Hall Master retorted. "The Supreme Elder’s orders have already been issued. We are to pull back our forces."
The times had changed.
With no operations against the Celestial Cloud Sect, there was very little he, the Spirit Destruction Hall Master, could do.
Based on past experience, once they pulled back their forces and ceased their attacks on the Celestial Cloud Sect, the sect’s Foundation Establishment Spirit Refiners would no longer appear in their Earth Realm. During such periods, any conflict between the two sides would be limited to the Qi Refining Stage.
Therefore, by the time they discovered what the mysterious Spirit Refiner had done before leaving their Earth Realm, it was already too late. There was nothing they could do.
By the time the Celestial Demon Sect moved against the Celestial Cloud Sect again, the Spirit Destruction Hall Master didn’t know how many generations of his position would have passed. If he was lucky enough to successfully reach Core Formation and become a high-ranking member of the sect, he might live to see the day the Celestial Demon Sect attacked the Celestial Cloud Sect again.
If he failed to reach Core Formation, he felt that the few decades he had left wouldn’t be enough to see that day.
"Forget about the mysterious Spirit Refiner. As long as we don’t make a move, we won’t be hearing any more news about him anyway."
"Yes, Hall Master." Hearing this, Elder Chen said nothing more.
If they didn’t make a move, the Spirit Refiners wouldn’t either. In the eyes of the Celestial Demon Sect’s Demons, this had long been a matter of course.
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Celestial Cloud Sect.
Half a year had passed since Bai Qinying went into seclusion to attempt Core Formation.
During this half-year, Fang Yun’s life continued as usual.
There were just no more support missions for him, nor were there any support missions for the Elders of Battle Peak to undertake.
It wasn’t that Fang Yun couldn’t acquire Combat Talent Points without support missions. When he went to the Supreme Profound Mountain Range, he could also obtain Combat Talent Points and the Spiritual Materials he needed, depending on the situation.
On this day, there were three people in the main hall of Fang Yun’s cave-dwelling: himself, and the master-disciple duo of Deng Fusheng and Zheng Chunyu.
Zheng Chunyu had already reached Foundation Establishment.
The master and disciple had come to see Fang Yun this time precisely because of this matter.
"Elder Fang, we truly have you to thank. Otherwise, many of the sect’s promising young talents would have had difficulty even reaching Foundation Establishment," Deng Fusheng said sincerely from his seat opposite Fang Yun.
The influence Fang Yun had brought to the sect was naturally not just reflected in Deng Fusheng’s disciple.
Compared to before, other Elders were now happy to take Inner Sect Disciples as their own, even if their Spirit Root Talent was lacking, as long as they possessed great talent in some other area.
Poor Spirit Root Talent made reaching Foundation Establishment difficult. As masters, they all hoped their disciples could succeed. In the past, when conditions were lacking and many resources were hard to obtain, the requirements for accepting disciples were much stricter.
Fang Yun didn’t deny Deng Fusheng’s words. It was the truth, a fact that was also evident from his current influence within the sect.
"With Chunyu’s successful Foundation Establishment, our sect will have another powerful Array Master in the future."
"My disciple is far more outstanding than I am. It’s only a matter of time before she surpasses me. Compared to what she’ll become, I can’t be called a powerful Array Master at all."
"Elder Deng, you’re being too modest."
While they were discussing her, Zheng Chunyu just sat there quietly, not saying a word.
Although she was now an Elder, in terms of true seniority, she was still a junior.
They spoke of Zheng Chunyu’s talent in the Array Dao.
In the future, after Zheng Chunyu cultivates to the Peak of Foundation Establishment, the sect will also do its best to find a way for her to successfully reach Core Formation.
If she could succeed in reaching Core Formation, the sect would be impregnable for the next two to three hundred years. If problems arose within the sect’s Earth Realm, they could even send more Core Formation cultivators out to act.
This was because having her stand guard over the sect would be enough. The might that could be unleashed by fully activating their sect’s Grand Array of All Things Five Elements was truly terrifying.
In terms of Spirit Root Talent, her Four Spirit Roots were considerably better than his Five. Of course, Fang Yun’s own Spirit Root Talent was no longer what it once was—it was now comparable to that of a Three Spirit Roots Cultivator.
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