The Land of Origin housed a vast and frigid icefield known as the Tianji Icefield. Its expanse was so vast, it could rival the territory of the Flame Wind Ancient Country. However, due to the harsh environment of this icefield, the number of cultivators was less than one percent of those in the Flame Wind Ancient Country.
In the Tianji Icefield, there were no kingdoms, only scattered powers.
“Huff.” The Marquis of Jiu Jiang, in his transformed form, looked at the great icy city of ‘Juefeng City’ before him.
Juefeng City was also a large city, built entirely from ice, its population several times more than that of Huyang City.
In the Tianji Icefield, only the city housed a numerous amount of cultivators. Outside…you could hardly see any tribes. The harsh conditions made survival difficult for tribes.
“At last, Great Saint Juefeng has come out of seclusion.” The Marquis of Jiu Jiang had also received the message and was visiting Great Saint Juefeng once again.
Within the imposing city, at the center was a massive cave mansion, belonging to the city’s master, ‘Great Saint Juefeng.’
“Marquis Jiu Jiang, please.” An eternal true god attendant personally led the way at the main gate of the mansion.
Soon, they arrived at a grand hall.
“Come, come, come, Brother Jiu Jiang, take a seat.” A towering figure with dark green skin sat there, grinning and said, “I’ve been in closed-door cultivation all this time, making Brother Jiu Jiang wait for so long.”
“Brother Juefeng’s cultivation is the most critical matter,” the Marquis of Jiu Jiang said with a flattering smile.
He was seeking aid from beings no less than Marquis Liu Yin!
This Great Saint Juefeng, carefree and unrestrained, was also unwilling to join any kingdom. He occupied a major city on his own, ruling over millions of cultivators, content in his cultivation, yet none dared to provoke him.
In terms of strength, Great Saint Juefeng was not inferior to Marquis Liu Yin, both being pinnacle existences in the Primal Chaos Realm.
In terms of background, Great Saint Juefeng had once been an honorary disciple under an emperor of the Flame Wind Ancient Country, but given the intense competition that drew too many elites to the Flame Wind Ancient Country, Great Saint Juefeng ultimately chose to leave and become a carefree Chaos Great Saint in the Tianji Icefield.
“Haha, Jiu Jiang is always so pleasant to listen to,” Great Saint Juefeng laughed, showing his teeth. “Say, what brings you to me?”
The Marquis of Jiu Jiang put down his wine cup and then said, “Brother Juefeng, my neighbor, Marquis Liu Yin, is presently scheming against my fiefdom…”
“I’ve heard about your situation,” Great Saint Juefeng nodded. “Marquis Liu Yin is fierce and overbearing. It would be strange if he didn’t bully you.”
The Marquis of Jiu Jiang’s expression stiffened as he nodded, “Indeed, I’m not confident I can withstand him, which is why I’m here to ask for assistance! If Brother Juefeng is willing to help, just name your price.”
Great Saint Juefeng, holding a huge blue-golden wine cup, drank the wine first before saying, “Within your Yu Kingdom’s borders, there are no Primal Chaos Realm beings willing to help you, right?”
The Marquis of Jiu Jiang nodded, “That’s right. In our Yu Kingdom, there are only a few capable of contending with Marquis Liu Yin. Even our nation’s ruler finds it difficult to mobilize them. How could I possibly persuade them?”
“Of course, you can’t persuade them!”
Great Saint Juefeng put down his cup. “After enduring countless hardships to reach the Primal Chaos Realm, who would want to risk their life for you? If you brought out treasures like ‘Godly King Weapons’ as an invitation, you might be able to call for strong support. But do you have such treasures?”
“I do not,” the Marquis of Jiu Jiang admitted.
“Saying ‘just ask’ while being unable to produce any actual treasures, who would want to risk their life against Marquis Liu Yin for you?” Great Saint Juefeng shook his head. “Who is Marquis Liu Yin? He’s inherently fierce, retaliatory, and at the pinnacle of the Primal Chaos Realm; he might break through at any moment and step into the Godly King Level.”
“Contend against such an existence? With empty promises?” Great Saint Juefeng scoffed, “Jiu Jiang, you truly have mishandled this situation.”
“Brother Juefeng, I know I can’t offer many treasures,” the Marquis of Jiu Jiang said helplessly, “but this involves my fief, and I’m out of options.”
“Your fiefdom has three large cities and a hundred and eighty-nine ordinary cities,” Great Saint Juefeng said teasingly. “If I help you protect your fiefdom, from then on, the ‘Residence Fee’ of two large cities and a hundred ordinary cities will perpetually go to me. Could you accept that?”
The Marquis of Jiu Jiang looked somewhat embarrassed.
I only have Jiu Jiang City and a few ordinary cities left?
A top-tier cultivator in the Primal Chaos Realm could easily occupy a large city even without ambition.
Was it worth it to compete with Marquis Liu Yin at all costs, only to be left with so little in the end?
“You see, you’re reluctant to part with it.”
Great Saint Juefeng shook his head, “The struggle for fiefdoms isn’t a short-term conflict; it’s a prolonged battle. It’s about thoroughly offending Marquis Liu Yin to death! Without enough benefit, no one is willing to help you. Come on, let’s stop talking about this and just drink.”
Marquis of Jiu Jiang could only drink his sorrow away.
It had been one era.
He had thought, with quite a few friends, maybe he could invite a powerful helper.
But when it came to a life-and-death struggle with Marquis Liu Yin, he couldn’t invite even one!
…
Outside Huyang City.
Whoosh.
Blood-red flames coalesced, forming one of the avatars of Marquis Liu Yin.
“After the last battle in Huyang City, Marquis of Jiu Jiang must have realized that he can’t win against the army of the Eternal Level,” Marquis Liu Yin gazed at Huyang City from afar, “so he has been going everywhere inviting friends to aid him.”
Marquis Liu Yin, too, had heard that the Marquis of Jiu Jiang had been requesting help from powerful figures in some places.
“One era, and Marquis of Jiu Jiang should have come to terms with reality. My guess is that he couldn’t invite anyone,” Marquis Liu Yin said confidently, a confidence built over many long years.
He always acted in a brutal and overbearing manner; even existences of the same level would need to carefully consider the costs of getting involved.
“Even if helpers are invited, a victory must still be determined,” thought Marquis Liu Yin.
His reason for waiting patiently was that, even if an army of the Eternal Level won and temporarily occupied three large cities, once Marquis of Jiu Jiang called in strong reinforcements, he would still have to descend into battle.
It was better to wait patiently and see how the situation unfolded.
Maybe Marquis of Jiu Jiang, realizing his own lack of strength, would completely lose heart, not daring to join the fight and simply give up his fiefdom.
“Yanyan,” Marquis Liu Yin transmitted his command.
“Father,” Liu Yinyan, who was in the Heartshadow Sect’s residence within Huyang City, responded to his father’s message.
“You can contact your senior brothers and sisters now, and also have the two envoys from the Snow Realm come over,” transmitted Marquis Liu Yin, “Once your senior brothers and sisters arrive and preparations are complete, we can go to war. I guess… this time, Marquis of Jiu Jiang will probably concede voluntarily.”
“Yes, Father,” Liu Yinyan was overjoyed.
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Within Huyang City.
Cloaked in a blood robe, the young man ‘Liu Yinyan’ received orders from his father and was overjoyed. He immediately contacted his senior brothers and sisters.
“The battle between Liu Yin Primal Chaos State and Jiu Jiang Primal Chaos State has reached its final moments. My father predicts that Marquis of Jiu Jiang, knowing he’s not a match, will likely opt to concede,” Liu Yinyan transmitted, “I ask for senior brothers and sisters’ support to jointly attack Marquis of Jiu Jiang’s military formation.”
“Master has already commanded, and we certainly shall assist.”
“Junior brother, rest assured, we will come as fast as possible.”
Once the Ancestral God of the Snow Realm nodded, the other two Envoys of the Snow Realm were already prepared. As soon as Marquis Liu Yin summoned them, they naturally rushed to assist with the greatest speed.
After the communication was cut off.
Liu Yinyan was quite excited.
“Young Master Yan, since the Marquis has said that Marquis of Jiu Jiang will voluntarily step back, it seems this battle will go very smoothly,” the General Black Armor by his side also anticipated eagerly.
“What does Marquis of Jiu Jiang have to contend with my father?” Liu Yinyan smiled, “My senior brother and senior sister will soon be here, I need to prepare some food for them.”
“Prepare food?” General Black Armor’s eyes lit up.
He had followed the young master in his cultivation in the Snow Realm and was very aware of what the so-called food was.
“Don’t worry, you’ll get your share too,” Liu Yinyan glanced at his subordinate.
“Thank you, Young Master Yan.” General Black Armor was delighted.
Liu Yinyan casually traced his hand, and a model of the Huyang City appeared before him. He looked at it and pointed to a certain area: “Huyang City is teeming with cultivators, here is the Fengyi District of Huyang City, home to roughly a hundred billion cultivators. Offering them as food to my senior brother and senior sister should be presentable enough.”
“Let’s go.”
Liu Yinyan led his forces, together with the Envoys of the Snow Realm, quietly departing the Heart Realm’s residence.
A single Envoy of the Snow Realm could not defeat the army formation of Marquis of Jiu Jiang. But to merely protect itself, it was completely at ease.
Even Luo Feng, who had shown his strength on the surface, could do nothing against the ‘Envoy of the Snow Realm’.
Whoosh.
This Envoy of the Snow Realm left the Heart Realm and headed straight for the Fengyi District of Huyang City.
…
“That Young Master Yan left the residence?” On the side of the Heartshadow Sect, the Master of the Heartshadow Sect and the Eighteen Elders quickly received the news.
“We just need to watch the city owner’s mansion. The Envoy of the Snow Realm comes and goes as he pleases, no one can threaten him,” the Master of the Heartshadow Sect instructed, and the other Elders understood as well; they were not qualified to intervene with the affairs of that Envoy of the Snow Realm.
Whoosh!
The Envoy of the Snow Realm took only a few steps to traverse the void and arrived above the Fengyi District.
At this moment, nearly all the cultivators in Fengyi District were hiding in their dwellings, not daring to go out and cause trouble.
The entire Huyang City was gripped by fear and anxiety, the Formation of the city owner’s mansion enveloped the entire city, and the wave-like pulsations of the formations from the Heartshadow Sect also spread out. This terrified ordinary cultivators.
“I wonder how long this battle will last.”
“No matter who takes command of Huyang City, we have to obediently pay the residence fee, so let’s just survive through this storm.”
The entire Fengyi District, indeed housing about a hundred billion cultivators, were all enduring patiently.
At the moment, to leave the city meant potentially losing life to the colliding Formation energies of the two major forces. While the residential area was still protected by the Formation, it was at least a barrier against some of the residual energy.
“A hundred billion blood food,” the Envoy of the Snow Realm, whose body was white as snow and holy beyond compare, looked down below, stretching out his arm which rapidly grew to an immense size.
The snow-white palm, covering the entire sky above the Fengyi District, reached for it.
“Hm?”
This significant commotion naturally drew attention from all sides.
Whether it was General Yuewu, who controlled the grand formation, Emperor Chu Yu of the Flame Wind Pavilion who observed the whole city, or Luo Feng and Morosa, who were at the level of Primal Chaos Overlords, they all saw this scene.
“What is he doing?” Morosa was shocked.
“The Envoy of the Snow Realm?” Luo Feng looked at the scene.
The Ancestral God of the Snow Realm had originally achieved Godly King status through the ‘Bloodline of Blood’ within the Great Dao of Life.
Blood is indeed very mysterious.
It contains endless information, and having a powerful lineage can greatly accelerate cultivation! Morosa, by absorbing information from some powerful lineages, could promote his own evolution.
And the Ancestral God of the Snow Realm had already thoroughly mastered the path of the ‘Bloodline of Blood’, even starting to cultivate other branches of the Great Dao of Life.
To cultivate the secret techniques of the Bloodline of Blood, the cultivators of the Snow Realm were most keen on capturing ‘blood food’, an important resource for their cultivation.
“To capture all creatures in the entire Fengyi District? Again, to capture blood food?” Luo Feng, who also contemplated the Great Dao of Life, was very clear that actually, collecting some blood could equally facilitate cultivation of the ‘Bloodline of Blood’.
To capture directly and keep for long-term blood harvesting was purely for convenience.
Those blood foods, kept for long-term blood harvesting, lived in abject misery, suffering far more than simply meeting death.
“He came here to seize blood food?” Luo Feng shook his head lightly; he had already disappeared into thin air, making Morosa beside him surprised, then itching with anticipation: “Master wishes to act, so he acts. When can I indulge so freely?”
“Rumble~~~”
The Envoy of the Snow Realm, with the snow-white palm obscuring the sky of the Fengyi District, filled the hundred billion beings of the Fengyi District with terror. The residential area’s Formation was easily torn apart by the snow-white palm.
“No!”
“It’s over.”
“Why go after us?”
“We are just True Gods.”
The hundred billion creatures had no power to resist and watched the scene in despair.
Suddenly—
Plop!
A palm came from the void, piercing the snow-white chest of the ‘Envoy of the Snow Realm’.
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Thanks to the two new Alliance Hierarchs for their support: Traversing Snow-laden Winds and Eastern Slope Summit.