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Cultivation: Mastery Through Extremes (Web Novel) - Chapter 461: Countermeasure
Chapter 461: Countermeasure
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Although sacrifice is inevitable, as a leader, Xu Yang still has the responsibility to minimize it as much as possible.
This was also the reason why Chen Tianjie was not stopped when he fled during the previous major battle.
It’s because they did not want the Iron Heart Fortress Master at the ultimate peak of Divine Intent to become desperate and destroy both friend and foe with the Heavenly Tribulation Great Array, increasing the casualties among the students of the Scholar’s Palace and the people of the Heavenly Domain. After all, this would eventually become the territory overseen by the Scholar’s Palace, and all losses would be their own.
Therefore, everyone allowed Chen Tianjie to escape to the outskirts of the city, where Xu Yang, the Taoist Master, personally dealt with him.
The same goes for the Demon Sect.
With Xu Yang’s current strength and the current capital of the Wandao School, even if they launched an immediate attack on the Demon Realm, they could take down the Demon Clan Main Altar, but it would result in massive casualties and losses.
This was truly unnecessary. Now, with a hundred years left until the reopening of the Temple of War God, there was ample time, though not plentiful, for Xu Yang to take ten years to assimilate the gains from the Heavenly Domain.
The capture of the Heavenly Domain brought considerable loot, not only capturing numerous Divine Intent Venerables but also seizing seven sets of the War God’s Atlas, as well as the stockpiles of the seven factions of the Demon Sect led by Iron Heart Fortress, which included many rare treasures and spirit materials.
The stockpile potential of these seven factions not only had their own produced items but also treasured spirit materials traded and purchased from other Divine Martial heritages, offering an abundance of types and staggering quantities.
Using these resources, along with those accumulated previously, ten years was more than enough for Xu Yang to refine Lower-grade Immortal Artifacts like the Five Elements Orbs, to serve as the central core, and embed them into a Myriad Device Level Five Elements Mecha, truly making it an Immortal Spirit Mech Armor.
With an Immortal Spirit Mech Armor, reconquering the Demon Realm would undoubtedly be much easier.
Of course, every advantage comes with a disadvantage. The Demon Sect would surely use this time to strengthen their defenses at any cost and might even put aside prejudices and ask the Righteous Path for support.
But Xu Yang wasn’t concerned, for the current momentum was with him. Out of the Forty-eight Domains, he already controlled Forty-five. Given the pace of development, how could the two struggling forces in the remaining few domains possibly compete with him?
Not to mention advantages like the external cheats such as the Farming Great Law, just the support from the regional resources was enough to crush the opposition.
The ones who needed to worry were not him, but…
The Domination Domain, Horizontal River Island, the council hall.
All six main seats were filled, occupied by the prominent figures of the Six Great Holy Lands, including a pale-faced Li Hengjiang. Besides him were the Ocean-listening Scholar Zhang Longyuan, a nun with hairpins, and an old monk with white eyebrows.
These were the leaders of the Six Saints, the four ultimate peaks!
Now, only four Divine Intent ultimate peaks were among the leaders of the Six Great Holy Lands. Even these four ultimate peaks were not truly deserving of their reputation, after all…
“Cough cough!”
Li Hengjiang lightly coughed, his face pallid, his expression grim. Gone was his former domineering presence, now he seemed more like a consumptive ghost riddled with disease.
A century ago, a battle outside the Green Emperor City had nearly killed him, inflicting severe injuries. Although the Eternal Evergreen Pill barely saved his life, his body and spirit were damaged and he could no longer assume his former posture, making the final four ultimate peaks of the Righteous Path seem less than their titles suggested.
Nonetheless, he remained the leader of Overlord Gate, a weighty presence at the Righteous Council.
Thus, his light cough broke the silence.
Zhang Longyuan glanced around, then, with his gaze sweeping over the seated crowd, spoke in a heavy tone, “Heavenly Domain City has been breached by the Wandao School. Including Chen Tianjie, seventeen Divine Intent Venerables of the seven sects of the Demon Sect, only one severely injured person escaped. Now with weapons pointed directly at the Demon Realm, it is in grave danger!”
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Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent, and the atmosphere grew somber.
Although they knew of this before arriving here, it didn’t make it any easier for them to accept the news calmly.
The fall of Heavenly Domain City was a blow to the Evil Path as well as to them.
After all…
“With Chen Tianjie in charge of Heavenly Domain City, and under him, seventeen Divine Intent Venerables, having exhausted vast amounts of spirit crystals and treasures to harness the power of the SLP malevolent star, and laid out the Heavenly Tribulation Six Directions Array, along with numerous Mysterious Iron Divine Weapons, Demon Corpses, and loyal secret guards at his command… how could the Wandao School smooth it over in one battle?”
“In just a century, has that man’s strength progressed so much?”
“Raising a tiger leads to trouble, raising a tiger leads to trouble. The Wandao School has occupied ninety percent of the world’s territory, and with the Wandao Competition attracting talents from all directions, it has become a gigantic entity in a hundred years. If we let him continue to develop…”
“Considering the defenses of Heavenly Domain City, even if Tribulation Realm experts took action and our allied forces attacked, we would likely have to engage in a prolonged battle for days and pay a painful price to possibly conquer it. Yet now, it has been swept away overnight by the Wandao School. This…”
The words of the crowd were heavy and their expressions even more solemn.
The mood visibly deteriorated, even plummeting to a low point.
There was no helping it; the defense of Heavenly Domain City was not weaker than that of any among their three great Holy Lands.
If the Wandao School could overpower the Evil Path’s Heavenly Domain City, they could just as well topple the three great Holy Lands of their Righteous Path camp.
Under such a threat, one can imagine the state of morale.
Zhang Longyuan remained indifferent, his cold eyes emotionless as he said, “The fall of Heavenly Domain City this time is not only due to the overwhelming force of the Wandao School and that man, but also because of a hidden cause. The Mispirit Sect and the Heavenly Star Sect jointly rebelled, preventing the Heavenly Tribulation Array from being fully operational with their defenses in disarray, which led to its easy breach.”
As he spoke, his icy gaze was like a sword sweeping over those present, visibly unsettling several attendees.
