Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 342: Chapter 217: Jieshan_2

There was actually no need for much explanation; it seems Li Yuan Ba lacked experience in this area. Other cultivators began dispersing throughout the pass as soon as Elder Lv finished speaking.

Li Yuan Ba took out his Identity Jade Disc and called up the map of the area. The pass was equipped with a Task Pavilion, an Exchange Pavilion, and a Healing Pavilion.

The Task Pavilion’s purpose was to assign specific missions, such as killing a designated True Disciple of Qianye Temple. These mission rewards would be calculated separately and would also provide the possible location of the target.

The reason it was a possible location was that during such large-scale battles, cultivators from both sides were moving quickly, making it impossible to determine exact positions.

Moreover, one had to bring the actual corpses of slain enemies back here to settle contribution points.

The Exchange Pavilion handled the recycling of spoils of war and allowed the exchange of contribution points for Spirit Pills, Spiritual Artifacts, and Cultivation Techniques, enabling one to quickly convert battle gains into personal strength.

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As for the Healing Pavilion, needless to say, it was set up specifically for treating injured cultivators.

Conflicts between large sects, unless reaching the level of total war, would follow the ancient customs.

Wars would start with the Qi Refining Cultivators and Foundation Establishment Cultivators, escalating step by step. However, it would only go as high as the Golden Core stage. If it went one step further, such a battle simply could not take place in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.

The might of a Golden Core’s battle greatly damages the environment, but compared to a Nascent Soul, it seems quite small.

Therefore, battles between Nascent Souls typically take place in the high sky, in the Thirty-Three Heavens, where the environment can withstand the impact of Nascent Soul Level confrontations.

Due to the higher standards of cultivation in the Beishu Continent, conflicts between the two great sects would start with battles between Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

Both sects were very angry but relatively restrained. Neither wanted to fight to the death, so they used this traditional method to vent the intense battle spirit within their ranks.

Li Yuan Ba first visited the Task Pavilion and found that no missions had been posted yet. It seemed that information from Qianye Temple had not yet been gathered.

Outside Jieshan Mountain Pass, there were two hundred miles of mountains and another two hundred miles of hills, making up the border area between Senluo Sect and the Righteous Path. Each side had demarcated two hundred miles to prevent direct friction.

This four hundred-mile zone had become the battleground where both sides deployed numerous Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

The two hundred plus Foundation Establishment Cultivators who came with Li Yuan Ba were just one group that Senluo Sect had sent. There were already Foundation Establishment Cultivators at the pass with some arriving ahead of time and others yet to arrive.

At this point, some eager Devil Cultivators had already summoned ghosts, Iron Corpses, spiritual insects, and spirit beasts, headed to the battlefield, ready to claim a favorable position and set up their forces.

Li Yuan Ba was not in a rush. Besides participating in the battle, he had another matter—to meet his true self, Li Shiming.

This was an excellent chance. Once he advanced into the battlefield, he was effectively beyond the sect’s surveillance.

On the other side, Li Shiming was on his way. With his identity as an alchemist, he had become a True Disciple of Shushan Sect, and his actions were even more unrestricted than Li Yuan Ba’s.

Li Yuan Ba waited until it was slightly dark before he finally soared into the sky. Not using the Sword Cultivators’ Sword Intent to enhance his sword light, his speed was not fast.

Contrary to expectations, he had not encountered a single battle even after departing fifty miles from the pass; the surroundings were extremely quiet.

Even so, he could sense spiritual energy that was overly active in the void, indicating cultivators had wielded vast Spiritual Power nearby, causing a reaction with the spiritual energy. This suggested that a battle had recently taken place in the vicinity.

He didn’t quite understand why great sects would choose such a method of warfare. Was it to temper their disciples or maybe to buy time for mutual delay, allowing the elders from both sides to calm down and reduce the war to a controllable range?

If Senluo Sect and Qianye Temple erupted into Golden Core Level warfare right from the start, a battle involving dozens of Golden Cores, no matter who won, would result in heavy losses for both sides, ultimately benefitting other sects.

As just a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, Li Yuan Ba didn’t have the opportunity to understand the thoughts of the higher-ups. What he could do was fight, accumulate battle experience, and enhance his own strength.

When he reached eighty miles in, he stopped, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

Ghosts loomed all around him, enshrouded in black mist, surrounding him.

The air contained bewitching and extremely poisonous components; even a moment’s carelessness could affect a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, greatly reducing their strength.

Li Yuanba had not expected that his first battle on the battlefield would not be with a Buddha from Qianye Temple, but rather with fellow sect cultivators.

Devil Cultivators really lived up to their name, with self-interest always coming first.

Although the cultivator who set up this formation was nowhere to be seen, such a ghostly and chilling formation could never have originated from Qianye Temple.

“Come out, Wang Chengjun!” Li Yuanba said in a deep voice.

With Sword Intent inside him, the powder made up of bewitching and extremely poisonous components couldn’t even get close to him. As for the formation, to him, formations set up by Array Plates were all rubbish.

He even carried Array Flags on his person, choosing not to use the more convenient and quick Array Plates, because to a High-level Array Master, Array Plates were simply too rudimentary.

“To think that a True Disciple would trigger the trap we set!” Wang Chengjun’s voice carried laughter as it flitted uncertainly all around.

Clearly, even though Li Yuanba, as a newly promoted True Disciple at the early-stage Foundation Establishment, elicited caution in Wang Chengjun, who intended to use the formation to influence Li Yuanba, aiming for a resolution to the battle without injury.

Most crucially, he could not let Li Yuanba leave alive, as attacking a True Inheritor was no minor crime.

The aura on Li Yuanba’s body suddenly changed, terrifying Sword Intent surging around him, as a beam of sword light shot out.

Along with that was a scream, emitted by Wang Chengjun, filled with fright and shock.

As the sword light returned, it swept through the formation, erasing all ghostly apparitions and black fog.

An Array Plate flashing with spiritual light was slowly dimming, due to the Sword Intent within the sword light that had broken the formation, causing damage to the Array Plate.

Four figures, now unhindered, appeared in Li Yuanba’s line of sight, among them Wang Chengjun was deathly pale with one arm missing.

At the critical moment, Wang Chengjun used a Secret Technique to sacrifice an arm for survival, using the severed limb to take the place of his body to block Li Yuanba’s sword strike. The cost was an arm.

Once at the Foundation Establishment Stage, although an arm could be regrown using Spiritual Medicine, the resources and time required to fully recover would significantly impact a cultivator’s extensive training time.

Moreover, the Elixir Pills needed for the regeneration of an arm would take years for a Foundation Establishment Cultivator to accumulate enough contribution points.

What truly terrified Wang Chengjun was Li Yuanba’s ease in breaking the formation.

If Li Yuanba were to leave now, he and the other three Mid-stage Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivators would all face serious trouble.

“Gentlemen, we have no way out. Letting him leave is a death sentence. Only by killing him do we have a chance to survive!” Wang Chengjun loudly encouraged his three companions.

The three companions he chose were all at the Mid-stage Foundation Establishment, similar in strength to him.

He also didn’t dare recruit Devil Cultivators who were too powerful to participate in the plan, as those with significant strength might silence them once the deed was done, potentially making all their efforts benefit someone else.

But those too weak wouldn’t suffice either, after all they were up against a True Disciple. Only with four Devil Cultivators who all had reservations about each other could true cooperation take place.

“Then what’s there to say, don’t hold back any longer. This is a True Disciple we’re talking about, without going all out we stand no chance!” another Mid-stage Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivator voiced his support.

As he spoke, he summoned an Iron Corpse and held a black banner in his hand. With a gentle shake, a ghost with the strength of the early-stage Foundation Establishment appeared by his side.

Wang Chengjun waved his hand, and a swarm of spiritual insects flew out, turning into a black fog that swooped towards Li Yuanba.

The other two Mid-stage Foundation Establishment Devil Cultivators took action; one let out a howl and his body swelled into a three-meter-tall beast, wielding a massive axe as he stepped forward and chopped down towards Li Yuanba, while the other’s figure became illusory, nearly imperceptible in the darkness.

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