I Have A Cultivation World

Chapter 2079: Chapter 988: Three-Year War (Part 2)

”Retreat!”

The Green Sea Great King waved his hand and said.

The several Rank-4 Demon Kings beside it immediately commanded their tribes to withdraw from the Ten Thousand Rivers Returning to the Sea Formation.

Seeing the demonic beast army originally surging towards them retreat, the morale of the Five Elements Sect and the East Wu cultivators was greatly boosted. Ning Leshan and others, alongside the Core Formation patriarchs of the East Wu families, even chased down the mountain.

They stopped only at the edge of the Ten Thousand Rivers Returning to the Sea Formation.

Chen Mobai watched as the Green Sea Great King disappeared and landed on the summit of Jin Feng Slope alongside Mo Douguang.

This was the Jin Family’s ancestral land, possessing a Fourth Rank Spirit Vein, with beautiful scenery and picturesque views, renowned throughout East Wu.

However, after such a fierce battle, it was like a ghost specter, with trees collapsed, the ground full of potholes, and corpses of demonic beasts and cultivators piled into mountains, with rivers of blood flowing.

After the retreat of the Barren Sea Demon Race, many cultivators directly sat down on the spot, their faces pale, quickly grabbing a Spirit Stone to recover their nearly exhausted Spiritual Power.

This war lasted half a day, but for many cultivators, it felt like a fleeting moment.

Now, as they suddenly relaxed, the tension dissipated, and they finally felt their trembling bodies and fatigued heart and mind.

Before Chen Mobai could speak, Duan Shuyu had already arranged for people from the Five Elements Sect to organize and patrol the battlefield to prevent anyone from being dishonest or secretly harming their companions at this moment.

Among the ranks, a lot of rogue cultivators had infiltrated, and Song Huangdae had already discovered this, even developing many informants within the rogue cultivator groups.

Clearly, there could be no expectations for the quality of rogue cultivators. If a cultivator who was recovering their Spiritual Power after the war died at the hands of their own people, the team’s cohesiveness and centripetal force would collapse directly.

After Duan Shuyu arranged for the Five Elements Sect people to patrol and guard, sure enough, some cultivators with flashing eyes gave up their initial thoughts and instead took the heads of demonic beasts they had slain to exchange for Merit Points at a temporary tent on the mountaintop.

There were also demonic beasts jointly slain by teams, for which the Five Elements Sect also set up a collective account, mainly for the convenience of the East Wu cultivator families. After all, they wanted to use the entire family’s strength to earn Merit Points and exchange for Golden Elixir Spiritual Medicine.

However, compared to the cultivator families, there were more differences among the loose cultivator teams, so many teams divided their interests among themselves, with one person compensating the others, then going individually to the Five Elements Sect to exchange for Merit Points.

These Merit Points were also open to the Five Elements Sect members, not just outsiders.

After all, whether it was the Foundation Establishment Trithings or Golden Elixir Spiritual Medicine, not everyone could obtain them even within the Five Elements Sect.

This also allowed the East Wu cultivators to compete against the disciples of the Five Elements Sect.

Most of these disciples were cultivated in a peaceful environment in the Eastern Wilderness, lacking a certain fierceness and ambition.

This war was an excellent tempering ground.

Aside from Merit Points, the corpses of demonic beasts were also considered spoils, belonging to the cultivators who slew them.

However, loose cultivators rarely had the ability to process demonic beast corpses and convert various parts into treasure.

The responsible leaders of the Five Elements Sect departments also timely posted new announcements.

For example, the Talisman Making Department would purchase the hides of sea creatures, which, after special processing and soaking in potion, made excellent Talisman Paper.

People from the Puppet Division would also select some parts of demonic beast bodies to modify their puppets.

There was also Artifact Refining, Alchemy, and so on.

However, because low-rank demonic beasts did not have inner cores, the Alchemy Department had little to do here.

But soon, Chen Mobai discovered that the local East Wu cultivators had their special methods for using demonic beast corpses.

They would use them to make soup, adding special herbs, making it delicious and able to increase the cultivators’ physique and vital essence.

Every time a war with the Barren Sea Demon Race ended, the entire Jin Feng Slope was filled with large iron pots set up for making soup.

For Body Refining Cultivators, it was almost like the Immortal Realm. The demonic beast flesh and blood, previously invaluable to them, now came at almost a cabbage price, enough to eat until they could eat no more.

Chen Mobai, with Mo Douguang, also tasted the banquets carefully prepared by various East Wu families. After eating, he removed the Rank-5 Water Spirit Talisman and found that his Water Spirit Root had increased by five points.

This discovery increased his interest in tasting delicacies.

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After several direct confrontations, the Green Sea Great King began commanding part of its Barren Sea demon army to bypass the coverage of the Ten Thousand Rivers Returning to the Sea Formation, heading toward East Wu, and even the Eastern Wilderness.

But it discovered that aside from this Ten Thousand Rivers Returning to the Sea Formation, there was another equally powerful formation. The two large formations combined covered a vast range, almost blocking the entire area where East Wu and Yun Meng Ze border.

In this case, if the Barren Sea Demon Race wanted to advance to the Eastern Wilderness, they must break through these two large formations.

Alternatively, they could take the long way around through the Ruins.

But this way, they would have to bypass the entire East Wu, which was a very long journey, and the inland beasts in the Ruins were not the same type as these sea territory beasts; if encountered, they would almost certainly end up fighting.

Although the Green Sea Great King was confident in its strength, it had no intention of losing its demonic beasts in this manner.