Chapter 144: Chapter 143: Our Immortal Sword May Not Be Ineffective

[Year 8203 of the Nine Rivers Calendar, the Nine Rivers Alliance was established, and due to your special status, you became the Alliance Grand Elder of the Nine Rivers Conference.]

Kunmi Mountain.

The mountains rise into the clouds, the gentle breeze sweeps through.

Nine great rivers take the terrain of Kunmi Mountain naturally, slowly growing until they eventually transform into roaring rivers rushing in nine directions.

Fifty years ago, after the Flowing Light incident, Kunmi Mountain was opened.

Kunmi Mountain was no longer as mysterious as before.

The Cultivators of the Nine Rivers are aware that there is only a decaying sect ruin within Kunmi Mountain.

And the Kunmi Mountain Secret Realm also became accessible to the outside world.

Cultivators can enter and exit freely.

Many cultivators began to explore this ruin, but unfortunately, there was nothing inside. Many cultivators suspected that the high-levels of the Nine Rivers Golden Core have privatized the contents of the ruins.

However, their voices are not important.

Over time, people’s attention to Kunmi Mountain gradually diminished.

The special status of Kunmi Mountain in everyone’s heart was mainly because the Nine Rivers originated from Kunmi Mountain, and there were various legends about Kunmi Mountain circulating in the Nine River Basin.

Such as there being an ancient Nascent Soul Sect in Kunmi Mountain.

Or that there is Immortal Fate at the top of Kunmi Mountain.

Or that the cultivation civilization of the Nine Rivers originated from Kunmi Mountain.

Now that Kunmi Mountain Secret Realm is open to everyone, completely transparent, the mysterious veil is lifted, and people no longer pay as much attention to Kunmi Mountain.

Some even said that the group of prodigies who collectively broke through to the Golden Core in Kunmi Mountain have monopolized all the treasures within the Kunmi Mountain Secret Realm.

Of course, those with ulterior motives were captured and flayed by various Golden Core Sects within a month.

Until now.

The Nine Rivers actually established an alliance!

The Nine River Basin is vast, very vast.

The Ouyang Family is just a small clan with only two Foundation Establishment cultivators, yet they control a huge mortal empire.

And families like the Ouyang Family in the lower reaches of the Qingqiu River number more than a thousand.

The territory controlled by the Nine Sects is even broader.

And this is just the lower reaches of the Qingqiu River, not even one twenty-seventh of the Nine Rivers.

The vast land determined that the various sects in the Nine River Basin operate independently.

But now, over two hundred Golden Core Sects in the Nine River Basin are uniting to establish the Nine Rivers Alliance, which is truly surprising.

The news quickly spread throughout the Nine River Basin.

From major sect heirs to nameless loose cultivators, all were skeptical and anxious about this matter.

“Great Qian Dynasty?”

Ouyang Yun frowned.

Empires all have the Imperial Extreme Wall, and if extraordinary power is involved, then the Imperial Extreme Wall can almost expand limitlessly, the extent of expansion depending on the strength of the extraordinary power.

A cultivation dynasty led by cultivators is naturally immensely large as well.

“Yes, the Great Qian Dynasty to the east, far from us, separated by two cultivation realms, and yet they’re targeting us.”

The young man in white, whose eyes faintly contained a Yin Yang fish, said slowly.

In his previous life, he was one of the leaders of the preaching envoys, the elder adorned with a virtual image of Tai Chi Bagua.

Ouyang Yun stood at the top of Kunmi Mountain, surrounded by a sea of clouds.

And around Ouyang Yun were many Golden Core Masters, mostly Golden Core Ancestors from various Golden Core Sects within the Nine River Basin.

Upon hearing such news, these Golden Core Masters did not show any panic.

“Great Qian Dynasty…” Ouyang Yun’s tightly furrowed brow relaxed.

He had heard about the surrounding cultivation influences.

To put it simply, none of them are formidable opponents.

Most are small cultivation realms led by a few Foundation Establishment Sects.

Producing a Fake Core could allow them to dominate a region.

On this land, a Golden Core Sect is already a hegemon, ruling over regions where no being can defy the will of a Golden Core Sect.

The Nine River Basin is an entity comprising over two hundred Golden Core Sects, with more than five hundred Golden Core Ancestors, even some bloated behemoths.

Moreover, the Golden Core Sects in the Nine River Basin have extremely deep roots, with inheritances from Nascent Soul Transmission Envoys, any one of which can suppress a Golden Core Sect that is renowned outside.

The only downside is that among this generation of cultivators, there is no Nascent Soul Venerable, creating a gap.

“If not for the special earth veins of the Nine Rivers, the scarcity of Nascent Soul Spiritual Objects, and the absence of Nascent Soul Venerables in this generation…”

“Otherwise, how dare this mere Great Qian Dynasty provoke the Nine Rivers?”

An elder with a deep and powerful aura, whose cultivation had reached the late-stage Golden Core, muttered with a hint of evil Qi flashing in his eyes.

The Great Qian Dynasty.

A powerful cultivation dynasty with many Golden Core Sects within.

And the royal Li Family controls the dynasty’s main power, with no shortage of Golden Core experts in the Imperial Court.

Even within the royal family, there is a Nascent Soul Cultivator suppressing the dynasty’s Qi fortune.

But without the Nascent Soul Cultivator, the Great Qian could only compare with one or two of the Nine Rivers.

“It seems there’s a problem within the Great Qian.”

“They urgently need a war to divert internal conflicts.”

“The Nine Rivers is the largest giant near the Great Qian, so they can only set their sights on us.”

“Even if a Nascent Soul appears, with our combined secret techniques, we have no fear.”

“They cannot swallow the Nine Rivers.”

“What the Great Qian wants… is just a war.”

“If they want to fight, then let them fight!”

The Golden Core Masters spoke one after another, their Divine Senses and words intertwining, making the overlapping conversations somewhat chaotic, but the Divine Sense of a Golden Core Master could clearly gather all the information.

Ouyang Yun touched his chin.

He was not the protagonist of this meeting.

It’s just that his identity was special. As a Golden Core Master, he was already a high-ranking member of the Nine Rivers, and the majority of the Golden Core Masters all knew about the unique Fake Core contained within Ouyang Yun’s Dantian.

Officially, Ouyang Yun was still the Fake Core Elder of the Longevity Pavilion, but now none of the sects in the Nine Rivers would let him belong solely to one sect.

This was also the case for the Nine Rivers Alliance.

Although the Nine Rivers Golden Core Sects had united due to external pressure,

they were not a monolithic block internally, having their own conflicts among themselves.

Nor would they let the unique political entity of the Nine Rivers Alliance belong to a single sect.

Even the rare Golden Core Independent Cultivators were intricately connected to a few Golden Core Sects.

This made Ouyang Yun the best candidate.

“What? You want me to be the Alliance Grand Elder?” Ouyang Yun said, pointing to his nose.

The other Golden Core Masters nodded as if it was natural.

Through their highly efficient communication, a comprehensive set of regulations was quickly drawn up.

Ouyang Yun became a mascot.

At the same time, a Nine Rivers Council was established, with each Golden Core sect sending a representative, and the Nine Rivers sending twenty-seven total representatives to deliberate together.

“Forget it, so be it.”

Ouyang Yun had given up resisting.

Ouyang Yun felt the faint glow in his Dantian, a hint of shadow passing in the depths of his eyes.

With this Fake Core, it was impossible for him to break through the Golden Core stage in his lifetime.

Ouyang Yun felt his hand gently held by a familiar soft touch—it was Sha Miaomiao.

Ouyang Yun sighed and patted his Dao Companion’s small hand to indicate he was fine.

By a stroke of luck, the Fake Core formed by the Demon Venerable’s Remains blocked his Immortal Path, but it also brought considerable benefits.

For example, although his level was still at the Fake Core stage, his Life Force and Essence, Qi, and Spirit started approaching Mid-Stage Golden Core.

The best demonstration was that Ouyang Yun could now easily refine Seventh-grade Pills.

Moreover, not just Life Force and Essence, Qi, and Spirit, Ouyang Yun’s Three Pure Yang Qi was also slowly increasing.

The Three Pure Yang Qi was bound to Ouyang Yun’s origin, originally only slightly increasing upon breakthrough in cultivation, but now it was gradually growing with the feedback from the Fake Core.

The most direct effect was Ouyang Yun’s greatly enhanced control ability, significantly improving his innate talent in the Alchemy Dao.

“Let the cultivators of the Great Qian know that our Immortal Swords might not be ineffective either!”

One Golden Core Cultivator exhaled flames and resolutely said.

“Moreover… we may lack Nascent Soul Spiritual Objects in the Nine Rivers, but the Great Qian has a certain output…”

These words attracted the attention of countless Golden Core Masters.

Even those Golden Core Masters who weren’t very concerned about this matter started to look increasingly excited.

Nascent Soul Formation, Nascent Soul Formation!

Two thousand years of life, Land Immortals, the allure was too great.

A faintly excited and heated atmosphere began to fill the area around the many Golden Cores.

Ouyang Yun could even feel his Dao Companion’s breathing slowly becoming heavier.

In the past, the Nine Rivers was like loose sand, making it impossible to collectively act and seize resources from other Nascent Soul Level Cultivation Realms.

Now was different.

This was an extremely precious opportunity.

Achieving Nascent Soul Formation on one’s own was too difficult, several times harder than breaking through to the Golden Core from Foundation Establishment without any resource assistance.

The eyes of one Golden Core Master after another gradually burned with intensity.

“Then how do we divide…” One impatient Golden Core Master said directly.

“Hold on, it’s too early to discuss this right now.”

“Not to mention whether we can obtain resources for Nascent Soul Formation, we don’t even have an alchemist capable of refining Nascent Soul Pills in the Nine Rivers Basin…”

As soon as these words were spoken, many eyes subtly turned towards Ouyang Yun.

In the Nine Rivers, not only were there very few alchemists capable of refining Spirit Pills, but even third-grade alchemists were scarce.

There were only three Ninth-Grade Alchemists, the Elder Ancestors of the Alchemist Sects.

As for Nascent Soul Pills… Top-Grade Nascent Soul Pills are First-Grade Spirit Pills, even Low-Grade Nascent Soul Pills are among the hardest Ninth-grade Pills to refine.

“Where there is a will, there is a way.”

The many Golden Core Masters said no more on the subject, only their gazes being different than before.

Passionate, even with a hint of madness.

Ouyang Yun felt that the Great Qian Dynasty might have released a pack of mad dogs.

“To promote the progress of our Nine Rivers’ Alchemy Skill, why not set up a Pill Hall branch within the Nine Rivers Alliance, allowing the masters to exchange experiences with each other.”

Ouyang Yun was also intrigued by these words.

“Exchange experiences…”

Ouyang Yun’s Immortal Path had ended; all his hopes were now in the Alchemy Dao, practically an alchemy fanatic.

Ouyang Yun naturally supported this kind of proposal with both hands.

Moreover, with the onset of war, Ouyang Yun would surely be able to observe the alchemical heritage of the outside world…

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