In Yuqing Sect of Xiyan Continent, more than ten thousand monks of various levels of cultivation are busy.
Among these cultivators, the ones with the highest cultivation levels are the eight cultivators in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage. They are also the most powerful thunder cultivators in Yuqing Sect besides the great Luo Yuan.
Before the mountain gate was attacked, since Yuqing Sect lacked great monks, all the great monks had been recalled in order to take charge of the overall situation.
Normal great monks all live in caves and enjoy the best treatment.
But the Yuqing Sect had a lot of things going on during that period, and needed great monks to preside over them, so the recalled great monks were all outside the cave.
When the 'Dragon's Fury' exploded, all the great monks were present and very close to the explosion point.
Therefore, at this time, the Yuqing Sect could no longer find a great cultivator. Even the middle-stage Nascent Soul cultivators were only left with these eight, and these were the ones who were recently transferred back from outside.
This is a super force, with the strength of eight mid-Nascent Soul cultivators. It can be said that Yuqing Sect is really left with no one.
It only makes sense that the great Luo Yuan is still alive, otherwise the Yuqing Sect would have fallen apart and ceased to exist long ago.
In recent months, the monks of Yuqing Sect have been busy clearing the soil. Their task is heavy, as they need to remove the surface of the ground that is more than three feet thick. This work is not an easy task even for monks.
In particular, many monks present felt that there was something wrong with their bodies.
After being exposed to radiation for several months, if the monk had not had a strong body, he might have collapsed long ago.
But even the monks' bodies showed abnormalities due to the continuous radiation pollution.
The most terrifying thing is that the abnormalities on the cultivator's body are of no use no matter whether he takes elixirs or uses spiritual power to exorcise them.
Panic broke out among the cultivators. If it weren't for the fact that Master Luo Yuan sent out an avatar to watch over them, many of them would have left.
The clone of the powerful Luo Yuan stood in the air, looking at the ruins of the mountain gate.
He didn't want to do this either. He could feel that the bodies of these monks were exposed to so much radiation that there would be little hope for their improvement in the future.
But for the continuation of Yuqing Sect, he had to rebuild the mountain gate. Since the mountain gate could not be moved, he had no choice but to sacrifice these monks.
After the mountain gate is cleared, a new group of disciples with thunder-type talents can be recruited.
Although this method would take a long time to rebuild the Yuqing Sect, as a powerful person he had plenty of time and could cultivate it slowly.
He believed that within five hundred years at most, he could restore the prosperity of Yuqing Sect, and within a thousand years, he could restore its heyday.
The main reason for having such confidence is that although the mountain gate of Yuqing Sect was destroyed, the foundation is still there. The library and treasure pavilion in the cave, as well as the warehouses, are enough to train a large number of new cultivators.
"What's going on? Didn't they say that another group of disciples would return? Why haven't they arrived yet?" Luo Yuan looked at the time, frowned slightly and asked Gu Ran, who was in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.
Gu Ran was the sect leader designated by him. There was no other way but to let Gu Ran, who was in the middle stage of Nascent Soul, become the sect leader. It was like choosing a general from among the dwarfs.
"Ancestor, they should be here soon. Let me check!" Gu Ran bowed and replied.
He took out his master's jade disc, and soon he was sweating profusely.
"Ancestor, we can't contact them!" he reported with some stammering.
Luo Yuan looked at Gu Ran with some disgust. Such a person could be the leader of Yuqing Sect, but who could blame him for not having anyone there now?
"Let the Intelligence Department investigate!" he ordered in a deep voice.
Although the mountain gate of Yuqing Sect was destroyed, its intelligence network still existed and was not greatly affected.
Gu Ran took out the sect master's jade disc again. At this time, he already felt how heavy the sect master's jade disc was. He had no ability in the first place, and was forced into this position. Not only did he have no power, but he was also being watched by the powerful Luo Yuan.
Through the sect leader's jade disc, he contacted the former intelligence personnel of the Intelligence Department, and the intelligence network began to operate.
"Ancestor, the recalled cultivators disappeared after returning to Xiyan Continent. The Baidi Sect has recently dispatched a large number of cultivators. I suspect it might be the Baidi Sect's doing!" After a while, Gu Ran read the intelligence in disbelief.
The Yuqing Sect's intelligence network is still very powerful. After having a clear mission, they organized and analyzed some of the collected intelligence and quickly handed over a piece of relevant intelligence.
Unfortunately, this intelligence network may not be able to be maintained for long if Yuqing Sect is unable to maintain its expenses in the future.
The reason why only superpowers can afford such an intelligence network is not only because of the power they possess, but also because they can control a large amount of resources. The intelligence network is built with a large amount of resources, and maintaining its operation also requires a lot of investment.
"Xuan Yi, how dare you!" Luo Yuan's eyes suddenly widened and he shouted angrily.
The name he called out was the great Xuan Yi of the Baidi Sect.
The Yuqing Sect and the Baidi Sect are both super powers in the Western Yan Continent. During their long-term coexistence, the two sides have both competition and cooperation.
When Yuqing Sect was weakened before, Baidi Sect took the opportunity to occupy many resource points of Yuqing Sect. Unexpectedly, Baidi Sect now intends to kill all of them.
Indeed, with the great power of Luo Yuan around, it is impossible for the Yuqing Sect to be completely exterminated.
It is impossible for the great Xuan Yi to rush to the gate of Yuqing Sect and have a one-on-one battle with the great Luo Yuan.
But as long as the Baidi Sect blocks the passage outside the Yuqing Sect's mountain gate, it can really block all external connections of the Yuqing Sect.
Given the current situation of Yuqing Sect, although there are still more than 10,000 cultivators, these cultivators who have been affected by the radiation no longer have any future.
As long as Yuqing Sect has no support and no new disciples, Yuqing Sect does not need to be attacked, and the number of cultivators in Yuqing Sect will gradually decrease until only an empty mountain gate is left in Yuqing Sect.
Even if the great Luo Yuan was still here, he could only watch.
Only the powerful can understand the powerful. The powerful Xuan Yi naturally knew how much the combat power erupted during the explosion of the powerful Luo Yuan was consumed by.
The great master Luo Yuan is simply unable to compete with the great master Xuan Yi in terms of energy consumption. The great master Xuan Yi is at his peak, while the great master Luo Yuan is consuming a huge amount of energy.
At this time, the clone of the great Luo Yuan seemed to sense something. He looked into the distance. In the void tens of thousands of miles away, the clone of the great Xuan Yi was also looking over here. Even though they were tens of thousands of miles apart, they could sense each other's presence.
The great master Xuan Yi did not care about the great master Luo Yuan, and he didn't even plan to take action.
Among the cultivators sent out to seal off the Yuqing Sect's mountain gate this time, only a small number of middle-Nascent Soul cultivators were from the Baidi Sect, and the rest were summoned by the Baidi Sect.
The cultivators of Baidi Sect were not stationed near the mountain gate of Yuqing Sect, but were dispersed to various places in Xiyan Continent to take over all the resource points and cultivator gathering areas of Yuqing Sect.
He also began a large-scale purge of Yuqing Sect monks. His demand was that there should not be a single Yuqing Sect monk in the entire Xiyan Continent except for the Yuqing Sect's mountain gate.
What a rare opportunity this is. The Baidi Sect can use its geographical advantage to devour the resources of the Yuqing Sect. This will be a chance for the Baidi Sect to expand its influence and enhance its own strength.
This is an opportunity related to super power, and you cannot let it go if you come across it.
Master Xuan Yi did not care that Master Luo Yuan attacked the cultivators lingering around the gate of Yuqing Sect. Every attack would consume Master Luo Yuan and would only exacerbate the decline of Master Luo Yuan's strength.
After obtaining the actual situation of Yuqing Sect from within the Yuqing Sect, Baidi Sect began the action against Yuqing Sect.
A super power without great cultivators, where even the number of cultivators in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul is only in the single digits. Apart from the great Luo Yuan, there is no one else who can maintain the combat power of the super power.
This made Yuqing Sect a piece of fat meat. Perhaps other forces in Xiyan Continent would still hesitate, but Baidi Sect, which also had powerful people, was very clear about the situation of Yuqing Sect and Luo Yuan, so Baidi Sect attacked Yuqing Sect without any hesitation.
"Xuan Yi, fight with me!" The clone of the great Luo Yuan flashed and disappeared on the spot. He flew towards the clone of the great Xuan Yi and issued a battle declaration.
"Luo Yuan, take your time to play. I will fight with you later!" The clone of the great Xuan Yi laughed and retreated. He had no intention of fighting with the great Luo Yuan.
The clone of the great master Luo Yuan did not catch up with the clone of the great master Xuan Yi. He checked the surroundings of the mountain gate of Yuqing Sect and found that a large number of cultivators were surrounding the mountain gate of Yuqing Sect.
These cultivators are quite far away from the mountain gate of Yuqing Sect, which is normal. The mountain gate of Yuqing Sect and a large area nearby are contaminated by radiation, so normal cultivators will not get too close.
He wanted to vent his anger on the monks who surrounded the Yuqing Sect's mountain gate, but after discovering the identities and cultivation levels of these monks, he gave up this idea.
Because among these cultivators, the strongest is only in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, and is not a cultivator from the Baidi Sect.
He even discovered cultivators who originally belonged to the Yuqing Sect's affiliated forces among them. Needless to say, they had defected to the Baidi Sect, but he didn't know whether it was active or passive.
To be honest, with the strength of Luo Yuan's clone, it doesn't take much time to kill these monks.
But even if he killed these monks, it would have no effect on the Baidi Sect, but he would need to consume precious energy.
Every time he made a move, he had to consume the energy in the cave. The energy accumulated in the cave had been consumed a lot after many previous attacks.
Given the current situation in Yuqing Sect, the daily expenses of more than 10,000 cultivators have to be obtained from his cave, and he really can't afford the waste.
The clone of the mighty Luo Yuan returned to the mountain gate of Yuqing Sect in disappointment. The only way now was to rebuild the mountain gate. Without the mountain gate, there would be no practical significance even if they wanted to deal with the blockade of Baidi Sect.
In addition, the Yuqing Sect does not have the strength to confront the Baidi Sect. Not to mention the Baidi Sect, even the Baidi Sect's vassal forces can now block the Yuqing Sect's mountain gate.
In Dongqi Continent, Li Shiming looked at the intelligence and couldn't help but shake his head secretly.
He didn't expect that after all his hard work and spending an item called 'Dragon's Fury' that took a hundred years to make, he got nothing in return.
Instead, it benefited the Baidi Sect, allowing it to occupy most of the resources of the Western Yan Continent in one fell swoop.
Of course, the Baidi Sect was not able to swallow up all the benefits vacated by the Yuqing Sect. Other super powers had already set their sights on the Yuqing Sect. The Baidi Sect only had the advantage of being the closest and thus gained the most benefits.
The rest of the superpowers also grabbed a portion of the profits, especially some of the Yuqing Sect's cross-continental business channels, which were divided up by the superpowers of the Zhongzhou continent.
Although he did not gain any benefits, Li Shiming was still very satisfied.
Because he knew from intelligence that the great Luo Yuan of Yuqing Sect would not be able to cause him any trouble for at least the next few hundred years.
The mountain gate of Yuqing Sect was blocked by Baidi Sect. Although such a blockade could not prevent the clone of Luo Yuan from leaving, under such circumstances, Luo Yuan did not dare to consume too much energy to cross the continent to attack Li Shiming.
Unless it can be confirmed that Li Shiming is the murderer who attacked the Yuqing Sect's mountain gate, perhaps Luo Yuan would attack Li Shiming regardless of the consequences.
After confirming this, Li Shiming finally felt relieved.
Although he had a teleportation ring and had already prepared a retreat for Yin Shilan, and had deployed a drone satellite system to monitor the powerful over the Dongqi Continent, the relaxed feeling of being free of threats was much better than being watched by the powerful all day long.
Of course, he did not completely relax his vigilance against the Yuqing Sect. He even asked the Wanshou Sect to build an intelligence network on the Xiyan Continent.
At least we must be able to know some of the developments in the Western Yan Continent. We cannot rely entirely on other forces to provide intelligence, as this would be too passive.
In addition, this intelligence network has another important task, which is to collect physical condition data of Yuqing Sect monks.
This is for the data of "Dragon's Wrath". After the explosion of "Dragon's Wrath", a lot of data was not collected because it was impossible to know the exact situation inside the Yuqing Sect's mountain gate.
He needed data on the impact of the residual radiation pollution on the monks after the explosion of "Dragon's Fury".
In fact, he did not rely entirely on his own intelligence for this work. He also used various relationships to make requests to the cooperating superpowers.
Although this request was a bit strange, considering the hatred between him and Yuqing Sect, it was not surprising that he wanted to know the detailed situation of the Yuqing Sect monks.
In the following time, information would be gathered from various places every once in a while.
Ten years later, more than half of the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Yuqing Sect had died, and those who were not dead all had various strange diseases.
The situation is better for Jindan-stage cultivators, with only a very small number dying due to radiation pollution, but physical changes also exist. The sensitivity of many Jindan-stage cultivators to spiritual energy decreases many times, which is equivalent to a drop in cultivation talent.
The Nascent Soul cultivators also encountered great trouble. Their physical bodies were strong, but under the radiation pollution, both their physical bodies and Nascent Souls showed some spiritual energy rejection.
This makes it impossible for Nascent Soul cultivators to improve their strength any further. If the training environment is poor and resources cannot keep up, even the Nascent Soul cultivators' realm cannot be guaranteed.