Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 517: Chapter 316: The Situation

A month later, in the Western Barbarian Borderlands…

“Sect Master!”

Within the Tianshu Great Array, a group of cultivators gathered around one person, treating him like stars crowding around the moon.

This person looked like a young man, with rosy lips and white teeth, extraordinary handsome features, a speck of star sand between his eyebrows containing myriad starlights, his black hair neatly tied up, not wearing any crown, yet still exuding a majestic and noble air, as if a banished immortal had descended to the mortal realm.

It was indeed the Beidou Holy Son, the Tianshu Sect Master—Zhou Tian Shu!

The crowd stood to one side, their heads bowed and eyes lowered, not daring to say too much.

Zhou Tian Shu’s expression was icy cold as he pointed his finger, and immediately, the Tianshu Formation responded, transforming into a Beidou Star Map.

The Big Dipper Pivot turned, the array operated, and a beam of starlight shot forth, piercing through the Void Boundary and opening a Gate of Starlight.

Zhou Tian Shu, with a sweep of his sleeve, strode in. A few Return to Void Elders followed closely behind, while the rest of the group felt a secret sense of alarm.

“The Sect Master has just achieved the Integration Realm, and he can easily break open this Void Cave Heaven. It seems that this trip to the Ten Thousand Star Sea has brought great benefits!”

“Our Immortal Sect’s inheritance is orderly; the Saint Lord is destined to reach the full accomplishment of Integration. Now that the Sect Master has broken through the Integration Heavenly Pass, he will most likely reach the Great Achievement Realm within a thousand years and take over the position of Saint Lord, fostering the next generation of Saint Heir.”

“The Saint Lord has been in power for two thousand years. His cultivation in Integration is already complete, but he refused to ascend to the Mahayana Realm because he couldn’t find a suitable successor and didn’t want our Big Dipper Immortal Sect to be surpassed by others.”

“The Sect Master is a Seven Star Spirit Body, and he has made great gains in the Ten Thousand Star Sea. In the future, when he takes over the position of the Saint Lord, he will surely be able to suppress all other sects.”

The group secretly sighed, but noticed that Zhou Tian Shu’s expression remained icy cold, and the Return to Void Elders also furrowed their brows.

“This Void Spirit Cave Heaven…”

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“Could some anomaly have occurred?”

The Return to Void Elders furrowed their brows and, following Zhou Tian Shu’s steps, stepped into the Void Spirit Cave Heaven.

In an instant, they traversed space, the heavens and earth shifted, and they had arrived within the Void Spirit Realm.

But what they found was silence all around, an eerie stillness.

“Hmm!?”

Everyone furrowed their brows, feeling an inexplicable strangeness, and immediately released their Divine Consciousness to probe the vast expanse in all directions.

However…

“How can this be?”

The Return to Void Elders were full of astonishment. Zhou Tian Shu, too, furrowed his brows intensely, stepped upon the Seven Stars, instantly ascended into the firmament, and unfolded his Innate Integration Primordial Spirit’s consciousness, activating the ability of Heavenly Hearing and Earthly Vision to search thousands of mountains and rivers.

But the result was…

No humans or animals, no trace to be found.

Apart from some common mountain animals, birds, and insects, within the expansive territory, there was astonishingly not a single person to be found.

Further searches revealed towns and Cultivation Markets, but they were all eerily quiet.

Not a single cultivator, demon beast, or even a common person was to be seen.

Inside the towns, within the markets, there were signs of hasty relocation, various items scattered about as if people had left in great hurry.

An expanse of territory with not a soul in sight, only empty cities remained, exuding an indefinable eeriness.

Zhou Tian Shu furrowed his brows deeply and swept his consciousness again, coming to several places with remnants of Spiritual Energy. He saw that Spirit Veins had been excavated, Spirit Stones completely mined out, Spirit Fields, medicinal gardens, beast pens, and the like had all been emptied out, scraped as if to the bare earth. Every item related to an Yuan Sprit had vanished without a trace.

“…”

“What has happened here?”

“Where are the people, where have they all gone?”

“There were tens of millions of people in this Void Spirit Cave Heaven, how could they all disappear without a trace?”

“All the Spirit Lands have been dug up, the Spirit Stones mined out, the Spiritual Medicines harvested, this…”

The Return to Void Elders’ eyes were full of surprise, but they quickly snapped back to reality and turned to Zhou Tian Shu to say, “Sect Master, this matter is quite bizarre. Shall we retreat for now and wait for the Saint Lord to make a decision after arriving…?”

“There’s no need!”

Before he could finish speaking, the void fluctuated, and a figure stepped out, appearing in front of everyone.

“Saint Lord!”

“Master!”

Seeing this, the faces of the crowd changed, and Zhou Tian Shu also bowed his head in greeting.

“The people of an entire realm, all relocated?”

“Void Spirit Monarch…”

That person’s face was unclear, with only a brilliant starlight and spoke calmly, “You all continue to search and see if you can find any clues.”

After speaking, without waiting for any reaction from the crowd, he disappeared into the void as a light and shadow.

At the same time, outside the Tianshu Formation…

“Boom rumble!”

The formation was struck, causing a thunderous roar.

A rainbow light beamed down from beyond the skies, washing over the Tianshu Formation.

“Myterious Sprit Friend, isn’t your action a bit too forceful?”

A starlight suddenly appeared, forming the Big Dipper Pattern, suppressing the rainbow light.

“Hmph, Zhong Yin Zhi, stop putting on a pretense. Today, I, the Lord, have come to retrieve the precious treasure of the Five Elements Immortal Sect. If you obstruct me, this will not end without a fight to the death!”

A cold voice, more brilliant than before, the Power of the Five Elements united. The Acquired fought against the Innate, pressing hard against the Big Dipper Formation.

“This is the territory of my Big Dipper Immortal Sect. How can we allow others to run amok here!”

A person stepped out from within the starlight, directly facing the Innate Five Elements: “Since you are not going to stop, then let’s have a battle.”

As soon as he spoke, he stepped out of the formation, taking the initiative to confront the opponent.

And so it went…

A month later, in Ling Mountain City.

Inside a tavern, the noise was boisterous, and the energy was high.

“Is it true that the Void Spirit Cave Heaven has been occupied by the Big Dipper Immortal Sect?”

“Is there any doubt? The Five Elements Immortal Sect had long suspected it, and a month ago the matter broke out. The Five Elements Saint Lord, Myterious Sprit Lord, personally took action, intending to destroy the Minor Beidou Tian Shu Great Array set up by the Tianshu Sect. The result was an intervention by the Beidou Saint Lord, True Monarch Yu Xiu. The two Immortal Sect Saint Lords, both fully accomplished in their Integration cultivation, clashed in a battle that shook the heavens and the earth…”

“Both Saint Lords are geniuses of their era, their cultivation in Integration already complete, merely half a step away from the Mahayana Realm. Their unleashed battle directly shattered the small world crafted by the Void Spirit Monarch.”

“With the Void Spirit Cave Heaven open, the Void Spirit Legacy and the Five Elements Immortal Mansion…”