NOVEL NEXT Chapter 326: Reunion
Chu Zheng made his way through vast stretches of wilderness, stumbling upon remnants of battlefields everywhere.
For the incomplete magic treasures and weapons, he did not miss a single one, collecting them all into the grotto heaven within his body.
Although most of these items were of an order that he could no longer use, he still did not wish to waste them, since they were all for the taking anyway.
Among them, there would occasionally be some pleasant surprises, allowing him to come across some fragments of Eighth Order items.
However, they were all Eighth Order Low Quality; the Immortal Treasures ranked between the First and Third Tribulation, the Five Elements incomplete, their power limited.
After crossing several areas in succession, Chu Zheng noticed something unusual.
On the surface, it seemed as if the Immortal Alliance was slowing down its offensive, but the positions of many large camps had started to move forward, subtly encircling many of the Ten Thousand Realms Cultivators' large camps in the center, all departments secretly preparing their troops, clearly ready to launch a major offensive.
This was different from the previous small-scale wars; it was an accumulation of forces for a decisive battle that would determine the fate of the cosmos.
Once the winner in the Lower Heavenly Domain is decided, if the Immortal Alliance prevails, they could use the Lower Heavenly Domain as a base to push the entire battlefield into the Ten Thousand Realms through numerous spatial passages, causing a dramatic shift in the situation at that time.
It seems that the Ten Thousand Realms have also become aware of this situation, as Chu Zheng saw many traces of spatial passages, and the Ten Thousand Realms side was clearly in a critical rush to call for reinforcements.
Even within the large camps on the Ten Thousand Realms side, he saw many living creatures whose cultivation did not exceed the Third Order, a level clearly not sufficient for the battlefields of the Ten Thousand Realms, but they had been pulled up regardless.
Most of Chu Zheng's attention was on the events unfolding before him, and he did not notice that not far behind him, there was a figure following him at a leisurely pace.
Dongsheng Yu, who was following from a distance, was filled with doubts at this moment.
Not long after detecting the trail of Chu Zheng, she tracked down his figure and locked onto him through the aura of his essence blood.
But she didn't dare to approach him rashly, as she was somewhat worried that making her presence known directly would provoke Chu Zheng.
From their previous encounters, she understood that Chu Zheng was not an easy person to deal with, and her unsolicited appearance would most likely result in an immediate fallout.
She also didn't dare to harm others and found it difficult to capture Chu Zheng unharmed. If the already sizeable dispute were to escalate further due to her actions, it would not be good.
Moreover, should she fail and Chu Zheng escape and conceal the aura of his essence blood, it would not be so easy to find him afterward. With the current rapid changes in the Great Universe, this could be her last chance, and failure was not an option.
Thus, having confirmed Chu Zheng's location, she secretly sent a message to Fan Long Immortal King and then notified the various camps of the Immortal Alliance to call for the cooperation of True Immortals.
It would be best to have a group of True Immortals come forward to persuade Chu Zheng, while she would stay back and avoid direct contact with him as much as possible.
This way, not only could she take credit for finding Chu Zheng, but it would also let Chu Zheng temporarily forget about her, killing two birds with one stone.
However, after following Chu Zheng for some time, Dongsheng Yu became increasingly puzzled.
She struggled to understand Chu Zheng's odd actions of uncovering ancient battlefields sealed by time, extracting a pile of rubbish from them, and then burying all the remains again.
Then again in the vicinity of the Immortal Alliance and Ten Thousand Realms camps, he wandered back and forth, seemingly indulging in some unknown whimsy, leaving one clueless as to his thoughts.
In a flash, more than half a month had passed.
Dongsheng Yu was still following Chu Zheng from a moderate distance, with no progress in the matter at hand.
The situation in the Upper Heavenly Domain was at a stalemate. Fan Long Immortal King was tied up and could not extricate himself for the moment, and Chu Zheng's current cultivation was very high, a Three Calamities True Immortal, and he also possessed unknown Divine Skills, with an extremely fast speed that crossed the Void, so the True Immortals of the Immortal Alliance in the Lower Heavenly Domain simply could not keep up with his pace. Continue your saga on My Virtual Library Empire
Moreover, with the Ten Thousand Realms Camp sticking out like a sore thumb, these True Immortals found it challenging to make any significant moves, and the situation was at an impasse for the time being.
However, Dongsheng Yu was not anxious. Judging by the direction of Chu Zheng's advance, he would sooner or later enter the area under the Immortal Alliance's jurisdiction. There, people had already prepared a warm welcome, so he just needed to wait quietly.
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Countless suns spanned across the Void, and the heavens and earth were bright as day without a shadow in sight.
It took Chu Zheng about more than a month to finally find the end of the thread of cause and effect.
As the distance closed, the effects of the Heavenly Divination Technique were already starting to show.
Eventually, he found a major camp of the Immortal Alliance, and from far outside the camp, he saw the figure of Song Lingxue.
She was seated by the camp's gate, with a silver-white Battle Halberd stuck by her side. Her long hair was casually tied up with an iron crown and hung behind her. The Battle Armor she wore had cracks, and her abdomen was bound with bandages that were soaked with bloodstains and Spiritual Light, making her look extremely weary.
[Song Lingxue (Sixth Order): Bone age of forty-nine, mid-stage Cultivation of Martial God Realm, core True Inheritor of the Martial Hall, master of the Lingxue Realm. Main cultivation in "Martial Arts Scripture," secondary in Slaughter Blood Descending Dragon Technique, with Blood Gang aura protection, her body has acquired the indestructive property, capable of limb regeneration. Her abdomen has been torn by a fierce bird, with the wound containing residual intense poison. (Repairable)]
Looking at the information transmitted by the Spiritual Eye, Chu Zheng's gaze slightly dimmed. It had been more than twenty years since they parted in the Cangyun Realm, and the changes that had occurred to Song Lingxue were too significant; for a moment, he nearly failed to recognize her.
The once picturesque brows and eyes were now tinged with murderous intent, her gaze as cold and sharp as a knife. Her expression was filled with indifference, her cheeks even smeared with bloodstains that had not been wiped away, faintly revealing unhealed wounds.
A breeze tainted with the smell of blood brushed past the camp, lifting her hair but unable to disperse the biting coldness that enveloped her.
Chu Zheng himself had cultivated the Slaughter Blood Descending Dragon Technique. Merely from the profound Blood Fiend aura surrounding Song Lingxue, he knew that the number of living creatures that had died by her hand over the years was already an astronomical figure that could not be precisely counted.
In his memory, Song Lingxue had always been under protection and rarely engaged in combat with others, let alone killing.
The experiences of these years had never been spoken of in her letters to him, but the Martial Path is a road paved with slaughter, and the killing intent is extremely heavy. On her own, her cultivation reaching this point today must have been through many difficulties.
A Martial God under fifty years old was, even amongst the relatively short-lived cultivators of the Martial Path, a rarity that was tens of times more uncommon than ordinary cultivators, alarmingly fast.
The current Song Lingxue, with a Cultivation comparable to that of Shang Zuling, if it came to a fight for life with true prowess, Shang Zuling might even be instantly killed without other protective means.
Twenty years ago, that was something that even Chu Zheng, including all cultivators of the Cangyun Realm, would not dare to think about.
Lost in thought for a moment, from the Void around, more than ten figures emerged, all True Immortals. Among them was Fu Zhixuan, who had been the first to help Chu Zheng by blocking the enemies from the Ten Thousand Realms.
This direct disciple of a Great Immortal Emperor had left a profound impression on Chu Zheng.
He originally thought that she would also die at the hands of that Great Saint of Martial Path, but now it seemed that she had managed to escape disaster by luck.
Fu Zhixuan, looking at the completely unfamiliar middle-aged man in front of her, did not hesitate. She bowed with her hands clasped and got straight to the point:
"Daoist Chu, our Immortal Alliance has no ill intentions towards you. Since you've come, please give us a chance to talk inside the camp."
Chu Zheng looked around, observing the crowd of True Immortals, who were faintly surrounding him. Then he glanced at Song Lingxue in the distance, who was unaware of his presence, and without much hesitation, dispelled his Shape-Shifting Divine Power to reveal his true form, and walked straight towards the camp.
These True Immortals could not stop him, but at this moment, he no longer wished to leave.