Chapter 289: "Five Years Later, I, Chen Qiu, Will Protect the Bai Family for a Thousand Years."_3
This caused the continent to suddenly have thousands of underworld entrances emerge and lead to a collapse and complete disintegration of the land.
This was the entire process.
Collapsing a continent allowed one to plunder all the remaining Luck of Yin Soul of that land, generally achieving ten full statuses, with a minimum guarantee of five, but the cost was the lives of billions of living creatures.
The woman from the Wang Family bathing in the hot spring pool was the selected "Sword Bearer" for this time.
Yes.
They called those who threw the column and destroyed the world Sword Bearers, meaning the sword was in hand, to strike at will.
The reason they chose the twelve First Grade Continents of the Vast Continent was said to be carefully selected by "Drunken King's Mansion," as many strong individuals had climbed up from lower grade continents. These strong individuals, although temporarily unable to return to their homeland, still had feelings for it.
If their homeland were destroyed at this time, it would become a matter of life and death enmity.
So, they had to select those First Grade Continents that had not seen the birth of strong figures; thus, the twelve lower continents of the Vast Continent were successfully chosen, because the superior continents were Third Grade, the "Qi Tian Continent."
The Qi Tian Continent, this tainted land, was basically like a chasm; even the evilest Heavenly Pride would end up wasted here, so basically no strong figures had ever emerged from the Qi Tian line.
Thus, there was nothing to dread.
"..."
Chen Qiu stood in place, silently not speaking. He clearly understood that not everyone had the capability to travel to lower continents, but... perhaps it was just luck, he had recently met many people who had come down from higher-grade Immortal Realms.
There was a major flaw in this world.
There were simply too many continents and too many people. With so many people, any extremely rare opportunity would be seized by countless individuals.
Just like now.
These people from the higher-grade Immortal Realms, visiting the First Grade Continent as if strolling in their own gardens. Ideally, there were very strong Heavenly Dao Shackles, and ordinary people simply couldn't come down, oh, but ordinary people indeed couldn't come down, apparently only commoners were blocked.
He could only be grateful that during his time in the Xuantian Continent, not so many people from higher-grade Immortal Realms had come down to wander around.
What gave him a headache though was this.
Whether to kill these individuals or not; if he did, then "Drunken Floral Mansion" would immediately know that something had happened to their people below and would continue to send people down and investigate who had killed their men.
If he didn't kill them, the prolonged lack of progress reports would also tip off the people above that something had happened to their agents below.
Yet, he couldn't just stand by and watch these people continue to destroy other continents. He couldn't just watch someone go and destroy the Xuantian Continent, which meant, he was almost fated to confront "Drunken Floral Mansion."
But with his current strength, how could he possibly rival the power of a Sixth Grade Immortal Realm.
"Still too weak."
Chen Qiu looked down at his palm and murmured, "Too weak."
If he had absolute strength now, why would he need to worry about this? He would just go straight to the Sixth Grade Immortal Realm, chop down everyone in this so-called Drunken Floral Mansion, but he indeed needed to cultivate more quickly.
Only,
at his level of cultivation, no matter how fast he cultivated, it wasn't fast enough. He had already sent out six squads, these six squads would bring him a significant increase in cultivation speed, but he hadn't yet thought of a solution to the problem with Spirit Stones.
Right at that moment—
The Bai Family Patriarch suddenly came from a distance, speaking with a complex expression, "Master Chen, would you like to go all-in with me?"
Chen Qiu glanced sideways at the Bai Family Patriarch and didn't speak. He was unclear about what exactly the Patriarch was implying, but he really wasn't in the mood to think about that right now.
"I've thought of a solution."
The Bai Family Patriarch paused for a while before softly saying, "According to what that person revealed, the task given by those above him was to destroy the twelve lower continents of the Vast Continent within five years."
"But actually, they don't know if the continents are really being destroyed or not,"
"just the transfer of the Luck of Yin Soul is needed."
"So, we can hand over the Luck of Yin Soul to that old man, let him submit it, and report back with false messages of everything going smoothly. What we will be doing is buying ourselves five years' time, within which, we can elevate our cultivation to the point where we can head to a Sixth Grade Immortal Realm. By that time, even if it's blown open, we will have no fear of anyone."
"..."
Chen Qiu looked sideways at the Bai Family Patriarch, and after a long while, he gently shook his head: "Five years, cultivating to the point of proceeding to a Sixth Grade Immortal Realm, do you know how many Spirit Stones that would require? It would be an astronomical number."
Although he was somewhat displeased with the idea of submitting the Luck of Yin Soul, if it was for the sake of buying time, it might be the only way.
"I know."
The Bai Family Patriarch nodded earnestly, then suddenly laughed, following which he swung his left hand vigorously, and several Storage Rings on his fingers emitted a bright light, right after which an endless amount of Spirit Stones fell from the sky, filling the whole valley.
The entire valley!!!
"...?!"
Chen Qiu looked at the valley that was instantly filled in front of him, froze on the spot, took a few steps forward incredulously, stepping on the Spirit Stones. After confirming it was not an Illusion, he turned his head in disbelief towards the Bai Family Patriarch: "Is your Bai Family really this wealthy?"
After all, the Bai Family was only a top force on a Third Grade Continent. The first time they met, handing over 5 million Spirit Stones seemed quite generous, but at this moment, the amount piled up here was way beyond tens of millions!