Chapter 3166

The Blazing Mountain Range was the Fiery Race's lair. Within a vast red estate, Yan Zheng sat in a red stone pavilion, while Yan Ji stood respectfully by his side.

"I plan to travel abroad. I'm entrusting tribal matters to you. I'll take Bai Xuan and the others with me. Unless absolutely necessary, do not start a war with the human race. If a racial war breaks out, you must follow Fellow Daoist Luo's orders," Yan Zheng instructed.

Yan Que was severely injured in the racial war, and his defensive treasures were heavily damaged. When the Grand Heavenly Tribulation descended, he perished under the lightning. He had hoped to use the racial war to amass wealth and make his tribulation easier, but not only were his defensive treasures ruined, Yan Que himself was severely injured and couldn't survive the Grand Heavenly Tribulation.

This situation was not uncommon. High-level cultivators, seeking tribulation materials or treasures, would travel or venture into forbidden and dangerous lands. Often, they would gain nothing, their few remaining treasures would be destroyed, they would be severely injured, and unable to recover before the Grand Heavenly Tribulation descended, leading to their demise.

As a result, the Fiery Race was left with only Yan Zheng as a Mahayana cultivator. In the last racial war, all three races suffered significant losses, so another racial war wouldn't erupt in the short term.

Yan Zheng planned to travel, not only to find tribulation materials but also to seek elixirs that could help cultivators break through to the Mahayana stage, thus cultivating new Mahayana cultivators.

Their ability to advance to the Mahayana stage was due to the Fiery Race's former Grand Elder obtaining three Nine Blazing Spirit Pills from the Daoist temple of Profound Spirit Heavenly Venerate. The Fiery Race's foundation was still shallower compared to larger clans. There was no alternative; spiritual items that aided cultivators in breaking through to the Mahayana stage were too precious and mostly controlled by major clans.

"Yes, Ancestor," Yan Ji agreed. With Yan Zheng absent from the Profound Spirit Continent, the Fiery Race would have to lie low for a while. Instigating a racial war would bring no benefit to them.

Yan Zheng gave a few more instructions, then departed the Blazing Mountain Range with over twenty clan members, intending to cross the sea.

Overseas, in a certain azure sea, a streak of blood-red light shot across the sky at an extraordinary speed.

Soon after, the blood-red light stopped above a deserted island, a hundred li in circumference, revealing a blood-glowing flying boat. True Monarch Blood Saber and Chu Feng stood on it. True Monarch Blood Saber's face was pale, with a finger-thick blood hole in his left chest, and he was covered in wounds. Chu Feng was deathly pale, her back a bloody mess.

Crossing the sea was far more perilous than True Monarch Blood Saber had imagined. Besides Tier-7 demonic beasts, they also had to guard against foreign races and natural forbidden zones. Not long ago, they encountered a massive celestial wind. After narrowly avoiding it, they were discovered by a foreign race and pursued, barely managing to break through the encirclement.

They had spent nearly a thousand years at sea. Relying solely on True Monarch Blood Saber's power to cross the ocean was a pipe dream. True Monarch Blood Saber performed a hand seal, and the blood-colored flying boat rapidly descended into a small valley surrounded by mountains on three sides. "How many times has this been? I don't believe your luck can be this good every time," Chu Feng said meaningfully.

If she recovered her cultivation, their chances of crossing the sea would significantly increase.

True Monarch Blood Saber's brows furrowed. Chu Feng had a point, and it was true. He had many cultivation resources and a Tier-7 Lightning Absorbing Pearl. Providing Chu Feng with resources to recover her cultivation was only a matter of time. He sighed softly, took out a cyan storage ring, threw it to Chu Feng, and said, "I hope you won't turn against me."

"What good would turning against you do? We're in this together. Let's cross the sea after I recover my cultivation!" Chu Feng suggested.

True Monarch Blood Saber nodded. The two walked into a nearby cave and settled down there.

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The Sky Profound Mountain Range is located in the northeastern part of the Qianyuan Continent, and it is the territory of the Ancient Vault Race.

In an open area, two men and one woman were engaged in a magical battle. Judging by their aura, all were Void Refinement cultivators.

The woman wore a long cyan dress, her features picturesque. She held a misty cyan flying sword in her hand. Her face was pale, and there was a dreadful bloody gash on her left shoulder, from which black blood flowed. The two men had wide mouths and small noses, sunken eyes, and yellow spirit markings on their bodies. Their physiques were similar to the woman in the cyan dress. They emitted roars like fierce beasts, spewing out golden sound waves that ripped apart the ground and shattered rocks wherever they passed.

The woman in the cyan dress performed a sword incantation, and countless flying sand and stones rose, transforming into flying swords, meeting the attack.

The golden sound waves, with overwhelming momentum, shattered the incoming flying swords and instantly reached the woman in the cyan dress. She swung her sword to meet them.

With a muffled thud, the woman in the cyan dress was sent flying backward, crashing heavily onto the ground, spitting out a large mouthful of blood, her face devoid of color.

"Still unwilling to surrender to our Sky Howl Race? Then don't blame us for being ruthless," a burly man in a yellow shirt sneered, his face filled with killing intent.

"You destroyed my clan, and you still expect me to surrender to you? Never!" The young woman in the cyan dress was filled with grief and indignation. Spiritual light erupted from her body, merging with her cyan longsword, transforming into a cyan rainbow that shot towards them.

"Hmph, your Dharma idol has already been shattered by us. How powerful can you still be?" The burly man in the yellow shirt said this, then performed a hand seal, and a colossal phantom appeared above his head.

The phantom let out an extremely enraged roar, spewing a golden sound wave that caused small cracks to appear in the void.

The cyan rainbow collided with the golden sound wave, was sent flying backward, and a woman's scream echoed. With a flash of cyan light, the woman in the cyan dress fell to the ground, her cyan flying sword landing beside her.

"Time to send you on your way!" The burly man in the yellow shirt's face turned cold, and he was about to deliver a killing blow.

Just then, a deafening thunderclap rang out, shaking heaven and earth. Two thick silver lightning bolts descended from the sky, striking the two men.

The two men were greatly alarmed. Before they could react, the silver lightning struck, and two screams rang out.

The ground shook violently, and two massive craters, tens of zhang in diameter, appeared. Two miniature Nascent Souls flew out from the lightning glow, looking panicked.

They hadn't flown far when a white glow descended from the sky, enveloped the two miniature Nascent Souls, and drew them into a white jade bottle.

The woman in the cyan dress was slightly stunned. She looked towards the distant sky, where a silver rainbow appeared. Soon after, the silver rainbow stopped in mid-air, revealing a silver-glowing flying boat.

Seven human cultivators stood on the silver flying boat. Besides Wang Mengbin and four other individuals, there was a white-faced, beardless old man in white robes and a tall young man in a red shirt. Seeing the woman in the cyan dress, their faces showed anxiety, and they immediately flew over.

Bai Yuqi beckoned with one hand, and the white jade bottle flew towards her. She performed soul-searching on the two Nascent Souls and frowned, saying, "The Xu family has been wiped out."

After the Hundred Races Assembly concluded, cultivators from various races departed one after another. Wang Yingjie, having acquired no more rare items, left Qiyun Peak. On the way, he encountered two Void Refinement cultivators being ambushed and killed by foreign cultivators. He intervened to help and unexpectedly discovered that they cultivated the "Myriad Spirit Sword Scripture." They were from the Xu family, whose ancestral land was within the territory of the Flower Race.

Human cultivators were found throughout the Qianyuan Continent, but most were concentrated in the southeastern part.

The Xu family had no Integration cultivators and had sought allegiance with the Flower Race.