Divine Brilliance
chapter-524

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Using the Grand Demon God shuttle to travel, Zong Shou only took one day to return to Gantian Mountain City.

This second grade magical treasure was indeed speedy. What was uncommon about it was that the soul power it used up was extremely low. Even Zong Shou, who had a huge GAP in strength could maintain free travel for over three days.

It filled him with anticipation for the few other parts.

He landed in the Hanyan palace at the peak, and was greeted by hundreds of guards, anxiously rushing about.

Only after they realised the person was Zong Shou did they dissipate. The defences apparently exceeded those that Kongyao had encountered on his past visit.

Spreading out his spiritual sense, he could feel that there were a few experts whose auras were as high as grade 9.

Zong Shou’s moment of surprise was interrupted by a “draw” sound that he heard from all directions. The entire mountain began to shake.

In the next instant, Zong Shou finally knew what these people were doing. He felt several dragon veins being forcefully pulled over and gathered into this Gantian Mountain.

There were actually six of them, dragon veins gathered beneath the mountain peak. The spiritual energy in the area became instantly amplified.

Under the few years of Zong Shou’s management, he had already gathered several spiritual veins. There were even two dragon veins among them. At this moment, with all these people working together to modify, the mountain became a spiritual land.

Renbo and the others had heard the news and rushed over. The other grade 9 cultivators also came to Zong Shou.

Mingdu and Liehe both bowed towards him. The other six people sized him up.

And they were shocked. At this moment, Zong Shou was suffering from many injuries and his aura was obviously weakened.

Those wounds were still infected with the sword intent that Yuan Wushang had left behind, which could not be removed. This was causing the spiritual energy around Zong Shou to explode out. Luckily, he had used his spiritual energy to stabilise his physical body, which was why he was not being hurt by the sword intent.

They were unable to see Zong Shou’s strength, and instead were nearly injured by the spiritual explosion.

The sword intent of the Sword Soul Realm left the hair of those present standing on end.

The a few people who were knowledgeable had their brows raised, as they whispered conjecture. “It’s the ten thousand spirit sword intent, sword soul grade. In this world the only one who could reach sword soul level at grade 8 is Yuan Wushang. Did Ruler fight against him?”

Zong Shou was slightly surprised when he heard that, and he looked towards the speaker. Renbo knew what he was thinking, and smiled as he made introductions.

“These are a few people I recruited. These two seniors are Zong Fei and Zong Han, from the same race as Ruler. The 3rd is senior Hu Ruodong.”

Renbo continued to introduce. Zong Fei and Zong Han were from the seven tail Zong family. They were members of the Zong family from four hundred years ago. Hu Ruodong was a senior of the iron tiger race. Out of the other three, one was called Chai Kong, and another was called Ling Jiuchen. Just from their surnames, he knew that these people came from Gantian, the other two races which could be talked about as being on the same level as the Zong family.

As for the last person, he was called Hongling. However, he was from the human race and was someone Renbo had personally invited.

The new recruits bowed together. The one who had asked the question was Zong Han, his face still filled with confusion.

However, before Zong Shou could reply, Ling Xueyun opened his mouth from his place beside him,

“Two days ago Ruler did indeed face that sword maniac. The Ruler used only 347 sword strokes to defeat him, slicing his body in half and forcing him to escape with heavy injuries…”

The moment those words were spoken, apart from Renbo who did not know who Yuan Wushang was, the other people were stunned, unable to believe their own ears.

When they heard the words “defeat with only 347 sword strokes,” they all felt that this was how it ought to be. Some were even shocked that Zong Shou could last for so long. Was Ling Xueyun exaggerating? Or did Yuan Wushang show mercy?

After all, a grade 8 sword soul level presence was something even they must avoid.

When they realised that Zong Shou had been the victor, an entirely different feeling filled the room.

First, disbelief. Then, when they had calmed, they began to think that it was preposterous.

Ling Xueyun had expected this. He was expressionless, and there was no unhappiness at all as he said, “I am Ling Xueyun! Although I have been in seclusion, a hundred years ago I had some fame in the Cloud Continent.”

The eight grade 9 cultivators became solemn.

“So it is Brother Ling, your Thousand Chill Snow Sword is still famous throughout the world!”

After Zong Han exclaimed, he fell silent. He knew that he was using his reputation to assure the truth of his words. He would not allow others to doubt him.

When they looked towards Zong Shou once more, their gazes were very different.

Apart from their recognition of his title of Monster King, they had more respect towards him now.

The bowed once more, this time showing real politeness towards someone who was as strong or even stronger than themselves.

Zong Fei’s eyes were filled with surprise. “Ruler is really skilled! Who knew that our sky fox Zong family would have a talent like you before the spiritual wave, on the same level as those few people. The heavens have really blessed our race!”

Zong Shou knew that this person was different from that Zong Han. The latter was a branch member of the Zong family whilst Zong Fei was a direct member of the family from seven hundred years ago.

However, his branch was also part of the direct branch seven hundred years ago. Which was why in his eyes, branch or direct didn’t matter unless one was really far away in blood relation.

If he really calculated it, he might turn out to be his ancestor. He could treat the others as equals, but he had to respect this person.

Greeting them all, Zong Yuan wasn’t willing to continue talking about defeating Yuan Wushang. If it wasn’t for Ling Xueyun speaking up before him, he would not have even been willing to answer the question. Now, he smiled and diverted their attention, looking towards the mountain.

“In your view, how many more dragon veins can we gather in the Gantian Mountain?”

Zong Han frowned, “At most we can gather four more! This is because Ruler has run the country well. This place is the capital and where the energy veins of your rule intersect, which is why we can gather more dragon veins…”

He was a grade 9 spirit master, pretty much at the peak. He had sky fox bloodline and was good at formations. Amongst spirit masters of the same grade, he was above average and naturally he was more respected in this aspect.

“This place can keep six grade 9 cultivators, however…”

He stopped speaking, but everyone understood what he was getting at.

Gantian Mountain gathered up 12 dragon veins, able to allow six grade 9 cultivators to cultivate here.

However there were nine of them here, which was not enough.

Zong Shou’s brows furrowed. Before the spiritual wave, two dragon veins could allow one grade 9 cultivator to maintain his realm and to make have small improvements.

He had originally planned to have five or six dragon veins. Who knew that the grade 9 experts Renbo gathered in Gantian Mountain alone, there would be six of them!

He knew that his own sky fox race and the other big races had many grade 9 experts. This was the reason why the monster race were powerful in Donglin.

However he didn’t know that the few races could be called back to serve Gantian Mountain.

Unfortunately Dragon Gathering Mountian had already collapsed, otherwise he could have placed a few people there.

“I will think of a way. Within two months I will definitely be able to solve it!”

He subconsciously thought back to that small sized vast habitat in the Dragon Hall. If he could invite dragon shadow or Aokun to help to shift it over, he could even raise spirit realm and celestial realm experts.

Even if he couldn’t, with Gantian Mountain’s current strength, it could probably gather above sixty dragon veins.

Saying that out loud, the people around smiled. They didn’t doubt him at all.

Only Ling Xueyun was startled. In two months, Gantian Mountain would fight Thousand City Alliance. Was his highness so unafraid of those people?

Mingdou on the side opened his mouth once more, “Ruler, Mingdou has followed your orders and brought my Fuling Sect’s pinnacle space dome formation over. Does Ruler want to place it down around Gantian Mountain?”

When Zong Shou heard that, his brows rose up and his eyes filled with joy. Following which he gave an indiscernible laugh, filled with an evil aura.

This pinnacle space dome formation which had been fought over by numerous powers and sects during the middle of God Emperor, he wasn’t willing to use it here.

As for Mingdou and Liehe, just by looking at his expression they knew what Zong Shou’s intentions were. They weren’t surprised. Instead, their bodies shuddered in uneasiness. The surrounding air became restless, causing everyone to look over in shock.

At this moment they had a volcano-like heart realm, so how could they suppress it?

It was probably karma. This formation was built by the Fuling Sect for their own mountain.

Who knew that in the end they would be almost entirely wiped out.

This formation which wasn’t used in time to protect their mountain would be used on their enemies…

When Lingyun Sect manipulated the sects in the past to destroy Fuling, did they expect such a day would come?

Pinnacle space dome formation, able to lock up space, able to cover a hundred miles. As long as the spiritual energy was sufficient, it was tough to break.

Looking at the situation, although the Ruler had thousands of blood cloud cavalry, he had still not attacked. He was actually planning to wipe out all the sects in Donglin at once.

How vicious!

However, they loved it.

The more vicious he was, was the more excited they were. They knew they still needed to wait for over another month, but they were already full of impatience.