Divine Brilliance
chapter-826

Zong Shou had guessed if the person Sword Sect sent would be Suchen. He also guessed if they would recall Leidong from the outer region or just send any other elder.

He didn’t expect them to send Feng Taiji.

“My Sword Sect treats this outer region expansion with much seriousness. Senior Brother Ruotao has been selected as the next Vast Habitat head. As such I can only come on behalf of him.”

Feng Taiji knew that Zong Shou would have such questions and just replied expressionlessly.

His tone showed that the Sword Sect placed heavy focus on two things! His position in the sect was still really high and it was to show their sincerity in all this.

However there weren’t any other emotions, just calmly explaining. “As for this Golden Scale Fire Lion we met it two months ago. We escaped to this place with much difficulty but it still chased us and tried to destroy our hiding spot. Thus a day ago Ruolan set up a trap. To first heavily injure it and then spend another half a day to kill it here.”

When Zong Shou heard those words he immediately felt a little guilty.

Two months ago should be when he was in Xuwang Ocean hiding from the attacks of the Instant Space Dragon Race.

Luckily nothing happened if not he would regret for the rest of his life.

He also felt that it was getting tougher and tougher to manage everything alone.

Luckily Shi Ruolan survived.

He caresses her head softly. This little brat didn’t show any intentions of using such achievements to ask for rewards from him.

However she enjoyed Zong Shou’s loving actions.

Outside the hall spread out a gentle and old voice, “That is true! Miss Ruolan is able to command the ships like they are a part of her, be it her predictions or commanding, they are really amazing. She is the only one of such talent I have seen in my entire life! Ruler is really good at reading people, this time I feel much more confident expanding into the outer region!”

Zong Shou looked over towards where the voice came from only to see that the one who came was Ten Thousand Buddha Vast Habitat’s Zifang.

He couldn’t help but think that one out of Li Fengfei and the other two will be making a futile trip.

He shifted his eyes away and as expected he saw Jingyin.

Naturally Zhao Yanran and Xuan Yunlan were following behind.

Those two were chosen by Common People Path to follow along which was why Zong Shou wasn’t surprised.

In the next instance Zifang opened up with much difficulty, “Days ago I got some news from the Cloud World. Ruler really took back a really amazing thing, putting me in a spot. I am afraid that once I get onto your ship it would be tough to get off it.”

When Zong Shou heard it, he instantly knew that Li Fengfei and the other two had returned back to the Cloud World.

That Xuwang Ocean was originally extremely close to the Cloud World, he spent much time on the way and also received instructions from Chen Yuexuan to grasp the formation, as such he wasted some time too.

His tracks weren’t certain and he was also unable to get news from the Cloud World. Instead it was Zifang who got the news first.

Zong Shou laughed without bothering much, “If Buddhist Faction doesn’t want to you can choose not to join in. I won’t force you, just don’t leak the news.”

“Ruler is joking! Even if we don’t want to join in we have to!”

Zifang shook his head, he had a weird expression as he spoke.

“If it was just acceleration of time and having a portion of the Instant Space Dragon Race abilities then it was still okay. However this thing even has the ability to delay tribulation. Even our Buddhist Faction rarely has such treasures. Ruler is offering such great terms, if we reject then we are really unreasonable. It should be the same for the Sword Sect right? Ruler don’t worry, this treasure concerns the prosperity of the faction and we won’t leak anything…”

At the start Zong Shou didn’t bother but when he heard the second sentence his heart sank.

Delay tribulation?

He didn’t know that the Universe Light Hall had such an ability!

Instantly his heart tensed up and he felt an intense pain. What a huge loss in this deal. If he knew that this was the case he should have asked for more benefits!

Now that the dust settled and the wood had already been made into a ship, it was too late for him to regret.

He could only smile with a really ugly expression on his face, “Is that so, then that would be for the best…”

Feng Taiji didn’t bother about his expression, opening his mouth once more to ask, “Now that everyone is already gathered and everything is prepared, where is Ruler prepared to attack from? There are ten thousand worlds here. Apart from those barbaric worlds with low production most of them have rulers. This time be it Ruler or our three sects, we have to succeed. Ruler please make your decision carefully!”

Zong Shou took a deep breath, his face turning cold and serious.

Although Feng Taiji’s words weren’t nice to listen to and were a little cold, but he was right. They could only succeed and couldn’t afford to fail.

Actually the best outer region world in his memory was the small world that Shiyue occupied at the start.

Not only did its production exceed Tianfang World by tens of times, there was also not much resistance within the world.

However this place probably already fell into that Shiyue’s hands.

A few months ago he had fought with him and knew about how strong his country power was.

However at that time he was also at his most powerless and as such wasn’t able to stop him.

Apart from that place there weren’t many worlds that he could conquer and expand to around the Cloud World.

They either already had masters which made it hard to shake, needing them to pay a huge price, or they were extremely poor.

At this point Zong Shou remembered an area which had high production. It was a medium sized world with various mines within. They numbered pretty much ten times the number in the Cloud World before the Spiritual Wave.

There are many native races within which weren’t wiped out. However most of the experts within were already killed.

However at this moment there were many powers who were in competition for it.

To take it down would take dozens and even hundreds of battles.

However this was the only place that Zong Shou felt was reliable and decent enough to become a Gantian territory.

There was no shortcut, he could only slash a way out of these path filled with thorns!

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He spent half a day before he was able to make Feng Taiji and Zifang satisfied.

If he was the only power, he could make all the decisions. Whatever he said would be what they did.

The people of Gantian worshipped him to the extreme and no one will object.

However since both of their powers had already joined it, the matter was totally different.

Zong Shou saw them as his shareholders and when they had doubts over his plan naturally he would spend some effort to explain.

He also found out that Sword Sect really went all out.

Three thousand swordsmen, among which three hundred were Grade Seven, three Spirit Realm cultivators.

The buddhist Faction was no weaker either. They had three Spirit Realm monks and four thousand disciples.

As for the Common People Path, they too sent four thousand. Four Spirit Realms and 450 Common People Mysterious Dragon Warriors.

If they had any achievements they would throw more troops in.

Based on what Zhao Yanran said, this was also due to him.

The Taoist Faction suffered heavy losses which reduced the pressure on the three of them. Naturally they were able to raise the overall strength that they sent this time.

One was to train their disciples and secondly was that a few months ago when Zong Shou passed his tribulation, Dragon Shadow entering End Realm, both of them surprised them a lot.

The Cloud World was rising too late. Although they had several End Realm cultivators but their strength was still weak in the outer region.

The Master of the worlds often had a complicated relationship with one another. Their backings were often really deep and strong.

For example that Lu Family, outside of the eight hundred worlds they had three thousand worlds who pledged allegiance to them.

The End Realm experts often were wary of the Cloud World expansion, the moment signs appeared they would work together to suppress it.

Which was why there wasn’t much progress over the ten thousand years. The Taoist Faction was only able to spread their faith in the dozens of worlds around.

The Buddhist Faction had a similar situation. Their’s was slightly better however it didn’t exceed a hundred.

If not they wouldn’t have suggested opening up another region to create a true world. They also wouldn’t have participated this time.

With the current situation, the future God Emperor will pretty much sweep an entire region.

However the Cloud World cultivators were suppressed for too long.

“However after the hundred year spiritual wave it will drop once more! This is the tragic situation of the Cloud World, only by lowering and suppressing the spiritual energy can we prevent other worlds from eyeing on us…”

To him, even if the Heaven Opening Treasure was taken out, the spiritual energy shouldn’t be that low. Restraining the spiritual wave definitely wasn’t just to prevent cultivation.

Zong Shou felt slightly emotional however this matter didn’t have much to do with him.

Whether or not the Spiritual Wave is restricted didn’t have much connection to him. It didn’t affect him much.

He told the coordinates of the world to Shi Ruolan before accompanying them to chat and play around.

He made her smile widely and satisfied.

He then went into secluded meditation, using the Book of Eon to cultivate under accelerated speed.

Actually with his current situation there was no way for him to progress much in terms of true qi and soul power.

The so called cultivation was just refining and binding to those twenty four Instant Space Dragon Pellets.

To perfect the formations within the pellet and complete the change between illusionary and real, allowing them to be totally merged into his soul.

Apart from that he had one more job. He used his intent to gather it to form a knife to carve runes and marks on a dragon tooth.

Before leaving the Tianfang World, Chen Yuexuan gave him a spiritual sense artifact crafting technique.

From start to finish the sword artifact would be carved and crafted using spiritual sense.

Just like that once the sword artifact is completed, without needing him to bind and refine it, it would already be bathed in his spiritual sense.

He would be able to control it with his heart, much stronger as compared to other swords.

However it was such a huge workload to carve these swords one by one.

At the start Zong Shou failed several times. This was the first time he knew that dragon teeth was actually such a tough and domineering thing.

Zong Shou gathered his spiritual sense into a knife, the moment he touched it his spiritual sense would break. If he forced his way he woudln’t be able to control his strength.

He wasn’t able to craft a sword and instead destroyed a few teeth.

Zong Shou was helpless and could only use other similar ingredients to replace. Only after familiarising with it did he start.

Only then was there one sword which slowly formed. Through it Zong Shou noticed the benefits of crafting artifacts like that.

After a few tries his control of his soul power was able to reach a level where he could reach minute details.