Free Web NovelChapter 643: Chapter 614: A Tigerish Burst of Momentum
"As long as you’re alive, why would I go before you!"
Chen Mountain smiled coldly, his words darkening the face of the fifteenth-order consummate powerhouse, with a vague hint of horror in his pupils.
After all, seeing a cultivator who had self-destructed now standing again before him was utterly shocking.
However.
Before he could think too much, Chen Mountain had already suddenly struck.
"Boom——"
At the moment of Chen Mountain’s resurrection.
Other fallen powerhouses from Cyan Yang Divine Court also began to revive one after another.
These powerhouses, who clearly had perished but appeared resurrected before people, startled the Upper Realm cultivators to no end.
Nothing.
Was more shocking than coming back from the dead.
Especially the powerful foes that Upper Realm powerhouses had desperately slaughtered, only to find out it was all in vain.
The return of the fallen powerhouses.
Greatly increased the power of the Cyan Yang Divine Court’s side.
After all, these resurrected powerhouses had sacrificed everything to self-destruct before death, taking as many foes down with them as they could.
Under such circumstances.
The situation between the two sides naturally became one where the tide ebbed and flowed.
Even though the Upper Realm powerhouses kept coming endlessly, they secretly felt dread facing the Lower Realm cultivators who could revive.
Indeed.
Their mission was to conquer the Lower Realm.
The goal of this conquest was to find the object sought by all Saint Immortal Kings and Harmonization Immortal Venerables, to benefit from it and advance further.
Yet.
That did not mean they were willing to sacrifice themselves.
If the Lower Realm were truly as fragile as ants, to be crushed at will, then these Upper Realm powerhouses would rush in like hyenas smelling blood.
But upon realizing the Lower Realm wasn’t ants, but a mighty lion, they wouldn’t act recklessly.
Gradually.
The offensive of the Upper Realm was stymied.
At the same time.
Gu Fang and other official powerhouses of the Divine Court seized the opportunity to lay a heavy defense in the Starry Sky as a barrier against the Upper Realm.
At this point.
The battle-worn ground of the Starry Sky fight had considerably calmed.
Although both sides still clashed, there was more probing than all-out battling.
Yet seeing the scene of blood rivers and corpse mountains in the Starry Sky shocked all cultivators of the Two Realms.
This war.
Both sides had countless fallen powerhouses.
As the war relaxed, behind the Starry Sky battlefield, all official powerhouses of the Divine Court gathered to discuss future strategies.
"I propose we target the Path to Immortality, setting up defenses across dozens of galaxies to prevent any Upper Realm powerhouse from truly entering the Starry Sky for wanton slaughter.
After all, past records show that we Lower Realm beings differ from the Upper Realm, many Upper Realm powerhouses will massacre Lower Realm beings to boost their cultivation foundation."
Gu Fang was the first to express his view.
After a pause.
He continued on.
"The first battle is often the fiercest, as they say, one burst of force can be like a tiger, but the second wanes, and the third exhausts. The easing of the war shows the Upper Realm’s initial burst was disrupted by us.
Without absolute certainty, the subsequent offensives will slow down significantly.
They will wait, waiting for the situation on the Path to Immortality to change, and until the war there reaches a conclusive outcome, the Upper Realm will not launch a full-scale war again!"
The rest of the high ranks of the Divine Court were well aware of the situation Gu Fang described on the Path to Immortality.
To this point.
Among the powerhouses coming from the Upper Realm, the highest cultivation was at the fifteenth-order consummate, with strength comparable to half-step Saints and Quasi-Immortal Kings, but no real Saint Immortal Kings or Harmonization Immortal Venerables had been seen.
Given the Upper Realm’s foundation, it’s naturally impossible for them to lack such powerhouses.
The only reason they hadn’t appeared was because all were blocked on the Path to Immortality.
Looking across the Starry Sky.
The entire Cyan Yang Divine Court.
The only one capable of stopping so many powerhouses was none other than the Divine Emperor himself.
"His Majesty the God Emperor possesses unfathomable cultivation. In ancient times, even the Saint of the Taichu Immortal Court could not achieve such a feat. With His Majesty, we might yet have a chance to win this war!"
Gu Changqing sighed, his words full of reverence for Gu Qingyang.
Blocking all Upper Realm powerhouses above the sixteenth order with only one’s strength was an unfathomably terrifying level of cultivation.
With such a powerhouse, the Cyan Yang Divine Court still had a certain chance of victory.
"His Majesty possesses profound cultivation, there’s no doubt about that, but we know not how long he can hold off the Upper Realm. Should an unexpected event transpire, the Cyan Yang Divine Court will lose all hope of victory.
All our current assumptions depend on His Majesty holding off the Upper Realm powerhouses; otherwise, all our plans are in vain."
Ji Xuan pointed out the most critical issue at hand.
If Gu Qingyang could hold back those Saint Immortal Venerables, then the Cyan Yang Divine Court had room to maneuver; otherwise, no amount of planning would serve any purpose.
Before absolute power, all else is empty talk.
Gu Fang nodded: "Elder Ji is right, we can only hope His Majesty can truly hold back those Saint Immortal Venerables from the Upper Realm, buying us some time.
Ultimately, the Cyan Yang Divine Court’s time to grow has been too short.
The Upper Realm’s Three Thousand Cosmos, with billions of years of accumulation, naturally has a deep foundation.
Comparatively, since the emergence of Immortal Qi, our Cyan Yang Divine Court has only existed for a mere 30,000 years, time-wise far less than the Upper Realm.
In terms of cultivation conditions, our Cyan Yang Divine Court has unique advantages, plus opportunities from the Divine Kingdom chat group. If this timeline could extend to 100,000, even 300,000 years, we may indeed have a chance at a real fight with the Upper Realm!"
In 30,000 years.
The Cyan Yang Divine Court had nurtured 3,000 fifteenth-order powerhouses.
At this pace, given 100,000 more years, the number of fifteenth-order powerhouses is bound to increase greatly.
Should a few hundred thousand years be provided, the current pool of fifteenth-order consummate powerhouses might break the fifteenth-order barrier, stepping into the sixteenth-order level.
If that were the case.
Only then would the Cyan Yang Divine Court have the qualifications to truly wrestle with the Upper Realm.
Possibly.
They might even emulate ancient times, like the Taichu Immortal Court, and charge into the Path to Immortality, to engage in a decisive battle with the Upper Realm.
All of this.
Depends on two premises.
The first is that Gu Qingyang can hold off the Upper Realm long enough, and the second is that the Cyan Yang Divine Court can withstand the Upper Realm’s pressure.
At the moment, the Upper Realm’s first wave of offense has been dismantled, making the second possibility quite large; the first possibility remains the only uncertain one.
But, having reached this point, the Cyan Yang Divine Court’s side could only believe in Gu Qingyang’s strength, as there’s no other option.
