I'm in Shrouding the Heavens Practicing Eternal Life

“Greetings… Your Majesty… Forgive my… discourtesy…”

The Barbarian King, who should have been a burly old man, was sealed within the source rock, his condition poor, and the divine thoughts he transmitted were very weak.

“Is the origin damaged?”

As Jiang Li spoke, he flicked out a ball of red light, shattering the source rocks that sealed the Barbarian King. The red light was like fire, burning all the source rocks, with countless runes flying within.

It was the 'Zhe' Secret!

Qi Lin, who had followed, widened his eyes. To be able to feel a Sage King displaying the Nine Secrets at close range was a rare opportunity. For a proud talent like him, who was determined to cultivate, he would not let go of any chance to improve.

All the source rocks were burned, dyed red, and transformed into a pure essence that poured into the Barbarian King's body.

The Barbarian King's shriveled body swelled up like a balloon, his withered skin regained its luster, and his hazy eyes ignited with a bright light.

He landed with a thud, moved his hands and feet, and said with joy, "I feel completely healed!"

Even though he was in such a miserable state, he still came to see him. Jiang Li simply healed him.

This kind of injury that damaged the origin was almost impossible to heal for ordinary cultivators unless they could find some precious medicine by luck.

But for Jiang Li, since he was not dead and there was no curse or other messy things cast down by a powerful being, healing him was not difficult.

“The origin is damaged, you need to spend some time starting from the Sea of Bitterness Realm to re-consolidate your cultivation and stabilize your foundation.”

“Yes, thank you, Your Majesty, for saving my life.”

The healing effect of the 'Zhe' Secret was truly beyond Qi Lin's expectations. The Barbarian King, who was originally on his last breath and could only survive in the source rock, was immediately revitalized by Jiang Li's treatment.

One could imagine that if one possessed such means during a battle with others, with a tenacious vitality to the extreme, it would be equivalent to having many more chances to make mistakes.

“Now that you have all joined the Imperial Dynasty, then I will reveal my bottom line to you all. I am determined to obtain the Big Dipper Star.” Jiang Li said indifferently, but it stirred up a storm in the hearts of the others.

The goal is the entire Big Dipper?

“Could it be that the Imperial Dynasty is going to attack other supreme forces? They will definitely not agree, right?”

Integrate the Southern Ridge, it seems that the entire Southern Ridge is going to be turbulent.

Qi Lin asked, “The human forces in the Southern Ridge are easy to deal with, not a big problem, but some places are occupied by the ancient race…”

The ancient race.

Involving the ancient race, that would be a major event of friction between the two races. They could not bear this responsibility. Jiang Li was one of the leaders of the Dao Alliance, and others would only dare to act if he gave the order.

“Clear them all out. These days, I have upgraded the planetary defense system in the outer space of the Big Dipper. It is a complete set of Saint King weapons. As long as I grant you permission, you can launch attacks on any part of the Big Dipper Star at any time.”

Jiang Li projected his set of satellite treasures with divine power. In the outer space of the entire Big Dipper Star, there were hundreds of eyeball-shaped treasures with wings running in orbit.

Saint King weapon?

Anytime?

Anywhere?

And it's a complete set?

“The power of my set of treasures is not bad. Ordinary Saint Kings basically cannot block a single blow.”

Jiang Li was very confident, because during this time, he had reforged and upgraded this set of treasures, and also left some Pure Yang Pills in each treasure, so that they could launch attacks when needed.

“However, after each attack, each one will be temporarily unusable and needs to be spaced out for a period of time.”

That's already invincible, okay!

At the thought of so many powerful weapons floating in the sky, everyone felt a chill in their hearts, but then they thought, this is our treasure, what are we afraid of?

So,

Their courage grew.

“Go ahead and do it. Regardless of the human race or the ancient race, give the human race who are willing to submit one last chance. As for the ancient race, clear them all out. Kill those who are unwilling to leave, and capture those who should be captured. After being converted, the ancient race are good labor force.”

“Yes.”

… …

So, in the following period of time, groups of cultivators often flew across the sky of the Southern Ridge, driving magic weapons that far exceeded their realm.

The sun and moon in the sky would also occasionally project streamers of light, pointing to various places in the Southern Ridge. That was the formation of the palaces on the Taiyin Star and the Sun Star exerting their power, which could directly conduct reconnaissance, strikes, and teleportation from outside the territory.

Because these days, the people of the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty have been violently resisting the law. At first, it was an ancient race living here.

“What Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty, this is our territory!”

In front of an ancient race's mountain gate, the gatekeeper of the ancient race shouted.

Opposite them were several disciples of the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty. They were all wearing divine armor, divinely martial and extraordinary, and the aura emanating from them was very powerful, but it was not because they were strong, but because this set of equipment was very strong.

They were all people from the Demon Emperor Palace. After joining the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty, they began to clean up the entire Southern Ridge for the Imperial Dynasty.

These equipment on their bodies were sent by the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty.

In addition to equipment, the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty only sent other materials and some non-combat personnel for building the Southern Ridge, educating the people here, and spreading the cultivation method used by mortals of the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty.

The mortals of the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty were very enthusiastic about this matter, and there were many applicants, because doing things for the Imperial Dynasty could accumulate contributions and exchange for cultivation methods.

These martial arts cultivation introductory mortals were very suitable for doing these things. They were all very motivated and had a large number of people. Sending a large number of people to the Western Desert and the Southern Ridge was still complaining that there were not enough places.

With them there, it would not be long before the mortals of the Western Desert and the Southern Ridge would be assimilated by the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty.

The Imperial Dynasty only sent non-combat personnel, while the combat personnel were dispatched by the Demon Emperor Palace and the Barbarian Race, wearing King's armor, and began to clean up the entire Southern Ridge.

“This place was originally their human territory, but it was later occupied by you. Now the original owner has joined our Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty and dedicated this land to us. Why don't you leave quickly!”

The leading disciple of the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty had a chariot and a divine spear more than the others, and shouted loudly.

“Hmm?”

Among the ancient race, a powerful aura rose, causing the four fields to shake, and the sky seemed to be collapsing.

An ancient race Ancestral King was disturbed and came out to check the situation, seeing that it was just a few small fries causing trouble in front of their mountain gate.

These disciples of the Sun Moon Imperial Dynasty only had one Great Power, but everyone had a set of King's divine weapons, so rich that they were dripping with oil.

He was very disdainful, “A group of ants, want to contend with the Ancestral King with King's divine weapons? Are you awake?”

“Get out!”

“If you don't get out, you will all die!”

The Ancestral King's tone was fierce, but he did not directly attack.

Because a man's reputation casts its shadow, he didn't dare to casually touch anyone associated with Jiang Li. Although he had the backing of the royal family, if Jiang Li set his sights on him, even the royal family might not be able to protect him. The Great Sage of Primal Lake was an example.

Facing an Ancestral King, the leader of the Sun Moon Dynasty was fearless, "It seems you are unwilling to return the land of our Sun Moon Dynasty."

Boom!

The Ancestral King unleashed a saber strike, collapsing a large swathe of mountains.

Several disciples of the Sun Moon Dynasty were sent flying. Even their King-tier armor and chariots couldn't withstand the might of a Saint. Although the attack wasn't aimed at them, it still caused them to cough up blood.

"It seems you don't want to leave," the Ancient race Ancestral King said, holding a demonic saber, his killing intent palpable.

"Cough cough… Requesting support…"

The leading Great Power reported the situation and requested reinforcements through the Jade Radiance Realm.

At noon, inside the Sun Star Palace, a tool person within the Divine Imprint Purple Gold Pagoda received the support request and activated the weapon.

In orbit above the Northern Dipper, the three eyeball-shaped treasures split open from the middle, and a long, tubular object rose up, covered with sun, moon, and flight patterns. These patterns lit up layer by layer, and then a dazzling pillar of light shot out from it, directly towards the ground.

The Ancient race Ancestral King sensed something was wrong. A cold danger, devoid of killing intent, had locked onto him.

No killing intent, no other emotions, just a pure crisis that wanted to destroy him.

He looked up at the sky and saw three dazzling stars approaching rapidly. Three beams of light, each dozens of feet in diameter, arrived in an instant, engulfing him in a crossfire. His body gradually faded from a dark shadow to nothingness within the light pillars, annihilated.

He was dead.

Reduced to ashes.

An Ancestral King was burned to ashes by the divine light falling from the sky. A deep pit of unknown depth appeared on the ground, the surrounding soil a molten, reddish substance.

Even the disciples of the Demon Emperor Palace couldn't help but feel shocked after witnessing this scene. That was an Ancestral King, an existence comparable to a Saint, yet he was reduced to ashes just like that?

Although they knew the dynasty's secret weapon had such capabilities, capable of killing ordinary Saint Kings, knowing and seeing it were completely different. They thought there would at least be a corpse left, but he was directly turned into dust.

Too satisfying!

Now they could walk sideways throughout the entire Northern Dipper!

Buzz--

Space trembled, as if a wild beast was ramming into it, and then it burst open with a bang.

An army clad in King-tier armor emerged from the spatial rift, the iron-blooded and肃杀 atmosphere making the air around the Ancient race mountain gate seem to stagnate.

This army wasn't large, but among them was a Saint, holding a divine talisman.

The divine talisman shone with nine colors, its immortal light dazzling, its lightning radiant, a golden Dao treasure, indestructible through myriad tribulations.

The remaining Ancient race were immediately frightened out of their wits, because most of them recognized what it was: Jiang Li's Undying Thunder Talisman!

How could Jiang Li's Dao Validation artifact, the Undying Thunder Talisman, be here? We're clearly the victims, aren't we? Why does it seem like you're here for revenge, even bringing Jiang Li's magic weapon!

"Hmph!"

With a cold snort from the Saint, several King-level cultivators in the Sun Moon Dynasty's army waved Saint-tier banners, forming a complete set of array flags, casting ten thousand miles of rosy clouds to surround the entire Ancient race mountain gate, not letting anyone escape.

The Saint holding the Undying Thunder Talisman raised the immortal gold talisman above his head, the nine kinds of immortal light interweaving, each strand as heavy as immortal gold.

As the immortal light fell, all the Ancient race grunted. Those with weaker cultivation directly collapsed to the ground, while those with higher cultivation could still persevere, but it seemed as if they were carrying a divine mountain on their backs, pressing them to bend over completely, not daring to look directly at the Undying Thunder Talisman's light.

"The Human race is bullying us too much!"

An Ancestral King unleashed a Saint weapon, its aura sweeping across the sky, tearing apart the ten thousand miles of rosy clouds laid out by the array flags.

Seeing that someone still dared to resist, the immortal light on the Undying Thunder Talisman immediately blazed up, turning into thunder that crashed down.

"Death to those who resist!"

...

"What!"

The Blood Phoenix Mountain Great Sage frowned, "Why is the Sun Moon Dynasty attacking us?"

An affiliated race was destroyed by the Sun Moon Dynasty just like that. The Ancestral King died in battle, and the rest became slaves, converted by the Human race and sold to the labor market.

"It seems that the Sun Moon Dynasty is unifying the Southern Ridge. Not only our Ancient race, but all forces that don't submit to the Sun Moon Dynasty have been subjected to the Sun Moon Dynasty's army conquest these days. On the Human race side, the Sun Moon Dynasty has been making big moves recently, first occupying the entire Western Desert, forcing Mount Sumeru to submit with unknown means, and now they are starting to unify the Southern Ridge. Soon, the Sun Moon Dynasty will occupy two domains."

Two domains!

The Blood Phoenix Mountain Great Sage felt a headache.

This is another Xiao Yan.

But they can't interfere with the Sun Moon Dynasty's affairs right now. One Xiao Yan is enough of a headache. If they clash with the Sun Moon Dynasty, wouldn't Xiao Yan reap the benefits?

"There's also one more thing. Not only our Blood Phoenix Mountain, but the affiliates of the other major royal races, uu Kanshu,

have also been subjected to the Sun Moon Dynasty's conquest."

The Blood Phoenix Mountain Great Sage's heart skipped a beat, sensing something was wrong, "You said the other major royal races? What about those who have joined the Demon God Palace?"

The Ancient race King immediately replied, "All the forces that have joined the Demon God Palace have been shrinking under the Demon God Palace's orders. The Demon God Palace has reallocated their residences and distributed a large amount of resources to appease them."

Damn!

The Blood Phoenix Mountain Great Sage wanted to curse. Xiao Yan is really too despicable. Could he be in cahoots with Jiang Li?

It's no problem for the Demon God Palace to strategically shrink because they have money. Settling those relocated Ancient races isn't difficult. The Demon God Palace even gives them money on a regular basis.

But their Blood Phoenix Mountain can't do that. The relationship between those affiliates and them is very loose. Their Blood Phoenix Mountain can't possibly give relocation fees.

Moreover, at this crucial time, their Blood Phoenix Mountain, out of self-interest, is unwilling to have another conflict with the Human race. If they cripple each other, Xiao Yan will pick up the cheap.

"Great Sage, should we intervene? I've found out that there's a lot of dissatisfaction within the Human race regarding the Sun Moon Dynasty's actions. Perhaps we can sow discord from within."

The Blood Phoenix Mountain Great Sage hesitated again and again, "Forget it, don't bother with it."

The Western Desert is the territory of the Buddhist sect and has nothing to do with them.

They have some small industries in the Southern Ridge, but the impact isn't very big.

As for the mere affiliated small races, let them die.

Now the most important thing is to guard their own territory and not be swallowed by the ambitious Xiao Yan.

Moreover, it's better for those affiliates and scattered small races to die. After all, even if they all die in the hands of the Human race, it's better than benefiting Xiao Yan.