Chapter 526

Chapter 526: Nine Star Heavenly Sect

“I didn’t expect that Ye Cang is actually the blue sky. It’s a good thing you didn’t show up, or it would have been troublesome.” Ming Ri sat floating on a ribbon.

“It has always been this way; it’s reasonable to keep a low profile, but who knows if there are other True Immortals?” Yun Ye felt frustrated.

Although he had sensed something was wrong for a while, the issue was too enormous. Can True Immortals really reincarnate into the lower realm?

If the blue sky hadn’t been slightly weaker, he would have been exposed.

“Facing the final boss from the novice village, how simply tragic.”

“Having lived for a million years, there are of course many thoughts and methods, even if it’s a bit weak,” Ming Ri commented.

“It really is too weak. Is that due to sealing all its power?” Yun Ye pondered.

“I’m not sure. Stop guessing. You should be thinking about which path to take now. This way or that?” Ming Ri pointed.

There were two directions around the God Mountain Forbidden Area.

To be more straightforward, it was left and right.

“Let me take a look.”

Yun Ye pulled out a map from the royal collection of the Qian Yuan Dynasty. “Oh, both sides have one of the five major powers: the Nine Star Heavenly Sect to the left and the Great Li Dynasty to the right.”

“A dynasty? Oh, with a Supreme Ruler’s existence, how can anyone dare to use such a name?” Ming Ri leaned in to take a look.

The map detailed that the Great Li Dynasty was established by the descendants of a monarch. Although it had fallen into decline, it still held that qualification.

“The country established by a monarch is the Celestial Empire. After the Celestial Empire collapses, it becomes a dynasty. The Great Li Dynasty has existed for over a hundred thousand years, having faced several great calamities. Its bloodline is already thin; it can barely squeeze into the top five in the border area. After a few more years, this title might also be stripped away. However, for now, a starving camel is still bigger than a horse, and it might still possess a killer move,” Yun Ye casually remarked.

“Surely not; how can a place occupying the core area of seven states survive for over a hundred thousand years without accumulating any foundation?” Ming Ri was surprised.

“No matter how strong the foundation is, it can’t withstand the consumption during the moments of reincarnation. Standing in the wrong line once can wipe away tens of thousands of years of development. Even high-level cultivators might not control their descendants’ growth. The time span is too long; there will always be setbacks. To exist for over a hundred thousand years is already quite miraculous,” said Yun Ye.

While he didn’t know the details, he could speculate that only the moments of reincarnation or a few other rare reasons could truly threaten such a high-level power.

“Which side to go?” Ming Ri nodded and asked.

“The Nine Star Heavenly Sect. Ye Cang’s father mentioned that the face of the snake demon was modeled after the Nine Star Celestial Maiden, so he likely comes from the Nine Star Heavenly Sect. The forces assisting the blue sky are obviously quite powerful, representing a higher human strength in the current era of the Red Heaven realm,” Yun Ye said.

Though he wasn’t in a hurry and could wander around, he hadn’t forgotten that his goal was to investigate the overall strength of the Red Heaven realm.

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Life flows left, fate turns right.

Yun Ye chose the Nine Star Heavenly Sect purely out of necessity and didn’t care about the so-called fate, as long as the choice was his own.

Within the jurisdiction of the world, theoretically, any choice would be recorded as fate.

Deliberately singing off-key would be pointless.

However, that kind of solemn proclamation, indicating that he had already stepped onto a predetermined path of misfortune, he wouldn’t mind singing a counterpoint.

Unfortunately, since the moment of Opening Heaven and Earth, his Status had already become the Creator God, without any other colors.

He could see possibilities, but to say that fate was entirely fixed, even Yun Ye’s Power of Opening Heaven and Earth couldn’t perceive it, perhaps because that future was too distant, or maybe it simply didn’t exist.

Yun Ye didn’t care; once he determined his goal, he continued onward with Ming Ri, traversing mountains and seas to reach the jurisdiction of the Nine Star Heavenly Sect.

As one of the five major powers of the border area, the Nine Star Heavenly Sect occupied only one state, known as Star State.

This Star State was quite vast, far exceeding the area of the usual hundred states, and the sky was also quite peculiar, covered by layers of star canopies. Yun Ye’s vision allowed him to see many things that ordinary people could not; he purposely counted and found there were exactly nine layers, each layer continually shrinking.

“The ultimate ninth layer is where the Nine Star Heavenly Sect is located, isn’t it? That’s quite a grand design. Each layer could rival the super formations of the Luo Dynasty. Although each layer is smaller, they are all progressing: Spirit Formation, Law Formation, Mystic Formation, True Formation…”

Yun Ye murmured to himself.

Such a special and intricate structure is partly natural, but mostly man-made.

If he were the Nine Star Heavenly Sect, he would certainly set the core within his own jurisdiction.

“The spirit energy density here is incredibly astonishing; even the outer areas reach the level of the Great Wilderness Spirit Marsh. Some places with spirit veins even achieve the standard of the core area of the Great Wilderness Spirit Marsh. The core zone must be more extraordinary. Setting up formations of this level is not impossible. The only question is what materials can sustain such a massive formation…” Ming Ri said.

Barriers and formations are constructed from various materials, requiring support for the core.

The larger the formation or barrier, the higher the quality of the materials needed.

This super formation covering the entire Star State, with its nine layers, could not possibly be constructed without extraordinarily rare materials.

In reality, while the formation in Lozhou is much stronger than that in Huangzhou, it has not undergone any qualitative transformation, still remaining within the Spirit Formation category.

Under normal circumstances, it should continuously progress, elevated to Law Formations, Mystic Formations, and even True Formations.

While Law Formations and such require a more complex transformation process, their scale cannot match that of Spirit Formations; however, their effectiveness is indeed much stronger.

But in reality, neither the Holy Lineage of Luo nor the Pure World Holy Land have done this.

The reason is simple: they simply lack the materials to support a super formation level Law Formation, not to mention Mystic and True Formations. They can only use them on a small scale, like eight real beings using several Mystical Treasures to construct the True Formation of Annihilation.

Yet the Nine Star Heavenly Sect before him was quite formidable; the first layer of the Spirit Formation cloaked the entire Star State, and just this point is something the Luo Dynasty could never achieve.

Each subsequent pair of layers altered the formation carrier: the third layer was a Law Formation, the fifth a Mystic Formation, the seventh a True Formation.

And finally, the ninth layer…

The formation of the Honored Position.

“The formation of the Honored Position is not as simple as a standard formation; the gap in foundation is truly palpable,” Yun Ye exclaimed. “Those who planted the trees benefit the most.”

“It’s still one of the five major powers of the border area; who knows how many years it has inherited—it’s the victor from the last moments of reincarnation, so it naturally shouldn’t be underestimated!” Ming Ri shot Yun Ye a glance.

“Let’s go! Let’s see what kind of foundation is held by one of the strongest five powers of the border area!”

Yun Ye maintained his separation from the world; any calculations and observations could not yield accurate answers. Even when he spoke with others, what they saw was the most suitable appearance, completely existing in a state of subtlety, thus preventing any potential issues from arising.