Stronger from Earth

Chapter 400 - 394: Breaking the Formation

A peak Celestial-Tier Evolver presided over the enormous array. The Valley of Longevity was the domain of a King of Evolution, whose magical power could rival a Void True Immortal.

Here, Wan Futu and others, along with several Peak Celestial Immortals, led hundreds of True Inheritors in an assault for ten days with no progress, until Wang Xuan arrived and made notable headway.

Currently, Wang Xuan, wielding a black long sword, stood beneath the Star Hall, confidently analyzing the arrays with full understanding.

Chen Qingniu and Zhou Wu continued to shout, "Evolvers inside, listen up. You are surrounded by us, and now all strong figures of the Evolution Realm have perished, the Evolution Realm is in our hands.

Your defense of the array is nothing more than futile resistance; defeat is inevitable, just a matter of time.

If you willingly disable the array and come out, Immortal Martial Mountain is willing to spare you, allowing you to leave the Evolution Realm and escape into the stars to enjoy a long life of ten thousand years.

If you continue to resist, wasting our time, you’ll bear the consequences after we break the array!

..."

The offer mixed with coercion and temptation, yet despite their verbal exhaustion, there was no reaction within the Valley of Longevity—only palaces and evolution beasts but no human figures.

The unyielding evolvers of the Valley of Longevity infuriated them.

Wang Xuan finally exhaled with relief, "Done."

His mastery of runes and arrays had taken several days to unravel their mysteries. Now, locating the weak points in the array to destroy each array base would suffice to break it.

"After fighting for over ten days here, we can finally go in." Wei Jinnan and others were already restless, as each delay in breaking the array delayed further assaults on the remaining great forces of the Evolution Realm and plundering their treasuries.

The True Inheritors of the Three Veins, Qian Youdao, Wu Cheng, and others, exhausted their magical power multiple times in assaulting efforts, ultimately leaving it to Wang Xuan and the array grandmasters to find the way to break the Valley of Longevity.

"Form the array!" As the Taoist, Wang Xuan commanded all third-generation disciples of the Immortal Martial Mountain. With his shout, hundreds of people combined their powers to manifest a golden figure, as tall as ten zhang, linked by their magical powers, revealing an external solid figure a thousand zhang high.

Though Wang Xuan wasn’t the most powerful among those incorporated into the Earth Expeditionary Army’s third-generation disciples of Immortal Martial Mountain, with no True Immortal present, he was most qualified to be the master of the array physique.

With Wang Xuan’s intent, the golden general from the array slashed out with a celestial halberd, striking the partially awakened Mountain Protection Array of the Valley of Longevity with a thud, causing an explosion of light shooting skyward.

The node was cleaved perfectly, causing massive pressure to spill over. The excessive pressure on one particular array base caused a cracking noise, leading to its rupture.

With several more strikes, the celestial halberd of the golden general, capable of confronting a True Immortal, easily crushed an array base when struck correctly.

After thousands of such strikes, the radiance of the Mountain Protection Array in the Valley of Longevity dimmed gradually, eventually shattering like glass into layers and vanishing into light showers.

The golden general immediately disbanded, leaving hundreds of Immortal Martial Mountain disciples with racing hearts, their faces slightly flushed with excitement.

Pillaging the Valley of Longevity could yield enough to establish a first-class mountain gate on the Mother Star, ample resources to nurture several Star Lords and dozens of Grotto Void True Immortals.

"The Valley of Longevity is ours, Immortal Martial Mountain! Disciples, do not destructively take treasures, remember!" Wang Xuan commanded and joined the others in surging into the Valley of Longevity.

Colorful energies flared in various places, magical powers shattered palaces, as Immortal Martial disciples clashed with the hidden disciples of the Valley of Longevity.

Before long, a Celestial-Tier Evolver was dragged out and smashed into pulp by various Celestial Immortals of Immortal Martial Mountain. This Evolver had made them waste over ten days, earning their enmity!

With hidden threats eliminated, they began indulging in the Taotie feast.

Several thousand-year-old herbal plots cultivated countless king-tier medicines, the cream of which were coveted Treasure Medicines even by Celestial Immortals. With over ten thousand such treasures in the Valley of Longevity, this is millions of years of accumulation.

Even Immortal Martial Mountain could not match this accumulation. Many Immortal Elixirs were transplanted, as the Era of Mythology had dawned merely five centuries ago, still insufficient time for elixirs of shocking age to mature despite Earth’s special environment.

Within a hundred li of the Valley of Longevity, hundreds from Immortal Martial Mountain spread out to individually search for treasures.

Immortal soldiers and treasure artifacts, Evolutionary Treasure Medicines, pots full of stored Treasure Medicines, Evolution Beasts nurtured for many years—

Disciples on the Earth Immortal level, whose Storage Space was filled to the brim, discarded and swapped out items to load more valuable treasures.

As Wang Xuan followed talismanic Tao Patterns to find the largest treasure vault in the Valley of Longevity, everyone went mad. Treasure Medicines, Immortal Materials, Spiritual Gold, Exotic Beast bloodlines, Scriptures—all meticulously categorized, each in piles of thousands or tens of thousands, overwhelming in sight.

Scrolls of scriptures bound by talismanic patterns and brilliant restrictions, jade boxes containing Miracle Elixirs floating mid-air like a swaying beauty, immensely enticing.

Chen Qingniu and others could not help but swallow hard, their Adam’s apples bouncing, completely dazed by the sight.

They had never seen the treasury of Immortal Martial Mountain but had seen their mentors’ collections, and this surpassed the treasures of a Star Lord by far!

"It truly is... a fortune!" Zhou Wu spoke with a quiver in his voice.

Everyone was dumbstruck, Wang Xuan included, exclaiming in awe as even the Void Python detected hundreds of True-Tier treasures.

The mountain gate founded by the King of Evolution, with numerous disciples resulting in at least twenty True-Tier Evolvers over millions of years, could scarcely imagine the stored treasures.

The group wanted to seize it, Wang Xuan’s eyes gleamed with golden light, and he immediately shouted sternly: "Stop! Every treasure here is sealed, connected to the grand array of the entire treasury. If you break the array by force, unexpected things will surely happen!"

The group searched for treasures elsewhere, while Wang Xuan and some array disciples also detached the grand array of the warehouse. No matter how mysterious and profound the array was, without activation, it was just a decoration.

After spending two days detaching the main array bases, Wang Xuan released terrifying nascent Qi, his magical power overwhelming, lifting the billion-ton treasury directly and raising it to the sky.

Wang Xuan shouted: "Senior brothers, this treasury is our gain, but the True Immortals of Immortal Martial Mountain are still beyond the sky, and moreover, they are on the main peak of the Mother Star.

The gains from this Evolution Realm definitely require us to distribute some parts evenly because our ability to hunt for treasure in the Evolution Realm owes to their merits.

Thus, I suggest, that we take half of the items in the treasury, and the rest should be sent beyond the sky, as this can be considered an explanation to others."

The group, deep in thought, looked on with sparkling eyes; the benefits in the Evolution Realm were enough to allow each of them to advance by one or two major realms, an unimaginable resource for cultivation.

Since ancient times, it’s not the lack of goods but the inequality that causes worry. Many have contributed to this Evolution Realm battle, not just these hundreds of people.

They ate the meat in large mouthfuls, but what about those who couldn’t come to the Evolution Realm? If they do not concede some, it would indeed be unfair.

Immortal Martial Mountain has always been united, never lacking in cultivation resources, and after years of nurturing, it was time for them to give back and contribute.

"This is reasonable."

"Rightfully so."

"We are not selfish people, of course, we must not swallow it all alone."

...

As someone who contributed the most to the attack on Valley of Longevity, Wang Xuan took away a considerable amount of spiritual objects and immortal materials, yet no one had any objections; it was what he deserved.

They dispatched a dozen or so people to guard Valley of Longevity, with some disciples sending the treasury of Valley of Longevity into space, while the remaining main force headed towards another vital location in the Evolution Realm.

The Truth Sect Divine Mountain protected by the Nine Dragons Locking the Pearl Grand Array held the most renowned treasury in the entire Evolution Realm; many eyed it, but they couldn’t open the grand array and could only target other key locations.

Returning to the Giant Dragon Mountain Range where arrays were laid, Wang Xuan reached out a hand, and from the mountain range sparkling with countless talismanic Tao Patterns, a palace flew out as boundless Essence Qi surged inside — it was the Star Hall he suppressed there.

Months have passed, and the Spirit Vein at the core of the Giant Dragon Mountain Range still surged with Essence Qi; however, the essence contained in the peaks, array bases outside, got devoured almost completely.

"It took so long; the quantity of Pure Essence Pill refined by the Void Python is incalculable, this wealth is unimaginable.

Originally acting as one component of the Nine Dragons Locking the Pearl, the foundation of the Giant Dragon Mountain Range was damaged under the reverse consumption from my array.

Now, it’s time for me to break the grand array, extract the Spirit Vein, and dig out the treasury."

A black long sword flew out, accompanied by myriad Sword Dao Illusions, as the Star Hall trembled greatly and dropped immense starlight, striking the "Dragon’s Head" of the Giant Dragon Mountain Range together.

A mournful sound seemed to echo, as a large-scale earthquake occurred throughout the Giant Dragon Mountain Range, Earth’s Qi gushed inside, evident chaos on a grand scale.

"Good opportunity!"

Wang Xuan’s enormous Dharma Body appeared, wielding the black long sword and slashing towards the Giant Dragon Mountain Range, witnessing waves of black runes shaking out, dissipating into the world.

A ninth of the Nine Dragons Locking the Pearl Grand Array was instantly broken.

With the sword slashing down, the Giant Dragon Mountain Range suddenly spewed infinite Essence Qi, almost condensing into liquid within the grand array. Wang Xuan’s eyes were fixated on the fountainhead spewing Essence Qi, which was precisely the wound of the Dragon Vein.

As one of the cores of the Nine Dragons Locking the Pearl Grand Array, this Spirit Vein seemed to possess a spirituality but was already injured, with Wang Xuan severing the path connecting it to other Spirit Veins, unable to escape, while "blood" flowed out profusely and its essence pouring heavily.

Sword Dao Illusions flitted through the Giant Dragon Mountain Range, instantly exploding with thousands, tens of thousands of swords! The center of the mountain range was ultimately sliced open, revealing a colorful band of light soaring straight into the clouds.

A giant green dragon extended thousands of feet, lying across the mountain range, Wang Xuan reached out to seize it, yet saw the dragon’s head rise, amazingly it came alive!

The green dragon leapt with all its might, intending to escape!

"Never anticipated you truly became a spirit! If given a few more million years, you might emerge as a Void Realm-level entity."

Wang Xuan laughed heartily; this was an excellent opportunity, and the value of such a Spirit Vein could rival several Life Planets.

"Suppress!" He manipulated the Primordial Spirit with the Star Hall, suppressing the Spirit Dragon, swallowing it into the hall.

The enormous Dharma Body struck forth with a punch, arms already plunged into the mountain, stones up to the shoulder.

The giant body gave a fierce lift, amidst crumbled stones a treasury measuring a thousand feet in length, width, and height was raised by him.