Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 515 - 505: Imminent Danger, Ascending to the Nine Heavens

Chapter 515: Chapter 505: Imminent Danger, Ascending to the Nine Heavens

Swoosh——!

Two brilliant rainbows soared straight up from the pinnacle of East Mountain Taishan, scattering the winds and snows along the way, and piercing through the vast layer of Gang Qi.

After reaching the limit where Yellow Seal Mage could remain, they continued to ascend with undiminished momentum.

The one driving that golden-cyan rainbow was none other than Wang Yuan.

He was seated on a blue cloud, a jade crown on his head and a Taoist robe around his body, holding a white jade Ruyi in his hand. His navy-blue eyes shone with divine light, and he exuded an immortal aura.

To any mortal who saw him, he would be mistaken for a divine being, an Immortal Saint stepped right out of a painting of gods and Buddhas.

Where was there even a trace of the struggling, foolish orphan from Daling Village?

Several days ago, after learning of the unexpected movements of the One-Eyed Stone Man, he postponed his journey to recognize the way at Heavenly Gate.

Not until his second disciple Gao Jisheng successfully broke through the "Divine Splitting."

He personally went to the land of competing heroes in Red County Shenzhou and captured a wild Military Leader who, despite having committed many evil deeds, was an excellent choice in appearance and Military Skill.

He entrusted the Hybrid Pioneer, Lei Mingyuan of the Four Gods, to remodel it into a new body for Gao Jisheng.

It was only after arranging everything that he went to the heavens with Great Fate.

During this time, he and his Big Cousin had seriously discussed whether or not to strike preemptively and march on No-Life Dao.

However, after much deliberation, they ultimately abandoned this tempting idea.

It was the month of January, and the remnants of the long, harsh winter still ruled the entire Red County Shenzhou, with heavy snow sealing the mountains, making it difficult to move troops.

Between the two forces, there were the eight hundred miles of Dongping Lake, creating a natural defensive barrier provided by the Ink Qilin Song Xingyun.

For the Wave Flipping Army, who possessed Divine Skills like "Wave Jumping" and were quite adept at such weather, it was no problem, but it created significant difficulties for King Jing’s subordinates.

The Divine Machine Camp, the Tiger Riders, the Dragon Martial Army, the Divine Might Army, and the White Tiger Elite Soldiers, these five Daoist Soldier camps originally brought from Yunjing City by the two Martial Saints, were all ill-suited for naval warfare.

The number of people in the Long Water Camp, the direct lineage force of Zhou Jinhuan, had not increased significantly from last year; it had just reached two thousand.

The Daoist Soldiers among the captured pirates and Garrison Soldiers added up to barely more than a thousand men.

With such a military configuration, to voluntarily go and fight a naval battle in this body of water connected to the Dharma Domain of the One-Eyed Stone Man, was truly an act of courting death.

On the contrary,

Perhaps those demons and heretics confined in the Blood and Sweat Factory of Dushuo Mountain, as well as those evil ghosts in Sewing Machine Hell, might not agree,

But Old Master Wang’s Daoist Skill Industry had indeed gotten off to a good start.

The longer time dragged on, the more robust the power accumulated by Dengzhou Prefecture became.

In time, they would have enough force to crush the enemy’s economy as decisively as Taishan collapsing,

During this period, as long as the factories had sufficient raw materials, the extent of the lands under one’s control was no longer the key factor determining strength.

If not for the critical factor of "Wishing Power" from the people’s hearts, which determined the upper limits of Zhou Jinhuan’s Dragon Energy and Military Skill Cultivation,

Wang Yuan would have wished for him to just lie low until the advent of the electrical revolution, and then he could sweep across the universe with the Productivity Suppression Skill.

Meanwhile, enumerating the enemies now qualified to threaten him, the Green Seal Sage,

"The Qingtian Righteous Law Path suffered heavy losses earlier; the Child Rejuvenation Immortal has already become the Jade Mansion Thunder Pivot, joining the warm family of the Dushuo Mountain Blood Sweat Factory.

Only the Flower Hairpin Lady remains as a Green Seal.

Information came from the Dragon and Tiger Temple, stating that Yellow Heaven Righteous Dao, Manxiang Temple, and the sixteen mighty nations have collectively shifted their strategic focus.

They have begun their preliminary probing into Langqiong’s Six Shaos, and internal strife within the sects is imminent.

The crisis to the southwest has temporarily eased; with the Dragon and Tiger Temple pinned there to leverage forces, none of them can penetrate deeply into the heart of Divine Land and come looking for trouble with Old Master Wang."

All these factions have reliable allies to shoulder the burden; once their internal strife ends, it’s uncertain how many will remain.

"Then there’s the Daoist Enemy facing Fengdu City directly, the Underground Master. Whether it’s Ghost Path or Spirit and Body Unification, it’s a fight to the death for either of us.

Fortunately, this Demi Immortal is an ’Earth-Bound Spirit,’ trapped in the Ghost Peach Forest for a thousand years. With the Precepts and Taboos of the native Heavenly Dao in place, he cannot easily come out under normal circumstances.

All that’s left is the ’Peach God Tao’ and ’No-Life Dao.’

Nowadays, aside from Emperor Mu, ’Peach God Tao’ has no second Green Seal Sage under the Heavenly Gate and poses no threat; I do need to be especially careful with them when I go beyond the Heavenly Gate this time.

After calculating it all, the ones I need to be most wary of are the No-Life Dao and the One-Eyed Stone Man, and perhaps another variable being one of their subordinate Martial Saints.

Unfortunately, the same trick won’t work twice against us!"

Now, the rivers under King Jing’s control are dredged every year, the river networks of the Four Prefectures are interconnected, with a capacity to hold floods far exceeding the past.

The Turbid River Dragon King, one of the Four Dragon Kings of Divine Land, the little concubine Long Shao, has long since ascended to the Earth Essence realm with her Taoist Friend, the Azure Dragon, Star Lord Qingyan.

They are just one step away from Divine Transformation.

With their support, even if torrential rains and floods joined forces, it was impossible to recreate the incident where the Turbid River almost changed its course last time."

This time the focus of Wang Yuan and his allies’ defense and counterattack was set on the One-Eyed Stone Man.

They had to kill this critical threat, who lurked in the upper reaches of the Turbid River, ready to endanger the entirety of Yu State at any moment.

They had to seize the other thirty-five Dragon Balls filled with the Dragon Energy of the Turbid River from generations past.