262: Chapter 262 Forced Conscription! Galo is in a panic!

Wanxiang Star Domain, Purgatory Hall.

As the legacy established by the Great Emperor Purgatory, Purgatory Hall was not only one of the largest super-powers in the Wanxiang Star Domain, but also a cultivation Holy Land that countless Cultivators fought tooth and nail to enter.

Since her former greatest backer, the 'Feather Race,' had been slapped into fossils three million years ago, the Purgatory Hall—with its promise of shelter under a great tree—naturally became the primary target for Jialuo, who was in urgent need of resources to increase her strength.

After all, only a super-power standing at the peak of the Star Domain possessed an absolute monopoly over top-tier resources.

Joining those precarious small Sects would be a complete waste of her peerless talent.

As for fighting alone like she used to?

Jialuo hadn't even considered it.

Without massive amounts of resources piled up, no matter how good your natural talent was, you could only hide in a cave and stare blankly; you might even accidentally end up as a cultivation vessel for other powerful experts.

“Actually... I really don't recommend you join Purgatory Hall right now.”

“Now that the Realm Demons are invading and the situation is turbulent, the most important thing for Loose Cultivators like us without a Foundation is to find a hidden star to seclude ourselves from the world.”

Standing before the towering gates of Purgatory Hall that reached into the clouds, the green-robed Heavenly Immortal Li Fan was still trying to persuade her with earnest words.

As a veteran Loose Cultivator who had struggled alone in the Wanxiang Star Domain for many years and successfully survived until the Heavenly Immortal Realm, Li Fan possessed a terrifying survival instinct that ordinary people could not match.

His intuition told him that joining a Sect at this time was definitely not a wise move.

However, facing Li Fan's advice, Jialuo only gave him a cold glance.

“Only the weak choose seclusion; the strong have always grown through hardship and slaughter!”

Jialuo slightly raised her snow-white chin. In those golden eyes half-hidden by a light veil, there was an arrogance and contempt born of long-held high status, as she evaluated him mercilessly:

“Do you know why you've cultivated for so long and are still just a mere Heavenly Immortal? It's because you lack the courage and ambition to swim against the current in your very bones!”

Li Fan was left speechless by the rebuttal and could only helplessly roll his eyes in his mind.

He was completely defeated by this fallen goddess who had come from who-knows-which Lower Realm.

He sighed inwardly, thinking he must have failed to check the almanac before leaving home. How did he run into such bad luck to be caught by this great deity who didn't know the heights of the heavens?

If he weren't unable to defeat her, he would have slipped away long ago.

“Put away your ridiculous, cowardly thoughts. You only need to stay honestly by my side and help me with things, and you won't lack for benefits!”

Jialuo saw Li Fan's reluctance, but so what?

In the world of cultivation, whoever has the bigger fist holds the truth.

She would use practical actions to prove to this timid Heavenly Immortal what true Genius treatment looked like!

As it turned out, the Golden Immortal cultivation with three strands of Origin that Jialuo deliberately displayed, along with her pure and flawless aura of the Great Dao of Light, indeed immediately caught the attention of the Purgatory Hall's higher-ups.

Without a doubt, she successfully passed the rigorous assessment. Not only did she join the Purgatory Hall directly, but she was also exceptionally granted the position of an Outer Court Elder with real power!

The cultivation resources distributed every month were a vast amount that would make even Grand Unity Golden Immortals envious, even back in the Three Thousand Upper Realms.

And as Jialuo's 'attendant,' although Li Fan only had a Heavenly Immortal Realm cultivation, he also benefited by association, successfully landing a lucrative Deacon position in the Purgatory Hall.

Looking at the abundant Divine Crystals and top-grade Immortal Pills deposited into his waist token, although Li Fan felt the money was a bit too hot to handle, he ultimately couldn't resist the 'Law of true fragrance' and accepted it happily.

“Fine, fine. Men die for wealth and birds die for food. Such a good job is worth taking a bit of a risk.”

Li Fan secretly made up his mind: “Anyway, I only signed a one-year contract with this crazy woman. Once the year is up and I've taken enough pay, I'll decisively leave and find some remote corner to go into closed-door cultivation!”

A year's time was nothing more than the duration of a nap for Immortals of their level; what big disaster could happen?

Furthermore, Li Fan rationally analyzed the situation in his mind:

“Although I've heard the battle at the front lines is tragic and even the Great Emperor has to go personally, that's the Realm Battlefield! For a fight between gods of that level, even if they need to conscript troops, it won't be the turn of a Heavenly Immortal like me to go and die...”

Li Fan felt that the probability of a 'seclusion path' person like himself being dragged to the front lines was not high.

However.

Just one month after Jialuo and Li Fan joined Purgatory Hall.

A piece of news like a bolt from the blue completely shattered all their illusions and hopes for luck!

[Supreme Decree of the Great Emperor: The situation at the Realm Battlefield is critical! From this day forward, all Cultivators of the Purgatory Hall above the Immortal Realm, except for those in essential positions staying to guard the Sect, are to be immediately and forcibly conscripted. Everyone will set out for the Realm Battlefield to resist the demon invasion!]

When they saw the supreme mobilization order flashing with blood-colored light on the Sect's Jade Slip.

Jialuo was stunned.

Wait...

I've only been on the job for a damn month!

My seat as an Elder hasn't even gotten warm yet, and I haven't even finished browsing the Purgatory Hall's Scripture Pavilion, and you're making me go to the battlefield to risk my life against those Realm Demons?!

Is this a joke?!

I only came here to leech resources, not to be your suicide squad!

And beside her, Li Fan was pushed directly to the brink of collapse.

At this moment, Li Fan had only one pure thought: Run! Run as far as possible! Right now!

However, before he could put this thought into practice.

“Buzz—!!!”

A vast pressure from a Saint Realm powerhouse, like physical chains, tightly enveloped the entire massive mountain gate of the Purgatory Hall, suppressing all Cultivators above the Immortal Realm who intended to evade the conscription right where they stood, unable to move an inch!

“Everyone! The Great Emperor has ordered: the survival of the Realm is the responsibility of every individual!”

An old voice filled with the aura of iron-blooded slaughter echoed through the clouds.

The Grand Elder of the Purgatory Hall, a genuine Saint Realm expert, hovered in mid-air with a grim expression.

He waved his large hand.

“Rumble—!”

The clouds shattered and the Void Realm vibrated.

Over a hundred terrifying War Immortal Ships, each hundreds of thousands of miles long and engraved with countless space-time Law formations, appeared above the Purgatory Hall like giant beasts that blotted out the sun!

“Line up and board the ships immediately! Those who disobey will be executed without mercy!”

Faced with this irresistible supreme military order, Jialuo was completely numb.

She looked at those War Immortal Ships, a sense of unprecedented powerlessness rising in her heart.

Was it really a mistake for her to come to the Major Thousand Worlds?

Was her choice to join the Purgatory Hall also a mistake??

Then what exactly is the right thing to do??!

Jialuo fell into deep self-doubt.

Meanwhile, in the Yuchuan Realm, Su Feng was carefully screening the information sent by Su Yuan.

Resting on Tu Shan Ya's cloud, his eyes suddenly lit up.

“Hmm, an SS+ rank target? Not bad! She's the one!”