23: Unknown Town

[You cannot help but feel your scalp tingle.]

[The Dynasty Alliance established by the Great Abyss Dynasty is a bona fide Demonic Path organization, waging war everywhere and committing all sorts of evils in the Eastern Continent Cultivation World.]

[But how could the Boundless Immortal Dynasty, which forcibly sacrifices the geniuses of various imperial dynasties, be any better?]

[Although it is the Righteous Path in name.]

[In reality, its actions are no different from those of the Demonic Path.]

[You cannot help but lament the darkness of the Cultivation World.]

[On the other side, the mysterious Soul attached to Chu Han has also reached the end of its rope.]

["Little Han, I'm afraid Master will have to sleep for a while."]

["You will have to walk the remaining path on your own..."]

[With that, a terrifying aura erupted, and countless specters died upon contact.]

[A Tribulation Transcendence cultivator!!!]

[For a moment, Tian Jiao and Immortal Master Youhun were greatly shocked.]

[With only Soul Transformation cultivations, they did not dare to block the mysterious Soul at all, and could only let him leave.]

[Your heart, in particular, was filled with turbulent waves.]

[Others did not know the origin of the mysterious Soul, but you had seen him fight the Lion King.]

[At that time, he at most seemed to have just entered the Nascent Soul Realm. How could he be a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator?]

[What on earth did he and Chu Han obtain in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range all these years?]

[You had no way of knowing.]

[With the departure of the mysterious Soul and Chu Han, Tian Jiao also snorted coldly and returned to the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range to report back.]

[You, who had originally blended into the beast tide, found an opportunity to break away from it.]

[You returned to Xuanhe Village.]

[By this time, the Azure Heaven Grass had reached the Early Stage of the third tier.]

[With the help of the Great Wilderness Beast God Scripture, you formed a contract with the Azure Heaven Grass.]

[Your cultivation received a slight boost.]

[You knew that this was not a place to stay for long. Although you had avoided the specters tonight with the help of Tian Jiao and the beast tide, they might continue to sweep through this area tomorrow.]

[You planned to change locations and continue your cultivation, but to your surprise, no matter where you wanted to go in the Great Wu Dynasty, your Crisis Awareness would warn you.]

[With no other choice, you had to do the opposite and head toward the Great Abyss Dynasty.]

[Although your Crisis Awareness also warned you here, the feeling was relatively weak.]

[You arrived at a remote town in the Great Abyss Dynasty. Although it was barren, it had never suffered from the disturbances of war.]

[You began your cultivation here.]

[In the fiftieth year, your cultivation remained at the fifth layer of the Purple Mansion, and your Body Refining Realm was still at the Middle Stage of the third tier.]

[Refusing to believe in ill fate, you began to Cultivate once more.]

[The fifty-fifth year.]

[At this time, your cultivation was still stuck at the fifth layer of the Purple Mansion, and your Body Refining Realm was still at the Middle Stage of the third tier.]

[This made you somewhat impatient.]

[You realized that you could not go on like this.]

[Cultivating here, you had no Spirit Stones, no Spirit Medicines, and no Spiritual Veins. Relying solely on the thin Spiritual Qi in the air, you would probably Cultivate until death without making a Breakthrough to the sixth layer of the Purple Mansion.]

[You began to inquire about the situation of this town.]

[As it turned out, this town was called Nameless Town, just a remote little town in the Great Abyss Dynasty. Because there were very few cultivators in it, even the Great Abyss Dynasty forgot about them during conscription. After all, the strongest person here, the master of the Hunyuan Martial Hall, was only at the Foundation Establishment Realm.]

[The only Spiritual Vein in this small town had one end at the Hunyuan Martial Hall and the other at the town mayor's house.]

[Instead of choosing to go to the Hunyuan Martial Hall, you came to the mayor's house.]

[After promising the mayor to hunt a certain number of Yao Beasts every year, you obtained the qualification to Cultivate on the Spiritual Vein.]

[Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was the sixty-second year.]

[With the help of the Spiritual Vein and Heaven Rewards Diligence, you painstakingly stepped into the sixth layer of the Purple Mansion.]

[Although your Realm progressed extremely slowly, you were as happy as a child.]

[Furthermore, during your time in Nameless Town, you gained a rough understanding of the current situation of the Great Abyss Dynasty.]

[Although the Great Abyss Dynasty had already led the Dynasty Alliance to sweep through most of the Eastern Continent Cultivation World, the Boundless Immortal Dynasty's foundation remained. Several Xianhan Old Ancestors rose from their coffins in the ancestral land and blocked the Dynasty Alliance's offensive.]

[Now, both forces were locked in a stalemate, refusing to yield an inch.]

[Moreover, they were both frantically gathering resources, preparing for the final decisive battle.]

[At this point, let alone the human imperial dynasties, even the Yao Race's Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range was affected.]

[Under the continuous years of war and the frantic gathering of resources by both forces, the already impoverished Loose Cultivators found their situation even worse.]

[A large number of Loose Cultivators began to form demon-hunting squads to enter the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range and hunt Yao Beasts. Although their overall strength was not high, they had the advantage of numbers. For cultivation resources, they would go even though they knew the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range was a place of near-certain death.]

[As for those small families and small Sects, they had it even worse. Burdened with families, they were not like Loose Cultivators who had no one else to feed, and they simply did not dare to go to the Ten Thousand Demon Mountain Range to search for resources.]

[But they also needed resources and had to Cultivate.]

[In desperation, they had no choice but to fight for more territory to maintain their basic cultivation resources.]

[Where some succeeded in the struggle, others failed.]

[Countless failed forces declined from then on.]

[The successful forces still had to plan for future cultivation resources.]

[Fortunately, however, none of this ever affected you.]

[Nameless Town was like a paradise, untouched by the disturbances of the war.]

[You continued to Cultivate, and as time passed, the Purple Flame Lion and the Azure Heaven Grass made Breakthroughs to the Middle Stage of the third tier one after another. Although the Azure Heaven Grass provided you with less help due to the limitations of your Cultivation Technique, you could clearly feel that you were not far from the seventh layer of the Purple Mansion.]

[In the sixty-eighth year, you broke through to the seventh layer of the Purple Mansion. Because breaking through this Bottleneck was extremely difficult, you triggered a vision.]

[The mayor's granddaughter saw the vision of your Breakthrough and begged you to take her as a Disciple.]

[You tested her Spiritual Root and found that she only had a Pseudo Spiritual Root just like yours.]

[Without the help of a Golden Finger, making a Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment with this kind of Spiritual Root would be a luxury.]

[You rejected her request, but still gave her a low-grade Cultivation Technique to practice.]

[In the seventy-first year, a group of uninvited guests arrived at Nameless Town.]

[The leader claimed to be a Disciple of the True Flame Sect.]

[They demanded that Nameless Town immediately send 100 cultivators to the front line.]

[The mayor came forward to receive them and expressed that Nameless Town had very few cultivators, so they simply did not have that many.]

[The True Flame Sect Disciples stated that they did not care about that; this was an order issued from above. If Nameless Town could not gather 100 cultivators within three days, what awaited them would be destruction.]

[The mayor fell into despair.]

[However, just at this moment, the master of the Hunyuan Martial Hall, Immortal Master Ma, stepped forward, stating that he had trained quite a few cultivators for Nameless Town over the years.]

[Although they were only at the Qi Refining Realm, they were willing to contribute their strength for the town they lived in.]