239: What happened in Beihuangzhou!

Ever since the Heart of Origin was shattered, individual strands of Origin randomly merged into each of the major states.

The more Origin that merged into a state, the stronger the local Cultivators born there would be; the less Origin that merged, the weaker the Cultivators.

Why was the Thousand Stars State able to become the strongest among the 108 States?

It was simply because the Thousand Stars State had the largest number of merged Origin strands!

As for the Danling State, its area was small, and its location was quite remote, so in the end, only the Alchemy Origin merged into it.

It was precisely because of this that in the entire Eastern Region, only on the Danling State could one Cultivate Alchemy with half the effort for twice the result; this was also the reason why other states had almost no Alchemists!

With the help of the Alchemy Origin, the Alchemists of the Danling State progressed very rapidly. Not long after the fragmentation, ten Grandmasters of Alchemy were born, though most were only at the Elementary level!

Their cultivation was mostly at the Nascent Void level, and no one had reached the Yang Solid Realm, which was because the Origin was biased towards Alchemy.

Due to the short development time, it was a pity that among these ten Grandmasters of Alchemy, not a single Supreme Grandmaster of Alchemy was born!

However, thanks to the efforts of these ten Grandmasters of Alchemy, the Danling State attained a pivotal status among the 108 States and developed extremely rapidly.

But the Cultivators on the Thousand Stars State boasted of possessing the most Origin and always considered themselves the orthodox rulers of the Eastern Region. In their minds, the other 107 states should all bow down to them!

Although all Cultivators benefited from the Origin, very few knew about it.

Only Cultivators who had reached the Void Realm and above the Nascent Void level could learn of this secret.

Thus, each state developed silently. Due to the Devouring Demon Sea, communication between the states began to become scarce.

The reason was simple: as time passed, the cost of communication between the states became increasingly high.

In the last 100,000 years, except for communication between a few well-developed states, there was basically no communication among the rest!

The Danling State was the same; they gradually stopped selling low-level Medicinal Pills to the outside world because it was too much trouble!

Moreover, even without the Alchemy Origin, Alchemists on other states had no problem refining some low-level Medicinal Pills.

Originally, all states lived in peace with each other, and this continued peacefully for hundreds of thousands of years.

However, hundreds of thousands of years after the Eastern Region fragmented, a war and invasion that swept across all the states suddenly occurred!

The first to suffer a devastating blow in this war was the Northern Wasteland State!

When the Northern Wasteland State first fragmented, it actually possessed two strands of Origin: one was the Life Origin, which ranked in the top ten among the 3,000 Origins!

The other was the Thunder Origin!

Under the influence of these two strands of Origin, the entire Northern Wasteland State was full of vitality, and all Cultivators lived longer than those in other states.

Furthermore, when they Cultivated techniques related to Life and Thunder, they would achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Therefore, at that time, the Northern Wasteland State was far more powerful than it is now. After hundreds of thousands of years of development, it even gave birth to two Cultivators in the Yang Solid Realm!

Cultivators in the Yang Solid Realm had already begun to slowly comprehend the Origin. If they could completely comprehend a strand of Origin, they could master it!

And ascend to a higher Realm!

But obviously, their Cultivation time was still too short; one was at the third level of the Yang Solid Realm, and the other was only at the second level!

To have two powerhouses of the Yang Solid Realm appear on a state with only two strands of Origin was enough to show the power of the Life Origin!

But precisely because of the power of the Life Origin, the Northern Wasteland State became the first target of the Thousand Stars State's invasion!

On an ordinary day, the Chiyun Sword Sect, one of the Five Great Powers of the Thousand Stars State, mobilized its entire force and launched a thunderous strike against the Northern Wasteland State with the help of a concealment Magic Treasure!

They caught the Cultivators of the Northern Wasteland State completely off guard!

The Cultivators of the Northern Wasteland State, who had been peaceful for hundreds of thousands of years, never expected that the Chiyun Sword Sect from the distant Thousand Stars State would suddenly appear before them!

Caught off guard, the Northern Wasteland State had no power to resist, and the high-level Cultivators of the entire state were slaughtered by the people of the Chiyun Sword Sect!

The two great Cultivators of the Yang Solid Realm resisted desperately with the power of the Origin, but were ultimately outnumbered and fell on the Northern Wasteland State!

Furthermore, the Nascent Void Cultivators and Undergoing Tribulation Cultivators below them were also nearly wiped out!

Low-level Cultivators were also affected by the great war, suffering heavy losses.

Since then, the Northern Wasteland State has been unable to recover, directly becoming one of the weakest states among the 108 States.

However, if it were just a slaughter, the Origin would still be there. After tens of thousands of years of reproduction, the Northern Wasteland State would certainly not have become what it is now, where, before Lu Hao, there was not even a single Mahayana Realm Cultivator.

The true devastating blow to the Northern Wasteland State was the disappearance of the Life Origin and the Thunder Origin!

After the people of the Chiyun Sword Sect killed all the high-level Cultivators of the Northern Wasteland State, they allowed the Origin to grow strong again.

Why? Because any Cultivator who becomes a Peak Nascent Void Realm Cultivator will begin to gradually come into contact with the Origin.

If the Eastern Region had not been shattered and the Heart of Origin had not been scattered, then every strand of Origin could continuously circulate and regenerate through the 3,000 Origins, which could sustain the consumption of every Cultivator.

But after the Heart of Origin was shattered, the Dao of Origin became like duckweed without roots and could no longer regenerate!

Therefore, for every additional Peak Nascent Void Realm or even Yang Solid Realm Cultivator, the local Origin would weaken by one point.

So, in order to maintain the strength of the Origin, they had to kill all those high-level Cultivators. In this way, the Origin they absorbed would return to the Dao of Origin.

After the Chiyun Sword Sect slaughtered the Cultivators and strengthened the Origin, they actually used a Dao Grade Magic Treasure to plunder all two strands of Origin from the Northern Wasteland State!

The time to plunder the Origin was incomparably long. It took more than 3,000 years for the Life Origin and the Thunder Origin to be completely plundered.

After the people of the Chiyun Sword Sect succeeded, they immediately returned to the Thousand Stars State. At this time, the Northern Wasteland State was already a mess.

The Northern Wasteland State thus became the first state to lose its Origin.

Since then, it has been difficult for high-level Cultivators to appear in the Northern Wasteland State, and it has also been difficult for Cultivators with superior talent to appear, because without the Origin, the Origin Qi there is extremely thin compared to the Thousand Stars State!

Therefore, the progress of their Cultivators is extremely slow. This is the reason why it was very difficult for any Mahayana Realm Cultivators to appear before Lu Hao!

After the people of the Chiyun Sword Sect returned to the Thousand Stars State, they directly took the Life Origin and the Thunder Origin out of the Magic Treasure and released them onto the Thousand Stars State.

At the same time, a shocking change occurred!

The moment the two strands of Origin appeared, all 913 strands of Origin in the entire Thousand Stars State boiled in unison, as if cheering to welcome their arrival.

After the two strands of Origin merged into the land of the Thousand Stars State, they quickly merged with the 900+ strands of Origin of the Thousand Stars State, without any obstacles at all!

But what the Chiyun Sword Sect did not expect was that the moment the Origins merged together, a powerful blessing from heaven and earth fell upon the Chiyun Sword Sect.