240: The battle for the origin!

Suddenly, heaven and earth emitted a seven-colored radiance, projecting vast amounts of heaven and earth essence Qi onto the Chiyun Sword Sect! This allowed the roots and bones of every Cultivator in the Chiyun Sword Sect to undergo a baptism.

This blessing actually raised the strength of everyone in the Chiyun Sword Sect by an entire level, shifting them from being tied with the other Five Great Powers to standing alone at the pinnacle!

This completely stunned the people of the Thousand Stars State. Who knew that plundering the Origin of other states and returning it to the Thousand Stars State could actually garner the blessings of the Thousand Stars State's heaven and earth?!

After deliberation, they unanimously concluded that this must be an instinctive consciousness of the Thousand Stars State's existing Origin, yearning for the Cultivators upon it to help restore it to the state of an Origin Heart.

After this incident, those on the Thousand Stars State who had originally opposed plundering the Origin of other states began to grow restless!

However, upon learning of the Northern Wilderness State's plight, the other states also became vigilant.

Those states possessing three or four hundred Origins, in particular, were guarded to the extreme!

If just two Origins could yield such rewards, wouldn't the Thousand Stars State take flight if it obtained the many Origins from their own states?!

Asking themselves honestly, were it not for the fact that their strength was inferior and they could not defeat the Thousand Stars State, they would likely have planned to plunder the other states clean as well.

Consequently, after this battle, a highly tense situation formed between the states. The Thousand Stars State stood alone as the dominant power, eyeing the 106 states that still possessed Origin with covetous gazes.

Several second-tier states began to unite to resist the Thousand Stars State, so the Thousand Stars State dared not act recklessly for fear of being carved up by these states collectively.

Yet as time passed, ten thousand years later, this conflict inevitably reached a breaking point!

Ninety thousand years ago, a great war that swept across the entire Eastern Region erupted! The Thousand Stars State finally revealed its plans, baring its fangs!

They actually wanted to restore the Origin Heart!

Originally, this plan would have been excellent for the entire Eastern Region. Having been devastated by the fallout from two powerhouses, the Eastern Region had completely declined and could not compete with the other four regions!

If the Origin Heart could be restored, then their Eastern Region would still have a chance to rise again!

But the problem was, by what right were the Cultivators of the Thousand Stars State the ones to restore the Origin Heart?

If the Cultivators of the other states lost their Origin, how were they to Cultivate? Were they expected to migrate their entire states to the Thousand Stars State?

This was simply impossible!

Not to mention that the migration process required crossing the Devouring Demon Sea. What kind of place was the Devouring Demon Sea? It was fine if only a few people crossed it on ordinary days.

But if a large number of Cultivators crossed the sea together, the probability of attracting sea beasts would increase drastically. Migrating an entire state?

One dared not even imagine how many sea beasts that would attract!

Besides, how large was the Thousand Stars State? Could it accommodate all the Cultivators from the 108 States?

Thus, the other states could not possibly agree to this. It was an irreconcilable conflict, and all the events that followed could only be written in blood!

In this epoch-defining war, there were no winners; every state suffered varying degrees of damage.

While the Thousand Stars State was indeed powerful, it had underestimated the Alliance of the other three states. It had overextended itself, actually hoping to achieve total victory in a single campaign!

While waging war against the three major states, it had simultaneously sent people to invade other weaker states.

In the end, not only did they fail to obtain much Origin, but they also ended up severely crippled!

Nearly half of their original dozens of Yang Solid Cultivators perished, and the losses among the lower-level Cultivators were even heavier.

However, they had managed to plunder over twenty Origins from other states, slightly increasing their total number of Origins.

The three-state Alliance fared no better; they had also lost nearly half of their top-tier combat strength. Although they had withstood the Thousand Stars State's offensive and protected their own Origins, they were also severely crippled.

The most miserable of all were the other weak states. Those states were not even as powerful as the Northern Wilderness State had been, so all of them had their Origins seized by the Cultivators of the four states!

Fortunately, the Danling State was not on the four states' list for plundering. In fact, besides the Danling State, many other states were also spared.

One reason was that the Danling State's geographical location was relatively remote; sending people there carried the risk of being ambushed.

Another reason was that the Alchemy Origin was not urgently needed by the powerhouses; they preferred the Five Elements Origin or the Dark Origin, which provided formidable combat strength.

The Northern Wilderness State's Life Origin was simply too powerful, which attracted the Thousand Stars State's covetousness, making it the first state to have its Origin plundered.

In truth, the four major states focused most of their strength on the main battlefield, viewing the other small states merely as targets of opportunity for plundering.

However, this situation had already caused the people of the Danling State to panic, as they did not know what they would face in the future!

Under the pressure of this tense situation, in order to protect their only Origin power.

The twenty-three Grandmasters of Alchemy of the Danling State made a decision!

They would join forces to refine a Nine-Rank Pill!

If they could successfully refine a Nine-Rank Pill and become a supreme Grandmaster of Alchemy, they would be able to master this Alchemy Origin.

By that time, unless the people of the Thousand Stars State annihilated all twenty-three of them, it would be impossible to plunder this Origin!

In the field of Alchemy, Nine-Rank was the highest level below the Immortal Pill! Under normal circumstances, Eight-Rank was already the limit for the vast majority of Geniuses.

However, even within the Eight-Rank, the gap between each level was immense!

An Elementary Eight-Rank Medicinal Pill might have a huge effect on powerhouses Undergoing Tribulation, but for Cultivators in the Yuan Xu Realm, it already had little effect.

However, if one could refine an Intermediate Eight-Rank Medicinal Pill, even Yuan Xu Cultivators would covet it greatly; if it were an Advanced Eight-Rank, even Yang Solid Cultivators would covet it!

As for a Peak Eight-Rank Medicinal Pill… to this day, only one person in the entire Danling State could refine it! That person was Dan Ding!

He was the only Peak Grandmaster of Alchemy in the Danling State!

Even Qi Yuda, who was at the seventh layer of the Nascent Void, could only refine an Advanced Eight-Rank Medicinal Pill and was still some distance away from the Peak.

If the gap at the Eight-Rank was this large, it went without saying for the Nine-Rank.

Legend had it that a Peak Nine-Rank Medicinal Pill was a peerless treasure pill that could already be called a semi-Immortal Pill!

It truly possessed the Heaven-Defying efficacy of bringing the dead back to life and regrowing flesh on bones; even a true Immortal would likely have a need for it.

Therefore, in the field of Alchemy, as long as one could refine a Nine-Rank Medicinal Pill, one could completely master this Alchemy Origin!

As for who this Origin would belong to after it was refined, the twenty-three of them had already made the arrangements.

Only when Lu Hao heard this did he slightly understand why the twenty-three Grandmasters of Alchemy were determined to exhaust all their efforts to refine a Nine-Rank Pill.

It turned out that only by refining a Nine-Rank Pill could one master this Alchemy Origin.