359: A single thread blocked at both ends

Outside the Qingling Sect.

Among the mountains.

Although the Yuyao Kingdom was constantly advancing south, destroying many famous mountains, the area around the Qingling Sect was peaceful, with few traces of war.

Boom!

A loud bang erupted.

The grand Formation used by the Qingling Sect for concealment shattered amidst the roar, and the Sect's immortal peaks could no longer be hidden, exposed to the world.

"How audacious!"

An Elder of the Qingling Sect's reprimand rang out.

Immediately, spiritual energy surged, and a giant stone tablet appeared, smashing fiercely towards a certain direction, clearly an attack using a Magic Treasure.

Clang!

A golden sword edge struck the stone tablet, forcefully blocking the attack.

Then, the attacker, wielding a long sword, unleashed hundreds of golden blades in a short time, fiercely hacking at the stone tablet, beating the Magic Treasure into submission.

Swish!

At this moment, another sound came from the side, and a second attacker appeared.

He did not entangle with the Qingling Sect Elder but instead headed at top speed towards a prominent mountain within the Sect, which seemed to house the Scripture Pavilion.

"Stop, you thief!"

Another reprimand rang out, and a second Qingling Sect Elder appeared, engaging in battle with this attacker.

Then came the third, the fourth... until all the Qingling Sect Elders were present, only to discover with horror that the number of Golden Cores on the opposing side far exceeded theirs.

"Damn it, where did they get the nerve?"

An Elder looked at the group of players in astonishment, deeply shocked.

The Qingling Sect had produced a True Monarch, who had casually killed a Golden Core; this matter would surely spread.

This was also True Lord Feng Chuan's deliberate intention; he wanted to deter players from coveting the Qingling Sect.

But no one had expected that, even knowing there was a True Monarch in residence, these players would still dare to invade the mountain gate!

Were they truly not afraid of death?

"Activate the Formation!"

Suddenly, an Elder shouted.

The next moment, the various peaks of the Qingling Sect rippled with a blue light, intricate patterns flashed on the Formation platforms, and an invisible barrier quietly rose.

All players were blocked outside the grand Formation, each employing their methods, but they couldn't break through.

Just as they were in a stalemate, a ripple of the void surged, and True Lord Feng Chuan arrived.

His face was grim, clearly caught off guard by the players' sudden attack.

But he was a Nascent Soul after all, his strength not on the same level as a Golden Core; with a casual flick of blue light, he controlled all the Golden Core players present, followed by a one-sided slaughter... Player forum.

Discussions about the Qingling Sect were ongoing.

"No, we can't get in at all."

"Feng Chuan, that old geezer, indeed won't always be stationed at the Qingling Sect, but he can cross the void, his mobility is too high."

"The Qingling Sect will immediately activate its grand Formation when it encounters trouble; as long as they delay for a little while, Feng Chuan will rush back to support, it's simply unsolvable."

"I think there's no need to waste revival attempts trying, right? The power gap is too big."

"But you say, if we don't attack the Qingling Sect, where do we get Nascent Soul methods?"

"But how can we attack the Qingling Sect without Nascent Soul?"

"We must attack the Qingling Sect to get Nascent Soul!"

"We can't attack the Qingling Sect without Nascent Soul!"

The players were immediately stuck in a catch-22.

Li Changfeng's plan indeed had an effect; the Qingling Sect, with its information exposed, was targeted by countless players.

Mortals, Qi Refining cultivators, Foundation Establishment cultivators, and even Golden Cores, continuously swarmed towards the Qingling Sect.

Although Feng Chuan was a Nascent Soul True Monarch and not afraid of these people at all, he was still harassed to the point of exasperation.

He seemed to have only recently achieved Nascent Soul and hadn't learned many Nascent Soul techniques, only able to kill Golden Core players by arriving in person.

This caused many things True Lord Feng Chuan originally wanted to do to be impossible; he had no choice but to stay at the Qingling Sect to guard his home.

Li Changfeng was particularly delighted about this and even specifically ran over to mock Feng Chuan, feeling much better.

But he also knew that with the players' current strength, without the state-stabilizing seal making a move, harassing for a period was the limit.

Once Feng Chuan stabilized his Realm and acquired more powerful methods to deal with players, even truly capable of killing Golden Cores invisibly from thousands of miles away, or simply leaving protective measures at the Qingling Sect.

Then the players wouldn't gain any advantage.

"I need the Youming Demon Sect to help target the Qingling Sect, but they won't act without getting the Legacy, and if they don't act, I can't get the Legacy from the Qingling Sect..." Tsk, this path is also a dead end, no need to consider it now.

"Then I have to find a solution from elsewhere.

"It seems some players have entered the Yuyao Kingdom, saying they are touring, and might be heavily relied upon. If we could rally them to fight the Qingling Sect together..." No, the Qingling Sect and the Yuyao Kingdom are allied now. If these players are even a little smart, they won't attack the Qingling Sect, lest they lose the hard-earned status they gained in the Yuyao Kingdom..."

Li Changfeng thought and thought, concluding that players still needed to produce a Nascent Soul themselves.

Although achieving Nascent Soul takes a long time, the battle situation is now in a stalemate, providing enough time for players to Breakthrough.

This isn't a matter of days or months, but years, possibly even over a hundred years.

After all, the Immortal Dynasty has the state-stabilizing seal in residence, and players also used the Cloud-Swallowing Whale as leverage, so the Yuyao Kingdom did not advance rashly, and the Qingling Sect was unwilling to offend them too much.

Li Changfeng thought that to break the deadlock, players needed to produce a Nascent Soul.

But upon this thought, the problem returned to a dead end:

Players need Nascent Soul methods to achieve Nascent Soul.

Players need to invade the Qingling Sect to obtain Nascent Soul methods.

Players need to achieve Nascent Soul to invade the Qingling Sect.

It was stuck like that.

Li Changfeng even specifically checked the trading System, but was greatly disappointed.

The items that could be exchanged through the official trading System were all things like Medicinal Pills, Formations, Talismans, artifacts, or special Physiques and Golden Fingers like cheat Systems.

And cultivation Dao Lineages could indeed be exchanged, but similar to previous versions, they could only fix the grade and then randomly obtain specific cultivation methods.

There were already unlucky Golden Core players who had tried, spending hundreds of thousands of trading points on a lottery, but in the end, they couldn't even gather a complete set of five Divine Abilities, let alone attempt a Breakthrough; they would explode and die when cultivating the second Divine Ability.

There were simply too many methods in the Xuanhuan World, and Li Changfeng suspected that the cultivation methods provided by the trading System were probably trashy, illegitimate methods with no subsequent Dao path.

Under these circumstances, it was extremely difficult for players to obtain a complete Nascent Soul method.

So some players decided to spend trading points to exchange for some Comprehension Ability-type Golden Fingers to research Nascent Soul methods themselves, but there have been no results yet, so there are no Nascent Soul methods circulating among players on unofficial trading houses.

Li Changfeng pondered and pondered, finally thinking of someone.

"This side of the Prison Land is indeed a dead end; it's impossible to achieve Nascent Soul.

"Ultimately, it's because the Dao Lineage Legacy in the Prison Land is too poor, and the resources are too scarce.

"But what about the Burial Emperor Star side?"

Li Changfeng opened the communication interface and found "Little Cabbage."

Little Cabbage had been live streaming ever since the special start-up, but recently, she had turned off her live stream.

Everyone suspected she had encountered some special Opportunity and was unwilling to continue live streaming.

"If it's these players from the Burial Emperor Star... it should be easier to obtain Nascent Soul methods, right?"