I Have A Cultivation World Chapter 2372 - 1071: Heavy Yuan Sword, Cleansing World Pot (2)

Encountering the three Rank-4 Golden Flame Manticores this round delivered exactly the outcome the Dao Morale Sect had hoped for.

The Cleansing World Pot sprang to life, its cover flipping wide, unleashing a hidden pulling power that yanked the three blazing rays—meant to halt the Heavy Yuan Sword—directly into the pot's gaping maw.

Free of any barriers now, Ni Yuanzhong's features hardened as he channeled the Power of Dao Fruits he'd refined, infusing it into the Heavy Yuan Sword before slashing it down fiercely.

Palace Master Azure Fall's calm visage flushed a bit, veins popping on her brow as though she'd strained her Divine Sense to its limits, bolstering the Void Lock that teetered on collapse.

Simultaneously, Shenxi swung the Great River Dust Whisk, sending the vast water barrier—once shielding against the inferno—rushing upward like frothy muck from a bog, ensnaring the mighty legs of the three Golden Flame Manticores.

Crack!

Empowered by the Power of Dao Fruits, the Heavy Yuan Sword plunged unhindered, smashing into the lead Golden Flame Manticore and grinding it into a heap of sizzling shredded flesh amid sharp snaps of shattering bones.

At this sight, the other two Golden Flame Manticores flew into a rage, one of them promptly ejecting its golden inner core.

With a thunderous blast, the inner core detonated.

The explosive True Fire energy surged out, not just shattering Palace Master Azure Fall's Void Lock but also ripping apart Shenxi's whisk restraints.

In the midst of the final Golden Flame Manticore's howls, it seized the moment, morphing into a fiery streak and fleeing back to Shetuoling.

"Such a waste of a quasi-Rank-5 inner core."

As Shenxi uttered these words, he drew back the Great River Dust Whisk, giving it a shake that snuffed out the raging fires, restoring the scorched area to spotless white.

"Now that nothing stands in our way, it's time to claim Shetuoling."

Palace Master Azure Fall declared steadily, putting down the silk cloth she clutched. She'd taken the full force of the inner core's blast, even suffering a nosebleed.

Yet this remains the flaw of the Void Lock—unbeatable against foes of lesser cultivation.

But when facing equals or superiors, the rebound from the Power of Void hits hard once it's pierced.

"Hold on. This spot counts as a sacred site for the Ruins' demonic beasts. By encircling it, we can draw in every beast from thousands of miles around eager to save the Golden Flame Manticore, then pick them off one by one."

Shenxi voiced this strategy openly.

"True enough, and while these blazing toxic mists feel like open fields to us, they pose real trouble for the lower disciples. Better to let our allies from the Burning Heaven Meridians sweep them away first, then we flatten Shetuoling."

Standing nearby, Ni Yuanzhong gestured toward the flaming Shetuoling, echoing Shenxi's view.

Besides, the heart of this expedition hinges on that Rank-5 Golden Flame Manticore.

No telling if Dustless True Monarch and Da Kong True Monarch have taken it down yet.

At that moment, Hong Yun aimed the Cleansing World Pot right at Shetuoling. The scarlet blaze that had scorched the peaks for millennia turned into a sparkling clear flow, steadily draining into the pot.

"Then I'll entrust this to you two elders and make my way to Dongling Immortal City."

With her wounds acting up, Palace Master Azure Fall chose to depart now that things were stable.

Neither Shenxi nor Ni Yuanzhong raised any issues.

Half a month on, Zhang Pankong erected a massive Transmission Array linking to East Spirit Mountain, shuttling Palace Master Azure Fall and several other wounded cultivators to Dongling Immortal City.

...

"Master, here's the freshest update from the battlefield."

Within Venus Valley, Luo Yixuan passed a missive from Dongling Immortal City to Chen Mobai, who gave a slight nod as he accepted it.

Thanks to the Teleportation Array's link, loads of cultivators came back, and word of the triumph raced through the Sacred Land networks.

The might of the Three Great Sacred Lands truly overwhelms. Though the three Rank-4 Golden Flame Manticores at Shetuoling lacked full Innate True Spirit Bloodlines, they ranked as elite demonic beasts, probably too much for typical Nascent Soul peak experts.

Still, Shenxi and his fellow sect leaders dispatched two without much fuss.

Soon, once the Burning Heaven Meridians purge the fiery poisonous miasma from Shetuoling, the biggest barrier to this venture will vanish.

Should the Ruins' demonic beasts band together, the Three Great Sacred Lands could trap and smash them, hauling in heaps of Dao Coins.

Luckily, the bulk of the glory falls to the Sacred Lands. Without that, Hong Yun might've raked in the top non-Sacred Land Dao Coins haul this round.

While Chen Mobai mulled this over, a fiery trail shot down from above, touching Venus Valley and shifting into a striking young woman in red robes.

"Ancestral Master, Uncle Master Mo and Uncle Yin have wiped out the Water Snakes' lair in Jade Moon Lake. Brother Zhou's hauling the beast bodies and inner cores to Dongling Immortal City—they must register under your name, so you'll need to show up."

Han Zhiling approached Chen Mobai and bowed, delivering her report with respect.

In the last couple of years, Chen Mobai devoted most efforts to forging his personal Innate Pure Yang Qi, while scouting Spirit Veins and ore deposits across the Ruins to fuel the Five Elements Sect's growth in Dongling Domain.

All the same, his Dao Coin balance kept climbing.

This came from the whole Five Elements Sect's raids and beast hunts on his behalf.

Sure, Chen Mobai dished out fitting payouts in return.

Through the years, he'd stockpiled billions in contributions and Spirit Stones inside the Five Elements Sect. Circulating them now injected life into the economy.

It proved ideal to spread them out amid this pioneering push.

Not just for Five Elements Sect followers, but a proclamation went up in Dongling Immortal City too: any clear-provenance demonic beast kills could swap for goods at the Five Elements Sect.

Though the Five Elements Sect's stock didn't rival the Dao Morale Sect's volume, every piece shone with top-tier excellence.

In particular, Danxia Pavilion's elixirs enjoyed fame across the Eastern Continent's Six Regions, even prized by devil cultivators in deals.

So, plenty of cultivators chasing the best were keen to tote their hunted demonic beasts to the Five Elements Sect for trades.

That way, they dodged the Dao Morale Sect's standard processing cuts.

Of course, without the Dao Morale Sect's supervision and assurances, it all rested on Chen Mobai's solid name, pulling in crowds for swaps.

For now, most Dao Coins in Chen Mobai's holdings still arose from the Five Elements Sect disciples' sweat and toil.

This outing was no different; after Mo Douguang and Yin Qingmei seized Jade Moon Lake, Zhou Wangshen carted the thousands of snake demons to the Dao Morale Sect in Dongling Immortal City, ready for Chen Mobai's approval to credit millions in Dao Coins.

Such perks define a grand sect.

Not only Chen Mobai, but the Star Heaven Dao Sect and Yi Yuan Dao Palace operate the same.

The united might of every disciple and affiliate props up a single figure.

Should Divinity Transformation succeed, it'd mark a legendary feat; a flop, though, could drag the two groups into a slump, roots or no.

Against the Five Elements Sect, the Star Heaven Dao Sect and Yi Yuan Dao Palace's wares held less draw for independents.

After all, Three Lights Divine Water tempted only Golden Core types, and a fitting Yi Yuan Dao Palace method covered that.

Just the Five Elements Sect delivered elite elixirs, Magic Artifacts, talismans, and more.

Right then, Chen Mobai's account sat at nine million Dao Coins.

Out of that, five million came from his own takedown of a Fourth Rank Middle Grade demonic beast, over four hundred thousand from Five Elements Sect crew's work, and the rest from scattered cultivators' inputs.

But as the push drags on, that split shifts, with independents chipping in more.

With the prime demonic beast packs crushed by the big sects, what's left scatters through the Ruins.

"Looks like even at the end of this pioneering, I'll top out at a few million Dao Coins, nowhere near a billion." Chen Mobai pondered while steering the Tai Yi Wu Yan Luo toward Dongling Immortal City.

He'd figured hitting a billion would come easy at first.

Who knew the beasts in the Five Elements Sect's zone ranked so poorly, the toughest merely Fourth Rank Middle Grade.

If he'd realized, he'd have tagged along with the Three Great Sacred Lands to Shetuoling.

As he soared past a barren ridge, a stealthy gravitational pull abruptly arose, yanking his form down hard to the earth.