Chapter 586 You're Still a Surrender Faction! (5400)

The brief but intense clash between the Zheng Nation and the Jiu Xuan Realm around the Qingzhou spacetime portal had ended with astonishing speed.

Just as everyone was reeling from Liu Li's on-the-spot advancement to Overlord Earth Immortal, and his subsequent complete suppression of the Jiu Xuan Realm forces, a law hidden within someone in the Hongtian Guard was triggered. A torrent of related information bypassed the vast spacetime and reached the depths of the Jiu Xuan Realm, the Jun Tian territory.

In the heart of the Jiu Xuan Royal Court, the Xuan Emperor was watching Su Zhou's battle videos with a grave expression, immense waves surging within him.

"Such a true form, such divine light… Although on closer inspection, this Zhuzhou Divine Dragon's fighting methods are mostly overwhelming with force, his techniques are actually quite crude, mainly relying on 'novelty'… But this level of power combined with novelty is enough to be invincible!"

"I am inferior. Even if the Yinglong Divine Venerable returns, he probably couldn't defeat him at the same level!"

The Xuan Emperor held the Zhuzhou in very high regard. He, too, was a cultivator with a Great Heavenly Venerate inheritance, and naturally could see the profound foundation hidden behind Su Zhou's seemingly simple fighting methods. This greatly struck the Xuan Emperor, who had always been confident in his own strength, but he was also able to admit his shortcomings frankly.

While the Xuan Emperor was still pondering how to maintain the balance within the Jiu Xuan Realm, to guide the chaotic atmosphere and gradually dissipate it on the alien battlefield, without provoking the Heavenly Immortal in the Immortal Heaven next door to reduce the entire Jiu Xuan Realm to a wasteland, he suddenly received a message from a hidden agent.

"Hong Wang… defeated?"

"Even captured alive by the Immortal Heaven, directly apprehended?"

Hearing the news from his hidden agent, the Xuan Emperor frowned slightly. "Yun Wang's serious injury could be attributed to the Immortal Heaven's trump card, a sudden attack. But with this… the Immortal Heaven truly has multiple Earth Immortals?"

Knowing that an Earth Immortal level Lingwu expert had appeared on the other side of the Immortal Heaven's spacetime portal, the Xuan Emperor couldn't help but rise from his throne. He paced back and forth in the Royal Court hall several times, then sighed. "It seems the Immortal Heaven anticipated our intentions… Strange, where was the leak?"

"But so be it, it's good that the other side is prepared—a head-on confrontation is beneficial, not harmful, to Jiu Xuan."

At that moment, as spiritual messages requested access, the Xuan Emperor, enveloped in spiritual light, looked up.

"As expected, the other Kings know as well."

He exhaled and raised his hand, sweeping it forward.

Thus, twenty-two light screens lit up from the darkness before him.

Behind the light screens were figures filled with anger, calmness, or excitement.

"Your Majesty! Immortal Heaven guests are recklessly invading our realm, injuring my Yun Wang, capturing my Hong Wang. I am willing to request battle!"

"Your Majesty! The actions of the Immortal Heaven descendants damage the very foundation of my Jiu Xuan Realm. I am willing to plead for the lives of the people and fight the strong enemy!"

"Your Majesty! Matters have reached this point, we must act. Since the Immortal Heaven has struck first, we can only give it our all!"

Instantly, countless chaotic thoughts and voices were transmitted.

The Xuan Emperor silently watched the eager and furious faces of the Kings before him. He listened to their tone without saying a word.

Apart from the captured Hong Wang and the seriously injured Yun Wang, all of Jiu Xuan Realm's high-end combat power was present. Their will represented the will of the Jiu Xuan Realm, their power was the apex of Jiu Xuan Realm's combat strength.

--The Kings requested battle.

In reality, this was the will of the entire Jiu Xuan Realm.

"Please, Your Majesty, deploy the imperial weapon, the 'Yanrong Bianzhao Shifang Yin' (Flame Fusion Illuminating All Directions Seal), to suppress the Immortal Heaven's enemies!"

Among them, an elderly cultivator with white hair, the Feng Wang of the Chen Wang territory, and the head of one of the oldest cultivator families in the entire Jiu Xuan Realm, a descendant of a Great Heavenly Venerate palace administrator, spoke loudly with a full voice.

"One King was captured alive, one King was seriously injured. When has our Jiu Xuan Realm suffered such humiliation?"

"Please, Your Majesty, use the imperial weapon to suppress the Immortal Heaven's enemies!"

This Chen Wang was clearly aware of the current strength of the Immortal Heaven. He could also guess that the Immortal Heaven side must have multiple Earth Immortals. The strong among them, like that Zhuzhou, must be a powerhouse among Earth Immortals.

Of course, he did not believe that there was a Heavenly Immortal in the Immortal Heaven.

Therefore, he unhesitatingly requested that the Xuan Emperor use all his strength and activate the Jiu Xuan Realm's realm-guarding weapon to attack the Immortal Heaven—first, to uphold the dignity of the Jiu Xuan Realm, and second, to demonstrate its power to the Immortal Heaven.

【Impossible.】

However, the Xuan Emperor directly rejected this suggestion. He shook his head and calmly said: 【The Yanrong Bianzhao Shifang Yin is my Jiu Xuan Realm's realm-guarding divine weapon. How can it be used lightly?】

【According to the information I know, the Immortal Heaven King who captured Hong Wang alive also carries the imperial weapon recorded in the ancient books, the 'Huantian Luori Gong' (World Piercing Sunfall Bow)—since the Immortal Heaven side has not used such a divine weapon, we must never use it.】

Saying so, the Xuan Emperor surveyed all the light screens before him. He solemnly said: 【Once an imperial weapon is used, it will be a never-ending feud… How can mere devastation describe the consequences of deploying this level of divine weapon? The Kings may have their own thoughts, but do not mention such opinions in the future.】

"As Your Majesty commands!"

Since the Xuan Emperor had formally declared this, Chen Wang, even if unwilling, could only cup his hands and agree.

However, the Xuan Emperor then changed the topic. He turned his head again to look at the information transmitted earlier by the hidden agent in the Hongtian Guard, staring at the scene of Liu Li advancing to Earth Immortal.

【However.】

Saying so, the Xuan Emperor's tone was intriguing: 【War is indeed about to begin. I can see that the Immortal Heaven has the same idea as me.】

At this moment, he chuckled lightly and then calmly said: 【Kings, heed my command.】

【Led by Chen Wang, assemble the Jiu Xuan Allied Army and proceed to the vicinity of the spacetime portal to construct a fortress.】

【The war we have long awaited is about to begin.】

Almost simultaneously.

Earth Universe, the Moon.

"I didn't expect it, it's actually Martial God Old Man who advanced to Earth Immortal first—I always thought it would be Dao Saint or Yan Saint."

Su Zhou, in his warship-giant tree form, said with emotion, "Yan Saint's talent is transcendence into sainthood, while Dao Saint's talent is eternal fame. These two talents are among the best in the entire Zheng Nation Holy Seat."

"And Old Man Liu Li, I remember his talent was only 'Excellent'."

"It seems that talent doesn't represent everything."

Although Yan Saint and Dao Saint were both administrative staff, and their breakthroughs would probably require progress in their research directions, the efforts of Old Man Liu Li were undeniable.

Indeed, through the Prajna Book, Su Zhou also roughly knew that without obtaining Yala's undying blood, and only having the Yinglong bloodline, his talent would only be eternal fame, on par with Dao Saint, maybe even slightly weaker.

After all, the Yinglong inheritance was incomplete, and his own talent hadn't been cultivated from a young age, relying purely on instinct.

Su Zhou hadn't met Liu Li many times, but he was deeply impressed by this strong old man who wielded the Sunfall Bow—after all, one of his student leaders, Guan Wanjing, was a martial artist who cultivated the Liu family's inheritance.

Since Liu Li took charge of the Ruian Martial Arts Hall, the Ruian Martial Arts Hall had become even more inclusive and began to truly flourish.

Now, with decades of hard cultivation, Liu Li had finally succeeded in breaking through to the Divine Realm through the 'Dao of Law' today, becoming the first Earth Immortal on Earth besides Su Zhou.

Although it sounded strange for a martial artist to advance through the Dao of Law, this law wasn't just Daoist magic, but all the laws of the world. The art of war and combat were all derivations of the Dao of Law, a top-tier Dao of strife.

This Earth Immortal was not only incredibly experienced in combat, but also possessed the Sunfall Bow, a Great Heavenly Venerate, even Heavenly Emperor-level divine weapon… With him guarding the Qingzhou spacetime portal, unless the Xuan Emperor personally led an expedition, or multiple Earth Immortals carried similar divine weapons to confront him, the fortress would be unbreakable.

With Liu Li guarding it, whether it was Su Zhou or anyone else, they felt very secure.

However, with Bai Yingxue's previous life's intelligence, the Zheng Nation Holy Seats didn't take this lightly.

In the past, the Jiu Xuan Realm could transform into Xuan Demons, invade Earth, and create great chaos. Apart from the fact that Earth at that time not only had internal strife, but also had to fight against various natural and man-made disasters, mysterious organizations, and even aliens, the main reason was because the Jiu Xuan Realm's strength was indeed not weak.

In that era, the Earth side must have also had multiple Earth Immortals breaking through in battle, and all of them possessed divine weapons, but they still couldn't stop the Jiu Xuan Realm—this could only prove that, apart from the Xuan Emperor, several Kings of the Jiu Xuan Realm must have also broken through to Earth Immortal.

However, for the current Earth, there was nothing to fear.

"After all, the Earth civilization, which has been developing peacefully until now, can pull out a double-digit Earth Immortal group within half a year just from within Zheng Nation, like dropping dumplings… If you count the entire Earth, then dozens of overlords are really easy!"

Dozens of overlords, huddled on one Earth, were enough to turn the huge planet into a dangerous environment like a detonator.

However, with Su Zhou around, let alone dozens of Earth Immortals, even if there were a dozen Heavenly Immortals, he believed he could guarantee social order.

"In a while, the Jiu Xuan Realm will definitely react—their invasion intensity will definitely weaken, and may even turn into a defensive posture."

Muttering to himself, Su Zhou closed his eyes. He transmitted a message in his mind: "Bai Yuntian, tell me, what is the internal situation of the Jiu Xuan Realm now?"

"Your Excellency, the Xuan Emperor just held an internal meeting with the Kings. Although I didn't participate, His Majesty the Xuan Emperor has already sent me the meeting process!"

He could hear Bai Yuntian, the Jiu Xuan Yun Wang's respectful voice.

Although he had signed a contract with Su Zhou, Bai Yuntian still greatly respected the Xuan Emperor.

Because he was an explorer in the Pioneer Space, and had seen the situations in many other worlds, Bai Yuntian was even more clear than others about what the Xuan Emperor was doing.

That Emperor was planning various strategies for the future of the entire Jiu Xuan Realm, and he himself never exploited the people. Instead, he personally led the people in labor as much as possible to maintain order, preventing the Xuan Emperor's Seven Territories from becoming a weak-eat-strong hell like the other twenty-four Kings' territories.

After roughly telling Su Zhou the process of the Xuan Emperor and Kings' meeting, he heard the youth's thoughtful voice: "Not bad, this Xuan Emperor obviously has some brains."

"He has given up the idea of 'invading' the Immortal Heaven, but instead wants to rely on the spacetime portal to have a sustainable war with our world!"

"Through war, he can boost domestic demand, increase jobs, and shift the contradictions of the people, allowing a large number of cultivators who oppress the people to leave the underground fortress cities and go to the surface defense lines… And he can take this opportunity to carry out a major reform within Jiu Xuan!"

Seeing through the Xuan Emperor's thoughts, Su Zhou couldn't help but admire: "What an amazing plan! No wonder you respect him so much, even as an explorer in the Pioneer Space."

Bai Yuntian laughed, but didn't reply.

Because, at this time, he was following Su Zhou's previous instructions and entering the soul gathering of Pioneer Space explorers within the Jiu Xuan Realm.

In simpler terms, it was probably the Pioneer Explorers' hometown association in the Jiu Xuan Realm.

With a flash of spiritual light, he遁入(dunru) (escaped into) the darkness outside his soul. Using the Pioneer Space's communication window as a cornerstone, Bai Yuntian's soul quickly潜入(qianru) (sneaked into) a huge ball of light and arrived at a huge soul square.

In this soul square, there were many various and varied soul images of explorers, and many even looked like they were disguising themselves, unwilling to show their true faces.

This was the gathering point for Jiu Xuan Pioneer Explorers, a place used to trade intelligence and plan real-world meeting opportunities on weekdays.

The Pioneer Space didn't exploit explorers. The relationship between explorers was mostly cooperative, and any opposition was just competition.

Of course, if the pioneers themselves were curious about what would happen if they attacked each other, the space wouldn't stop this heart of 'exploring the unknown'... But until now, there hadn't been many internal fights in space teams.

Therefore, Pioneer Space explorers contacted each other and shared information very frequently.

Now, in the entire soul square, almost all explorers were hotly discussing the conflict between the Immortal Heaven and Jiu Xuan, and how to complete the 'Desperate Conquest' mission.

"What's there to say!"

An explorer who had disguised his true appearance, looking like a frog wearing a crown, said loudly: "If you want to solve the internal contradictions of our Jiu Xuan, either be like His Majesty Yun Wang, exchange various materials from the space and distribute them to suppress the problem, or lead a team to other worlds to open up new residences, otherwise it's a dead end!"

"Our Jiu Xuan Realm is only connected to the Immortal Heaven, and will the Immortal Heaven residents let us seize the resources of their world? Definitely not! And the result of us not getting new resources is death."

"If that's the case, then we can only fight!"

"That goes without saying!"

Another two-headed man who didn't hide his true appearance touched his chin in a rather simple and honest manner. His voice was low: "The strength of the Immortal Heaven is definitely stronger than we imagined, so it's a 'Desperate Conquest'. Of course, there may be other explanations, but it's always right to be prepared."

This was the faction that supported war.

As for Bai Yuntian's explorer identity, it was basically impossible to hide it. After all, he was the only one who exchanged Pioneer Space's unique standard resources every day. Anyone who saw it would definitely know.

Bai Yuntian didn't care about this. He also took the opportunity to recruit several explorer comrades to enrich his background.

But naturally, in addition to the faction that supported war, there was also a faction that opposed war.

"Why must we invade others? We are explorers who travel through the myriad worlds, and the space is almost omniscient. What's so difficult about finding a way to solve the resource problem of the Jiu Xuan Realm?"

The person who said this was a burly man wearing a horse headgear, with bulging muscles all over his body. Although he looked far more bloodthirsty and warlike than other explorers, his words were very kind: "Whether it's improving moss grain, or finding some spiritual beasts that can be raised underground, it's not difficult."

"Do we really have to go to war? Are you out of your minds? What era do you think this is? Does anyone still think dying is a good thing?"

"That's right!"

Naturally, many people agreed: "Not to mention anything else, I can be very clear, there is a special 'Gaia World' transformation facility in the Pioneer Space, which only requires three S-level development permissions and 350,000 redemption points—and it can be reused, with a cooldown period of only 36 years!"

"With this, transforming our Jiu Xuan Realm's ecology is simply easy!"

But obviously, these three S-level development permissions were somewhat beyond the ability of everyone present, so after this sentence was said, the entire soul square fell silent for a while.

——Obviously, this was also very desperate… Who could save up so many development permissions and exploration points! Do you not redeem enhancements and inheritances with points? This is really desperate!

However, the silence was only for a while.

Soon, everyone ignored this suggestion and continued to argue about the Jiu Xuan Realm's attitude towards the Immortal Heaven, mutually believing that their method was the best way to solve the 'Desperate Conquest' mission.

Su Zhou's will also潜入(qianru) (sneaked into) this square dedicated to Pioneer Explorers along with Bai Yuntian's soul.

"Interesting, a group of lawless troublemakers actually have organizations in private?"

He first looked around the entire square with great interest, and then shook his head slightly: "An explorer may just be a scourge, but a group of explorers is probably a disaster."

"The Earth back then probably faced a group of Pioneer Explorers who supported war, right? And the explorers on the Earth side must have had conflicting missions with them—and this war between Earth and the Jiu Xuan Realm is probably a very rare pioneer civil war."

Saying so, Su Zhou revealed a rather strange smile.

"But this time, it won't be."

He patted Bai Yuntian's shoulder and then gave him a look.

Bai Yuntian nodded in understanding. He immediately stepped forward and came to the very center of the entire soul square.

"Ahem, everyone is still arguing about this matter?"

This Yun Wang of the Jiu Xuan, who didn't hide his true appearance and was recognized by everyone as soon as he appeared, immediately attracted the attention of most Jiu Xuan explorers. Then, Bai Yuntian's expression became solemn: "But now, I will say a fair word!"

"A fair word?"

"To be fair, is a fair word really fair?"

"Everyone be quiet, Yun Wang is speaking, let's listen to what he has to say first!"

The name Yun Wang was still somewhat weighty. Immediately, all the Jiu Xuan explorers looked at each other and then turned their gazes, looking at Bai Yuntian with confusion.

Then, this Yun Wang who had signed a contract with Su Zhou, with righteous confidence, and without any shame, opened his mouth:

"Since the prospects of fighting and development both look desperate, then why don't we choose a third option?"

Saying so calmly, Bai Yuntian didn't change his expression, and can even be said to be righteously confident: "For example, surrender!"

"Why don't we just surrender to the Immortal Heaven?"

Instantly, the entire venue was silent for five minutes.

Then, the entire soul space was in an uproar, causing a great disturbance!