Then he gave Liu Chen a look.
Liu Chen grinned, and the dark green poisonous fog spread along the ground, silently seeping into the garrison’s barracks.
The patrolmen who were dozing off inhaled the poisonous fog in their sleep, and their bodies became numb, their spiritual energy stagnated, and their consciousness blurred, so that they could not even make a sound.
Tieshan led his men into the warehouse and looted all the pills, magical artifacts, spirit stones, talismans, and cultivation manuals.
David left a line of gray-black words in the center of the warehouse: “Heng Xuan, you old thief, your grandpa is here to collect rent—David.”
Then they disappeared into the night.
The next day at dawn, when Heng Xuan received news that the supply transfer station had been looted, he was so angry that he almost overturned the main hall of the Heavenly Palace of the World.
He flew into a rage and mobilized people to investigate, but David had left behind a trail of false clues. There were traces of spiritual energy in the east, west, south, and north, and the results given by the tracking array were contradictory, making it impossible to distinguish between the true and false.
While Heng Xuan was busy investigating the robbery at the transit station, David, who was underwater in the dark river, was leading his men to count the spoils of war.
“Thirty thousand high-grade spirit stones, four hundred bottles of healing pills, sixty standard divine weapons, two thousand talismans, and thirty-seven jade slips containing cultivation techniques”
Ling Xiyue squatted on the ground, counting each item one by one, her icy blue eyes growing brighter and brighter. “Young Master, these things are enough for our people to raise their cultivation levels significantly!”
“They were all distributed.”
David waved his hand and said, “Healing pills will be given to those with serious injuries first, spirit stones will be allocated as needed, and jade slips containing cultivation techniques can be taken by whoever wants to learn them.”
Don’t be polite with me, it all belongs to Hengxuan anyway, might as well take it.
A long-suppressed cheer erupted from both banks of the underground river.
But David didn’t laugh along.
He squatted alone on the bank of the dark river, using his primordial chaos to probe into the remnants of the spiritual vein at the bottom of the river, carefully sensing the Daoist structure of those remnants.
He sensed some extremely faint signal fluctuations within this broken root—those fluctuations originated from the broken end of the root and extended towards the higher and deeper reaches of the Twenty-Sixth Heaven.
That means that although this remnant of the spiritual vein was mostly broken, it still maintained an extremely weak connection with a place outside the Twenty-Sixth Heaven.
The twenty-seventh heaven.
He needs to restore his cultivation to the peak of the eighth rank as soon as possible, or even break through to the ninth rank.
The opportunity to break through to the ninth rank lies hidden deep within this remnant root.
For the next two weeks, David led his men to harass the Border Patrol Bureau’s strongholds, cut off supply lines, and ambush patrol teams, while refining the remnants of the spiritual vein day and night at the bottom of the underground river.
With the nourishment of the spiritual veins and the assistance of dual cultivation, his cultivation level steadily increased, breaking through from the early stage of the eighth rank to the middle stage, the late stage of the eighth rank, and finally stabilizing at the peak of the eighth rank.
His “guerrilla tactics” completely threw the orthodox system of the Twenty-Sixth Heaven into chaos.
In just half a month, the Border Patrol Division’s supply transfer stations were robbed seven times, patrol teams were ambushed eleven times, and four outposts were burned down.
Heng Xuan frantically mobilized troops to encircle and suppress David, but David’s whereabouts were as elusive as a ghost, and every encirclement and suppression attempt ended in failure.
What troubled Heng Xuan even more was the spread of news that David was “recruiting soldiers and buying horses” at the bottom of the underground river.
More and more cultivators awaiting investigation, lower-level cultivators, and even some inner disciples who are dissatisfied with the orthodox system are beginning to secretly gravitate towards the Dark River.
The number of cultivators on both sides of the underground river has rapidly increased from nearly a hundred to more than three hundred, and it continues to grow.
Although these people generally have low cultivation levels, they have the advantage of large numbers, wide distribution, and good information access.
They became David’s eyes and ears, transmitting every move of the Border Patrol Division back to the Dark River.
Heng Xuan’s sealing net still exists, but it is now riddled with holes and full of loopholes.
One month later, one night, David finally refined the last trace of Daoist essence from the remnant of the spiritual vein at the bottom of the dark river.
At that moment, his cultivation broke through the shackles of the eighth rank of the Great Luo Golden Immortal. The chaotic origin surged like a tide, and gray-black light shot up from the bottom of the dark river, illuminating the entire dark river as if it were daytime.
“Ninth rank”
David slowly emerged from the underground river, his body surrounded by the endless flow of chaotic origin, his aura vast and profound.
A sharp glint flashed in his purple eyes, and a roguish smile curled at the corner of his lips. “Hengxuan, you wait. I’m coming up here to collect your rent.”
On both banks of the underground river, more than three hundred cultivators stood up at the same time, their eyes fixed intently on the gray-robed figure stepping out of the water.
David stood on the bank of the underground river and suddenly clenched his fist over the rock formation above his head.
The primordial chaos, like an invisible giant hammer, shattered the rock layers above the underground river, creating a massive fissure that stretched from the ground all the way to the surface.
Sunlight poured down from the crack, illuminating the entire underground river and the more than three hundred faces gazing upwards.
“Walk.”
David stepped into the rift, his gray robe fluttering in the wind, his voice clear and resolute, “The second cage of the Twenty-Sixth Heaven should be shattered.”
More than three hundred figures followed closely behind, surging out from the ground like a torrent and sweeping towards the Tian Shu Sect.
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