Chapter 121 – Acting Carelessly
The Cultivation Union is a vast organization. Except for a few individuals, no one knows for sure how many countries are part of it.
The minimum requirement for a country to become a true member of the cultivation union is to reach rank 6 and acquire their own cultivation planet.
Generally, as long as a country is a cultivating nation, it belongs to a cultivating union. However, there are so many cultivating nations that the union doesn’t have the time to manage them all personally.
So in general, all the cultivation countries ranked 5th and below are managed by the cultivation country ranked 6th on the planet.
The country of Suzaku rose at an incredible rate, rising from rank 1 to rank 6 in just 100,000 years, becoming one of the rare rank 6 cultivation nations.
After becoming a rank 6 cultivation nation, they gained the right to own their own cultivation planet, which the Cultivation Union named Planet Suzaku.
On the planet Suzaku, the orders of the Suzaku nation are the orders of the gods.
Planet Suzaku has 18 rank 5 cultivation nations. Every time a nation meets the requirements to become a rank 5 cultivation nation, the country of Suzaku awards them ten foreign battlegrounds.
This means there are only 180 foreign battlefields on Planet Suzaku. If one battlefield collapses, there will be one less foreign battlefield permanently. Unless they are willing to purchase one from a rank 6 cultivation nation at a very high price.
As for how this foreign battlefield was formed and where the spatial cracks lead, no one in the rank 5 cultivation countries knows.
Each rank 5 cultivation country controls many rank 4 cultivation countries, and each rank 4 cultivation country controls many rank 3 cultivation countries.
Meanwhile, for countries ranked 1 and 2, the farmer union has set regulations to prevent anyone from interfering with their growth.
Zhao is a level 3 cultivation nation controlled by the level 4 cultivation nation Green Dragon. They are controlled by the level 5 cultivation nation Giant Demon Clan.
Whenever there was a major battle on a foreign battlefield, all the Nascent Soul cultivators in Zhao were called to fight. They were not allowed to delay or resist. At that time, the five Nascent Soul ancestors of the Heng Yue Sect were called to leave. If they left, the Heng Yue Sect would be safe, but whether they would live or die was unknown. If they refused, not only would the Heng Yue Sect be destroyed, but they would also be killed.
In fact, the same thing happens in almost every top 3 cultivation country.
This is natural selection. It’s a cruel world. The orders of the strong are something the weak must obey and cannot refuse. Perhaps because they have to live in this cruel world, cultivators adapt more quickly than ordinary humans.
Or perhaps, in the eyes of those at the top of the cultivation community, this world, this universe, is a giant refining vessel. Both mortals and cultivators are being mercilessly refined. In ancient times, cultivation focused on comprehending the heavens and pursuing one’s own Dao. Cultivators gave people a sense of elegance and celestialness.
However, the ancient cultivation world suddenly collapsed in a catastrophe. Then, the cultivation guilds rose and replaced it. That was when the word Dao was destroyed.
It has been proven that cultivation without desire is a path to destruction. Only by following the laws of nature can one pursue the path of true cultivation.
Although they didn’t know the final outcome, at least now, under the command of the cultivation union, the current cultivators were far stronger than the cultivators of ancient times. This was more than enough.
At this moment, a strange event is taking place on one of the Giant Demon Clan’s foreign battlefields. Every cultivator who has managed to obtain a glimpse of divine sense is panicking.
A giant meteor shower seemed to cover the alien battlefield as every bit of divine sense headed towards one place.
Soon, the already nearly crumbling foreign battlefield couldn’t withstand the power of this divine sense and began to completely collapse. A massive crater appeared in the foreign battlefield, which instantly devoured most of the foreign battlefield.
At the same time, a vast divine consciousness cautiously emerged from the crack. Following it was a group of mysterious creatures. They were the same creatures that Wang Lin had devoured.
A similar scene appeared in another area of the foreign battlefield. Three enormous divine senses emerged from the giant fissure caused by the collapse of the foreign battlefield.
Countless mysterious creatures emerged and jumped onto anything they saw. It would be more accurate to call them locusts.
Every cultivator used all their strength to frantically flee towards the transfer array. They feared that if they were even a step too slow, they would be devoured.
One could see many swords flying around in despair.
The moment the three giant souls appeared, Wang Lin immediately recognized them. He was very familiar with these three divine senses because they were his three neighbors.
At this time, the divine sense he had radiated over the past three years gradually returned to him. Each time a portion returned, his divine sense grew larger, until it reached its original size.
Wang Lin was in no hurry. He sat cross-legged and began to get used to this foreign object. Several mysterious creatures came and saw Wang Lin. They hesitated for a moment, but could not resist the temptation and jumped towards Wang Lin.
When they were about a dozen meters away from Wang Lin, he opened his eyes and shouted, “Know your place!”
His immense divine soul suddenly spread out and the mysterious creatures seemed to have met their natural predator as they screamed and quickly disintegrated.
But before they could escape, they were caught by Wang Lin and immediately devoured. Just as he was about to devour more, a vast divine consciousness arrived to try and stop him.
Wang Lin snorted coldly. Not only did he not retreat, but he devoured all the strange creatures that wanted to attack him. The other great divine senses sighed and said nothing.
Most of Wang Lin’s divine sense had returned to his body, but there were still some parts that weren’t in the foreign battlefield and couldn’t return to him. However, in terms of the strength of his divine sense, there was almost no difference from before.
“Everyone, I’m going through!” He spread his senses and moved.
This divine sense immediately covered the entire foreign battlefield and the three divine senses who were eating happily suddenly stopped.
Shortly after, each of them sent a message to Wang Lin.
“You’re so strong. I can’t believe you managed to leave that place.”
“This place is about to collapse. Our job as Soul Eaters is to devour this place to prevent it from collapsing. You’re a Soul Eater too. Why are you interfering?”
“Newborn soul eater, my wandering souls have offended you, so you have the right to punish them, but it is indeed to devour the collapsed space that we soul eaters were born. Even if we don’t devour it, there will be other soul eaters who will come to devour this place.”
The three great divine senses each uttered a sentence. They no longer devoured and waited for Wang Lin to respond. In their view, Wang Lin was on the same level as them.
This was the first time he had heard of the Soul Devourer. He pondered for a moment as he sifted through Mai Liang’s memories and knew that the transfer array was about to open. If the entire foreign battlefield collapsed, he wasn’t sure if the transfer array would still be able to open.
“I don’t want to stop you, but I hope you can slow down so that the foreign battlefield takes longer to collapse.”
“Very much.”
“As you wish.”
“I agree too, but you can’t stop wandering souls from hunting.”
After making the agreement, Wang Lin proceeded toward the transfer array location with Mai Liang’s memories. Along the way, whenever the wandering souls saw him, they would be terrified. They quickly retreated, not daring to block him.
Throughout the journey, Wang Lin felt very unnatural in his new body. Although this Mai Ling’s talent and spiritual roots were excellent, several times better than his previous one, this was, after all, a possessed body. It would take time to perfect it before he could fully master it.
At this point, he had no spiritual energy in his body and was relying on his divine sense to move. The first thing he needed to do was find a place for secluded cultivation, increase his strength, and then, combined with his powerful divine sense, return to Zhao.
While flying, Wang Lin suddenly stopped and looked towards the northwest. He pondered for a moment and flew there. Not long after, he saw three beams of light flying towards him. Ten wandering souls approached behind them.
Zhou Zihong was a disciple of the War God Temple in the Huo Fen Country. She was usually very sweet, but at this moment, her lips were pursed, her hair was messy, she was sweating, and her spiritual power was exhausted. Her face was filled with sadness as she looked at her two senior apprentice brothers. Their faces were also filled with sadness as they ran desperately.
“I’m afraid only the three of us from the War God Temple are still alive…” Zhou Zihong laughed heartily. Three days ago, there were still ten people from the War God Temple, but who would have thought that the foreign battlefield would suddenly collapse and all these strange creatures would appear. Any cultivator caught by these wandering souls would die, and the essence within their bodies would be devoured until their bodies became mummified.
And these strange creatures seem to like hiding inside these mummies. Every time the cultivators see the corpses, they feel terrified.