The Entire Sect is Full of Villains, Yet the Junior Sister Conquers All

Chapter 298 : A Space-Traversing Divine Beast

Half a year later, the day finally arrived for the disciples in the trial grounds to emerge from seclusion.

Half a year is not a short time, but for cultivators with lifespans of several hundred or thousand years, it's not particularly long. When the disciples exited the Demon-Locking Pagoda, it felt like a different world.

Only a few months had passed in the outside world, but inside the tower, they had actually spent several decades.

The young disciples' appearances hadn't changed much, but the emotions contained in their eyes were quite different from before. If one had to pinpoint the specific difference, perhaps it was the addition of a resolute determination forged through endless battles between life and death.

A resolute determination to face death without fear.

Of course, not all disciples were fortunate enough to come out. Even though the disciples who qualified to enter the trial grounds were all renowned young geniuses from various major sects and families, many disciples were injured in the training grounds. Apart from those from the Xuanyuan family, several disciples from other families were left behind forever in the trial grounds.

The trials were cruel. Throughout history, not everyone could come out alive.

The disciples entering the trial grounds and their supporting sects and families had already prepared for the possibility of death. Based on past experience, at least half of the disciples were expected to perish within.

In fact, the survival rate for this trial was much higher than they had anticipated. Out of several hundred people, only a few disciples were sacrificed, with a survival rate even higher than many ordinary secret realms. It was already fortunate, as the sects and families had prepared for worse outcomes when sending their disciples out.

Unlike the grand scene of thousands gathering before entering the trials, there were few people to welcome them upon exiting the tower. The major sects and families were currently overwhelmed with tasks, naturally having no time for ceremonial gestures.

Chu Sang made time to welcome her senior brothers and sisters.

The one who rushed out first, full of energy, was none other than Tantai Ming.

After staying in the tower for half a year, he didn't seem to have changed much, at most his overall demeanor had settled somewhat, looking a bit more mature. However, when the young man's eyes searched through the crowd and found her figure, they lit up brightly, and he pounced forward with wild joy,

"Woah—Little Junior Sister!"

"Don't get too excited!"

Chu Sang couldn't handle Seventh Senior Brother's fierce pounce, dodging quickly. Tantai Ming, rushing too fast, missed and nearly fell over, unable to stop in time. She kindly pulled him back, "Seventh Senior Brother, how come after half a year, you're still so reckless?"

"What half a year! We've been in that tower for who knows how many years. If we stayed in that broken tower any longer, I'd feel like I was turning into a little old man! Little Junior Sister, you almost didn't get to see your handsome Seventh Senior Brother!"

"...After staying in the tower for so long, I assume Seventh Senior Brother's cultivation must have improved greatly, right?"

A critical hit.

Tantai Ming nearly choked on his saliva, scratched his head, and said sheepishly, "It's, it's okay, I'm not too sure about the exact level of spiritual energy accumulated in my body, but I dare say breaking through to late Divine Transformation stage shouldn't be a problem!"

Unable to break through with thunder tribulation inside the tower, the disciples' cultivation levels superficially remained at the Golden Core or Nascent Soul stages. However, having stayed in the tower for so long, their internal spiritual power had long since accumulated sufficiently.

It's not hard to imagine that in the coming month, almost the entire cultivation world would be covered in tribulation thunder, with large and small heavenly thunder occurring in various places, too numerous to count.

Every few days, major sects and families would receive news of disciples breaking through. In a single day, five disciples successfully broke through to Divine Transformation stage! Except for the peak period of the Spirit Abyss Continent ten thousand years ago, such a magnificent and grand scene had never appeared again!

Some disciples failed to break through to Divine Transformation, but among those who came out of the trial grounds, basically all Golden Core disciples broke through to Nascent Soul, and most Nascent Soul disciples broke through to Divine Transformation stage.

In just half a year, the cultivation world gained over a hundred Divine Transformation cultivators, finally breaking the previously one-sided situation.

The top disciples of major sects and heirs of several great families, who had already broken through to Divine Transformation before the trials, all advanced from early Divine Transformation to late or peak Divine Transformation.

Gu Chang'an, Mo Qingchen, and Shang Ziling, the three with the strongest abilities, went into seclusion immediately after coming out of the trial grounds, attempting to break through to Unity stage.

Concerned that some ill-intentioned individuals might cause trouble at such a time, Chu Sang originally wanted to find a few people to protect Big Senior Brother, but she couldn't find anyone available after searching the entire Lingqing Sect inside and out.

Not to mention inner disciples, even outer disciples were hard to find, all having been sent out on missions by the sect elders.

Chu Sang suddenly thought of an "individual" who might be free. She flew to the back mountain and pulled out the little red snake she hadn't seen in a long time.

The little red snake was a demon beast raised by Third Senior Brother with demon blood from a young age, more intelligent than ordinary demon beasts. Now it also had Divine Transformation stage strength. After Third Senior Brother returned to the Demon Realm, it grew up on the back mountain of Lingqing Sect, not wanting to return to the Demon Realm. It didn't follow Mu Changqing back but continued to stay at Lingqing Sect as a freeloader.

Chu Sang absolutely wouldn't let any potential labor force in the sect go to waste.

She pulled it out to work!

With Third Senior Brother gone, the little red snake had become bolder and simply transformed into human form.

Having not seen much of it in these few years, the little red snake had also grown a bit. Now it looked like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, with a delicate face still holding a bit of baby fat. Unlike Third Senior Brother, he had dark red long hair, looking a bit cocky and roguish. Those bewitching vertical pupils shimmered slightly with gold, his tone more tsundere than when he was younger, "Hmph, if you want me to work for you, shouldn't you show some sincerity?"

"Is this sincere enough?"

After giving him a knock on the head, Chu Sang also gave him some meat jerky, successfully buying off this little snake.

He squatted cross-legged on the ground, stuffing meat jerky into his mouth while mumbling indistinctly, "It's just protection duty, don't worry, don't worry. Leave your Big Senior Brother to me. With me protecting him, nothing will go wrong!"

"By the way, Little Bug, what's the current situation in the outside world? You've been outside for so long, you should know more than us. Tell us about it."

Wen Renyue happened to hear the commotion and came over too. She took out a strip of meat, and the little snake approached like a cat smelling cat treats, his tail almost showing. He didn't mind Second Senior Sister's childhood nickname for him, "Not long after you entered the trial grounds half a year ago, the cultivation world encountered an extremely massive thunder tribulation. That tribulation was truly terrifying. I was so scared I didn't dare crawl out of my hole. I heard that the area affected by that tribulation was extremely wide, nearly a hundred miles were inaccessible!"

He raised his chin, glancing at Chu Sang who was rubbing her nose, "Well, it was caused by this Little Junior Sister beside you. At that time, the outside world thought it was some great expert undergoing tribulation."

"After the tribulation ended, a large number of time-space cracks erupted almost simultaneously across various parts of the Spirit Abyss Continent. The cultivation world already had several time-space cracks before, and various major sects and families had nearly exhausted their manpower trying to repair these cracks... but the number of time-space cracks that erupted half a year ago was a hundred times more than before!"

"Only Divine Transformation cultivators have the ability to repair the cracks, but at that time, the cultivation world simply couldn't find that many Divine Transformation cultivators. The sects had already exhausted their ability to find more manpower to repair the cracks in a short time. In the end, they had no choice but to come up with a desperate measure together with the higher-ups of the other three realms, which was to—invite the secluded old ancestors out, at the cost of burning their divine souls, to seal off the entire Spirit Abyss Continent. This way, they could isolate the erosion of the time-space cracks on the Spirit Abyss Continent, thus preserving the stability of the Spirit Abyss Continent for the past half year......"

The little snake's expression didn't become lighter, but rather more solemn. He bit into a piece of meat jerky with a worried face and mumbled, "Actually, I don't need to say much, you should all be able to guess. This method can protect the continent from being devoured by time-space cracks in the short term, but the cost is burning the divine soul power of the powerful ancestors. The price is too high!"

"Not to mention that the divine soul power is ultimately limited. As far as I know, over the past half year, the divine soul power has almost been burned up. The remaining divine soul power can only last for a little over a month at most......"

"If we can't find a way to eliminate the black substance and the time-space cracks, the Spirit Abyss Continent will still not escape the fate of being devoured......"

Chu Sang rubbed his little head, "Don't worry, there's still a turning point."

The ascension passage to the upper realm of the Spirit Abyss Continent had already been closed. The ancestor-level experts knew that even if they spent their entire lives in closed-door cultivation, they were destined to have no hope of ascending. Voluntarily stepping forward to burn their divine souls was equivalent to self-sacrifice to protect the younger generation.

It was an extreme measure, forced by the circumstances. The cultivation world simply couldn't find enough Divine Transformation cultivators to seal off the time-space cracks that had suddenly increased a hundredfold.

But this situation was before the disciples in the trial grounds had emerged. Now the situation is vastly different. The cultivation world has gained hundreds of Divine Transformation disciples, and there's a very high possibility of gaining several more Unity stage cultivators soon. The last month... is truly unpredictable.

"Oh right, I almost forgot to tell you something. You probably don't know, but the black mist in various parts of the cultivation world isn't spiritual energy but divine sense. All the major sects have been speculating where so much divine sense power came from, and just recently, they finally got some clues!" The little snake stood up and said, "This divine soul power all comes from cultivators, to be precise, cultivators from other continents!"

The Spirit Abyss Continent is just one small world among the three thousand worlds. Naturally, there are other continents besides this one.

Other continents naturally have cultivators too, perhaps cultivating spiritual energy, or perhaps another type of power.

The paths of power converge at the same destination. The life journey of a cultivator either ends in death or ascension to the upper realm.

The situations on various continents are more or less the same, maintaining a delicate balance between each other, not interfering with one another.

But, there are always people who want to break the balance between continents.

Continental resources are limited. If one could devour the resources of another continent, then the power of this continent would certainly increase greatly!

Ordinary cultivators still cannot tear through space with their own power. Even if they have this idea, they don't have the ability. But if they have the help of an Upper God, then naturally, they are given this opportunity.

The Upper Gods don't even need to do much, just open time-space cracks, letting cultivators from other continents see the opportunity. Driven by human interests, cultivators from other continents will naturally find ways to invade other continents' resources through the time-space cracks.

Unfortunately, the Spirit Abyss Continent has become the predetermined prey in this chase.

They are in an extremely passive position.

But at this point, there's no other way except to close the time-space cracks as quickly as possible.

To close the cracks, they must first solve the problem of the black mist. Fortunately, the other three realms have all joined in as well.

Without internal strife, they can concentrate their power to jointly resist external enemies.

The Divine Transformation disciples were sent out early to deal with the black mist, but the number of time-space cracks is really too many.

On the surface, it's said that only Divine Transformation cultivators have the ability to close time-space cracks, but in actual combat situations, it's difficult for a single early or mid Divine Transformation stage disciple to close a time-space crack by themselves. They also need to clear the black mist along the way, which consumes a lot of mental energy.

Based on the experience of the past half year, at least five Divine Transformation disciples need to form a team for the optimal solution. But this also leaves a drawback: Divine Transformation disciples must be dispersed, split into dozens of teams, to deal with the time-space cracks one by one.

It should be noted that the number of time-space cracks is not constant. Every day... no, more accurately, every moment, new time-space cracks are forming.

The number of time-space cracks will only increase.

While the number of disciples can only decrease due to accidents, there's no possibility of increasing in the short term.

The rate at which time-space cracks are increasing far exceeds the speed at which they can close them.

The disciples must quickly resolve the current time-space cracks in a short time, otherwise, if delayed again and again, they will fall into the same predicament of insufficient manpower as half a year ago.

Traveling team by team wastes too much time.

"The journey takes too much time. If we could save this part of the time, perhaps, we might still make it in time," someone said in a low voice.

Although cultivators can fly on swords and shrink ground into inches, naturally much faster than mortals without cultivation when traveling, they still can't directly tear through space and teleport. The territory of the cultivation world is so vast, and the distribution of time-space cracks is extremely scattered. It takes at least half a day for them to travel from one new place to the location of the next time-space crack. If they encounter some unexpected situations on the way, the journey could take two or three days.

There's not much time left for the Spirit Abyss Continent.

If not counting the travel time, perhaps, they still have a chance to close all the time-space cracks.

A disciple muttered, "If only we had a spatial spiritual tool that could teleport over a long enough distance, to transport people near the time-space cracks..."

Chu Sang looked up at the speaking disciple, a sudden flash of inspiration in her mind. Spatial spiritual tool... space traversal... Spatial spiritual tools are not very rare items. The disciples present are all from major sects and families, presumably each having one or two spatial spiritual tools. However, limited by the cultivation level of the tool makers, most spatial teleportation tools either have a usage limit, being one-time products (buying several would be too expensive with poor cost-effectiveness), or have a very short teleportation distance, not as convenient as a teleportation talisman.

Currently, finding a spatial teleportation tool that can teleport over a long enough distance and is convenient to use is somewhat difficult.

However, speaking of space traversal, she thought of a type of divine beast recorded in books. It has the ability to move mountains and fill seas, and is a rare divine beast capable of mastering spatial transfer abilities.

Its name is—

Kun Peng.