Bringing The Farm To Live In Another World - Chapter 16215

Chapter 16213. The Situation

Suddenly, Xu Ying realized that their grudges with the Creation God Cult seemed less important. The conflict between the Creation God Cult and those aristocratic families was actually deepening. However, Xu Ying was very clear that the conflict between the Creation God Cult and those aristocratic families was instigated by someone. He knew about the power of shadows, and from what he understood, no aristocratic family in the Divine Kingdom had ever used similar energy. In fact, not only those aristocratic families, but no one in the Divine Kingdom had ever used this energy. So, where did this energy come from? Who was using it? Which faction did this person belong to? They had no idea.

Now, Xu Ying and his group were extremely curious, wanting to know who was plotting against the Creation God Cult. The Creation God Cult was certainly quite busy.

Soon, the battle between the aristocratic families and the Creation God Cult began. Both sides knew each other well, aware of each other’s territories and where to strike to inflict the most pain. Therefore, their fighting was fierce. However, they all adhered to an agreement: they fought outside the city walls, not inside.

Seeing the two sides locked in fierce combat, Xu Ying was momentarily speechless. However, he saw this as an opportunity. With everyone’s attention focused on the aristocratic families and the Creation God Cult, no one would notice what was happening at the other sects, thus achieving their objective. But before that, he had to do one thing: seize more territory while the Creation God Cult and the aristocratic families were fighting. At this time, the Creation God Cult’s attention wouldn’t be on them, and they might not care if they gained some territory. Therefore, Xu Ying and his group accelerated their offensive, simultaneously building temples in several cities, waiting to engage in a duel with the Creation God Cult.

However, something unexpected happened to Xu Ying and his group. The Creation God Sect stopped its wager with the Myriad Laws God Sect. Whenever the Myriad Laws God Sect built a temple in a city, their people would automatically withdraw. Clearly, the Creation God Sect was now focusing all its energy on dealing with the powerful families and had no time to concern itself with the Myriad Laws God Sect.

Seeing this, Xu Ying immediately accelerated his efforts. In a short time, temples of the Myriad Laws God Sect were built in multiple cities. By the time the Creation God Sect finally realized what was happening, they found that the Myriad Laws God Sect had already built over a thousand temples, meaning that over a thousand cities had fallen into their hands.

The Creation God Sect was now in a panic. However, they hadn’t resolved their issues with the powerful families, and they didn’t want to fight on two fronts. They knew very well that if they continued their wager with the Myriad Laws God Sect at this point, the sect might simply intensify its attacks and abandon the wager altogether. At that point, they would be in real trouble.

Because they did not want to fight on two fronts, the Creation God Sect took a ruthless approach. They first reduced their strength and ceded more than a hundred cities. Xu Ying and his group did not attack again, but instead built the Temple of Ten Thousand Laws in these cities.

At this point, the Creation God Sect no longer needed to concern itself with the Myriad Laws God Sect. Instead, it focused all its efforts on attacking the Zhang and Hua families, among others, who had attacked them the most fiercely. Although they also paid a considerable price, they also inflicted heavy losses on the Zhang and Hua families, finally weakening these families who had attacked them the most and making them afraid to attack again. The other families, fearing that the Creation God Sect would also attack them relentlessly, stopped their attacks altogether. The Creation God Sect suffered the greatest losses in this battle. Not only did the Myriad Laws God Sect seize nearly a thousand cities in one fell swoop, but many of their assets were also seized by the various powerful families. However, regardless of the circumstances, the Creation God Sect managed to retain most of its assets and territory. Under the combined attack of the various powerful families and the Myriad Laws God Sect, they were still able to achieve this much, which was quite remarkable.

However, Xu Ying noticed something else: the people of the Creation God Sect didn’t seem to be using the Creation God’s avatar. This puzzled him greatly. He couldn’t understand why they weren’t using it; if they had, their losses might have been much smaller.

Regardless of the reason, the Creation God Sect had suffered a significant loss this time. They were truly weakened, but this also revealed their strength to everyone. Although they had failed, their combat power was still formidable. They had withstood attacks from so many powerful families simultaneously and nearly crippled the Zhang and Hua families. The Creation God Sect’s strength was indeed formidable. Everyone also knew that it was best not to provoke them at this time; they were in a rage, and provoking them now might result in a fierce attack.

Gongliang Juewen had been keeping a close eye on the situation in the Divine Kingdom. When he saw that the conflict between the Creation God Sect and the various aristocratic families had ceased, he wasn’t particularly concerned. This operation had been quite successful. The Zhang family, the Hua family, and several other major families had suffered heavy losses and would need a long time to recover. The Creation God Sect, which had suffered even greater losses, had also been greatly affected in terms of strength. Most importantly, they had lost a large amount of territory, which had been silently swallowed up by the Myriad Laws God Sect. However, the Myriad Laws God Sect seemed to be unable to launch any further attacks and was now managing those territories. In Gongliang Juewen’s view, this was perfectly normal; it would be abnormal if the Myriad Laws God Sect didn’t do this.

For a period of time afterward, the Divine Kingdom Continent seemed to suddenly become quiet. The Myriad Laws Divine Sect was managing its newly acquired territory, the Creation Divine Sect was recovering its strength, and although the aristocratic families had gained some benefits, they had also suffered great losses. They no longer had the ability to attack the Creation Divine Sect. It could be said that all the unstable factors in the Divine Kingdom had now been stabilized, so the Divine Kingdom suddenly became quiet, which made the people of the Divine Kingdom quite unaccustomed to it.

Gongliang Juewen was actually quite satisfied with the performance of the Myriad Laws Divine Sect. Although most of the cities occupied by the Myriad Laws Divine Sect were ceded to them by the Creation Divine Sect—in other words, they acquired those cities through a clever scheme—they had nonetheless gained the ability to threaten the Creation Divine Sect.

The Creation Divine Sect’s strength had been weakened, the aristocratic families’ strength had been weakened, and the Myriad Laws Divine Sect’s strength had been strengthened. However, they couldn’t completely digest the territory they had acquired in a short period of time, which was exactly the effect Gongliang Juewen wanted to achieve.

Gongliang Juewen then turned his attention to those sects. Zhang Wei was right; what Gongliang Juewen feared most was not the aristocratic families, nor the Creation God Sect, nor the Myriad Laws God Sect, but those sects. Some of these sects had existed for longer than the Divine Kingdom itself. They had profound foundations and had even helped the Gongliang family establish the Divine Kingdom in the beginning. Because of this contribution, those sects were initially very arrogant, even able to influence the court. If they were allowed to continue developing like this, those sects would likely become de facto rulers, while the Gongliang family, the royal family, would have to act according to the sects’ wishes.

However, the Gongliang family also produced a powerful figure: Gongliang Juewen. From his very first day in office, Gongliang Juewen targeted those sects, finding various pretexts to contact major powers and unite against them. After years of suppression, he finally reduced the sects’ influence in the court to a minimum; the sects had no one left in the court, and his suppression had been effective.

However, the sects still possessed considerable resources, and no one dared to easily offend them, much less push them to the brink of destruction. Even so, Gongliang Juewen remained uneasy. He devoted at least half of his energy to those sects, monitoring them and ensuring they had no chance to recover.

Originally, Gongliang Juewen thought that when the Creation God Sect fought against those aristocratic families, those sects would also get involved, and at that time, their losses would likely be substantial.

However, to Gongliang Juewen’s surprise, the sects didn’t participate in this matter. They remained detached and indifferent, which was somewhat unexpected. He hadn’t anticipated that those sects could restrain themselves and not be blinded by profit. They suppressed their desires, and that was the most terrifying thing.

Desire is a terrifying thing. You might think you can’t be controlled by it, but very few people can truly escape its control. Gongliang Juewen hadn’t expected those sects to be able to do it. The fact that they all could meant that their thoughts had been unified, and that was the most frightening thing.

Why could Gongliang Juewen continuously suppress those sects? Because although those sects were an alliance, everyone in that alliance had their own selfish motives. No one was truly willing to risk their lives for others. Therefore, he could use various means to continuously suppress those sects, causing their power to shrink further and further.

However, if those sects were to truly form an alliance and achieve internal ideological unity, it would be incredibly dangerous. Once they achieved this unity, they could unite and act as one. If that were to happen, Gongliang Juewen’s position as emperor would likely be precarious.

Therefore, after dealing with the aristocratic families and the Myriad Laws Sect, Gongliang Juewen turned his attention directly to those sects. He wanted to see what they were up to.

He discovered that the sects had been unusually well-behaved lately. They seemed uninterested in the affairs of the Creation God Sect and the aristocratic families, continuing with their own lives. This surprised Gongliang Juewen greatly; he truly hadn’t expected such a reaction. He wanted to see if the sects had truly given up this opportunity and would no longer interfere in the affairs of the Divine Kingdom.