Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 703

Chapter 701 Plundering Spiritual Energy

“Then it’s my turn! I’ll trade my children!” Sister Zhang cried.

Others shook their heads. Sister Zhang was completely devastated, unable to grasp even the simplest principles. “Sister Zhang, the City Lord wants to break through to the Shattered Pill stage and become an Infant. The spiritual energy he needs has been collected from every household, and it’s more than enough. What he lacks now is enlightenment. This enlightenment cannot be sought, so he can only resort to magical means.”

“These children haven’t practiced yet, and are closest to the innate body. Refining them will make it easier for the City Lord to comprehend the Dao and achieve the Nascent Soul Realm. How can you replace your children?”

The other children’s parents, seemingly infected by Sister Zhang, also cried out for a blood sacrifice.

Seeing this, the City Lord frowned and used the Lion’s Roar technique to silence them.

The roar shook the air, causing everyone’s ears to ring and their bodies to stagger.

“Blood sacrifice is a tradition in Maple City. You fail to grasp the greater good and disregard your ancestral teachings, focusing solely on your children.”

“Your children are unlucky and have been chosen. This is fate. We must learn to accept our fate!”

The City Lord’s words were effective. Everyone calmed down and stopped arguing.

They knew the City Lord was right.

The Deputy City Lord looked up at the sun, counted on his fingers, and said, “City Lord, it’s time for the blood sacrifice of the children.”

The City Lord nodded in a muffled voice, his expression stern. “Then begin…”

“Wait!”

“Who!” The City Lord frowned, his brow furrowed with murderous intent. This blood sacrifice had left him deeply frustrated, and he had been met with obstacles at every turn.

“I,” Qin Luan and Qi Sha Daozi said simultaneously.

Qi Sha Daozi unleashed his swordsmanship, his sword energy obliterating the blood that formed the formation and severing the ropes that bound the children.

The crowd quickly dispersed, leaving ample space for the two men.

“Who are you?” Seeing the two men were strangers, the City Lord refrained from attacking them immediately.

He couldn’t see through the two men’s cultivation, indicating they were also at the Jindan stage.

With two Jindan-stage cultivators obstructing him, the blood sacrifice ritual couldn’t proceed.

“Qin Luan, the wandering cultivator of Jiuzhou.”

“Qisha Daozi.”

“Jiuzhou? Has anyone heard of this city?” the city lord asked the other four Jindan-stage cultivators. They shook their heads, none of them having heard of a place called Jiuzhou.

“Blazing blood sacrifices in broad daylight—is this your tradition?” Qin Luan demanded harshly. Jiuzhou had long since been devoid of the demonic path. In his memory, the demonic path had always been secretive, never as brazen as the Xuanming Continent.

“This is ridiculous!” Qisha Daozi echoed.

“Ridiculous? Do you think we’re willing to offer a blood sacrifice? Who would choose a blood sacrifice if they had no other choice?” The city lord was enraged by the two men’s questioning.

“Spiritual energy is thinning now. Heming City, head of the pack, and all the other immortal cities are scrambling for it to survive. If I don’t break through to the Nascent Soul stage, and there’s no one to rule the city, it could be captured tomorrow by the other immortal cities, and their spiritual energy plundered!”

Qin Luan and Qi Sha Daozi were stunned. They hadn’t expected this to happen.

They looked at the people around them and saw that they weren’t looking at them with gratitude, but resentment.

Preventing the city lord from reaching the Nascent Soul stage was like waiting for the other immortal cities to come and seize the city, leaving them completely defenseless.

Qin Luan and Qi Sha Daozi were at a loss. They had thought that standing up for justice, discrediting evil and promoting good, would earn them the admiration of the people. Instead, they incurred resentment.

Suddenly, hearty laughter echoed from the city walls.

“Haha, so you haven’t even started the blood sacrifice yet!”

A cultivator radiating the aura of the Nascent Soul stage stood atop the city walls, watching the blood sacrifice being forced to abort, and laughed heartily.

“I heard you in Maple Leaf City were going to use a blood sacrifice ritual to raise a Nascent Soul cultivator, so I hurried over. I thought I was late, but I didn’t expect you to be so slow and haven’t even started yet.”

“Heming City Lord!”

The Maple Leaf City Lord broke into a cold sweat. The Heming City Lord was a veteran Nascent Soul cultivator. If he had just broken through, the Heming City Lord, unwilling to compete with a Nascent Soul cultivator, would have left. But now, without a Nascent Soul cultivator in the city,

the Heming City Lord would be plundered of its spiritual energy. “Look at the city now! From today on, Maple Leaf City will become a mortal city.” The Heming City Lord sneered. Maple Leaf City was a lucrative piece of meat, and not seizing their spiritual energy would be a crime.

Those with the most spiritual energy would rule.

The Heming City Lord unleashed his Nascent Soul pressure, suppressing the crowd and setting up a spirit gathering array to collect spiritual energy.

“A mere Nascent Soul cultivator, with a low level of cultivation, yet boasts so arrogantly.” Qin Luan and Qi Sha Daozi also sneered. They had just made a mistake and now they had to find a way to make amends.

Qin Luan and Qi Sha Daozi unleashed their cultivation, their Divine Transformation Stage cultivation clearly revealed.

“Come down!” Qin Luan unleashed his thunder magic, and lightning and thunder roared across the sky, striking the Lord of Heming City, sending him careening off the wall to the ground.

“Divine Transformation Stage!” the Lord of Maple Leaf City exclaimed, truly the legendary Divine Transformation Stage.

Qi Sha Daozi drew his sword and placed it against the Lord of Heming City’s neck. “I heard that it was your Heming City that was plundering the spiritual energy of other cities?”

The Lord of Heming City was even more shocked than the Lord of Maple Leaf City. When had two Divine Transformation Stage cultivators appeared on Xuanming Continent?

“Senior, spare my life. We in Heming City were forced to do this.” Knowing he was no match for his opponent, the Lord of Heming City knelt and begged for mercy, revealing the truth, fearing that Qi Sha Daozi’s hand would waver and chop off his head.

“The two seniors are secluded and not well-known. I admire them. I thought that the only cultivator in the God Transformation Stage on Xuanming Continent was True Lord Zhuzhu.”

“The spiritual energy plundering in Heming City was also caused by True Lord Zhuzhu.”

“True Lord Zhuzhu’s time has come. In order to break through the Fusion Stage, he needs to use a large amount of spiritual energy to impact his body.”

“He is short of spiritual energy and ordered us cultivator cities in the Nascent Soul Stage to hand over a certain amount of spiritual energy. If the spiritual energy handed over is not enough, we will be wiped out.”

“We in Heming City are also short of spiritual energy. In order to survive, we can only rob the cultivator cities that are only in the Golden Core Stage.”

Qin Luan and Qi Sha Daozi looked at each other and asked tentatively: “There is no one behind True Lord Zhuzhu, right? There will be no other cultivator in the Fusion Stage who will give orders to True Lord Zhuzhu or the like.”

The Lord of Heming City quickly exclaimed, “No, no, absolutely not. Where on earth could Xuanming Continent possibly have so much spiritual energy to cultivate two powerful cultivators at the Fusion Stage?”

“Where is Master Zhuzhu?”

The Lord of Heming City gave a direction, and Qin Luan and Qisha Daozi flew there.

Before leaving, Qisha Daozi left several sword pellets for Maple Leaf City, asking them to protect him. These pellets

contained sword energy, a single burst of which could kill a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The Lord of Maple Leaf City, overjoyed, hurriedly expressed his gratitude. Seeing their son no longer had to die, the others also kowtowed in gratitude.

The two men tracked down Master Zhuzhu, whose time was nearing.

He was requesting spiritual energy from a cultivation city, but the energy provided was insufficient. Furious, he threatened to destroy the city and kill.

The two arrived just in time and engaged Master Zhuzhu in a fierce battle.

With his age waning, how could Master Zhuzhu possibly be a match for two righteous and talented candidates for the Human Emperor?

Without a second thought, Qin Luan, wielding lightning, and Qi Sha Daozi, unleashing sword energy, joined forces to slay Zhu Zhu Zhenjun.

However, their moods didn’t improve.

Despite Zhu Zhu Zhenjun’s death, there were still many Nascent Soul cultivators nearing their demise on Xuanming Continent. These individuals, driven by a desire for breakthrough, would resort to inhumane acts.

“The disaster on Xuanming Continent stems from a lack of spiritual energy. This isn’t something we can resolve alone. We should record this matter and report it to the Human Emperor Palace for Mr. Jiang’s decision.”

(End of Chapter)