Chapter 163: A Hasty Six Years_3
The Peak Master of Ling Luo was equally enraged and said, "With such a ruckus from your cultivation of Array Tao, even your master couldn't rest properly. Shouldn't I be angry?"
"Yes, yes, I'm wrong! It's my fault!" Lu Yi was coerced into admitting fault and was full of resentment, but he had no choice but to remember this grudge for later.
With a cold snort, the Peak Master of Ling Luo finally let Lu Yi off the hook.
Lu Yi chuckled and said, "Since Master has come over, why not give a lecture while we're at it?"
The expression of the Peak Master of Ling Luo instantly stiffened.
Another month passed, and Lu Yi made another breakthrough, advancing his cultivation base to the seventh layer of Divinity Transformation, which was no longer far from reaching the Divinity Transformation Peak.
During this time, Lu Yi occasionally drank and discussed the Tao with familiar fellow disciples, talking about events happening in the outside world, and gained a rough understanding of the situation.
A few months ago, the alliance fighting against the Sea Clan had begun to widely invite practitioners from the Eastern Region to participate in the great battle against the Sea Clan.
Each sect had emissaries dispatched by the alliance, and naturally, sects of varying strengths sent different numbers of people to the battle.
As for the loose cultivators, many were attracted to partake in the battle because of the possibility of exchanging military merits for cultivation resources.
Not to mention other provinces, in Qingzhou, even the reclusive Ten Thousand Flowers Sect and Cold Jade Valley were invited to join the battle. The external forces required even more cultivators to participate.
The Primordial Yang Sect, the Qin Family, and the great Great Mahayana ancestors from Forget River Valley, all holding grudges against Lu Yi, were all pulled into the battlefield.
Originally, a Great Mahayana Sect called the Fiery Flame Sect refused to participate and even expelled the emissary from their territory. The next day, however, a Tribulation Crossing Ancestor personally appeared and subdued the Great Mahayana ancestor of the Fiery Flame Sect with a single palm strike. He forcefully dragged all disciples of the Fiery Flame Sect, including those in the Qi Cultivation Realm, to the battlefield, killing those who resisted outright.
Such thunderous methods instilled immense fear in all sects and powers, hence no one dared to defy openly.
The White Cloud Sect also dispatched cultivators to join the battle.
Cave Void Realm cultivators were led by Master Liu Zhenyang, and numerous Divinity Transformation cultivators also went because White Cloud Sect had absorbed those from the Iron Heart Sect and Black Jade Peak, thus having even more cultivators at the Divinity Transformation stage. Still, Master Wu Qingfeng treated everyone equally, and one-third of the Divinity Transformation cultivators from all three sects were sent, to stabilize people's hearts and prevent any discontent from Iron Heart Sect and Black Jade Peak.
The Divinity Transformation Elders originally from White Cloud Sect were among those who went, including Qi Ling and a few other old men and women Lu Yi had met before.
As for the Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators, naturally, even more of them went.
Jiang Fan, Bai Yulong, and Tie Man, perhaps inherently war-mongers, were very excited about the rich rewards for military achievements. After discussion, the three decided to go to the battlefield to gain merits and gather cultivation resources.
Since Jiang Fan and the others had been out gaining experience for over ten years, coming back with mastery of certain Conceptions made them quite renowned in the sect. This naturally inspired many talented disciples within White Cloud Sect who were confident in their own strengths to follow their example.
Including Xie Tianming and Nangong Moyu, and other Nascent Soul prodigies who were still a distance away from reaching the Divinity Transformation Realm, they all watched as Lu Yi advanced step by step, outpacing them, and now naturally felt a strong sense of urgency.
They all thought of going to the Sea Clan battlefield to obtain more resources and rapidly achieve breakthroughs into the Divinity Transformation Realm.
Many among these people were older disciples from Ling Luo Peak, with whom Lu Yi had good relationships and with whom he had sparred before.
Lu Yi was naturally somewhat worried about these cultivators. He had various magic artifacts, elixirs, and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures from his previous missions, many of which he did not use. He distributed some of these, including magic artifacts and even more powerful artifacts, along with various life-saving elixirs, to these fellow disciples.
The battlefield was dangerous and not a place to take lightly; Lu Yi could only give them what assistance he could.
In hopes of preventing another situation like with Brother Li Yun.
When Liu Zhenyang led a group of White Cloud Sect disciples to war, the entire sect's cultivators came to see them off, including Lu Yi, Liu Ningshuang, and Donggong Ming Yue, and even Master, who usually loved to sleep in, came out.
Master Wu Qingfeng and others stood at the forefront, watching as the disciples from White Cloud Sect disappeared over the horizon, their expressions incredibly complex.
Master Wu Qingfeng sighed and said, "The battlefield against the Sea Clan is extremely dangerous. It's uncertain how many members of our White Cloud Sect will be able to return."
"We can only hope that they come back safely."
Everyone was silent.
All knew that the battlefield was a slaughterhouse, and life and death might be just a moment away, beyond anyone's control.
Lu Yi, too, had mixed feelings, understanding that perhaps some of his fellow disciples he would never see again in this lifetime.
After seeing off the departing troops, the White Cloud Sect remained as calm as ever.
But the chaos in Qingzhou had also calmed down.
Among the external forces, the strong had mostly been pulled to the battlefield. After all, their original territory had been occupied by the Sea Clan; retreating in the face of battle was absolutely not allowed by the alliance.
In the continuous defeats against the Sea Clan, the alliance acted decisively without giving more chances to the external forces.
The cultivators left behind posed no significant threat to the local sects of Qingzhou, even allowing both Ten Thousand Flowers Sect and Cold Jade Valley to lift their closed-door status.
Qingzhou gradually regained peace, yet this quiet was not stable.
All cultivators paid close attention to the situation on the Sea Clan battlefield. The current Eastern Domain Alliance Army was not weak, and if they still could not drive the Sea Clan out of the mainland's Eastern Domain, perhaps next time, all cultivators would have to go and repel the Sea Clan.
Within White Cloud Sect, Lu Yi continued to cultivate peacefully.
He did not go to this round of conscription; in fact, even if Lu Yi had wanted to, Master Wu Qingfeng and others would not have let him.
It was too dangerous. Even though Lu Yi's combat skills were strong enough to withstand Unification Realm cultivators and he could escape from Great Mahayana cultivators, but the Tribulation Crossing ancestors that might appear on the battlefield were still a danger hanging over his head.
Lu Yi had a chance to ascend in the future, and White Cloud Sect might become an Immortal Sect Holy Land. Naturally, Master Wu Qingfeng and other higher-ups would not allow Lu Yi to go to such a perilous place.
Just like that, time flew by and six years had passed. Lu Yi broke through to the tenth layer of Divinity Transformation and posted a task to break into the eleventh layer.
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