Everyone's Immortal Cultivation: Starting from a Junior Talisman Maker

Chapter 220 Taking the Initiative to Slay a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator (Part 1)
"Senior brother, you're too kind."

Upon hearing this, True Lord Jinyang exchanged a few polite words with True Lord Wanhe, then expressed his gratitude before accepting the congratulatory gift from True Lord Wanhe.

"Alright, now Junior Brother Wanhe's cultivation has recovered, and Junior Brother Jinyang has also lived up to expectations in recent years, successfully breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, allowing our Wuqi Kingdom to have three Nascent Soul True Monarchs at the same time."

"Today, the overall strength of our Wuqi Kingdom far surpasses that of several other nearby countries."

"We should also sit down and have a good discussion about which country we should attack next, so that it will be more beneficial for our Wuqi Kingdom to continue its expansion."

After True Lord Linghai and True Lord Jinyang accepted the congratulatory gifts from True Lord Wanhe, they immediately suggested that the two of them sit down and discuss their future expansion plans.

Since Jin Yang Zhenjun successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, Ling Hai Zhenjun also learned through the intelligence agencies he had placed in various countries that Xia Kingdom had formed an alliance with Yunlai Kingdom, Nanyu Kingdom, and Yue Kingdom.

In addition, he has gained a detailed understanding of the situation in these countries over the years.

Among these neighboring countries, Xia is the strongest in terms of overall strength and has the deepest cultural heritage.

After all, the Xia Kingdom has a history of more than three thousand years, and in those three thousand years, seven or eight Nascent Soul Realm cultivators have been born.

In particular, after Mingwu Zhenjun broke through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul Realm and became the leader of the Xia Kingdom, he expanded the territory of the Xia Kingdom by a significant margin.

Although since the death of True Monarch Mingwu a few years ago, the Xia Kingdom now only has True Monarch Beihan as a Nascent Soul cultivator, and he is currently over eight hundred years old with little lifespan left, his strength may no longer be what it was at its peak.

However, according to Linghai Zhenjun's understanding, Beihan Zhenjun had already reached the peak of the third level of the Nascent Soul Realm many years ago, and having lived for so many years, his attainments in the true meaning of the Great Dao must not be weak.

Therefore, even if the opponent is not in peak physical condition, their strength is probably not much weaker than his. In particular, if the opponent chooses to fight him to the death, he will have to be more wary.

As for Yunlai Kingdom, according to Linghai Zhenjun's understanding, although their country currently only has one Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, King Yunding Zhenjun of Yunlai Kingdom is over six hundred years old this year and is at his peak. His cultivation is said to have reached the third level of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Linghai Zhenjun estimated that the opponent's strength was probably not much weaker than his own.

As for Lingyu Zhenjun of Nanyu Kingdom, although he is also over eight hundred years old, his cultivation has reached the third level of the Nascent Soul Realm, and his strength is comparable to that of Beihan Zhenjun. He is also not someone to be trifled with.

Only the Hundred Peaks True Lord of Yue Kingdom, who is over five hundred years old this year, is the weakest in strength and foundation among the Nascent Soul Realm leaders of the nearby countries, according to the Spirit Sea True Lord.

As for the leader of the Weiyang Kingdom, the Weiyang True Lord, his lifespan is nearing its end, with only twenty or thirty years left. In order to protect the descendants of his family from being slaughtered, he chose to submit to the Wuqi Kingdom a few years ago.

Linghai Zhenjun handed Wanhe Zhenjun and Jinyang Zhenjun the latest intelligence data on several nearby countries, including the age and cultivation level of the leaders of these countries, as well as the military strength of each country.

Finally, based on the overall situation of several nearby countries, Linghai Zhenjun expressed his thoughts. He planned to gather an army and join forces with Wanhe Zhenjun to attack Yue Kingdom first.

They wanted to see if they could force Baiyue Zhenjun of Yue Kingdom to surrender and join their Wuqi Kingdom, thereby further strengthening their Wuqi Kingdom's power.

With five Nascent Soul cultivators on their side, the Wuqi Kingdom would be able to destroy the Xia Kingdom or several other countries much more easily.

Although in recent years, their Wuqi Kingdom has occupied nearly one-third of the immortal city territory of the Xia Kingdom, greatly weakening the Xia Kingdom's national fortune.

However, Xia Kingdom, as the country with the largest and most profound Xiancheng territory among the surrounding countries, has lost nearly half of its Xiancheng territory in recent years.

It is still not much smaller than the Immortal City territory of their Wuqi Kingdom today.

Moreover, the remaining half of the immortal city territory of the Xia Kingdom is now a collection of immortal cities and spiritual lands rich in resources and with high-grade spiritual veins.

Moreover, after thousands of years of accumulation, the Xia Kingdom was the wealthiest among the surrounding countries.

Therefore, in Linghai Zhenjun's view, only by completely destroying the Xia Kingdom, seizing its national fortune and a large amount of resources, could he more easily break through the bottleneck of the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Especially since True Lord Linghai is now over six hundred years old, he must seize the time for one last gamble.

Otherwise, once he is over seven hundred years old, his physical functions will decline, and it will be much more difficult for him to break through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Moreover, if the time drags on, and if a new Nascent Soul cultivator is born in the Xia Kingdom, then the Xia Kingdom will have two Nascent Soul cultivators. With the help of some powerful trump cards, it will be much more difficult for him to destroy the Xia Kingdom.

Therefore, he must accumulate strength in recent years, unite with several Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, and kill the Northern Cold True Monarch of the Xia Kingdom in one fell swoop to eliminate future troubles.

Meanwhile, Wanhe Zhenjun and Jinyang Zhenjun, who were standing to the side, also expressed their support for Linghai Zhenjun's expansion plan after listening to his explanation and analysis.

In particular, Wanhe Zhenjun harbored deep hatred for Mingwu Zhenjun, the previous leader of the Xia Kingdom, and even wanted to destroy the Xia Kingdom and seek revenge on Mingwu Zhenjun's descendants.

Therefore, after Wanhe Zhenjun recovered his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, Wuqi Kingdom immediately gathered over a million soldiers to launch a full-scale attack on Yue Kingdom.

As for the Yue Kingdom, which has only been established for a little over a hundred years, it is far inferior to the Wuqi Kingdom in terms of both its immortal city territory and national foundation. In particular, the number of young and strong cultivators with cultivation levels of late-stage Qi Refining Realm or above can only be barely raised to a few hundred thousand.

Furthermore, some of these soldiers were dispersed to garrison important immortal cities in various places.

Therefore, facing the massive attack from Wuqi Kingdom, Yue Kingdom was no match at all. In just a few months, Wuqi Kingdom's army swept through the enemy lines and attacked Yue Kingdom's capital, Xiancheng.

Meanwhile, during this period, Linghai Zhenjun of Wuqi Kingdom also sent people to privately persuade Baiyue Zhenjun to surrender, hoping that Baiyue Zhenjun could join their Wuqi Kingdom's camp to avoid escalating the war.

Meanwhile, the Hundred Peaks True Lord of Yue Kingdom faced the Wuqi Kingdom's offer of surrender and the current state of his country, which was suffering heavy casualties and being repeatedly defeated by the Wuqi Kingdom.

I was quite conflicted for a while.

After all, as a Nascent Soul cultivator, he had finally established his own kingdom and become the founding emperor who controlled the fate of hundreds of millions of cultivators. Naturally, he was unwilling to be subordinate to others.

In particular, although the Wuqi Kingdom currently has three Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, their cultivation levels are the same as his, all only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul Realm. None of them have the cultivation level or strength to overwhelm him.

This made him even more unwilling to submit easily. Therefore, when faced with the invasion of Wuqi Kingdom, while summoning the army of cultivators in the country to resist, Baiyue Zhenjun also immediately sent people to request support from several nearby countries.

Meanwhile, through his intelligence network in Wuqi Kingdom, Bei Han Zhenjun learned that Wan He Zhenjun in Wuqi Kingdom had recovered his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.

Immediately, they assembled hundreds of thousands of cultivators from the Xia Kingdom and entered a state of high alert, ready to wage war against the Wuqi Kingdom at any time.

Not long after, True Monarch Beihan received news that True Monarch Wanhe of Wuqi Kingdom, after recovering his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, had joined forces with True Monarch Linghai of Wuqi Kingdom, assembling an army of over a million cultivators to attack Yue Kingdom.

When Bei Han Zhenjun learned of this news, he breathed a sigh of relief. However, not long after, he learned that Wu Qi Kingdom had dispatched two Nascent Soul Realm cultivators and led an army of over a million cultivators, causing Yue Kingdom to suffer repeated defeats.

Therefore, True Lord Beihan immediately summoned an army of 200,000 cultivators from within the country, led by Gu Xi, to support the Yue Kingdom.

As the saying goes, "If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold."

Whether it's their Xia Kingdom or the other countries, after seeing that Wuqi Kingdom now has three Nascent Soul True Monarchs, none of them want to see Wuqi Kingdom become even stronger in the future.

Therefore, a few years ago, the Xia Kingdom, the Yue Kingdom, the Yunlai Kingdom, and several Nascent Soul True Monarchs from the Nanyu Kingdom signed an alliance agreement to curb the future rise of the Wuqi Kingdom.

Furthermore, the Nascent Soul True Monarchs of several countries had imprinted their divine souls on that alliance contract. If they violated the contract, such as by choosing to leave the alliance and join the Wuqi Kingdom, they would suffer a backlash to their divine souls.

The terms of that alliance agreement clearly stated that if Wuqi Kingdom were to send troops to attack one of the allied countries, the other countries would have to send an army of no less than 200,000 cultivators to provide support.

However, even though the Xia Kingdom, Yunlai Kingdom, and Nanyu Kingdom each dispatched an army of 200,000 cultivators to support the Yue Kingdom.

However, they faced the million-strong army of Wuqi Kingdom and the immense threat posed by two Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

The allied forces of those countries dared not confront them directly.

In the end, they could only watch helplessly as the two Nascent Soul True Monarchs of Wuqi Kingdom led an army of over a million cultivators, sweeping all before them to the capital city of Yue Kingdom, Immortal City.

After learning of this situation through their respective intelligence organizations, True Monarch Beihan, True Monarch Yunding of Yunlai Kingdom, and True Monarch Lingyu of Nanyu Kingdom all knew that the only way to save Yue Kingdom from being annexed by Wuqi Kingdom was for one or more of them, all of them, to go and provide support.

However, each of these countries currently only has one Nascent Soul True Monarch in charge.

If one or all of their national leaders were to go to provide support, it would leave their country's defenses vulnerable.

Moreover, once they are out of the protection of their own country's defensive formations, if the two veteran Nascent Soul cultivators from Wuqi Kingdom find an opportunity to join forces and attack them on their way back to their respective countries, and if the Nascent Soul cultivators from other countries are unable to provide support in time, they will be in even greater danger.

Therefore, neither the Northern Cold True Lord, nor the Cloud Cauldron True Lord of the Cloud Lai Kingdom, nor the Lingyu True Lord of the Southern Universe Kingdom were willing to personally go to provide assistance.

But if none of them go to provide support...

If they could only watch helplessly as the capital of Yue, Immortal City, was breached by Wuqi Kingdom, leading to the joint annihilation of Yue Kingdom's Hundred Peaks True Monarch by Wuqi Kingdom's two Nascent Soul True Monarchs, or choose to surrender and join Wuqi Kingdom's camp.

Regardless of whether Wuqi Kingdom gains another Nascent Soul Realm warrior, the three kingdoms will be powerless to resist Wuqi Kingdom's invasion.

After all, if none of these countries were willing to personally come to their aid when Yue was destroyed, then when Wuqi led its army to attack their country, the other countries certainly wouldn't send any Nascent Soul cultivators to support them either.

Therefore, after convening a meeting of the Xia Kingdom's high-ranking officials to weigh the pros and cons and listening to their speeches, True Lord Bei Han convened the meeting.

Ultimately, it was decided that he would personally go to support the Yue Kingdom alone.

After all, although nearly half of the Immortal City territory of their Xia Kingdom has been annexed by several neighboring countries in recent years, in terms of overall strength, it is still the strongest country except for Wuqi Kingdom.

Moreover, he knew very well that if he did not personally go to support Yue this time, then once Yue was destroyed, or chose to surrender and join the camp of Wuqi, then Wuqi's next target would most likely be their Xia Kingdom.

Therefore, even though True Lord Beihan knew that it would be dangerous for him to go to support Yue Kingdom alone,

He had no choice but to go.

After all, if he doesn't go...

He estimated that Yun Ding Zhenjun of Yunlai Kingdom and Ling Yu Zhenjun of Nanyu Kingdom would be even less likely to personally go to support Yue Kingdom.

Fortunately, True Monarch Beihan's cultivation had reached the peak of the third level of the Nascent Soul Realm, and with the accumulation of the Xia Kingdom over thousands of years, he possessed not only several fourth-order magic weapons.

Moreover, over the years, under the guidance of his master, True Monarch Mingwu, True Monarch Beihan's understanding of the true meaning of the Great Dao is in no way inferior to that of some cultivators who have recently broken through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

If he hadn't been older when he reached the peak of the third level of the Nascent Soul Realm, and his physical functions hadn't begun to decline, making it more difficult to break through the bottleneck, with his current understanding and mastery of the Great Dao's true meaning, he would definitely have been able to break through to the mid-Nascent Soul Realm.

Therefore, True Lord Beihan believed that even if he went to support Yue Kingdom alone, with his strength, he was confident that he could escape unscathed even if he faced the combined forces of True Lord Linghai and True Lord Wanhe from Wuqi Kingdom.

Meanwhile, their Xia Kingdom, a nation with over three thousand years of history and profound heritage, has a protective array in its capital city that has been continuously upgraded over thousands of years, reaching a level close to the upper rank of the fourth order. Under these circumstances, even without his personal presence, the capital city of their Xia Kingdom, under the joint command of multiple Golden Core and True Core cultivators, would be difficult for ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators to break through in a short time.

After some discussion, Bei Han Zhenjun and the high-ranking officials of Xia Kingdom decided to go to support Yue Kingdom alone. At the same time, he immediately sent people to inform the two Nascent Soul True Lords of Yunlai Kingdom and Nanyu Kingdom of his decision to personally go to support Yue Kingdom.

Let's see if the two Nascent Soul True Monarchs from Yunlai Kingdom and Nanyu Kingdom are willing to go and provide support.

If they were unwilling to go to their aid, True Monarch Beihan demanded that each of the two countries send at least 300,000 cultivators to assist him in containing the million-strong cultivator army of Wuqi Kingdom.

To avoid being besieged by the million-strong army of Wuqi Kingdom and two Nascent Soul cultivators...

(End of this chapter)