Chapter 246: Battle in Tianlingzhou

"I wonder how the specific situation is on the side of the Five Elements Grand Dao."

According to Li Fan's understanding, the Wanxian Alliance and the Five Elders had not gone to war for over three hundred years. Occasionally, there were frictions, but they were mostly limited to a single state.

Scenes of preparing for war across the entire territory were quite rare.

Li Fan continued to inquire one by one with his friends about the reasons for the outbreak of hostilities, to verify whether his speculations were true.

Unfortunately, the war seemed to have a very high level of confidentiality. The responses Li Fan received were all "not very clear."

The dark clouds of war hung over everyone's heads. The atmosphere on Wanxian Island, originally carefree, became bleak and full of tension.

A sense of unease appeared on everyone's faces.

As a formation maintenance member of the Formation Hall, Li Fan also received task assignments. He joined a small team with members from the Martial Arts Hall to patrol along the border of Congyunhai. Additionally, they had to set up formations to guard against spies from the Five Elders.

Leading this team was a mid-Golden Core stage cultivator named Shan Wu.

In the team, there were also Huan Sui and several other foundation building cultivators who had previously collaborated to kill the Red-Haired Strange Beast.

This patrol team was not the only one. Almost all the mobilizable grassroots forces on Wanxian Island were called into action, showing the official importance placed on this war.

As for Jiang Zhengji and Du Xingchang, it was said that they were requisitioned by the headquarters and went to the front lines.

"Jiang and Du, when combined, can deploy the ultimate technique, the 'Lustrous World,' equivalent to an ordinary Nascent Soul expert."

"And the formation master Zhang Zhiliang also seems to have been transferred to the front lines."

"Using Nascent Soul cultivators as the main force in the war..."

Li Fan pondered in his heart.

The scale of this war seemed to exceed his expectations.

"It's not a big deal, but I'm afraid that Ye Feipeng, the 'reincarnator,' if he finds out that things are different from what he remembers..."

"With his suspicious and cautious personality, he might give up the plan to kill Chiyane directly."

"Then my calculations in this life will be in vain."

With a thought, the scene shifted to Ye Feipeng, the chubby one.

Li Fan breathed a sigh of relief. The Congyunhai was vast enough, and Ye Feipeng had been avoiding the Wanxian Alliance before. He still had no awareness of the ongoing major war in the cultivation world.

"I hope the war ends soon and doesn't spread to Congyunhai."

The so-called divine powers couldn't foresee all changes, and faced with such variables, Li Fan, despite being a reincarnator, felt helpless.

It had to be said that the Wanxian Alliance had strong control over the grassroots.

The secrecy surrounding the war had been carried out to the utmost.

On the surface, Congyunhai seemed only slightly tense, without any smell of war.

If it weren't for Li Fan's continuously rising merit level, reminding him that they were in a state of war, Li Fan wouldn't have noticed that a earth-shattering battle was unfolding in a distant region.

Time passed slowly.

Several months had gone by, and the 16th year of anchoring was coming to an end.

During this period, aside from occasionally repelling a few small groups of invading enemies from the Five Elders, the flames of war, as Li Fan wished, did not spread to Congyunhai.

Under the continuous completion of wartime merit tasks, Li Fan's authority level also increased to Yan 18.

One day, the prompt from the Tianxuan Mirror finally came.

The dust of war settled, and the more than eight-month-long state of preparedness was lifted.

As for the outcome of the war, Wanxian Alliance naturally achieved victory.

After the intelligence was declassified, in the enthusiastic discussions and reviews among the cultivators, Li Fan finally gained a rough understanding of the causes and consequences of this war.

Nine months ago.

A team of Wanxian Alliance cultivators tasked with developing the Wood Attribute Grand Dao unexpectedly discovered, during production research, that the wood attribute spiritual energy in the Grand Dao was not consumed and needed a long period to slowly recover, as in ordinary Grand Dao. Instead, it came from an unknown source, continuously and endlessly.

It seemed as if it would never be completely depleted. After a large amount of spiritual plants were planted and consumed a massive amount of spiritual energy, it would immediately be replenished by nature.

This discovery delighted the cultivators.

Because this spiritual energy was clearly not generated by the Wood Attribute Grand Dao itself, nor did it come from the outside of the Profound Yellow Realm.

After analysis, the cultivators believed that this Wood Attribute Grand Dao belonged to an extremely rare composite Grand Dao.

And this rapidly generated spiritual energy was replenished from other Grand Daos.

After a somewhat tortuous search, the Wanxian Alliance team finally discovered the complete traces of the "Five Elements Grand Dao."

This was a tremendous achievement!

In the midst of jubilation, the exploration team couldn't help but feel a bit worried.

Because the location where the Five Elements Grand Dao was discovered was quite awkward.

It was located in Tianlingzhou, adjacent to the territory of the Five Elders.

Such a precious treasure placed on the front line made people uneasy.

So, the exploration team sent a message to the Wanxian Alliance headquarters.

While explaining the situation, they also hoped that the headquarters could send reinforcements to move the Five Elements Grand Dao back to the hinterland, near Tianyu Prefecture.

Who would have thought that before the headquarters' support arrived, the Five Elders' people had already come.

Somehow, information had leaked.

The attack from the Five Elders caught them off guard.

The entire exploration team within the Wood Attribute Grand Dao was annihilated.

According to the dying messages they transmitted, among the assaulting cultivators from the Five Elders, there were even three Dao Fusion experts.

With the collaborative efforts of the three Dao Fusion realm cultivators, the Five Elements Grand Dao was dragged and swiftly moved toward the territory of the Five Elders.

It was bad enough that someone infiltrated their territory in secret, but being slaughtered by the Five Elders in broad daylight, resulting in the deaths of many members and the looting of precious Grand Dao resources, was simply a great humiliation!

Wanxian Alliance headquarters immediately decided to enter level B war readiness and mobilized eight Dao Fusion cultivators and several Nascent Soul cultivators to pursue the small fries of the Five Elders.

The primary objective was to reclaim the Five Elements Grand Dao.

Later, orders were given to each state to be on high alert, preventing the Five Elders from feinting and having ulterior motives.

Moving a Grand Dao was no easy task, even with the intervention of Dao Fusion experts.

When the eight Dao Fusion experts caught up with the small fries of the Five Elders and were about to take action, they suddenly discovered that the other party had indeed been planning for a long time.

In addition to the three Dao Fusion cultivators who launched the surprise attack, there were secretly five more Dao Fusion cultivators lying in ambush.

Eight Dao Fusion experts faced off against eight Dao Fusion experts.

An immediate large-scale battle erupted.

The process and outcome of the battle were unknown.

All that was known was that after this battle, the Five Elements Grand Dao still remained in its original location.

Wanxian Alliance and the Five Elders, in a tacit understanding, withdrew the surviving Dao Fusion experts.

Subsequently, a war centered around the Five Elements Grand Dao unfolded, with the main forces being cultivators at the Nascent Soul and below levels.

The war lasted nearly eight months.

Countless cultivators fell.

Strange phenomena occurred in the sky from morning to night without stopping for a moment.

In the end, when both sides had somewhat depleted their vitality, the war inexplicably came to a halt.

Wanxian Alliance internally claimed that they had won the war.

Because the Five Elements Grand Dao had indeed been moved back to the hinterland, near Tianyu Prefecture.

Today, I have some matters to attend to, so I can only update one chapter. I'll make up for it tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)