To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck-Chapter 1498 - 582: The Battle and Fall of the Two Immortals_3
Ding Wanxuan and Gu Huaiyuan, influenced by this, decided to follow suit.
They each shortened their lifespans by a hundred years, boosting their strength to the peak of the mid-stage Earth Immortal, a Realm similar to Song Xiren’s.
Ultimately, the Earth Immortals from the Three Nations of Jiuzhou, each at a grievous cost, achieved strength comparable to Song Xiren.
Thus, the three joined forces, and during a customary exchange with Song Xiren, they suddenly launched a surprise attack, catching him off guard.
Song Xiren, unprepared, was trapped by the three and instantly found himself in jeopardy.
At this critical moment, Song Xiren had no choice but to also resort to an emergency secret technique, gaining the strength of a late-stage Earth Immortal grand cultivator at a terrible cost.
Only then, under the combined assault of the three peak mid-stage Earth Immortals, did he manage to carve a bloody path and retreat to the rear.
Ding Wanxuan’s group wanted to pursue but were stopped by other Earth Immortals from the formation of the Qing Immortal Sect.
Seeing such a good opportunity slip away, the trio became furious and vented their wrath on the other disciples within the formation.
Thus, even with the presence of three other main formation holders who were temporarily elevated to Earth Immortal strength and several thousand Qing sect disciples, they still couldn’t withstand the powerful enemy.
Eventually, after a massacre, the large formation of the Qing Immortal Sect in the Western Territory was declared destroyed.
Five thousand disciples were completely lost, and the lands of Red Maple and Tianmen were reclaimed by Jiuzhou, restoring the territory in the West.
Even more, taking this opportunity, the grand army of Jiuzhou continued northward in the Northern Territory and seized another nation.
Following Taiping Dao, Jiuzhou also achieved a more glorious victory.
The power of the Qing Immortal Sect, after these two battles, completely withdrew from the Western and Central Territories, forced to shrink back to the safety of the Northern and Eastern Territories.
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Even these territories faced encroachments by neighboring countries taken by Taiping Dao and Jiuzhou.
The once-great Qing Immortal Sect, which had controlled two-thirds of the Changqing Domain, was now reduced to a shadow of its former self during Yao Baojuan’s leadership.
As the cost of achieving this great victory, Huang Yuanxiu was severely wounded and had retreated to close from public view after the battle.
Early in the war, Huang Yuanxiu had been severely injured while saving Ding Wanxuan.
Although he had recuperated for thirty years, what were mere decades to an Earth Immortal for healing wounds?
This time, already dragging a gravely wounded body, Huang Yuanxiu used the secret technique to drastically reduce his lifespan by a thousand years, exacerbating his condition.
After the battle, Huang Yuanxiu was unable to endure any longer and had to retreat and temporarily recuperate.
As to when he could recover, that was unclear, but he certainly couldn’t participate in the battle during this period.
Of course, it wasn’t impossible for him to fight while injured.
However, fighting in such a state not only meant his condition was not optimal and he couldn’t exert his full strength,
even a minor injury during the battle could be tolerable for a normal Earth Immortal.
But for Huang Yuanxiu, it could be fatal.
In short, this Earth Immortal’s condition was now very dire, and he was hardly able to fight again.
In the subsequent fights of Jiuzhou, unless something unexpected happened, he would be hard to rely upon.
Yet for the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect, successfully causing Song Xiren to flee wounded, seizing three nations, regaining lost Western Territories, and pushing the front line to the North,
this was already a major victory.
Compared to this, being temporarily without Huang Yuanxiu was an acceptable situation.
Most importantly, through this battle, the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect had regained a flag from Taiping Dao, significantly boosting their prestige and reversing their previous decline.
As the old Jiuzhou, seeing the new Taiping Dao winning continuously on the battlefield and achieving so many victories put them under significant pressure.
Their resolve to pay such a price this time, partly stemmed from a desire to reclaim their standing before their juniors.
Finally, their wish was fulfilled.
After 43 years of warfare, having achieved victory, the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect, led by Ding Wanxuan, continued to press into the Northern Territory.
After two years of fierce fighting, they seized another nation.
In the forty-fourth year, Taiping Dao’s Lu Yuan and Qing Guanzi combined their forces, intensively deploying troops to attack the Eastern Territory and captured another nation.
In the forty-fifth year, Jiuzhou seized another nation. Song Xiren, previously wounded and having fled, still hadn’t shown himself.
By then, the Qing Immortal Sect in the Northern Territory had only six nations left, and seven in the Eastern Territory, a total of only thirteen nations remaining, with their strength increasingly declining.
In the forty-sixth year, a confident Ding Wanxuan once again assembled a mighty army of ten thousand men, marching north for further conquest.
However, at that moment,
Song Xiren, having withdrawn for several years, finally made an appearance, his figure emaciated, his hair gray, looking as though he wouldn’t live much longer.
But in contrast to his appearance, his aura was deep and profound, clearly having reached the late-stage Earth Immortal realm as a grand cultivator.
Not only him, but Yang Jihua, who had also been secluded for a long time after the war, unexpectedly appeared at Song Xiren’s side.
While his cultivation seemed somewhat unstable, it was undeniably at the Earth Immortal realm.
After nearly fifty years of closed-door cultivation, under the existential threat to his sect, Yang Jihua finally overcame the challenges, attained the Earth Flower Dao Fruit, and became an Earth Immortal True Person.
When the Qing Immortal Sect suddenly made a move, it was with a late-stage Earth Immortal grand cultivator and a new Earth Immortal.
Such a move was something outsiders had never anticipated.
According to Ding Wanxuan and others’ expectations, after Song Xiren’s previous severe injuries and escape, it would take him decades to suppress his injuries and make a move again.
But unexpectedly, he completely disregarded everything.
He sacrificed all his remaining lifespan with the most ruthless means to achieve a breakthrough to a late-stage Earth Immortal.
And the cost was that he could only live for three more years.
Furthermore, at the critical moment of the sect’s crisis, the Qing Immortal Sect’s fortune suddenly surged, allowing Yang Jihua to successfully overcome his trials and achieve Earth Immortality.
Thus, at this moment, the Qing Immortal Sect’s strength had finally reached its peak.
The counterattack began.
In the autumn of the forty-sixth year,
the Qing Immortal Sect’s Song Xiren and Yang Jihua suddenly made a move, attacking the unsuspecting Jiuzhou Northern Expedition army.
During the battle, Yang Jihua, along with other Earth Immortals from the formation, desperately stalled Gu Huaiyuan, creating an opportunity for their School Leader to engage Ding Wanxuan alone.
Finally, in a desperate fight, Ding Wanxuan couldn’t withstand the onslaught and was slain by Song.
The Alliance Leader of Jiuzhou fell in this battle.
Then, dragging his severely injured body, Song, along with Yang Jihua and others, continued to besiege Gu Huaiyuan.
But ultimately, running out of oil, he died of old age during the battle.
Thus, Gu Huaiyuan seized this chance to break through the encirclement, severely wounded.
With this battle, both Changqing and Jiuzhou suffered the fall of their kings.
Both leaders of the Immortal Sects died in this conflict.
This great Changqing Battle had at last reached a turning point.
