To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck-Chapter 1501 - 583 The Time Has Come_3

Issue orders for those such as Huang Yun in the rear, apart from retaining Jin Qingyue to sit at Mi Yun Mountain and watch over the rear to guard against any disturbances in the Nine Provinces.

The other four should rush to the front line and join us.

Although we are stationary here, we must also be ready to attack Changqing Mountain and determine the fate of the heavens in one battle."

Lu Yuan made his arrangements.

He continued to observe while being ready to attack at any moment.

In this significant affair, the Taiping Dao still chose to hide.

To the outside world, this appeared as if the Taiping Dao had been terrified by the brutality of the battle, causing its three Earth Immortals to shrink back in fear, not daring to provoke the Changqing Immortal Sect any further.

Because of this, they even forcibly halted their battle preparations, choosing to stay put and fortify their position.

Such actions naturally elicited laughter from outsiders.

The severely battered Nine Provinces cursed loudly, denouncing the Taiping Dao’s cowardice.

They also repeatedly sent messengers, demanding that the Taiping Dao immediately launch an attack in the Eastern Territory to alleviate their military pressure in the Northern Territory.

However, ignoring these external voices, Lu Yuan acted as if he was unaware, leading the members of the Taiping Dao to continue acting like shrinking turtles.

To make it even more convincing, he took several steps backward, such as withdrawing troops, further strengthening the defensive formation of the occupied areas, and severely handling some disciples in his sect who advocated aggression, among other actions.

After executing these actions, the outside world became even more convinced that the Taiping Dao had truly chickened out.

The Changqing Immortal Sect, after observing for several months and finally confirming that the Taiping Dao dared not attack, felt disdain in their hearts but also finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The Taiping Dao was frightened and dared not attack.

Whether the enemy truly dared not attack or was faking it, based on their behavior over these months, the preparations they had made for a new round of war were undoubtedly ruined.

Next, if they wanted to provoke a war again, they would either face the dilemma of inadequate preparation

or spend a few more months to reaccumulate enough preparations to launch a war.

Whichever case, the Changqing Immortal Sect would have enough time to make a buffering response to deal with any difficulties from the Taiping Dao.

In summary, the situation was very favorable, and they could consider launching a full assault.

Therefore, after recently achieving a great victory in the Eastern Territory, Yang Jihua, with Zhang Xiuzhu’s support, hurriedly announced his succession to the new position of School Leader in Changqing Mountain.

He conducted a simple succession ceremony and then stayed in the Eastern Territory battlefield, personally guarding against the Taiping Dao.

The newly promoted School Leader, who had just broken through and had an unstable foundation and who had suffered losses in the previous war, was left in the rear.

Zhang Xiuzhu, who had a long-established foundation, was in peak condition, and boasted considerable strength, personally rushed to the Northern Territory, leading the desperate effort of the tens of thousands of cultivators gathered by the Changqing Immortal Sect, launching the first round of counter-attacks since the war started.

Faced with the surging offensive from the Changqing Immortal Sect, the recently defeated Nine Provinces could hardly muster much force to resist.

Previously ambushed by the Changqing Immortal Sect, not only had Ding Wanxuan died.

Following the escape of Gu Huaiyuan, the tens of thousands of cultivators from the Nine Provinces who had accompanied them on the Northern Expedition were slaughtered mercilessly by the grief-stricken and outraged Yang Jihua.

Nearly five to six thousand cultivators from the Nine Provinces died at the hands of this Earth Immortal.

The remaining two to three thousand were chased down and killed by the disciples of Changqing.

Ultimately, only about two thousand managed to escape back to the rear.

These survivors, combined with the cultivators left behind, could only manage to barely reestablish a weak defensive line among the nations of the Northern Territory.

Thus, facing the formidable counteroffensive of the Changqing Immortal Sect, Gu Huaiyuan, who had retreated to the rear, had no choice but to brace himself, stand out, and personally intervene to resist Zhang Xiuzhu.

But Lu Yuan, severely injured, could not sustain long in combat with Zhang Xiuzhu, soon choosing to escape once again.

Without him, an Earth Immortal, to block the way, how could mere Formation Earth Immortals stand a chance against a seasoned Earth Immortal?

In the end, Zhang Xiuzhu spent months breaking through the territories of the Three Nations in the northern part of Nine Provinces, slaughtering over four thousand disciples from Nine Provinces, and reclaimed the entire northern territory.

The outcome of this battle shocked Nine Provinces instantaneously.

As for Gu Huaiyuan, having faced two consecutive crushing defeats, his mind was thrown into complete disarray.

He could not care for much else, and to avoid dying on the battlefield himself, he dragged his dying body back to Wind and Thunder Path, declaring he would no longer meddle in the Changqing conflicts.

However, though he dreaded death, he still had some principles.

After escaping, he did not completely abandon Nine Provinces.

He still let the new Earth Immortal within his sect lead the hastily gathered two thousand cultivators from his sect to urgently march towards the Western Domain for reinforcements.

At the same time, in Yuchan Tao, the Earth Immortal school leader of that sect, seeing the perilous situation of Nine Provinces, finally put aside personal prejudices and stepped forward.

He personally led three thousand cultivators to rush to the Western Domain.

Even Huang Yuanxiu, after learning about the current situation of Nine Provinces, despite his severe injuries, broke out of his seclusion, chose to take up the heavy burden, and came forward to support Nine Provinces.

He also scrambled from his own sources to send a thousand cultivators, to replenish the heavily lost armies of Nine Provinces on the battlefield.

With the efforts of these three Earth Immortals and the arrival of six thousand new reinforcements, after consolidating with some of the remaining defeated troops of Nine Provinces, they finally regrouped over ten thousand cultivators in the Western Domain.

Then, led by the three Earth Immortals, at the border between the Western and Northern domains, they set up a new line of defense.

Zhang Xiuzhu, leading his victorious troops, attacked this defense line several times, losing over a thousand soldiers and even losing a Human Immortal, but ultimately failed to break through.

The counterattack of the Changqing Immortal Sect was forced into a deadlock.

The dark shadow of the disastrous defeat of Nine Provinces finally began to fade somewhat, stabilizing their position.

But good fortune never comes in pairs, and misfortune does not come singly.

Just when Nine Provinces was breathing a sigh of relief, bad news suddenly came from the rear.

Zhen Xuan, who had been rigorously preparing to break through to Earth Immortal with the thorough support of Nine Provinces.

After hearing the news that his rival Yang Jihua had become an Earth Immortal first, and that Ding Wanxuan had been ambushed and killed by the Changqing Immortal Sect.

This true person, Zhen Xuan, couldn’t help but waver.

In his seclusion, he attempted a forced breakthrough to Earth Immortal, eager for quick success.

But his unstable spirit was invaded by inner demons, causing him to fall directly during the Wind Tribulation.

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With the fall of Ding Wanxuan, the hope of Nine Provinces rising was shattered with the death of Zhen Xuan.

Since then, facing the decline of mature true persons, with only some newly emerged true persons remaining, the five sects of the Western Domain truly entered an era of unprecedented decline.

Without a new Earth Immortal to take charge, relying only on some external branches of support, Nine Provinces could preserve its inheritance, but without a strong figure of equal standing, it also lost its voice.

In this competition with Taiping Dao, vying for the dominion over the Changqing domain, the Western Domain Immortal Sects had utterly failed.

And at this stage, although neither Huang Yuanxiu nor Gu Huaiyuan had died,

Lu Yuan’s awaited opportunity had truly arrived.

Therefore, he decided it was time for the Great Plain Path to take action.