Chapter 457 Dongfang Zhuo and Feng Qingcheng
Although Yu Qilin is still at the pinnacle of Yuanxian cultivation, due to his special bloodline, his true strength is even stronger than that of an ordinary saint.

The most important thing is that it is extremely fast. Even many saints and immortals may not be able to match its speed.

Only a few saints who are extremely powerful and specialize in speed can compete with Jade Unicorn in speed.

Even though Chai Xin's Great Teleportation Technique has been cultivated to an extremely high level, his speed over long distances is only on par with Yu Qilin.

However, when it comes to maneuvering within a small range, Chai Xin is actually slightly inferior to Yu Qilin.

There is nothing that can be done about it. There is always someone in this world who can suppress all acquired efforts with their bloodline talents.

All in all, in terms of speed, there are very few people in the world who can compete with the Jade Qilin clan.

Chai Xin can compete with Yu Qilin of the same level in long-distance maneuvers. In the endless human race, and even among the monsters and demons, he is already a monstrous evildoer that can defy the heavens.

Although Yu Qilin was very fast, it only took him a few breaths to reach Beixuan Valley, millions of miles away, from Shenning City.

However, although the red-scaled dragon horse ridden by the Shenning Guards was quite fast, it could not be compared with the Jade Unicorn.

It's millions of miles away, and it will take at least half an hour.

In fact, Chai Xin could have gone to Beixuan Valley alone, and he could have reached the utmost speed, so there would have been no need for so much trouble.

The reason why he chose to lead a thousand Shenning guards together was just to display his strength in public and further enhance his prestige in Shenning City.

Although many people observed the battle with Qin Shu that day, it was just an internal fight after all.

Although many people have recognized his identity as the leader of the forum, they may not have much respect for him deep in their hearts.

This time, Taiyi Sect and Sanqing Mountain came together to make things difficult for the new leader of Shenzhou Sect, but it was a good opportunity for him to further win over his subordinates.

To put it bluntly, these one thousand Shen Ning guards were the audience and mouthpiece he specially brought here.

Firstly, these people can witness how he faces the masters of the two major sects with such strength; secondly, they can also spread the news about Chai Xin’s impressive achievements.

After all, Chai Xin will need to serve as the leader of the Yongning Prefecture branch for some time, and later he will even have to lead many subordinates to conquer the gods.

If he fails to completely win over the hearts of his subordinates, he may become a disaster in the future when a war breaks out.

At the same time, at the border between Yongning Prefecture and Heyang Prefecture, Beixuan Valley.

Beixuan Valley was unusually lively today. The 20,000 men stationed here from Taiyi Sect and Sanqing Mountain respectively joined forces, totaling 40,000 troops, and attacked the 20,000 men from Shenzhou Sect together.

Although the guards of each major capital city only have a thousand people, the inner and outer disciples under their command number over a million.

Although the quality of these one million disciples is generally inferior to that of the disciples at the headquarters, they are still comparable to the disciples of many first-rate powers.

It is for this reason that there is a saying that a branch of a top powerful force can be comparable to a first-rate sect.

Otherwise, how could a territory of at least tens of millions of miles be managed by only a few hundred Yuanxian and Saintxian-level high-level officials?

Most of the outer disciples of the Yongning Prefecture branch are at the divine immortal realm, while the inner disciples are basically at the mysterious immortal realm.

Once one reaches the Golden Immortal level, one will be promoted to a true disciple. If one can pass the extremely strict assessment, one will have the opportunity to be promoted to the main temple and directly become a true disciple of the main temple.

If a true disciple of a branch temple fails to pass the assessment of the main temple repeatedly, he will become a Shenning Guard or a manager at all levels in Shenning City.

What Beixuan Valley discovered was a top-grade spiritual vein. Although it was not the best among all the resources, it was ranked in the upper middle range.

Therefore, in addition to the tens of thousands of absentees from the Mystical Realm of Divine Powers, there were also 20,000 disciples stationed there.

Among the 20,000 disciples, 15,000 are immortals, and most of the remaining 5,000 are mysterious immortals, and there are also a few golden immortal leaders.

In addition, after discovering the supreme spiritual essence a few days ago, Qin Shu exercised his authority as the acting altar master and ordered Heyang Prefecture to directly dispatch three holy immortals and five hundred Yuanxian-level guards to come for support.

Therefore, the power of the Shenzhou Sect stationed in Beixuan Valley is actually countless times stronger than before.

After all, even a Saint Immortal is enough to easily destroy an army of hundreds of thousands of Golden Immortals, let alone Xuan Immortals and Divine Immortals.

At this moment, there are three powerful saint immortals and five hundred Yuanxian masters in the Shenzhoumen headquarters of Beixuan Valley.

In theory, even facing the joint encirclement and suppression of Taiyi Sect and the troops stationed in Sanqing Mountain, they could deal with it easily.

But the actual situation is completely different.

Taiyi Sect and Sanqing Mountain had known at some point that the supreme spiritual vein that Shenzhou Sect had obtained contained supreme spiritual essence.

So they secretly dispatched a group of strong men a few days ago to quietly station in the Beixuan Valley.

Initially, they just wanted to wait for an opportunity to seize the mineral veins occupied by Shenzhou Sect in one fell swoop, and then force the other party to re-determine the distribution plan of the top-grade spiritual essence.

However, no one expected that the Shenzhou Sect would send a new leader to the Yongning Prefecture branch at this time.

Compared with this incident, the importance of the supreme spiritual essence instantly decreased a lot.

Taiyi Sect and Sanqing Mountain both wanted to find out the strength of the new leader of Shenzhou Sect, so they hit it off.

He planned to use the Beixuan Valley mine incident as an excuse to conduct some in-depth exploration.

After careful discussion and investigation, the two major sects learned that the new leader of Shenzhou Sect actually had the ability to suppress Qin Shu, so they postponed the test that had been agreed upon.

When the leaders of each sect had some free time, they came together and launched a sudden attack using the unreasonable distribution of mineral veins in Beixuan Valley as an excuse.

With the leaders of the two major sects, Taiyi Sect and Sanqing Mountain, joining forces, how could Shenzhou Sect, even if it increased the strength stationed in Beixuan Valley, be their opponent?

What's more, Shenzhoumen was caught off guard by the enemy's deliberate attack.

When Chu Qingshan received the news that the two major sects were sending troops to Beixuan Valley, the war had actually already begun in Beixuan Valley.

If the branch temple in Heyang Prefecture had not received the call for help, and the temple master had not personally led the remaining 1,000 guards to arrive quickly, the battle between the two sides would have ended long ago.

Even so, it is simply a fantasy for the Heyang Prefecture branch of the Shenzhou Sect to fight against the combined strength of the two major sects' capital branches.

The reinforcements only resisted for less than an incense stick of time before they were completely at a disadvantage. For some reason, the troops on both sides were restrained and did not kill anyone, but countless people were injured.

On the Shenzhou Sect side, only the leader of the Heyang Prefecture branch was left, leading the remaining thirty or so people who still had combat power, and they were still putting up a desperate resistance.

"Liu Qin, I'm sure you've figured it out. We have no intention of fighting to the death with the Shenzhou Sect. Why do you have to resist so stubbornly and only add to the joke? Leave immediately and I'll leave you with some dignity!"

A man in a scarlet robe stood in the air, his long black hair fluttering in the wind. He held a golden sword in his hand, pointing at the young man who was already exhausted in the distance, his voice filled with impatience.

"If not, I will not show mercy. If I accidentally hurt your foundation, don't regret it."

The weak young man was wearing bright silver armor, but the light on the armor was already very dim. However, his deep eyes were still firm, and he had no intention of retreating.

"If you want to fight, then fight. Why waste time talking? As a disciple of Shenzhou Sect, even if I die in battle today, I will never retreat even a single step!"

Liu Qin tightly grasped the spear in his hand that looked like a silver dragon. Although his voice was a little weak, his fighting spirit was not weak at all.

There were tens of thousands of soldiers surrounding the two men, and there was also an enchanting girl in purple feathered clothes sitting on auspicious clouds, looking at the two people fighting in the field with a teasing look on her face.

"Hehe... Dongfang Zhuo, you are at least the altar master of the capital. It is really disgraceful to waste so much time to deal with the altar master of the Shenzhou Sect of the Heyang Prefecture branch!"

The charming girl had a cute smile on her face and looked calm and relaxed, as if she was not on a battlefield but sitting in her own garden.

"Feng Qingcheng, it's easy for you to say that! Killing this guy is of course easy, but capturing him alive is more than ten times more difficult? Not only did you not want to join me, but you also kept making sarcastic remarks..."

Dongfang Zhuo's red robe fluttered as he glared at Feng Qingcheng, who was watching the fight from the sidelines, with some displeasure.

"Anyway, we are just looking for an excuse to lure out the new leader of Shenzhou Sect. What difference does it make whether we capture this guy or not? You are willing to waste your energy, but what does it have to do with me? You are jealous of Liu Qin's talent, but you are afraid of his master, so you dare not really take strong action..."

Feng Qingcheng smiled lightly and rolled her eyes coquettishly, but she felt a little disdainful in her heart.

"This Dongfang Zhuo is really lacking in courage. The Taiyi Sect is really getting weaker with each generation. But then again, Liu Qin is really extraordinary. He hasn't fought for hundreds of years, but he has already stepped into the invincible level of a saint. It's not easy to capture him alive in a short time."

Although this woman looks only in her twenties, she has actually lived for more than tens of millions of years, and her cultivation has long been invincible among saints.

At the same time, she is also the leader of the Yongning Prefecture branch of Sanqing Mountain this term.

And Dongfang Zhuo, who was fighting with Liu Qin, was naturally the leader of the Yongning Prefecture branch of Taiyi Sect this time.

Dongfang Zhuo has been in office for 43,000 years, and Feng Qingcheng has been in office for nearly 40,000 years. They have often fought with each other over the years, but they also know each other very well, so it is easy for them to reach a temporary tacit understanding.

For example, this time when they were testing the new leader of Shenzhou Sect, they reached a temporary alliance without much nonsense.

This does not explain how close the relationship between Shenzhoumen and Sanqingshan is, nor does it show how deep the friendship between Dongfang Zhuo and Feng Qingcheng is.

It is just to find out the strength of the new leader of Shenzhou Sect as soon as possible, which is in the common interests of the two major sects.

In fact, the two had fought many times in the past 30,000 years, and the number of times they had fought could not be counted on two hands.

As long as they encounter something involving the sect's core interests, they will definitely encounter it, and there is a high probability that they will fight.

In comparison, over the past thousand years, Shenzhou Sect’s voice in Yongning Prefecture has been greatly reduced.

After all, Qin Shu is only a deputy altar leader, and his strength is only at the peak of the Saint Immortal level. Compared with the two invincible Saint Immortals, the gap is insurmountable.

Over the past thousand years, whenever new precious treasures were discovered, Taiyi Sect and Sanqing Mountain each took 40%, while Shenzhou Sect only got 20%.

Including the distribution of the Beixuan Valley's top-grade spiritual veins this time, Shenzhou Sect only received 20%.

But no one had ever imagined that within this mere 20% was a source of top-grade spiritual essence that was ten times more precious than the entire top-grade spiritual vein!

This is purely a coincidence, but it is hard to say that it is not some mysterious coincidence that Shenzhou Sect's fortune has begun to turn around and is showing signs of rebounding.

But no matter what the reason is, it is impossible for the other two major sects to remain indifferent and allow Shenzhou Sect to monopolize the benefits after learning about it.

So, there was an excuse to take action against Shenzhou Gate this time.

It just so happened that Chai Xin took over as the leader of the sect, and the two major sects could kill two birds with one stone, so naturally they would not hesitate at all.

Moreover, in the view of Dongfang Zhuo and Feng Qingcheng, if they could give the new leader of Shenzhou Sect a warning when he first arrived, it would also play an important role in helping them maintain their dominant position in Yongning Prefecture in the future.

This idea became even more certain and stronger after they learned that the new leader of Shenzhou Sect was just a Yuanxian-level kid.

With the two old and invincible saints joining forces, is there any chance that they could go wrong when dealing with a Yuanxian-level junior?
Even after hearing the news that Chai Xin had suppressed Qin Shu, they still did not change their mind.

After all, Qin Shu only had the strength of a peak saint immortal, and was even much weaker than Liu Qin, the leader of the Shenzhou Sect's branch in Heyang Prefecture.

What does being able to suppress Qin Shu mean?
Even if we take a step back and assume that the new leader of the Shenzhou Sect does have the invincible strength of a saint, it will not make them waver in this decision.

We are all invincible saints. You are just one person, but we are two people working together. There is no way we can be at a disadvantage.

Moreover, deep down in their hearts, they simply could not believe that a Yuanxian-level disciple could have the invincible strength of a Saint Immortal.

"You conceited brat, do you think that because you have an extraordinary master, I won't dare to kill you? As a high-ranking member of the Taiyi Sect, even if there is someone behind you, what can you do to me?"

Dongfang Zhuo was obviously embarrassed by the situation and was already showing signs of being furious.

"Today, I will teach you a lesson on behalf of your master, so that you will know what reverence is!"

"You are so arrogant and shameless that you are not worthy of being compared with my master!"

Liu Qin, who had been relatively calm till now, suddenly flashed a hint of anger in his cold eyes when he heard this.

The master took him in as an apprentice since he was young and treated him like his own son.

In his heart, his master was like a father to him. Dongfang Zhuo's words sounded like an unforgivable insult to him.

"Boy, you are too arrogant! Even if your master comes today, it will not change my determination to teach you a lesson!"

Dongfang Zhuo was so furious that he attacked without holding back.

(End of this chapter)