Chapter 473: Absorbing the Power of Heaven
Before launching a provocation against the top leaders of Taiyi Sect, Chai Xin had already contacted the leader of Shenzhou Sect stationed in Taining City and revealed some of his plans to the other party.

The most important thing was to let them fan the flames in the city and stir up people's dissatisfaction with Taiyi Sect when Chai Xin implemented his strategy.

At this time, the Shenzhou Sect's members were causing unrest everywhere.

Naturally, there were many discerning people in the city who saw that some people were deliberately guiding the emotions of the public.

But more people, out of extreme fear, unconsciously became blind followers, following the Shenzhou Gate people in stirring up disputes everywhere.

Among those discerning people, many had old grudges against the Taiyi Sect, so they simply took advantage of the situation and launched revenge.

Soon, the entire Taining City was in complete chaos.

Finally, some people even began to attack the inner city.

The Taiyi Sect has been bullying and bullying for too long over the years, and almost all forces in the immortal world have been oppressed and targeted by them.

Normally, most people would choose to swallow their anger due to the powerful Taiyi Sect, but the resentment in their hearts would grow deeper and deeper.

Today, under the threat of death, people from all major forces finally ignored the authority of Taiyi Sect and launched an offensive.

Moreover, they felt that even a behemoth like the Taiyi Sect would not be able to severely punish everyone when so many forces joined forces to resist.

This is the reason why the law does not punish everyone.

For most races, they feel safer hiding in a group.

Now, tens of millions of people, carrying years of pent-up grudges, have launched the most intense revenge against the Taiyi Sect.

Under such circumstances, everyone no longer had any fear in their hearts, and all that remained was the pleasure of venting their hatred.

At this point, the senior leaders of Taiyi Sect who were hiding in the inner city finally panicked.

"This villain actually instigated everyone to oppose our sect. This plan is simply despicable and vicious to the extreme!"

"No matter how despicable the plan was, he succeeded. Now we should consider how we should respond."

"With tens of millions of monks causing chaos, even if the city guards were to come out in full force, it would be impossible to suppress them. Even if the guardian formation was activated to suppress them, it might not yield much results..."

“In my opinion, we should quickly remove the protective formation and let everyone disperse… Otherwise, regardless of whether Jiang Xuanhuang really has the guts to use the heavenly calamity to break into the city, these shameless bandits who take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos can turn the entire Taining City into ruins!”

"That's right. At worst, we can fight that evil creature to the death. If we continue to be so cowardly and Taining City is destroyed, even if we are lucky enough to survive under the protection of the great formation, we will certainly be severely punished by the higher-ups and be cursed for eternity."

These people have realized how sharp Chai Xin's conspiracy is, and it can destroy the entire Taining City without bloodshed.

Even if the protective formation was activated at full power, it would be impossible to prevent tens of millions of monks from causing chaos within.

What's more, the person who is in charge of the formation is already dead. With the power of these saints, even if they are willing to burn their own essence, they can only exert 30% to 40% of the power of the guardian formation at most.

In this situation, facing the unrest of tens of millions of monks, they had no hope at all of suppressing it.

If Taining City is eventually completely destroyed in the turmoil, the severe punishment that awaits them will be even more terrifying than death.

After all, since the establishment of Taiyi Sect, there has never been a precedent of internal unrest in the city leading to destruction.

Once they become an unprecedented existence, they will not only "leave their names in history", but will also make the top leaders extremely angry.

They neither wanted to bear the infamy that would last forever, nor were they willing to endure the extreme anger of the top management, so they could only make an unwilling decision -

Remove the protective formation.

Compared to dying on the battlefield, they are more afraid of unexpected and severe punishment from higher-ups.

After all, after dying in battle, they can at least get a good reputation after death, and their families will also benefit from it.

If they are eventually executed by higher-ups for serious mistakes, not only will their reputations be disgraced after their death, but their families will also be implicated.

The entire family will bear eternal infamy for producing such unprecedented sinners as them, and it is very likely that it will never be washed away.

Although monks cultivate to be free and easy, they often do not care about the life and death of others, and only hope to make further progress on the path of seeking the truth.

However, knowing that they are almost certain to die, they will begin to care about their family.

For someone like Yi Zu, unless his time was up, it would be impossible for him to spend so much time and effort on a young disciple he had just accepted.

He even went so far as to personally follow this disciple through his training, a treatment that none of his other disciples had ever enjoyed.

After all, when people are about to die, they always think about things like their reputation after death and the inheritance of their Taoist tradition, which they never care too much about in normal times.

The same is true for the high-ranking officials of Taiyi Sect. They are now facing a situation where they cannot escape death anyway, so naturally they begin to think about what will happen after they die.

"Okay! The worst that can happen is death. If cultivators like me cannot even understand life and death, then what is the point of cultivating?"

"I'll die if I want to, but I can't just stay in the city like this, getting besieged and killed by those stupid asses who couldn't resist their bewitching. I can't afford to be such a disgrace!"

"Since everyone has this intention, then we will go and fight that evildoer to the death! Even if we cannot kill him, we must further strengthen his heavenly tribulation and make him die in the ashes of the tribulation!"

After a brief and hurried discussion, the top leaders of Taiyi Sect finally reached a decision.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of figures rose into the sky from the inner city like locusts.

At the same time, a uniform roar resounded through the clouds.

"The protective formation has been withdrawn. The little thief named Jiang will die!"

As he spoke, the golden halo above Taining City faded away.

When the many monks who were rioting in the city saw this scene, they stopped what they were doing and looked up at the sky.

"These cowards really have the guts to go out of the city to fight?"

"If he really had the guts, he wouldn't have held it in until now! I think he was just cornered by the man from Shenzhou Sect, and he just jumped over the wall out of desperation!"

"Since the guardian formation has been activated, why don't we leave quickly to prevent the Taiyi Sect's reinforcements from arriving at any time and preventing us from leaving even if we want to..."

Feeling that the protective formation had been removed, the monks from various forces in the city stopped fighting and began to think about a way to retreat.

It was under Chai Xin's death threat that they were forced to release the anger that they had been suppressing in their hearts for many years.

Now that they see hope for life reappearing, they naturally no longer have the determination to fight to the death that they had before.

After all, the Taiyi Sect is at its peak, and everyone is in awe of it.

Soon, some people began to evacuate and flee outside Taining City. In fact, the first group of people to leave were the troops stationed here by Shenzhou Gate.

This was also what Chai Xin had told them long ago. Since they had such a feud with the Taiyi Sect, wouldn't it be courting death if they were allowed to stay in the city?
As soon as Taiyi Sect’s reinforcements arrive, they will be targeted first.

Under such deep hatred, any tacit understanding between the major forces is useless.

In fact, when Chai Xin contacted the members of the Shenzhou Sect in the city, he also asked them to pass the message to Yongning Prefecture and even the major cities in the entire fairy world.

Order the Shenzhou Gate personnel stationed in the Taiyi Gate city to evacuate as soon as possible after receiving the news.

Although it is unlikely that Taiyi Sect will vent their anger on them because of what happened here - this is not to say that Taiyi Sect is magnanimous, but that Taiyi Sect also has many stationed personnel in the major cities of Shenzhou Sect.

However, in order to prevent the Taiyi Sect’s top leaders from doing anything crazy out of anger, it is of course better to let their own people evacuate first.

"You still have some backbone, so I won't let you look down on me!"

Chai Xin stood under the Xuanhuang Seal, his whole body covered in rosy light, with powerful magic power protecting his body. Although it was a bit difficult, he still managed to steadily resist the heavenly calamity behind him.

Sensing that hundreds of powerful saints and immortals were involved in the calamity, the calamity energy between heaven and earth became much thicker.

Although the combined influence of these people is far from comparable to that of the white-haired old Taoist priest.

But now this heavenly tribulation has become extremely terrifying. Even if it becomes a little stronger on this basis, the risk for those who are undergoing the tribulation will increase several times.

"Kucha!"

Under the rolling of dense calamity energy, the space within a radius of thousands of miles actually collapsed directly, revealing dark and deep cracks.

The violent energy overflowed from the cracks and instantly merged with the chaotic thunder in the sky, forming the terrifying space tide.

Although in the lower realm, many beings with sixth or seventh level magical powers can tear the void at will and cause space tides to flood.

But it is the underworld after all. No matter how stable the space is or how terrifying the space tides are after being torn apart, it is far from being comparable to the fairyland.

The space tides in the fairy world are enough to make the saints tremble with fear, and one may even risk falling if not careful!
Especially when these space tides combined with the chaotic sky thunder, they triggered some mysterious changes, and the power increased several times.

If it were an ordinary saint, he would be injured if touched, or die if touched!
"That's the space tide! It's actually merged with the chaotic sky thunder. Just looking at it from a distance makes people feel numb all over..."

"What are you afraid of? I am here just to die. If I can make the heavenly tribulation stronger to this extent, it will just make the chances of that evil creature successfully surviving the tribulation several times lower!"

"That's right. This battle means death. Why should we fear the so-called calamity? Kill!"

After all, they are all saints. Although they cherish their lives very much in normal times, they are also courageous when it comes to life and death.

After all, who could cultivate to this level without experiencing countless life and death experiences?

Whether it was fighting with others, the dangers of enlightenment, or even the myriad calamities of overcoming disasters, they had already forged a courageous heart to face desperate situations.

"It's much better than before. For this reason, I will only take your lives and not destroy the city."

Facing the fearless look of the Taiyi Sect members, even though they were enemies, Chai Xin couldn't help but have a hint of admiration in his eyes.

However, praise is praise, since he is an enemy, we must deal with him with thundering measures.

The reason why he stated that he no longer had the intention of destroying the city was not as high-sounding as he said.

In fact, he simply didn't want to waste the power of heaven in the heavenly tribulation.

Every second of the heavenly tribulation was a considerable loss to the Jade of Creation. The reason why it had to rely on it to fight the enemy was because it had no choice.

But in the current situation, there is no need to waste it like that.

After all, even if the entire city was destroyed, it wouldn't do Chai Xin much good.

On the contrary, every bit of the power of heaven in the current heavenly calamity is the most precious and priceless treasure.

What's more, there might be some innocent people in Taining City who had no time to evacuate, and there was no need for Chai Xin to implicate innocent people.

After he uses the power of the heavenly tribulation to improve his strength, he can completely rely on his own strength to destroy the cities of Taiyi Sect one by one and settle the hatred that has accumulated over the years.

By then, there will be no possibility of harming innocent people, and at the same time, we can also deal with various means of revenge from Taiyi Sect.

To others, this goal is ambitious, even unrealistic.

But for Chai Xin, who possesses the Divine Jade of Creation, it is already within reach.

"Little bastard, why do you have to flatter yourself? Do you think you can destroy our sect's main city with a few heavenly tribulations? You are dreaming!"

"Hahaha, he's just timid, why bother to expose him, Brother Qian? If he dares to destroy our city, the top leaders will surely fight to the death, and even Yi Zu won't be able to protect him!"

"I thought he was a lawless man, but it turns out he is also afraid..."

At this time, everyone in Taiyi Sect had already put life and death aside - or rather, they knew that under such a horrific natural disaster, there was no way to survive.

Therefore, even when they were faced with a calamity that could destroy their souls, they still looked calm and composed.

Chai Xin certainly understood that these guys were deliberately provoking him with words, just hoping to die quickly to avoid being captured alive and having to endure more unimaginable suffering.

"I am a kind-hearted person. Since you are so eager to die, I will certainly grant your wish."

Although he said this, he did not attack everyone immediately.

On the contrary, he slapped his palm upwards, sending the Xuanhuang Seal high into the sky, while at the same time using all his strength to activate the Divine Jade of Creation.

In an instant, the calamity energy that was almost boiling in the void began to fade at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a few breaths, the thunder in the sky had decreased by nearly half, and even the space tide had dissipated a lot.

Compared to killing the hundreds of Taiyi Sect high-ranking officials in front of him, Chai Xin certainly valued the power of heaven that the Creation Jade could absorb more.

After all, under the current circumstances, every second of delay will result in a loss of a lot of Heavenly Power.

“Hahaha! As expected of my master, the power of heaven contained in this calamity is truly abundant! After this battle, my might can be restored by at least 10%!”

The extremely joyful voice of the Divine Jade of Creation sounded in Chai Xin's mind.

"Perhaps, I can re-activate some abilities..."

Hearing it say this, Chai Xin couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Not to mention what kind of function can be restored this time, the mere increase of 10% in the power of the divine jade is enough to increase his overall strength tenfold!
(End of this chapter)