Chapter 709 Finding a Stand
"The situation outside the Emperor's Mausoleum is getting bad. The Nine Heavens Sects are in one place, the Ten Emperors' Families are in another, and the thirty-five states' ancient sects are united. There is constant foul play between the three. That's fine, but the most important thing is that when my men were investigating, they saw an innate stone spirit interacting with those ancient sects."

"Hmm?" Zhang Qian's face changed, and he asked hurriedly, "Innate Stone Spirit? Am I seeing this correctly?"

Yun Zhixuan snapped her fingers and a phantom appeared. The phantom looked like an innate stone spirit.

And this innate stone spirit is none other than the Stone Emperor who controls the entire Imperial Burial Mausoleum!
“It’s actually the Stone Emperor!”

This time, Zhang Qian was really surprised. Originally, all the forces outside the Emperor's Mausoleum came for the Great Xia Kan Ding, or for the Emperor's Dao rules in the Emperor's Mausoleum, or for the Emperor's relics. It can be said that the innate stone spirit is the enemy of all cultivators. But now, the Stone Emperor actually had contact with those eternal sects. It was obvious that they had other plans.

Frowning and thinking for a while, Zhang Qian said in a concentrated voice: "It seems that those eternal great sects may not only have someone supporting them, but also have the Stone Emperor as their backer. If those eternal great sects really go to war with the Nine Heavens Sect, perhaps under the huge pressure, those eternal great sects will directly join the Stone Emperor. With the innate stone spirits and the immortal fetuses led by the Stone Emperor, these eternal great sects will not lack top-level combat power, and they will be able to compete with the Nine Heavens Sect."

The Stone Emperor has cultivated an unprecedented immortal Taoist body, and he can remain unscathed even when confronting innate spiritual treasures. He doesn't even have any weaknesses in his soul. Together with the terrifying innate stone spirits and immortal fetuses under the Stone Emperor's command, if these two forces confront each other, it is hard to say who will win or lose.

Yun Zhixuan said in surprise: "Join the Stone Emperor's army? Is this possible?"

"What's impossible? The Stone Emperor and those ancient great sects have a natural basis for cooperation. What those ancient great sects want is just to take back the innate spiritual veins that originally belonged to them, and the Stone Emperor's goal is obviously not these innate spiritual veins. The cultivation of innate stone spirits does not require innate spiritual veins. The innate spiritual treasures of the Jiutian Sect may be the Stone Emperor's target."

Zhang Qian's tone was extremely firm.

"what's your plan?"

Yun Zhixuan is now on the same side as Zhang Qian, so naturally she wants to know what Zhang Qian thinks.

"Just wait. I will continue to look for opportunities to subdue the innate stone spirits in the Burial Emperor's Mausoleum. Except for those truly terrifying ones, the rest of the innate stone spirits in the Burial Emperor's Mausoleum are not of much interest to the Stone Emperor. This is my chance. If things continue like this, a world-shaking catastrophe will inevitably occur. We just need to wait in secret and must not be the first to stand out."

Compared with the Jiutian Sect, the Ten Emperors Families and the eternal sects in the thirty-five states, Zhang Qian's power is insignificant. Once he forces his way out, he might be besieged by the three. What's more, Zhang Qian has no idea of ​​dominating this world and is determined to fish in troubled waters.

Although he thought so, Zhang Qian narrowed his eyes and thought of the great disasters in the legends of the prehistoric world. Those disasters were extremely tragic, even thrilling, but all the cultivators who survived the disasters gained great benefits. Even those powerful people who were famous in the disasters would receive the merits bestowed by heaven after the disasters.

The Xihuang World is a world of one thousand, and there is no possibility before the merits are descended. However, once the great calamity of the Xihuang World is over, there will definitely be an infinite amount of luck descending. The luck descended by the heaven of one world is not a small amount. Zhang Qian even feels that if he can get a share of it, his Tiandi Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda will be able to smoothly upgrade to the innate level. "It seems that I have to actively participate in this great calamity, but from the current situation, the protagonists of this great calamity should be the Jiutian Sect, the Ten Emperors Family and the Eternal Sects of the thirty-five states. By the way, we have to add the Stone Emperor lineage in the Buried Emperor Mausoleum, as well as the World Tree and Xihuang. The struggle between these two great powers for the authority of the Heavenly Dao may be the real reason for the great calamity."

After thinking about it carefully, Zhang Qian instantly realized that the catastrophe that was about to occur was extremely complicated, with various forces entangled behind it. The most crucial thing was that this catastrophe might determine the final outcome of the battle between the World Tree and Emperor Xi, and their victory or defeat would also determine the fate of this world.

Moreover, the battle between Emperor Xi and the World Tree may be the key to this catastrophe. Zhang Qian can be said to be on the side of the World Tree, and it is impossible for him to watch the World Tree be defeated. Once the World Tree is defeated, his fate will not be good either.

Understanding the position he should take, Zhang Qian thought carefully. According to his own position, in order for the World Tree to win, at the very least the Jiutian Sect must be eradicated, and then the countless innate spiritual veins in the nine small thousand worlds of the Jiutian Sect must be released, allowing these innate spiritual veins to return to heaven and earth.

As the tree of origin and creation of this world, the World Tree must have the power to control those innate spiritual veins. Moreover, the Jiutian Sect itself is the enemy of the World Tree and must be eradicated. It is impossible for the Jiutian Sect to stand on the side of the World Tree.

The eternal sects in the thirty-five states and the Stone Emperor and others are the opponents of the Nine Heavens Sect. No matter what they think, this opposition will sooner or later lead to a war. In other words, those eternal sects and the Stone Emperor and others are naturally on the side of the World Tree.

No matter how they view the World Tree, they have come to the opposite side of the Jiutian Sect and can only choose to stand on the side of the World Tree.

This resulted in two sharply opposing camps. The Ten Emperors Family was wavering between the two camps, which was a variable. Zhang Qian was also unable to guess what choice the Ten Emperors Family would make in the end. Would they help the Jiu Tian Sect to suppress those ancient sects, or would they choose to attack the Jiu Tian Sect together and take terrible risks to divide up everything in the Jiu Tian Sect.

“The situation is very clear now. I am on the side of the World Tree. Even if I act secretly, I have to target the Nine Heavens Sect. Moreover, once the World Tree wins the battle with Emperor Xi and obtains all the authority of the Heavens, if I have the opportunity to break open the nine small worlds of the Nine Heavens Sect and guide all the innate spiritual veins back to heaven and earth, this will be a great meritorious thing for heaven and earth. After the catastrophe, the power of luck I will obtain will definitely be indispensable.”

Thinking of this, Zhang Qian's eyes lit up and he found his goal, which was the nine small thousand worlds of the Jiutian Sect. After practicing the Heavenly Dao Jade Body, he already had some ability to influence the situation and could no longer just watch as changes happened like before.

"Before that, I have to solve that problem first."

After deducing the current situation in his mind, Zhang Qian felt suddenly enlightened, and then he thought of the three Half-Step Daluo Dao Zuns outside his own Xumi World. Those three Half-Step Daluo Dao Zuns were a huge threat. They were constantly monitoring and spying outside the Xumi World. Zhang Qian had no way to deal with them before, but now it was different. The power of the Heavenly Dao Jade Body alone was enough to fight against them.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qian summoned the Demon Pagoda, and a Demon King jumped out and disappeared immediately, leaving this Demon King as his coordinate for teleporting. Zhang Qian connected his mind with another Demon King in the Xumi world and found that he could sense it instantly.

(End of this chapter)