Chapter 396 - 303: Invasion, Celestial Fruit Race (Part 2)
[You suspect that this talisman is a famous Thousand-Mile Teleportation Talisman, whose original version could randomly teleport a person to any relatively safe location within a radius of a thousand miles, but the teleportation talisman in your hand seems to have been modified, determining the range with stored True Essence.]
[You can feel a True Essence within the jade talisman that is so pure it astonishes you.]
[You return to the Blood Demon Sect, waiting for a long time, and finally find the Vitality Object needed to survive the second catastrophe.]
[You know that you could pass the second catastrophe relying on the Wood King Heart, yet you are unwilling to lose such a treasure as the Wood King Heart.]
[In the year 11,473 of the Changtian Calendar, the Blood Demon Sect discovered a Secret Realm in the Spiritless Mountain Range.]
[Inside the Secret Realm, there were no Exotic Beasts nor Humans, only a group of exotic races seemingly formed from various fruit.]
[The Blood Demon Sect named them the Celestial Fruit Race.]
[Upon investigation, every adult member of the Celestial Fruit Race was comparable to a large medicinal plant, and the sacred object at the center of the Celestial Fruit Race was full of vitality.]
[The sacred object is suspected to be a degenerated Heaven and Earth Spirit Root, extremely valuable, and precisely what Xiang Wuji, the strongest in the Blood Demon Sect and the first Golden Core Ancestor, needed.]
[The Blood Demon Sect officially started a war.]
[The originally peaceful and harmonious Celestial Fruit Secret Realm faced a catastrophic disaster...]
[The enormous warships crushed countless towering trees, and the disciples of the Blood Demon Sect, with overwhelming Demon Flame, invaded this part of the Secret Realm.]
[The Celestial Fruit Race was weak and unable to resist,]
[In the year 11,475 of the Changtian Calendar, one-quarter of the territory of the Celestial Fruit Secret Realm was occupied by the Blood Demon Sect, countless members of the Celestial Fruit Race were refined into pills as spiritual materials, and the Pill Hall of the Blood Demon Sect ushered in a springtime.]
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[In the year 11,478 of the Changtian Calendar, the top sect, the Ten Thousand Medicine Hall in the Danyang Cultivation Realm, signed an agreement with the Blood Demon Sect, becoming the Blood Demon Sect’s long-term strategic partner. The Ten Thousand Medicine Hall would provide countless pills, and the Blood Demon Sect would supply them with Celestial Fruit people.]
[In the year 11,480 of the Changtian Calendar, the strongest member of the Celestial Fruit Race at the Golden Core strength level was killed by Blood Bright Daoist, and the entire Celestial Fruit Secret Realm thus fell into the hands of the Blood Demon Sect...]
The warship blotted out the sky, and countless cultivators descended from the warship, stepping onto the city below.
This is the Holy City of the Celestial Fruit Secret Realm, Celestial Fruit City.
Xiang Wuji stood with his arms crossed on the deck of the warship, gazing out over the continent.
The Secret Realm was not too small, at least the distance of two Imperial Extreme Walls of mortal empires.
Within it was a civilization of life, the Celestial Fruit civilization.
They had their own written language and cultivation system.
These Celestial Fruit people were born absorbing the essence of the sun and moon, needing no food, and were gentle in temperament.
In this Secret Realm, even fights were rare; calling it the Peach Blossom Spring was not enough; for some idealists, this place could almost be called a utopia.
The members helped each other, lived harmoniously with nature, shared resources, and there was not a hint of negative emotion.
Unfortunately...
Too weak.
Blood Bright Daoist’s figure appeared beside Xiang Wuji, carrying a large apple in his hand.
Something like apple juice remained on Blood Bright Daoist’s face.
"This was the last person of the Golden Core Realm in this Secret Realm, of the Celestial Fruit people."
"Quite formidable, being born relying on Spirit Root, able to cultivate to the Golden Core level without a cultivation technique. You must know that the Demon Race requires the law of inheritance from their bloodline to cultivate to a Demon Body Realm equivalent to the Golden Core level."
Blood Bright Daoist wiped the juice from his face.
He had not an ounce of mercy for these Celestial Fruit people; instead, he was amazed.
It was simply a higher civilization looking down upon a lower one.
Most cultivators didn’t even consider these Celestial Fruit people as intelligent beings.
They had no heads, only two small limbs at the bottom serving as legs for walking, and their language was hard for cultivators to understand.
Xiang Wuji nodded, and Jing Xueqi, already accustomed to her role as a maid, brought over a plate of cut fruit.
It’s more accurate to say that the society of Celestial Fruit people in the Secret Realm was excessively primitive, not developed with rich emotions and desires, than to say it was incredibly beautiful.
At this moment, Xiang Wuji only gazed at the sky.
The border of the sky within this Secret Realm could be easily perceived by Xiang Wuji.
Xiang Wuji lowered his head again.
Looking at the Celestial Fruit people below draped with a few vines, these vines seemed to count as clothes?
Various shaped fruits were scurrying around on their small short legs.
There seemed to be cries in their mouths.
Then, juice spilled on the ground by Blood Demon Sect disciples with greedy and fierce smiles.
A few disciples flipped over, injured, or even killed by high-level Celestial Fruit people with plain power, but soon experts of the same realm battled them. The Celestial Fruit people, lacking battle inheritance, rarely won against the Blood Demon Sect cultivators.
There were cries of anguish on the earth, yet surprisingly no negative emotions leaked out.
Soon many Celestial Fruit people were captured, strung together with ropes.
The Blood Demon Sect wasn’t just about plundering people; the greatest value of this world to the Blood Demon Sect was these Celestial Fruit people.
The Blood Demon Sect naturally intended sustainable development, raising these Celestial Fruit people like livestock.
"If, one day, an even higher power invades Jiuzhou, just as we have invaded the Celestial Fruit Secret Realm now..."
"Would they view us as we do the Celestial Fruit people?"
Blood Bright Daoist laughed at this moment.
Jiuzhou experienced many calamities.
But now Jiuzhou was fine because Jiuzhou’s foundation was too deep.
"Not to mention there are countless Divinity Transformation cultivators guarding Jiuzhou...
"Within Jiuzhou, there are even Ancient Immortals hidden, guarding a region..."
"Many of those famous immortals in legends have not left Jiuzhou, so why fear?"
"Moreover, the Immortal Path is misty yet leading straight to the Great Dao; what creature could ignore the Immortal Dao?"
Xiang Wuji also nodded.
"This Spirit Root seems to be called Nine Ginseng Tree, infinitely useful, though unfortunately innately flawed, even inferior to some Acquired Spirit Roots."
Several Golden Cores arrived, some having already examined the Spirit Root in the Holy City, finding it a pity.
"I will borrow this tree. I still need a Golden Core-level Celestial Fruit for a breakthrough attempt; the rest can be divided among the junior disciples."
Xiang Wuji said casually.
Among those present, some worried that the tree’s disappearance would affect the Celestial Fruit, but none voiced concerns, all agreeing.
With just a few words, the entire Celestial Fruit Secret Realm was divided.
[You obtained the remnant Spirit Root of the Nine Ginseng Tree, and you obtained a Celestial Fruit equivalent to the Golden Core level.]
[The Blood Demon Sect spent seven years fully conquering the Celestial Fruit Secret Realm, and simultaneously, the Blood Demon Sect suffered minimal war losses.]
In theory, the Blood Demon Sect shouldn’t have taken that long, but there were too many Celestial Fruit people.
The number of Celestial Fruit people equivalent to the Foundation Establishment life level was twice that of the entire Blood Demon Sect combined.
Even though the Celestial Fruit people were weak in battle, the Blood Demon Sect couldn’t occupy the entire Secret Realm all at once.
Blood Bright Daoist simply minimized the Blood Demon Sect’s losses, and over seven years, mostly unlucky new disciples bore the sacrifice.
[The Blood Demon Sect began a massive withdrawal from the Celestial Fruit Secret Realm.]
[In the same year, the Blood Demon Sect obtained a customized Forbidden Technique from more than ten thousand Cultivation Realms and began implanting it in large quantities onto the Celestial Fruit people.]
[Floating islands bearing the style of the Blood Demon Sect appeared in the sky of the Celestial Fruit Secret Realm.]
[In the year 11,483 of the Changtian Calendar, the Blood Demon Sect nearly fully withdrew from the Celestial Fruit Secret Realm, and the Celestial Fruit people regained ’freedom,’ continuing to reproduce on this land, replenishing the tribe members just lost.]
[These Celestial Fruit people remained unaware that as they propagated, the Forbidden Technique in their bodies would eternally pass down with their bloodline...]
[In the year 11,484 of the Changtian Calendar, supported by the Celestial Fruit Secret Realm, the Blood Demon Sect’s financial pressure greatly reduced, and the benefits to disciples and Elders increased.]
[The Blood Demon Sect prospered even more, becoming increasingly prominent as a top sect in the Danyang Cultivation Realm.]
[In the year 11,485 of the Changtian Calendar, you headed to the White Jade Celestial Ink Sect...]
