Chapter 598 - 561: Gains After the Battle
The battle ended swiftly, and the battlefield was quickly cleared, with the Lu Family sweeping across half of Chu Country.
Half of the cultivators in Chu Country were drawn into the war, while the number of cultivators purged afterward was even greater, and the data was colossal, rivers of blood flowed endlessly.
By the end of the battle, the Celestial Spirit Sect faced annihilation.
This sect, which had existed for approximately eight thousand years in Chu Country, was completely erased.
At the same time, the reputation of the East Pole Celestial Venerable was constantly being smeared. Lu Xuanji disdained to act this way, but some cultivators of the Lu Family would take action. Once, this strongest figure in Chu Country, the mainstay against the Demon Race, was utterly defamed, becoming infamous, and would become a traitor to the Human Race in the near future.
Some cultivators of the Lu Family have already decided how to defame East Pole and how to prove the Lu Family’s actions were correct.
In the propaganda, the Lu Family fought for the Human Race, going through Nine Deaths and One Life; yet the East Pole Celestial Venerable was colluding with the Demon Race, repeatedly framing Human Race strongmen, and many young prodigies of the Human Race were assassinated by him; many cities of the Human Race were sold to the Demon Race by him; furthermore, he set up a blood sacrifice grand array in Chu Country to validate Dao Refining Void through a blood sacrifice in Chu Country.
A bad rumor, a flood of slander, was heaped upon the East Pole.
The East Pole Celestial Venerable became both evil and foolish, suffering from both brain and heart ailments, woefully inadequate in intelligence and emotional quotient, to the point that a three-year-old child’s intelligence could surpass him, even pigs were smarter.
A lie circulated in Chu Country.
When a thousand lies spread, the false become true, and the true become gospel.
A few people suspected everything, believing East Pole wouldn’t be so brainless, but were immediately blood-sprayed by surrounding cultivators, forcing them to shut up and admit East Pole was a brainless fool.
Everything about the East Pole Celestial Venerable gradually got modified, deleted, defamed, giving birth to a new East Pole Celestial Venerable.
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Of course, Lu Xuanji was unaware of all this, nor did he care to know.
His figure flickered as he returned to the Lu Family, his divine thought fleeting across, observing everything within the Lu Family. After the great battle, the Lu Family was in ruins, shattered beyond repair, as if facing a great calamity, mountains fragmented, spirit veins collapsing.
The battle to the calamity lasted only a brief moment, yet the damage and destruction it wrought were extremely severe and devastating.
Lu Xuanji looked at the beauty beside him and said, "Qinglian, Xi’Er, thank you!"
Qinglian said, "Thanking us can wait, for this battle the Celestial Spirit Sect was completely wiped out, though they were the Human Race’s main force against the Demon Race. Yet now all courage must fall upon our shoulders, the situation is somewhat critical!"
Jin Xi also said, "Taking down East Pole was indeed thrilling, and you have become the foremost powerhouse in Chu Country, with resounding fame, but soon you will also bear enormous pressure; not just that, we also have to bear more than half of the frontline defense pressure, can the Lu Family withstand it?"
Lu Xuanji counted the Lu Family’s wealth and the number of cultivators, sighing, "The Lu Family is still too weak. To contend with the Demon Race and handle all this, we are lacking. The Lu Family has been established for less than three thousand years, and the number of Lu Family cultivators is still too few!"
"The Lu Family only has four Divinity Transformation Cultivators, which is still far too few!"
Jin Xi said, "These are minor issues, the quality of strong individuals surpasses the quantity of strong individuals, especially a top-tier Divinity Transformation Great Cultivator, surpassing hundreds or thousands of Nascent Soul Cultivators. Yet recently, in my perception, the Kunpeng Demon Venerable broke the shackles and stepped into Half-Step Void Refining, can you defeat them?"
Lu Xuanji: "..."
Assessing the family assets, fighting up to now, he’s severely injured, only retaining the strength of the Seventh Layer of his peak time, needing decades to recuperate fully.
Also, the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasure, after suffering severe damage in continuous battles, requires repairs, also taking decades.
Without the support of magical treasures, he no longer has the strength to engage in a blood fight with Half-Step Void Refining, rendered extremely weak.
If the Kunpeng Demon Venerable assaults, he can only take the Lu Family and flee, waiting until after three hundred years, when cultivation is restored, or even advanced further, to retake Chu Country.
But forsaking Chu Country, fleeing with the Lu Family in a sorry state, brings some frustration, some helplessness.
Lu Xuanji said, "It’s not that there isn’t a way..."
Saying this, he instinctively touched the ring finger, which bore a cyan silk thread.
Unleashing it might kill a Half-Step Void Refining.
Yet it’s not guaranteed... the Kunpeng Demon Venerable possesses secret techniques to counter."
For example, using a clone to expend this strike, then the main body attacks.
For example, relying on speed, dodging this strike, then counterattacking.
For example, using illusion techniques, deceiving him to strike off-target.
This cyan silk thread can unleash a strike of the Ninth Layer of Void Refining, though immensely powerful, but in actual combat, it may not necessarily kill the Half-Step Void Refining.
After all, at the Half-Step Void Refining Realm, who isn’t a peerless talent, unmatched demon, whether in emotional quotient, intelligence, strategy, mental realm, will, comprehension, combat experience, combat techniques, etc., all are outstanding, standing at the peak among many cultivators.
Lu Xuanji thought of a way to break the cyan silk within moments, and that Kunpeng Demon Venerable would also think up some ways to break the cyan silk.
Cyan silk isn’t guaranteed.
If overly confident, one often invites death.
Lu Xuanji mused, "Perhaps, we should temporarily retreat, as long as there’s green mountains left, we won’t fear lacking wood to burn!"
