Chapter 1318: Setting Up

Shang Xia wasn’t surprised that the high-level True Immortals of the Spirit Tinkle World and Spirit Thistle World would call for a meeting. What shocked him was that Kou Chongxue brought up another special request for third tier True Immortals to also take part in the meeting.

Shang Xia thought that Kou Chongxue felt that the combat strength of their high-level True Immortals wasn’t enough and wanted to drag third tier True Immortals to make up the numbers. After all... Kou Chongxue knew that he was trying to replicate the Star Robes by studying the Variant Formation Talismans.

If they could get their hands on the principles behind the grand battle formation of the Star Origin Guards... With Shang Xia’s replicated Star Robes, the True Immortals of the 3 Spirit Worlds would be able to burst forth with even greater might.

Just as he left behind a clone in Star Beast Nest No.2 and prepared to head back to the Spirit Luxuriant World, he thought of something. Other than Kou Chongxue and himself, there were 2 third tier True Immortals in their world, even though they were only Elysium True Immortals...

The meeting was in the Spirit Thistle World, and as Elysium True Immortals, he realized that those 2 wouldn’t be able to leave the Spirit Luxuriant World anyway.

Why the hell are they going to take part in it?

After asking around, Shang Xia discovered that the 2 of them had created clones to take part in the meeting, and from the looks of it, they were extremely interested in being included.

Shang Xia shook his head slowly and guessed that they were afraid Kou Chongxue and Shang Xia would become the only bridge between the Spirit Luxuriant World and the others, which was why they wanted to join the meeting.

Once he returned to the Spirit Luxuriant World, he set a time with Zhang Xuansheng and Yang Taihe to set off before heading back to the You Continent.

The effects of integrating the world fragment of the Spirit Dusk World still lingered in the Spirit Luxuriant World and there were really quite a bit of good stuff that had surfaced. That included some historic ruins of powerful sects, high-level inheritances, and there were rumors some people even discovered ruins of Holy Lands.

After arriving in the institution, Shang Xia ran into the deputy patriarchs discussing if they should establish a Holy Land in the Jiao Continent.

The Jiao Continent was the only continent in the Spirit Luxuriant World that reached a state of perfection without a secret region or Holy Land.

The deputy patriarchs who were pushing for the establishment of the Holy Land felt that it would greatly increase their control of resources in the Jiao Continent and thus their authority over it. It was especially so for the World Origin Source connected to the Jiao Continent. In the future, they could even push for the Holy Land to become an Elysium, increasing the number of True Immortals the Tongyou Institution could possess.

With the current state of the Tongyou Institution, they were more than capable of developing another Holy Land.

However, there were others who had other concerns. The establishment of a Holy Land might allow the Tongyou Institution to have better control over the Jiao Continent, but it was where Kou Chongxue broke through to the Martial Void Realm. They already had an extremely strong control over it and establishing a Holy Land would be a waste of resources.

An even more important point was that the Jiao Continent was too far away from the Tongyou Institution. A powerful Holy Land that was tens of thousands of miles away from their main camp... It would be fine if the Tongyou Institution continued to progress or simply maintained their current might. However... If an accident really happened... There would definitely be people who would harbor malicious intent towards them.

Not to mention the fact that if the Holy Land in the Jiao Continent progressed into an Elysium in the future. If they nurtured an Elysium True Immortal there, the problems they would have would only grow bigger.

Seeing as Shang Xia had returned, everyone naturally gravitated towards him to make a decision.

The Tongyou Institution had been deciding to establish a Holy Land in the Jiao Continent for the longest time. Even Shang Xia heard of it a long time ago. Now that they had asked for his opinion, he simply spoke his mind.

Simply put, in principle, he agreed with the establishment of a Holy Land in the Jiao Continent. However, whether or not it could be made into an Elysium would depend on Kou Chongxue’s decision.

An Elysium could give the Tongyou Institution another slot to produce a True Immortal. However, the Tongyou Institution already had control of the Bing Continent and Ji Continent. There was no need to waste too many resources to make another Elysium in the Jiao Continent as they might as well use those resources to nurture Free True Immortal who could rely on the spirituality of the continents they already controlled.

While the Tongyou Institution was still worrying about whether they should create another Elysium, other factions were still busting their brains on establishing their first!

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There was another thing Shang Xia heard after his return. It was a matter about the Heavenly Star Palace and he heard that in order to quickly gather enough resources for the Heavenly Star Palace to produce their Elysium, Yin Jingxu greatly reduced the support of many members.

It would have been fine if he had reduced the support for everyone without showing any favoritism, but naturally, that wasn’t the case. Several talented disciples Yin Jingxu had his eyes on didn't just not receive a reduction in cultivation resources. They even received a lot more, pushing their cultivation further down their path.

No one knew how, but news of that started to spread, and the Heavenly Star Palace experienced massive turmoil.

Yin Jingxu might have suppressed the chaos with his prestige as the patriarch of the Heavenly Star Palace and his strength at the second tier of the Martial Void Realm, but his way of handling matters buried a lot of hatred that was hidden within the sect.

Well... Shang Xia wasn’t involved anyway. After chuckling to himself, he simply returned to the Star Observatory in the Tongyou Elysium.

When he saw Ge Qingzhu again, he noticed that the Elysium True Immortal’s cultivation had taken a huge step forward.

He was surprised when Ge Qingzhu told him that his cultivation had far surpassed Sun Haiwei who advanced with the spirituality of the Hai Continent.

After asking for the reason, Shang Xia learned that after both of them consolidated their foundations, all of them used 12 drops of Three Lights water to increase their cultivation by several years, but Ge Qingzhu had the Tongyou Elysium to support him. The Elysium Source hadn’t been touched since it was established and as the first Elysium True Immortal of the Tongyou Institution, Ge Qingzhu obtained all the benefits and grew much stronger!

The Tongyou Institution might even be able to produce a second tier True Immortal in several years!

No matter what, with the Star Curtain about to crumble, every bit of fighting strength was important to the Tongyou Institution.

Stepping onto the Star Observatory once again, Shang Xia found Yuan Qiuyuan and asked, “The Star Observatory of the Star Origin Dao Field is able to gather and condense pseudo Seventh Order energy from the sea of stars... Are we able to do that too?”

Yuan Qiuyuan’s eyes widened in shock when he heard Shang Xia’s question. With his cultivation barely reaching the Martial Dipper Realm, he just became a Grand Stargazer. How was he supposed to be able to gather pseudo Seventh Order energy?

However, he saw how serious Shang Xia was and he thought back to everything he knew. After some time, he stuttered, “We... We can’t do that for the time being.”

“When will you be able to do it?” Shang Xia followed up immediately.

Even though he felt aggrieved by how Shang Xia was firing questions at him left and right, he understood that it was definitely an important matter for Shang Xia to care so much. Racking his brains, he eventually muttered, “I have not fully grasped the inheritance from the Star Origin Dao Field. There are some I am unable to understand with my current cultivation, but if I wish to gather pseudo Seventh Order energy, other than gathering a lot of manpower and the support of the Elysium Source, I’m afraid I will also need Instructor Chu’s expertise in formations...”

Shang Xia fell silent for a moment before he continued, “Other than observing the region of space around our world, fully focus on this. I’ll get the institution to fully support whatever you need, be it resources or manpower.”

After he spoke, Shang Xia turned to Ge Qingzhu.

Forcing a chuckle, Ge Qingzhu mumbled, “Relax... You can use the Elysium Source however you want.”

Using the energy contained in the Elysium Source would definitely affect Ge Qingzhu’s rapid improvement to some extent, but he understood that Shang Xia had his reasons for pushing for the gathering of pseudo Seventh Order energy. After all... There were still some secrets in the Tongyou Institution that only Shang Xia and Kou Chongxue were privy to because of their cultivation realms.

Shang Xia nodded and turned back to Yuan Qiuyuan. This time, his tone became a lot more gentle. “There’s no pressure. I can tell you now that I have backup plans for this and you should try to gather the energy the best you can. However, if you fail, we have other methods.”