Chapter 1605: Discovering the Anomaly and the Activation of the Heaven Liberation Talisman

Having successfully housed his sixth Spirit Calming Vessel in the World Origin Source connected to a continent controlled by the Essence Ping World’s Will, Shang Xia's greed for world origin was significantly diverted. More importantly, he didn't want to attract unnecessary attention from other beings by drawing too much world origin.

After refining a small portion of the world origin to restore the inner qi in his dantian to a safe level, Shang Xia no longer extracted more. He quickly left the area.

As he left, he was truly in a great mood.

Although he couldn't be sure if the Spirit Calming Vessel he just placed would be functional when he advanced to the Seven Star Realm, it was an unexpected gain nonetheless. The time and energy spent refining a Spirit Calming Vessel was not significant for him at the moment.

Shortly after Shang Xia's departure, a group of cultivators of the Martial Extermination Realm and Martial Dipper Realm flew over and landed where he had once been.

"The heaven and earth qi here... It's strange, why does it feel much thinner? Didn’t we detect through the formation that there was an unreasonable surge of heaven and earth qi here?"

The leader, a high-level Martial Dipper Realm cultivator, turned to the person beside him to ask.

Although the person wasn’t as strong as the leader, he was also in the Martial Dipper Realm. He also held a special status among the group. Looking around, a puzzled expression formed on his face and he mumbled, “Indeed, it's strange. It's as if something has taken away the heaven and earth qi that emerged."

The leader's expression became serious. "Are you saying that someone has been here?"

His companion shook his head. "It's just a possibility. And don't forget, there was also a massive northward movement of world origin..."

The leader coughed lightly and interrupted, "Since there's nothing wrong here, let's continue with our task. The mission given to us by the True Immortals is important, and the large-scale survey and layout of the formation nodes require supervision. We don’t know how long it will take to complete our task..."

His companion, who turned out to be a Formation Grandmaster, nodded hastily. "Exactly, we shouldn't waste too much time here. And the True Immortals also specifically instructed us to hurry up with our actions the moment the world origin showed signs of moving. We have to be quick!”

The Formation Grandmaster, who looked like a person who loved to research all by his lonesome, usually spoke to himself. Only when interacting with them would he be forced to talk. Most times, they needed to pressure him in order for him to speak his mind.

The group came and went in a hurry, and the traces they left were quickly buried by the wind and snow.

Shortly after they left, a blurry clone appeared. Shang Xia’s clone looked in the direction where they left before disappearing into the snowstorm.

𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

He, who had been trying to find traces of his talisman, had already arrived on a snowy hill thousands of miles away. The blurry figure merged back into him and he quickly learned about the conversation earlier.

"The Spirit Abundance World is setting up large-scale formations in the territories controlled by the Essence Ping World’s Will? This sounds like a massive conspiracy!" Shang Xia thought to himself, "And they were also specifically instructed to hurry up when the world origin showed signs of moving? Heh... The World’s Will would be at its weakest during this time and for them to move now... They are definitely planning something big!”

Under normal circumstances, Shang Xia would be very interested in the Spirit Abundance World’s objectives. However, times weren’t normal at the moment. Locating the troublesome lass was on the top of his list of priorities.

Unfortunately... He failed to sense any traces of his talisman again. He could only wander around aimlessly trying to locate her presence with his divine soul.

Such a blanket-style search clearly relied on luck. As Shang Xia wandered around, he noticed several traces of middle and high-level cultivators from the Spirit Abundance World. They were very structured as they surveyed the lands and set up their formation nodes.

While Shang Xia was not well-versed in formations, his long contact with Chu Jia had given him basic insights.

From covert observations, he could tell that they were searching for spiritual veins beneath the world to set up formation nodes. It seemed like it was the same method his Spirit Luxuriant World had employed when breaking up worlds like the Azure Flame World and the Spirit Faith World.

"The Spirit Abundance World is actually planning to shatter the Essence Ping World? Hmm... Since they dare to fuse with the Essence Ping World’s Will... Preparing for the advancement of territory doesn’t seem that surprising.”

As Shang Xia thought of the possible plans the Spirit Abundance World had, he also started to think about the ways he could benefit from their schemes.

"Just how big is the Spirit Abundance World’s appetite? The Essence Ping World’s Will currently controls 7 continents, each spanning over 30,000 miles..."

"With the current foundation of the Spirit Abundance World, they can already start the ascension process. A single continent would be enough to push them into the level of an Essence World.”

"If they retrieve more territory from the Essence Ping World... They wouldn’t just be able to ascend... They would also grow significantly after the process! Hmm... They probably also intend to retrieve more land in order to balance the World’s Will.”

"Of course, the process will definitely involve the breakthrough of experts into the Martial Emptiness Realm. Haha! I wonder who the Spirit Abundance World will be chosen? No matter what, Xiong Xin probably doesn’t have much of a chance after the shit they pulled back then. Looks like he’s in a pickle... What exactly happened in the Dajun Dynasty?”

"..."

As Shang Xia mumbled to himself while wandering around aimlessly, a sudden surge of inner qi alarmed him.

Snapping back to reality, he understood that the Heaven Liberation Talisman had been activated, and from the amount of inner qi that was activated, it wasn’t far away!

Almost reflexively, he split a strand of soul to follow the surge of inner qi. It immediately smashed the souls of 2 True Immortals who were caught completely off guard.