Chapter 1644: Making Their Move

When Shang Xia made the decision to start the world ascension and his breakthrough to the Seven Star Realm, everything happened too quickly. He instructed the various Elysiums to pour their excess energy into the World Origin Source and unleashed his martial intent, causing the You Continent’s World Origin Source to transform.

Everything was supposed to take some, but when Zhang Xuansheng and the others discovered the extent of the transformation, only 10 or so days had passed.

It was just too short, and it caught the various factions off guard. In fact, everything happened so quickly that no one knew how to react.

People like True Immortal Hou might be at the grand completion stage of the Martial Void Realm, but he had never personally witnessed the process of world ascension. He only heard it from his seniors and read it in records of his world, but there was no doubt about it. The entire process was extremely complicated and dangerous.

He didn’t just understand the ascension process of the Essence Ming World. From all the information he could gather about other Spirit World’s ascension to Essence Worlds, he learned about the difficulty of the process. Even though not every world experienced the same thing, the general outline was the same as their Essence Ming World.

Because of that, True Immortal Hou couldn’t believe everything that happened in the Spirit Luxuriant World in a few short days.

Although the ascension process of the Spirit Luxuriant World seemed to have just begun, everything overturned the understanding he had gained of the world ascension process.

His earlier confidence he portrayed in front of the Elysium True Immortals of the Spirit Luxuriant World seemed utterly ludicrous.

Gao Qin’s calculation was like a knife that stuck deep into his chest. Her deduction that the subtle transformation in the World Origin Source started even earlier made him realize that he could no longer apply what he knew about the Essence Ming World’s ascension to the Spirit Luxuriant World.

Despite still doubting the success of the Spirit Luxuriant World’s ascension that was driven by Shang Xia, he felt that he had to do something instead of waiting passively for the outcome.

At that thought, True Immortal Hou’s gaze shifted to Zhang Xuansheng and the others.

If there had to be a confrontation, it was most convenient to do it with people from the same world.

Understanding his intentions, Zhang Xuansheng and the rest shook their heads in unison to reject him before he could speak.

"In the Spirit Luxuriant Hall, we swore not to attack each other during the breakthrough process.”

“We might not be willing to watch him become a Sage, but we don’t want our world to be destroyed.”

"The foundation of our world cannot support the complete ascension to an Essence World, and he can’t advance to the Martial Emptiness Realm either. Why bother, True Immortal Hou?”

Despite knowing their arguments were rational, True Immortal Hou felt an inexplicable irritability and a bad premonition. Everything urged him not to wait any longer and to stop the increasingly incomprehensible changes happening.

"Junior Sister Gao, you...”

This time, before he could finish, Gao Qin interrupted him, “Senior Brother Hou, the transformation of the world is closely linked to the World’s Will. True Immortal Shang is definitely protected by the World’s Will right now and it would be inappropriate to act rashly. Our strength is also limited in a foreign world. Why don’t we...”

"Enough!” True Immortal Hou interrupted Gao Qin's advice with displeasure before growling, “I will handle this matter personally! You can sit here and watch as it happens. Heh... He’s just a fool from an inferior world who doesn’t know how high the heavens are. Not a single grand completion stage True Immortal has been able to gain the upper hand when fighting me...”

With that, True Immortal Hou rose into the air. Somehow, the World’s Will did not suppress him. As he flew away, he muttered, "All of you better be prepared. The moment he fails his ascension, he will be devoured by the World’s Will. The energy that comes from a grand completion stage True Immortal will provide you with the perfect opportunity to advance further.”

Zhang Xuansheng and the others who had been silent up till that point were visibly shaken. However, by the time they looked up, True Immortal Hou had already vanished above the Northern Sea Continent.

Gao Qin looked conflicted, but eventually sighed, "I believe you don’t need me to tell you what to do next. Take care of yourselves.”

With that, Gao Qin soared into the sky, quickly following after True Immortal Hou.

Zhang Xuansheng and the rest fell silent as the atmosphere became a little heavy.

"Advancing our cultivation was not our original intention; we initially only aimed to protect this world. Confronting Shang Xia and the Tongyou Institution was a last resort!”

"Of course! Their plan is doomed to fail. Since we can’t stop him, we can only try to minimize our loss.”

"This world was established by our Elysiums! Kou Chongxue and Shang Xia merely usurped the results of hundreds of years of our efforts. Our actions are merely to restore things into its original state. Hmph, if we had been in control of the world all along, we would have proceeded cautiously. We wouldn’t have to risk the destruction of the world!”

All 3 of them spoke as if to inspire themselves and soon after, Yang Taihe and Li Jidao disappeared from the Northern Sea Elysium.

Both of them had actually been controlling their Elysiums the entire time. They merely sent clones to the Northern Sea Mystic Sect in order to communicate among themselves.

When everything was happening, Shang Xia was floating in the air above the You Continent, completely unaware that high-level True Immortals of other worlds had already infiltrated their Spirit Luxuriant World and were about to move against him.

His attention was largely occupied by the transformation of Spirit Luxuriant World Origin Source, and the process happened so quickly that even Shang Xia was surprised.

As he gradually grasped the nature of the transformation, a troubling thought formed in his mind.

Could it be? Has this entire thing been a trap?