Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

Chapter 715: Chapter 715: Battle of Immortal City (Part 2)

The resounding, desolate horn echoed between heaven and earth, its call traveling a thousand miles in every direction.

The Dragon Turtle, hibernating upon the land, awoke from its deep slumber. It slowly opened its eyes, revealing a look of astonishment and fear in its dark golden pupils.

By this time, Yongle Immortal City was surrounded by tens of thousands of Flying Warships.

This massive punitive fleet consisted of eight Third Order Colossal Warships and hundreds of Third Order Flying Warships, the former of which are equivalent to Spiritual Treasures, while the latter belong to the tier of Magical Treasures.

Comparable to Nascent Soul and Golden Core!

Normally, a Third Order Spiritual Treasure Flying Warship can only be commanded by a Nascent Soul True Immortal, and even one Nascent Soul cannot fully unleash its power.

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Third Order Flying Warships have lower requirements, but they still need a Golden Core True Person in control.

The battles for Immortal Cities were never trifling matters, and it was clear that the Mount-Shifting Sect had gone all in on a do-or-die move!

Confronted with such formidable opponents, Yongle Immortal City was undoubtedly caught off guard, its Defense Array only activating when the Mount-Shifting Sect’s vanguard drew within five hundred miles.

Completely surrounded, the City-Protecting Array’s power was pushed to its limits, a semi-transparent Mana Barrier enveloping the entire Immortal City, including the Dragon Turtle on whose back the city rested.

The battle cultivators defending the city, in their panic, pushed out God-Slaying Cannons and Immortal-Slaying Crossbows, clumsily aiming their muzzles towards the Mount-Shifting Fleet in the sky.

Both sides were on a knife-edge, and a battle was about to erupt!

At that moment, a beam of light shot up from the center of the Immortal City, and the figure of an old cultivator with blue robes and white hair and beard appeared high in the sky.

He spoke in a deep voice, “Sect Leader Gu, what is the meaning of this?”

This blue-robed cultivator was Qi Nanshan, the City Lord of Yongle Immortal City, a high-ranking Nascent Soul True Immortal.

Yongle Immortal City’s upper echelon was incredibly complex, essentially a coalition of local Immortal Cultivation families, with Qi Nanshan being the helmsman elected jointly by the numerous clans.

Qi Nanshan was highly skilled and well-respected.

But his actual power was not great, though the responsibilities he bore were no less immense!

And the one Qi Nanshan was questioning was none other than the Sect Leader of the Mount-Shifting Sect, Gu Xi.

No sooner had Qi Nanshan finished speaking than a thin and sinister figure—merely a phantasm—appeared above a Third Order Colossal Warship, several miles away.

“City Lord Qi, half a month ago, a True Disciple from our sect went missing within Yongle Immortal City.”

The cultivator’s voice boomed across the distance, “Our sect sent a letter to your side asking for help, only to be met with your indifference. Today, I have come to seek justice for my sect’s disciple!”

“Absurd!”

Qi Nanshan’s eyes blazed as he shouted in anger, “All this for merely a True Disciple, is such a grand mobilization really necessary?

“Sect Leader Gu, do you not feel shame using such a despicable pretext?”

“If you don’t give a clear answer today, I and the million cultivators of Yongle will stand against you to the very end!”

Qi Nanshan was aware of the incident concerning the Mount-Shifting Sect’s True Disciple who went missing in Yongle Immortal City, as the matter had been formally communicated via an inquiry letter.

But the content of the letter was not a request for help, but rather a presumptuous and rude demand!

How could Qi Nanshan agree to that?

He never would have thought that the Mount-Shifting Sect would use this as a pretense to launch an unannounced attack and besiege Yongle Immortal City.

This Nascent Soul True Immortal clearly understood that, with such a large scale of preparations, there could be no hope for a peaceful resolution.

It was only to gain a bit of preparation time for his side that Qi Nanshan engaged in this verbal dispute with Gu Xi.

“Hahaha!”

Gu Xi laughed uproariously, “Qi Nanshan, you, as a Nascent Soul True Immortal, have been made a puppet on strings, content being a marionette City Lord for so many years—are you addicted to it yet?”

“I advise you to think carefully, whether this turtle shell can withstand the full force of my Mount-Shifting battle cultivators’ strike!”

There’s an old saying, ‘Don’t hit a man in the face and don’t expose their shortcomings.’ However, Gu Xi directly targeted Qi Nanshan’s biggest weak spot right from the start, clearly with no intentions of making peace.

“You!”

Qi Nanshan was instantly fuming with rage, his originally fair skin turning beet red.

His true form was hidden inside the City Lord’s Mansion, stationed at the nerve center of Yongle Immortal City’s defensive array. Even with his profound Qi-nurturing abilities, he couldn’t help but become extremely annoyed, with his qi-blood rushing to his head.

And yet, the first to act was still Gu Xi.

“Break it open for me!”

The Sect Leader of the Mount-Shifting Sect bellowed angrily, and the eight third-order flying warships surrounding Yongle Immortal City emitted a faint green light.

The next moment, thick roots emerged from the newly opened hatch at the bottom of the flying warships, growing quickly downwards and drilling into the soil in just a few breaths’ time.

From a distance, it looked as if these formed, robust roots were supporting the flying warships, preventing them from falling.

Seeing such a scene, Qi Nanshan’s complexion changed again, “Eight Desolates Standing Trees, where did you get the Fusang Wood from?”

The Colossal Star Dragon Turtle bearing Yongle Immortal City was of the earth attribute, the strongest in defense among the five elements. To break through the city-protecting great array, it would require the use of special methods.

Wood overcomes metal, and Fusang Wood is one of the four great spirit woods in the immortal realms!

The earth shook violently. Roots thick enough for two people to embrace expanded their territory underground at will, desperately sucking up the soil’s nutrients.

Accompanied by the thunderous rumbling, thick black-brown roots appeared around Yongle Immortal City.

They split the heavy soil layer and spread towards the Dragon Turtle at a frantic pace. The black bark covered with nodules showed its fierce face as it rolled forward at high speed!

And the first to suffer were naturally the farmhouses and fields near Yongle Immortal City.

As well as the many cultivators who relied on the farms and Spirit Fields for their livelihoods on a daily basis.

The number of cultivators doing hard labor in the surrounding area was vast. By the time the Mount-Shifting Sect’s forces converged, it was already too late for them to escape.

There were also those who hopefully expected the battle cultivators from Immortal City to come to their aid.

But such thoughts were far too naïve.

Some people like to place their hopes on others, not bothering to diligently practice and build up their own strength.

Now, they were paying a heavy price!

Cries for help, curses, wails of despair, pleas for assistance…

And the fleeing cultivators didn’t get far before they were captured by the lurking Mount-Shifting Sect disciples.

These non-city gate cultivators were mostly low-tier, essentially Qi Cultivation cultivators.

But being locals who could work and were willing to do so, slaughtering them had no purpose and would instead attract tremendous infamy.

Therefore, as long as they were caught and didn’t resist, the disciples of the Mount-Shifting Sect didn’t give these people fleeing for their lives too much trouble.

So most of the cultivators surrendered directly.

After all, even if the Mount-Shifting Sect lost this battle, they could still survive.

Only a few stubborn fools showed a hint of resistance, only to be instantly entangled by the roots bursting from beneath the ground, then dragged back into the hole they came from.

In the blink of an eye, all was silent!

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The first update is here.