Everlasting Chapter 965 Sky Pillars Mountain Range (1/2)

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It would not be an exaggeration to say that Patriarch Heavenly Enigma had received a blessing in disguise. After recovering his body, his combat power was a notch better than even Heavenly Premier Absolute. That made everyone even more envious.

Naturally, there was nothing Chen Feng could do for those who had died. As their souls had dissipated away, they were truly dead. Even if the Longevity Tower were to grow stronger, it would still be incapable of helping them.

“Patriarch Carefree, Patriarch Heavenly Yang, Heavenly Premier Quicksand, Patriarch Rocky, Patriarch Profound Nether, Ascendant Immortal Blackmalice, the six of you were amongst the earliest to join our alliance. All of you have also contributed greatly. As I have said before, if there are benefits to be had, I will not forget you all. Next up, I will let you fellows enter the Longevity Tower to cultivate. Additionally, each of you will be given one True law. In three years, you will be able to advance to the mid-level Ascendant Immortal stage.” Chen Feng's words caused excitement to appear on their faces.

For cultivators who had been cultivating for tens of thousands of years, the most important thing was to advance to a higher level. Rather, many would not hesitate to agree to anything, even if it meant seeing a good number of their family or sect members be killed or wounded as a result.

“Heavenly Premier Everwind, Heavenly Premier Cavernous Void, Heavenly Premier First Origin, Patriarch Twin Devices, the four of you have only just joined us. Although we are allies, you have yet to contribute. If I bring out some goodies for you, others will likely be incapable of accepting it. I hope that you seniors will not feel offended by this,” Chen Feng said with a tone of sincerity to another four Ascendant Immortals.

The four Ascendant Immortals had only just joined the East Dragon Island Alliance not too long ago. Their forces had only partic.i.p.ated in one or two battles at best.

Thus, despite the feelings of envy and their bloodshot eyes, there was nothing the four of them could do about it. This was an alliance, after all. To be blunt, these fellows had only joined the alliance in order to obtain the alliance's protection. However, getting others to give them benefits for no good reason? In their dreams.

“Ha ha ha! Island Lord Chen, don't mention it. We are an alliance here. We're all equals here. Fighting against Heavenly Firmaments Palace is the responsibility of our sects. We would have felt embarra.s.sed if we could get some benefits without having done anything first,” Heavenly Premier Everwind said with a smile.

Chen Feng did not care what was on their minds. All that mattered was that they were not disloyal. As Heavenly Firmaments Palace possessed a formidable might, a considerable number of forces had chosen to submit to it. Even some sects that had chosen to join the East Dragon Island Alliance were secretly colluding with Heavenly Firmaments Palace. Only, nothing could be done about that. Not to mention, Chen Feng did not have any proper measures against something like this. All he could do was to keep improving the strength of those on his side.

There were a few reasons as to why Chen Feng was willing to give them such benefits. Firstly, Heavenly Firmaments Palace was too strong and the number of casualties on the East Dragon Island Alliance's side was mounting. Chen Feng hoped that, by improving these fellows' strength, they would contribute even more. Secondly, Chen Feng was going to undergo his tribulation soon.

Speaking of which, it had been several hundred years since Chen Feng advanced to the Earthen Immortal stage. Advancing now was quite slow in Chen Feng's opinion. Naturally, that was only Chen Feng's opinion. When compared to the other Earthen Immortals, Chen Feng's rate of cultivation was already a defiance of Heaven. Unless the cultivator in question were to utilize some shortcuts, such as taking pills or some other means, advancing to a higher level in the Earthen Immortal stage would take at least several thousand years. And that was the standard for geniuses.

The offensive from Heavenly Firmaments Palace remained highly ferocious and the number of Earthen Immortals and Human Immortals that it sent forward became increasingly high. However, there were no movements from their Ascendant Immortals. Finding out about that, Chen Feng felt somewhat relieved. At any rate, creating low-level cultivators was very easy. Ascendant Immortals, on the other hand, was a different story. Improving the cultivation level of cultivators up to the Ascendant Immortal stage in a short time through special methods was quite difficult.

That was not to say that something like this did not exist. Only, Chen Feng did not believe that the Immortal Plane would be willing to pay the price for such a large display of might.

Chen Feng decided that he would undergo his tribulation after these Ascendant Immortals had advanced to the mid-level Ascendant Immortal stage. That way, East Dragon Island would have a more solid layer of security.

For a cultivator at Chen Feng's level, three years would pa.s.s by in the blink of an eye, but for low-level cultivators, every day was precious. Rather, it could even be life-threatening.

Due to the alliance, there was a need to expand East Dragon Island's territory. And so, East Dragon Island expanded further, its territory reaching a radius of five million li. Furthermore, that area was growing with every pa.s.sing day and countless water yaos would join East Dragon Island every day. The surface area of the ocean in Eternal World far exceeded the surface area of land. As such, the number of water yaos was not something that humans could match up against. On the other hand, their spiritual attributes were far inferior compared to humans. Those who could develop their own wisdom and cultivate to the point where they can a.s.sume human forms were one in ten thousand. Many of them – that included various water yaos – would just ignorantly absorb worldly spiritual energy as they went on with their short lives.

Back to Heavenly Firmaments Palace, it had annexed various forces and occupied a huge chunk of the Central Plains. To Chen Feng's surprise, as time went by, Heavenly Firmaments Palace's momentum gradually became subdued. Its offensive operations were no longer as furious as it was in the past. Instead, it began spreading its forces in various directions. It was able to secure more reliable results by doing so and the control it could exert over its territory increased. Seeing that made the various sects in the Central Plains even more uneasy. Given the way the situation was developing, it was just a matter of time before Heavenly Firmaments Palace conquered the entire Central Plains. The Eastern Provinces, Western Regions and Southern Seas would be even less capable of stopping Heavenly Firmaments Palace.

Due to that, some more forces came together to ask for help from those three regions. All for the sake of gathering even more power to fight Heavenly Firmaments Palace.

There were a great many cultivators and a great number of sects in Eternal World. Battles and wars would break out all the time. A large-scale war that could change everything was incredibly rare. It was something that would only happen once in several hundreds of thousands of years or even millions of years. However, this chaotic situation, where other worlds – at the level of the Immortal Plane – were interfering in Eternal World's wars was even rarer.

Although they knew that they could not simply allow Heavenly Firmaments Palace to continue annexing more territory, the cultivators from the world of cultivation also knew that this would develop into a long-term situation.

While the power that Heavenly Firmaments Palace had displayed was very formidable, it was not yet at the overwhelming level.

Only, Chen Feng did not share that view. He could already feel a formidable sense of pressure. Heavenly Firmaments Palace's offensive had indeed slowed down. One reason for that was to stabilize the situation. The other reason was that it was planning something else.

During the past three years, Chen Feng had also attempted to investigate it, but he failed to find anything.