Chapter 1059: The resurgence of the Earth's vein disaster

“If I’m not mistaken, has someone successfully reversed the laws of life and death?” Li Fan’s voice held a hint of anger. “The Xuanhuang World actually hides such a figure? Why didn’t you inform me of such crucial intelligence beforehand? With the Reincarnation Palace now existing, even if countless cultivators die, it probably won’t pose a threat to the Xuanhuang World anymore. It seems our plan to force Preacher Jiang to appear will fail,” Li Fan sighed deeply.

Preacher Zhou’s expression was somewhat puzzled. “You might not believe it,” she said with certainty, “but we Preachers know absolutely nothing about this new Immortal Venerable. I mean, not just the three of us who were exiled. Even those currently in the Preacher’s Council are equally in the dark!” After saying this, she looked at Li Fan suspiciously. “Is this Immortal Venerable truly not a member of your Myriad Worlds Alliance? My first reaction at the time was...”

“It seems the Xuanhuang World, after expanding for so many years, is deeper than I imagined,” Preacher Wei said, his eyes deep and brows tightly furrowed. “This new Heavenly Venerable must have infiltrated the Xuanhuang World and settled here at some unknown time. However, judging by his conduct, he has been cultivating silently for so many years, not interfering in worldly affairs. As long as he isn’t provoked, there shouldn’t be much of a problem.”

“The sudden appearance of the Reincarnation Heavenly Venerable was truly unforeseen. However, it’s perhaps premature to say your plan has failed,” Preacher Desolation, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. “After the Reincarnation Palace appeared, the lives of cultivators could no longer be considered a means of threat. Actually, we were just one step away from forcing Jiang to appear. Given the heavy responsibility of maintaining the Forest Spirit’s stability, the Xuanhuang World must investigate and resolve this. If you eliminate all the Immortal Alliance members who investigate later, Jiang will eventually have no choice but to appear.” They remained silent.

“What should we do?” Xuanhuang and the others immediately looked at Desolation. Xuanhuang pondered for a moment, then still focused his attention on the mutated Dao-Yi worms. “We still need to start from the Myriad Immortal Alliance itself.” After a casual decision, Xuanhuang changed his combat strategy. The hostile target shifted from the cultivators of the Myriad Immortal Alliance to the Myriad Immortal Alliance itself. “The spiritual energy in the Lin Jianmei region mutated, making cultivators bloodthirsty. This is a major event that will profoundly change the landscape of the Myriad Immortal Alliance.” Xuanhuang hadn’t forgotten that the ancient earth-vein tree had secretly incited Lin Jian to rebel against him from time to time. It was now time to settle accounts with that ancient earth-vein tree. The ancient earth-vein tree was rooted deep underground and had already merged with the earth veins. But its true form was, after all, merely an enormous tree.

Without warning, large-scale land subsidence disasters began to appear in certain areas of the Myriad Immortal Alliance. Terrifying land subsidence occurred, vast enough to level mountains and fill seas. “How is that possible!” Li Fan immediately shook his head in denial. Li Fan was currently serving as a laborer in the Alliance, seeking to atone for his past mistakes. He suddenly recalled the countless frozen corpses within the 'Reversal of Life and Death Grand Array'. “This is indeed a viable method.” But this matter immediately drew significant attention from the Xuanhuang World. The response was much swifter than before; by the second day of the land subsidence incident, an investigation team had been dispatched to various locations to investigate.

The Dao-Yi worms underground went wild, disregarding their own lives to gnaw at the ancient tree roots spread throughout the earth veins. Once all the ancient tree roots in a certain area were annihilated, the direct consequence would be... Although somewhat difficult to consume, no tree proved too tough to chew for the countless, boundless mutated Dao-Yi worms. After a period of reproduction, the Dao-Yi worms, which released murderous spiritual energy, had quietly occupied vast continuous areas underground in the Myriad Immortal Alliance. Just that, under Xuanhuang's intentional control, they had not done anything out of the ordinary beyond normal reproduction and releasing spiritual energy. Otherwise, with their current scale, provoking another major stench in the Forest Spirit would have been effortless. They did not fly towards the surface, but continued deeper underground. Their roots spread throughout the Forest Spirit, to prevent being targeted by Heaven and Earth, and to avoid any unforeseen incidents in the future when feigning the Heavenly Dao or absorbing the Forest Spirit's impending transformations.

The first wave of personnel had all mysteriously disappeared, and Lin Jianmei suddenly realized something was wrong. Consequently, the next time a team came to supervise, it was actually led by two Preachers. Preacher Chu, his face full of disappointment, said. “To think it was them causing trouble in the dark!” Xuanhuang sent a message to the three Preachers, asking them to cooperate secretly. While surprised by the alliance’s endless stratagems, the three Preachers also cooperated fully, each displaying their unique abilities to quietly apprehend all members of the Immortal Alliance’s investigation team. “No Xuan-Heaven Cultivation Method detected. It seems they haven’t been possessed by this Dharma King,” Preacher Zhou secretly transmitted. “Then I’ll trouble you with this.” “Persuade them with reason, move them with emotion. If that truly doesn’t work, we’ll just have to temporarily suppress them. Once everything returns to normal, then we can release them,” Preacher Wei quickly decided.

While the four individuals were discussing, the two Preachers opposite them looked at the suddenly appearing Zhou, Wei, and others, their faces filled with shock and fury. The two exchanged glances, both seeing the surprise and suspicion in the other’s eyes. Upon receiving the message, Xuanhuang, clad in the Heavenly Sun Immortal Armor, arrived at the Preachers’ standoff as the ultimate combat force. “However, we cannot pin our hopes on Jiang making a move proactively. I will return and apply to the Alliance Council to see if we can activate a new world-destroying plan.” Although Lin Jian was intimidated by the strength he displayed and ultimately chose to abandon the dark and embrace the light, this didn't mean the matter was simply over. Lin Jian said this, and without waiting for a reply, immediately disconnected from the three Preachers. Although Preacher Jiang, after his return to origin, seemed to have retained no related memories, this time, the goal was merely to force his appearance and then resolve Mo Ruxian through him, rather than truly being hostile to him. Therefore, it was better not to choose the ‘Wordless Incantation’.