NOVPUBChapter 772: Chapter 418: Attacking Myriad Medicine Valley_1 Chapter 772: Chapter 418: Attacking Myriad Medicine Valley_1 Yuxu Mountain Range, inside the Sect Gate of Myriad Medicine Valley.
That evening, a number of disciples who had escaped the pursuit of Dong Wenchang and his companion had already returned to the Sect ahead of the others.
With the first Foundation Establishment Cultivator returning, he was fully aware that the news of their ambush and encirclement by Zhao Hongsheng was critical.
This cultivator, not daring to delay and regardless of his exhaustion, went to report to the Sect Leader, Zhou Yunxiao, immediately.
A short while passed.
Zhou Yunxiao received the first returning cultivator and learned of the ambush from him.
At that moment, even someone as experienced as Sect Leader Zhou Yunxiao, was immensely shocked by the explosive news.
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Initially, he had assumed that Golden Sword Sect would aim to first annihilate the weaker Zhenyang Sect, before turning their attention to attack Myriad Medicine Valley.
However, Golden Sword Sect had not acted as he had anticipated at all.
Not only that, they did the exact opposite by deploying people like Han Hu, who were in the Late Stage of Golden Core, while attacking Zhenyang Sect at the same time.
Moreover, in the midst of the great battle against Zhenyang Sect, they secretly gathered both Zhao Hongsheng and Jin Weishan from the Blood Red Alliance.
Their arrangement was merely a feint.
And such a formidable force, laying in ambush on the path of Luo Anzhong’s reinforcements was indeed far beyond his expectation.
Now, with Luo Anzhong and his companion yet to return, he even speculated in the dark that under the siege of six Golden Core Cultivators, their chances of survival were slim.
But what he now had to worry about was not only the safety of Luo Anzhong and his companion, but also the potential attack from Golden Sword Sect against Myriad Medicine Valley.
After all, Golden Sword Sect had deployed quite a number of Golden Core Cultivators, with the most significant threats naturally being Zhao Hongsheng and Han Hu, both in the Late Stage of Golden Core.
With such a force present in the Shuojin Mountain Range, their purpose was already very clear.
Therefore, these six posed a great threat to Myriad Medicine Valley at this time.
Now, he had to make timely arrangements to avoid being caught off guard when Golden Sword Sect launched their attack.
Realizing this, Zhou Yunxiao immediately began to take action.
Soon, under Zhou Yunxiao’s arrangements, Myriad Medicine Valley sprang into action, the vast Sect operating like a colossal machine.
A month passed in the blink of an eye.
During this month, many Foundation Establishment Cultivators who supported Zhenyang Sect returned one after another.
However, of the original three hundred-plus dispatched Foundation Establishment Cultivators, only just over a hundred returned safely, nearly half of whom were conscripted cultivators.
As for the others, they either died at the hands of Golden Core Cultivators or returned to their respective tribal lands.
Luo Anzhong himself, with the help of Ding Yongjin’s Self-Detonating Golden Core, managed to escape back to the Sect safely.
Although he preserved his life, he sustained serious injuries; his strength greatly diminished, barely having survived the relentless pursuit of Zhao Hongsheng and another.
Fortunately, as long as he lived, he could still return to his peak condition after recuperating in peace for a month or two.
Zhou Yunxiao felt both secretly relieved and extremely unfortunate about this outcome.
The reason was simple, because Luo Anzhong had returned alive.
But Ding Yongjin had Self-Detonated his Golden Core, becoming the first Golden Core Cultivator to perish since the onset of the war between the three sects.
The significance of a Golden Core Cultivator for any of the three sects was top-tier, bearing tremendous importance.
Myriad Medicine Valley had been plagued with many disasters over the past decade.
Initially, when the beast tide attacked, a Golden Core Cultivator had perished, and a Third-Order Spiritual Beast had died in battle.
Barely having a chance to recover, Golden Sword Sect, in alliance with the Blood Red Alliance, caused trouble again, severely injuring Luo Anzhong twice and forcing Ding Yongjin to the point of Self-Detonating his Golden Core.
These losses over a decade had dragged down Myriad Medicine Valley’s overall strength by more than twenty percent.
Now facing the assault from Golden Sword Sect, it was likely that their situation would become even more dire.
Thinking of all this, Zhou Yunxiao was extremely irritated.
He was also very puzzled and couldn’t help but ponder why the Wei Kingdom’s Cultivation World, peaceful for hundreds of years, had suddenly become so tumultuous?
Not just them, but all forces, big and small throughout Wei Kingdom had been dragged into war.
And all signs pointed towards Golden Sword Sect and Blood Red Alliance.
Especially the Blood Red Alliance, which had disrupted the peace of Wei Kingdom’s Cultivation World as soon as they emerged.
But now that things had come to this, and considering that the strength of the Blood Red Alliance far exceeded Myriad Medicine Valley and was even a towering force in the vast Qingzhou, he was angry but helpless, able only to do his best to survive this crisis.
Indeed, as Zhou Yunxiao feared it, it came to pass.
At dawn, outside the Sect Gate of Myriad Medicine Valley, two Golden Flying Boats suddenly appeared, shattering Zhou Yunxiao’s strained nerves.
Fortunately, he had made preparations in advance, already mobilizing nearly ten thousand members of the Sect, and boosting the Mountain Protection Array’s defensive power to the extreme.
To speak of the Mountain Protection Array, the Defensive Great Formation of Myriad Medicine Valley was not a simple matter.
This Defensive Formation originated from the prime days of Myriad Medicine Valley, when the Sect’s overall strength was at its peak with over ten Golden Core Cultivators and even the strongest among the Sect nearly reaching the Nascent Soul Stage.
If not for failing the final Heavenly Tribulation, Myriad Medicine Valley might have ascended a level, meeting the basic requirements of the Nascent Soul Forces.
Since that failed attempt to reach the Nascent Soul Stage, Myriad Medicine Valley’s strength had steadily declined, shrinking nearly by half up to the present.
