"I have underestimated this Xue E!"
Zhang Yan's talisman soldiers returned again, and Zhang Yan inevitably felt a little emotional after collecting the gold foil from this trip.
Xue E's impression of Zhang Yan has always been that of a bold, careful and ambitious person. Otherwise, he would not have thought of this person first when he decided to return to the Madrigal School and engage in gold leaf business decades ago.
But Xue E's talent exceeded Zhang Yan's expectations. He also has the same view of Xue E as most people in the Pastoral School do. He even thought that even if Xue E had the bottom-line secret skills of the great world he gave him as a reference to reorganize his own practice, he might not be able to take this opportunity to break through the last threshold and step into the heavenly realm.
But Xue E used the most powerful answer to turn Zhang Yan's guess into a joke. It only took them sixty years to successfully break through to the late stage of the Earthly Immortal Realm and successfully survive the Five-Ninth Heavenly Tribulation and step into the Heavenly Immortal Realm in one fell swoop.
This was the first point that Zhang Yan thought he underestimated Xue E. From now on, Xue E and the Great Hongtian Alliance led by him will no longer be the force that even the third-rate can't join as before. This change is absolutely no small matter. And it will definitely have a chain reaction. It’s hard to say whether it’s good or bad.
The second reason why Xue E made Zhang Yan feel that he underestimated him was that he was far more decisive and ruthless than ordinary people.
This point starts with the fact that Xue E had to meet Zhang Yan's talisman soldiers before he could successfully overcome the tribulation. Let the talisman soldiers pass the message on your behalf, which not only shows respect but also leaves no trace behind. But the content is unexpected.
In Zhang Yan's view, Xue E's decision to let Fu Bing pass on his behalf was definitely a "bold act." But if you think about it carefully, it’s not just “preparing for a rainy day” or even “strike first to gain the upper hand.” Zhang Yan has to say he admires this vision and courage.
So what did Xue E say?
Xue E wanted Zhang Yan to take action at the right time and help him kill the sect leader of the Yuhao Great World Alliance who was in the middle stage of the Celestial Realm and the two elders who were in the early stage of the Celestial Realm. At the same time, we also hope to provide a large number of powerful talismans for the Human Immortal Realm and Tongxuan Realm. Xue E was willing to exchange these things with Duoyashan at a suitable price.
What is ruthlessness? This must be it.
help? This is really not a difficult problem for Zhang Yan. When he was in the Sword Tomb ruins, he was still in the early stage of the Celestial Immortal Realm and could kill several people in the late Celestial Immortal Realm by relying on the time lock and the Earth Book, even though he was blessed by the special environment in the Sword Tomb Ruins. But now Zhang Yan's cultivation has been steadily improving in the past sixty years, and he has successfully entered the middle stage of the Celestial Realm. Coupled with the tens of thousands of celestial beads that specialize in killing, killing one mid-stage Celestial Realm and two early stages is almost a joke. Just as easy.
But what's the price? Naturally it’s still gold foil.
Today, Dahongtian relies on various channels and the huge resources it subsidizes. For Da Hongtian, this is actually emptying out the wealth accumulated over tens of thousands of years. Although the value of the things obtained is not low or even higher, for one force, it often needs to be treated differently.
Just like a family cannot only have gold but no food.
Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic and unsustainable to expect Dahongtian to continue to use its pockets to supplement resources to exchange for gold foil. The situation is similar to Zhang Yan's on the Chaos Sect's side. There is too much gold foil, and it cannot be replaced simply by changing what is in your hand. Think of another way.
In Zhang Yan's view, Xue E's invitation to Fang Yuhao World Alliance not only planned for a rainy day but also made a preemptive strike, perhaps also meant to rob the rich and help the poor. Of course, it is not to help others, but to help Da Hongtian himself.
You can imagine how many resources a third-rate force that has been entrenched for much longer and much larger than Da Hongtian has accumulated in its hands. Once it is obtained, let alone 400 yuan, the price of double the amount of gold foil will be affordable.
It's just that it wouldn't be appropriate to wait until Da Hongtian opens and closes the gold foil in the Pastoral Pie. Because that would inevitably avoid the top forces in the Pastoral Sect. Da Hongtian will be in big trouble then.
Of course, Zhang Yan does not need to consider whether Da Hongtian will be in big trouble in the future. After all, it's still unclear whether Xue E's plan is as he guessed. What if Xue E just came to test his tone first? It's possible.
"I'll let Xue E decide next time. If he wants to take action, Duoya Mountain will definitely help. It depends on whether Xue E really wants to strike first as he said."
Zhang Yan made a decision while turning his thoughts back to himself.
In sixty years, Zhang Yan relied on the new addition of the five Hongmeng Purple Qi to directly break through the early barrier of the Heavenly Immortal Realm and enter the middle stage. The growth in strength is also visible to the naked eye.
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Especially in the application of rules, whether it is self-strengthening or exclusiveness, it is not comparable to before. Instead of competing with his previous self using mainstream rules and environment, Zhang Yan can now easily squeeze out all the mainstream rules of his previous self, creating a crushing environment that the opponent cannot compete with.
This is actually the main aspect of competition between the Celestial Immortal Realm and the Golden Immortal.
In addition to hard power, Zhang Yan's improvement in means is actually not small.
I don’t know if it was because he had sufficient cultivation and experienced thousands of active reincarnations, but Zhang Yan’s understanding of the “Way of Mind” was not slow from the beginning, and as he deepened, not only did he not Slowing down is getting faster and faster. Now he wants to condense the attack of "one way of intention", that is, the sword intention. He can pick it up at will, feed it back, and even pull his sword skills to improve rapidly.
It's just that Zhang Yan's swordsmanship is different from those described in Taoist books, such as "seeing the heaven and the earth", "seeing the future", and "seeing all living beings". Because his swordsmanship is not intended to make him a swordsman or even a swordsman. Rather, it exists as a tool for him to further master the sword formation. Therefore, his swordsmanship is more focused on the attributes of the sword formation, which are "control" and "killing intent".
Mastery is the foundation for all formations to follow.
And murderous intent. This was not what Zhang Yan thought, but it was naturally formed over time because he had been in contact with the four great killing swords for a long time and used the Immortal Killing Sword Domain to enrich his swordsmanship.
With these improvements, Zhang Yan's mastery of the sword formation of Immortal Killing Sword Domain is completely different from what it was sixty years ago. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as one sky and one earth.
certainly. The biggest reward after all this effort was the more than 400 pieces of gold foil collected from the Madrigal School.
Counting the batch of food brought back this time, nearly 800 pieces of gold foil made the prototype of the four killing swords in Zhang Yandao's pill look completely different. You can tell the progress of reshaping just by looking at their body shape.
Sixty years ago it was just a little bigger than a toothpick. Now it is a full four inches in size. This size is almost the same as some small flying swords.
Now the Immortal Killing Sword Domain is no longer limited to a radius of less than ten feet, but directly expanded to a radius of one hundred feet. This range can be regarded as barely touching the coverage threshold of a sword array.
In other words, the Immortal Killing Sword Domain at this time is already a real sword formation that can be used.
