The fourth realm.
The Xuanji fragmented land under the jurisdiction of the Zhou family.
With the help of the Tianyuan Pearl, Zhou Qingchen, who has been promoted to the middle stage of the Xiantian Realm, cast a deep red protective shield.
Above his head, seven swords of different lengths were suspended, all of which were emitting sword rainbows and were used to kill the densely packed ferocious beasts.
Hundreds of feet high in the air, the Tianyuan Pearl released a thousand-foot-long ray of light with such deep and enormous deterrent force that many ferocious birds screamed and fell from the sky.
Many members of the Zhou family, led by Zhou Huaian, are now fighting against the attacking ferocious beasts and birds with the help of the Tianyuan Pearl.
The mutated poisonous pythons and giant lizards swam among the rocks. The scales of the ice-armored beasts and unicorn rhinos were as hard to break as fine iron. They cooperated with the golden eagles, goshawks and peng birds flying in the void to launch wave after wave of attacks on the Xuan Ji Broken Land.
This battle has been going on for several days.
The two sides fought hard.
"call!"
Deep in the sky, a girl in green suddenly appeared, wielding a huge silver sword.
Under the howling gale, the girl who was eating a bunch of crystal grapes stood up from the top of the broadsword that was as big as a giant ship with a little helplessness.
With eyes as bright as gemstones, she glanced at the anxious battlefield below and whispered, "Trouble."
The next moment.
“Swoosh! Swoosh!”
Dazzling sword lights splashed in all directions from the silver-white giant sword under her feet, turning into brilliant rivers of sword light, slashing the strongest beasts and birds into a bloody rain.
The crisis of Zhou family's Xuanji broken land was easily resolved by the girl.
Zhou Huaian, who was below, saw the huge silver sword floating away, and hurriedly shouted in the broken ground, trying to keep it and say a few words of thanks.
The sword-wielding girl ignored him.
"He is truly a god."
Zhou Huaian watched the giant sword fly away, secretly relieved, and said to Zhou Qingchen, who had a full beard and murderous aura, "One man and one sword, wandering around the many broken lands of our Zhou family and Dong family. In the areas that are subjected to the most fierce attacks of the beasts, the most desperate situations are often resolved with his sword."
"Without her, countless broken lands would fall, and countless people would be devoured by ferocious beasts."
Zhou Huaian was grateful.
“Well, that’s admirable.”
Zhou Qingchen swallowed a pill to restore his spiritual power, and called upon Han Duping and the tribesmen who still had strength left to kill the remaining weaker beasts one by one.
It was not until he saw some birds catching the surviving beasts and leaving that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Soon, a number of cloud sails rose into the sky from the Xuanji Broken Land and flew towards the Zhou family's main city.
There, the Chixiazhou arranged by Hongshan will be waiting to lead the Zhou family to the third realm.
"The continued spread of the filthy alien power will eventually cover us, and the Fourth Realm will fall sooner or later."
Han Duping shook his head and sighed.
Due to the recent long and hard battles, he actually broke through to the Innate Realm, but it was only the initial stage of cultivation.
At this moment, he said bitterly: "The higher-ups, don't you plan to send more strong men down to solve the problem of pollution and infection?"
"If it could be solved, it would have been solved long ago."
Zhou Huaian, who was in a state of anxiety, looked at the direction where the beast was going with a heavy gaze and said, "Except for the Dong family and part of our Zhou family's broken land, the entire Fourth Realm is about to be infected by the filthy alien force. It is only a matter of time before our two families are submerged by the alien force. I just hope to migrate as many people as possible up there."
In just over a year, the Fourth Realm had completely changed, with suffering everywhere.
However, there are still groups of beasts that hate humans. Due to mutations caused by the filthy alien power, they took the opportunity to attack the uninfected human fragments, causing the clouds and sails they migrated to the main city to be filled with blood.
If there hadn't been a young girl wielding a giant silver sword and roaming among the broken lands, the human practitioners who were still resisting would have collapsed long ago.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Two red cloud boats suddenly dropped straight down from the sky above everyone's heads, like two rays of rainbow light shooting towards the Xuanji Broken Land.
"Senior Sister Jiang, Senior Sister Zhao!"
Zhou Qingchen, who had become much more silent because of the family disaster, stood up from his sitting position when he saw the two people on top of a red cloud boat. A long-lost smile appeared on his face: "Why are you here?"
"Junior Brother Zhou..."
Jiang Li pursed her lips and whispered, with infinite tenderness hidden deep in her gentle eyes.
“Swoosh! Swoosh!”
One after another, guardians and disciples wearing Hongshan robes landed from another Chixia boat and nodded to Zhou Qingchen, Zhou Huaian and others.
"Elder Qi! Guardian Lin, Guardian Qin!"
Zhou Qingchen hurriedly greeted him.
"Sorry for being late. The Yuanmang Shattered Land suddenly underwent a drastic change, so we had to rush to Yuanmang. However, before we arrived at Yuanmang, the Shattered Land problem was miraculously solved, and we sank to the fourth realm."
Elder Qi Wei, who was a great cultivator in the Condensed Spirit Realm, signaled Zhou Huaian, Zhou Qingchen and the others not to be polite, and said, "Qingchen, leave the rest to us. You can take Zhao Yatou's Red Cloud Boat back to the Third Realm."
"Oh, by the way, the Dong family also has a team led by Wei Wenhan from the Lieyang Sect coming down to support them."
"There are also some elders from the Galaxy Alliance and Blood Moon, who were supposed to go to the Yuanmang Shattered Land, and they have also come down to resolve the predicament caused by the ferocious beasts in the Fourth Realm."
"… "
Qi Wei, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Qingchen, are you familiar with Pang Jian?"
Zhou Qingchen's eyes turned red, and he said without hesitation: "That's my life-long friendship!"
After a pause, he asked excitedly, "Elder Qi, is there any news about Pang Jian? Did Pang Jian come out from the Cenji Mountains?"
After leaving Bagua City, he tried every means to find Pang Jian through his connections, but there was no news.
Qi Wei suddenly mentioned Pang Jian, which gave him a glimmer of hope.
"Brother, you are really amazing."
Qi Wei looked up at the sky with infinite emotion and said, "He is currently in the Third Realm. The exact location is unknown, but his deeds have spread throughout the Third Realm. When you go up, just ask anyone and you will know how famous your brother is now!"
"ah!"
Zhou Qingchen couldn't help but screamed.
…
The third realm.
A ship started from Qiantian Continent, passed through Sanxian Island and Yuanmang, and was heading towards Xuanyou Continent, sailing slowly under the scorching sun.
Wang Ying, a middle-aged boatman, had charming eyes and was glancing at the three distinct groups of people on the deck.
What made her most enthusiastic was a group of young men from noble families who were previously forced to stay in Yuanmang.
Because her own Yunfan was destroyed in Yuanmang, these pampered young masters and ladies were now forced to ride on her Yunfan.
These people often disliked Yun Fan's shabby appearance and found fault with her everywhere.
Wang Ying didn't dare to offend him. She kept a fake and eager smile on her face, which was heavily made up.
As for another group of independent cultivators like her, who were active in various fragmented areas of the Third Realm, her attitude was a little cold.
The third batch is a group of people who were sent to the underworld by the Galaxy Alliance. It is said that two of them are core members of the He family and the Ning family.
When facing this group of people from the lower world, her attitude was the worst. She scolded them impatiently every time they asked her a few questions.
"Alas, the world is becoming increasingly chaotic, and the untouchables from the lower realms are coming up to take our place."
A young man from a noble family affiliated with the Galaxy Alliance glanced at the visitors from the Ning and He families and said coldly, "In the future, our several major families may be forced to cede some cities to those people in the lower world to manage."
After saying this, he smiled coldly and taunted the scattered cultivators who had gathered together: "The broken land where scattered cultivators often appear will also be forcibly occupied by others. In the future, the space they can move around in will only become smaller and smaller."
Hearing this, many independent cultivators making a living in the Broken Land also looked at the people coming from the Lower Realm with gloomy and dissatisfied eyes.
He Hui of the He family and Ning Wei of the Ning family could only smile bitterly and remain silent in the face of the sarcasm and ridicule from the two groups of people, as well as the different treatment from the boatman Wang Ying.
Only when they truly arrived in the third realm did they realize how unwelcome they were.
Both He Hui and Ning Wei had just managed to break through to the Marrow Cleansing Stage. The clansmen they brought with them on this trip were at an even lower stage, most of them were at the Body Refining Stage and the Meridian Opening Stage.
There are even some mortals in the tribe who have not yet opened up the spiritual sea.
As the team leaders, they were abandoned in a desolate and broken land by the golden chariot of the Galaxy Alliance. The Galaxy Alliance gave them a position and then went down to the mortal world again.
They also knew that the golden chariots were few in number and had been operating at full capacity recently, running between the fourth and third realms.
The golden chariot that went down was to pick up the clansmen from their two families, so they naturally did not dare to complain.
However, I didn't expect that the realms of the people on the cloud sail ship we passed by were all so high, and there was not a single one below the Marrow Cleansing Realm.
There were also several people with powerful auras, who made them feel that they must be in the Dongxuan realm and were even more difficult to provoke.
In particular, a sallow-faced casual cultivator in black clothes looked at them meaningfully from time to time, making He Hui and Ning Wei tremble with fear all the way.
“We have the Galaxy Alliance behind us, so independent cultivators shouldn’t dare to act recklessly. And… those young men from aristocratic families, their families are also affiliated with the Galaxy Alliance or Blood Moon!” He Hui said in a low voice.
Ning Wei nodded bitterly and whispered, "I just hope to arrive safely at the broken land that the Galaxy Alliance has arranged for us. There, the Galaxy Alliance's guardians will control the situation, and independent cultivators and children from aristocratic families will never dare to mess around."
He Hui sighed and said, "I really hope that the fourth world we live in has never been infected by dirty alien forces. Instead of coming up and being looked down upon everywhere, I would rather stay in the lower world."
"Who says it's not?"
Ning Wei also said.
As vassals of the Galaxy Alliance, the Ning family and the He family are local tyrants in the fragmented land under their jurisdiction in the fourth realm.
In those fragmented lands of the lower world, their two families were respected, and every member of the tribe was arrogant when appearing in the cities under their jurisdiction, and they had never suffered such humiliation.
Little did he know that once he was sent to the third realm by the Galaxy Alliance, he would be treated coldly everywhere.
But the opponents are either children of noble families with higher status than them, or independent cultivators with a realm much higher than theirs, so they can't afford to offend anyone.
The gap from being high and mighty in the lower world to being servile in the upper world was too great for them to accept it all at once.
"He Ziren's father..."
The sallow-faced man in black, who was mixed in with the casual cultivators, glanced at He Hui again.
He Hui didn't dare to look him in the eye, and subconsciously looked away, fearing that he would accidentally offend the other party.
He vaguely felt that the man in black sitting alone was the most terrifying person on this cloud sail.
…
(End of this chapter)