A month passed by rapidly.
The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect lived quite peacefully—either repairing the sect, recruiting disciples, or cooperating with the Tian Hun Empire to rebuild Nine Treasures City. Meanwhile, the continent was surging with turbulent winds and clouds, appearing quite unstable.
At the very beginning, news of the attacks on the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and Shrek Academy spread, causing massive waves in the soul master world. For a time, the vast majority of soul masters felt threatened.
Then came the joint condemnation from the Three Great Empires.
On the surface, they seemed to be targeting the Holy Spirit Cult, but in reality, it was the Sun-Moon Empire. After all, among the attackers publicly announced, besides evil soul masters, there were also soul engineers belonging to the Sun-Moon Empire.
Who would have thought—the Sun-Moon Empire moved just as quickly.
They directly issued a statement that these soul engineers' actions were entirely personal behavior, completely unrelated to the Empire. Then they dispatched troops to capture these degenerate soul engineers who had colluded with evil soul masters one by one, and publicly executed these degenerates before the world's eyes.
Back and forth, most people couldn't see the truth clearly. Only a subsequent war diverted the world's attention.
In the Sun-Moon Empire's maritime territory, the Tian Hun Empire launched an attack on Sun-Moon Empire territory. After a brutal battle, with the Sun-Moon Empire navy fighting desperately, they finally resisted the invasion.
The casualties of this naval battle were unknown, but it was known that only with the Body Sect's participation could the Tian Hun Empire retreat.
The result was predictable.
Similarly, this demonstrated the Sun-Moon Empire's strength.
Actually, upon careful calculation, apart from material losses after the Soul Fighting Tournament ended and losses from the soul hunting operation, the Sun-Moon Empire as a national entity hadn't suffered much damage to its hard power.
And the dead top-tier experts were all from the Holy Spirit Cult. It was only by comparison that the Sun-Moon Empire seemed to be in decline.
But regardless, as the victor of this small-scale island-grabbing war, the Sun-Moon Empire immediately characterized this war as "aggression," saying the Tian Hun Empire wanted to break the treaty. There were even rumors from unknown sources suggesting that the previous so-called condemnations from the Three Great Empires were all trumped-up charges.
Now, the Tian Hun Empire had also tried to steal a chicken only to lose the rice.
Fortunately, they reacted quickly. The moment the Sun-Moon Empire characterized this war, they declared that they still suspected certain people in the Sun-Moon Empire of colluding with evil soul masters, and even on that island, some claimed to have seen shadows of evil soul masters.
So to avenge the dead citizens of Nine Treasures City, the Tian Hun Empire resorted to this inferior strategy for fear of alerting the enemy, never expecting it would cause the Sun-Moon Empire to overreact and trigger war.
Even the Tian Hun Empire produced so-called "evidence."
Of course, those with eyes could see how fake this so-called "evidence" was, but this didn't prevent the common people from believing it. Thus, both sides of this public opinion storm fought to a standstill.
Meanwhile, terrifying undercurrents continuously surged in secret.
But for now, all of this temporarily had nothing to do with Chen Junting.
To act against the remaining Holy Spirit Cult evildoers as soon as possible, and also to absorb the Evil Emperor's soul ring after killing him with Di Tian's help, Chen Junting was currently focused entirely on closed-door cultivation.
Of course, besides striving to break through to level ninety as soon as possible, he was also consolidating his gains from that great battle with Zhongli Wu.
Chen Junting discovered that his sword intent was not perfect.
To be precise, it was missing one of three.
Slaughter, Entrapment, Annihilation.
These three sword intents—just one more would make them perfect.
And for this final one, Chen Junting had long planned. That was to use annihilation attributes and Rakshasa divinity to comprehend "Execution."
However, Chen Junting's closed-door cultivation and comprehension were soon broken by the arrival of a guest at the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
"Elder Di Tian, why have you come?"
Di Tian wore a black robe, standing by the Golden Tree with eyes closed in meditation, letting a wisp of golden hair fall to one side of his face.
As Chen Junting spoke, he finally opened his eyes. But he didn't answer Chen Junting's question immediately, instead saying:
"Your human race truly has good fortune. Besides Shrek having a Golden Tree, you actually have one here as well. Yet our Great Star Dou Forest doesn't even have a single Golden Tree leaf."
"Actually, this Golden Tree also came from Shrek's tree." Chen Junting smiled and stepped forward. When his finger touched a Golden Tree branch, he gently snapped it, and the branch quietly fell.
In an instant, the Golden Tree seemed to become withered.
Only after a burst of emerald green light flashed across Chen Junting's body did this Golden Tree revive, causing that withering to flash by in an instant, as if what had just happened was merely an illusion.
Placing the broken branch in a jade box, he then handed it to Di Tian, "As long as it's planted in a place rich with life energy and heaven and earth elemental energy, this single branch can grow into a tree."
Seeing this, Di Tian was not polite.
As he reached out to take it, he also stated his purpose for coming.
"Visiting?"
"That's right, visiting."
Clearly, the location for this visit was no other place—Di Tian's home, the Great Forbidden Land of the Great Star Dou Forest.
Facing the invitation, Chen Junting was quite decisive. Considering it might be related to artificial soul bones, he nodded in agreement without hesitation.
Thus, after explaining the situation to the Sect Leader, he prepared to depart with Di Tian. But along the way, he encountered Ning Tian, Wu Feng, and Gu Tianchen. After briefly explaining the situation, Chen Junting looked at Wu Feng and Gu Tianchen, suddenly seeming to think of something.
He made a request to Di Tian, "I wonder if these three could accompany me to seek the senior's guidance."
Saying it was seeking guidance was actually wanting Di Tian's instruction.
After all, looking across the entire Douluo Star, who could compare to Di Tian in mastery of spatial arts. And besides the Silver Dragon King hidden away healing, only Di Tian was the strongest dragon.
If they could receive his guidance, even just a little, it would be a tremendous opportunity for Wu Feng and Gu Tianchen.
Even for Ning Tian, receiving guidance from an absolute powerhouse like Di Tian would be quite beneficial.
If not for Di Tian having business with him this time, making it inappropriate, he truly wanted to bring Huo Yuhao, Ji Juechen, and all the others along.
But...
He could mention it another day.
Hearing this, Di Tian didn't refuse.
"Very well."
Seeing him agree, the four were overjoyed.
"Many thanks, Beast God." ×3
"Why speak of 'thanks'? Let's go."
As the words fell, Di Tian waved his large hand, enveloping the four of them and tearing open the space before them. After stepping into it, these five figures disappeared from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
Soon, they arrived at the Great Forbidden Land.
Accompanied by spatial fluctuations, the atmosphere rippled in waves. In the void, a crack was torn open.
Then, Di Tian led the four out of the spatial crack.
After Chen Junting's four people clearly saw the scene before them, the beautiful scenery displayed by this Great Forbidden Land instantly brightened their eyes.
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