Chapter 1396: Failed Plan
As a few days flew by following Shu Yin joining the Star Shattering Sect, Xuan Hao could not help stopping his continued research of the ancient teleportation formation. Not because he had run into any problems, but more so because he still hadn’t heard anything about the Blue Sea Empire mobilizing their Celestial Immortal Realm Ancestors.
Although a few days or even a week or two of delay was fine considering he didn’t know if the overconfident ancestor from the Blue Sea Empire would end up being delayed by demonic cultivators while moving through the Frozen Wasteland, it had now been around a month since he had sold the information about the space node stone mine and the ancestor of the Blue Sea Empire left to investigate the mine in person.
At this point in time, the Demon King Realm demonic cultivator who should be behind the space node stone mine should have clashed with the ancestor of the Blue Sea Empire, causing the ancestor from the Blue Sea Empire to fall into a difficult situation that would force him to call for help.
However, if that was the case, there should have been some kind of reaction from the Blue Sea Empire, something that hadn’t happened yet.
Unless… The space node stone mine was not under the control of a Demon King Realm demonic cultivator, but was instead under the combined control of those two Demon Lord Realm demonic cultivators, but… If that was the case, where would those people transporting the space node stones be going? To A third Demon Lord Realm demonic cultivator inside the Frozen Wasteland?
Frowning as he thought about this, Xuan Hao couldn’t figure out what had ended up happening to cause the situation to turn out in an unexpected way.
In the end. Not knowing what to do about this situation as his plot to weaken the Blue Sea Empire seemed to have failed, Xuan Hao decided to contact Xuan Gui and see if she had heard anything about something major happening inside the Frozen Wasteland.
Following which he ended up learning that something had indeed ended up happening inside the Frozen Wastelands that caused a major upheaval lasting for a few days. Unfortunately, she didn’t have any clue about what had happened, as the information was sealed by one of the stronger Demon Kings in the Frozen Wastelands.
Although this didn’t provide Xuan Hao with a lot of information about what had happened, he at least became certain that the Demon King Realm demonic cultivator and the ancestor of the Blue Sea Empire should have clashed with each other like he had first planned.
However, from the reaction of the demonic cultivators, it seemed like things didn’t end up playing out like he had expected. Meaning that the ancestor of the Blue Sea Empire had likely managed to safely escape from the demonic cultivators.
Not just that, but from the reaction of the demonic cultivator, it seemed like they had suffered significantly to this ancestor of the Blue Sea Empire.
From what Xuan Hao could guess, it should be the Demon King Realm demonic cultivator who owned the space node stone mine that had somehow ended up being injured by the ancestor of the Blue Sea Empire before the other party had managed to run away.
Considering that the ancestor from the Blue Sea Empire had managed to comprehend the Dao of Space close to the Large Success Realm, Xuan Hao felt that he should have had a chance at escaping if he managed to injure his opponent.
The only thing was… To do something like that, he would have to be far stronger than a normal Celestial Immortal Realm cultivator. Especially considering that the Demon King Realm demonic cultivator should have been prepared for the other party using the Dao of Space, as he himself had used the Dao of Space when stealing from the space node stone mine earlier.
“Guess that ancestor does have something to back up his confidence…” Muttering this to himself, Xuan Hao shook his head somewhat regretfully while looking towards the Frozen Wasteland in the distance.
Although his plan to weaken the Blue Sea Empire had ended up failing, he had at least succeeded in the secondary purpose of the plan and that was to ensure that neither the demonic cultivators or the Blue Sea Empire would be able to mine the space node stone mine.
Considering that both parties now knew about the existence of the mine, neither of them would allow the other to peacefully mine it.
Even though the mine itself was closer to the Frozen Wasteland, it was ultimately still outside it and would be difficult to defend without a Demon King permanently stationed there to defend it… And considering the war that was playing out at the moment between not just the Frozen Wasteland and the Blue Sea Empire, but between the core region and the demonic cultivators, neither could afford having any of their peak expert’s stationed to defend a single mine.
In the end, the space node stone mine would likely end up falling to the backburner as the war played out, with both parties deciding to take control of the mine after the war came to an end or one of them became too weak to continue threatening the other. Giving one of the two a chance to mine it.
The reason why Xuan Hao wanted to see something like that happening was rather simple, as he himself didn’t want to give up on the space node stone mine either, it was simply far too important when it came to the future expansion of the Star Shattering Sect and getting a functioning network of teleportation formations up and running.
Not just that, but also for practice so that the sect could nurture others outside of him who could lay down teleportation formations in the future.
The delay that would be created by the Blue Sea Empire and the Frozen Wasteland halting their mining of the space node stone mine would give him and the Star Shattering Sect a chance to grow stronger and possibly contend with them for the space node stone mine in the future.
Considering that the last war between demonic cultivators and the cultivators from the core region had lasted for over a thousand years, it wasn’t out of the question for the Star Shattering Sect to grow to become a major power before the war ended. The main thing that could prevent something like that happening would be if the Star Shattering Sect ended up getting drawn into the war.
Even though the sect had been drawn into the war to some extend with the constant attack of demonic cultivators along the borders of the sect, it wasn’t a real attack and was just a result of Frozen Wastelands sending out the weaker demonic cultivators to test the different powers bordering the Frozen Wastelands.
If it was a real attack, it wouldn’t just be a few True Demon Realm and Demon Lord Realm demonic cultivators showing up but would instead be those terrifying demons at the Demon King Realm showing up!
For this reason, Xuan Hao also treasured his relationship with Xuan Gui, as she essentially served as an early warning system for the Star Shattering Sect in case the demonic cultivators decided to take their attack on the kingdoms around the Star Shattering Sect more serious than they had so far.
Luckily, at the moment, the strongest demonic cultivators that the Star Shattering Sect had to deal with were demonic cultivators in the True Demon Realm, equivalent to someone in the Soul Ascension Realm.
The winged lion demon beast had been more than enough to deal with any of them that came so far. Even managing to make large strides forward in its cultivation, as it was now close to reaching the Second Tribulation of the Soul Ascension Realm.
The main reason for the rapid progress being that eating the demonic cultivators proved to be a good way for it to improve, as the strong bodies of the demonic cultivators were filled with a strong vitality and powerful blood energy far surpassing normal cultivators and even equally powerful demon beasts.
In a sense, the corpses of demonic cultivators were perfect for feeding demon beasts as long as the strong demonic qi or yin qi inside their bodies were cleaned out first, something that the beast tamers of the sect had already started experimenting with, as they needed to find something to make up for the reduced budget following Elder Song cracking down on their wasteful usage of spirit stones.
Luckily for them, the Star Shattering Sect didn’t really have any use for the bodies of the demonic cultivators, so they were allowed to make full use of them and feed them to the demon beast after the dangerous qi inside of them was purged or cleaned.
In a way, the beast tamers making use of the demonic cultivator bodies did also help the Star Shattering Sect in cleaning up the areas where battles with demonic cultivators had happened. Turning the beast tamers into some of the most effective battlefield cleaners ever seen in the eyes of both the elders and disciples of the sect…
