Chapter 162: The Blood Spirit Sect Attacks

This old man was Tang Changfeng's Senior Brother, Liu Pingbu, whose cultivation base was also at the Late Nascent Soul Stage, just like Tang Changfeng's.

He had previously attempted to charge toward the Peak Nascent Soul Stage, remaining in seclusion for over two hundred years without success; he only awoke now after sensing Gu Mingyang's Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage.

The Nine-Finger Sect had once been glorious in the past, but they generally lacked the ambition to expand their territory, which ultimately benefited the Blood Spirit Sect.

Over these past few centuries, the Nine-Finger Sect had become an isolated island in the Cultivation World, constantly living off its past glory, to the point where later generations had almost no cultivation resources available to them.

After receiving Tang Changfeng's voice transmission, Bing Cheng arrived beside the two men once she finished refining the batch of Medicinal Pills in her hands.

"Junior Bing Cheng greets you, Senior Martial Uncle," Bing Cheng said while bowing.

"Good, good, good. You are a fine talent," Liu Pingbu laughed.

"Senior Martial Uncle, please feel free to eat these Medicinal Pills; do not stand on ceremony with me." Bing Cheng handed over a bottle of Immortal Rank Medicinal Pills she had just refined.

Liu Pingbu was shocked when he took them; just smelling the fragrance of the pills at close range made him feel that the Bottleneck hindering his progress was loosening.

Furthermore, the Medicinal Pills inside the bottle were emitting a misty spiritual light.

"What is the quality of this Medicinal Pill? How can it contain such dense Spiritual Qi?" Liu Pingbu had truly never seen an Immortal Rank Medicinal Pill before, so he did not recognize it.

"Immortal Rank. Above the Supreme Grade Medicinal Pills is the Immortal Rank," Bing Cheng explained.

Liu Pingbu's expression was excited; he had heard slight rumors of Immortal Rank Medicinal Pills, which could only be found in the center of the Divine Land. He had not expected a Junior from his own Sect to be able to refine them.

After he swallowed an Immortal Rank Medicinal Pill, fierce winds suddenly whipped up all around him, and a massive amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi surged over.

In just a moment.

The Bottleneck that had bound Liu Pingbu for hundreds of years was shattered, and he broke through directly to the Peak Nascent Soul Stage.

Liu Pingbu was originally a single Spiritual Root Cultivator with Heaven Rank Aptitude; if he were in those first-rate or second-rate Sects, he would have been a Cultivator heavily nurtured. It was only because the Nine-Finger Sect previously lacked Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and had no cultivation resources that he had been trapped by his Bottleneck for so long.

"Congratulations, Senior Brother." "Congratulations, Senior Martial Uncle." Tang Changfeng and his disciple offered their congratulations.

"Hahaha, I have my Junior Martial Niece's Medicinal Pill to thank for this." Liu Pingbu felt incredibly refreshed after breaking through his Realm.

Bing Cheng chatted with Liu Pingbu for a while longer before returning to her Alchemy. There was still a massive amount of Spiritual Plants and Spirit Medicine waiting for her to consume, and she prepared to use this time to convert all of them into Medicinal Pills.

Sect Master Gu Mingyang successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage, and in the following days, Elders continuously broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage as well.

The overall strength of the Nine-Finger Sect skyrocketed within this short month.

…

Of course, the strength of the Blood Spirit Sect was also growing.

The Blood Spirit Sect, inside the Sect's main hall.

Sect Master Lin Wanxue was currently standing below, while sitting on the Sect Master's throne was a gaunt old man with a cultivation base at the Perfection of the Peak Nascent Soul Stage.

"Girl Wanxue? What is the current situation with the Nine-Finger Sect? Why has this old man recently sensed strange phenomena arising from that direction?" the old man said.

"Reporting to Ancestor Xue Mingtu, I also do not know what exactly is happening over there. We all infiltrated the vicinity of the Nine-Finger Sect, but we were unable to observe the situation inside, and the eyes and ears we had planted within the Nine-Finger Sect have also lost contact."

Sect Master Lin Wanxue's expression was extremely ugly.

It seemed that after Bing Cheng returned, the Nine-Finger Sect had changed completely.

Previously, no one dared to stop her when she wanted to come and go from the Nine-Finger Sect, but now, she couldn't even enter the Sect Protection Formation, which made her feel very displeased.

"Hmph! It is merely the Nine-Finger Sect. How many Nascent Soul experts are there in the Sect now?" Ancestor Xue Mingtu asked coldly.

"The Grand Elder is at the Late Nascent Soul Stage, the Grand Elder and the Second Elder are at the Middle Stage, and in addition to me, there are six other Early Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators," Sect Master Lin Wanxue replied respectfully.

"Have any other Elders been about to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage recently?"

"No…"

Ancestor Xue Mingtu stood up. "That old thing Liu Pingbu should be dead by now; even if he isn't, he is definitely not my match. Now, there are less than ten days left of the one-month period set by that Senior, so we will head to the Nine-Finger Sect tomorrow!"

Once these words were spoken, the few Nascent Soul Cultivators below all revealed expressions of excitement.

Were they finally going to make a move against the Nine-Finger Sect? They had long since been unable to restrain themselves.

Currently, the Blood Spirit Sect was only adjacent to this one third-rate Sect, the Nine-Finger Sect. As long as they annexed the Nine-Finger Sect, the Blood Spirit Sect would undoubtedly be a second-rate Sect from then on.

Regardless of other benefits.

At the very least, when out and about, if others asked about their Sect, they could say they were Cultivators of a second-rate Sect, and their status would be much higher.

"Take down the Nine-Finger Sect!" "Take down the Nine-Finger Sect!" "…"

Sect Master Lin Wanxue's expression became ferocious, and she said viciously, "Bing Cheng, you have escaped from my hands several times. This time, I will definitely not let you escape again. I will certainly make you suffer endless torture, and then I will perform Possession on you! Hehehe…"

…

On Bing Cheng's side, she was still immersed in Alchemy, and after one day, she finally succeeded in refining the first Immortal Rank Medicinal Pill that displayed the mark of a fourth pill pattern.

When the Medicinal Pill left the furnace.

The eyes of everyone around went straight; the attraction of this Medicinal Pill was simply too great.

"Big Sister, Ranxue is hungry." Bing Ranxue drooled.

"Be good, Ranxue, Big Sister will give you more later." Bing Cheng patted Bing Ranxue's head and then swallowed the Medicinal Pill into her mouth.

Bing Cheng only felt that her cultivation base had a huge improvement, and her Seven Steps of Treading Clouds had directly reached the pinnacle Realm.

Although the Seven Steps of Treading Clouds was not very useful for Bing Cheng now, it still had some use, such as accumulating power; after each step of the Seven Steps of Treading Clouds, her attacks would become a few points stronger.

"Grand-Aunt-Master, the Blood Spirit Sect has already attacked!" Sect Master Gu Mingyang appeared on the Sect plaza. There was no fear in his eyes, but rather some anticipation for this collision with the Blood Spirit Sect.

This was the perfect opportunity for military training.

Currently, in the Nine-Finger Sect, besides Tang Changfeng and his Senior Brother, nine others had broken through to the Nascent Soul Stage; they were the Peak Masters of each peak. Moreover, through Bing Cheng's Medicinal Pills, the Realms of all the Nascent Soul Cultivators had already stabilized.

Plus, after half a month of baptism for all the Cultivators by the Sun, Moon, and Stars Array, they felt they had the ability to fight the Blood Spirit Sect!

"Keep the battlefield at our mountain gate; do not go too far away," Bing Cheng said calmly. With the Sun, Moon, and Stars Array in place, unless a Divinity Transformation Cultivator took action, the Nine-Finger Sect would remain safe and sound.

"According to the news from Nine-Blood City, the Blood Spirit Sect has dispatched a total of nine Nascent Soul Cultivators this time; this should be all of their combat power! The strongest is the Blood Spirit Sect's Grand Elder, who has a Late Nascent Soul Stage cultivation base," Sect Master Gu Mingyang said.

On the surface, the number and quality of the opponent's Nascent Soul Cultivators could not compare to the Nine-Finger Sect, which was why Sect Master Gu Mingyang was so confident.

"What about the Blood Spirit Sect's Old Ancestor?" Bing Cheng immediately felt something was wrong.

Even the declining Nine-Finger Sect had a Late Nascent Soul Stage Old Ancestor holding down the fort—though he was now at the Peak Nascent Soul Stage—so how could the Blood Spirit Sect not have one?

"This… the Blood Spirit Sect's Old Ancestor, Ancestor Xue Mingtu, has not appeared for several hundred years. I do not know if he has perished; the news sent from the front lines did not mention him." Sect Master Gu Mingyang also felt something was wrong at this moment.