Chapter 583: Danger is Always One Step Behind Him!

If the foreign race experts gathered in full before moving against the Canglan Realm, the nine Supreme Experts and the Thirty-Six Heavenly Star Field Grand Array would certainly be unable to withstand them; the foreign races couldn't possibly be unaware of this.

There must be a reason why they didn't choose this simple and effective method.

The specific reason remained unknown.

However, it was highly likely that some special restriction existed.

One must remember that Great Emperors once existed in the Canglan Realm, and more than one at that. Since the Endless Void could restrict the descent of God Kings, it was only reasonable for the Great Emperors to have left some restrictions within the Canglan Realm itself.

Perhaps it was precisely this unknown restriction that prevented the foreign races from choosing to gather their strength and break through the Boundary Pass in one fell swoop.

Of course, these were all conjectures. Even as a Supreme Expert, Lian Yuezhou did not know the reason behind the foreign races' actions, and there was no such information in the memories of the Upper God Bee Ant Clan member either.

Hearing Li Xuanfeng's words, the Hundred Flowers Great Sage nodded thoughtfully.

In fact, she still had a question: if a restriction existed that prevented the foreign races from gathering sufficient strength before acting against the Canglan Realm, why had they changed their minds now and were preparing to gather enough experts for a massive assault?

Could it be that the restriction has already disappeared?

Though puzzled, the Hundred Flowers Great Sage did not speak again. It was difficult to reach a definitive conclusion with limited clues; their primary concern now should be how to increase their strength to cope with the upcoming situation.

“As things stand, we should increase our strength as quickly as possible before the foreign races gather enough power, and eliminate some of their experts along the way,”

Li Xuanfeng said, looking at Lian Yuezhou and Ye Qingqing.

Both were Daughters of Destiny bound to him; an increase in their strength was equivalent to an increase in his own.

They had at most a hundred years left to grow stronger.

For other Great Sages or Quasi-Emperors, this amount of time wouldn't be enough to improve much, but Li Xuanfeng, who possessed the System, was different—he could absolutely create miracles.

“Junior Brother is right!”

Ye Qingqing nodded.

In a hundred years, she was confident she could become stronger. Although it was likely impossible for her to become a Supreme Expert on par with Lian Yuezhou, she felt Li Xuanfeng had a great chance, especially since he had only been cultivating for a little over a decade.

Furthermore, Lian Yuezhou's various secondary bodies had nearly reached their cultivation limits; she could complete the Nine-Body Fusion in just a few years.

Legend says that if the Heavenly Dao is complete, a possessor of the Nine Heavens Profound Body can directly achieve the position of Great Emperor by fusing after each of the nine bodies has cultivated to Perfection.

Even if the Heavenly Dao of the Canglan Realm is currently incomplete, Lian Yuezhou's strength would skyrocket after the Fusion of her nine bodies even if she doesn't become a Great Emperor, ensuring she wouldn't be completely defenseless against the foreign races.

“Before the foreign races finish gathering, we also need to find the traitor as quickly as possible!”

Lian Yuezhou said.

She wasn't far from the Nine-Body Fusion. Even if she couldn't take that final step to prove her Dao and become a Great Emperor, she would still become the number one person beneath the Great Emperor level. At that time, she might even have the strength to fight multiple foreign Supreme Experts simultaneously.

Combined with a monster like Li Xuanfeng, who would surely have no problem breaking through to the Ninth Level Quasi-Emperor stage within a hundred years, his exaggerated combat power would certainly not be inferior to Lian Yuezhou after her Nine-Body Fusion.

With the master and disciple joining forces, as long as a God King didn't descend in person, they might have a chance to defend the Canglan Realm!

But before that, they had to find the traitor within the Canglan Realm.

Without a Supreme Expert colluding with the foreign races, the Heavenly Shadow Clan could not pass through the Thirty-Six Heavenly Star Field Grand Array. This array was too massive and was controlled by nine Supreme Experts simultaneously; it wouldn't be hard for another Supreme Expert to quietly open a gap to let the foreign races in without Lian Yuezhou noticing.

Moreover, when Li Xuanfeng and Lian Yuezhou had previously searched the souls of those Black Robe Figures, they hadn't found any memories related to a Supreme Expert.

They couldn't even discover where Great Sage Zixiao of the Ancient Spirit Continent and the Dark Shadow Celestial God of the Heavenly Shadow Clan had entered the Canglan Realm through the Thirty-Six Heavenly Star Field Grand Array before they had fully fused.

That portion of memory had been secretly tampered with by a Supreme Expert using misleading methods. Thus, even with soul searching, Li Xuanfeng and Lian Yuezhou couldn't learn the traitor's identity because those memories didn't exist, or rather, had been forcibly deleted.

As for the Bee Ant Clan, although this race could share memory images with one another, it didn't mean the memories of all Bee Ant Clan members were fully merged. They only shared real-time memory images when they activated their Innate Divine Ability.

Furthermore, given the status of an Upper God of the Bee Ant Clan, he wasn't qualified to know which Supreme Expert of the Canglan Realm had defected to the foreign races.

Therefore, catching the traitor would require further observation and testing.

“Setting other matters aside for now, let's settle the battle merits first.”

Li Xuanfeng spoke to change the subject, taking out his boundary gate token. At this moment, battle merits were the most important thing to him.

Although Lian Yuezhou didn't care about battle merits, she also took hers out immediately.

Four tokens floated up, projecting battle footage recorded from different angles, and then began to allocate the battle merits.

In this battle, Li Xuanfeng's contribution was still the greatest.

After all, the Fifth-level Quasi-Divine King Nü Nü Heavenly God had fallen because of him, and the two Top High Gods, Blood Shadow Heavenly God and Yao Yi Heavenly God, had also been destroyed by him, so he received the most battle merits.

A total of 510.5 billion!

Killing an Upper God resulted in battle merits counted in the hundreds of billions, and killing a Quasi-God King started at a minimum of ten trillion!

Li Xuanfeng previously had 43.7 billion; adding this time, his accumulated battle merits reached 554.2 billion!

“Very good, the battle merits have also surged by this much. I can already exchange them for a quasi-emperor weapon, but it's still a bit far from my goal.”

Li Xuanfeng thought secretly to himself.

If he was going to exchange them, he wanted to get the highest quality weapon the Canglan Realm could offer, so as to have a chance to obtain a true Emperor Weapon.

Besides weapons, Li Xuanfeng also needed treasures that could strengthen his Physical Body. So while these battle merits seemed like a lot, they were actually still far from his expectations.

“Fenger, are you going back to the Boundary Pass next, or…”

Once the battle merits were calculated and everyone had put away their tokens, Lian Yuezhou looked at Li Xuanfeng with an inquiring gaze.

Her original plan was for Li Xuanfeng to join up with her various secondary bodies, but now it seemed that the Void Battlefield was quite dangerous for him, as he had been marked as a primary target by the foreign races.

“Now that my strength is sufficient, I'll join forces with Senior Sister to eliminate more of the foreign race!”

Li Xuanfeng said.

He knew the foreign races would target him frantically, but they had to be able to pull it off first. Currently, his trump card of using the System to view fate colors was unaffected; it would be impossible for the foreign races to drive him into a corner.

Furthermore, Li Xuanfeng's main goals now were to accumulate enough battle merits and to bind all of Lian Yuezhou's secondary bodies!

Only by binding all of Lian Yuezhou's secondary bodies would Li Xuanfeng receive an unprecedented return at the moment of her Nine-Body Fusion!

Because with nine secondary bodies, even if each one only gave a minimum ten-fold return, it would add up to ninety-fold!

If the return multiplier for each secondary body was a bit higher, Li Xuanfeng could get a several-hundred-fold return!

Each of Lian Yuezhou's secondary bodies was very strong; the third-to-last one was already at the Early Stage of the Saint King realm, and the main body was at the Ninth Level Quasi-Emperor Peak. Even if she didn't break through to become a Great Emperor, the return she would bring to Li Xuanfeng would definitely be beyond imagination!

Therefore, he had to bind all of Lian Yuezhou's secondary bodies.

Lian Yuezhou's secondary bodies were far apart, and Li Xuanfeng planned to bind them one by one while accumulating battle merits.

“That works too. Then you shall become a Patrol Envoy like Qing'er!”

Lian Yuezhou gave Li Xuanfeng a deep look and nodded after a short pause.

After the battle at the Suixing Battlefield and some previous events, she strongly suspected that Li Xuanfeng could foresee the future; danger was always one step behind him, so it wouldn't be that easy for the foreign races to target him.