The Great Wild God - Chapter 478

Chapter 478 Proxy War
After throwing the crippled Peng Xingtian out like a dog, the troops of the Spirit Jun Palace quickly withdrew from the western foot of Hengyun.

Chen Xun wasn’t in a hurry to return to Canglan and temporarily stayed at Hengyun Mountain as a guest.

Chen Xun said that he would not interfere in the affairs of the sect in the Northwest Domain, but that didn’t mean that he couldn’t stay in Hengyun Mountain as a guest.

The Kaiyang Yu Clan did not react at all on the east coast of the West Swamp Sea, and the Protectorate of the Northwest Region also pretended to be deaf and dumb. However, the people of the Spirit Jun Palace that occupied the Qi Cloud Sect quickly retreated and defended the important area of the mountain gate.

Evidently, they were also afraid that Chen Xun would not play his cards as usual and lead the three thousand disciples of Mountain Parasol to destroy the Spirit Jun Palace.

The Spirit Jun Palace’s Mountain Protection Formation was at the sealing level. According to the spirit veins, it could withstand the attack of True Monarch Celestial. Even if Chen Xun was able to forcefully attack, the price would be quite high. Moreover, he could not allow Mountain Parasol to fall into the chaotic sect war in the Northwest Domain.

Fighting a proxy war was Mountain Parasol’s best option.

Chen Xun saw more than a hundred disciples who had escaped from the Qi Yun Sect after being annihilated. The disciples with the highest cultivation were only at the late stage of the Reincarnation Realm. Unless there were monsters like Ji Lie amongst them, otherwise, the Qi Yun Sect, which had been passed down for thousands of years, would probably not be able to see any hope of rejuvenation.

The Crossing Cloud Sect’s situation was better. At the very least, most of the disciples were able to preserve it. However, even though Gu Xuanzhen’s normally closed-door cultivation, Wang Ji Peak, had set up a seal-level formation, it was not broken at the last moment. However, the spirit veins and rocks in the depths of the mountain were also severely damaged.

The pavilions and palaces within a radius of several hundred kilometers, as well as the city walls and villages inhabited by mortals and relatives, were all destroyed without exception.

Hengyun Mountain, which was close to the western cliff of the West Jersey Sea, stretched for three thousand kilometers. Apart from its dense cliffs and abundant spiritual energy, it was suitable for first-rate sects to establish their foundations and inherit their heritage here, its geographical location was also extremely important.

The west side of Hengyun was the main granary of the Northwest Region, and it was also the ten counties with the most dense population of people in the Northwest Region. The Chenjin River, which originated from Divine Night Mountain, flowed from the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain into the West Zehai Sea.

Through the Spirit Jun Palace, the Kaiyang Yu Clan could control the fertile land of more than a dozen counties in the lower reaches of the Chen Jin River and the 200-300 million people that lived and reproduced in this land as long as they could control the Hengyun Mountain in their hands.

Population is always the most important resource.

The four sects of Mountain Parasol now had more than 6,000 disciples at the Reincarnation Realm and above. They were all selected from the hundreds of millions of people in Canglan and nurtured one after another.

At the peak of the Northwest Region, there were 20,000 to 300,000 Reincarnation Realm cultivators and 2,000 to 3,000 Heaven Origin Realm cultivators.

Even though the number of mid-and high-level Xuan Xiu in the Northwest Region had plummeted after the devastating disaster, perhaps less than a third of their peak, as long as the sects of the Northwest Region did not continue to wither, as long as the two to three billion people of the Northwest Region continued to thrive on this land, the number of Reincarnation Realm and Heaven Origin Realm cultivators would be able to return to their original state within a hundred or two hundred years.

As long as the Kaiyang Yu Clan controlled Hengyun Mountain, although the number of high-level Xuan Xiu above the Origin Core Realm would not increase rapidly, the number of mid-to low-level Xuan Xiu at the Reincarnation Realm and the Heavenly Yuan Realm that they could control could double in a hundred to two hundred years.

The three sects were located at the southeast corner of the Spirit Jun Palace. The Spirit Jun Palace was located at the west foothold, directly facing the Spirit Jun Plain. The Qi Yun Sect, located at the northeast foothold, directly controlled the lower reaches of the Chen Jin River. The Kaiyang Yu Clan controlled the Spirit Jun Palace, and the Qi Yun Sect and the Sect were the two nails that needed to be pulled out.

Chen Xun stood on the clouds and looked at Qiyun City, which had been destroyed by the Spiritual Jun Palace at the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain.

Qiyun City was once the largest city controlled by Qiyun Sect in the lower reaches of the Chenjin River. Together with the Qiyun Sect at the northern foot of Hengyun Mountain, it was destroyed by Lingjun Palace a month ago.

Large areas of houses were destroyed, and large numbers of refugees were scattered in the wilderness on the south bank of the Chen Jin River, not knowing where to go.

The hundreds of disciples who escaped from Qi Yun Sect volunteered to join Heng Yun Sect.

This meant that the lands at the northern foot of Mount Hengyun and the lower reaches of the Chenjin River would automatically become the territory of the Hengyun Sect. However, the current strength of the Hengyun Sect was problematic in resisting the attacks of the Spirit Jun Palace, let alone effectively controlling such a large area.

On this land, apart from the Qiyun Sect, Lingjun Palace, and Hengyun Sect, there were dozens of other small and medium-sized sects and clans with varying strengths.

The Spirit Jun Palace was secretly supported by the Kaiyang Yu Clan, and their edges were flourishing. These small and medium-sized sects and aristocratic clans obviously did not dare to be tied together with the Hengyun Clan anymore.

Chen Xun was currently leading three thousand Mountain Parasol disciples to stay in the Cloud Sect as guests. The Kaiyang Yu Clan did not react at all. The Spirit Jun Palace did not dare to reveal their fierce claws for the time being, but that did not mean that after Chen Xun left the Cloud Sect, the Yu Clan and the Spirit Jun Palace would remain motionless.

The disciples of the Hengyun Sect who had temporarily escaped the calamity were still worried and lifelessly cleaned up the mess left behind by the sect’s great war.

Many disciples of the Horizontal Cloud Sect had participated in the Devil Battle in the Thousand Devil Sand Sea, so they had some old feelings towards Chen Xun. They had been looking for Chen Xun, Zong Ya, Su Tang, and Qing Xuan frequently these past few days to catch up with each other, and their words revealed that some of the disciples of the Horizontal Cloud Sect wanted to move their sect westward.

Although the Western Desolate Region west of Mount Tu was extremely large, the environment was much worse than the Northwest Region.

Even though there were some mountains in the Western Wilderness that were even more majestic and steep than Tu Shan’s, most of them were Absolute Fiends and Absolute Spirits. It was not suitable for a sect to establish a foothold, let alone the desolate tribes that struggled to survive in the Western Regions.

If it weren’t for this, Tu Shan alone wouldn’t have been able to stop the expansion of the Cloud Continent Sect to the west.

If it weren’t for that, God-controller Mansion wouldn’t have allowed the four sects of Mountain Parasol to expand westward without restraint.

Apart from poisonous insects and ferocious beasts, there was no way for humans to survive in the Absolute Demon Absolute Spirit Wilderness. There was no point in Mountain Parasol expanding westward without restriction.

Cloud Continent was suitable for humans to reproduce and reside in. It was mainly concentrated in Jiang and the eight domains controlled by the six sects. It was also the essence of Cloud Continent.

It was the same reason why everyone had entered the Heavenly Furnace Secret Realm and desperately wanted to gain a foothold in the Heavenly Fire Mountain Range.

The Heavenly Fire Mountain Range was currently the only place in the Heavenly Furnace Secret Realm that was worth investing resources in. The other places were hundreds or even thousands of times larger, so there was no point in occupying them at this moment.

It was only after the Heavenly Flame had disappeared that Tu Shan became a Spirit Mountain suitable for large sects to establish themselves and inherit their heritage.

Previously, apart from the desperate Su Clan Patriarch leading his clansmen to move west, only a few small sects, such as the Black Cold Sect and Mount Yi Sect, had established themselves in the wilderness west of Mount Tu. The situation was mostly similar to that of the Su Clan’s remnants, and they all moved west after they had no choice.

Of course, no matter how barren the Western Wilderness was, there wouldn’t even be a place to settle down the Horizontal Cloud Sect. However, after the Horizontal Cloud Sect moved out, Chen Xun wasn’t able to predict what the thousands of sects and aristocratic clans in the Northwest Region would do.

Of course, Chen Xun wouldn’t refuse if the Hengyun Sect really wanted to move to the west.

Even if he couldn’t interfere in the affairs of the sects in the Northwest Region at this moment, the sects like the Hengyun Sect would move westward, and God-controller Mansion and the Protectorate of the Northwest Region wouldn’t obstruct him. At the same time, they would also greatly strengthen the power of the Profound Cultivation Sect west of Tu Mountain.

It was impossible for Chen Xun and the disciples of Mountain Parasol to stay in Hengyun Mountain for a long time. Whether to leave or stay, the disciples of Hengyun Sect had to make a decision immediately.

On the sixth day when Chen Xun was temporarily staying at the northern foot of Mount Hengyun, Gu Xuanzhen paid a visit and said directly,

“Mountain Parasol has obtained the legacy of the Divine Night Sect. Is True Master Chen really unwilling to interfere in the sect’s affairs in the Northwest Region?”

Chen Xun smiled and said, “Whether Mountain Parasol can inherit the legacy of the Divine Night Sect is not up to Mountain Parasol. At present, even the Thousand Swords Sect is unable to return to the Gushan Mountain. It is meaningless to say anything else.”

Gu Xuan truly thought so. Regardless of which family God-controller Mansion decided to fill in the Northwest Domain, it was most likely to directly establish itself in the Gushan Mountains and enclose the New Meng Mountain, Wuteng Sand Sea, Yuanwu Prefecture, and other places, it actually sealed off the possibility of Mountain Parasol’s influence penetrating east of Tu Mountain. It was even more inaccessible to the West Swamp Sea and Horizontal Cloud Mountain.

There was no reaction from the Kaiyang Yu Clan. To put it bluntly, it was only because they had anticipated such a situation that they had the mood to calmly restrain themselves.

Gu Xuanzhen said, “The Crossing Cloud Sect is already in my hands. It is already the sixth generation. I will never abandon the ancestor’s tomb and leave. However, I cannot force everyone to stay behind and burn down the jade stones of the Spirit Jun Palace …”

Chen Xun understood what Gu Xuanzhen meant. Gu Xuanzhen and the vast majority of the Crossing Cloud Sect would choose to stay and fight against the Spirit Jun Palace. However, they would arrange for the young disciples to move westward and find one or two spirit veins to settle down temporarily. They would make other plans in the future, so as not to cut off the orthodoxy of the Crossing Cloud Sect.

This arrangement of the Horizontal Cloud Sect was most suitable for Chen Xun. He smiled and said,

“God-controller Mansion did not say it clearly, but I know in my heart that they do not want the four sects of Mountain Parasol to develop east of Mount Tu; As for us, we should also make it clear that we will not develop to the east of Mount Tu, or even extend the sect’s territory to the mountains at the eastern foot of Mount Tu. This way, the Tu Shandong Foothills will be empty. The Horizontal Cloud Sect must arrange for some disciples to move westward. We can lend out one or two mountains … ”

From now on, Tu Shan would be the territory of the four sects of Mountain Parasol, but it was impossible for the four sects to exploit and occupy all of Tu Shan’s spiritual vein resources in a short period of three to five hundred years.

Chen Xun had chosen one or two mountains from the east to lend to the Hengyun Sect as a base. First, he could strengthen ties with the Hengyun Sect. Second, he encouraged the Hengyun Sect to work with the ambitious forces like the Yu Clan that were eyeing covetously. There was no need to worry about not having a place to retreat.

Hearing this, Gu Xuanzhen was also overjoyed. He was sure that Mountain Parasol could not really abandon the Northwest Domain. It was just that he lacked a strong excuse to intervene directly. At the same time, he did not want to be caught by God-controller Mansion.

Hearing Chen Xun’s words, Gu Xuan had confidence in his heart and asked, “The name of Mountain Parasol Weaponry Refining has moved the world. I wonder if the Hengyun Sect can exchange it for one or two?”

It was not convenient for Mountain Parasol to directly interfere in the affairs of the sect in the Northwest Region, but Chen Xun was not afraid that the Yu Clan, the Northwest Region Governor’s Mansion, and God-controller Mansion would bite him if he bartered weapons, magical artifacts, and other things to trade with the Horizontal Cloud Sect.

As for the Horizontal Cloud Sect, there were only five Origin Pill Taoist guarding it. Without the Cyan Flame Lotus Arrow and other sharp weapons, it would be impossible for them to resist the Spiritual Jun Palace that the Kaiyang Yu Clan strongly supported.

Since they wanted to fight a proxy war, the first thing they had to do was to become an arms dealer and support the Horizontal Cloud Sect. At the same time, they had to ensure that a large amount of cultivation resources would continuously flow into Mountain Parasol from the Northwest Domain.

As long as the Horizontal Cloud Sect was truly reliable, Chen Xun could even arrange for the disciples of the Horizontal Cloud Sect to enter the Heavenly Furnace Secret Realm to cultivate.