In the middle of the bamboo forest, there was a camp of cultivators. Despite the vastness of the Secret Land, it was almost impossible that people would meet each other by coincidence, But this camp held more than 500 cultivators—a feat only possible because they had prepared a method to reach one another within this vast secret land.
The cultivators all came from various backgrounds, Consisting of 3 first-rate forces—the Jin Dynasty, the Iron Edge Hall, The Thunderclap Blade sect, and the other 5 second-rate forces whose power was not inferior to that of the Lan Clan.
But it was just a surface. In truth, all of them were part of the Heavenless Dao Cult, A Cult that worships the Wu Gods, the God-like entity that exists outside the heavens and earth. Their existence itself opposes the way of the Heavenly Dao.
At the center of the camp stood a tent that set itself apart from the others, exuding authority by its very appearance. Inside that tent was Jin Da-shan, the youngest prince of the Jin Dynasty—the kingdom of both cultivators and mortals located in the north of the Metal Flow Plain region.
The Jin Dynasty was the most powerful force among four first-rate forces within the Golden Pillar continent. with the presence of three true immortal realm cultivators with them. if not for the existence of the Golden Sword sect they would be the strongest force without a doubt.
Jin Da-shan was a man with a tall, well-built body; his posture revealed that he was born into the ruling class, and he carried his battle axe at his side.
With his eyes closed, he contemplated what he would do once this mission ended and reflected on how events had advanced to this point.
Then he opened his eyes as his direct subordinates began entering the tent for the meeting about the plan of attack.
Jin Da-Shan thought to himself while waiting for his subordinate to process the conference, he murmured. "It has been a month"
As the leader of this mission, he ordered the assembly of all cult members present in the Secret Land of Pillar Foundation. This mission had been prepared for millions of years.
In the past two years, they have made many mistakes, which have resulted in the loss of a large portion of the cultivator's force while seizing the two seal core formation artifacts from the hands of the Golden Sword Sect disciples.
They were close to the end and could not afford to make more mistakes in this critical moment. the mission purpose must be achieved.
The purpose was singular—to complete the mission: seize the rest of the seal artifacts, destroy the seal formation of the five elements, and release the incarnation of the Lord of All Senses.
When the lord once again descended to the world, hateful Heaven would be evicted from the Golden Pillar Continent—no, from this Five Pillar Realm.
"Your Highness?" a subordinate asked as he waited for the conference to begin.
"Let's start by discussing how to deal with their concealment formation," Jin Da-shan said in a deep, serious tone.
Subordinates on both sides swallowed hard, fearful of his commanding presence. Finally, one subordinate began the discussion.
"Your Highness, we now have only three immortal tier formation disturbance talismans left. I believe that should be enough to break their concealment formation and other defense formations, but unexpectedly, our source within the Metal Seal Station indicates there is a natural Dao field there we can't do anything to this thing, so this battle would be unlike at other stations we used to fight."
"This means the God Spawn will be vulnerable?" another asked with concern.
"Yes, but do not worry too much—the number of God Spawn under our control this time is large enough to overcome the effects of the natural Dao field, to a certain extent," he said confidently. "Even if the Dao field significantly reduces their regeneration ability, having ten thousand God Spawn means should be enough to compensate for a reduction in ability. One more thing—it seems the Thunderclap Blade Sect has somehow been exposed. We can no longer use them for a surprise attack."
"That is unfortunate," one subordinate remarked, "How did they even get exposed? They never even joined the attack on the Golden Sword Sect's seal stations, since their Qi technique was so obviously recognized."
As the meeting continued, Jin Da-shan listened quietly, allowing his subordinates to report the situation. and finally the topic moved to the attack plan.
While he considered the planned attack on the Metal Seal Station of the Golden Sword Sect, Prepared to strike in a few days, he suddenly sensed an oddity in his surroundings, the power of Wu Dao seed within his soul sensing a new presence had just entered into its domain.
He observed from both inside and outside the tent with his divine sense, trying to find the source of the disturbance, but found nothing—only his subordinates who were still working hard to ensure that everything went according to plan.
Yet, he did feel that something was off. Without more hesitation, he was confident in the power of the Wu God given to him, his sense ability must not be wrong, and he activated the full power of the Wu Dao seed within his soul.
At that moment Jin Da-Shan's aura had turned to resemble the God Spawn, and strength was revealed—the strength that was on pare or even stronger than the peak stage of Spiritual foundation realm cultivators, and His Spiritual Qi within his body was transformed into Wu QI—The Qi that did not belong to heaven!
A new pair of eyes appeared on his face. These eyes looked abominations, not like human eyes at all. They moved around incoherently as if they were searching for something.
This change made all subordinates within the tent shocked by the sudden turn event, they were confused as to why Jin Da-Shan suddenly activated the power of Wu Dao seed.
They were also jealous because this Wu Dao seed was exclusive only to the Disciple-Rank members of the cult of heavenless Dao. not for the Follower-Rank members like them.
Jin Da-Shan ignored his confused subordinates as he saw through the source of the disturbance. it turns out that someone managed to sneak into their camp without anyone noticing, this must be the spy from the Golden Sword sect! He thought.
The spy—a male cultivator in a black robe—stood at the entrance of the tent, with a Demon Beast cat on his shoulder whose aura was not inferior to his own. Jin Da-Shane's eyes narrowed.
Their aura was perfectly concealed if not for the power of the Wu Dao seed he would not know about their existence even if they were in front of him.
He observed his subordinates; they seemed oblivious to the presence of this man in the black robe, even though he was right in front of them.
Without waiting any longer, he picked up his battle axe and appeared before the spy, intending to hack the spy's head off in one blow.
Boom!
The tent collapsed from the impact. cause the commotion across the whole camp, other cult members quickly dash in this direction.
"W... What happened, Your Highness?" one subordinate asked as others crawled out of the collapsed tent one by one. But Jin Da-Shan ignored them, focusing solely on the spy, who had effortlessly avoided his attack and appeared once again far away from him.
"You lowly rat, how dare you sneak into my place!" Jin Da-Shan roared in fury. He was enraged that this black-robed cultivator posed a threat to him.
Without the power of Wu God, he might not have noticed the spy movement at all—the spy's concealment technique was powerful enough to fool even his divine sense.
"It should be me asking how you even noticed my presence. What is your secret?" the black-robed cultivator retorted. As he spoke, his appearance became clearer, and the subordinates began to notice both him and his pet cat.
"Who are you? How dare you act arrogantly in front of the prince!" one subordinate yelled at the spy. Although his outburst seemed foolish, in truth, they had secretly deployed a method to imprison spy-type cultivators.
Jin Da-Shane noticed that. the eyes of a black robe seemed to discover what they were doing.
"It seems I did not get anything further here. Let us meet again then," said the spy as he turned to flee. But Jin Da-Shan did not let him escape easily.
Using his speed, he quickly closed the distance and swung his battle axe infused with the power of Wu Dao seed at the spy's back. Just as the axe was about to hit, the black-robed cultivator turned and intercepted it with a Fire Palm Qi strike!
Shing!!!
The Axe and The Palm were stuck together causing the sound of the Iron crash!
Doom!
The battle axe bent and nearly snapped under the impact of the Fire Palm, sending Jin Da-Shan's body flying back toward his subordinates.
Boom!
His body slamming onto his subordinate made them all collapse to the ground; he himself was injured, burned by the power of the Fire Palm. Eventually, the cult members from the training ground reached the scene.
They were shocked to see their leader lying on the ground, injured. Jin Da-Shan quickly ordered the newcomer,
"Surrounded him! Don't let him escape!"
Jin Da-Shan swiftly rose to his feet. Miraculously, his burned hands healed almost instantly—as he possessed the same ability as the God Spawn!