The subtle atmosphere lingered, its duration unknown, until Xu Sheng's melancholic words broke it.
"Senior Brother, I heard you were severely injured. Have you recovered somewhat after more than a month of recuperation?"
"Much better, Junior Sister. No need to worry."
Wu Tao paused for a moment upon hearing this before replying.
"Since that's the case, I am relieved!" Xu Sheng patted her chest, feigning a look of ease.
"Junior Sister, what is it that you are relieved about?" Perhaps it was a slip of the tongue, but Wu Tao found himself asking.
Xu Sheng seemed utterly unprepared for Wu Tao to ask such a question.
Her previously clear and sweet face, adorned with a smile, now involuntarily froze.
Even for a woman as poised and possessing the demeanor of a chivalrous hero as her, a moment of silence descended. One could only imagine how abnormal and awkward the atmosphere had become.
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Wu Tao patted his head. He genuinely hadn't anticipated saying something that would cause such a drastic shift in the mood.
To quickly move past this embarrassing moment, Wu Tao forced a laugh, his expression unchanged, as if nothing had been said prior.
After some time, a blush crept onto Xu Sheng's face as she chatted with Wu Tao. She then shyly excused herself and departed.
Watching Xu Sheng's receding figure, Wu Tao felt a sense of loss and offered a wry smile.
"A person like me, do I deserve to have love?" Wu Tao silently questioned himself.
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After these several major battles, Wu Tao's spirit stones, elixirs, talismans, and even several favored magical artifacts had been depleted.
For the sake of his own life, Wu Tao needed to replenish these supplies as quickly as possible.
Therefore, Wu Tao spent a significant portion of his fortune to purchase spirit stones, elixirs, talismans, magical artifacts, and the like.
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Due to Wu Tao's outstanding contributions in battle, coupled with the offering of spirit stones and leveraging connections, the combined force of favors and financial power ultimately led to Wu Tao's participation in the next war being artificially extended for a considerable period.
Wu Tao gained ample time for rest.
Furthermore, he was assigned a favorable post, entering the legendary treasure of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, the "War Giant Ship."
The War Giant Ships were originally terrifying war machines created by a collective effort of ancient great divine powers during the three eras of Primordial, Desolate, and Ancient times, when myriad races coexisted and wars erupted frequently, leading to rivers of blood throughout the cultivation world. These ancient great divine powers spent many years and countless hours perfecting these fearsome weapons of war.
The original intention behind the creation of these war machines was to conquer the cultivation world and unify the realm. Thus, the destructive power of the War Giant Ships was terrifying.
The exterior appearance of a War Giant Ship could be altered at will.
It would transform according to the owner's desires, taking various forms such as warships, giant towers, rotating disks, immortal palaces, or castles, and so on.
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However, under normal circumstances, War Giant Ships were combat-oriented treasures, built exclusively for battle. Everything on a War Giant Ship existed solely for combat.
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The War Giant Ships were one of the foundational strengths of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
Never underestimate foundational strengths.
Regardless of how grievously a sect might have been wounded, as long as it defended its mountain gates, activated its defensive formations, and recuperated, weathering its weakest period, then with its foundational strengths acting as a blazing fire to ignite withered wood and dry leaves, it could foster prosperity among the new generation of disciples, thus giving rise to the sect's rebirth and vitality.
Even the most severe wounds could heal, and the sect would have a chance to rise again.
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"Boom!!!"
A cataclysmic explosion echoed from the depths of the nine heavens.
Immense pillars of spiritual energy erupted, surging forth in torrents. Intertwined and pulled, a colossal behemoth, capable of eclipsing the sky, suddenly appeared in the heavens.
This colossal entity was the Sky-Pillar Giant Ship.
The Sky-Pillar Giant Ship was vast and boundless. The portion of its hull emerging from the clouds was as grand as a mountain range.
The Sky-Pillar Giant Ship cast a detached gaze upon the ground, and one could faintly sense within it a terrifying power capable of destroying the heavens and earth and overturning the world.
The slightest movement of the Sky-Pillar Giant Ship's colossal body was enough to create immense vortices in the sky, capable of swallowing thousands of miles of clouds.
Every action of the Sky-Pillar Giant Ship was as terrifying as a natural disaster.
"Rumble..."
Continuous resounding tremors filled the air. Around the Sky-Pillar Giant Ship, fearsome gusts of wind howled, and infinite spatial storms materialized out of thin air.
In an instant, the four elemental phenomena of wind, thunder, water, and fire surged forth. Coupled with the world-shattering pressure emanating from the Sky-Pillar Giant Ship, it seemed as though the entire sky would split open with the appearance of this behemoth, creating a scene of world-ending celestial裂.
The Sky-Pillar Giant Ship was a deep blue in color, adorned with scattered starlight.
Rows upon rows of main ship turrets extended from the bow. Behind them stood tall and sturdy flagpoles made of ten-thousand-year-old Star Essence Ironwood, soaring into the clouds. Banners bearing the four characters "Taiyi Immortal Sect" fluttered in the wind.
Upon the silver deck stood numerous attack towers, exuding immense pressure, and precisely five hundred and thirty-eight command platforms.
This was an unparalleled warship possessing incredibly terrifying combat power!
The ship's name was—The Milky Way Giant Ship!
Every disciple of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, even the lowest-ranking outer disciples, was well aware of the name of this earth-shattering warship.
It was a celestial artifact of war left behind from the Primordial, Desolate, and Ancient eras.
Even within a major power like the Taiyi Immortal Sect, which dominated an entire province, there were only a dozen or so similar foundational treasures.
Whenever the Milky Way Giant Warship moved, it caused immense commotion wherever it passed through the cultivation world.
All immortals, demons, fiends, and ghosts would retreat from its path.
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At this moment, this earth-shattering, peerlessly powerful warship sailed out from the Taiyi Immortal Sect's mountain gate.
This was because the battlefield had remained stagnant, with no victor decided for several years.
During this period, the Taiyi Immortal Sect had suffered immense losses in both manpower and financial resources.
The prolonged tug-of-war on the battlefield was like a bottomless pit. The Nascent Soul stage Grand Elders of the Taiyi Immortal Sect voted, and ultimately decided to dispatch this Milky Way Giant Warship.
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The cultivation world was vast and boundless, encompassing the Divine Continent, its Nine Provinces, the inner and outer seas, spanning billions of miles. Travel was inconvenient.
Nor could everyone possess swift flying divine abilities; even if they could, the immense consumption of spiritual energy would be unbearable.
Under such circumstances, large flying magical treasures emerged, and after tens of thousands of years of development, their types became diverse.
The Milky Way Giant Ship before them was one of the most famous among them.
War Giant Ships were at the apex among large flying magical treasures, not due to their speed, carrying capacity, or other such factors.
It was because War Giant Ships possessed formidable defensive capabilities and extremely destructive power.
They could withstand tremendous attacks and remain unfazed, proceeding smoothly and swiftly. The energy beams fired by their main cannons possessed destructive power comparable to that of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.
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A fully functional War Giant Ship, with the coordinated efforts of numerous low-level cultivators, could resist several Nascent Soul stage cultivators without being defeated.
However, the spirit stones required to maintain the Milky Way Giant Ship in its normal state for just one day were a astronomical sum, enough to bankrupt Wu Tao.
The high-ranking officials of the Taiyi Immortal Sect were truly wealthy!
The Taiyi Immortal Sect possessed four such War Giant Ships, the Demonic Heaven Sect had three, and the Cold Water True Spirit Sect, which dominated the entire Eastern Sea region, had a staggering eight.
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The names of the Taiyi Immortal Sect's four War Giant Ships were the Taiyi War Giant Ship, the Milky Way War Giant Ship, the Guangcheng War Giant Ship, and the Daode War Giant Ship.
The existence of these four awe-inspiring War Giant Ships – Taiyi, Milky Way, Guangcheng, and Daode – clearly demonstrated to all the forces and cultivators across the Nine Provinces Continent, as well as the four seas and the wilderness, the formidable foundational strength of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, one of the Ten Great Righteous Sects.
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Among the myriad sects of the Righteous Path, no other sect could, like the Ten Great Righteous Sects, maintain its strong position for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
The difference lay not in other aspects, but in these foundational strengths, these dozen or so various foundational treasures.
After a brief moment of reflection, Wu Tao no longer gazed. He instantly transformed into a streak of light and plunged into the clouds, then with a flash, he vanished.
The next second, he landed on the hull of the War Giant Ship.
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