"Let's go. It is what it is, and we can only hope that the signal released by Austen is discovered late by the cultivators of the Wushan Starfield."
Zhang Fan took Austen's Golden Core, and his heart gradually calmed down. No matter how things developed, he could only adapt as they came.
Xue Jing nodded. Although his heart was a little heavy, he didn't feel despair.
Even though Austen had released the signal, exposing Earth's coordinates, it was fortunate that the Milky Way was extremely vast. It would take some time for the Golden Core cultivators of the Wushan Starfield to receive this signal.
After all, even the radius of the solar system exceeded sixty billion kilometers. It would take more than six hours for the signal to fly out of the solar system at the speed of light.
The nearest star system to the solar system was over four light-years away. Even with extremely bad luck, if a Golden Core cultivator team from the Wushan Starfield was in the nearest star system to the solar system, it would take several years to receive the signal.
Therefore, they still had a few years to prepare.
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The moment Austen chose to flee, all five arbitrators of the Holy See lost their will to fight. They knew that their Holy See had lost this battle.
Lost to Zhang Shengshi, whom they had always ignored.
Facing five cultivators in the Condensing Core realm with no will to fight, Wuchen Sword Immortal had no desire to continue fighting. He unleashed the 'Myriad Laws Unscathed' sword technique, creating thirteen illusory sword clones to defeat them one by one.
During his seclusion, Wuchen Sword Immortal had cultivated the 'Thousand Shadows Body' taught by Zhang Fan to the minor accomplishment stage, even inscribing a sword intent dao pattern, which greatly enhanced the power of his 'Myriad Laws Unscathed' sword technique.
Once unleashed, the five Condensing Core realm cultivators of the Holy See had no ability to resist and were instantly killed!
"Master, these are the Nascent Cores of those five Condensing Core realm cultivators!"
Wuchen Sword Immortal strode with ethereal steps, arriving before Zhang Fan and respectfully presenting them.
Although he had been entangled with the five arbitrators of the Holy See just now, he had still been paying attention to the battle between Zhang Fan and Austen.
Zhang Fan's methods displayed in this battle had left him deeply shocked. Even though his strength had improved significantly now, he knew that Zhang Fan could crush him with just a single finger.
"En!"
Zhang Fan expressionlessly accepted the five Nascent Cores, glanced at Xue Jing, and said, "Take your three Blood Clan princes with you and return to Huaxia with me. I will do my best to improve your strength before Earth is discovered."
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After Zhang Fan and his group left, the entire territory of the Holy See turned into ruins. Previously, intelligence organizations from various countries had been investigating from the periphery, but they dared not approach because the battle that erupted within the Holy See was too terrifying. Many of their advanced unmanned reconnaissance aircraft were turned into ruins by an aftershock before they could even get close.
When they entered the ruins of the Holy See and saw the massive crater the size of a football field, their shock was beyond words. It was unimaginable that the destructive power of individual humans could reach such a level.
Similarly, this battle also attracted the attention of many hidden old monsters in the West. However, their strongest cultivation was only at the peak of the Condensing Core realm. Seeing such a scene, they dared not harbor any thoughts and merely felt that the times were changing too fast and that it was better to remain a turtle in its shell to live longer.
On Earth, apart from cultivators from the Myriad Realms Starry Sky, such as the Blood Clan, Austen, and the Half-Moon Immortal, who were at the Golden Core realm, only Zhang Fan had the ability to elevate his cultivation to the Golden Core realm.
Cultivators who grew up on Earth, without immense fortune, no matter how heaven-defying their talent, found it difficult to condense a Golden Core.
This was due to the influence of the cultivation environment.
This was the same in the Myriad Realms Starry Sky. For example, the Wushan Starfield, to which the Milky Way belonged, was a very ordinary, even insignificant, starfield in the Myriad Realms Starry Sky.
In the Wushan Starfield, it was extremely difficult to produce even a True Immortal of the Nascent Soul stage. However, in the depths of the star rivers within the Myriad Realms, in some eternal stars or super starfields, Nascent Soul True Immortals were not uncommon, and even Void Returning Golden Immortals and Dao Integrating Immortal Kings could be found.
This was also due to the influence of the cultivation environment.
This was why Zi Wu left the Wushan Starfield after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. He sought to pursue higher-level Daos and only by going to places with better cultivation environments and where strong individuals gathered.
Zhang Fan, along with Xue Jing, the three Blood Clan princes, and Wuchen Sword Immortal, descended upon the island in the lake. At this moment, only Lin Haotian and the Blood Demon Flood Dragon, one person and one beast, were on the island. Zhang Fan's parents had returned to the Su family, while Yi Feicheng and the bald strong man were in the East Sea. Upon hearing the news of Zhang Fan's return, they also rushed back.
For Zhang Fan, he had only left the island in the lake, gone to the Blood Clan for seclusion for a period, and killed someone in the Holy See. However, for Lin Haotian and the others, it had been a full year.
In the year Zhang Fan was away, everyone's strength had improved significantly. The Blood Demon Flood Dragon, after consuming a large number of Human Blood Pills and Origin Returning Pills, had reached the middle stage of the Condensing Core realm. With its powerful physique and Blood Dragon Body Tempering, it was enough to contend with late-stage Condensing Core realm cultivators.
What surprised Zhang Fan the most was Lin Haotian's strength.
Before Zhang Fan left the island in the lake, Lin Haotian had already cultivated the Shocking Cloud Body Tempering Technique to a level infinitely close to minor accomplishment. After Zhang Fan's departure, Lin Haotian began to go into seclusion.
After ten months of secluded cultivation, Lin Haotian finally broke through two months ago, cultivating the Shocking Cloud Body Tempering Technique to the minor accomplishment realm.
In the Myriad Realms Starry Sky, body tempering techniques were mainly divided into five levels: Treasure Body, King Body, Emperor Body, Saint Body, and Divine Body.
Each body tempering technique could be roughly divided into four realms: minor accomplishment, great accomplishment, perfection, and transcendence.
Just like Ailebella's Blood Moon Demon King Body, it belonged to the top-tier King Body. Once cultivated to the transcendence realm, even a Nascent Soul True Immortal could be fought.
Lin Haotian was Zhang Fan's only disciple on Earth so far. Apart from valuing his temperament and will, his talent was also extremely important.
After all, Zhang Fan did not accept mediocre talents.
It was precisely because Lin Haotian had unparalleled talent in body tempering that Zhang Fan passed on the Shocking Cloud Body Tempering Technique to him.
The Shocking Cloud Body Tempering Technique was a body tempering technique created by the Shocking Cloud Immortal King. Once cultivated to the transcendence realm, even a Dao Integrating Immortal King would be hard-pressed to harm it, making it a well-deserved Saint Body technique.
After his breakthrough, Lin Haotian's strength increased significantly. Currently, he was a top-tier existence among those in the Condensing Core realm, as a Saint Body technique was far from comparable to the King Body technique cultivated by Ailebella.
Zhang Fan sent messages to his parents and Qin Luoshui, asking them to return to the island in the lake. He also summoned Ailebella from the Blood Clan, preparing to tell them about some of the events that had transpired in the Holy See.
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