"Let's go. It's too late now. We can only hope that the signal released by Austen is discovered by the cultivators of the Wushan Starfield later," Zhang Fan said, retrieving Austen's golden core, his heart gradually calming down. No matter how things developed, he could only take it as it came.
Xue Jing nodded. Although his heart was a little heavy, he did not feel despair.
Even though Austen had released a signal and exposed Earth's coordinates, thankfully, the Milky Way galaxy was vast. It would not be a matter of one or two days for the cultivators of the Wushan Starfield to receive this signal.
After all, even the radius of the solar system exceeded sixty billion kilometers. For the signal, traveling at the speed of light, to rush out of the solar system would take more than six hours.
The closest star system to the solar system was over four light-years away. Even with extremely bad luck, if a team of Golden Core cultivators from the Wushan Starfield was in the closest star system to the solar system, it would still take several years for them to receive the signal.
Therefore, they still had several years to prepare.
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The moment Austen chose to flee, the five arbiters of the Vatican lost their will to fight. They knew that their Vatican had lost this battle.
They lost to Zhang Shengshi, whom they had always overlooked.
Facing the five Nascent Soul realm cultivators who had lost their will to fight, Wuchen Sword Immortal also had no desire to continue fighting. He unleashed the 'Myriad Laws Unstained' sword technique, creating thirteen illusory sword clones to defeat them one by one.
During his period of secluded cultivation, Wuchen Sword Immortal had cultivated 'Thousand Illusory Body' to the minor completion stage, even engraving a sword dao pattern, which significantly enhanced the power of his 'Myriad Laws Unstained' sword technique.
Once unleashed, the five Nascent Soul realm cultivators of the Vatican had no ability to resist and were instantly annihilated!
"Master, these are the primal cores of those five Nascent Soul realm cultivators!"
Wuchen Sword Immortal landed with ethereal steps before Zhang Fan and respectfully presented them.
Although he had been entangled with the five arbiters of the Vatican just now, he had still been paying attention to the battle between Zhang Fan and Austen.
The methods Zhang Fan displayed in this battle left him deeply shocked. Even though his strength had improved considerably, he knew that Zhang Fan could easily crush him with just one finger.
"En!"
Zhang Fan expressionlessly accepted the five primal cores. He glanced at Xue Jing and said, "Take your three Blood Clan princes with you and return to China with me. Before Earth is discovered, I will do my best to help you increase your strength."
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After Zhang Fan and his companions left, the entire Vatican territory turned into ruins. Previously, national intelligence organizations had been investigating from the periphery, but they dared not approach due to the terrifying battle that erupted within the Vatican. Many of their advanced reconnaissance drones were reduced to ruins by a single shockwave before they could even get close.
When they entered the ruins of the Vatican and saw the massive crater the size of a football field, their shock was beyond words. It was unimaginable that individual human destructive power 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 Nascent Soul realm. Seeing such a scene, they dared not harbor any thoughts and merely felt that the world was changing too fast and that it was better to be a shrinking turtle to live longer.
On Earth, apart from cultivators from the Myriad Realms Starfield, such as the Blood Clan, Austen, and Half-Moon Immortal, who were Golden Core realm powerhouses, only Zhang Fan had the ability to elevate his cultivation to the Golden Core realm.
For cultivators born and raised on Earth, without immense fortune, no matter how heaven-defying their talent, it was difficult to condense a Golden Core.
This was influenced by the cultivation environment.
The same was true in the Myriad Realms Starfield. For example, the Wushan Starfield, to which the Milky Way galaxy belonged, was a very ordinary, even inconspicuous, starfield in the Myriad Realms Starfield.
In the Wushan Starfield, it was extremely difficult for a True Immortal of the Void Transformation realm to be born. However, in the depths of the star river in the Myriad Realms, in some Eternal Stars or Super Starfields, Void Transformation True Immortals were not uncommon, and there were even traces of Void Returning Golden Immortals and Dao Integration Immortal Kings.
This was also influenced by the cultivation environment.
This was why Ziwu left the Wushan Starfield after breaking through to the Void Transformation realm. He wanted to pursue a higher level of Dao and could only go to places with a better cultivation environment and where powerhouses gathered.
Zhang Fan descended onto the island with Xue Jing, the three Blood Clan princes, and Wuchen Sword Immortal. Currently, only Lin Haotian and the Blood Demon Dragon were on the island. Zhang Fan's parents had returned to the Su family, and Yi Feicheng and the bald strongman 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, gone into seclusion with the Blood Clan for a while, and killed someone in the Vatican. However, for Lin Haotian and the others, a full year had passed.
In the year Zhang Fan was away, everyone's strength had improved significantly. After consuming a large number of human blood pills and return to origin pills, the Blood Demon Dragon's strength had reached the mid-Nascent Soul realm. With its powerful physique and Blood Dragon Body Refining technique, it was enough to contend with late-Nascent Soul realm powerhouses.
What surprised Zhang Fan the most was Lin Haotian's strength.
Before Zhang Fan left the island, Lin Haotian had already cultivated the Tremor Cloud Body Refining technique to a level infinitely close to minor completion. After Zhang Fan left, Lin Haotian began to go into seclusion.
After a full ten months of secluded cultivation, Lin Haotian finally broke through two months ago, cultivating the Tremor Cloud Body Refining technique to the minor completion stage.
In the Myriad Realms Starfield, body refining techniques were mainly divided into five levels: Treasure Body, King Body, Emperor Body, Saint Body, and Divine Body.
Each body refining technique could be roughly divided into four realms: minor completion, great completion, perfection, and transcendence.
Just like Ai Leibel's Blood Moon Demon King Body, it was a top-tier King Body. Once cultivated to the transcendence realm, even a Void Transformation True Immortal could be fought.
Lin Haotian was the only disciple Zhang Fan had ever taken on Earth. Besides valuing his character and willpower, talent was also extremely important.
After all, Zhang Fan did not accept mediocre individuals.
It was precisely because Lin Haotian possessed unparalleled talent in the path of body refining that Zhang Fan imparted the Tremor Cloud Body Refining technique to him.
The Tremor Cloud Body Refining technique was a body refining technique created by Immortal King Zhenyun. Once cultivated to the transcendence realm, even a Dao Integration Immortal King would find it difficult to harm him in the slightest. It was an undisputed Saint Body technique.
After breaking through, Lin Haotian's strength had made a huge leap. Currently, he was also a top-tier existence among the Nascent Soul realm cultivators, as a Saint Body technique was far from comparable to the King Body technique cultivated by Ai Leibel.
Zhang Fan had sent messages to his parents and Qin Luoshui, asking them to return to the island. At the same time, he had also summoned Ai Leibel back from the Blood Clan, preparing to tell them about some of the events that had occurred in the Vatican.
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