Cultivating with Top Enlightenment Chapter 797 - 335: Brahma Heaven Is Slapped in the Face (2)

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The Sword Ancestor, Qi Keqing, and Zhu Yanchuan decide to prioritize capturing the Central Domain node, wary of potential Domain Master-level threats in the Vast Realm's converging armies. A compass reveals the Celestial Fire Realm's forces pursuing one Vast Realm army, unaware of two others approaching nearby, prompting the leaders to proceed with their plans. In the north, Commander Brahma halts his army's chase of the Xiahe Realm, his face paling upon sensing an ambush from another Vast Realm force closing in from the side. As the Xiahe forces turn to confront them mockingly, Brahma urgently orders a retreat, exposing the cunning trap laid by their enemies.

Simultaneously, thanks to his father's position, Brahma Heaven remained able to rally the other two domain forces that had advanced into the Central Domain alongside them—the cultivators from the Earth Gold Domain and Vine Wood Domain.

“Heh, you're only considering flight at this point? It's far too late; glance back there!”

Fei Bing uttered this in an icy manner, his declaration rushing forth like a frigid gust, sending shivers through the souls of the Celestial Fire Domain's members.

At those words, they all extended their spiritual senses rearward.

The moment they sensed it, what had been mere worry before now shifted into utter hopelessness.

For yet another force from one domain of the Vast Realm had materialized eighty miles to their rear.

At this juncture, all three armies from the Central Domain's Vast Realm had converged upon this spot!

Confusion gripped them inwardly—how could this be unfolding?

Their sole remaining spark of optimism stemmed from the fact that, with the Vast Realm's other two domain armies present, the forces from the neighboring Earth Gold Domain and Vine Wood Domain ought to have reached the area as well.

Surveying the encirclement formed by the three armies, Brahma Heaven compelled himself to stay composed and turned his gaze to Fei Bing:

“You cultivators of the Vast Realm employ every scheme against me, Brahma Heaven. Does this truly honor the 'Vast' reputation of your Vast Realm? Lacking the strength to confront us fairly with a single domain's might, you stoop to these vile methods!”

Fei Bing and the Xiahe Domain cultivators showed peculiar looks upon their faces at this remark.

Observing their reactions, Brahma Heaven continued: “What, with the truth laid bare before you, will you still deny it?”

Fei Bing let out a cold snort: “You're known as Brahma Heaven, aren't you? Perhaps you ought to change it to Rice Field. Do you honestly warrant the attention of Vast Realm's three encircling armies?”

Confronted by the mockery, Brahma Heaven's complexion shifted from ashen to flushed with rage.

He had never anticipated that the adversaries would assert the Vast Realm's three armies weren't pursuing him at all!

This revelation struck the immensely arrogant Brahma Heaven as a deeper humiliation than death itself.

“You're deceiving me—if not to pursue me, why would your three armies forsake the conquest of nodes to rush here?”

Fei Bing gave a shrug, adopting a look of resignation while casting a glance at the troops behind him.

He sneered: “Tell me, isn't this fellow utterly absurd?”

“Commander Fei Bing, if every soul in the Mountain and Sea Domain is as idiotic as this one, I truly can't fathom why the Mountain and Sea Domain would initiate spiritual warfare against the Vast Realm?”

Fei Bing chuckled: “Indeed, if only their ranks consisted solely of such dolts.”

Abruptly, as if recalling the true purpose of their arrival, his grin vanished, and a hint of dread flickered in his frosty eyes.

The Mountain and Sea Domain harbored more than fools like Brahma Heaven; the intelligence relayed through the Vast Realm Will still stirred unease in Fei Bing's core whenever he dwelled on it.

In the Lower Realm, a Domain Master called Ning Qi had fully subdued it and breached domain boundaries.

This signified the total elimination of the three domain armies from the Lower Realm's Vast Realm!

The thought caused Fei Bing's long fingers to quiver involuntarily.

Among the Lower Realm Vast Realm's three domains, one figure held special significance for him—his close companion, Kuang Shanqing.

As a confidant, Fei Bing grasped every detail of Kuang Shanqing's life intimately.

He was aware that Kuang Shanqing served as a Domain Master and also as a titled disciple under the Vast Realm's Saint Ancestor.

Fei Bing knew too that Kuang Shanqing wielded a Wind God Painting granted by the Saint Ancestor.

It was exactly for this reason that, despite never encountering Ning Qi, Fei Bing harbored profound terror toward him.

Just how formidable was Ning Qi? Could even the Saint Ancestor's bestowed Wind God Painting fail against him? Impossible...

Like the fallen Kuang Shanqing, whom Ning Qi had slain, Fei Bing's devotion to the Saint Ancestor stood unshakable, viewing the Saint Ancestor as the embodiment of unbeatable might.

Yet now, that Ning Qi appeared to have tarnished the Saint Ancestor's legendary status!

Fei Bing's icy gaze drifted across to the opposing Brahma Heaven.

He commanded frostily: “Obey my directive, kin of Xiahe Domain; although we pause here for refuge, with a Mountain and Sea Domain force before us, we shan't release them—consider it an early reckoning for our fallen comrades in the Lower Realm!”

“Yes!”

Brahma Heaven and his allies stared in confusion at this response, utterly lost as to the foes' discussion.

What Lower Realm? What grudge? Had the Vast Realm's Lower Realm cultivators met their end completely?

Fei Bing channeled his dread of Ning Qi into fury against Brahma Heaven's Celestial Fire Domain army, while hurriedly dispatching communications to the leaders of the two nearing domain forces.

“Hua Jieyu, Qiu Daoyu, ensure neither of you allows a single one to slip away; let's unite swiftly to crush them, seize this node without delay, and manifest the Vast Realm Will in full! If we hasten the task, Vast Realm aids might descend earlier!”

“Fear not, brother Fei Bing!”

“Got it, brother Fei Bing!”

Two prompt replies echoed back.

In that moment, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the vicinity warped, saturated with a lethal aura, akin to the ruthless autumn breeze felling withered foliage across the realm!

...

The forces of Earth Gold Domain and Vine Wood Domain had united as one.

At present, the leaders of both domains sensed their Communication Jade Scrolls humming.

They shared a grin, remarking: “This has to be a note from brother Brahma Heaven!”

Each was an heir to domain masters from their respective domains, carrying forward the bonds their elders shared with Brahma Heaven, so despite his grating demeanor, the pair addressed him as brother.

Naturally, their own natures fared little better!

This trio consisted of pampered youths; the unchallenged power of their sires hadn't instilled any restraint in them—instead, they frequently tyrannized those under their command.

The Earth Gold Domain's leader went by Jin Duanshan, while Vine Wood Domain's was Mu Zhutian.

They retrieved their Jade Scrolls and examined the contents.

As they scanned the words, panic seized both of them abruptly!

“Trouble—brother Brahma Heaven's caught in a trap by those Vast Realm scum!”

“We have to hurry and rescue him, lest we disappoint Uncle Fan City!”

They promptly directed their armies to charge northward with utmost haste.

The vast array of cultivators from the two domains streaked through the skies like celestial warriors, hastening onward.

...

Ning Qi beheld the expansive, emptied void he had carved out ahead, a pleased grin lighting his features.

Operating solo like a solitary predator, this marked the second concealed node he had seized within the Central Domain.

Once he claimed the remaining four hidden nodes, severing all the space therein and dispatching it to the True Martial Realm, Ning Qi would have fulfilled his mission in the Central Domain.

Ning Qi produced the Compass to review details on the subsequent hidden node.

Suddenly, he spotted the indicators for the Central Domain armies' locations—now four glows encircling a crimson one.

Those four gleams lay to the north, perilously near the upper domain's path.

At the moment, that red glow wavered erratically, on the verge of snuffing out.

Meanwhile, the markers for Earth Gold Domain and Vine Wood Domain darted swiftly toward that quartet of positions.

Ning Qi watched in slight bewilderment.

“I see why Vast Realm's three armies bolted north in panic—they must have caught wind of my domain-crossing alert via the Vast Realm Will.

But what drives Mountain and Sea Domain's three armies northward too? Such ferocity!

The Celestial Fire Domain especially—they overtook Vast Realm's three armies first, impressively bold, yet from the looks of it, they're on the brink of utter destruction.”

Ning Qi furrowed his brow faintly; he held no attachment toward the three domain armies.

The crease arose solely because a True Martial Realm reincarnator lurked among the Celestial Fire Domain's ranks, stirring a twinge of unrest in him.

He could disregard the three domain armies, allowing them to clash to the bitter end against Vast Realm foes.

Yet, as Domain Master, could he permit the slaughter of True Martial Realm reincarnators?

True Martial Realm reincarnators might scorn death—perishing in the warfare realm would merely lead to rebirth in the True Martial Realm.

Still, Ning Qi, in his role as Domain Master, refused to remain idle; besides, they proved invaluable to him within the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Thus, Ning Qi rent open space forthwith and hurtled toward the fray!