The Danqing Great World had been at war with five other Great Worlds for thousands of years, yet it had not fallen behind. This was because those five Great Worlds were merely subsidiary worlds of five Immortal Emperors, their foundations far shallower than the Danqing Great World. If they didn't have five Immortal Emperors backing them, they would have long been conquered and occupied by the Danqing Great World.
The higher-ups of the five Great Worlds also knew that they couldn't compare to the Danqing Great World in terms of foundation. After all, the Danqing Great World was once ruled by the Danqing Immortal Emperor. A world backed by an Immortal Emperor possessed a strength of foundation that no other world could match.
Therefore, the higher-ups of the five Great Worlds opened battlefields in different locations, each battlefield spanning almost half the Danqing Great World. There were a total of five such major battlefields, with the aim of dispersing the Danqing Great World's forces and forcing it into long-term warfare.
In long-term warfare, strategic resources were a crucial issue.
The Azure Emperor also launched a strong counterattack against this. 'You want to fight a war of attrition? Come at me with everything you've got.'
Thus, the Azure Emperor built five magnificent Imperial Cities on the defensive lines of these five battlefields, guarding the borderlands of the world.
And within these five Imperial Cities, there was a Hall of Merit.
The Hall of Merit was connected to the Danqing Great World's highest dimensional treasury. As long as you had enough merit, you could exchange for any heaven-defying treasures you could imagine or couldn't imagine.
The only source of merit was killing enemies, and killing enemies with higher cultivation levels didn't necessarily grant more merit than killing those with lower cultivation levels.
This was the topic of discussion in front of the Hall of Merit.
"Heavens, have you heard? The recently famous Seven Stars Squad actually completed that mission."
"What mission?"
"Nonsense, of course, it's that mission! You don't know?"
"Not really."
"Tch, you don't even know what that mission is; you're not qualified to be on the same stage as us. Go away."
"…"
Some were exclaiming in surprise, while others were puzzled. As the news spread, everyone learned that the Seven Stars Squad had completed 'that mission'.
The so-called 'that mission' was to kill Lu Wushuang, who was invincible on the Supreme battlefield. However, because no one knew Lu Wushuang's name, anyone who knew about the mission would refer to it as 'that mission'.
"Hiss, I remember that mission was worth a million merit points! A million! That's equivalent to killing ten ordinary True Immortals and can be exchanged for a powerful Immortal artifact!"
Someone gasped when they thought of the merit points gained from completing that mission.
"Strange, why didn't any True Immortal experts secretly complete such a high-value mission?" Someone asked in confusion. Although both sides had reached an agreement not to easily deploy Immortal-realm combat power, war was war. As long as one side hadn't completely surrendered, any agreement was without binding force. A million merit points was something even True Immortals might not have, because killing an ordinary True Immortal was only worth 100,000 merit points.
Apart from those monstrous geniuses, who could easily kill a fellow True Immortal expert? Not everyone was a monstrous genius.
"Nonsense, that kind of genius naturally possesses some kind of secret treasure that can observe the secrets of heaven. If someone with a higher cultivation level tries to attack him, the secret treasure will issue a warning. If our side sends someone beyond the Supreme realm to intercept him, we might be walking into an ambush by the other side's True Immortals."
"Moreover, that kind of genius is simply trying to hone himself, wanting to achieve true invincibility at the same level. However, our Seven Stars Squad's captain is even more heaven-defying."
The person next to him explained.
"I see, thank you for your explanation, fellow Daoist. May I ask how to address you? I find you very familiar. How about we go to Drunken Immortal Residence for a few drinks later?" The man said gratefully to a fat Daoist.
"Amitabha, his mother is Buddha, his father is the Heavenly Lord, this poor Daoist is Wu Liang." The fat Daoist said with a smile.
"Wu Liang?" The man's eyes widened. It was the first time he had heard someone say he was unprincipled.
"It's Wu, as in the surname Wu, and Liang, as in conscience." Daoist Wu Liang didn't get angry.
"So it's Daoist Wu Liang. I was rude just now. Drunken Immortal Residence is on me today, let's not go home until we're drunk." The man was very generous.
Drunken Immortal Residence was a catering giant that had risen in the past few hundred years. It was said that its background was incredibly astonishing, and even big shots from the highest dimensions had to behave themselves when they entered Drunken Immortal Residence.
"Easy, easy."
The fat Daoist Wu Liang and the man left the Hall of Merit with their arms around each other's shoulders, heading to Drunken Immortal Residence within the Imperial Pass.
Beside them, a young man and a slender beauty were already used to it.
"Husband, where are we going next?" Shen Yue asked, looking at Feng Chen.
Feng Chen was about to speak when he saw several familiar figures.
"It's the Red Dust Squad!"
At this moment, the atmosphere in front of the Hall of Merit suddenly became extremely lively, especially among the male cultivators, whose eyes were shining with divine light. Even those who had female companions couldn't help but shift their gaze away from their partners.
"It's them!"
Shen Yue was also surprised.
The Red Dust Squad was none other than Ye Hongyi, Mu Qingyi, Yaochi Saintess Ye Yuxian, and the Heavenly Eye Imperial Daughter from the Red Dust World. Behind them, Tianpeng silently followed, his face extremely calm in the face of the envious and jealous gazes of the male cultivators.
However, Tianpeng quickly sensed a familiar aura in the crowd. He fixed his eyes and saw the couple Feng Chen and Shen Yue. His eyes showed surprise, and he went to Ye Hongyi and told her.
Ye Hongyi heard this and couldn't help but look at Feng Chen and Shen Yue.
"You know them?" The Heavenly Eye Imperial Daughter asked.
"Friends!" Ye Hongyi nodded.
The Heavenly Eye Imperial Daughter and the others nodded slightly but didn't ask anything more.
At this time, Tianpeng had already walked over and asked, "Why are you here? Where's that unprincipled Daoist who's always with you?"
At this time, Feng Chen's cultivation was still at the peak of the Return to One Realm, not yet proving the Dao, and Shen Yue was far behind Feng Chen, only just entering the Return to One Realm. Such cultivation was considered a master in the Red Dust Universe, but in the Danqing Great World, they didn't even have the qualifications to join a squad. If they wanted to earn merit points, they could only serve as soldiers in large-scale wars.
"We don't know how we got here either."
Feng Chen and Shen Yue both showed bitter smiles, and then Feng Chen sent out a divine thought, telling them the whole story.
After hearing this, Tianpeng's face became extremely strange.
"You mean to say that you originally wanted to enter a mysterious world in the Red Dust Realm to find treasures, but the teleportation array carved by that fat Daoist had a problem and teleported you here?"
Ye Hongyi and the others also came over, and they also learned the whole story, and their faces also became extremely strange.
"This deviation… isn't it too big?" Even the Heavenly Eye Imperial Daughter, who didn't usually smile in front of outsiders, couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth.
How far was the Red Dust Realm from the Danqing Great World? To put it simply, even Immortal Venerables would need hundreds of years to cross it, and ordinary Immortal Kings would probably need hundreds of thousands of years to cross such a long distance.
They were also able to reach the Danqing Great World in the shortest time with the help of the Holy Emperor Palace.
But what Feng Chen had just said was that they were in Danqing Great World because Wu Liang's teleportation array had a problem, deviating from its original trajectory, and they accidentally arrived.
This was too outrageous and unreasonable.
"I thought that fat Daoist was very simple, but he seems to have been looking for his own life experience. In the past, in the ancient star road, there were your figures in various dangerous secret realms." Ye Hongyi recalled a little, and felt that Wu Liang was not simple, maybe he was the reincarnation of a strong person, but because the origin of the Red Dust Realm was missing before, he lost his memory of his previous life.
"He is looking for memories." Feng Chen affirmed Ye Hongyi's guess.
"Where are the others?"
The Heavenly Eye Imperial Daughter asked, she was also interested in seeing what kind of origin such a strange person had.
"Uh… just hooked up with a local cultivator and went to Drunken Immortal Residence to drink." Feng Chen said embarrassedly, complaining in his heart that Wu Liang, the unreliable Daoist, had teleported them to this foreign land, but he was heartless and still had the mood to drink.
"…"
"It's really the same as his name." Ye Hongyi couldn't help but complain.
"If you are not in a hurry, you can wait here for a while, we will go to the Hall of Merit to exchange some treasures and go to Drunken Immortal Residence with you." Ye Hongyi said.
"No hurry, no hurry."
Feng Chen shook his head quickly, they were new here and had nothing urgent.
Ye Hongyi nodded lightly, and the four women and one man entered the Hall of Merit together.
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