Chapter 496. The Celestial Court Acts, All Sides Are Shaken
Of course, before Lu Yuan entered seclusion, he had already made arrangements.
The Jiang Clan and the Celestial Court alliance began acting against the people of the two forces. While stopping them from continuing to annex the Outer Cosmos factions, they also seized renowned mountains and great rivers from their hands.
Lu Yuan had a feeling that if the Extracosmic Heavenly Demons were to descend, it would likely be connected to the mountains, and rivers of this world.
In particular, the places where they had previously discovered Nine-Colored Altars absolutely could not fall into the hands of the two forces.
The Jiang Clan responded actively. They sent out Immortal Realm cultivators and even Grotto-Heaven Immortals.
They also knew the severity of the matter. Under such circumstances, they absolutely could not slacken. They had to unite.
This was one of the reasons Lu Yuan could temporarily feel at ease. Most of the high-end combat strength of the two forces had been slain by him.
On Earth, the Ji Clan and the Eternals no longer dared to easily mobilize existences above the Immortal Realm. After the last incident, they would be wary of him.
This was also the best time for the Celestial Court and the Jiang Clan to act.
Of course, the two forces could send out even stronger existences, but if that happened, Lu Yuan would not choose to sit and await death. He would continue to act.
In short, the current situation was that as long as the two Starfield Lords did not appear, Lu Yuan could control the balance of power on Earth.
Reality happened just as expected.
The Celestial Court and the Jiang Clan joined forces and began attacking the two forces.
At first, the two forces resisted fiercely. But that was all. Lacking high-end combat strength, they could not resist and retreated step by step.
This left the various Outer Cosmos factions extremely shocked.
When they had faced the two forces, they had been unable to hold on at all. Even when they were in the same realm, they were no match for the clansmen of the Ji Clan and the Eternals. They were completely suppressed.
The various factions did not know what was going on at all. They did not know about the black blood, so naturally they suffered losses.
But the Celestial Court was different. It had obtained the blessing of the power of Providence, which gave them a natural restraint against the black blood.
Using it to deal with the two forces was perfect.
Thus, the forces of the entire universe saw such a scene.
The two forces, which had originally been extremely arrogant and forceful, could not withstand the Celestial Court's offensive. Some died, some were injured. They were completely unlike how they had been before.
As such, this battle and conflict caused many experts to look at the Celestial Court with even greater regard once more. Originally, they had thought that having Lu Yuan was already terrifying enough. They had not expected even the members of the Celestial Court to be so powerful.
In just one or two months, the two forces retreated frantically.
However, Lu Yuan also knew that they could not be pushed too hard, so after things reached a certain point, he had the people of the Celestial Court and the Jiang Clan stop.
The true experts of the Ji Clan and the Eternals were beyond the starfield. There were existences like Celestial Seat Immortals there. They had not descended for the time being because they still felt the situation was under control.
If it exceeded their threshold, and Celestial Seat Immortals descended, matters would still become extremely troublesome.
Even Lu Yuan could not guarantee he could completely resolve the situation then.
His current goal was only to stop the expansion of the two forces and use this to obstruct the Extracosmic Heavenly Demons. As long as this goal was achieved, there would not be many problems.
Now that the goal had been reached, Lu Yuan had no intention of going to full-scale war with the two forces.
The Celestial Court and the Jiang Clan temporarily stopped.
After this battle, the Outer Cosmos factions gained an entirely new perception of the Celestial Court's strength.
It was too powerful. How long had it been? Yet the Celestial Court had already reached such a degree.
Some people believed that even compared to the top ten starfields, the Celestial Court might not be much weaker.
Unfortunately, the Celestial Court had no intention of forming alliances everywhere.
Now, the various factions had already realized that while the Great Age had descended, it had also brought about a great war.
And that war would inevitably spread far and wide. Almost no one could remain out of the situation.
Under such circumstances, one either relied on one's own strength or found allies and a backer.
The two forces definitely could not be relied upon.
Now, only the Celestial Court and the Jiang Clan remained. However, the Celestial Court had no such intention at all, which left the various factions deeply regretful.
Of course, whether it was Zhu Qingyu and the others from the Celestial Court or Jiang Ningxian of the Jiang Clan, none of them cared about this.
They all strongly agreed with what Lu Yuan had said. True allies were not formed through one or two sentences. They were those who could step forward at the most critical moment.
Right now, the Celestial Court and the Jiang Clan could accomplish many things. Why do something unnecessary and form alliances everywhere?
However, Lu Yuan did not know much about these things for the time being. He was still in seclusion.
Two months passed.
His progress was not especially obvious. His combat strength had only increased slightly, while he remained the same as before in other aspects.
Clearly, Lu Yuan's desire to reach the Celestial Seat Immortal Realm within a short period of time was impossible.
Moreover, he had never even seen an existence of that realm. He had seen a Supreme Immortal, Jiang Taiyu, but that held no reference value.
When Lu Yuan met Jiang Taiyu last time, he had not discovered anything useful from him. The gap between them was too great.
Unless, at some point, I have a chance to fight a Celestial Seat Immortal. A sudden thought entered Lu Yuan's mind.
Indeed. He could only probe deeper during a huge battle. However, such an opportunity seemed rather rare.
The Jiang Clan had Celestial Seat Immortals. But clearly, they had more important matters to do.
Previously, Jiang Taiyu had ordered the experts of his clan to descend and help the Celestial Court, but that did not include existences above Creation Immortals.
Lu Yuan knew the Jiang Clan must still have something to deal with. Otherwise, Jiang Taiyu would naturally have sent them all down.
So seeking help from the Jiang Clan's Creation Immortals would be difficult. But, he could consider finding those from the two forces.
That Eternal Warship was right outside Earth. On it were Celestial Seat Immortals of the two races.
However, Lu Yuan would not casually stride over, because once an actual battle erupted, the situation could easily spiral beyond his control.
If living beings on Earth were implicated, that would be bad.
As such, he also thought of another method: the seventh Celestial Emperor's Ancient Token.
It had been gifted by the Starfield Lord of the Sky Dragon Starfield and was already on the way. He believed it would not be long before it reached his hands. If he could fuse it, there would inevitably be new discoveries.
But Lu Yuan was Lu Yuan. He would not place all his hopes on this. No matter what, he still had to rely on himself.
So, during this process, he did not relax. While paying attention to the situation outside, he continued cultivating and evolving.
Of course, he also continued conferring titles on some Jiang clansmen, granting those who performed outstandingly even more power of Providence so they could become stronger.
This could be called a virtuous cycle. Both the people of the Celestial Court and the Jiang Clan had this opportunity. Especially Zhu Qingyu, Ice Fairy, and the others whom he had valued before. Their progress was extremely fast.
All of them had now reached the Great Sage Realm.