Chapter 302: Third Nascent Soul

Chapter 302: Chapter 302: Third Nascent Soul

Yi Xiaoyao led everyone down into the Carefree Alliance’s headquarters, where he began to make arrangements and plans.

His plans were ambitious and would undoubtedly cause a major stir, so he naturally needed to be fully prepared.

Since most of the Carefree Alliance’s original members had been slaughtered, and with twenty-six new alliances now pledging their allegiance, Yi Xiaoyao’s first task was to reorganize the personnel assignments.

Jin Sanbao was appointed Vice Alliance Leader of the Carefree Alliance.

Surprisingly, no one objected to this appointment, because everyone had seen the dozen-plus powerful puppets that constantly surrounded and protected Jin Sanbao.

This was especially true after Jin Sanbao, having received the Nascent Soul of the Criminal Alliance’s Left Protector from Yi Xiaoyao, created and presented a puppet that emanated the aura of the Ninth Realm of Nascent Soul Transformation. The display left everyone completely in awe.

As for the Ninth Team and Leng Yan’s group, Yi Xiaoyao placed them under Jin Sanbao’s command.

Leng Yan and her father were tasked with protecting Jin Sanbao, who had no cultivation of his own.

Although the twenty members of the Ninth Team possessed only average strength, Jin Sanbao assigned a puppet to each of them, allowing them to enter and control the constructs from within.

After all, controlling such powerful puppets required absolute loyalty. Between Yi Xiaoyao’s long-standing trust in them and their proven loyalty during the Criminal Alliance’s previous attack, the devotion of the Ninth Team was beyond question.

In an instant, every member of the Ninth Team’s strength was elevated to an astonishing degree, transforming them into a frighteningly powerful puppet squadron!

As for the twenty-six alliances that now followed Yi Xiaoyao, their status and positions remained unchanged. Their leaders retained their titles and continued to command their own forces.

The only change was that these Alliance Leaders would now take orders from Yi Xiaoyao alone.

The Carefree Alliance was now the main alliance governing these twenty-six.

Through these arrangements, the Carefree Alliance was not only restabilized but had also grown to an unprecedented scale.

No other alliance in the entire Chaotic Alliance Domain could now boast forces of this magnitude.

Of course, the Carefree Alliance also had its shortcomings—namely, a lack of peak experts. Yi Xiaoyao was the only one whose power was comparable to the Ninth Realm of Nascent Soul Transformation.

Moreover, while Yi Xiaoyao could reach the combat power of the Ninth Realm of Nascent Soul Transformation by activating the Soul Burning Forbidden Technique, his recent battles had made one thing painfully clear: his strength was still insufficient.

His victory in the battle to kill Yuan Chou had been incredibly difficult.

Slaying the Criminal Alliance’s Left Protector was even less of a conventional victory. That man was said to be even stronger than Yuan Chou. Had he not been distracted and unwilling to truly fight, failing to unleash his full power, it was uncertain who would have won.

Therefore, after coming to this realization, Yi Xiaoyao finished arranging the Carefree Alliance’s affairs and had everyone rest and restore their Spiritual Power.

As for himself, he returned to his residence, consumed an Elixir, and began his Cultivation.

This time, the purpose of Yi Xiaoyao’s Cultivation was not to break through to a new Realm.

After all, breaking through required one’s Realm to be stable and consumed a great deal of time.

But right now, he needed to raise his strength by another level as quickly as possible.

Therefore, what Yi Xiaoyao was cultivating at this moment was the Nine Transformations Nascent Soul Technique. He was going to form a Third Nascent Soul!

Forming a Nascent Soul was equivalent to breaking through from the Golden Core Realm to the Nascent Soul Realm. For someone like Yi Xiaoyao, who had already reached the Nascent Soul Transformation Realm, this was naturally a very simple matter.

If he used conventional methods, the newly formed Nascent Soul would only be equivalent to the First Realm of the Nascent Soul Realm, and would require subsequent Cultivation to advance.

But Yi Xiaoyao’s thinking was different: ’Either I don’t form it at all, or I form a Nascent Soul that is at the same Realm as my current one.’

This was why he had delayed forming his Third Nascent Soul until now, despite the significant boost in combat power it would provide.

In fact, Yi Xiaoyao had been making thorough preparations to form a Third Nascent Soul at his current Realm all along.

Now, Yi Xiaoyao was in desperate need of more power, and his previous preparations were finally complete.

Therefore, he planned to seize this opportunity and form his Third Nascent Soul in one fell swoop—a third Nascent Soul at the Third Realm of Nascent Soul Transformation!

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Within the Chaotic Alliance Domain lay an enormous Spirit Stone Vein. The amount of Spirit Stones extracted from it annually was an astronomical figure, enough to make any person or faction burn with envy.

However, in the unscrupulous, profit-driven Chaotic Alliance Domain, no one dared to make a move on this Spirit Stone Vein.

This was because the Spirit Stone Vein was exclusively controlled by a powerful faction.

This faction could shake the entire Chaotic Alliance Domain with a single stomp of its foot.

It was one of the three giants of the Chaotic Alliance Domain, ranked third... the Criminal Alliance!

In truth, the fact that the Criminal Alliance was a branch of the Imperial Army Mansion was not much of a secret in the Chaotic Alliance Domain.

The Chaotic Alliance Domain and the Imperial Army Mansion were absolutely irreconcilable, so all the alliances viewed the Criminal Alliance as a thorn in their side.

But in the entire Chaotic Alliance Domain, the only factions that could contend with the Criminal Alliance were the top two: the Celestial Fire Alliance and the Ten Thousand Poison Alliance.

Although these two super-alliances could contend with the Criminal Alliance, they were wary of the Imperial Army Mansion’s power and would not act rashly.

Thus, the Criminal Alliance had been able to remain firmly rooted in the Chaotic Alliance Domain to this day.

At this moment, within the Criminal Alliance’s Main Pillar, several middle-aged men were gathered in a great hall, deep in discussion.

"I wonder if the Left Protector has annihilated the Carefree Alliance yet. Why hasn’t he returned?"

"Rest assured, Alliance Leader. The Left Protector’s strength is well known to us all. He is second only to you. None of the alliance leaders ranked outside the top ten are a match for him."

"Indeed. And that’s not to mention the Left Protector’s exceptional strength. The two elders who went with him are both at the Eighth Realm of Nascent Soul Transformation. The Carefree Alliance was only just founded on the remnants of the Primordial Evil Alliance. Their people’s hearts are surely not united. How could they possibly withstand such an overwhelming disparity in power?"

The Criminal Alliance’s Right Protector and several elders all wore nonchalant expressions as they spoke with faint smiles to their leader, Xing Jian Gang, who was seated above them.

Xing Jian Gang nodded as well, his expression calm and utterly devoid of worry.

"I was merely asking. I’m not worried."

Xing Jian Gang’s gaze shifted as he continued, "That Yi Xiaoyao is a major fugitive with a bounty from the Imperial Army Mansion. He has Cang Tianxing’s Multi-Nascent Soul Cultivation Method and also possesses the Heaven and Earth Fire Essence. I’ve even heard that he recently displayed the Celestial Fire Alliance’s Heavenly Fire Illusion Technique."

"The man is practically a walking treasure trove. That’s why I ordered the Left Protector to bring him back alive. The process of capturing him must just be presenting a few minor difficulties."

Hearing this, the eyes of the others began to burn with greed. Now they understood why the Left Protector had been gone for so long.

Just then, a shocking boom erupted from outside the Criminal Alliance, and the entire area began to tremble violently.

The tremor felt as if a Nascent Soul Transformation Realm expert had just unleashed an all-out, explosive attack on their territory.

But in the entire Chaotic Alliance Domain, what Nascent Soul Transformation Realm expert would be suicidal enough to stir up trouble at the Criminal Alliance’s doorstep?

"What’s going on?"

Xing Jian Gang frowned and bellowed toward the outside. The other elders and the Right Protector also headed out, their faces etched with confusion.

Before they could go outside to investigate, a subordinate came scrambling over.

"Bad news! Bad news!"

The subordinate was panting, unable to catch his breath, when the enraged Right Protector grabbed him by the neck and lifted him off his feet.

"Spit it out! What in the world is going on!" the Right Protector roared.

"The Care... Carefree Alliance! It’s people from the Carefree Alliance! They’re attacking the Criminal Alliance!"

The subordinate’s face was a mask of panic, a terror inspired not by the enraged Right Protector, but by what he had just witnessed outside.

The Right Protector and the elders exchanged odd glances, then immediately broke into cold sneers.

"I don’t know how the Carefree Alliance managed to escape the Left Protector’s annihilation, but to think they actually dare to attack our Criminal Alliance!"

"How utterly ridiculous! Yi Xiaoyao must have eaten the heart of a bear and the gall of a leopard to dare lead the Carefree Alliance to our doorstep to die!"

"Haha, perfect! We’ll go over there, capture that Yi Xiaoyao alive, and make him hand over all those treasures he’s carrying!"

Xing Jian Gang also let out a cold snort. "Hmph! In that case, I will act personally to annihilate this Carefree Alliance and capture Yi Xiaoyao!"

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