Chapter 1115 - 200: Why Upgrade the Nine-State? Just Build the Immortal Realm as Nine-State!

Chapter 1115: Chapter 200: Why Upgrade the Nine-State? Just Build the Immortal Realm as Nine-State!

Only Jiu Shui was secretly thinking:

The fact that Xi Rong is being this generous is merely because they know they can’t stop the Immortal Venerates—even if Xi Rong internally strictly forbids it, things will still spread outside. Better to farm some goodwill and let the other platforms do the spreading for them.

However.

Jiu Shui’s gaze fell on Su Yuniang, his expression thoughtful:

"Sun Moon, huh. Dao Yueniang having that many copies of herself must be overjoyed, and Xin Xichen is probably so happy he’s at a loss for words."

He half-smiled, "And it’s the exact same [Star-Forming River], [Urging Virtue], a bootleg Sun Moon—countless Embers patrolling the streets... Xi Rong really splurged on this one!"

These seven Divine Techniques were all top-tier Divine Techniques treasured in his national treasury.

They were Spiritual Roots personally cultivated by him, the strongest Spirit Farmer who opened up the Nine-State Postnatal Celestial Spirit Root era.

Even in the Immortal Realm, they count as pretty damn powerful.

These are Divine Techniques he grew himself; how could he not be familiar with them?

And with a single glance he could see that the other side had now altered their attribute—this is a cluster of Beast Taming Divine Techniques, inevitably forming a mutually Beast Taming mesh-like Beast Taming network...

This Xi Rong’s methods are quite interesting.

"Still, Xin Xichen likely has a way to bring this Sun Moon army before us all under Dao Yueniang’s banner!"

A Human Immortal or Celestial Immortal’s power doesn’t really amount to much in the eyes of a True Immortal.

But when you have ten thousand Celestial Immortals, a hundred thousand Celestial Immortals beneath you, gathered together, the energy level they produce will surpass that of a normal True Immortal, shattering star rivers and blowing out worlds.

That is the mighty power of military formations!

And right now, this whole meshwork of Sun Moon beings might very well catch Xin Xichen’s fancy.

Jiu Shui could also roughly guess that Xi Rong likely has a Sun Moon Ghost King leader on their side who can confront Dao Yueniang head-on.

We’ll see who ends up plundering whom.

Xin Xichen excels at this, so he holds a huge advantage—eight or nine times out of ten he’ll steal them away.

"But perhaps this was Xi Rong’s plan from the start? Their schemes are wild and unrestrained—maybe they’re deliberately sending off this batch of Embers?"

Jiu Shui silently pondered, a hint of a smile tugging at his lips, feeling that things were getting more and more interesting.

After all, this group of Sun Moon folk looks pretty sharp; once Xin Xichen snatches them up, they’re bound to cause no small amount of trouble.

Next, the few of them set up a stall and started selling Spirit Fruit.

Sales were quite good.

They also probed for information from the Heaven’s Chosen at the neighboring stall.

The Netherworld has launched the Xi Rong platform and is advertising it everywhere, but the Immortal Realm seems to be a step slower and hasn’t developed anything yet.

Looks like their blacksmithing tech is a notch behind.

With that advantage, and continuous propaganda, the Netherworld’s military morale bounced back a great deal in one go!

On more than a hundred city-wall battlefields, morale has already been revived, salvaging quite a bit of the situation.

And to hype up the Netherworld platform, they even made use of a batch of Netherworld Heaven’s Chosen troops to launch a series of suicidal surprise attacks, seizing a lot of advantages.

In terms of the war situation, by relying on this wave of tactics, the Netherworld seems to have temporarily pulled back from the disadvantage caused by the fall of the Bottle-Storage Immortal Venerate.

But the Immortal Realm has already started offering its explanation:

The reason the Netherworld was one step ahead is that one particular Immortal Venerate of the Netherworld specializes in blacksmith forging Divine Techniques, extremely adept at ever-changing, copycat weapon crafting.

With a copycat Divine Technique in hand, they’re just a bit faster.

This is obviously a backhanded, half-open contempt toward that Netherworld figure, a subtle attempt to suppress his reputation.

Jiu Shui and the others listened with great interest; Immortal Venerates were far removed from them, so this is the only way they can gossip.

"This Immortal Realm and Netherworld really are unprecedented, revolving around Xi Rong."

"Exactly. Xi Rong has practically become the eye of the storm now—it’s all about who can imitate Xi Rong’s methods faster!"

"But they’re ultimately just a flash in the pan. Immortal Venerates are such exalted sanctities, the supreme rulers of the All Heavens and Myriad Realms—once they personally enter the field and perfect the platforms, how can Xi Rong’s foundation compare? I’m afraid they’ll be surpassed very soon."

"Xi Rong is destined to rise, blaze brilliantly, and then fall. A force without an Immortal Venerate sitting in town will in the end be nothing more than a fleeting glimpse of brilliance."

"That in itself is enough to be proud of."

"Indeed. Before they fall and get completely replaced, the best outcome for Xi Rong right now is to marry in—to become the subordinate force of some Immortal Venerate. That would be their best ending."

"Many civilizations in history have gone like this. If you don’t rise, you’ll forever be ants."

The stall owners were all engaged in discussion.

The sister-in-law, the wife, were also fiercely discussing the grand situation of the world—how this war should evolve!

In what manner will Xi Rong, perched on the cutting edge of the storm, eventually fall.

No one’s stupid; they can all see that Xi Rong’s fame has become the focus of the world’s attention. It’s obvious there are people with ulterior motives pushing from behind, using them as a target to achieve certain goals.

Once the three of them at Jiu Shui’s stall had sold out everything and said their goodbyes to the neighboring stall owners, they decisively logged off and specifically used the Black Pill gifted by others to pay a visit to the Black Market platform opened by the Netherworld.

It looked quite bustling.

But in reality, all sorts of details were very rough and crude.

There isn’t the mighty foundation of a Life Immortal Venerate personally kneading a character for you, nor any function to generate Embers!

It’s just a barebones bottom-tier Black Market, remotely manipulating a single avatar.

Similar to a Dharma Aspect Emergence, Embers Earth-bound Spirit, long-distance attack route.

Jiu Shui kept organizing information, compiling the various details, and couldn’t help but knit his brows:

"That Xi Rong, with its mysterious origins, should be an external Civilization that accidentally entered our Nine-State back then and developed this remote Embers/Dharma Aspect control platform."

"Xi Rong was the first, and now that it’s entered the Immortal Realm, the Immortal Venerates have also started popularizing this platform."

"I fear it won’t be long before the entire Immortal Realm fights wars through this kind of platform—waging war across empty space."

His expression grew slightly more solemn.

The Nine-State’s war mode has now been completely transplanted into the Immortal Realm.

The Nine-State’s Undead have always favored long-range strikes via Dharma Aspects and Earth-bound Spirits.

Now this has been absorbed by the powerful Immortal Realm like a sponge, and corresponding changes in the war pattern have emerged.

However.

On the surface, it looks like the traditional mode of war has been completely overturned—everyone becomes Undying? Everyone can resurrect?

Not really.

In essence, nothing has changed.

What’s the use of not fearing death?

Is war, at its core, a contest over whose soldiers can resurrect?

What’s being contested is resources.

Brutal as it is, on the battlefield human lives are merely numbers. At a time-flow rate of one day to a hundred years, they can mass-produce bottom-tier Human Immortals; what does your resurrection matter when traditional mass-soldier production isn’t any weaker than your resurrection?

What truly decides victory is resources—or to be more precise... corpses!

On the Xi Rong platform, once you die, you have to corpse-run; you need to retrieve the metal corpse, re-refine and repair it before you can log in and resurrect.

And in war, what if someone else snatches your corpse?

Then it’s no different from a soldier truly dying.

This is exactly the same as in the Nine-State.

If a Three Flowers Dharma Aspect blows up on the spot, it looks like the original doesn’t die, but it still requires money to replenish.

If the Ancestor of Embers is blasted to pieces, it also seems like he doesn’t die, yet you need money to stir the Earth Vein to speed up resurrection.

It’s all real Gold and Silver, all bound to obey conservation of energy!

This Immortal Realm war mode, at its core, still hasn’t changed—it’s still a resource war!

If your corpse is taken and you don’t have the money to resurrect, that’s effectively a soldier truly dead.

Having figured this out, Jiu Shui began pondering how to make a fortune off war. "We’ll have to develop a few new Divine Techniques."

As the strongest Spirit Farmer, Xinyi, Rose, Other Shore... in the Nine-State are all Spiritual Roots he cultivated.

He’s far too familiar with Embers, Dharma Aspects!

Now, to develop an entirely new Spiritual Root to push forward the new Nine-State—the Immortal Realm—its Dharma Aspect platform warfare, is indeed well within the specialty of him, Emperor Jiushui.

He suddenly remembered how, in the Imperial Palace, after listening to the Night Emperor, a visitor from beyond Heaven, describe the environmental landscape of the Immortal Realm...

Xin Xichen had even sat down privately with him, saying his dream was to build the Nine-State into a world center as great as the Immortal Realm.

By now, his dream has long since been fulfilled by the painter.

Why bother building the Nine-State into the Immortal Realm?

We only need to build the Immortal Realm into the Nine-State.

He suddenly recalled the way those NPCs spoke, and a line of theirs popped into his mind: Isn’t this, in its own way, a kind of Xi Rong spirit?

Jiu Shui suddenly felt that in all his life, no absurdity he’d ever seen could compare to today’s absurdity!