No hope for eternal life

Chapter 370: Southern Liang National Strength

When the two were fighting just now, Liang Ruoxu was setting up the formation, and Mu Changsheng was also setting up the formation. In fact, Mu Changsheng's speed of setting up the formation was one step faster than Liang Ruoxu, so he hesitated whether to use the killer weapon of the fifth-grade top-level Xushen Talisman.

It was not until Liang Ruoxu revealed his trump card that Mu Changsheng was certain that the other party had no means to resist his trump card, so there was no need to hesitate any longer.

Mu Changsheng was indeed unable to break the formation, but he did not need to do so. To catch a thief, one must first catch the leader. As long as Liang Ruoxu was killed, the Red Flame Formation would naturally break without an attack.

After Liang Ruoxu was trapped, his connection with the Red Flame Array was also cut off. Without the power of the Red Flame Array, his strength dropped again, which can be described as "ups and downs".

"No, I still have a chance. As long as I can break this formation and reconnect with the Red Flame Formation, I will still be invincible." Liang Ruoxu comforted himself. He found that the power of Mu Changsheng's formation was much weaker than his Red Flame Formation. All this gave him hope.

So Liang Ruoxu began to break the formation frantically.

Under the threat of death, the cultivators' potential was indeed great. In just a few minutes, Liang Ruoxu successfully blasted a hole in the formation.

Liang Ruoxu quickly crawled out of the hole, but before he could reconnect with the Red Flame Array, a violent thunder python appeared before his eyes, like the thunder of tribulation coming ahead of time.

This was of course Mu Changsheng's masterpiece. He had used the fifth-grade top-level Void God Talisman as soon as Liang Ruoxu was trapped.

Mu Changsheng used the power of the Xushen Talisman to launch the five-finger palm thunder, and kept accumulating power until Liang Ruoxu showed his head, then he struck the other party on the head.

Liang Ruoxu had already run out of tricks, and now facing Mu Changsheng's long-accumulated attack, he had no power to resist at all and was reduced to ashes on the spot.

After Liang Ruoxu died, the storage bag he carried with him was broken, and the things in it were scattered all over the ground and became Mu Changsheng's spoils of war. This was a tacit understanding among the cultivators, and no one would come out to stop Mu Changsheng from obtaining the spoils of war.

However, the gains this time were far less than what Mu Changsheng had killed last time, because Liang Ruoxu did not dare to guarantee a 100% winning rate. Even if he had valuable treasures, he would not bring them to the battlefield. This was also a tacit understanding in the life-and-death gamble.

Therefore, Mu Changsheng's harvest this time was only a few thousand high-quality spirit stones.

But for Mu Changsheng, the only thing he really values ​​is the Fire Pearl.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng left the battlefield and returned to the Beiyuan Kingdom camp. In this battle, he not only gained a Fire Flame Pearl, but also gained the attention of many Jindan cultivators of the Beiyuan Kingdom. After all, they had all witnessed the battle just now.

On the other hand, the people of Southern Liang were furious, but because Liang Bi had made a great oath to protect his inner demons, they could only swallow their anger.

Not long after the competition, the Fire Flame Pearl in the Flame Pool was completely formed. The cultivators from the Southern Liang Kingdom did not fight for it as promised, and Yuan Lang gave the Fire Flame Pearl to Mu Changsheng as promised.

Mu Changsheng obtained the Fire Flame Pearl, and another problem was solved. He only needed to raise another two thousand top-grade spirit stones to achieve his goal.

After that, several days passed, and there was no movement in the Flame Pool after the Fire Pearl was born. Mu Changsheng became a little anxious, so he sent a voice message to a colleague of the Juxian Pavilion who was also a first-class sage: "Brother Qiao, how often does this Fire Pearl usually appear?"

"It usually appears once every six months. Before the Fire Flame Pearl appears, there will be strange signs two months in advance. Every time the Fire Flame Pearl comes out, it will cause a war between the two sides. Brother Chen, you have become very famous. The other side is likely to take advantage of the war to attack you. You must be careful." The cultivator named Qiao replied and gave Mu Changsheng a kind reminder.

Upon hearing this, Mu Changsheng transmitted his voice and said, "Thank you for the reminder, Brother Qiao. I wonder if Brother Qiao would be willing to explain to me the methods used by the other seventeen people."

"It's a small matter." The cultivator surnamed Qiao agreed readily. He also saw Mu Changsheng's future and wanted to make friends with him. He immediately explained to Mu Changsheng: "There are seventeen people from the Southern Liang Kingdom, headed by Liang Bi. He is at the peak of the Spiritualization Realm and a Body Refining cultivator. He is hard to beat below the Tribulation Realm. Only the Seventh Prince on our side can compete with him. The second one is Liang Feng, who is also a Spiritualization Realm cultivator..."

Mu Changsheng listened very carefully. The other party not only told him the details of the seventeen people from Nanliang, but also the methods of his own sixteen people.

From the other party's description, Mu Changsheng also heard something special, that the overall strength of the Nanliang side seemed to be stronger than theirs.

One leaf can tell the coming of autumn. Mu Changsheng couldn't help but have a doubt in his heart: "Could it be that the national strength of the Southern Liang Kingdom has surpassed that of the Northern Yuan Kingdom?"

Due to his status and position, Mu Changsheng cannot access the core intelligence of the two countries, so he cannot know which of the two countries is stronger. But now, by comparing the strength of the two sides' Divine Transformation Realm cultivators, he can get a glimpse of it.

This is definitely not good news for Mu Changsheng. He belongs to the Northern Yuan Kingdom camp. If the Northern Yuan Kingdom is annexed by the Southern Liang Kingdom, his fate will not be good either, which will be extremely unfavorable for his subsequent tasks.

Thinking of this, Mu Changsheng felt more anxious. Although the mission required him to break through to the Spirit Transformation Realm within five years, he had to break through as soon as possible. The sooner he could achieve the goal of the eighth level test, the sooner he could make arrangements in advance.

Therefore, Mu Changsheng resigned to the Seventh Prince Yuan Lang. There was still half a year before the next Fire Pearl was born, and he didn't want to waste time here.

Yuan Lang was quite reluctant to let go when he learned that Mu Changsheng wanted to leave, because Mu Changsheng's fighting ability had already been proven. Their strength was originally slightly inferior to that of the opponent. Once Mu Changsheng left, it would be even worse.

"Before the Fire Flame Pearl is born, signs will appear two months in advance. Within two months, I will return on time and will not be late in scrambling for the Fire Flame Pearl." Mu Changsheng promised.

Having said that, Yuan Lang had no reason to stop Mu Changsheng and could only agree: "Fellow Daoist Chen, please don't break your promise."

After Mu Changsheng left, he began to wander in the Earth Dragon Cave. On the one hand, he wanted to try his luck and see if he could find the Earth Dragon Pearl. On the other hand, he also wanted to hunt down some cultivators from the Southern Liang Kingdom to accumulate military merits and top-grade spirit stones.

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In a blink of an eye, two months were about to expire, and Mu Changsheng still hadn't found a single Earth Dragon Pearl. Even his hunting of cultivators had not gone well. He had only killed thirteen Nascent Soul cultivators, and his accumulated military merits were barely tens of thousands. However, in order to exchange them for two thousand top-grade spirit stones, he would need one hundred thousand military merits.

As for the Divine Transformation cultivators, Mu Changsheng had encountered quite a few in the past two months, but each of those Divine Transformation cultivators had means to preserve their lives, causing Mu Changsheng to fail every time.

In fact, not only the Jindan cultivators, but many Yuanying cultivators also have the means to save their lives and escape.

Seeing that the two-month deadline was approaching, Mu Changsheng had no choice but to return to the bottom of the Earth Dragon Cave.

However, just as Mu Changsheng was rushing back, he suddenly stopped and looked into a cave. He sensed a huge amount of spiritual power surging in the cave.

"Could it be that the Earth Dragon Ball has been born?" Mu Changsheng was both surprised and happy. He had been thinking about the Earth Dragon Ball for a long time and thought that the spirit of the Dragon Palace was deliberately targeting him and he was doomed to have no chance of getting it. Unexpectedly, there was a ray of hope.

To be on the safe side, Mu Changsheng quickly used a formation to seal the cave entrance to prevent the Earth Dragon Pearl that was about to be born from being stolen.