Chen Guanshui was imrsed in the emotions of perceiving the Great Dao, his heart full of joy and emotion.
This is the Great Dao... Compared to the vastness and profundity of the Great Dao, everything else in this world seems to hold no value worth more attention.
The Great Dao is supre!
His consciousness was drifting without knowing why, yet his physical shell, under the influence of the will of the Heavenly Dao, showed a rather serious expression.
To the Heavenly Dao, it needs to guide this person to ascend to the Immortal Realm while trying not to interfere too much—after all, those present are the bigwigs of the Cultivation Realm, and if it were to strike them all dead with Heavenly Thunder, it would severely affect the fate of countless humans, so it must not do so unless absolutely necessary.
Of course, if they were hell-bent on interrupting Chen Guanshui’s Ascension, then the Heavenly Dao would have no choice but to open a killing spree. After all, if Chen Guanshui were to remain, it would be even more troubleso. The massive rit he carries is akin to countless death-exemption tokens, so that even if he were to commit unspeakable cris in the future, there would be no concern for karmic retribution... creating a grave threat.
We must escort this guy out with courtesy!
Fortunately, this person is full of various Daoist magic ans, and his tactical consciousness is exceptionally formidable. The Heavenly Dao consciousness only needs to mobilize his subconscious and instincts to easily break through the heavy encirclents outside.
As for why those people are intercepting the Ascension, the Heavenly Dao neither ponders nor cares, for it is more like a chanical consciousness maintaining rules, without the ability to actively plan, and can only respond passively to changes outside.
"So what should be done next?" An Zhisu had grown impatient from waiting, frowned, and asked, "If we are to concentrate all our strength to achieve a decisive blow, then when is the best ti to attack?"
"Jiao Xiao Daoist, please be patient." Shi Liuli calmly replied, "As I said earlier, if you deploy swordsmanship but cannot defeat the Heavenly Dao, your swordsmanship will be comprehended by the Heavenly Dao. Aside from getting a thrill, what aning does it have?"
The elders of Penglai nodded in agreent, naturally upholding the thought of ’planning before action’. The Peak Masters of Shushan discreetly frowned, feeling there was a hint of pointing at the mulberry and scolding the locust.
Peak Master of Bi Yun, who was severely injured by the Tianyuan Yiqi Sword earlier, couldn’t help but ask angrily upon hearing this:
"But if we don’t try, how do we know if the Heavenly Dao can be defeated?"
"It’s not about not trying, but about trying with a plan, with order, rather than fighting haphazardly." Shi Liuli calmly stated, "The Shushan Shangqing Faction has always been good at combat with rich experience; they shouldn’t need the juniors reminding them in this respect."
The Peak Masters of Shushan were all silent. Indeed, they were always good at combat, especially with rich experience in personal magical competitions, but cooperation... mainly they had never encountered such a formidable enemy before that required cooperation to combat, so their experience in this aspect was sowhat lacking.
"Since that is the case, I’d like to hear Dong You’s idea." Over at Kunlun, Elder Xu ca out and smiled as he said, "What kind of plan do you intend to use to attempt?"
"Firstly, it’s a question of strength." Shi Liuli stated calmly, "To concentrate all forces on one punch and ensure success, first, we need to ascertain what the strongest power is."
"Immortal?" Xu Yinglian suddenly asked.
"Yes, an immortal." Shi Liuli nodded and said, "If an immortal were here, the assurance of successful Ascension would not be just a little bit higher."
Everyone rapidly started thinking: If calculating by distance, the journey for an immortal to the Southeastern Heaven Pillar was a bit long, especially with Kunlun being furthest away, compared to Chen Guanshui’s Ascension speed, there’s a good chance they wouldn’t make it in ti.
But then they thought, initially, each faction only sent Nascent Soul cultivators and didn’t let immortals take action, because they didn’t know Chen Guanshui would ascend directly, and with so many people gathered, they couldn’t defeat him.
Since they couldn’t defeat him, there was a reasonable excuse to call for immortals. Even if they failed in the end, it would just an the immortals had a fruitless trip, with no further loss.
Seeing how much importance the immortals placed on Chen Guanshui, they might not even bla us.
Of course, if they could find a way to stall Chen Guanshui’s Ascension speed, so an immortal had ti to arrive and take action, that would be even better.
With this in mind, everyone quickly reached a unanimous consensus:
Call the immortals over!
As the elders reported back to their sects, they suddenly heard Elder Bi Yun say:
"Our Jiao Xiao’s Sun True Obscure Sword, if it could wield its full power, would likely be no less than an immortal."
"But as far as I know, Jiao Xiao Daoist’s life-bound sword artifact is the Flying Smoke Sword." Shi Liuli quietly stated, "How could the Sun True Obscure Sword serve as a life-bound sword artifact?"
"Even if it can’t serve as a life-bound sword artifact, it doesn’t an the Sun True Obscure Sword can’t exert its power," An Zhisu suddenly said.
Shi Liuli gave her a aningful look, smiled, and said:
"In that case, the most crucial strike will depend on Jiao Xiao Daoist."
"Let’s not talk about the crucial strike yet." Xu Yinglian began to speak, "Before that, according to what you said, how are we to ’plan and orderly’ probe?"
"Based on my previous observations." Shi Liuli said seriously, "This Heavenly Dao consciousness is very rigid, for instance, if it only intends to use three parts strength for defense, if you use two parts strength, it will take the hit; if you use four parts strength, to avoid consuming more True Yuan on defense, it will try to take you down first."
"In other words, as long as we attack within its tolerable range, we won’t suffer a counterattack." Xu Yinglian pondered, "But its tolerable range just encircles us in a way that prevents stopping the senior brother from ascending. In other words, all possibilities of winning must be accumulated on the final crucial strike, which is too risky."
"Indeed." An Zhisu also disliked this strategy of waiting without taking action, couldn’t help but ask, "Is there another way? For instance, if as you say, I use four parts strength to force its defense, and it instead chooses to take down directly, but what if everyone works together to block this strike?"
"This way, it fails to take down successfully and uses more True Yuan than using four parts strength for defense, wouldn’t that serve to deplete it?"
Shi Liuli was greatly surprised; isn’t this Shushan Jiao Xiao a brute? But when it cos to combat, why does the intelligence suddenly escalate?
As for the thod An Zhisu ntioned, it was indeed feasible.
Though Chen Guanshui would beco a Chaotic Great Luo Golden Immortal, casually striking any one of them here to severe injury, if everyone worked together to resist, it wouldn’t be impossible to block.
But when it cos to defensive capability, Penglai Jade Pure View, specializing in unconventional techniques, is the most adept, thus it would lead to Penglai mbers’ True Yuan being depleted faster, unfavorable in the subsequent struggle for the husband after the Ascension... so she was hesitating whether to adopt this strategy.
But as An Zhisu had already proposed it, she could not find more reasons to refute, could only go with the flow and nod in agreent:
"In that case, let’s give it a try."
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