An Unexpected War

"What?! You're telling me that there's another Heaven Immortal realm cultivator within the Immortal Sword Sect besides that old fogie?!" A middle-aged man with red hair and an eyepatch on his right eye was shocked.

"Y-yes, sir, it seems that's what we heard from the spies in the sect. They said that they saw the Heaven Immortal breakthrough phenomenon..." A man dressed in all black clothing kneeling and responded to the oppressive man in front of him.

"Hmmm, that old Heaven Immortal fogie has a lot of tricks up his sleeve and is known for being scheming. This might be an elaborate trick by him to fool us into retreating. He knows that we were going to war soon." The middle-aged man scratched his prickly facial hair and squinted his eyes.

"We'll still go to war. We need that treasure if it's the last thing we do!" The middle-aged man's eyes widened with a red glow and with a resolute glare.

~Back at the Immortal Sword Sect~

"I really have to thank you a lot, brat. I never thought I would actually reach the Heaven Immortal realm after so long in seclusion!" Elder Kongjian was still in a good mood and was laughing hysterically.

"Master, I also broke through." Ling Tian released a cultivation of a Nascent Soul 9th stage. "When I saw your breakthrough, I had an epiphany and broke through to the next stage."

"Well that's to be expected, it's a very rare occasion to see someone breakthrough to the Heaven Immortal realm." Elder Kongjian nodded his head.

As they were joyfully talking, they heard a very loud rumbling coming from the distance, it even shook the ground beneath them.

"What is that sound?" That was what everyone was thinking right now.

A gigantic red and black colored flying ship was soaring through the sky and coming towards the Immortal Sword Sect. On it, there was a flag with the Evil Blood Sect's symbol, a bloody skull, dripping with blood.

"Evil Blood Sect! Everyone, prepare for battle." Everyone was shocked but not as shocked as they would be before. They practiced hard and fought life-and-death situations because they listened to what Ling Tian said and got stronger in every way.

Ling Tian squinted his eyes, "What are they doing here again? I thought I told them off... Let me see what is their true goal."

Ling Tian's eyes closed for only two seconds before he opened them again.

"It seems there is some Red Pheonix Blood in the sect. However, the Red Pheonix Blood was just the blood from a branch of the phoenix tree. The blood is even diluted and not pure, so it's not worth much in the high heavens but worth a lot in the middle heavens, especially for middle-tier sects in the middle heaven." Ling Tian squinted his eyes and was thinking about his next move.

"Brat, you are too weak right now to have any effect on this war. Get back into your hut and I'll hide it for you personally, I can even improve the space compression with my newfound powers." Elder Kongjian pointed his finger at Ling Tian's hut and he could feel that the space around it was much stronger and more difficult to detect.

Ling Tian followed his orders and went back into the hut. Of course, he wasn't going to just stand idle, he would pull the strings from the shadows.

Ling Tian left his current Nascent Soul body on his personal bed and created another body instantly.

The new body looked like an old hermit that roamed the world by himself. His new form had long white hair and a beard and dressed in simple white clothing.

He gave himself a True Immortal realm cultivation which was a realm above the Heaven Immortal stage.

He teleported outside and overlooked the battle. The war was just starting and the Evil Blood Sect was attacking the main formation of the Immortal Sword Sect.

"Your Immortal Sword Sect shall fall today and we, the Evil Blood Sect, shall reign over these lands!" The middle-aged man laughed madly.

"Are you not afraid of the Immortal that came that day and told us a lesson, Dugu Ye?" The patriarch of the Immortal Sword Sect appeared. He was a middle-aged man with silky long silver hair and looked to be very handsome despite his age.

"Shut up! You were the one who slashed my right eye! I'm not afraid of that Heaven Immortal and your old fogie!" Dugu Ye tore off his eyepatch to reveal his missing eye and released his early Heaven Immortal stage cultivation.

"Heaven Immortal realm!" The patriarch squinted his eyes and started to feel dread. Even though their ancestor was at the Heaven Immortal realm, he was reaching the end of his life and was severely weakened. The ancestor could only release one single full attack before his life dwindled away.

"Don't fret Patriarch! I'm here!" Elder Kongjian appeared out of a space rift he cut through.

"There's actually another Heaven Immortal realm cultivator here!" Dugu Ye wasn't so sure about this anymore.

"You just broke through, I still have the advantage!" A crazed look appeared on Dugu Ye and a bloody aura was released from him. He pulled out his bloody saber and dashed towards Elder Kongjian.

Although Elder Kongjian just broke through, he was by no means weak and even had the Space Dao. However, Dugu Ye broke through a long time ago, he could have gone to war immediately but stayed behind to gain experience and to control his strength better so he was still stronger than Elder Kongjian.

Elder Kongjian started getting some cuts on his body and as he fought more and more, the injuries were piling up. Dugu Ye could smell the delicious blood of a Heaven Immortal and absorbed the blood that escaped from Elder Kongjian's wounds.

Dugu Ye was in pleasure and his eyes started turning even redder. His aura was skyrocketing and he actually broke through to the 2nd stage of the Heaven Immortal realm!

He instantly got the upper advantage and started chopping Elder Kongjian's wounds and gained more momentum.

It did not look good for Elder Kongjian. However, Ling Tian was already watching and walked out with his aura and pressed down on Dugu Ye.

"A True Immortal!?!" Dugu Ye yelped. There were only 16 True Immortals in the world and 2 Pinnacle Immortals on the Immortal Yuan Continent. He did not expect a True Immortal to meddle with middle-tier sects as that was actually forbidden unless under certain conditions.

Ling Tian used his Three World Calamitous Fingers but applied the cultivation of a True Immortal and used a higher understanding of the technique.

One finger fell down onto Dugu Ye and he was crushed to a bloody pulp and then exploded into a bloody mist.

"Kill the rest as experience." Ling Tian commanded.

He turned his head towards his master and tossed him a spatial treasure that looked to be a pagoda.

Everyone was shocked but didn't have time to remain in that state as they had to chase down the remaining intruders and kill them.

The patriarch and the ancestor in seclusion heaved a sigh of relief and were extremely grateful. They did not expect Dugu Ye to be so strong.