Absolute control over the start, I will develop my own immortality

"But I never expected that two people who were in the same batch would become the leaders of two major factions in Zhijin Building!"

Venerable Xuanfeng said in surprise: "I heard that there are only seven major factions in Zhijin Tower."

Venerable Qianlan nodded: "There are only seven relatively large factions, and there are many other small factions. However, if you think about it carefully, this is indeed a bit unbelievable..."

In fact, this is the positive result brought about by competition.

The resources required by Qianlan and Venerable Qianmei highly overlap, so the two must compete fiercely with each other.

But as long as there is competition, there will be winners and losers.

And compared to the two of them, the consequences of losing are quite serious.

Just like Venerable Qianlan lived in this pavilion, she could start to feel the charm of Tao thousands of years ago.

On the other hand, Venerable Qianmei can only plant a seedling. Not only does he have to take good care of it, but he also has to wait a long time before the seedling can grow.

The reason is that in that competition, Venerable Qianlan won and Venerable Qianmei lost.

This loss means losing thousands of years of disadvantage!

The reason is that the overlap in their resource demands is too high.

If it were the other two people, one taking the Wood Path and the other taking the Fire Path, their resources would not overlap, so naturally there wouldn't be too fierce competition.

Just like this dispute over the pavilion.

Those who follow the wood business path need this kapok tree.

However, the one who walks the Fire Avenue does not need it, and with the heritage of Zhijin Tower, there is indeed a pavilion planted with plants from the Fire Avenue.

In other words, these two people don't actually need to compete.

You live yours and I live mine.

But Qianlan and Qianmei have such a direct competitive relationship.

If you lose once, what you lose may be impossible to make up for in thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

With such serious consequences, neither of them wanted to lose.

Then we can only practice diligently and find ways to improve ourselves.

As the two of them fought each other, they each became the leader of a major faction.

In contrast, many of the people in the same class as them, or even those in higher classes, are still in the middle or early stages of Return to the Void.

What’s worse, some people cannot even cross the threshold of returning to the void and have already died of old age.

However, both of them are cultivators in the late stage of Return to Void, each of them is in charge of a faction and are extremely powerful.

However, at this point, they both encountered a threshold that they could not break through through hard work or asceticism.

That is enlightenment!

Without enlightenment, there will be no fusion.

If you can't become a united body, you won't be able to be the owner of any branch.

This made it impossible for the two of them to find a way to make further progress in terms of cultivation, position, and status.

Because of this situation, the competitive atmosphere between the two has actually been reduced a lot compared to before.

When the situation was at its worst in the past, it could even be said that both sides were opposing just for the sake of opposing.

No matter whether it is right or wrong, as long as it is proposed by the other party and is beneficial to the other party, they will strongly oppose it.

It’s not like now, when this plan was proposed, Venerable Qianmei just choked, and then after the distribution of benefits was completed, she agreed.

Compared to before, it can be said to be many times milder.

However, if resources that could help them break through and merge appeared, I'm afraid the two would immediately return to their previous state of fierce competition...

No, if that kind of resource really appeared, I’m afraid that all the people in the late stage of Return to Void in the entire Northern Realm City would be like this.

Even those outside the border area, that is, those returning to the void cultivators who are searching for Taoist treasures in the wilderness and chaotic areas, may escape.

A few years passed in the blink of an eye.

Several forces began to officially march towards Hufenglin.

The biggest danger in Hufeng Forest is actually the wind. The most powerful strength of the monsters in it is actually their ability to utilize the strong wind.

A demon beast at the divine transformation level, coupled with a divine transformation-level gale, can easily fight against opponents of higher levels.

But if they left the area with strong winds and came to the foundation-building area or the Qi-refining area, the wind they could control would become extremely weak.

Plus his own low intelligence.

It can be said that for monks of the same level, it is normal for one to fight three or one to fight five.

As a result, the troops from Beijie City were unstoppable and quickly recaptured a large area.

There is not much conflict between the various forces.

After all, it is still close to Beijie City, so any conflicts will not break out at this time.

But later, after advancing into the Jindan area, the speed suddenly slowed down.

Because of this distance, logistics gradually began to show some pressure.

Apart from anything else, the time required for transportation alone will greatly slow down the progress.

You know, fighting, especially high-intensity fighting.

The consumption of mana is very serious, so in order to maintain combat effectiveness, spiritual stones and spiritual medicines needed to restore mana become necessary.

As for the spiritual energy of heaven and earth... on a battlefield where countless cultivators participate, there are a large number of colleagues competing for the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which naturally makes the recovery speed of a single cultivator greatly reduced.

When the cannon is fired, there is a thousand taels of gold.

This applies not only to wars between mortals, but also to wars between monks.

The conflicts between various forces also gradually emerged at this time.

After advancing into the Jindan area, the number of casualties among the cultivators increased exponentially every day.

Although they told outsiders that the reason for this was that the number and strength of the monsters they encountered increased greatly after entering the Jindan area, all the forces understood that someone was secretly plotting.

But fortunately, those who died were basically people from various small forces that had defected to them.

This is also the true meaning of recruiting troops.

If the dead were their own people, even if they were all low-level cultivators, it would probably be heartbreaking to report this number.

Having said that, every high-level cultivator actually rose slowly from a low-level cultivator. Who can be sure that among this group of low-level cultivators who have died now, there will be cultivators who can return to the void or even the fusion level in the future?

But if the victims were from other forces, they wouldn’t feel sad at all.

With problems both in logistics and on the front lines, the cleanup army was undoubtedly stuck in a stalemate.

The cleaning speed has been reduced by dozens or even hundreds of times compared to before.

Fortunately, this situation did not last long.

After the Beichen Palace and Xianlingdan Tower, who were acting as referees, gave some warnings, the various forces tacitly reduced their efforts against their peers and started to really work.

Having said that, there are always many actions taking place behind the scenes.

In this way, in the complex confrontation and competition, various forces gradually advanced to the Nascent Soul area.

This area is very critical and will be the final base for all forces.

Taking the cost-effectiveness into consideration, the largest number of transport flying boats in Beijie City are all at the Nascent Soul level.

If we go one step further and reach the level of Divine Transformation, these flying boats will not be able to withstand the strong winds.

Therefore, the front end of the advancement route planned by almost all forces is in the Nascent Soul area.