A great calamity has been stirred!
Everyone's faces turned pale, this was the first thought that emerged in their minds.
Then, they began to consider whether to quickly return the Blood Essence Crystal to the Blood Sword Sect.
"It's the Blood Essence Crystal, what's happening with you all?"
Mu Jinyu noticed the change in everyone's expressions, his fingers slightly trembling, seemingly extremely frightened, and he couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Go, go, go, return the Blood Essence Crystal quickly!"
A rather timid elder, his face immediately pale, couldn't help but speak to Mu Jinyu.
Xie Chenkun took a deep breath, calmed himself down, then glanced at that elder to tell him to shut up, before looking helplessly at Mu Jinyu and sighing, "Ah... you really messed up this time!"
Mu Jinyu heard the words and was somewhat puzzled, but faintly felt he had indeed caused a great calamity.
Later, after Xie Chenkun explained it to him, he finally understood.
It turns out, the fundamental reason the Four Sects of the Yan Kingdom could survive and slowly develop was not the cultivation resources allocated by the Four Sects Martial Meeting but their individual sect's Heaven Cave Blessed land!
Such as the Heavenly Sword Pool of the Heavenly Sword Faction, the Blood Essence Pool of the Blood Sword Sect, the Mingyue Cave of Mingyue Valley, and the Extreme Ice Cave of Beixue Mountain Villa...
The cultivation resources won by the Four Sects Martial Meeting were basically for the younger disciples to cultivate with, but for the talented disciple to break through to the Fanxu Realm, those resources alone weren't enough.
Thus, whenever someone was to break through to the Fanxu Realm, it was typically arranged by the sects to halt anyone from cultivating in the Heaven Cave Blessed land for that period, and to stimulate the concentration of Elemental Qi and Spiritual Energy in there with other resources, so the person could successfully break through to the Fanxu Realm.
That's how Xie Chenkun thought when he learned Mu Jinyu could breakthrough the Fanxu Realm without being hampered by level, as long as he had resources, since the Spiritual Liquid of Heavenly Sword Pool was temporarily depleted, he arranged for Mu Jinyu to breakthrough in the Blood Essence Pool!
Therefore, as long as there are Heavenly Sword Pool and Blood Essence Pool, the Four Great Sects can cultivate a strong person in the Fanxu Realm every now and then.
But once the Heaven Cave Blessed land is destroyed, it's practically impossible for them to cultivate strong individuals in the Fanxu Realm again.
It's safe to say Mu Jinyu single-handedly severed the foundation of the Blood Sword Sect.
If the Blood Sword Sect cannot retrieve this Blood Essence Crystal, and fails to deal with the Heavenly Sword Faction, their thousand-year foundation would collapse!
Mu Jinyu's act of digging out the Blood Essence Crystal is akin to Nezha killing the Third Crown Prince of the Dragon King and pulling out its dragon tendon!
When the Blood Sword Sect discovers the Blood Essence Crystal has been extracted, they will certainly not rest and will undoubtedly wage war against us, without mercy until the end!
Mu Jinyu listened to Xie Chenkun's words, nodded slightly, his face also grew a bit solemn, then asked, "How powerful is the strongest combatant of the Blood Sword Sect?"
Xie Chenkun wasn't sure why Mu Jinyu asked, could he really intend to fully wage war against the Blood Sword Sect?
But he still answered, "The strongest combatant of the Blood Sword Sect is their Great Elder, whose strength is at the mid-stage of the Fanxu Realm, which means the Fourth Layer of the Fanxu Realm. Ordinary Third Layer Fanxu cultivators are simply not his match!"
With a sigh, Xie Chenkun bitterly said, "And our Heavenly Sword Faction doesn't have a strong person of the Fourth Layer of the Fanxu Realm, so if a real fight breaks out, we won't be their match, ultimately our sect would face extermination, while Blood Sword Sect suffers greatly!"
"But usually, they wouldn't want to wage a blood battle with us, but now that this incident has happened, it's uncertain..."
"The Fourth Layer of the Fanxu Realm?"
Mu Jinyu's heart tightened upon hearing it, then slightly nodded and said solemnly, "Sect Leader, don't be afraid, they shouldn't discover anything in a short time, after all, the Blood Essence Pool has temporarily been drained by me, they won't inspect it carefully now, only after some time, when they find the Blood Essence Pool hasn't recovered, they will realize something's wrong..."
"By that time, I should be able to break through to the Third Layer of the Fanxu Realm, and could engage it in battle, we won't have to fear them!"
The crowd from Heavenly Sword Faction heard Mu Jinyu's words and couldn't help but look at each other in disbelief.
They all had deeply skeptical eyes when they looked at Mu Jinyu.
Xie Chenkun, however, asked in a deep voice, "Are you confident?"
"Yes." Mu Jinyu thought about his True Dragon Art and the Bi Fang Cauldron in his hand, and answered.
He believed that if he attained the strength of the Third Layer of the Fanxu Realm, he could battle against the Great Elder of the Blood Sword Sect!
"Very good!" Xie Chenkun took a deep look at Mu Jinyu and said, "Then we won't go to apologize to them at their door, let's gamble once, and extinguish the Blood Sword Sect!"
His tone was filled with decisiveness and murderous aura!
If someone else said this to him, he certainly wouldn't believe it.
But Mu Jinyu's words he did believe.
After all, Mu Jinyu had a history of multiple cross-realm battles that ended in victory.
"Sect Leader..."
The many elders of the Heavenly Sword Faction heard Xie Chenkun agreeing so rashly and couldn't help but have their expressions change and worryingly called out.
"Don't say anymore, we have no way back now!"
Xie Chenkun looked at them and waved his hand:
"If we were to now take the Blood Essence Crystal back and apologize to the Blood Sword Sect, they absolutely wouldn't forgive us, after all, the Blood Essence Crystal cannot restore the Blood Essence Pool to its original effect even if it's placed back, they definitely won't spare Jinyu, likely they would kill Jinyu first, then demand we compensate them with the Heavenly Sword Pool!"
Saying this, he looked up at them and asked, "Would you agree to those terms?"
The crowd was silent.
Heavenly Sword Faction could not agree to those terms, once agreed to, they too would slowly decline into obliteration!
Xie Chenkun saw their silence and withdrew his gaze, then looked into the distance at the still tiny black dot of the Blood Sword Sect's mountain gate, and said softly:
"Jinyu is the hope of our Heavenly Sword Faction; I cannot just hand him over to be dealt with by the Blood Sword Sect. I would rather gamble to see whether our Heavenly Sword Faction ultimately under his leadership stands gloriously at the pinnacle of Kunlun Ruins or is exterminated by the Blood Sword Sect first!"
"Sect Leader..."
Mu Jinyu heard Xie Chenkun's words, his heart suddenly felt deeply distressed and regretful.
If he had known earlier that the Blood Essence Crystal was crucial to the Blood Sword Sect's lifeline, although furious due to the Blood Sword Sect's schemes at that time, he wouldn't have acted so impulsively.
Unfortunately, the Blood Essence Crystal has already been extracted, saying anything now is too late.
The only thing he could do now is to live up to Xie Chenkun's appreciation, hurriedly cultivate, strive to break through to the Third Layer, or even the Fourth Layer of the Fanxu Realm before the Blood Sword Sect discovers the changes in the Blood Essence Pool...
"No need to blame yourself, you didn't know at that time after all."
Xie Chenkun noticed Mu Jinyu's embarrassed and remorseful expression and smiled calmly, offering comfort.
Then he said, "Go cultivate, don't overthink it, if the sky falls, we'll hold it up for you first!"