Boom! Boom! Boom!
Thousands of feet above the heavens, a colossal warship, over three thousand feet long, moved with terrifying speed.
In this vast expanse of sky, the colossal warship sailed further and further into the distance as time passed.
The Heavenly Wind of the Nine Heavens, capable of tearing apart flying eagles and giant elephants in an instant, relentlessly scoured the warship, which was entirely silver and speckled with starlight, yet it did not leave even a shallow white mark upon it.
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This colossal warship sailed as if on an ordinary ocean, completely disregarding the perpetually raging Heavenly Wind of the Nine Heavens, charging forward in a straight line.
The Galaxy Giant Warship remained utterly unaffected!
At this moment, aboard this Galaxy Giant Warship, within a towering spire that reached into the clouds, lay a spacious area.
The space was filled with inner and outer disciples of the Taiyi Immortal Sect.
On this battlefield, fraught with danger, intrigue, and unseen enemies, only such a formidable immortal artifact could protect injured disciples, allowing them to heal with peace of mind, free from malicious attacks.
Thus, they would not suffer the fate of being ambushed and killed while recuperating.
At first glance, this place seemed no different from an ordinary marketplace.
It was utterly inconceivable that it was established by the high-ranking officials of the Taiyi Immortal Sect specifically for their inner and outer disciples to sell spoils of war and ill-gotten gains.
However, upon closer inspection, one could discern subtle clues.
Especially when one felt the faint, intermittent killing intent emanating from everyone in the marketplace.
This was the aura of those who had recently taken a life.
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Hundreds of feet below the Galaxy Giant Warship, on the ground, numerous cultivators from the Taiyi Immortal Sect, Heavenly Demon Gate, and Cold Water True Spirit Sect were locked in a desperate struggle on the battlefield.
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As he strolled through this temporary, albeit not very large, marketplace, Wu Tao’s brow furrowed deeper. The items his fellow disciples were selling were far more expensive than usual, especially healing elixirs, magical artifacts, and talismans, whose prices were now astonishingly high.
Conversely, resources for cultivation that held great value for future and long-term practice were not priced excessively high.
However, on this bloody battlefield, where one’s existence was uncertain from one second to the next, what use were these things?
It was a helpless situation that his fellow disciples earned these spirit stones, but Wu Tao himself had a shallow foundation.
As he walked, Wu Tao observed that although the streets were bustling with people, their actual numbers were far less than one-tenth of an ordinary marketplace.
However, this was understandable. The number of cultivators from the three sects engaged in battle, if not replenished in time, would only dwindle with the passage of time and frequent clashes.
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Moreover, the number of people was not important for the market’s business; what mattered was the ability to consume resources!
In the mortal world, one rich person’s spending is greater than a hundred poor people’s.
The same applied to the immortal cultivation world.
Cultivators who had just survived the battlefield would have ample spirit stones in their storage bags.
Furthermore, such cultivators, having just experienced a battle, would have suffered severe depletion of other resources.
And this was not the greatest source of profit.
The truly coveted and substantial gains lay in the recirculation of various cultivation resources.
This was also one of the grey incomes of the Core Formation stage elders in the battlefield.
No matter how many spoils of war the opposing cultivators captured, in the end, they would have to be converted into elixirs to improve their cultivation, into magical artifacts to enhance their combat power, and into talismans for self-preservation.
Other miscellaneous items would also need to be purchased to compensate for their shortcomings.
If a cultivator lacked essential items and their storage bag did not contain enough spirit stones.
Then they would have to sell the spoils of war they had just acquired, selling items that were unsuitable for them to buy back what was suitable. Everyone acted this way.
Even if the prices of spoils of war were heavily suppressed, they still had to be sold to exchange for spirit stones to purchase urgently needed items such as elixirs, magical artifacts, and talismans.
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Most of these items, disposed of at low prices, would eventually find their way back into the hands of the opposing cultivators.
After all, these were their own belongings, and they could not be more suitable for their use.
Of course, during this "flow," some people would always profit handsomely.
Thus, it often happened that an item was bought and sold dozens of times, changing owners dozens of times, while the influential figures behind the scenes earned profits dozens of times over.
If one were to truly consider it, the profits made in this process might even exceed the item’s intrinsic value.
Wu Tao spent all the remaining spirit stones in his storage bag, and even sacrificed the Dragon-Coiling Ice Horn Bow and the Heaven-Profound Giant Restraining Ring, two top-tier magical artifacts, to acquire only a few bottles of healing elixirs and over a hundred low-grade Five Elements Talismans.
The ruthlessness of market price suppression was evident, showcasing how insane it was.
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High above, four colossal warships, their vastness obscuring the sky, faced each other from afar, probing one another.
These four warships were: the Galaxy Giant Warship of the Taiyi Immortal Sect, the Heavenly Demon Giant Warship of the Heavenly Demon Gate, and the Lush Water Prism Giant Warship and the Chilling Thunder Giant Warship of the Cold Water True Spirit Sect.
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Under the control of the accompanying cultivators, the Galaxy Giant Warship, the Heavenly Demon Giant Warship, the Lush Water Prism Giant Warship, and the Chilling Thunder Giant Warship collided and attacked each other, crashing into one another at close range.
Dozens of thick beams of light suddenly erupted into the sky, ascending thousands of feet before bursting forth violently.
Shimmering multicolored lights affected an area of hundreds of thousands of miles, almost completely obscuring the sunlight in the sky.
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"Spirit Gathering Starlight Tower, Wrath of the Stars!!"
On the Galaxy Giant Warship, ten thousand star cannon emplacements flickered with myriad starlight, their star cores driving energy, and spiritual power churning violently.
Innumerable points of stellar energy were continuously condensed from the Star Pool.
Boom boom boom!!
Ten thousand star cannon emplacements unleashed countless streams of stellar energy madly, instantly firing tens of millions of various types of stellar energy towards the Lush Water Prism Giant Warship.
The Lush Water Prism Giant Warship, the opponent of the Galaxy Giant Warship, was equally unyielding.
On the hull of the Lush Water Prism Giant Warship, the inscribed Sea Luo Immortal Annihilation Formation manifested a scroll-like array image that encompassed the Four Seas, hiding within it boundless water-attribute energy.
With a single thought, all sorts of phenomena occurred. The stellar energy that landed within the Sea Luo Immortal Annihilation Formation had no effect whatsoever.
Following this, the incredibly tough hull of the Lush Water Prism Giant Warship, forged entirely from "Deep Sea Submerged Iron Divine Crystal," moved, and the vast waters of the Four Seas materialized.
Terrifying water-attribute power cascaded down, and an extremely cold tidal wave spread, causing snow to fall profusely wherever it passed.
The terrifying frigid power that froze time and space, along with the Profound Nether True Water from the seawater, caused everything it touched to freeze. In an instant, a glacial continent tens of thousands of feet in size condensed.
Crash!!
The Lush Water Prism Giant Warship emitted a dazzling divine radiance and fiercely rammed the Galaxy Giant Warship from mid-air.
This impact was sky-obscuring, charging forward with an indomitable and overbearing momentum.
This collision was meant to unleash ferocity and display might.
The Galaxy Giant Warship did not retreat or yield. Upon seeing the Lush Water Prism Giant Warship break through numerous stellar energies and charge forward with the force of thunder, its hull overflowed with intense light.
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At the dragon head of the bow, there was a piercing horn like an ancient chaotic beast.
Strange blue light suddenly flickered on the horn, so dense and dazzling that it illuminated the nine heavens.
When these two equally colossal warships collided, the sky within a radius of several thousand feet instantly collapsed.
Everything nearby – cultivators and monstrous beasts – was instantly torn to shreds, ground into dust. Vast amounts of flesh and blood stained the sky and the earth.
As the two warships engaged in increasingly frequent attacks, countless spatial rifts continuously emerged around them, only to collapse immediately, endlessly cycling under the collision of terrifying power.
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For a time, the Galaxy Giant Warship and the Lush Water Prism Giant Warship fought to a stalemate.
On the other side, ancient demonic patterns carved all over the Heavenly Demon Giant Warship, as if alive, rapidly emitted demonic radiance, swiftly moving and intertwining to form mysterious pictures.
It was as if the primordial source of the demonic path, existing since time immemorial, had been violently opened, revealing a terrifying, pitch-black abyss.
So profound it seemed capable of swallowing the entire world.
A tremendous, terrifying aura emanated, as if an unprecedented, world-shattering great demon god had awakened.
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