"Let's see if we can come up with a way that satisfies both the Grand Elder and the others, while keeping our Holy Land out of the fray. Even if something were to happen between the Grand Elder and the Heavenly Court in the future, our Holy Land wouldn't be involved."
Ye Fan's expression, like Gai Jiuyou's, was also filled with a heavy look. Clearly, not only Gai Jiuyou, but even he himself was wary of the lofty Heavenly Court in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm.
Although the Heavenly Court's power has not been as great as it was when it dominated the entire Tianyuan Sacred Realm countless eons ago, it has always been one of the rulers of the Tianyuan Sacred Realm and one of the strongest forces.
Even the most powerful forces in the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm, such as the human race and Buddhism, only occupy one of the thirty-six heavens. Moreover, the heaven they occupy is nominally ruled by the Heavenly Court.
However, the Heavenly Court is able to monopolize the entire Heavenly Realm, and even mobilize the origins of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Realms for its own use. The Jade Emperor has been one of the strongest beings high above for countless eras, and few in the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm can compare with him.
The gap between the Holy Land and the Heavenly Court is now even greater and more insurmountable than the gap between an ordinary ant and a giant dragon.
If the Heavenly Court wanted to deal with the Holy Land, it wouldn't even need to lift a finger; it would only need to express some dissatisfaction with the Holy Land.
Within the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm, there are countless powerful forces that want to curry favor with the Heavenly Court or are affiliated with it, and they will readily take action on behalf of the Heavenly Court.
Fortunately, the peerless Heavenly Emperor is said to be about to successfully reach the Great Luo realm, and the Heavenly Court has never shown any dissatisfaction with Gai Jiuyou and others, at least not on the surface.
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Chapter 279 Mother of All Living Beings
Throughout these endless ages, the great war between the Tianyuan Human Race and several other top races has been ongoing and its scale has been continuously expanding.
What's somewhat intriguing is that the epic battle between these top powers, which has raged for countless years, has not caused any irreparable damage to that multiverse. Not only is that multiverse still intact, it has even become stronger by absorbing the lifeblood of countless living beings.
Meanwhile, the Tianyuan Human Race and other races have been sending an increasing number of warriors to the battlefields of the major wars each year over the years.
Surprisingly, the casualties on both sides have remained at the initial figures. In fact, over the years, the number of people killed in battle each day for each ethnic group has not only not increased, but has even shown a slight downward trend.
Of course, compared to the people of the various clans of Tianyuan, the major powers in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm were fully aware of the shady dealings involved. However, none of the major powers risked offending several top clans in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm by spreading the secrets around.
During this period, all entertainment-related industries within the Tianyuan human race suffered devastating blows and remain in decline to this day.
Those celebrities who could cause endless waves within the Tianyuan human race simply by showing their faces have long been replaced by those exceptionally talented geniuses.
Now, with the three-way war, not only has a large number of qualified warriors been selected for the Tianyuan human race over a long period of time, but the entire human race has also been kept under a martial spirit.
Other major powers within the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, having witnessed the various benefits brought to their respective races by the great wars between the Tianyuan Human Race and other races over the years, have also become restless.
Among these forces, some chose to form alliances with several races, such as the Tianyuan Human Race, which were engaged in a major war. Then, under the guise of helping their allies, they sent a large number of their people into various battlefields. After some of these people were sacrificed through the trials of blood and fire, the rest were all qualified warriors.
Furthermore, this move has another benefit: with the arrival of war, it can arouse the people's shared hatred and determination to fight against the powerful enemy, and make all the people of the tribe start to work hard to cultivate, hoping that one day they can also fight for their own race or power.
As for the other part of the major forces in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, they followed the example of the Tianyuan Human Race and other top races, and after discussing and agreeing among themselves in private, they did so.
They deliberately provoke friction and conflict between two or more parties in the open, and then get involved in a melee between several parties in order to hone their skills.
As various forces in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm launched their operations, over the years, the Tianyuan Sacred Realm gradually fell into an environment that appeared extremely chaotic, with various battles and conflicts taking place everywhere.
In reality, all of these are under the control of the major forces in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm. In essence, the Tianyuan Sacred Realm is currently in a strangely peaceful situation.
Although over the years, the numerous warriors from various forces in the Tianyuan Holy Realm who participated in the war have fought with all their might to some extent.
However, the high-ranking officials of the various forces in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm were fully aware of all this and remained very calm. The sudden surge in the number of deaths of their clansmen did not affect their hearts.
Under the reassurance and control of the high-ranking officials of various forces, the warriors of the various forces in the Tianyuan Holy Realm fought each other fiercely, but the situation did not escalate to the point of being out of control and actually starting a war.
Meanwhile, over the years, the Tianyuan Ranking Battle has gradually evolved into the grandest event in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, causing huge waves in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm every ten thousand years and attracting the attention of countless beings.
In the current Tianyuan Ranking Battle, in addition to determining the ranking of the geniuses of each race, all the young geniuses who have passed the open selection for all races by the major forces of the Tianyuan Holy Realm, as well as the representatives dispatched by the powerful lone warriors, can participate in the Tianyuan Ranking Battle to compete and fight against the geniuses of all races.
Furthermore, in the current Tianyuan Sacred Realm, those powerful individuals above the eighth level of the extraordinary realm all share a consensus: if they have any conflict with other powerful individuals of the same level...
Both sides must come up with a wager that satisfies the other. During the Tianyuan Ranking Battle, the people sent by each side will resolve the dispute, and the winner will receive a very substantial wager prepared by the loser.
Over the years, as all aspects of the Tianyuan Ranking Battle have become very sophisticated, the Tianyuan Ranking Battle has gradually become a three-way event hosted by the Heavenly Court, the Pantheon, and the Demon Court.
The reason for this is that only these three parties can afford one of the rewards for the champion of the Tianyuan Ranking Battle.
In the past few decades of the Tianyuan Ranking Battle, the final champion of each Tianyuan Ranking Battle has been able to choose any cultivation technique or scripture as a reward from the library of the Heavenly Court, the Demon Court, or the Pantheon.
Of course, this reward is not without its limitations. The most advanced cultivation techniques in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm can almost be considered as independent life forms, and all of them are extremely powerful.
Whether those geniuses who won first place in the Tianyuan Ranking Battle will gain recognition from these top-tier cultivation techniques remains to be seen.
If one cannot gain the approval of these top-tier cultivation techniques, one is not qualified to choose them and can only choose those second-rate secret manuals.
Of course, this has already driven countless geniuses in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm crazy, and the various rewards for outstanding performers in the Tianyuan Ranking Battle are one of the main reasons why countless geniuses in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm are eager to participate in the Tianyuan Ranking Battle.
However, none of these were enough to attract the top geniuses from the most powerful forces in the Tianyuan Holy Realm to participate. What truly attracted the most extraordinary talents to participate in the Tianyuan Ranking Battle was another crucial thing.
It's unclear when exactly, but Yuan Hao began to cast a sliver of his lofty gaze upon the Tianyuan Ranking Battle.
And from that time on, the first place winner of each Tianyuan Ranking Battle will be able to obtain a leaf of the Elf Clan's World Tree, which is the mother tree of the World Tree that Ye Fan saw in the Origin Ocean of the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, the one that pierced through the entire Tianyuan Sacred Realm.
The mother tree of the Elven World Tree, which is the World Tree that Yuan Hao initially planted within the Heavenly Dao Space of the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, is also the mother tree of all the spiritual roots of heaven and earth in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, and the mother of all living beings in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm.
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Chapter 280 An Invitation from Heaven
Over the years, the World Tree planted in the Heavenly Dao Space of the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, under Yuan Hao's continuous cultivation, has long since transcended the original World Tree's limitations and grown to an unknown and terrifying level.