Grand-Orient Realm Sect War

The Grand-Orient Realm Sect War was an event that occured after the conclusion of the Realm War with Li Tianming declared the victor and rewarded with the Grand-Orient Sect. The sect war involved all five sects in the realm: Grand-Orient Sect, Southsky Sect, Onyx Sect, Cloudmist Sword School and Heaven's Elysium.

## History

### Prelude of the Sect War (Chapter 339 to 340)

After the Realm War was concluded, the Grand-Orient Sect and Southsky Sect departed for their home, while the remaining three sects started planning. The Elysian Emperor, Four Cardinal Kings, elysian elders, the Onyx Emperor and Onyx Empress, Sikong Jiansheng and their elders were all present. The Onyx Sect pledged to sent fifty elders and seventy thousand of their Onyx Legion, while the Cloudmist Sword School swore to sent out all their elders and keepers. They would form a force of hundred elders and over a hundred thousand troops. The Onyx Sect was assigned to attack the Grand-Orient Sect from the Abyssal Battlefield while the Cloudmist Sword School would attack from the real world, working together to whittle down the sect's defenses. The Heaven's Elysium army would wait to ambush the Southsky Sect's reinforcements. As the other two sects were preparing to leave, Jun Niancang volunteered to accompant them to attack the Grand-Orient Sect and he was granted permmission by Jun Shengxiao.

### Start of the Sect War (Chapter 345 to 352)

With the Grand-Orient Sect being the primary target, the Cloudmist Sword School arrived outside the sect with seventy thousand cloudmist sentinels and over forty elders. Sikong Jiansheng led the army and was joined by Jun Niancang and two of his companions from the Theocracy of Ancients, Yuan Chen of the Earthorigin Sect and Yun Zhenzhen of the Ancient Kirin Clan. The Onyx Sect was preparing a beast tide in the Abyssal Battlefield and when they were ready, both sides charged towards the Grand-Orient Barrier protecting the Grand-Orient Sect.

As the Cloudmist keepers charged in, their vision was obscured and they encountered several spirit hazards which took out a portion of them. Those who got deeper in were attacked by the grand-orient guardians who were waiting for them. The keepers were taking some losses, but were able to get deeper into the barrier due to the limited manpower on the Grand-Orient Sect who had to divide their guardians on two sides. Shangguan Jingshu was managing the barrier core and used it to deliver critical attacks on the invaders.

On the Abyssal Battlefield side, the Onyx Sect had initiated the beast tide and had their legionnaires following behind. There were several broodmother lifebound beast among the Onyx Legion, which allowed them to swamp the guardians. They were able to penetrate deeper into the barrier, despite the Imperial Dragon Pulse and various defenses. Huangfu Fengyun was managing the barrier core on this side and was limited in what he could to the beast tide and the poison fog from the venomous lifebound beasts from the legion. It was at this time that Yuwen Taiji and his allied elders appeared in the rearlines and started attacking both the Onyx Emperor, Onyx Empress and the other Onyx Sect elders. Yuwen Taiji wielded the Grand-Orient Sword, and was able to heavily injure the Onyx Empress and held her hostage, causing the Onyx Emperor to call for a retreat. As they retreated, it was clear that the onyx legion had taken a greater loss in the first exchange. After the onyx legion had pulled back a distance from the barrier, Yuwen Taiji gave them a way out of the war: to betray Heaven's Elysium and destroy the Cloudmist Sword School with him. His scheme was tempting and both the Onyx Emperor took it into consideration and brought it back to discuss with his sect elders.

Following his victory, Yuwen Taiji brought the remaining guardians and elders to fight on real world and brought much needed reinforcement to the dire situation. Sikong Jiansheng had just breached the barrier with his keepers before he almost lost his life to Yuwen Taiji and the Cloudmist Sacred Sword was broken. He immediately called for a retreat and most of his forces pulled out. Those who remained in the barrier were beheaded and their heads were thrown towards the invaders.

### Interlude (Chapter 353 to 360, 364)

After the Cloudmist Sword School had retreated, Yuwen Taiji wanted to lure out Tianming and Ye Shaoqing and used the Li Saint Clan. When Yuwen Taiji was about to kill Tianming, he was interrupted by Li Wudi who had overcome his Lifesbane and pulled out the Venomdrake Spike, allowing his cultivation to reach First Stage of Sky Saint Stage. Yuwen Taiji's allied elders were all killed while both Yuwen Taiji and Yuwen Fengtian were captured and pierced with the Venomdrake Spike, before suffering in Li Wud's Ancient Infernalblood Kunpeng's Bloodtear Sphere for the years to come. Li Wudi was recognised as the new sect master.

When Sikong Jiansheng and Jun Niancang witnessed the conclusion, they were struck with indecision and relayed the information to Jun Shengxiao for his decision. At the same time, Li Wudi had heard about Yuwen Taiji's plan to work with the Onyx Sect, and decided to follow through with it.

When Jun Shengxiao heard the news, he sent Jun Dongyao with sixty elders and seventy thousand purifiers to aid the Onyx Sect and Cloudmist Sword School. He chose to abandon the Onyx Empress and even approved Jun Dongyao to kill the Onyx Emperor if he refused.

### Second Wave of Attacks (Chapter 367 to 372)

Jun Dongyao had arrived outside the sect and had organised the forces. There were a total of seventy thousand Elysian purifiers, and nearly a hundred and fifty thousand Cloudmist keepers and Onyx legionnaries with about hundred and fifty elders. Looking out at the assembled army, Li Tianming decided to participate in the war despite his master's opinion. Li Wudi had come to an agreement with the Onyx Emperor and their trap was ready to be sprung.

The combined army charged into the barrier, with Sikong Jiansheng leading a force of forty elders and Jun Dongyao leading the sixty elders in search of Li Wudi. Li Wudi arranged Ye Shaoqing to face Dongyao while he dealt with Jiansheng. Tianming had started fighting and after killing the eighth son of Jiansheng, Sikong Lingfeng, attracted the attention of the enemy elders and was focused on. Li Wudi emerged to protect him and ordered the Onyx Legion and Grand-Orient guardians to launch their counterattack. The counterattack was accompanied by the strengthening of the spirit hazards of the Grand-Orient Barrier and the emergence of the ninety-nine imperial dragon pusles which caused countless more deaths.

Li Wudi had caught up with Jiansheng and easily killed his lifebound beast with one slash. Jiansheng was bisected in half and eventually killed by Tianming, due to his grudge from the humiliation at the Realm War. The death of Sikong Jiansheng further enhanced the panic among the keepers who were surrounded on all sides. The cloudmist elders were all killed and soon Dongyao and his elders was surrounded by Li Wudi, Ye Shaoqing and the Onyx Emperor. Dongyao was soon beheaded by Li Wudi and the elysian purifiers and elders fell into despair. They were slaughtered and less than ten thousand cloudmist keepers and less than five thousand elysian purifers with six elders had escaped with Jun Niancang. The battle had ended and both the Onyx Legion and Grand-orient guardians were celebrating their victory and collecting their spoils.

### Second Interlude (Chapter 374 to 375, 380)

Jun Niancang led the remaining forces to his father's army which had set up camp a distance from Southsky Island and informed them of the Onyx Sect's betrayal and the outcome of the battle. Jun Shengxiao had a breakdown and spat out blood after hearing their losses. He immediately called for a retreat back to their home in order to strategise their next steps.

On their way back, Jun Niancang had invited Yuan Hun of the Earthorigin Sect to discuss a collaboration with his father. In exchange for hundred sect elders and a hundred and fifty thousand Earthorigin defenders, Jun Shengxiao gave up one fifth of the entire realm, which was formerly under the Cloudmist Sword School's control. Jun Shengxiao submitted the request to the Theocracy of Ancients and waited for their authorisation which would take one to three months.

Eighty days later, the Earthorigin Sect entered the realm with their elders and hundred and fifty thousand defenders. With the combined army of three hundred and thirty thousand, the realm war that had taken a break, resumed afresh.

### Third Attack on the Grand-Orient Sect (Chapter 381 to 385)

The combined invading army of both Heaven's Elysium and Earthorigin Sect's forces stood outside the Grand-Orient Barrier, with Jun Shengxiao leading his elders and Yuan Hun led the earthorigin elders. Under their watchful eye, Li Wudi took out Jun Dongyao's head and stomped it in front of them. He was hoping to anger Jun Shengxiao enough so that he would accept his request to duel. His attempt failed but Li Tianming was able to provoke Yuan Chen into accepting his life-and-death duel.

Both of them faced off with Tianming facing the Hellshaker Black Tortoise and both Ying Huo and Meow Meow dealing with Yuan Chen. Tianming was able to split the tortoise in half with the second strike of the Shenxiao Sword Art, fusion of fire and lightning. On the other side, Yuan Chen had been tortured by both of them before being penetrated by Ying Huo with Pyros Imperius through his bottom and decapitated by Tianming. Yuan Chen's death enraged the earthorigin forces and they almost lunged on him if not for Li Wudi stopping them. They retreated into the barrier and awaited the upcoming attack.

The invading army charged towards the barrier and were able to make it through without any losses, which was perculiar to the leaders. As they passed through and saw the thirty-three immortal mountains undefended except for Li Wudi and his lifebound beast. Smirking at their ignorance, Li Wudi had left all the grand-orient elders and guardians to support the Bloodbane Formation which started to expand out and engulfed the thirty-three immortal mountains and beyond towards the invading army. Within the bloody mist, apparations of blood-colored wind, fire, water, earth and lightning kunpengs appeared and engaged in a slaughter. No bodies were left untouched and their energy was absorbed by the formation to empower it further.

Despite their best efforts to retreat outside the range of the formation, the invading army took heavy losses with hundred and thirty thousand dead. Heaven's Elysium had also lost both the North and West Cardinal Kings and hundred over elders. Some of the elders begged for Jun Shengxiao to give up on the war but were killed for demoralizing the remaining forces. On the other hand, the Earthorigin Sect had lost fifty thousand troops and their junior sect master. Jun Shengxiao requested for another hundred and fifty thousand earthorigin defenders but it was shot down by Yuan Hun, unless he gave up the Onyx Sect's territory in exchange. Jun Shengxiao then revealed his backup plan which was to breach the Southsky Formation and force Li Wudi to reinforce the Southsky Sect. In order to make his plan work, he was willing to use mortals as sacrifices to force the southsky sentinels to leave their formation to protect them.

The Grand-Orient Sect and Onyx Sect had been celebrating their victory when they received the news of the invading armies' new target. Li Wudi decided to lead an elite force of Earth Saint Stage experts with the Onyx Emperor to provide reinforcement for the Southsky Sect, with Tianming tagging along. They were able to make it before the invading army had gotten into position.

### War outside the Southsky Sect (Chapter 387 to 393)

When the combined Heaven's Elysium and Earthorigin arrived near the Southsky Island, Jun Shengxiao commanded each of his purifiers to capture three people from Aquamarine Nation. Jun Niancang tried to stop his father but was thrown aside and ordered to leave the battlefield. The elysian purifiers soon returned with their captives and threw them into the Southsky Formation.

Inside the Southsky Formation, Weisheng Tianlan had deactivated the spirit hazards and ordered the southsky sentinels to save as many innocents and protect them from harm. The battlefield was a chaotic mess with the invading army, innocents and the defenders mixing together. Tianming was involved with the rescuing and had hidden his identity to not attract unwanted attention. He was able to receive the acknowledgement of both the spirit of the Grand-Orient Sword and Prime Tower which caused both artifacts to rescue all the innocent citizens and bring them safely into the Southsky Sect.

With the safety of the innocent citizens resolved, the defenders launched their counterattack and the Southsky Formation was activated at its maximum power. The invading army suffered many losses with a portion of their forces defecting and attacking their own members. Yuan Hun called for a retreat and was about to fall back when Li Wudi came to confront him and Jun Shengxiao. Li Wudi was able to kill Yuan Hun easily and threw his body into the formation to force the earthorigin defenders to surrender which most of them ended up doing. Li Wudi would go on to duel Jun Shengxiao and suceed in killing him, ending the war for good.

The remaining earthorigin defenders surrendered and held as hostage to ensure that the Earthorigin Sect would compile with Li Wudi's demands while the remaining Heaven's Elysium forces were to be incorporated into the Grand-Orient Sect.