Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 517: Chapter 338 Dragon-Subduing Demon-Suppressing Great True Monarch_3

At this time, the old prison guards usually had some privileges, allowing them to slack off on the sly.

As long as it didn’t affect their duties, the prison captains often turned a blind eye.

Despite Zhao Sheng’s relatively short service, his invincibility among the Qi Refining Realm prison guards, thanks to his fists, had earned him unique privileges reserved for the more experienced.

In the Cultivation World, might had always commanded respect, and the Divine Prison was no exception!

…

And so, another half a year passed by.

With Zhao Sheng’s reminder, Zhao Zhongque smoothly set a trap for Wang Hengxi, ruthlessly countering and killing a group of Wang Family cultivators, and even managed to capture Wang Hengxi alive.

At the same time, Zhao Zhongque also secretly discovered Li Jing’s blunder, but he didn’t immediately act to capture him. Instead, he bided his time and let out some information that was a mix of truth and falsehood through Li Jing.

Zhao Sheng, who was observing the turn of events from the shadows, approved of all this inwardly after witnessing it.

Judging by the efficiency and meticulousness with which Zhao Zhongque handled things, as well as his cultivation at the late stage of Foundation Establishment,

it was clear that the Xinglong Zhao family was teeming with talent, with their overall strength skyrocketing. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have sent a Foundation Establishment late-stage clan member to carry out such dangerous tasks.

Sure enough, during a secret meeting half a month later, Zhao Sheng also learned many key pieces of information from Zhao Zhongque, which covered the great war between the realms and the Southern Sky Zhao family, though most of it was discussed in broad terms.

Even so, this was enough to delight Zhao Sheng.

The reason why the Xinglong origin Zhao family was praised as the “Southern Sky Zhao family” after a thousand years was largely due to the emergence of an extraordinary figure from the clan.

Zhao Sheng hadn’t expected Zhao Xuanjing to actually reach such heights today,

the Dragon-subduing Demon-suppressing Great True Monarch!

This was the reputation unanimously bestowed upon Zhao Xuanjing by all his fellow Daoists in the Tianzhu Realm after he broke through the heavenly barrier and successfully advanced to the Divinity Transformation Realm.

With a Divinity Transformation Realm ancient ancestor presiding over the Xinglong origin, it was natural that the Zhao family’s development was rapid, and their expansion swift, without any need for elaboration.

Over more than a thousand years, the Xinglong origin Zhao family rapidly expanded from a second-rate power into a true behemoth, overpowering the Southern Border Dan Ding Sect and the Beast Taming Sect, with their influence extending far beyond the Southern Border.

As a result of the ancestral instruction left by the ancient ancestor to branch out and spread, the Zhao clan continually split off into collateral branches. After a millennium of migration, Zhao clan members were spread throughout the Tianzhu Realm’s Five Continents and Four Seas, numbering in the hundreds of millions.

Zhao Zhongque only spoke of the publicly known information, not mentioning even a word about the Zhao family’s internal specifics such as how many Nascent Soul ancestors they had, or the numbers of Golden Core and Foundation Establishment clan members.

Zhao Sheng naturally knew that the other party still had doubts about him, which boiled down to a lack of trust.

However, Zhao Sheng was not only not angry, but he also appreciated Zhao Zhongque all the more.

When asked about when the great war between the realms would end, Zhao Zhongque candidly replied, “Officially, the great war between the realms ended one thousand two hundred and twenty-three years ago. However, in reality, while large-scale warfare has ceased, small-scale covert infiltration wars are ongoing and have continued unabated from a thousand years ago to this day.”

Zhao Sheng had already had a premonition about this and was not surprised. He quickly asked again, “Then… the outcome of the great war between the realms, could it be that the Tianzhu Realm lost? Otherwise, how could the Heavenly Rebel Alliance have so many disciples from the major sects?”

Zhao Zhongque shook his head, his tone grave as he said, “The war ultimately did not yield a clear victor. While the time-space rift in the Heavenly Burial Plain was resealed by our realm, the reality is—”

He suddenly stopped speaking at this point.

“But what?” Zhao Sheng immediately asked, seeing this.

Zhao Zhongque hesitated, then suddenly asked, “Taoist Zhao, do you believe that there are true deities in this world?”

“…” Zhao Sheng was momentarily left speechless.