The Grand Sacrifice Technique is a miraculous secret art that Lu Qingyang comprehended in the Heavenly Court, based on an immense amount of incense offerings.
Compared to the original Sacrifice Technique, the Grand Sacrifice Technique is a transcendent version.
Lu Qingyang spent a total of one billion incense offerings to comprehend this Grand Sacrifice Technique.
To understand, one must know that comprehending a top-grade fourth-stage technique only requires a mere five million incense offerings.
However, deducing the Grand Sacrifice Technique cost Lu Qingyang a staggering one billion incense offerings, demonstrating the extraordinary power of this secret art.
"The Sacrifice Technique can only offer living beings, while the Grand Sacrifice Technique has no such limitations. As long as an altar is set up in the Ten Thousand Heavenly Court, anything can be offered through the Grand Sacrifice Technique. In the future, if we can breach the portal to the otherworld, we can plunder its endless resources!"
Lu Qingyang pondered.
However, plundering otherworldly resources is not something that can be achieved solely with a sacrificial technique. The Grand Sacrifice Technique is the evolved form of the Sacrifice Technique.
Once he had comprehended this secret art, Lu Qingyang directly placed it in the Heavenly Court Market for everyone to share.
What set it apart was that acquiring the Grand Sacrifice Technique required only one offering point.
Many who discovered this secret art couldn't resist exchanging for it, given its trivial cost of one offering point.
Even the most impoverished individuals would have at least a few hundred offering points.
As the Heavenly Court chat group grew, Heavenly Court offering points gradually replaced the original Alliance currency system.
It became the universally accepted hard currency. This development was inevitable.
The original Alliance currency was merely a fictional entity that functioned due to the Alliance's credibility.
However, now Heavenly Court offerings could be exchanged for all sorts of worldly goods.
With the support of the entire Heavenly Court chat group behind it, the old currency naturally couldn't compete.
The Ten Thousand Heavenly Court had already risen above all beings, reaching a state of transcendence and sanctity, unchallenged.
Even though Lu Qingyang had not acted personally in over ten years, his prestige had only grown, becoming the only recognized true immortal.
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"The Grand Sacrifice Technique is far more profound than the Sacrifice Technique. Its sudden appearance must carry significant implications!"
In the Eighth Alliance's courtyard, Xu Bo had just exchanged for the Grand Sacrifice Technique, and the detailed information of this secret art instantly appeared in his mind.
Unlike the Sacrifice Technique, which only required chanting the immortal's name to perform, the Grand Sacrifice Technique needed a sacrificial array to be set up first before it could take effect.
Seeing this secret art, Xu Bo couldn't help but think of other layers of meaning.
Clearly, the Grand Sacrifice Technique's transcendence over the Sacrifice Technique, emerging at this moment, was for a specific reason.
The first thing that came to Xu Bo's mind was the recent widespread rumors of a cross-realm invasion.
Although these rumors started not long ago, they were spreading rapidly. Xu Bo's family had verified that the Alliance was secretly pushing these rumors.
Now, with the appearance of the Grand Sacrifice Technique in the Heavenly Court chat group, Xu Bo couldn't help but link the two.
"It seems the world is indeed on the brink of a great upheaval. First, the beasts ran rampant, and now there's talk of a cross-realm invasion..."
Mentioning the cross-realm invasion, Xu Bo felt no fear but rather an inexplicable excitement.
He longed for battle, for tempering himself in the flames of war.
Since the third blood rain descended and the beast outbreak began, Xu Bo had become a prominent figure among the new generation of the Xu family.
He had always stood on the front lines against the fierce beasts.
Thus,
In just three short years, Xu Bo had advanced from the late third stage to the early fourth stage.
He became one of the two fourth-stage powerhouses in the Xu family.
The other was the current elder of the Xu family, Xu Bo's father, Xu Yan.
Before the Heavenly Court chat group emerged, Xu Yan was one of the few third-stage savage cultivators.
This allowed the Xu family to maintain a strong position after the cataclysm.
With the advent of the Heavenly Court chat group, Xu Yan seized the opportunity to break through to the fourth stage.
Although Xu Yan wasn't the first to break through to the fourth stage, his advancement speed was among the best of all current fourth-stage cultivators.
Currently,
Xu Yan was gathering momentum, preparing to break through to the mid-fourth stage.
If successful, the Xu family's status would soar, and all other forces, except the Alliance, would pale in comparison.
Xu Yan's power and authority brought pride to his eldest son, Xu Bo, but also immense pressure.
However, Xu Bo knew that pressure breeds motivation, and he was always ready to break through before his father.
Beside him, Xu Qing furrowed her brows, her face full of worry. "We don't know the strength of the otherworld yet. If a cross-realm invasion does happen, the dangers will surely be immense..."
"The matter of the otherworld is unavoidable. We'll have to face it sooner or later. Worrying won't help; we must adapt to situations and remain unflustered in the face of danger!" Xu Bo said, unafraid.
Currently, it's the otherworld invading our world, not us invading them. As the invaded, we have no retreat. Even if someone wanted to defect to the otherworld, it would depend on whether they'd accept them.
In this situation, humanity essentially has no choice.
Either we fend off the cross-realm invasion, or we face extinction. At the brink of survival, everyone can only fight with their backs against the wall.
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The emergence of the Grand Sacrifice Technique undoubtedly stirred a great wave among the people.
Just as the rumors of a cross-realm invasion were spreading widely, the appearance of the Grand Sacrifice Technique added fuel to the fire, making the rumors even more intense.
Consequently, the Alliance no longer hid the truth and officially acknowledged the news of the cross-realm invasion.
With the Alliance's official response, the news of the cross-realm invasion was confirmed.
Although some attempted to seek confirmation from the Heavenly Court, Lu Qingyang remained silent.
In the eyes of others, this silence was a tacit acknowledgment.
Thus,
The talk of a cross-realm invasion reached its peak, and concurrently, discussions about the apocalypse began.
However, the Alliance had prepared for this. Upon noticing the apocalyptic rhetoric, they swiftly suppressed it, quashing the conspiracy theories in some people's minds.
While the Alliance was abuzz with the cross-realm invasion issue, Lu Qingyang, as the embodiment of the Great Dao, focused his attention on the depths of the Northern Territory.
There, an eerie aura that filled him with disgust permeated the area, with the surrounding space fractured, revealing a terrifying darkness.
This aura was none other than the residual power of the otherworldly Great Dao, intending to open the portal between the two realms.
This power had been wandering the Qingyang Realm, searching for weak spots in the world's defenses.
Now, with its target locked, the portal between the two realms was about to open.