Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor-Chapter 1284: Don’t Look at Me That Way

On the brink of the Eternal Death Zone, a hundred thousand Martial Artists have gathered.

Like a swarm of ants, these Martial Artists have formed hundreds and thousands of alliances, scattered across a hundred li radius.

These alliances, small with a few dozen people and large as several hundreds, each hold their ground, glaring covetously and confronting nearly ten thousand disciples of the Golden Crow Manor who are several li away.

The goal of these hundred thousand Martial Artists is the entry to the Essence Stone Vein guarded by the disciples of the Golden Crow Manor.

That entrance to the Essence Stone Vein is the only pathway within a thousand li radius that leads deep underground to the Essence Stone Mine, where one can find amazingly abundant Fire Elemental Stones.

Since the discovery of the Essence Stone Vein in the Eternal Death Zone, many Martial Artists have tried to dig from other places underground, hoping to avoid the Golden Crow Manor’s disciples and create a new pathway to mine the Essence Stones; however, due to the exceptionally hard soil, all attempts have ended in failure.

Therefore, all Martial Artists have set their sights on the only entrance guarded by the Golden Crow Manor’s disciples, attempting to defeat them and carve up the Essence Stone Vein.

However, although the disciples of Golden Crow Manor are absolutely outnumbered, each one of them is elite and possesses an unwavering dedication to protecting the Manor’s interests, suggesting that if a full-blown conflict erupts, even if the Martial Artists Alliance could win with their numerical advantage, it would be a pyrrhic victory with heavy casualties.

Moreover, within the Martial Artists Alliance, every individual has their own agenda, lack strong will to fight, and neither the determination nor the courage for a life-and-death battle. Once the situation turns against them, these temporary alliances could quickly collapse.

The Martial Artists Alliance, numerous but disparate, and the Golden Crow Manor, individually powerful, possess their respective strengths and weaknesses, which is why both sides have been wary and at a stalemate until now.

Although there have been occasional conflicts and casualties among the standoff parties, they haven’t completely fallen out.

Nearly ten thousand disciples of the Golden Crow Manor, bound by strict manor rules, guard the entrance area, each maintaining a severe and disciplined demeanor.

In contrast, on the side of Martial Artists Alliance, where Individual Cultivation Martial Artists are in majority, there are no rules to speak of, and conflicts often erupt due to language disagreements or other reasons.

When Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu arrived on the edge of Eternal Death Zone, what they saw was a chaotic scene, resembling a bustling market.

"It really is chaotic here!"

"Too many Loose Cultivators, it would be strange if it weren’t chaotic!"

"There are probably about a hundred thousand Martial Artists gathered here."

"It’s probably more than a hundred thousand now. And along our way here, we still saw a continuous stream of Martial Artists rushing this way!"

"Hundreds of thousands of Martial Artists all here for the Essence Stone Vein... If the two sides begin to fight, won’t it turn into a mountain of corpses and a river of blood? Just thinking about it is terrifying!"

"It won’t! Though it sounds like a lot, these hundreds of thousands of Martial Artists are just a disorderly mob. They don’t have the determination and courage to stake it all in a do-or-die battle!"

"You mean... the eventual victor of this struggle over the Essence Stone Vein will be the Golden Crow Manor?"

"With me here, the victory will definitely be Golden Crow Manor’s; without me, that’s hard to say."

"..."

"Chenyu, don’t look at me like that, I’m just speaking the truth..."

...

Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu walked side by side among thousands of members of the Martial Artists Alliance, looking around at the noisy and chaotic scene and couldn’t help but exchange glances and shake their heads repeatedly.

No wonder some Sects in the True Martial Realm looked down on Individual Cultivation Martial Artists. Take this alliance mainly formed by Individual Cultivation Martial Artists for example, even though the total number already exceeds a hundred thousand, if they cannot achieve tacit understanding and work together, they cannot unleash significant power.

This is also the reason why the members of the Martial Artists Alliance, vastly outnumbering the disciples of Golden Crow Manor, have been in a standoff for many days, unable to breakthrough the defense line established by the disciples of Golden Crow Manor.

"Seeing such a disorganized group, I feel even more reassured!"

Fang Bai said with a grin.

Previously, Fang Bai thought it would be troublesome to drive away the more than one hundred thousand Martial Artists gathered at the edge of the Eternal Death Zone, but now he felt that with just a slight manipulation, he could easily cause these hundreds of thousands of Martial Artists to self-destruct without attacking.

While Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu were observing the Martial Artists around them, many Martial Artists were also sizing up the two of them.

The current Cultivation Levels of Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu, one at the Cosmic Level beginner and the other at Cosmic Level perfection, were nothing significant among the tens of thousands of Martial Artists present.

In the eyes of the weaker Martial Artists, Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu, both handsome and beautiful with extraordinary demeanor, had nothing particularly special besides that.

However, in the eyes of some Universe Level Experts, Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu were both Martial Dao Geniuses with Innate Spiritual Roots, and they could tell that these two young Martial Artists in their early twenties were not as simple as they seemed on the surface.

Especially Fang Bai, who gave a feeling of profound unpredictability, with his real strength impossible to precisely discern by anyone.

This made the Universe Level Experts surprised and also more interested in Fang Bai.

On the way to the Eternal Death Zone, to avoid unnecessary trouble, Xia Chenyu changed out of the Golden Crow Manor disciple uniform and wore a red dress, while Fang Bai was still dressed in a white robe, so in the eyes of other Martial Artists, they both seemed to be Loose Cultivators without any Sect affiliation.

Because of this, some Universe Level Experts harbored a desire to attract Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu to join their Sects and Prominent Clans or to take them as disciples to pass on their legacy.

"Please stop for a moment!"

While passing through a forest, a group of Martial Artists at the edge of the forest parted, and a purple-robed elder stepped forward, blocking the path of Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu.

"Are you two here for the Essence Stone Vein too?"

The purple-robed elder looked at Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu with a smile, asking in a friendly manner.

"Yes."

Fang Bai responded with a smile: "We heard that a large Essence Stone Vein was discovered here, so we came to join the excitement, hoping to gain some benefits from it."

"Exactly, this Essence Stone Vein is remarkably rich, coveted by countless Martial Artists, and everyone wants a share. However..."

The purple-robed elder said, pausing with a smile and nodding towards the tens of thousands of Martial Artists around, spoke with a grave expression: "As you see, there are tens of thousands of Martial Artists gathered here, including some Universe Level Experts far stronger than you. It won’t be easy for you to get a share. But there’s a way – if you two join our ’Eight Desolations Alliance’, with the collective effort of hundreds of our allies, we may have a chance to secure a portion of the Essence Stone Vein and then distribute it..."

The purple-robed elder was a Loose Cultivator and also the leader of the ’Eight Desolations Alliance’, possessing Universe Level intermediate Cultivation.

When Fang Bai and Xia Chenyu appeared, the purple-robed elder saw their extraordinary talents as Martial Dao Geniuses, moved to recruit them first, then planned to persuade them to become his disciples.