The nine major factions, no, it should be called the eight major factions now, and the heads of the sect gathered at Yijianmen again and started the meeting.

Bai Feng was not invited to attend.

This is almost a clear indication - the current Qianyangmen is no longer the Qianyangmen of the past, and a sect with more than 400 disciples is not qualified to participate in such a meeting.

But to be honest, even if they were invited, Bai Feng might not go.

In the previous meetings, Bai Feng had already attended as a representative of Qianyangmen, and the theme of each meeting was the same - the nine major factions had formed an offensive and defensive alliance with each other, including the formation of a common emergency force, and the stored materials, especially the spirit stone resources, for the special use of this force.

It was similar to the previous army of 3,000 people led by the Samadhi Zhenren, with Bai Feng commanding it, but this time their commander was replaced by an immortal Daoist of the Yijian Gate.

The scale of this coalition army is larger, and there are more spirit stones, and almost one-third of the spirit stone reserves of the nine major factions have been put into this coalition army.

This model used to be the effect pursued by the senior brother, of course, in the end, the greatest hope was to merge the nine major factions into one, and eventually become a sect, completely completing the monopoly on the high-end business of cultivating immortals in the Ascension Realm. - Including the supply of flying swords and magic weapons, as well as the pricing power of spirit stones.

The Samadhi had estimated that if it went well, such an integration would be done in a hundred years, and if it didn't, it would be fine in fifty years.

Whether it is going well or not here obviously refers to the situation in the territory of the Ascension.

The greater the pressure from the outside world on the Nine Factions, the more they will be able to promote such a union within the Nine Factions. On the contrary, the incentive for such a joint is much smaller.

But the senior brother would never have thought that after the disappearance of Qianyangmen, such a union would only take half a month. ——It fully illustrates the great pressure that the search and rescue team puts on the Nine Major Sects.

Not only the alliance of the Nine Great Sects, but even many of the medium-strength sects that had originally wandered around the Nine Great Sects now took the initiative to send envoys to contact them—they all expressed their willingness to accept the leadership of the Nine Great Sects.

A storm is about to begin, and everyone can feel the atmosphere, and everyone is looking for some kind of tangible refuge between this ethereal world.

Bai Feng waited in the reception room of Yijian Gate for two hours, and the Daoist had not yet come out. The few disciples who came with him were already a little impatient, and came over several times to ask him about the merger this time: "Master, if they don't agree to the alliance, then we will agree to merge and send, we really can't delay it." ”

Bai Feng glanced at him and only said two words: "Wait." ”

The suggested disciple looked at Bai Feng deeply, turned around and wanted to leave, but he was a little unwilling, and lowered his voice and whispered: "Master, our spirit stone is only enough for two months!" Two months later, the last 400 people in Qianyangmen will run out of oil and run out. ”

Bai Feng ignored him, and didn't even open his eyes. After this disciple left, he subconsciously counted the numbers in his mind.

After the disaster, Bai Feng counted the resources of the spirit stone at the first time, and he knew that what this disciple said must be an exaggeration, and it would definitely not be enough to use up the spiritual energy in two months.

Not to mention the storage of Qianyangmen in other places, it is the spirit stone resources that they brought out from the coalition army at the beginning, how can they use these 400 people for a year and a half - this is not to save it, but to consume time for continuous small-scale battles.

If you are like those low-level cultivators on the Spirit Verification Island, you are not even willing to use the flying sword, and you stay in the cave every day to die, it will not be a problem to use it for twenty or thirty years.

But the current situation is that those of them who have spirit stones can wait, but those who don't have spirit stones can't wait anymore.

The outermost layer of the Ascension Realm, those small sects on the edge, had already begun to appear a large number of besieged sects.

Like the Nine Great Sects, the first thing these small sects on the periphery did after knowing that the source of spiritual energy had been cut off was to start expelling their disciples.

Remove those with bad qualifications, leave the essence of the sect, and use all the spirit stones to ensure the survival of these essences, so as to survive this disaster - to achieve a better development trend after the disaster.

No one in the Ascension Realm understands economics, but everyone starts to act strictly according to the philosophy of economics - because the inner truth is the same, and if an organization does not do this, it will die first. Those who survive are the executors of this strategy.

The savings of these small sects themselves are not high, and the efficiency of absorbing spiritual energy is very low, and the proportion of disciples at the bottom is quite large - so after the implementation of this policy, a large group of spiritless stone classes formed around these small sects almost immediately.

Their situation is better than those who don't have flying swords on Spirit Island, but it's a little better. If the aura in the body is used sparingly, the turtle is in the cave, and it is not a big problem to deal with it for two or three months.

But this wait is not without a cost, because the longer they wait, the worse their combat ability will be. After two months, if the situation of the Ascension Realm does not improve, the remaining amount of power, let alone going to battle, it will be difficult to fly quickly.

And is there any hope for improvement in the situation of the Ascension Realm?

Maybe in the first few days, everyone relied on the inertia of their previous life and felt that the problem should not be very big. But only a few days later, as more and more people like them joined the team, that hope inevitably began to fade.

One of the biggest superficial signs of this disillusionment is that they have nowhere to stay.

In terms of topographical distribution, the Ascension Realm is an island-type civilization, and the biggest difference between it and the earth is that there is no stable gravitational field, and in space, there are islands of all sizes scattered around.

Because of "more people and less land", these islands naturally have had owners in their long history, and the ownership of these lands is, of course, divided in the form of sects.

The strong sects get more and better resources - mainly in areas with higher electromagnetic field strength, while the weak sects can only migrate outside.

Unlike on Earth, where a large number of land annexations occur at the end of each dynasty, in the Ascension Realm, the strong sects do not pursue the size of the territory, because the territory is meaningless in the flying world.

If you compare it to the earth, every small island in the Ascension Realm should be more like a warship.

For battleships, quantity means little, and more importantly, quality.

A steel warship can win a hundred wooden ships, while a modern aircraft carrier can completely annihilate the main naval force of a country during World War II without any damage.

For example, the nine most powerful factions, all of which have the territory they control, that is, nine islands, but these nine islands are like nine aircraft carriers on this planet - all the large and small ships of other sects combined, and they are not the opponents of these nine major factions.

It is also because of this that the "class contradictions" in the Ascension have not evolved in a deeper direction. No matter how bad an ordinary trapeze is, there is always a place to stay. For example, the place where Yan Xiu stayed before Jiutian Island. Although there is a huge disparity in strength between him and the nine major factions, there is still no problem with his own survival.

But now, a nuclear bomb has completely broken the ecological model that has been cultivated in the Ascension Realm for more than 1,400 years.

The cutting off of the power source means that from the moment after the nuclear explosion, all the sects will have to survive on their original reserves. The cultivation that everyone usually paid the most attention to has now become a waste. In just a few days, this nuclear bomb forced the entire Ascension Realm into the law of survival of the jungle.

This is the world as it is.

Disciples with a poor level are meaningless, they have very little savings, usually they are "newcomers" who have lived for less than 50 years after being reborn, and the savings of spirit stones are small, and the combat effectiveness that can be provided is naturally not high, and the efficiency of the use of spirit stones is also very low.

The same is a flying sword, one person, a master can quickly solve hundreds of people with a single sword, often just because of his speed and reaction, a little faster than these people. That is, with the same combat power, one master is equal to a hundred newcomers.

In actual combat, this rate tends to be higher and more disparity.

In such an environment, if a sect wants to use its limited aura to exert its maximum combat effectiveness, the most reasonable way to distribute it is to concentrate these aura and use it for a small number of people. Too many low-level cultivators will not only be unable to provide combat support at this time, but their existence itself will also become a burden—the trapeze itself needs to consume spiritual energy to live.

Just as the economic crisis will inevitably lead to a wave of unemployment, and the food shortage will inevitably lead to a large number of people fleeing the famine, and the "aura crisis" will naturally give birth to a large number of "non-sectarian people" around the island.

In the beginning, after these people left the sect, they would stay on some neutral desert islands, trying to rely on their little savings to support them for as long as they could, but when they arrived at these desert islands, they found that there was no place for them to stay at all.

More than 90 percent of the people in the entire Ascension Realm have become refugees. And less than one percent of the places that can accommodate these people are possible. Many of these "islands" are not islands at all, but drift points made up of a few rocks or a few metal houses from a space station.

Theoretically, it seems that even if the flying man lives in complete air, as long as there is electricity for the time being, there seems to be no problem.

But in reality, the problem is huge.

The core of the problem is that if you just live on an island without aura, then life seems to go on. Aside from the fact that he couldn't replenish his aura, everything seemed to be no different from his previous life. But now, they have no place to stay.

Bai Feng had seen with his own eyes an island near the Nine Great Sects, just three days ago, a small cave mansion that could only accommodate hundreds of people - in fact, it was a pile of stones built together by mud, and thousands of people were stuffed into it.