Chapter 459

Chapter 459: Are They All Looking At Us?
Ever since the seven great sects of the cultivation world joined hands with the demon race and used spirit cores to set up the ancient teleportation array, the cultivation world had been quiet for a long time.

It was as if, when Yu Zhao and Fang Cheng Lang and the others left, the very spirit of the cultivation world had been taken away with them.

Master Qing Yan had never taken a single step out of the Five Elements Dao Sect again.

Because he was so lost and depressed, the demons and monsters that had been hiding in the shadows started to move again.

Sect Master Ji Yuan wiped his face and stood up in anger. He said: “Qing Yan has rested long enough. He should go out and move around, or he will choke himself to death from holding everything in.”

Most of the people on Lone Moon Peak had disappeared. Only a sickly Lan Zi Yu was left. Sect Master Ji Yuan could fully understand why Master Qing Yan was in such a bad mood. He had allowed Master Qing Yan to do whatever he wanted.

But now the cultivation world was not peaceful anymore. Instead of staying in the Five Elements Dao Sect in silent pain, it was better for Master Qing Yan to go out and do something useful.

As he spoke, he was already planning to go to Lone Moon Peak and force Master Qing Yan to take a mission. Zhou Jin Yue quickly stepped in front of him to stop him.

She said: “Master, don’t be in such a rush. Please listen to me first.”

Sect Master Ji Yuan said: “Go ahead.”

Zhou Jin Yue laid out all the information she had collected during this period in front of Sect Master Ji Yuan.

She said: “Master, I suspect that the people stealing the spirit veins are not from our cultivation world.”

Sect Master Ji Yuan’s pupils shrank.

He quickly picked up the jade slips on the table and scanned them one by one. His frown grew deeper and deeper.

Zhou Jin Yue explained: “From the moment I heard from Junior Sister Yu that someone was stealing spirit veins, I felt something was wrong. It is not rare for a cultivator to draw spiritual energy, but what is strange is that they are destroying the spirit cores along with it.

“Any cultivator should know that killing the hen for its eggs is not a wise choice. Yet they are doing it on purpose and destroying multiple spirit veins in a row.

“Also, the existence of many of these spirit veins was not even known to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion. So how did they get their information? Every move they make is very strange.”

Sect Master Ji Yuan rubbed his brow, his voice low as he said: “But this still cannot prove that they are not people of the cultivation world.”

Zhou Jin Yue nodded and continued: “That is why I asked the people from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to investigate their background. But it seems like this group appeared out of thin air. Their tracks are very clean, and we cannot find any clues.

“Even in the few cases where people caught sight of them, they were covered from head to toe and did not dare show their faces.

“So I told the people from the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to find witnesses and have them draw those people’s figures. Then I went especially to ask Master Qing Yan about them.”

Sect Master Ji Yuan asked: “What did Qing Yan say?”

A cold light flashed in Zhou Jin Yue’s eyes. She said: “Master Qing Yan said that the figures in the drawings look exactly the same as some people he once killed, who later came back to life in a strange way.”

Sect Master Ji Yuan thought of the sect crisis from one hundred years ago. When he recalled it now, those mysterious Divine Transformation cultivators all had the same body shape and used the same cultivation techniques.

Back then, they had thought that the other side was using a concealment art on purpose. But if they were actually the same person, then everything made sense.

Divine Transformation Stage clone techniques, a way of cultivation that drained the pond to catch the fish, and methods that let them appear and disappear like ghosts…

All these signs seemed to point toward the same answer.

Sect Master Ji Yuan felt a chill rise from the soles of his feet all the way to his scalp.

He muttered: “No wonder. No wonder we, the seven great sects, have tried our best to protect the stability of the cultivation world, yet the spiritual energy of the cultivation world keeps getting thinner. It is like there is a hole somewhere, and no matter how much we pour in, it will never be full.”

He kept talking to himself, his arms shaking nonstop.

He said through gritted teeth: “They are wolves at heart! They deserve to die!”

This was the first time Zhou Jin Yue had seen her sect master and master show such a terrifying expression.

But she could fully understand. When she put all the clues together and reached this result, she had also wanted to chop those people into pieces.

She thought: [Who gave those outsiders the right to do whatever they want in our cultivation world and ruin our homeland?]

Sect Master Ji Yuan said: “I am going to inform the other sects right now. No matter the price, we must completely wipe those people out!”

As he spoke, he took out blank jade talismans, ready to send messages to the other sects.

Zhou Jin Yue said quickly: “Master, if they really are cultivators from another place, then they must have methods that are beyond what we can imagine. If we fail to get rid of them in one move, it will be very hard to catch them again in the future.

“I suggest that we invite the grand elders of every sect to personally act and have the seven great sects strike together.”

Under Zhou Jin Yue’s calm and orderly words, Sect Master Ji Yuan’s anger slowly cooled.

He nodded and said: “You are right. We cannot let even a single one escape. And we must keep some of them alive. We have to find out how they came to the cultivation world!”

The Heavenly Ladder that led from the cultivation world to the outside had already been broken.

Yet cultivators from other places could come and go as they pleased, even making trouble in the cultivation world itself.

How could Sect Master Ji Yuan accept that?

He not only wanted to deal with those people, he also wanted to torture them for answers, to force them to tell him where they came from and how they got here. Maybe then, he could find a way to save the cultivation world.

The more Sect Master Ji Yuan thought about it, the more excited he became. He no longer thought about Master Qing Yan at all. He turned and went straight to the grand elder’s cave, personally inviting the old grand elder out.

The grand elder’s lifespan had almost reached its end. It was only thanks to the two Longevity Pills Yu Zhao had left for the Five Elements Dao Sect before she departed that she was still alive.

After Sect Master Ji Yuan and the other elders discussed it together, they all agreed to give one Longevity Pill to the grand elder.

At first, the grand elder had not wanted to accept it. But Sect Master Ji Yuan cried and begged and made a complete fuss. In the end, she still accepted the sect’s kindness.

Because her body was already at the very limit, the Longevity Pill only added ten more years of life for her. Even so, both the grand elder and Sect Master Ji Yuan were very satisfied with this result.

When Sect Master Ji Yuan arrived today, the grand elder was still feeding the chickens.

Seeing the deep frown on his face, she first scolded him a little for worrying too much. But after hearing his report, she threw the wooden bowl she was using to scatter feed onto the ground. Her aura changed in an instant. The kind and gentle face she usually showed was now full of killing intent and majesty.

She said: “Let’s go! To Greenwood Sect!”

Sect Master Ji Yuan answered: “Yes.”

…

At Sacred Wood Star Harbor, the scene was as lively as ever.

Ancestor Sui Bian walked down from the starship and looked at the busy crowd at the docks. He sighed with feeling and said: “Sacred Wood Star Harbor is still as lively as ever!”

Yu Zhao stood beside him and nodded in agreement.

They had thought that after what happened in Godsfall Land, Sacred Wood Star would be affected. But now it seemed they had been wrong.

Ancestor Sui Bian muttered: “They all say that Godsfall Land is full of endless treasure, but we stayed there for more than two years and couldn’t even gather five Starry Sky Stones. I don’t know who spread that rumor.”

Yu Zhao and Ancestor Sui Bian had stayed in Godsfall Land for two years. In the end, they had only found three Starry Sky Stones. They had also found a few places where ancient cultivators had died and left their bodies.

But the things those ancient cultivators had left behind had already been taken long ago. Only a few corpses were left on the ground, ignored by everyone.

Thinking about how these people had ended up, Yu Zhao and Ancestor Sui Bian felt a kind of sorrow. They decided to bury the bodies where they lay.

Maybe their small good deed had earned the favor of the Heavenly Dao, because after that they ran into several groups of cultivators who tried to rob and kill them. Each time, they turned the tables and made a big profit.

Later, after discussing it, the two of them agreed that they had stayed in Godsfall Land long enough. They followed the rules and took the ship back to Sacred Wood Star at the appointed time.

After seeing so much killing in Godsfall Land, Ancestor Sui Bian now looked at the cultivators coming here to hunt for treasure with a touch of pity in his eyes.

But bit by bit, he noticed that something was off.

When he looked at these people, he realized that they were also staring at him.

Ancestor Sui Bian leaned slightly toward Yu Zhao and asked in a low voice: “Yu Zhao, are they all looking at us?”