Chapter 116

Chapter 116: Big Shots Gather

Yun Xi stood behind Mu Ning Zhu like a background prop. Representing the Hao Ran Sect’s disciples, Mu Ning Zhu explained everything that had happened. She described truthfully how Zhang Yan had fallen right before her eyes.

The one who came this time was Master Feng from the Bao Hua City outpost. After the beast tide ended, he handed over his work and was preparing to return to the sect to go into seclusion.

As the Sect Master’s head disciple, Sheng Yu Hong naturally stayed behind to handle the cleanup. After that, he traveled together with Master Feng as they returned, but they did not expect to see the Hao Ran Sect’s distress signal.

And it was not only the Hao Ran Sect’s distress signal in the sky. There were signals from other sects and families too. The two of them realized something major had happened, so they rushed over at the fastest speed.

After hearing everything, Master Feng knew the matter was tricky. The Famed Sword Sect had a Nascent Soul True Lord here, so he was not quite enough on his own. He turned to Sheng Yu Hong and said, “Martial Nephew Sheng, this involves evil cultivators, and it involves the cultivators of an entire city, as well as the City Lord’s Mansion. Send a message to the Sect Master right away. The sect should send a Nascent Soul True Lord to take charge.”

“Yes, Master Feng,” Sheng Yu Hong replied.

Sheng Yu Hong knew how serious this was. He immediately sent a message to his Master.

Mu Ning Zhu hesitated, then still asked, “Martial Uncle Feng, can we leave first?”

Master Feng swept his gaze over the three of them. In the end, he said, “Don’t rush to leave. You’re directly involved and you know exactly what happened. When the sect’s True Lord arrives, they may have questions for you. Besides, leaving right now may not be safe.”

Hearing that, Mu Ning Zhu knew they could not leave early. She nodded and agreed, then went into the city to find a place to stay.

Master Feng, meanwhile, took Sheng Yu Hong to pay respects to True Lord Shi Jun.

Yun Xi felt a bit discouraged, but she also knew Master Feng’s worry was not unnecessary. She could only go find lodging with Qin Tong Shuang.

After the Hao Ran Sect received Sheng Yu Hong’s message, they took it very seriously and dispatched True Lord Yu Feng to Twin Mountain City to handle the matter.

True Lord Yu Feng was the Nascent Soul True Lord who had guarded the sect for a hundred years. After receiving the message talisman, he greeted the Sect Master True Lord, then left the sect.

Not long after, the Rogue Cultivator Alliance also sent a Nascent Soul True Lord to Twin Mountain City. The Joyous Union Sect’s Nascent Soul True Lord arrived as well, with Zi Jing receiving them.

One after another, Golden Core elders from various cultivation families arrived in Twin Mountain City too, and the cultivators in the city all became well-behaved. When big shots gathered, it was best to stay honest.

Since nearly half of Twin Mountain City’s cultivators had fallen, many courtyards were left empty. This time, Mu Ning Zhu rented a small courtyard, and the three of them each had a separate room.

All three of them had lived through the crisis of nearly dying, and they had watched Zhang Yan fall right in front of them. None of them felt good. So after each of them returned to their rooms and set up defensive formations, they began to process what had happened over the past three days.

Yun Xi sat in a daze for a while, then pulled Dian Dian out to check it. After confirming the little one was fine, she began to go over everything again.

She felt like there were parts she still could not make sense of. She sat cross-legged to meditate, and then her soul entered the space.

Nothing in the space had changed. Only the Immortal Spirit Grass gave off a faint green glow. When it sensed Yun Xi’s soul, it sent a voice transmission and asked, “Yun Xi, is it solved?”

“It’s solved,” Yun Xi replied.

The Immortal Spirit Grass shook its leaves. “Did Dian Dian get struck to death?”

“No,” Yun Xi said. “It turned disaster into fortune. It advanced smoothly to Second Rank and even opened its bloodline inheritance. It’s receiving the inheritance memories right now.”

“Then why do you look unhappy?” the Immortal Spirit Grass asked.

“Do I?” Yun Xi said. “There are just some things I can’t figure out.”

“Oh!” The Immortal Spirit Grass clearly felt helpless. Human cultivators’ minds were too complicated, and it could not understand.

Yun Xi then looked at the chat group. After she finished reading the messages, she sent her first message.

Passing Clouds and Smoke: Hi everyone. It’s been a long time since I logged in. Have you all been well?

Survival Is The Only Hard Truth: Pretty good. Your crisis is already over?

Passing Clouds and Smoke: Yes. Thanks to Star Trek’s help, the crisis is over, and there won’t be any hidden trouble later either.

Star Trek: How is your body technique training going?

Passing Clouds and Smoke: I’ve already trained to the third move.

Star Trek: Reaching the third move in such a short time is already very good! When this set of body techniques can’t meet your body’s needs anymore, you can trade with me for an intermediate body-refining technique.

Yun Xi’s eyes lit up when she saw that, and she immediately said it was fine.

After that, she briefly described what she had gone through. The ones with the most to say were Ethereal Aura and Ox-Head and Horse-Face.

Ox-Head and Horse-Face: Evil cultivators always end up reduced to ashes. Their souls don’t even qualify to enter the Underworld. You’d best be more careful in the future.

Ethereal Aura: Little Clouds and Smoke, you got lucky this time. That Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Formation was probably a simplified version. If it had been the real Nine-Wheel Sacrifice Formation, then forget a tiny Foundation Establishment cultivator like you – even a Great Ascension Dao Venerable wouldn’t be able to escape.

Ethereal Aura: A cultivator once used that formation to sacrifice an entire Cultivation World just to ascend to the Immortal Realm. In the end, he was struck to death on the spot by the Nine Heavens’ punishment lightning, and not even a scrap remained.

Yun Xi’s heart pounded wildly. It seemed she truly had stepped in dog-shit luck this time, or she would already be finished.

Passing Clouds and Smoke: Senior, he almost dodged the Heavenly Dao’s punishment. He set the formation inside an opened space, and he used the overlap of two spaces to drag an entire city’s cultivators inside. Low-level cultivators basically all died.

Passing Clouds and Smoke: I only survived because I had mid-grade spirit stones holding me up. In the end, Dian Dian fought to the death to advance and brought down a Thunder Tribulation. That was the only reason I could pry that space open and have the tribulation lightning smash the evil formation. Thinking back now, I’m still scared.

Passing Clouds and Smoke: Luckily, City Lord Li destroyed the formation disk that controlled the overlapping spaces in time. That gave the tribulation lightning a chance to enter that space. Otherwise I’d have died.

Ethereal Aura: You really were lucky. That City Lord Li wasn’t completely trying to save you. It was just that your little mouse happened to be advancing, so he ended up breaking the whole formation.

Yun Xi’s eyes shifted, and then she suddenly widened them. “Senior, City Lord Li knew about that formation. He just didn’t know his son would take advantage of his seclusion and activate the formation early to revive his lover. He was probably planning to use that formation to reach Spirit Transformation, then make a Minor Ascension to Lofty Spirit Realm, so the Vast Cosmos Realm couldn’t do anything to him.

“If he hid it well enough, no cultivator would even discover it. They would only blame it all on the evil cultivators.”

Ethereal Aura: You can go verify your guess, but with your current cultivation, I don’t recommend it. It’s easy to invite trouble.

Passing Clouds and Smoke: I understand. I won’t take risks to confirm it before I have enough strength.

That was also what puzzled her. People who could kill their own kin for righteousness existed, but Cultivation World cultivators would never be like that. The higher their cultivation, the harder it was to have children. For the sake of bloodline continuation, they would not strike so harshly at their own child.

Otherwise, to eliminate future trouble, he should have killed his son on the spot. He should not have protected Li Cang Yuan when other cultivators attacked him. Yun Xi felt there was likely more behind it.

Once she untangled that knot in her mind, she prepared to leave the space. But Ethereal Aura casually added, “The other Twin Mountain City is an independent space opened by a Spirit Transformation cultivator. With your spiritual sense strength, you might be able to merge that space into the redwood plaque space.”