Qin Si and Tian Shu walked towards Qian Lian City together.
At this moment, due to the sudden appearance of a thousand deity-transformation demonic cultivators in the Qian Lian Sea Domain, Qian Lian City was no longer as prosperous and bustling as it used to be. Only a few people meandered through the city.
The two did not alarm anyone and took a seat in the Hong Meng Inn.
“How is it? Did you find anything?” Yue Yuan Gui emerged from the inn, a sword in his right hand and a cloth in his left, carefully wiping the sword.
The sword was stained with the black blood of demonic cultivators.
Qin Si recounted his findings on Jue Ren Road. As soon as Yue Yuan Gui sat down, he stood up again, “Then I’ll dispatch disciples to Bai Ye City immediately.”
Bai Ye City was located at the border between the Wu Shang Sect and Qun Yu Mountain, and it was a necessary path for attacking Qun Yu Mountain.
“Li Ting Yun is still so cunning,” Yue Yuan Gui said with extreme disdain, “After all these years, he hasn’t improved at all.”
“If he had improved, he wouldn’t have fallen into the demonic path,” Tian Shu said in a faint voice. The usually impassive man even made a joke with Yue Yuan Gui.
Even with so many demonic cultivators waiting outside the Qian Lian Sea, none of the three present showed any signs of panic or fear. They were all calm.
However, this calm was soon shattered.
“Report!” A disciple of Yue Qing Shan rushed in, his face filled with anger and indignation. “Mountain Master Qin, Senior Tian Shu, Young Master, something has happened! Wu Se City has been massacred and blood-sacrificed by Li Ting Yun! Now they are leading people towards Dong Hui City ahead!”
“Li Ting Yun!” Yue Yuan Gui slammed his palm on the table, gnashing his teeth in hatred. “This bastard! Is he even human!”
Qin Si directly crushed the teacup in his hand, his face grim, “This is the third time.”
This was the third time Li Ting Yun had massacred and blood-sacrificed a city.
The reason he had been trying to kill Li Ting Yun all these years, besides the disappearance of A Yi and Li Ting Yun’s close relationship with Mountain Master Hua Ling and others, was also Li Ting Yun’s increasingly violent and cruel methods.
Fifty years ago, Li Ting Yun was at odds with Liu Tian Yun. But for some reason, they suddenly reconciled, and Li Ting Yun directly betrayed the righteous path and became a demonic cultivator.
In his first year as a demonic cultivator, Li Ting Yun killed countless disciples within the Wu Shang Sect who opposed his becoming the sect leader. Afterward, he massacred everyone in Wu Shang City, which was protected by the Wu Shang Sect. Since then, Li Ting Yun had disappeared, and the entire Wu Shang Sect had become a lackey of the demonic path.
It wasn’t until ten years ago that Li Ting Yun suddenly reappeared and massacred a village. Qin Si arrived too late, only managing to gravely injure Li Ting Yun before he escaped.
A dark red robe suddenly swept up a gust of wind. Before Yue Yuan Gui and Tian Shu could react, they saw Qin Si disappear from his spot, with faint spatial fluctuations around them.
“Qin Si!” Yue Yuan Gui frowned deeply. “We haven’t even confirmed if this news is true. What if it’s another trap set by the demonic cultivators?”
This was not impossible. Three years ago, the demonic cultivators had used this tactic to trick them once.
That time, it was at Wu Ding City outside Jue Ren Road. Not only was there news of Li Ting Yun massacring the city, but it was also reported that the chaotic spatial fluctuations of Jue Ren Road and You Ming Valley had begun to extend outwards, affecting Wu Ding City. Within Wu Ding City, space was chaotic, as if an opening had appeared out of nowhere.
At that time, Qin Si thought that Bai Sheng Yi might have returned and rushed over immediately. However, he was ambushed by Yan Hua Demon Lord and his followers, suffering severe injuries to his divine consciousness and body, and almost perishing in Wu Ding City.
Tian Shu stood up and said, “Whether it is true or not, we must go. Daoist Yue Yuan Gui, the matter of dispatching disciples to Bai Ye City will be entrusted to you. This monk will also go to Dong Hui City.”
“Alright.” Although Yue Yuan Gui was also worried about Qin Si, he did not refuse.
He turned around and immediately contacted his subordinates, simultaneously sending out the message.
Soon, a communication talisman transmitted the scolding voice of his father.
“Li Ting Yun, you scoundrel, I curse you… And you, you brat, why didn’t you stop Qin Si?”
Yue Yuan Gui couldn’t help but roll his eyes. “Do you think I could stop him?”
Although he was one generation older than Qin Si in terms of seniority, he didn’t know why, but whenever Qin Si’s gaze swept over him, he felt immense pressure and naturally kept quiet.
Perhaps it was the crushing weight of his strength?
Yue Yuan Gui, who had yet to reach the Mahayana stage, was extremely envious and jealous of Qin Si’s cultivation that had advanced like a rocket to the peak of the Mahayana stage.
Yue Bu Fan, at the other end of the communication talisman, was silent for a moment: “…Never mind, I won’t argue with you. I have news about Miao Miao. She was in Qian Lian Sea… No! In Dong Hui City!”
At another end, Yue Bu Fan looked at the orchid floating in the Yue family’s ancestral land. It had changed direction in mid-air.
“Master, why did Miao Miao suddenly move from Qian Lian Sea to Dong Hui City? She doesn’t know spatial arts,” a middle-aged man asked nervously below Yue Bu Fan.
This person was Yue Miao Miao’s master, Daoist Hong Yi.
Daoist Hong Yi had entered the Mahayana stage long ago, but at this moment, like all ordinary people worried about their juniors, his brows were furrowed and his thoughts were in a daze.
Yue Bu Fan said with full confidence, “Let’s find the person first. The Kui Lan Piao contains a drop of Miao Miao’s heart blood, so its guidance will not be wrong.”
He paused and then said, “You go to Bai Ye City first. I will send Fei Yun to Dong Hui City.”
Venerable Fei Yun was Yue Bu Fan’s other disciple, and also Daoist Hong Yi’s senior.
Daoist Hong Yi had just returned from the Yao Yue Battlefield outside the Buddhist Sect. Upon hearing this, he had no objections, nodded, and headed towards the Buddhist Sect.
The Yao Yue Battlefield was no safer than Qun Yu Mountain and Qian Lian Sea. Because five Mahayana demonic cultivators had appeared on this battlefield, Master Ku Chan and many disciples of the Buddhist Sect were all pinned down there.
Yue Bu Fan sighed.
At the other end of the communication talisman, Yue Yuan Gui understood his mood. “Father, is there really no way to find A Yi using the Kui Lan Piao? Sister finally found her, but A Yi is missing…”
Yue Bu Fan: “The Kui Lan Piao requires the person’s heart blood to be dripped into it first before it can find them. Miao Miao dripped her heart blood into the Kui Lan Piao when she entered the inner sect years ago. As for A Yi…”
He paused for a moment and said with difficulty, “We can only wait until the great battle is over and ask Celestial Oracle Tian Yu of the Buddhist Sect to try again.”
He deeply regretted that after confirming A Yi’s true identity, he should have ignored her wishes and brought her back to Yue Qing Shan to acknowledge her ancestors.
“But Daoist Qing Lan…” Yue Yuan Gui hesitated.
Others did not know why Daoist Qing Lan was in seclusion at this time, but they knew it very well.
Daoist Qing Lan was preparing to set up the ancient forbidden array, the Heaven-Defying Tracing Array, to find Bai Sheng Yi’s whereabouts at any cost. This Heaven-Defying Tracing Array was something that neither he nor his father had even heard the name of before, but just hearing its origin, they knew it was extraordinary.
The two fell silent.
However, this silence did not last long, as Yue Yuan Gui was called away.
“Young Master, there’s movement in Qian Lian Sea!”
Qian Lian Sea.
As the saying goes, “Beside Qian Lian City is the Netherworld’s Jue Ren Sea.” Especially with the appearance of demonic cultivators here, the area within a thousand miles of Qian Lian Sea was empty except for the demonic cultivators.
The calm, dead sea surface churned, and a black light shot up into the sky like a pillar. Demonic energy rippled outwards along the black light.
In less than a moment, the cultivators at the entrance of Qian Lian City felt this demonic energy and were even corroded by it.
“Hiss…” The disciple guarding the city gate was at the late Golden Core stage, but in just one exchange, the back of his hand was scalded and festered by the demonic energy.
But he didn’t even have time to treat his wound before he immediately sounded the alarm loudhailer set up outside the city by the artifact refiners and shouted, “Demonic cultivators are attacking!”
As soon as he spoke, several people immediately stepped into the air from the city, with Yue Yuan Gui leading the way.
“Dou Ju, you dare to be so arrogant!” Yue Yuan Gui’s spear was suddenly drawn, pointing directly at the black light pillar, and he leaped up.