Chapter 490 - 13: Request

Chapter 490: Chapter 13: Request

"Senior Sister Wei? What brings you here?"

After familiarizing himself with how to use the power of the Void Escape Gu in the wilderness, Shen Changchuan returned to Dawan Village, grappling with the problem of how to integrate the Power of Space into his Sword Magic.

However, just as he stepped through the door, he found Senior Sister Wei Yuting already waiting in the living room of the Half-Mountain Courtyard.

"It’s been over a year. Congratulations on your great leap in strength, Junior Brother!"

Han Qinhu, of course, knew who Wei Yuting was.

He had received her as an important guest and shown her into the Half-Mountain Courtyard much earlier.

At that moment,

Sensing the aura of the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer Late Stage coming from Shen Changchuan, Wei Yuting was filled with emotion.

A year or two ago,

she had run into trouble at Golden Wind Valley,

and Shen Changchuan, who was only at the Soul Emergence Sixth Layer Peak at the time, had been the one to rescue her.

In that battle of life and death,

she had personally witnessed Shen Changchuan break through mid-battle while facing a powerful Soul Emergence Eighth Layer foe, raising his Cultivation to the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer.

Now,

only a year or two had passed,

yet the Shen Changchuan before her had already reached the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer Late Stage!

In terms of Cultivation Realm,

there was barely any gap between them anymore!

This couldn’t help but make Wei Yuting sigh with deep emotion.

She thought back on her own life. Ever since she had stepped onto the path of Immortal Cultivation, she had always been a prodigy in the eyes of her family and had even enjoyed the superior Cultivation environment within the Immortal Sect Mountain Gate for a time.

Even so, it had still taken her forty to fifty years to reach the Soul Emergence Seventh Layer Late Stage.

In contrast,

this junior brother of hers had spent nearly his entire time since starting Immortal Cultivation training in remote, barren places like the Tian Nan Domain and the Nanyue Territory.

Yet he had achieved so much in a mere twenty to thirty years!

This couldn’t help but make Wei Yuting feel as if her own decades of hard work had all been for naught.

"It’s just a small achievement. I’ve only made progress recently because I had some good luck and a few fortunate encounters."

"Besides, after the ordeal at Golden Wind Valley, I’m sure Senior Sister also had quite a harvest, didn’t you?"

Shen Changchuan said humbly.

Although it wasn’t obvious,

he could still feel

a faint, sharp edge emanating from Wei Yuting.

Clearly, during this time,

she had also made a breakthrough.

"No matter how much progress I’ve made, it’s nothing worth mentioning in front of you, Junior Brother!"

Wei Yuting shook her head gently, her face filled with emotion.

She wasn’t jealous,

but rather, when she thought back on her own cultivation journey and compared it to her junior brother’s rapid progress, she couldn’t help but feel a sense of dejection.

"Why have you returned to the Tian Nan Domain, Junior Brother? Could it be you ran into trouble in the Nanyue Territory?"

"That... is indeed the case."

Shen Changchuan gave a bitter smile and began to explain.

He then briefly described his current situation in the Nanyue Territory.

He paid special attention to describing the incident in Heaven’s End Valley, where the Supreme Ancestor of the Corpse Refining Sect had appeared and tried to kill him.

"An old fossil from the Divine Travel Realm personally launching a sneak attack on a junior like me in the Soul Emergence Realm... Those Demon Cultivators are truly shameless."

Shen Changchuan’s words were tinged with a hint of helplessness.

"If my master hadn’t intervened, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have made it back."

That ambush,

though Shen Changchuan had been lucky to survive,

had also made him completely determined to leave the Nanyue Territory.

’I can’t stay in the Nanyue Territory any longer.’

’This time, it was a Supreme Ancestor of the Corpse Refining Sect who had only just broken through to the Divine Travel Realm.’

’What about next time?’

’Will it be the Seven Extremes Old Demon or the White Bone Old Demon, cultivators at the Divine Travel Realm Middle Stage or even the Divine Travel Peak Realm, who come for me personally?’

’I can’t just expect my master to always be there to protect me, can I?’

’If I can’t afford to provoke them, I should just avoid them for now.’

’I’ll leave this nest of trouble first and figure things out later.’

’At the very least,’

’it’s incredibly difficult for a Divine Travel Realm Demon Cultivator to leave the Nanyue Territory and sneak into the Tian Nan Domain.’

’Here in the stronghold of the Righteous Dao, my chances of survival are obviously much higher.’

"Something like that happened?!"

Upon hearing this,

Wei Yuting covered her mouth, her face a mask of shock.

Then,

as if she had just realized something,

a look of guilt appeared on her face:

"Junior Brother, this... It’s my fault you’re in this mess."

She couldn’t help but blame herself.

In her eyes, the reason the Corpse Refining Sect’s Supreme Ancestor had attacked Shen Changchuan must have been because Shen Changchuan had slaughtered almost the entire middle and upper echelons of the Corpse Refining Sect during the Golden Wind Valley incident!

After all, in Golden Wind Valley,

everyone from the Sect Leader down to the core Elders and numerous elite disciples had been killed by Shen Changchuan alone!

The entire Corpse Refining Sect had been so thoroughly decimated that you could say there was almost no one left!

Such deep-seated hatred

would naturally provoke the Corpse Refining Sect’s Supreme Ancestor into taking matters into his own hands!

And the cause of the Golden Wind Valley incident,

it could be said, was her!

Back then, if she hadn’t led her people to investigate Golden Wind Valley, if she hadn’t fallen into the Corpse Refining Sect’s encirclement, Shen Changchuan wouldn’t have had to come to the rescue and end up in such huge trouble.

Therefore, Wei Yuting felt she bore an undeniable responsibility for what Shen Changchuan was going through.

"Senior Sister, this has nothing to do with you. You don’t have to take the blame!"

Shen Changchuan quickly waved his hand and explained,

"Actually, I was already on the Demonic Alliance’s kill list because of the Gu-controlling Secret Technique. The Corpse Refining Sect’s Supreme Ancestor most likely attacked me on the Demonic Alliance’s orders. It has little to do with what I did at Golden Wind Valley."

His tone was calm, as he had clearly seen through the underlying reasons long ago:

"Demon Cultivators are all selfish creatures. I don’t believe that old ghost would risk angering my master just to personally kill me for a few dead sect members."

"This was most likely a move by the Demonic Alliance."

"In fact, even if the Golden Wind Valley incident had never happened, even if I hadn’t killed a single person from their Corpse Refining Sect, as long as I spread the Gu-controlling Secret Technique and neutralized the bizarre and powerful Gu Techniques that the Demonic Alliance in the Nanyue Territory relies on to fight us in the Righteous Dao, they would still have seen me as a thorn in their side and come after me with all their might."

Shen Changchuan was very clear-headed and naturally wouldn’t be naive enough to think that the Corpse Refining Sect’s Supreme Ancestor had attacked him purely for personal revenge.

Hearing his words, the guilt on Wei Yuting’s face faded slightly, replaced by a hint of gratitude in her eyes as she looked at Shen Changchuan.

The two exchanged a few more pleasantries,

but seeing that Wei Yuting seemed hesitant and preoccupied, delaying getting to the point and explaining the reason for her visit,

Shen Changchuan took the initiative and spoke up:

"Senior Sister, is there something you came here for? If you need anything, please don’t hesitate to say so."

At this,

Wei Yuting bit her lip and finally made up her mind:

"Junior Brother, I did indeed come here today to ask for your help."

Then,

Wei Yuting began to explain the situation in detail.

What she was asking for

was related to the trouble their Sect was facing.

And the Sect’s trouble,

came precisely from the prodigies from the Outer Realm who had been continuously entering the Tian Nan Domain recently!