Chapter 764 - 326: Awaiting Reconstruction, Profound Celestial Sect Elder

Chapter 764: Chapter 326: Awaiting Reconstruction, Profound Celestial Sect Elder

The Tree Vine Demon was uprooted from within the Immortal King’s Tomb by the owner of the Golden Flying Sword.

But the Restriction Array blanketing the entire Immortal King’s Tomb didn’t vanish. In fact, its power hadn’t weakened at all. Instead, with the Tree Vine Demon’s departure, most of the power within the tomb converged into the Array.

Chu Lingguang, Yang Rong, and Li Qiushui stood outside the Stone Forest. Sensing the fluctuations of aura from within the Array, none of the three dared to make a rash move.

Chu Lingguang could no longer communicate with the Nascent Soul Ghosts inside the Immortal King’s Tomb to ask them to let him in.

Likewise, the owner of the Golden Flying Sword possessed vast Divine Abilities and seemed like another Immortal King reborn—or at the very least, a Nascent Soul Strong Person. Chu Lingguang and Yang Rong didn’t dare to go in and disturb them.

The three of them had only flown over to see what was really happening here.

Seeing that the Immortal King’s Tomb had returned to calm and that the owner of the Golden Flying Sword and Yan Zhen had both disappeared into it, the crowd that had gathered outside wandered around curiously for a few days before they, too, departed one after another.

"Yan, I’m cultivating at the Profound Celestial Sect. If you can hear this, come find me at the Profound Celestial Sect after you get out."

Chu Lingguang shouted, standing outside the Stone Forest.

Niu Chunming was dead.

Many of the Profound Celestial Sect’s Elders were dead.

The Profound Celestial Sect was in a state of disarray and needed rebuilding. Chu Lingguang and Yang Rong had to return promptly to handle its affairs.

Li Qiushui was Niu Chunming’s junior martial sister and held a respected position in the Profound Celestial Sect. Yang Rong, as the sect’s top Alchemy Master, was so influential that she had become its de facto backbone.

Without Yang Rong’s coordination, the Profound Celestial Sect would have fallen into complete disarray.

「A few days later.」

Chu Lingguang, Yang Rong, and Li Qiushui returned to the Profound Celestial Sect together.

In their absence, several bloody incidents had already occurred within the sect.

Strength determines everything.

A few Inner Sect Disciples had colluded with Outer Disciples, attempting to overthrow the Profound Celestial Sect. Fortunately, not all of the sect’s Foundation Establishment or Core Formation cultivators had left to explore the Immortal King’s Tomb.

Several others had been in closed-door cultivation within the sect.

Their emergence was what resolved the bloody incidents.

"By order of the Sect Leader, Yang Rong and Chu Lingguang have betrayed the sect! Any disciple of the Profound Celestial Sect who sees them is to kill them on sight!"

But when Chu Lingguang and Yang Rong returned to the Profound Celestial Sect, someone still shouted this aloud. Many Inner Sect Disciples controlled their Flying Swords, poised and ready to strike them down.

If not for the fact that Yang Rong was the sect’s number one Alchemy Master, had a Core Formation cultivation base, and was desperately needed by the Profound Celestial Sect at this time—and if not for the older-generation cultivators who had emerged from seclusion finding the matter strange and wanting to hear her explanation—the three of them would have likely been besieged the moment they returned.

"The Jade Scroll message everyone received wasn’t sent by the Sect Leader himself, but was the work of the ghosts in the Immortal King’s Tomb! The Sect Leader was already dead before we even left the tomb."

"Here are the Sect Leader’s Flying Sword, Storage Pouch, and Identity Token. He entrusted them all to me."

Yang Rong was very clever. When burying Niu Chunming, she had specifically taken a few items that could substantiate her story. She didn’t explain why Niu Chunming would have sent such a message.

Instead, she blamed everything on the ghosts within the Immortal King’s Tomb.

She knew that if she said Niu Chunming had been Swallowed by desire and lost his mind when he gave that order, it would only fill everyone with righteous indignation. She and Chu Lingguang might very well have been attacked by the crowd.

"It was the ghosts causing trouble."

"But the voice?"

"It’s said that even a Nascent Soul Great Power died in the Immortal King’s Tomb back then. The ghosts inside were all formed from former Nascent Soul Strong Persons. Imitating the Sect Leader’s voice would be as easy as flipping a hand for them."

"Elder Yang is our Profound Celestial Sect’s number one Alchemy Master. How could she possibly betray the sect?"

"So this was all a misunderstanding."

...

The crowd whispered among themselves. Most of them found it strange that Yang Rong would betray the sect. They might not have known Chu Lingguang, but Yang Rong was the Profound Celestial Sect’s top Alchemy Master.

She was renowned throughout Great Qin, a figure many other sects were trying to recruit.

If Yang Rong were to leave the Profound Celestial Sect now, even the Cyan Cloud Sect would probably try to win her over and wouldn’t dare to slight her in the least.

Therefore, Yang Rong had no reason to betray them.

Some people began to rationalize the situation in their minds, slowly coming to accept it.

"This was just a misunderstanding. The Profound Celestial Sect cannot do without Elder Yang."

Finally, an old Core Formation cultivator who had been in seclusion came out to mediate.

Only then did the hostility of the Profound Celestial Sect disciples toward Chu Lingguang and Yang Rong dissipate.

"Though the Sect Leader is gone, the Profound Celestial Sect must carry on. I will temporarily take charge of the sect until a new Sect Leader emerges."

This old Core Formation cultivator was named Ji Fan Chen.

He had been cultivating in the Profound Celestial Sect for over a thousand years and was highly respected within the sect. He had experienced the joint exploration of the Immortal King’s Tomb by the major sects several hundred years ago.

He had even seen a Nascent Soul cultivator perish in the Immortal King’s Tomb, dying right within the Stone Forest.

It was precisely because he had witnessed the power of the Restriction Array in the Immortal King’s Tomb with his own eyes that he hadn’t joined the commotion this time when the Array supposedly weakened.

He believed it was an illusion.

He had even tried to persuade Niu Chunming, warning him not to go in with such fanfare and that a slow, careful exploration would be better. He never expected the losses this time to be even greater than the last.

Even the Sect Leader had died in the Immortal King’s Tomb.

Now, even an old bag of bones like him had to come out and manage the sect’s operations.

Thus, Ji Fan Chen became the acting Sect Leader.

The Profound Celestial Sect resumed its operations, and many affairs began to improve day by day.

Chu Lingguang also came to possess his own private abode.

Time flew by. In the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.

In these ten years, Yan Zhen and the owner of the Golden Flying Sword seemed to have vanished completely within the Immortal King’s Tomb. Outside the Stone Forest, the ground was overgrown with weeds, and traces of Demon Beast activity were everywhere.ℴ