Chapter 304: Star Heaven Sect Makes Trouble
On the entire Chenping Continent, there are only thirty-one Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators, and only these two of them have ever touched a realm beyond Immortal Ascension.
Everyone else can only rely entirely on groping and guessing.
Excluding the current era, in the history of Chenping Continent, there were at most four Immortal Ascension Realm cultivators existing at the same time.
Now, there are seven.
“True Person Kong wants me to live?”
Chen Yan asked after another moment of silence.
“I want you dead.”
“But you didn’t come here this time to kill me.”
“I was just persuaded to stop.”
True Person Kong said:
“I made a deal with someone. For ten years, I will not kill you.”
The instant Lu Li spoke these words, a face immediately flashed through Chen Yan’s mind.
Mr. You.
There is only one person qualified to make a deal with Kong Yang for his sake, and that is Mr. You.
“However, if you promise me one thing, I can give up the thought of killing you, and can even protect you.”
Lu Li said calmly.
“What?”
Chen Yan asked.
“I want the complete cultivation art behind the improved Kongshan Art.”
Lu Li said.
The other party wanted the Purple Mansion Record.
Chen Yan quickly and completely understood the situation.
He was not the least bit surprised that Lu Li could discover that the Purple Mansion Kongshan Art was not something he had improved, but was rather a very clumsy method of extracting some of the contents from the Purple Mansion Record and then blending it with the Kongshan Art.
The other party was an Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator; his little tricks were completely transparent before him.
Even after Chen Yan’s Purple Mansion Record reached great completion, when he looked back at the Purple Mansion Kongshan Art he had previously improved, it was also full of flaws.
Just by casually flipping through a few pages, one could easily see that this Purple Mansion Kongshan Art was completely a cultivation art pieced together from other arts and the Kongshan Art.
Rigid and disjointed.
Of course, this was from the perspective of Chen Yan after his Purple Mansion Record reached great completion.
For ordinary Middle Three Realms, or even Upper Three Realms cultivators, they would be completely unable to perceive the sense of disjointedness and rigidity.
At most, they would be like Lin Qifeng or Qin Yue, able to perceive the difference in the circulation of true qi.
But Lu Li was an immortal.
“Don’t want to give it, is that it?”
Lu Li said indifferently:
“Forget it, it was just a suggestion. The deal between me and that person is still valid. I will not kill you for ten years.”
“Did True Person Kong come here specifically just to tell me these things?”
Chen Yan said.
“Of course not, I came to take something.”
Then Lu Li waved his sleeve, and the carriage parked in the small courtyard instantly disappeared.
“This was one of the conditions agreed upon when that person made the deal with me.”
After saying this, Lu Li turned and walked towards the exit of the small courtyard.
This Immortal Ascension Realm immortal did not look back again, but simply walked straight out of the small courtyard. A moment later, he completely disappeared from the small town.
As if he had never come at all.
“……”
Chen Yan still stood in the small courtyard, motionless.
He never expected that he would meet Lu Li today.
And the words Lu Li said to him, in fact, did not cause any impact on him.
Everything was within his expectations.
The game of hide-and-seek was over.
This actually made Chen Yan’s heart feel a bit more relaxed.
He looked up at the azure sky.
The world was vast. The size of Chenping Continent was already tens of thousands of times larger than the world he lived in during his previous life.
This scale of world size completely exceeded the scope allowed by common sense in his previous life.
But it existed.
Yet with the world so vast, where exactly should he go?
…
Star Heaven Sect.
For the past few months, the atmosphere within the Star Heaven Sect had been relatively oppressive.
And the reason for the oppressive atmosphere was well known.
After the Great Dao’s recovery, among the Five Great Sects, only the Star Heaven Sect had no Immortal Ascension Realm cultivator overseeing it.
In the history of the Star Heaven Sect, only two Immortal Ascension Realm great powers had ever appeared.
They were Realman Sun and Moon and Realman Star-Paying Respects.
If even one of these two could reincarnate and be reborn like the successive generations of Immortal Ascension Realm great powers of the other four great sects, the Star Heaven Sect’s situation would not be so passive.
Currently, the Star Heaven Sect’s Supreme Pivot Elder, Gu Jiancheng, was in seclusion.
His current cultivation realm was the mid-stage of the Dao Union Realm, still far from Immortal Ascension.
But Gu Jiancheng had no other choice. If he wanted the Star Heaven Sect to stand on the same starting line as the other four great sects in this era of immortal path recovery, his ascension to immortality was the only immediate method.
Night Weaving Gate, Enforcement Hall.
Several figures wearing Star Heaven Sect daoist robes stood before two corpses.
And beside these two corpses stood, meekly and submissively, a manager disciple of the Enforcement Hall who was clearly of lower status and position than the others present. He looked to be in his thirties.
Manager Zhang.
It was he who, on the ferry drifting in the sky, discovered the body of that rogue cultivator among them.
“You’re saying, this corpse moved.”
The Enforcement Hall elder of the Night Weaving Gate, who stood to the side with his hands behind his back and a grave expression, asked slowly in this manner.
“Yes.”
Manager Zhang replied.
“Corpse manipulation technique?”
An Enforcement Hall protector standing beside the Enforcement Hall elder frowned and said.
“Doesn’t seem like it. This corpse shows no signs of being manipulated.”
Just two days ago, the Enforcement Hall disciples of the Night Weaving Gate discovered over a dozen corpses belonging to rogue cultivators from the Northern Region while investigating an ownerless ferry.
Just as the final investigation was wrapping up, one of the corpses suddenly erupted, grabbing and strangling to death a Qi Circulation Realm disciple, Sun Deyun, who was standing right beside the corpse at the time.
That was the corpse wearing Star Heaven Sect daoist robes, lying beside the rogue cultivator’s corpse.
“Then, according to the oral accounts of the disciples present, this corpse also emitted strange syllables from its mouth at the time…”
The Enforcement Hall elder frowned slightly.
The protector beside this Enforcement Hall elder looked towards Manager Zhang’s direction:
“Are you certain he called the name of Moon Void Sect’s Elder Qin?”
“Absolutely true, beyond any doubt.”
Manager Zhang said righteously and solemnly.
Moon Void Sect Dignity Elder, Qin Qingyu.
The youngest Myriad Transformations Realm cultivator in the history of the Star Heaven Sect, and also the youngest Dignity Elder, just thirty-four years old.
Having broken through to the Myriad Transformations Realm less than half a year ago, she had already cultivated over a hundred strands of innate true energy.
At this cultivation speed, Qin Qingyu had great hope of stepping into the Upper Three Realms before the age of one hundred.
A true candidate for Immortal Ascension.
The contemporary Five Great Sects’ genius who was once equally famous as Qin Qingyu, Kongshan Sect’s Chu Xiyao, is still lingering in the Spirit Connection Realm, with the breakthrough to the Myriad Transformations Realm still far off.
“Elder, what should we do?”
The Night Weaving Gate Enforcement Hall protector beside him lowered his voice and requested instructions from the Enforcement Hall elder in this manner.
“Such a minor matter, in principle, shouldn’t casually disturb Elder Qin… Alright, you go and notify the Moon Void Sect’s Enforcement Hall, have them send someone over to take a look.”
“Yes.”
That Enforcement Hall protector bowed towards the elder, then turned and walked out of the Enforcement Hall.
The Night Weaving Gate Enforcement Hall elder’s expression was grave as he stared directly at the corpse before him.
And Manager Zhang simply kept his head lowered.
His finger moved slightly, flicking out a tiny piece of minced flesh from under his fingernail.
Then Manager Zhang raised his head slightly, looked at the scratch marks on Sun Deyun’s corpse’s neck, his face expressionless.
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