Chapter 158 Paper can’t contain the fire

Chapter 158 Paper can’t contain the fire

Chapter 158 Paper can’t contain the fire

When Miao Yi heard the news that the Sword Sect had a third Nascent Soul Sword Immortal, he and Lou He were in Yulun Mountain where the Tianxin Sect's dojo was located.

This mountain is nothing special. It is neither tall and steep, nor does it have any magnificent and majestic aura. It is just a small peak among the remnants of the Qianshan Mountain Range that stretches for thousands of miles to the southwest of Central China.

But in the sky above this small mountain, there is a mirror-like halo hanging in the sky both day and night, making the mountain like spring all year round, gentle and bright, becoming a veritable paradise.

This halo was the result of the sect's treasure "Pointing to the Moon, Mysterious Light", which is how the Tianxin Sect got its name.

Miao Yi and his subordinates have been in Tianxin Sect for seven days, and he feels that his patience is almost exhausted.

At this time, he lived in Wenxin Pavilion on the west side of Yulun Mountain. This pavilion has five floors and is built on a cliff. Looking around from the fifth floor of the pavilion, one can see the thin mist in the mountains under the setting sun, as well as a large area of ​​buildings extending in the mist and forests. Most of them are covered with white tiles polished from blue jade, and are set off by the mysterious light in the sky to make them glow. At first glance, the mountains and forests are like a dream, and it really makes people feel like they are in the fairyland of Guanghan.

The fifth floor where he was was actually a cool room with no walls on all four sides and jade curtains rolled up. Miao Yi set this as his office to handle affairs.

In front of him was a large table, on which was placed a sand table of the terrain of the Tianxin Sect and the surrounding areas of Deyang.

The Qianshan Mountain Range, where Yulun Mountain is located, runs from northwest to southeast, dividing the terrain on the sand table into two parts. The northeast of the mountain range is the area near Deyang, which occupies a quarter of the area of ​​the sand table, while the southwest of the sand table is where You Jiuyuan appeared.

There are a total of fourteen people like him who went out of the church to change the earth's energy. Among these fourteen people, his cultivation is not high. He has only been in the spirit refining realm for more than thirty years. Among the three realms of the spirit refining period, he is the perfection of the first level of the spirit nurturing period.

Therefore, he did not want to take action at all when he left the diocese this time, so he took a garrison mission from Dongyue Zhengtao - ahead, there were fellow disciples in the middle and late stages of the Refining Spirit and Returning to Void realms who were besieging the swordsman, while he was behind the front line, changing the terrain of the mountains and rivers around Deyang, and slowly expanding the diocese. Then he went to the nearby thirty-six sects to negotiate and act as an envoy to surrender, which was both stable and beautiful. If he encountered stubborn people, he only needed to report back to Dongyue Zhengtao and ask Zhengtao to send fellow disciples with high skills to suppress them by force.

When he came to Tianxin Sect seven days ago, everything was going well.

The leader of the Tianxin Sect came down the mountain in person to greet them, and was extremely respectful. He said something like the Eight Xuan Sects were once one lineage, and called himself the "Emperor's envoy." He also placed them in the sect leader's own residence, the Wenxin Pavilion. It seemed that he had already made the decision and was ready to submit.

However, his luck was bad, as You Jiuyuan actually appeared near Tianxin Sect.

This is really absurd. There are thirty-six sects outside the Central Continent Diocese, and countless more vast and remote lands. Why do they have to be on the Tianxin Sect's territory now? ?
On the day he learned about this, the leader of the Tianxin Sect no longer came to chat with him. Miao Yi was also wondering whether he should leave Yulun Mountain immediately and return to Coffin City.

Fortunately, the fellow disciples in the sect reacted very quickly, and on the next day a vanguard force was assembled - sixty-five Spirit Refiners and twenty-three Return to Void Masters, who immediately went to encircle and suppress the group.

The encirclement was naturally unsuccessful, and those swordsmen still managed to break out. But what made Miao Yi feel relieved was that they were heading west, getting farther and farther away from the Tianxin Sect where he was, while the masters of the sect were still chasing the majority of the Sword Sect protected by the two Yuanyings, and the reinforcements of the remaining five sects were also coming from all directions, so Yulun Mountain was safe again, and there was no need to worry about a stream of light suddenly flying over from a hundred miles away.

So the leader of the Tianxin Sect came to Wenxin Pavilion again the day before yesterday and said that he had been ill for the past few days and was afraid of offending the imperial envoy, so he did not come to see him.

He also asked about the atmosphere in the diocese and what they, the "barbarian monks", should do if they were interested in converting. It was obvious that he knew that the Sword Sect was doomed and there was no way they would come here to retaliate, so he planned to surrender.

But it seemed that bad luck never ended once it came. Just yesterday, a disciple of the sect named Zhao Xuchen came to Yulun Mountain and told him that Li Wuxiang might be a Nascent Soul!

At this time, Zhao Xuchen was standing in front of Miao Yi.

Miao Yi frowned and stared at him: "He claims to be Li Wuxiang? Does he look like the Li Wuxiang the sect is looking for? Tell me again?"

"Yes. The one I saw had white hair and a handsome face. He looked like a young man of sixteen or seventeen. This is all the information the sect had when they talked about Li Wuxiang, and it all matched what I saw." Zhao Xuchen answered carefully, "When we fought him... When the four of us went to Fuxing Village, we brought fourteen independent cultivators with us. They were all carefully selected. Their cultivation level is not as good as that of the sect's disciples, but it should not be much worse than that of the Qi Refiners of the Thirty-Six Sects."

"But he killed all these people while the four of us were talking. It was silent and no one saw him. When Junior Brother Peng Shi went to check on them, he was also killed in a split second before he could even do anything."

"At that time, the three of us who were left were on guard, but Junior Brother Pang Ge was still killed by him in front of me, and then he showed up. I was wondering if he might be playing tricks and pretending to be a Yuanying, but after he said a few words to us, he immediately showed up on the cliff in the distance, and then I realized that it must really be his Yin Spirit."

Miao Yi took a deep breath, thought for a while, then turned to look at Lou He beside him: "Brother Lou, have you met Li Wuxiang in Coffin City?"

"I've seen it from a distance, but I can see it clearly." Lou He answered. He stood up again and walked to the table to pick up a pen. "Brother Miao, please wait a moment."

He put pen to paper and quickly sketched out a human figure. He then lifted the paper and showed it to Zhao Xuchen: "Is this the person you see?"

Zhao Xuchen only took a glance and nodded immediately: "Yes, that's right, it's him."

Miao Yi slowly exhaled and sat back in his chair. He frowned and thought for a moment, then sighed, "It's really unlucky. How could such an unlucky thing happen? It's okay that You Jiuyuan fell near the Tianxin Sect, but it's a golden elixir, but it's a Yuanying? How could such a thing happen?"

He stood up again abruptly: "Junior Brother Lou, do you believe this? Mei Qiulu taught a Nascent Soul that cultivated faster than she did? Hmm?"

Before Lou He could speak, Zhao Xuchen said, "Zhen Shou, I think no matter how hard it is to believe...Zhen Shou, you should still report it to Zhengtao. Yesterday and today, when I came here, I found that the news had spread. There were many independent cultivators coming to the villages and towns near Tianxin Sect to seek refuge. But after Li Wuxiang killed Junior Brother He in Fuxing Village, he spared the lives of more than a dozen people. Those dozen blind people spread these things everywhere. Although I ordered people to capture some of them, it was too late."

"Now, all the casual cultivators who had come from the nearby villages and towns have left, because Li Wuxiang said that if he knew that anyone came to join the Xuan Sect, he would kill them without mercy. It was only after I came here that I realized what kind of reputation the swordsman has in the hearts of those casual cultivators... Because of his words, they were all scared. And..."

Zhao Xuchen paused, "This Li Wuxiang seems to be different from other swordsmen. He has a very fierce and violent temperament. If he is really a Yuanying, the worst case scenario... I'm afraid he will kill Tianxin Sect. Because from what I heard from him, he intends to contain the fellow disciples nearby with his own strength so that the other swordsmen can escape."

Lou He sighed slowly in his heart and remained silent.

Miao Yi frowned and thought for a while: "Then——"

But before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a noise downstairs. He felt very annoyed and closed his eyes. But after three breaths, the noise didn't stop, but became louder and louder. Miao Yi suddenly opened his eyes: "What's going on downstairs?"

The disciple at the door immediately ran downstairs to ask, and after a while ran up again: "Zhen Shou, there is a disciple of Tianxin Sect who wants to see you, saying that there is..."

Miao Yi waved his hand: "Tell him to get lost, there is no time now——"

"... said that he wanted to tell you, the town guard, about something concerning Li Wuxiang."

Miao Yi was stunned: "What can he know? Ask him..." But after thinking for a while, he waved his hand again: "Forget it, ask him to come up."

Not long after, the person was brought up.

But it was a she, not a he.

There are many female practitioners in the Tianxin Sect, but when Miao Yi saw those female practitioners these days, he felt more and more that the name "barbaric land" was really correct - compared with the women in the parish, most of the women outside were ugly and vulgar in appearance, and few of them were pleasing to the heart and body.

However, when he saw this woman, he felt his irritability eased a little - she was a very beautiful female cultivator, wearing a lake blue Taoist robe, with two hanging silk ribbons tied in her hair, and a timid expression, which made people feel pity for her just by looking at her.

When he saw Miao Yi, he immediately bowed down and said in a clear voice: "Disciple greets the imperial envoy."

Miao Yi looked at her black hair and neck, and his tone softened: "What's your name?"

"Disciple Cheng Peixin."

"Well, Cheng Peixin, you said you knew about Li Wuxiang? Okay, stand up and look up when you talk."

Cheng Peixin stood up and raised her head slightly, so Miao Yi could still see her gentle look with eyes moving around: "I know, Imperial Envoy. I used to be the head of Feiyun Temple in Deyang. When I was there, I met Li Wuxiang. At that time, he was still at the foundation-building stage."

Miao Yi thought about it and sighed again: "Oh, how many years ago was this?"

Cheng Peixin glanced at him and paused for a moment: "It happened two months ago."

Miao Yi was stunned for a moment, then his eyes widened suddenly, he looked at Lou He, then at Zhao Xuchen, and saw that he was also stunned.

"Two months ago!? What nonsense are you talking about!?"

Cheng Peixin pursed her lips, her voice still very calm: "Emperor's envoy, please listen to me. I just heard that Li Wuxiang is a Yuanying cultivator, and some people have seen his Yin spirit traveling. However, I'm afraid that his so-called Yin spirit may not really be a Yin spirit."

Zhao Xuchen stared at her: "You said I made it up?"

Cheng Peixin bowed her head to him and said, "Master, please don't blame me. I didn't mean that. I just said that Li Wuxiang was not a human. What he used might not be human methods."

Miao Yi stepped forward and looked into her eyes: "Okay, Junior Sister Cheng, tell me what you are talking about! Tell me everything in detail!"

Cheng Peixin exhaled slowly and raised her face slightly. At this time, the sunlight outside the building shone on her face, making her look even more beautiful and charming.

"When I first met him two months ago, he killed a walker from your sect in Ranshan. At that time, he was still at the foundation-building stage. After that, he insisted on staying at my Feiyun Temple. I was afraid of the Sword Sect's bad reputation, so I had to swallow my pride and accept his offer. But during the few days he stayed at my temple, he actually reached the stage of Qi Refining."

"At that time, he went to the Wu Temple in Deyang, also known as the Taiyi Temple, at night. That night, the night when he reached the stage of Qi Refining, three thunders struck the sky in Deyang, and several monsters died in the temple. People in the city thought that Taiyi had shown his divine power to eliminate the evil, but he later told me that he had killed them. But then I thought about it, and combined with his various strange behaviors during those days, I realized that he might not be a human, but a monster that could cultivate with the help of incense and vows."

"Actually... it should be a ghost who has attained enlightenment." Cheng Peixin bit her lip, "Because the former Ranshan Sect Master Zhao Kui is my friend, the wronged spirit of that sect master once appeared in my dream and said that he had set up a formation to refine Taiyi Essence for immortality, and he almost succeeded. But he was harmed by this Li Wuxiang, and his Dao Fruit was taken away. According to Zhao Kui, Li Wuxiang is a ghost who has become a spirit, and is no longer a human being."

"When I heard that Li Wuxiang had formed his elixir in Coffin City again, I knew what Zhao Kui said was true. When he formed his elixir in Coffin City, it was only two months after he had practiced Qi training. He must have used the power of Coffin City. Only spirits can do this kind of thing."

"As for his so-called Yin spirit traveling——" Cheng Peixin turned to Zhao Xuchen and smiled softly, "Master, could you please tell me the situation at that time?"

Looking at her appearance and listening to her tone, Zhao Xuchen's anger just now disappeared by half, and he coughed and said, "Okay."

He recounted the entire previous situation.

Cheng Peixin frowned slightly, then relaxed her eyebrows: "It should be the Xuanguang Mirror. Before Li Wuxiang left Feiyun Temple, he took a magic weapon from me, which was the Xuanguang Mirror. This thing can capture people's souls and lead to the sacred mountain. I don't know how he did it specifically, but when he appeared in front of you, Master, he should have borrowed the Xuanguang Mirror - hiding in the mirror, it seems that he disappeared."

Miao Yi fell silent for a while before he looked at Zhao Xuchen: "What do you think?"

Zhao Xuchen frowned slightly: "Hearing what Junior Sister Cheng said... it seems... that Li Wuxiang's behavior at that time was indeed suspected of showing off. Yes, Zhenshou, if you want to ask me whether he is pretending or is really a Yuanying, then of course I will say that he is pretending!"

"Great!" Miao Yi clapped his hands on the armrest, "I'll report this to Zheng Tao right away! Great! This is also a meritorious achievement!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, he heard two voices:

"The Emperor's Envoy——"

"Senior Brother Miao——"

Miao Yi turned to look at Lou He: "What's wrong?"

"Brother Miao, if he is really a Jindan, then we can make this achievement even greater. Since the beginning of the war half a month ago, all the masters of the sect have come out, but because of the two Yuanyings protecting him, they have only killed five Jindan and a dozen Qi Lian." Lou He whispered, "But this Li Wuxiang is a lone Jindan. If we kill him, how great a achievement will it be?"

Miao Yi was stunned for a moment, frowning in thought.

At this time, Cheng Peixin also spoke up: "Emperor Envoy, what this senior brother said makes sense. I... can also help."

Miao Yi smiled casually and flicked his fingers: "You——"

"I have another disciple named Cheng Shengfei. Because of her good aptitude, she was abducted by the Sword Sect two months ago and forced to become a swordsman." Cheng Peixin straightened up, "But two days ago she sent me a message saying that she and four other swordsmen were separated and were going to Tianxin Sect to seek my protection. Imperial Envoy, if the Imperial Envoy can save this disciple of mine, I am willing to use her to lure Li Wuxiang here and catch him in the trap."

(End of this chapter)