Cultivation Starting from Choosing Augments

Chapter 754: Chapter 286: The Spiritual Communication Pavilion’s Consistent Characteristic

’Zen Master Kuji was attacked first?’

After noticing the sequence of the two events, Xiao Chen immediately felt that something was wrong.

Especially since nearly a month had passed, and these rumors had neither been debunked nor confirmed.

He flipped to the next page and immediately saw more rumors.

One rumor claimed that the area within a ten-thousand-li radius of Kuji Temple was completely blockaded by schools of Sea Fish, making entry and exit impossible.

Another said that a few Loose Cultivators had encountered fleeing Monks in the southwestern part of the Compassion Sea, and these Monks seemed to be using Buddhist Artifacts from Kuji Temple.

An even more sensational report claimed that Kuji Temple had fallen completely.

It even detailed the process of several well-known Arhats fighting to the death against Great Demons.

Interestingly, the description of the Magical Combat was extremely detailed.

It was specific down to the clash of individual moves, as if someone had witnessed the entire battle firsthand.

The story Xiao Chen had heard the storyteller telling when he first entered was mostly based on this report.

It had just been slightly embellished and adapted in its specific combat details.

Although the many Loose Cultivators below were listening with great interest,

strictly speaking, this was probably the most unreliable rumor of them all.

After all, if Kuji Temple had truly fallen, then who could have spread a report that read as if it were a firsthand account?

But then again, even if the fight was fabricated, what about the siege of Kuji Temple itself?

With this doubt in mind, Xiao Chen flipped forward two more pages.

However, these two pages were filled with more fragmented rumors centered on individuals.

For example, one said that Bitter Melon Arhat had fled with a Spiritual Object to preserve their lineage, while another claimed he had seized the opportunity to betray Kuji Temple and abscond with a Tier Four Buddha Treasure.

The two reports contradicted each other, but that was a consistent feature of the Spiritual Communication Pavilion.

They didn’t produce intelligence; they were just porters of rumors.

Therefore, Xiao Chen paid them no mind and continued, flipping another two pages.

He was immediately met with a significant rumor that took up an entire page by itself.

It had been confirmed that a dense fog, covering a radius of tens of thousands of li, had appeared around the outskirts of Little Prajna Temple in the northern Compassion Sea.

Local rumors were spreading that schools of Golden Core Sea Fish had been spotted at the edge of the fog.

At the same time, another rumor claimed that several Cultivators had ventured a thousand li into the fog to investigate.

They reportedly saw a Sea Beast several hundred zhang large, which killed one of the Golden Core Cultivators on the spot.

To avoid confusion with other reports, these few lines were specially written in red cinnabar ink, making them particularly conspicuous.

Even if someone were just quickly flipping through the intelligence booklet, the conspicuous color would make them notice this page’s uniqueness.

’Little Prajna Temple?’

To be honest, Xiao Chen had no impression of this name.

After arriving in the Compassion Sea, he had spent most of his time in the territories of the Daoist Sect.

It was only when he went to the new Relic that he came into contact with some disciples of the Buddhist Sect.

Thus, he wasn’t very familiar with the less famous Buddhist Temples.

But based on the situation in the Compassion Sea, any power that could establish itself independently had to have at least one Tier Four Zen Master presiding over it, just like Kuji Temple.

So, by that logic, this Little Prajna Temple should also have a Zen Master.

Yet they too had been besieged by a dense fog, which also sounded like the work of the Sea Race.

Logically, this was all too unusual.

To confirm this, Xiao Chen flipped forward again and found a simple Nautical Chart among the cluttered rumors.

The chart’s original purpose was to mark the range of the fog.

But as luck would have it, the chart showed that the fog was located right near the movement path of that giant scallop to the north.

In other words, this fog was very likely another instance of the Sea Race helping a Giant Sea Beast clear potential obstacles from its path ahead of time.

’No way, is the Sea Race really that powerful?’

Xiao Chen found this hard to believe.

The ambush of Zen Master Kuji outside his temple was relatively believable, but Little Prajna Temple, with its protective Array, couldn’t have been taken by brute force, could it?

If that were the case, it meant either the attackers were several times stronger than the defenders,

or the attackers had an overwhelming numerical advantage.

Neither scenario was good news.

Furthermore, Xiao Chen recalled that he had indeed not seen any Monks from Little Prajna Temple at the new Relic.

It now seemed that the reason the Monks of Little Prajna Temple were absent from the new Relic

was very likely because they had run into trouble and were unable to make it.

Unfortunately, this was just a guess. The intelligence only confirmed the appearance of the fog, but there was no reliable timeline.

Although one rumor suggested they had been under siege for a year,

that one sounded more like fake news.

The more reliable hypothesis was that the Sea Race had made their moves simultaneously and recently.

’Wait, simultaneous moves?’

Xiao Chen suddenly realized, didn’t that mean the Tingtao Sea was also in trouble?

After all, there were three Giant Sea Beasts. It made no sense for there to be corresponding plans for the other two, while this one was simply overlooked, right?

Following that logic, there should have been a siege against the Cloud Sea Sword Pavilion here as well.

Could it be... the wind!

At this thought, Xiao Chen immediately made the connection to the sudden, great wind.

’Huh? No, that can’t be right. If it’s just wind here, isn’t the killing power a little too weak?’

But in the next moment, he overturned his own idea.

The wind outside wasn’t weak by any means, but it was fundamentally incapable of causing any substantial harm to a Golden Core Cultivator.