Chapter 550 - 382: Each with Their Own Agenda
Chapter 550: Chapter 382: Each with Their Own Agenda
The Celestial Cloud Sect’s headquarters.
Lin Caixuan of the Wind Ling Sect had already arrived.
After stating whom she had come to the Celestial Cloud Sect to see, she was quickly granted an audience with Sect Leader Fang Yun.
"Sect Leader Fang," Lin Caixuan said, bowing to Fang Yun.
Fang Yun looked at Lin Caixuan, who had changed little, and couldn’t help but recall the four-sect trial from a hundred years ago.
After a brief moment of recollection, marveling inwardly at how quickly time had passed, he spoke.
"Fellow Daoist Lin, you’ve come all this way to see me. Go ahead, what is it?"
"I was wondering if Sect Leader Fang has any intention of making another move."
"Does Fellow Daoist Lin wish to move against the Dragon Demon Palace?" Fang Yun immediately grasped her meaning.
"The Wind Ling Sect does indeed have such intentions."
Lin Caixuan was here on the Wind Ling Sect Leader’s behalf, so she replied accordingly.
Fang Yun had expected this day would come, but he hadn’t thought it would be so soon.
Only ten years had passed. He still needed about thirty more years to cultivate to the peak of the early-stage Core Formation Realm. To strike at the Dragon Demon Palace now was far sooner than he had planned.
"Whether it’s the Dragon Demon Palace, the Demon Spirit Sect, or the Black Ghost Cave, our Celestial Cloud Sect intends to eliminate them all. But it’s too soon. If the Celestial Cloud Sect makes another move, we’ll likely draw the direct attention of the Black Dragon Hall." Fang Yun directly analyzed the gravity of acting too quickly.
He could make such an analysis mainly because he had more information than the Wind Ling Sect.
Just the other day, Lin Ke from the Purple Mist Sect had contacted him and briefly explained the current situation with the Black Dragon Hall.
Among the Cultivators of the Purple Mist Sect, Lin Ke was the only one who kept in contact with him.
Lin Ke held a high position in the Purple Mist Sect and thus had access to more information.
Currently, the Black Dragon Hall was still making trouble for the Purple Mist Sect. According to Lin Ke’s own analysis, the Black Dragon Hall seemed to be trying to force out the mysterious Spirit Refiner mentioned by the Demons.
Fang Yun was largely in agreement with Lin Ke’s assessment.
The Black Dragon Hall hadn’t acted against them because it believed the mysterious Spirit Refiner was from the Purple Mist Sect. If the Black Dragon Hall thought the Spirit Refiner was in their Celestial Cloud Sect, things would likely be very different.
’Acting too soon really would present such a problem...’
Lin Caixuan inwardly agreed with Fang Yun’s reasoning.
Only ten years had passed. If it had been thirty or forty years, that would be one thing, but ten years was truly a short time.
But Lin Caixuan was here representing the Wind Ling Sect, not herself. Though she thought this inwardly, she could not say it aloud.
Of course, she couldn’t just refute Fang Yun’s words either.
The Wind Ling Sect was in no position to force the Celestial Cloud Sect to act.
So, Lin Caixuan asked directly, "Sect Leader Fang, do you have a planned time to begin?"
"I do have a rough plan." Fang Yun nodded upon hearing her question, then added, "For our Celestial Cloud Sect, the original priority was to eliminate the Demon Spirit Sect. Since you wish to eliminate the Dragon Demon Palace, we can swap the order and put the Dragon Demon Palace first."
What Fang Yun said was nine parts truth and one part lie.
The lie was in attributing the Celestial Cloud Sect’s reason for targeting the Dragon Demon Palace first entirely to the Wind Ling Sect.
In reality, the upper echelon of the Celestial Cloud Sect had long since agreed that if the Wind Ling Sect proposed eliminating the Dragon Demon Palace, he would use it as a convenient favor to strike at the Dragon Demon Palace first.
If they hadn’t, the sect would have moved against the Demon Spirit Sect first.
The order didn’t make much difference to them.
"Thank you, Sect Leader Fang." Hearing this, Lin Caixuan immediately expressed her gratitude.
"You’re too kind, Fellow Daoist Lin. We should be helping each other... As for a rough timeline, it will likely be about thirty years."
With his last sentence, Fang Yun had returned to Lin Caixuan’s question about when they would make their next move.
Fang Yun still hoped to first upgrade his Combat Talent to eight stars and then break through to the mid-stage Core Formation Realm.
The stronger he became, the more convenient his subsequent actions would be, and the more secure their outcome.
"Thirty years..."
"What do you think, Fellow Daoist Lin?"
"After I return, I will convey your intentions, Sect Leader Fang."
Personally, Lin Caixuan found this timeframe completely acceptable.
With the main topic of discussion concluded, the two began to chat about other matters.
Through their subsequent conversation, Lin Caixuan came to understand not only the Celestial Cloud Sect better, but also Fang Yun himself.
They also had much in common to discuss regarding their special physiques.
Lin Caixuan possessed the Snow Spirit Body.
She knew that Fang Yun possessed the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Body.
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The Demon Spirit Sect’s headquarters.
Lately, Supreme Elder Zhao Chongguang of the Demon Spirit Sect had been feeling rather irritable.
The source of his irritation wasn’t the Celestial Cloud Sect, but rather the Ghost-Controlling Sect, a Core Formation Sect of Ghost Cultivators.
If one were to ask which Core Formation Sect the Demon Spirit Sect had the deepest conflict with in the past, the answer would have undoubtedly been the Ghost-Controlling Sect. Now, however, the Celestial Cloud Sect had taken the top spot.
Two of their Demon Spirit Sect’s Supreme Elders had fallen at the hands of the Celestial Cloud Sect. If not for that, their deepest conflict would still be with the Ghost-Controlling Sect.
After the Celestial Cloud Sect occupied the Celestial Demon Sect’s territory, the Demon Spirit Sect did nothing more than ask an Elder from the Black Dragon Hall to act as Guardian, taking no other measures against the Celestial Cloud Sect.
The Celestial Cloud Sect had also been quiet since eliminating the Celestial Demon Sect, showing no intention whatsoever of moving against the Demon Spirit Sect.
However, while the Celestial Cloud Sect remained inactive, the Ghost-Controlling Sect was constantly making moves.
And recently, the Ghost-Controlling Sect had become even more aggressive.
This was the specific reason for Zhao Chongguang’s frustration.
"No, things can’t go on like this."
Zhao Chongguang felt the situation could not continue. The Celestial Cloud Sect was a ticking time bomb, and now the Ghost-Controlling Sect was stirring up this kind of trouble for him.
So, how was he to resolve the current situation?