Ninth In the World

Yi Zhen’s heart sank when he saw more than half of the sect masters supporting Lu Xikun.

Even though the Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect had killing arrays, he was afraid that his sect would be destroyed if he was drawn into the fight. One thing was certain. The people next to Lu Xikun would not show any mercy if a fight broke out. On the contrary, some of the people on his side may not give their best and withhold a trick or two during the battle.

After weighing the advantages and disadvantages, Yi Zhen hid his killing intent and said calmly, “The Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect has been working hard for the welfare of the Immortal World. We definitely do not wish to see chaos ensue in the Immortal World. Since all of you are unwilling to negotiate, in three days, I will open the Great Sky Wall Array so that you can go wherever you want. Don’t ask the Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect about such things anymore.”

The sect masters sighed in relief after hearing that Yi Zhen had not chosen to kill anyone.

If a war broke out that day, the Newborn Immortal Protectorate would be destroyed and everyone would meet an end more tragic than the Sunset Immortal Protectorate. These people were the sect masters of big sects, so there would be endless revenge, no matter who perished.

“In that case, we will wait for Sect Master Yi outside the Great Sky Wall Array.” Lu Xikun turned around and left after saying this.

Half of the sect masters followed Lu Xikun out of the Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect, while the other half stayed.

The sect masters and experts had split into two groups even before the meeting of the Newborn Immortal Protectorate had started. One group had been composed by the sects led by Yi Zhen from the Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect, and the other group had been led by Lu Xikun from the Limitless Sword Dao Sect.

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“Sect Master Lu, are you really going to go to the Sunset Immortal Protectorate?” a sect master from a small sect asked eagerly as soon as they left the Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect.

Lu Xikun nodded solemnly. “That’s right. The origin of the Immortal World is still the Sunset Immortal Protectorate. Frankly speaking, the Newborn Immortal Protectorate is merely a small corner isolated from the rest of the Immortal World. Since the Newborn Immortal Protectorate will turn into the Sunset Immortal Protectorate completely within two years, instead of waiting for our death, why don’t we take a look at the Sunset Immortal Protectorate? Even if we were to perish, we would die in our own home.”

Most of the cultivators, including Lu Xikun, considered the Sunset Immortal Protectorate their home.

Manor Lord Tan Mo from the Ultimate Essence Immortal Manor said, “I agree with Sect Master Lu. Our roots are still in the Sunset Immortal Protectorate. I do not think that Sect Master Jing would escape to the Sunset Immortal Protectorate without a reason if she was so concerned about the Immortal World. Something must have attracted her to that place.”

Tan Mo’s words showed his trust for Jing Luowen and his faith in the Virtuous Nirvana Sect. Sect Master Yi from the Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect had not lied about his sect not being the only one that could detect the light from providence in the Immortal World. The Virtuous Nirvana Sect could do the same. The disciples of the Virtuous Nirvana Sect had Nirmala Spirit Bodies and they were extremely sensitive to the Immortal Spirit Qi.

“Yes.” Lu Xiqun affirmed. Then, he remained silent for a moment before he said with an increasingly serious tone, “I have extremely big suspicions, so I dare not say if the sunset is not going to arrive in the Newborn Immortal Protectorate.”

The crowd was shocked by Lu Xikun’s words. Nobody said anything at the moment. They all just looked at Lu Xikun.

Lu Xikun drew a deep breath and said, “We all know that sunset arrived in the Immortal World because the light from providence flowed away. Why would the light from providence flow away without any reason from a gigantic plane like the Immortal World? I suspect that the underlying reason was that someone stole the priceless treasure that ensured the light from providence: the Square Immortal Cauldron.”

What?

Everyone was stunned by Lu Xikun’s words. The thought of stealing the priceless treasure that ensured the light from providence in the Immortal World was just unimaginable…

No one dared to say anything about this frightening claim. Even Lu Xikun, who was a top-notch sect master, could not make such claims casually.

Why had Yi Zhen slandered Jing Luowen for expropriating the light from providence in the Newborn Immortal Protectorate? If that was proven to be true, Jing Luowen would meet her doom and be detested by every single person. However, Jing Luowen was an upright person. Hence, not everyone had believed Yi Zhen’s words and his attempt to appear clever had ended in a blunder.

Lu Xikun sighed. “I know that my claim is too shocking, but my master left me an ambiguous message before he went missing. There were only four words in the message: Immortal Cauldron Radiant Fortune. My master disappeared before the Sunset Immortal World formed. He had received an invitation from the Thearch Robe and the Immortal Emperor Radiant Fortune and he reminded me about the recruitment of the Limitless Sword Dao Sect disciples before he left.”

“I never expected my master to leave forever. The light from providence started to leak away not long after he sent that message to me. Then, sunset arrived and the Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect aroused the masses to kill and steal. Thus, sunset arrived at an accelerated pace.”

Many sect masters looked at Lu Xikun in shock. They had all guessed what he was going to say next. Everyone knew that Lu Xikun’s master had been the top-notch Sword Emperor of the Limitless Sword Dao Sect, Sword Emperor He Qing.

Sword Emperor He Qing had marched across the Immortal World with his sword at the time. Even powerful immortal emperors such as Thearch Robe, Immortal Emperor Radiant Fortune, Immortal Emperor Profound Thoughts and Immortal Emperor Seven Hills, who were equally honorable, had acknowledged their inferiority.

Lu Xikun added, “I suspect that Immortal Emperor Radiant Fortune took the Square Immortal Cauldron and killed Senior Thearch Robe. My master must have been killed when he tried to stop Immortal Emperor Radiant Fortune. As Immortal Emperor Radiant Fortune perfected the Immortal Emperor Realm, I guess that he took the Square Immortal Cauldron and left the Immortal World.”

The crowd drew a gasp of cold air. The Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect would be wanted if everyone found out that they had taken the Square Immortal Cauldron and left the Immortal World.

However, what Lu Xikun had said could be true, as the Immortal World was the limit for cultivators. No one had ever heard of what was beyond the Immortal Emperor Realm. There was no other way to leave the Immortal World except by using the Square Immortal Cauldron.

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Di Jiu felt a great sense of relief when he heard from Zhuo Wenshu that the Galaxy Sect was doing fine and Di Di and Geng Ji had not come to the Immortal World.

The Starry Sky Immortal Protectorate was still under development at the moment, so it would be meaningless for Di Di and Geng Ji to go to the Immortal World.

Continuing to conduct research on array formations would be a waste of time. Thus, Di Jiu decided to enter reclusive cultivation at the center of the Five-Element Array in the Sky Bamboo River.

This was the first time Di Jiu had cultivated properly ever since he had come to the Immortal World. His cultivation experience increased quickly because he sat on top of two high-grade immortal spirit meridians, where the light from providence originated for the second time.

Di Jiu attained the level-seven Perfected Immortal Realm in just half a year. The pace of his cultivation slowed down after he reached that stage, but he was still much faster than the other cultivators because of the help of the Starry Sky Art.

Three more months passed. The communication pearl on his wrist emitted a bright ray right after Di Jiu attained the level-eight Perfected Immortal Realm.

Di Jiu stopped cultivating and landed on the city wall of the auxiliary city just by spreading his body.

Other than Yan Xiaosha, who had attained the Great Unity Immortal Realm, and Qu Tong and Wu Yu, who had attained the Golden Immortal Realm, Bei Chutai and Liu Yuxin were also on the city wall.

Just as Di Jiu was about to ask about the sect master of the Virtuous Nirvana Sect, Yan Xiaosha said, “City Lord, this is the message Sect Master Jing told me to send you.”

“Yes, I can feel that Yi Zhen and his people are coming.” Jing Luowen appeared beside Di Jiu with a void step.

Di Jiu cupped his fists hurriedly and greeted her before he asked, “Sect Master Jing, how do you know that Yi Zhen and his people are coming?”

Jing Luowen had been healing in the Starry Sky Immortal Protectorate for almost a year, and her injuries had recovered a long time ago. She could vaguely feel that Di Jiu’s cultivation experience had increased, but she could not identify his exact cultivation level.

“City Lord, the Defense Array around the auxiliary city is a little weak. Hence, I set up a few Trigger Arrays outside the auxiliary city. Only the experts from the Newborn Immortal Protectorate can trigger these arrays. I guess that Yi Zhen was about to arrive, because one of the trigger arrays I set up was triggered a while ago.” Jing Luowen was a sect master and an Immortal King expert. Although she had recovered fully from her injuries, she had never belittled Di Jiu.

Di Jiu, who trusted Jing Luowen’s words, thought to himself, “The older the wiser indeed.” He really had not thought of such an easy method.

He immediately opened the Defense Array of the auxiliary city and said loudly, “The experts from the Newborn Immortal Protectorate are going to pillage our home. These people will never take our lives seriously. All cultivators outside the auxiliary city please come into the city temporarily…”

When Di Jiu’s voice spread across the entire auxiliary city, all the cultivators living around the city packed their belongings quickly and dashed towards the city as they heard his words.

In fact, the cultivators were thanking City Lord Di loudly for allowing the itinerant cultivators to seek asylum in the auxiliary city.

Everyone had heard of the tragedy that had happened outside the auxiliary city a few years ago. It was said that the disciples from the Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect had killed all the cultivators outside the auxiliary city without mercy or reason.

Now that the cultivators from the Newborn Immortal Protectorate were coming again, who would dare remain outside the auxiliary city? If they were not allowed to enter the auxiliary city, they would rather escape from this place.

However, not all the cultivators chose to enter the auxiliary city. Some of them actually escaped. They had heard that there were Immortal King experts in the Newborn Immortal City, so they thought that the Starry Sky Immortal City would be defenseless against these experts. Since they could not withstand any attacks from such experts, entering the auxiliary city would be as good as awaiting their own doom.

The shadow of more than ten flying boats appeared almost at the same moment that all the cultivators entered the auxiliary city.

Di Jiu raised his hand and threw an array flag to close the level-three Defense Array.

Despite Jing Luowen’s help, Di Jiu needed to rely on Defense Arrays in order to tackle the experts from the Newborn Immortal Protectorate.

Countless rays from the flying boats shone on the outside of the auxiliary city as close to 10,000 people rushed down from the flying boats.

The cultivators who rushed down from the flying boats started shouting excitedly. “We can cultivate here! There is life-force and water! I can see it, I can see it…”

Although nobody mentioned what he could see, they all knew what he was referring to.