Zhuge Xiaosheng’s Predicament
“Gui Mohan and Gui Huanyin are hunting Celestial Star Sect’s Tian Xingzhou? I thought they’re allies… Ghost Gate, I will show you my wrath!” Han Qi swore through his teeth, breathing short and heavy breaths as he gazed at his incomplete wife through his wet eyes. “I will go back to Full North City and tell everyone you’re hunting Celestial Star Sect’s Tian Xingzhou. Let’s see how the rest of the world reacts to your behaviour! I don’t care if this is true or not!”
Han Qi turned around and stomped, only to be cut off when he saw the Celestial Star Sect emblem on Long Qingan’s shirt. He looked up and panicked. “Elder Tian Jiancheng?”
“Who are you? Why are you here?” Long Qingan, whom Han Qi recognised when both of them were in Martial Hill City, stoically questioned.
“Elder Tian Jiancheng, I have important news for you. I just saw Ghost Gate’s patriarch chasing after Elder Tian Xingzhou. I am worried that…”
After listening to Han Qi’s heartfelt and heart-wrenching story, Long Qingan, tone nonchalant, replied, “Ghost Gate wants to exterminate our sect since we found out that they’re colluding with elemental demons. I came here with the aiming of stopping Ghost Gate. You should hurry out of here. Pass on this information so that more people see them for who they really are.”
“Th-they are colluding with elemental demons?”
Han Qi’s existing bias, what he witnessed and the credible elder who delivered the information were enough to convince Han Qi of what he usually would label a lunatic’s drivel.
“Yes. You need to enlighten people so that we can stop people dying for their sake. Also, let them know it was me who asked you to pass this message on, understand?”
“Yes, Elder Tian.”
As he strolled to the teleportation formation Mu Yu set on the water surface while Han Qi went in the opposite direction, Long Qingan mumbled to himself, “I finally understand what your plan is, Mu Yu.”
Long Qingan activated the domain energy inside a blue jade piece of his, enveloping himself in the blue energy that soon teleported him away.
***
“Greetings, Patriarch.” It was the third time Tian Zhengxin had knelt in the day, and it had not even been two hours since the last one. He pondered, Why is every Ascension Realm elder coming here today?
“Rise. Has everything been fine? Nobody came here, did they?” asked Tian Yuehen, a striking man in his fifties with a physique that fitted his purple robe perfectly.
“Everything has been well, Patriarch. Ancestor Tian Houyang came by not long ago.”
“Uncle Houyang came here? I thought he was supposed to be at Martial Hill City.”
“I do not know, Patriarch. He fetched Ancestor Xingzhou, and then the two of them went up to the palace.”
“Uncle Xingzhou has come out of seclusion already?” Tian Yuehen headed up the mountain with his brows locked together.
***
Zhuge Xiaosheng was as nervous as he was thrilled to get back at Celestial Star Sect, the former feeling the being the product of worry that things did not go smoothly. He was ready on his end; all he was waiting for was the signal from Mu Yu.
Zhuge Xiaosheng shoved Tian Xing to the edge of the formation and then hid in a corner, hiding himself in an invisibility formation. A new leaf bloomed when he took out the piece of greenwood to his delight. However, he picked up an energy signal encroaching upon the palace.
Damn it, Tian Yuehen! He’s an Ascension Realm Fifth Layer cultivator; the gap between our powers is too big. The plan will fail if he sees Tian Xingzhou in that state. Blast it. I’ll have to bet on him not seeing through me. Zhuge Xiaosheng defused his invisibility formation to confront Tian Yuehen.
The only person in Celestial Star Sect who surpassed Tian Yuehen was Tian Xingzhou. With that said, Tian Yuehen had access to their sect’s best tools as he was the patriarch. That meant Tian Yuehen could give even Ascension Realm Ninth Layer cultivators a run for their money with his items.
“Uncle Boyang, are you not supposed to be stationed at Martial Hill City? Why are you back?” inquired Tian Yuehen.
“I came back as I needed to talk to Brother Xingzhou. He said he had an epiphany, so he went for a stroll around the palace and then told me to wait outside because he wanted to cultivate in the palace.”
“Why does he want to cultivate here? Uncle Boyang, for some reason, something about you feels odd?”
“While I was at Martial Hill City, I caught Ghost Gate’s Elder Gui Xiaochen killing our disciples. When I asked why, he claimed it was Third Heaven Palace’s edict and attacked me. I have yet to recover from the sneak attack.”
“Really?”
“They have always been prejudiced towards us; you would know about Senior Brother Xingzhou’s enmity with Gui Mohan in their younger days. I am afraid Ghost Gate is plotting to remove us.”
“I know they can’t be trusted. Nonetheless, they won’t try anything for as long as Third Heaven Palace is around. Since Uncle Xingzhou has come out of training in seclusion, I shall have a word with him. Third Heaven Palace’s directives take priority…” Tian Yuehen’s eyes slipped down to the back of Zhuge Xiaosheng’s hand. “Uncle Boyang, what happened to your soul seal?”
Tian Yuehen showed his left hand. “Third Heaven Palace put a seal on every Ascension Realm cultivator to identify us as a counter measure against Mu Yu’s disguises. Where is your soul seal?”
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