Chapter 124: The Evil God Arrived

The new mountain gate territory of the Floating Cloud Sect now had a completely new atmosphere.

A ten-meter-tall Teaching Hall stood at the highest point on the mountain top, able to hold fifty people learning at the same time.

Outside the hall, arranged according to the Spirit Gathering Formation and Demon Sealing Formation, thirty-six Quiet Rooms spread out. Each disciple of the Floating Cloud Sect had one room.

Further away, there was a specially built Formation Array Hall for Xu Shen, which could train disciples with talent in formation arrays.

There was also a specially built Talisman Hall for Ji Chang, which could train disciples with talent in talismans.

At the foot of the front mountain, there was a row of simple yet neat row of wooden houses. This was where the disciples usually rested and lived.

Currently, the Floating Cloud Sect had recruited thirty-two children aged five to twelve from Kaoshan City as outer sect disciples. They also selected twenty adults with decent foundations from warriors, priests, and followers to serve as sect guardians.

From the outer sect disciples, the best ones could respectively become disciples under Xu Shen, Ji Chang, and Jiang Ying. In the future, Li Si could also take disciples.

Those who were eliminated joined the sect guardians. They no longer pursued higher realms, but focused on just one or a few Dao Techniques for daily use.

Besides that, they hired ten female servants to take care of the daily needs of the younger disciples.

At this moment, Jiang Ying finished the morning session and went to the back of the Teaching Hall. Here, there was a quiet small courtyard. In the courtyard stood a rough stone house that looked very different from the surroundings. It was exactly the one from the small village back then.

Jiang Ying pushed open the wooden door of the Stone House. She was used to coming here every day to sweep and wipe it clean, or to talk to the clay sculpture Master. Although recently, the Master was almost always in meditation every day, and only said a word or two to her each time she woke up.

“Crack!”

A very faint sound rang out. Jiang Ying looked up puzzled, listened carefully for a moment, but found nothing unusual. So she continued wiping and cleaning the utensils in the Stone House. Although these utensils were simple, they had been with her for a long time, and she had developed feelings for them.

“Crack!”

It came again!

Jiang Ying was so startled her scalp tingled. She had a very bad feeling.

“Master! Master!”

She rushed over calling, then she froze. Because she saw a tiny crack appear on the Master’s face. What happened?

Did the Master’s tribulation come suddenly?

“Crack!”

Another sound. A fingernail-sized piece of black clay fell off the clay face, revealing a patch of snowy white.

Jiang Ying stood still in place. Right now, this didn’t seem like the arrival of a great tribulation at all.

“Crack! Crack!”

More pieces of black clay fell off. In just a short moment, what appeared before Jiang Ying was no longer a clay sculpture, and certainly not an old, frail Old Madam. This was someone younger than her, and even…

Jiang Ying blinked, not knowing whether to be happy or jealous. She only remembered when she was in her teens, she had seen this transcendent, fairy-like face from afar. That unworldly aura made her envious for a long time, and became her motivation for seeking the Dao and immortality.

Later, this face aged at an extremely fast rate.

So what happened?

Jiang Ying called softly, but there was no response. She could only carefully finish cleaning, then stood guard nearby. Until evening came, Zhao Qingxie logged off and immediately noticed something wrong.

“Huh? Little Ying, what happened?”

“Master, I don’t know…” Jiang Ying stared entranced. The revived Master was truly beautiful.

But Zhao Qingxie completely didn’t care about the changes in this body. She just quickly pinched her fingers to perform divination, then frowned. “Strange, so strange. The Evil God’s blockade net actually has a big hole torn in it. It can no longer chase and block me. So that’s why my body was able to return to normal. But, I actually can’t deduce what exactly happened?”

“If my guess is correct, I’m not the only one who underwent such a change.”

Zhao Qingxie glanced again at the space in front. The Blood Coffin was still there, but the chains on it were clearly more than half gone. This meant at least a million souls were no longer held hostage by the Evil God’s power.

“Master?”

“This Master needs to go into seclusion. From now on, except for you, no one else is allowed to enter this courtyard, especially Li Si.”

“But Master, Junior Brother Li Si hasn’t returned yet.”

“Forget it, then don’t mind him. Although I don’t know what happened, for me this is an excellent opportunity. You may withdraw now.”

“Yes, Master.” Jiang Ying didn’t ask more and quickly left.

Only then did Zhao Qingxie frown and look at her own arm, then began divination again. After a long time, she still couldn’t figure it out.

Then, she suddenly had an impulse and began divining about Li Si. That little brat clearly went to the Qi Luck Hall this morning, but still didn’t know where he was hiding?

A moment later, her brow smoothed. She had a result. This kid was actually in the mountains hunting Anomalous Weeds and Alien Trees. Quite diligent.

“Hmph, at least you still have some sense of shame.”

Case closed.

Zhao Qingxie naturally knew that Li Si, as a Pure Land Deity, could freely teleport instantly within a hundred-mile radius. So it was normal Jiang Ying didn’t find him.

Probably this kid had a guilty conscience, so he didn’t dare to face her.

Just as she thought this, her heart suddenly moved. The Herb Gatherer was summoning them via message.

Her Immortal Spirit instantly left her body and entered the Hall of Fate.

And clearly, it wasn’t just her who received the message from Herb Gatherer Xia Xiaowan.

One after another, eleven of the Twelve Major Deities had arrived. Finally, Li Si’s flustered figure appeared. Hmph, this kid.

“Herb Gatherer, you summoned us. Is there an important matter?”

Chisongzi spoke first. His voice was like a great bell. As soon as he spoke, illusions of mountains and seas appeared. Worthy of being the number one expert in Dao techniques in this world.

Zhao Qingxie frowned slightly, but her gaze turned to Li Si. How could she not tell that Chisongzi did this on purpose?

Last time, Li Si was nearly shaken until his spirit scattered by Chisongzi’s single true word, and had to shrink back into his Divine Idol, causing quite a scene.

“Huh?”

She saw Li Si had a reserved expression and honest eyes, as if he heard nothing. Good, that saved him from embarrassment. Zhao Qingxie also withdrew the method she was preparing to intervene with at any time.

Currently, in the Hall of Fate, besides the Twelve Major Deities and Herb Gatherer Xia Xiaowan, there were also seven or eight juniors. Chisongzi’s true word didn’t shake Li Si, but it made two weaker juniors unstable, including Xu Shen.

His spirit was blown back into his own Idol of Fortune like a mass of thick fog.

Only then did Zhao Qingxie belatedly remember Xu Shen.

“Chisongzi, you went too far.”

Another World Guardian True Immortal said angrily. His little disciple was just sent to make up the numbers. Although he just advanced to Golden Core, he didn’t even have one Soul Lamp. How could he withstand such a true word?

“Fellow Daoist Yunjizi, what kind of place do you think this is? If they can’t withstand a word or two of true speech, what kind of Deity are they!” Chisongzi sneered. Today he came precisely to crush the Herb Gatherer’s prestige. It wasn’t that he, as a True Immortal, lacked a tolerant heart, but rather the Major Deity position that should have belonged to his disciple Mo Yi fell into that Kaoshan kid’s hands.

If they didn’t fight over something like this, what else should they fight over?

But he was a little surprised. That Kaoshan kid’s cultivation progress was very fast. He even obtained two Soul Lamps. Quite a promising talent for cultivation.

Whose disciple was he anyway? Secretly trained to muddy the waters.

So immoral.

“Everyone, I have solid evidence that the Sacred Raven Kingdom in the Mortal Realm has collapsed.”

Herb Gatherer Xia Xiaowan’s voice suddenly sounded, immediately drawing everyone’s attention. Some World Guardian True Immortals even began performing divination immediately.

“This matter is true, but it cannot be divined. I also personally went to the Mortal Realm to get the specific information. But everyone need not question the truth of this matter, just ask Fellow Daoists Qingyunzi, Jiuxuanzi, Lingjingzi, and Shendanzi. They should know that the Evil God’s blockade net has already become ineffective for them.”

This statement caused an even bigger stir, because these four were indeed currently hiding within the borders of the Sacred Raven Kingdom.

“Correct. Just now, my body in the Mortal Realm suddenly recovered. Even the Blood Coffin Curse weakened a lot.”

Lingjingzi confirmed. Then Jiuxuanzi and the other two also nodded in confirmation.

“But why can’t we perform divination? Could there be a trick in this?”

“I don’t know the reason why divination is impossible. But there is one matter that everyone needs to reconsider. Long ago, I told everyone that although the Devil Mushroom went out of control, it absolutely didn’t have the intelligence to support a Puppet Kingdom, establish an Evil God Cult, and certainly wouldn’t send Ghost Shadows and Bloodline Divine Emissaries to the Mortal Realm.”

“At that time, I had no proof. But now, facts prove my view. As far as I know, the national fortune of the Sacred Raven Kingdom was completely plundered. Two of the five Ghost Shadows died. All Bloodline Divine Emissaries died. At the same time, the Evil God’s blockade net, and all Evil God Idols lost their activation ability. But in fact, the Devil Mushroom’s power is still there, it didn’t decrease. The reason for this is simply that the activation condition was erased.”

“The Devil Mushroom truly is just an out-of-control Seven Emotions Great Medicine. Calling it an Evil God is really overestimating it. The one truly scheming against the Mortal Realm is another mastermind behind the scenes.”

After listening to Herb Gatherer Xia Xiaowan’s words, the group of World Guardian True Immortals fell silent. The facts were there, they had to admit it. As for Xia Xiaowan lying, she was the least likely person present to lie.

“Whose work is this?”

Tianjizi spoke.

But everyone looked curious. Even Chisongzi, who considered himself the strongest in the Mortal Realm, wouldn’t dare say he could directly overthrow a kingdom.

“It’s Xu Changsheng from the Yunhua Sect. I don’t know how he did it. But nine days ago, an Idol of Fortune of a Mortal Realm Deity appeared in the Qi Luck Hall. This couldn’t escape my notice. So, I think it’s most likely related to him.”

“The Yunhua Sect? They’re still around!”

The group of World Guardian True Immortals were slightly moved. Other cultivation sects, they wouldn’t pay attention to. Without a True Immortal overseeing it, it wasn’t a world guardian sect. But the Yunhua Sect was definitely an exception. Although the Yunhua Sect hadn’t produced a True Immortal for five thousand years.

“If the Yunhua Sect acted, it’s understandable.”

Shendanzi couldn’t help but look around. “Strange, why hasn’t that Xu Changsheng from the Yunhua Sect come? Herb Gatherer, please send him a message. This poor Daoist’s array base in the Mortal Realm has some problems. It urgently needs repair.”

But Xia Xiaowan shook her head. “I don’t have permission to notify him. Although his Idol of Fortune is here, his deity position was actually conferred thirty thousand years ago. At that time, you all hadn’t even been born yet.”

“So, I can only say, if Xu Changsheng wants to come to this Hall of Fate, he will naturally come. If he doesn’t want to come, no one can force him.”

“What about the location of the Yunhua Sect’s base in the Mortal Realm?” Someone asked, wanting to try another way to contact.

“I can only say, the Yunhua Sect should be within the borders of the Sacred Raven Kingdom. But the specific location, I don’t know. I’ve already performed several divinations, but found nothing. If you don’t believe me, you can investigate personally.”

“This is the first matter I gathered everyone to discuss today. The second matter is that Muan will likely devour the Devil Mushroom, then transform into a true Evil God. The Devil Mushroom is just power out of control, so it doesn’t have complex thoughts, nor does it have targeted methods to invade the Mortal Realm. But if Muan replaces the Devil Mushroom, everyone, he knows us well.”

After hearing Xia Xiaowan’s words, everyone looked at each other, horrified and creeped out!

“A greater disaster is about to descend.”

“Even worse, the Evil God formed by Muan is also just a pawn pushed forward by the mastermind.”