Chapter 191 The Mastermind
Xuanyin Sect.
The Palace of the Holy Maiden.
Although Nangong Chan moved Lingchan Peak to Yuezong, she still had a palace belonging to her on the main peak of Xuanyin Sect.
Li Yu sat cross-legged on a big soft bed. He had taken the elixir and was practicing qigong and regulating his breathing.
After crossing the border to kill the Nascent Soul, his body was severely overdrawn, and his martial arts elixir was dim. Even with various healing pills, it would take a long time to recover.
Fortunately, the Demon Flame Sect only sent out two people in the early Nascent Soul stage. If there was one in the middle Nascent Soul stage, or even just one, today's outcome might have been different.
Nangong Chan sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Li Yu absent-mindedly.
She thought that today would be a dangerous day, but she never expected that Li Yu alone could kill two Nascent Soul masters.
It was clear that he hadn't even succeeded in drawing in the Qi several years ago, and now killing Yuanyings was like butchering a dog.
Even if all five of his spiritual veins were heavenly spiritual veins, it would be impossible for him to have such a speed of cultivation.
At this moment, she finally remembered what the Kunlun foundation-building elder in Baiyun Temple said before his death.
Li Yu did have a secret, and it was a very big secret.
She stood up and walked outside the hall, where several Yuanying ancestors of the Xuanyin Sect were waiting. When Elder Xuanyuan saw her coming out, he immediately asked, "Saintess, what happened?"
Nangong Chan said slowly: "On our way to Kunlun, we were attacked by two Nascent Souls of the Demon Flame Sect."
"What!"
"The Demon Flame Sect is so brave!"
The civil war within the demonic sect is a civil war, but the Nascent Soul Patriarch of one sect attacking the genius of another sect has undoubtedly violated the bottom line of all sects. No sect dares to take such a huge risk.
Once this precedent is set and the rules are broken, no one can escape unscathed.
If the Nascent Soul attacks the Golden Core , can the Spiritual Transformation attack the Nascent Soul?
If the Poxu ancestor of any sect is angered, those sects without Poxu can be wiped out easily.
"Do you really think that my Xuanyin Sect dare not touch them?"
"If it weren't for the Tiandao Sect behind them, their Demon Flame Sect would have been destroyed countless times already!"
In anger, a Yuanying ancestor of the Xuanyin Sect asked in disbelief, "How did you escape from the sneak attack of two Yuanyings from the Demon Flame Sect?"
The two Nascent Souls attacked the Jindan stage, and it was a sneak attack. Under normal circumstances, they would have been destroyed in an instant. However, they were able to escape back. The Saint Girl was intact, and Li Yu seemed to have only suffered minor injuries. It was really unbelievable.
"My fourth-level protective talisman resisted their first sneak attack. Li Yu's two fourth-level top-grade talismans destroyed their bodies, and their Nascent Souls escaped..."
Nangong Chan said calmly, subconsciously hiding the truth.
A fourth-level offensive talisman that can destroy the physical body of an early Nascent Soul is undoubtedly the best among the fourth-level talismans.
To refine talismans of this level, one must be at least in the late Nascent Soul stage, or even the Spirit Transformation stage. One talisman can destroy the body of an early Nascent Soul cultivator and seriously injure a middle Nascent Soul cultivator.
In the current world of immortal cultivation, only the Tiandao Sect and Maoshan Sect are able to refine it, and they are prohibited from selling it to outside sects.
Fortunately, Li Yu has a special identity and extensive connections, otherwise, both he and the Saint would be in danger of dying today.
After listening to Nangong Chan's story, several Yuanying ancestors of the Xuanyin Sect, while accusing the Demon Flame Sect of violating their bottom line, also revealed a hint of greed in the depths of their eyes.
Generally speaking, when faced with inevitable death, cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage will self-destruct their physical body and Nascent Soul before their physical body is destroyed. Even a powerful cultivator in the Divine Transformation stage will find it difficult to stop them from self-destructing.
But to practice step by step from Qi Refining to the Nascent Soul Stage, everyone has gone through hundreds of years of hard training. Unless one is really forced into a desperate situation, no one will choose the last path.
If it loses the protection of the physical body and only has the Nascent Soul, it will be easier to capture.
The Nascent Soul that lost its physical body only had about 10% of its strength left.
Anyone in the Nascent Soul stage can capture it easily.
For Nascent Soul masters of the same attributes, as long as they can capture those two Nascent Souls, it can at least save them decades of hard training.
After finding out the location of the incident, they couldn't wait to leave the Xuanyin Sect and search for the Nascent Souls of the two men.
The two Demon Flame Sect's ancestors definitely wouldn't dare to return to the Sect now that they've lost their physical bodies, otherwise they'll end up being devoured. They must be hiding somewhere secret, and it just depends on who can find them first.
This kind of opportunity is rare, and for a time, all the Nascent Soul ancestors of the Xuanyin Sect who practiced the fire attribute could not wait to leave the sect, wanting to compete for this chance.
At this time, the Demon Flame Gate.
There was also shock inside the Demon Flame Gate.
Not long ago, the soul tablets of the two Nascent Soul ancestors of the Demon Flame Sect suddenly shattered, which meant that they had fallen and not even their Nascent Soul escaped.
Although those two are both in the early Nascent Soul stage, if they are determined to escape, even a mid-Nascent Soul stage cultivator will not be able to stop them, unless they encounter an enemy in the late Nascent Soul stage or above.
Who on earth killed them, without even giving them a chance to be summoned?
The Demon Flame Sect was not like the Xuanyin Sect's Soul Refining Sect. The entire sect had only eleven Nascent Souls. The sudden loss of two of them was an absolutely unbearable loss for the Demon Flame Sect.
When the Demon Flame Sect was in chaos, news came from the Xuanyin Sect.
The two Nascent Soul ancestors of the Demon Flame Sect intercepted and killed the Saint Maiden of the Xuanyin Sect and the Young Master of Kunlun. Now their physical bodies are destroyed and their Nascent Souls have escaped. The Xuanyin Sect demands an explanation from the Demon Flame Sect.
When this news came out, even the two gods of the Demon Flame Sect were alarmed.
The two Nascent Souls of the Demon Flame Sect had their soul tablets shattered, and they were dead beyond death.
The Xuanyin Sect said that their Nascent Souls had escaped. It seemed that their Nascent Souls had either self-destructed or been devoured by someone.
This is the northern border. All the major sects of the demonic sect are here. There are countless powerful Nascent Soul masters. The Nascent Souls without physical bodies wandering around outside are no different from naked beauties parading in the city.
Compared with the ambushing of the Saint Maiden of Xuanyin Sect and the Young Master of Kunlun, their deaths were actually trivial matters.
"Damn it, are they crazy? How dare they attack those two people?"
"Now even the sect has been dragged into this by them!"
No matter which one, Xuanyin Sect or Kunlun, is an existence that the Demon Flame Sect cannot afford to offend. If it weren't for the Tiandao Sect behind them, the Xuanyin Sect alone could easily destroy them.
An old man with messy red hair looked at a middle-aged man and said angrily, "Who gave the order to kill the Xuanyin Sect Saint Girl and Kunlun Young Master? Are you crazy?"
The leader of the Demon Flame Sect who was being scolded also looked innocent and said, "Grandmaster, please calm down. We don't know why they suddenly did such a thing..."
He really had no knowledge of this matter, and would not have given such an order.
The Saint of Xuanyin Sect and the Young Master of Kunlun, each of them is a rare genius in the world of immortal cultivation. If they killed two people, both the righteous and evil paths would not tolerate them. If the ambush was successful, it would be fine, but there would be no evidence, and Kunlun and Xuanyin Sect would have no evidence either.
Two Nascent Souls ambushed two Golden Cores, but not only did they fail, the Nascent Souls escaped and brought disaster to the sect. They are truly two pieces of trash!
Now that things have come to this, there is no point in scolding them. The most important thing right now is how to deal with the anger of the two major sects.
Xuanyin Sect.
The saint was attacked, and the entire Xuanyin sect was shaken.
Such a terrible thing has never happened in hundreds or thousands of years.
With the Saint's talent, it is inevitable that she will become a spirit, and there is also a chance that she can break through the void. If something happens to her, even if the Demon Flame Sect is backed by the Tiandao Sect, the Xuanyin Sect will make this sect disappear from the world of immortal cultivation.
When the Demon Flame Sect, under the instruction of the Tiandao Sect, seized various secret realms of the caves and heavens, the Xuanyin Sect's Nascent Soul stage and above maintained restraint.
But they assassinated the Saint, so it would not be an exaggeration for the Xuanyin Sect to end up as gods, and the Moyan Sect could not have been unaware of this.
The only thing that the Xuanyin Sect members couldn’t understand was… how dare the Demon Flame Sect do this?
Could it be that the Tiandao Sect is behind them?
It is true that the current Saint Maiden and Li Yu cannot pose any threat to them, but in time, they will surely stand at the pinnacle of the immortal path. By that time, Poxu of the Tiandao Sect would have died because of his lifespan, and the world of immortal cultivation will truly usher in an era that belongs to them.
This matter also involved Kunlun, so the Xuanyin Sect immediately sent a late Nascent Soul cultivator to Kunlun to discuss the matter with him.
After Kunlun's top leaders and Young Master Li Yu confirmed the matter, the elders discussed it for a whole day and finally reached a conclusion.
Assassinating the future leader of Kunlun is such a heinous act that it is tantamount to declaring war on Kunlun directly.
What's more, the other party is a demonic sect.
After obtaining the consent of several ancestors who had reached the state of spiritual transformation, Kunlun officially declared war on the Demon Flame Sect.
At the same time, the Xuanyin Sect also declared war on the Moyan Sect.
With the spread of Xiaoyao Sect, this news quickly spread throughout the entire world of immortal cultivation.
If it was before the civil strife in the Demonic Path, the various sects of the Demonic Path would be united when facing the righteous path. If Kunlun declared war on the Demon Flame Sect, the various sects of the Demonic Path would definitely not stand idly by. However, with the secret help of the Heavenly Dao Sect, the Demon Flame Sect annexed the two major sects and took the initiative to provoke the civil strife in the Demonic Path. Naturally, no sect of the Demonic Path was willing to help them.
What's more, even if Kunlun and Xuanyin Sect joined forces, no other sect had the strength to help them.
The Demon Flame Sect obviously knew that they were no match for the opponent. Before Kunlun and the Xuanyin Sect came up to attack, the two gods abandoned their sect and the secret realms and caves they had already occupied, and led the sect's disciples above the Jindan stage, including several Yuanying ancestors, as well as the sect's geniuses, to join the Tiandao Sect.
No one dared to mess with the Tiandao Sect, so Kunlun and the Xuanyin Sect naturally took over the secret caves and heavens of the Moyan Sect.
Most of the low-level disciples of the Demon Flame Sect were taken in by other sects of the Demon Path. Some of the disciples of the Tiansha Sect and the Xuanming Sect, which had been annexed by them before, chose to rebuild their sects after leaving the Demon Flame Sect. However, the elders and ancestors of these two sects who were above the Jindan stage, including the ancestor Huashen, had disappeared long ago after being annexed by the Demon Flame Sect. Two of the ten sects of the Demon Path, which were once noble, have now become low-tier sects.
Kunlun Cave.
Under the escort of the powerful members of Xuanyin Sect, Li Yu and Nangong Chan have returned to Kunlun.
The attack on the two people triggered a series of follow-up reactions, and the Demon Flame Sect was directly expelled from the world of immortal cultivation because of this. This attack, which no one expected, also gave Kunlun and the Xuanyin Sect a reason to take action against them.
Even Nangong Chan, who was involved in the incident, could not imagine the motives of the two Nascent Soul stage masters of the Demon Flame Sect.
Yuxuan Peak, in a palace.
Li Yu, who was sitting cross-legged, exhaled a breath and slowly opened his eyes.
With the nourishment of various healing pills, half a month later, his body had recovered to its peak.
During this period of recuperation, he also gained something else.
After a cultivator has cultivated the Nascent Soul, his soul will also merge with the Nascent Soul. At this stage, the body is more like a container to protect the Nascent Soul. After the Nascent Soul evolves into the Primordial Spirit, the physical body will become dispensable.
The memories of cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage also exist in the Nascent Soul.
Even if they abandon their physical bodies, they still have complete memories and will not forget the spells they have learned.
The Qiankun Furnace absorbed their Nascent Souls and their memories.
During this period of time, Li Yu has been acquiring their memory information.
The two had practiced for hundreds of years, so naturally they had hundreds of years of memories. These memories were fragmented and very messy. Li Yu was overwhelmed, but in order to figure out their purpose in attacking him and the witch, he still patiently watched on.
The life experiences of these two elders of the Demon Flame Sect are very similar. They were able to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage, so they were naturally talented. They had been the pride of the sect since childhood, and had enjoyed cultivation resources that their peers could not enjoy along the way. It was not until the end of their lifespans in the Golden Core stage that they were lucky enough to form a Nascent Soul.
Their memories are not just about boring practice.
One of them, when he was at the sixth stage of the Golden Core, went out to hunt monsters with another Golden Core elder of the sect. However, he took advantage of the opponent's unpreparedness, launched a sneak attack and killed him, and swallowed the opponent's monster pill, thus being promoted to the seventh stage of the Golden Core.
Afterwards, he severely injured himself in order to deceive the sect and make them believe that the Jindan elder had fallen at the hands of a monster.
The other one is worthy of the name of a demon cultivator.
When he was in the foundation-building stage, he had maintained an improper relationship with his master's Taoist partner. Later, he deliberately revealed his master's whereabouts to his master's enemy, leading to the other party's death...
These things are secrets hidden deep in their hearts, and no one else knows them.
With Li Yu's level of cultivation, he had no way of obtaining the memories of the Nascent Soul stage, but they had already fallen, and these memories temporarily existed in the Qiankun Furnace in the form of fragments. Before they completely dissipated, Li Yu could perceive them at will.
Li Yu was not interested in any of their secrets.
Until I saw a memory they both shared.
It was in a forest somewhere, and the two men were talking to a spiritual snail.
"Li Yu is protected by a Yuanying-stage cultivator from the Xuanyin Sect, so it's difficult for us to attack him..."
"Please rest assured, Young Master. The Xuanyin Sect's strong men can't always follow him. Sooner or later, there will be a chance..."
"You should find an opportunity as soon as possible. I hope that the next time I hear news about him, it will be related to you..."
Li Yu could not directly know who the young voice on the other side of Lingluo belonged to.
But since two Nascent Soul masters could remain so humble despite being separated by the spirit snail, it was not difficult to guess the identity of this person.
The young leader of the Demon Flame Sect does not have this face.
And Li Yu felt somewhat familiar with this voice.
A figure emerged in his mind.
This figure looks ordinary, but his identity is not ordinary.
Wang Heng, the son of the Tiandao Sect's leader.
