In no time, Lin Xiao quietly darted from the right side of the imperial city to the entrance of Tianxuan Sect.
At this moment, four disciples stood guard before the sect’s misty mountain gate.
By sheer coincidence, these four were the same disciples who had thrown Lin Xiao out of Tianxuan Sect after his dantian was destroyed.
Their cultivation had now reached the High Mysterious Martial realm, not considered low among Tianxuan Sect’s disciples.
Having four High Mysterious Martial disciples guard the gate showed that Tianxuan Sect’s security had tightened considerably compared to before.
“What a coincidence,” Lin Xiao muttered to himself.
The Mysterious Martial realm was far too weak for him now.
Back then, when his dantian was destroyed, these four were ordered to drag him out, mocking and ridiculing him. He had long noted this grudge, but when he stormed the Feng family, he hadn’t the energy to deal with such minor figures.
Unexpectedly, he had run into them again.
“Who are you, and what business do you have with Tianxuan Sect?” Seeing the three masked figures, the guarding disciples immediately shouted coldly.
Lin Xiao didn’t rush to act, saying directly, “I’m here to see your sect leader, Yi Xuanfeng!”
At this, the four disciples’ expressions changed in unison.
“Hmph, are you lot looking for trouble? Who in the imperial city doesn’t know our sect leader has been missing for three years? The sect is now managed by the Grand Elder,” one disciple barked angrily.
“Go back where you came from, or don’t blame us for being rude!” another disciple shouted, releasing the aura of Mysterious Martial Eighth Layer.
“Yi Xuanfeng is missing too?” Lin Xiao frowned.
Yi Xuanfeng, a Martial Venerable, had vanished as well?
Had Feng Yuntian made a move back then, or had he disappeared along with his father and others?
Besides Hu Mo and the Lin family, just how many others had vanished?
“Didn’t you hear us? Get lost!” a Mysterious Martial Ninth Layer youth shouted at Lin Xiao.
“Get lost!” Lin Xiao retorted coldly. Four bursts of energy shot from his hands, striking the dantians of the four.
“Bang!” “Bang!” “Bang!” …
Four sounds rang out as their dantians shattered.
The four’s expressions changed drastically, their faces showing shock and pain.
They never imagined the other party would strike so suddenly, destroying their dantians in a single move, leaving them no chance to resist or even react.
“You, you, you dare destroy our dantians!”
“How bold, to ruin our dantians right at Tianxuan Sect’s gate!”
The four shouted in shock and fury.
But Lin Xiao paid them no mind. With a wave of his hand, a terrifying aura swept out, sending the four flying.
Then, with Hu Yue and Ling Hu, he rushed into Tianxuan Sect at high speed, secretly searching for Yi Xuanfeng.
However, despite the three and their two beasts splitting up to search for half a day, they found no trace of Yi Xuanfeng.
“Could he be in the back mountain? The ancestral tomb?” Lin Xiao quietly darted to the location of Tianxuan Sect’s ancestral tomb.
He had once heard from Yan Yitian that Tianxuan Sect had an ancestral tomb, accessible only to successive sect leaders, off-limits to others.
Every sect leader who entered the tomb saw a significant boost in strength, eventually reaching the Martial Venerable realm. Tianxuan Sect’s enduring prominence relied on this tomb.
He didn’t know what was in the tomb, but its ability to elevate every sect leader to Martial Venerable spoke to its mystery.
Most importantly, since only the sect leader could enter, Yi Xuanfeng, as sect leader, might be inside.
“However, it’s said the tomb requires one to be below Martial Venerable and needs a teleportation array to enter. I don’t know if I can find the entrance.”
Lin Xiao wasn’t certain, merely holding a tentative hope while probing.
Soon, he quietly arrived at the back mountain of Tianxuan Sect.
The area was filled with ancient trees and lush greenery. Upon entering, a chilling aura hit him.
Deeper in, a hundred-metre-wide graveyard appeared in Lin Xiao’s sight.
The graveyard had no tombstones, only mounds of earth, as if they had existed for ages.
Rolling yin energy swirled above, giving an eerie, scalp-tingling sensation.
“This place is far from simple!”
Sighing inwardly, Lin Xiao stepped forward.
But at that moment, a strong sense of crisis surged in his heart, a potent aura of death approaching.
“Not good!” In that instant, Lin Xiao didn’t advance but retreated rapidly, using spiritual energy and vitality to form wings for a full-speed withdrawal.
Only after retreating a thousand metres did the intense sense of mortal danger subside.
Sweat beaded on Lin Xiao’s face. He felt that one more step forward would have triggered something utterly terrifying.
“This place is indeed extraordinary. Let alone a Martial Venerable, even a Martial Monarch might not set foot here!”
A lingering fear gripped Lin Xiao. Wiping the sweat from his face, he decided to retreat. “I’ll come back after finding Senior Yi Xuanfeng.”
With that, he turned and darted away, not daring to linger.
This place was too terrifying.
After leaving the ancestral tomb, Lin Xiao regrouped with Hu Yue, Ling Hu, Xutian Wangyue, and Fire Spirit Rabbit, then departed Tianxuan Sect.
The next destination: the Spirit Controller Alliance headquarters.
He had several acquaintances there.
The headquarters was outside the bustling city district, but they had to pass through it. Entering the district, Lin Xiao, the others, and the two beasts switched to walking.
The imperial city’s streets were crowded with people, voices rising and falling in a lively, prosperous scene.
As he walked, Lin Xiao occasionally sensed Heavenly Martial and Martial King experts passing by.
“When did the Lanlan Empire have so many Martial Kings?” Lin Xiao was inwardly shocked. At that moment, snippets of conversation caught his attention.
“The Feng family’s Grand Elder’s seventieth birthday has brought many experts to the imperial city. There’ve been clashes these past few days.”
“I heard representatives from the Moyu and Dongyang Empires are coming. Three days from now, the Feng family will be lively.”
“Those two empires aren’t pushovers, especially Moyu, which has always been hostile to our Lanlan Empire. Their visit likely has ill intent.”
“Now, the Lanlan Empire’s major forces are under the Feng family’s control, and Feng Yuntian is a Martial Monarch. Even with ill intent, they can’t stir up much in the imperial city.”
The hushed discussions reached Lin Xiao’s ears, making him frown.
The Lanlan Empire’s major forces were all controlled by the Feng family?
