Gai Tianjiao chased up from behind, and when she saw Zhang Ruochen standing below the altar, she instantly, revealed a curious look, so she asked, “Senior Brother Lin Yue, what are you doing?”
The spiritual energy was like a tidal wave, rapidly surging back into Zhang Ruochen’s body.
Zhang Ruochen withdrew his hand that was placed on top of the altar, turned around, glanced towards Gai Tianjiao, and laughed, “Nothing, I’m just suddenly a little curious, is this jade altar on the Ancient God Mountain since ancient times, or was it built later?”
Gai Tianjiao didn’t think much about it and said, “This altar, which is used for the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony of the Sword Discussion Conference, was built five hundred years ago, and at that time, it also cost a lot of manpower and material resources. Even now, millions of spirit crystals are spent every year to maintain the formations beneath the altar.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyebrows raised as he tentatively asked, “Just maintaining the formation requires spending so many spirit crystals every year?”
“I’m not too sure, anyway, the Ancient God Mountain does hide an extremely large number of secrets, and some of the forbidden places, even if I were to break in, it would be a dead end.”
A puzzled look appeared in Gai Tianjiao’s gaze as she said, “Senior Brother Lin Yue, why are you so attached to the Jade Altar?”
Knowing that Gai Tianjiao had already begun to suspect, Zhang Ruochen dismissed the idea of immediately entering the bottom of the altar to explore it and hurriedly said, “Just rather curious.”
“Farewell.”
Zhang Ruochen arched his hand at Gai Tianjiao, and then, without further stopping, left the Ancient God Mountain.
Gai Tianjiao stared at the distant back and looked at it carefully, after which, she returned to the Sword Pavilion again.
The Burial Moon Sword Saint was still sitting above, and when he saw Gai Tianjiao, he said, “Already sent him away?”
Gai Tianjiao nodded, her expression was quite grave as she said, “Master, I feel that there is something wrong with Lin Yue, he seems to be hiding a lot of things, is it really a good thing for us to trust him so much?”
The Buried Moon Sword Saint smiled and said, “In regards to Lin Yue, you wouldn’t need to worry. He is the person that Ancestor Taiyi has handpicked, even if you can’t trust him, you should still be able to trust Ancestor Taiyi.”
Gai Tianjiao let out a slight sigh of relief and said, “Since he’s the person handpicked by the Ancestor, then I’m relieved! However, would it be too risky for us to place all our hopes, all on him alone?”
“His perception and qualifications are indeed extremely high, if he were to cultivate in the Sword Pavilion, he would still have a slight chance of cultivating to the second level of the Sword II realm.”
“However, letting him cultivate outside, I’m worried that on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, he won’t even be able to reach the first layer of the Sword Two realm.”
Not only was Gai Tianjiao very worried, in fact, the Buried Moon Sword Saint also didn’t have much confidence in Lin Yue.
Sword 2 was much more difficult than Sword 1, just the first level of the introductory realm, “alternating yin and yang”, was enough to put a lot of sword masters in a difficult position, and even after ten years of comprehension, twenty years, they might not be able to cross that hurdle.
Gai Tianjiao was like that.
She had already cultivated Sword 1 to ten levels of perfection, but she had never crossed the threshold of Sword 2, and could not realise the realm of “alternating yin and yang”.
Although it had a lot to do with her own physique, it also showed that for cultivators of the Fish Dragon Realm, Sword Two was quite difficult to cultivate. Even getting started was as difficult as climbing up to heaven.
The Buried Moon Sword Saint pondered for a moment and said, ”In that case, for the next few months, you will be the one to supervise him and not let him slack off too much.
“Disciple leads the way.”Gai Tianjiao said.
“Wow!”
Right at this moment, from the end of that dark cyan sky, a light talisman flew in, like a shooting star, piercing through the clouds of the Ancient God Mountain and circling around the Sword Pavilion.
From the mouth of the Buried Moon Sword Saint, a soft eep escaped, and he immediately stretched out a hand and grabbed it into the void.
With that, in his hand, a jade talisman appeared.
After reading the contents on the talisman, the Buried Moon Sword Saint smiled and said, “This year’s Sword Discussion Conference is truly getting more and more lively.”
Gai Tianjiao asked, “Master, what happened?”
The Buried Moon Sword Saint said, “The Xuan Gui Sword Saint has issued a war letter to the Jiu Yu Sword Saint, supposedly, to seek justice for his disciples, on the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth month, at the Sword Pavilion, to fight to the death, and to let me be a notary public.”
“The two Sword Saints are actually going to fight to the death?”Gai Tianjiao was quite astonished.
Cultivators in the entire Eastern Region knew that the Nine Pale Sword Saint had killed Zhang Ruochen, the disciple of the Xuan Gui Sword Saint, and that incident, a few months ago, had caused a huge uproar.
Everyone knew that the Xuan Gui Sword Saint was a rather protective person and would never let this go.
Now, the Xuan Gui Sword Saint had finally made a move. When a Sword Saint issued a life and death battle letter, then, it must also be true to its word.
Either you die or I die.
Would the Nine Spectres Sword Saint answer the battle?
“Wow!”
Outside the sky, another light talisman flew in.
The Buried Moon Sword Saint collected that light talisman and checked it, his brows furrowed slightly as he sighed, “The Nine Spectres Sword Saint has answered the battle! The life and death duel between the two Sword Saints will definitely attract the attention of all the forces in the entire Eastern Region, and at that time, there will definitely be even more cultivators rushing to the Two Element Sect, so I hope that there won’t be any accidents.”
It wasn’t just the Burying Moon Sword Saint who received the light talisman, just this night, the news of the two great Sword Saints’ life-and-death duel spread throughout the Eastern Domain’s great clans and Sage Sect Clans, and instantly, it caused the land to vibrate.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen had only just returned to the Violet Cloud Spirit Mountain, so naturally, he was unaware of the news that the Xuan Gui Sword Saint had placed a letter of war on the Nine Pale Sword Saint.
There was a swish sound.
Little Black scurried out of the night and landed on top of the fence wall, his pair of round eyes radiating a bright lustre in the darkness.
It asked, ”How was it? Did you find the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Platform in the third mountain of the Ancient God Mountain?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “No Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Platform was found, however, something interesting was discovered. Only, there are extremely many experts in the Sword Pavilion, so I am a bit distracted and unable to explore it myself. Next time, you and I will go to the Sword Pavilion together and make sure to find out the power of the Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Platform.”
In the sky, a pitch-black cloud came surging in a vast manner, covering the bright moon and making the entire heaven and earth rather dull.
Within that cloud, the sound of muffled thunder emanated, causing the aura of the heavens and earth to send out subtle tremors.
It was predictable that a downpour, was about to come.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “In the past few days that I was at the Ancient God Mountain, did Qi Fayu show any unusual behaviour?”
“In the past few days that you were at the Ancient God Mountain, that girl has also been guarding the bottom of the Ancient God Mountain. This Emperor is somewhat suspicious if she really has her eyes on you?”Little Black yawned and said lazily.
Immediately, Little Black added, “However, after you came down the mountain, she immediately left. What makes this Emperor strange is that she didn’t return to the Jade Clearance Palace, but left the Two Element Sect.”
“Left the Two Yi Sect.”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes continued to change, and suddenly, as if he thought of something, he said, “There’s a problem Little Black, you should have no problem keeping up with her, right?”
Xiao Hei heatedly smiled and said, “This Emperor has long ago used a secret method to collect a scent from her, so as long as it’s within 10,000 miles, this Emperor will be able to locate her by smelling her.”
“Let’s go, let’s catch up and take a look.”
Zhang Ruochen immediately took out a metal mask and put it on his face, then he performed his Body Technique and rushed out towards the Two Element Sect’s mountain gate.
Qi Fayu stepped out of the Two Element Sect’s mountain gate, and her graceful and delicate body turned into a cloud of blood mist, rushing into the jungle and disappearing into the night.
A few moments later, the sky was indeed filled with lightning and thunder, raining down pouring rain.
In the Fallen God Mountain Range, a peak was like a pillar holding up the sky, exuding a lofty and majestic aura. Especially during thunderstorms, the powerful savage beasts that lived in the Mang Wasteland came out of their lairs to absorb the power of lightning.
Below one of the mountain peaks, there was a bottomless miasma-poisoned valley, in which a huge beast with a body of over two hundred metres long rushed out, a centipede, its entire body pitch-black, with only its two eyeballs exuding a golden light.
The giant centipede, circling around the mountain peak, rushed all the way to the top of the peak before opening its mouth and sucking in all the dozens of lightning bolts in the clouds into its body.
“Shoo!”
Suddenly, the huge centipede’s body shrank and transformed into a man with eight hands and eight feet, landing on the ground at the top of the mountain peak.
At the top of the mountain peak, there was an ancient greenish-grey Daoist temple, and outside the gate of the Daoist temple, there was a broken monument with three words engraved on it, “Lifeless Temple”.
Apart from the man with eight hands and eight feet, outside the Taoist temple, there was also a young woman with a pair of green-coloured feathered wings on her back, and in the centre of her eyebrows, there was a flame-like mark.
On her body, she was clad in a green-coloured feathered coat, and each feather looked like it was cast from metal, extremely sharp.
“Coming!”
The man with eight hands and eight feet and the woman with green-coloured feathered wings stood right in the rain, on the left and right sides of the Taoist temple, looking out into the rain curtain.
A cloud of blood mist, flew out from the forest, emitting an unusually fragrant scent.
As the blood mist flew, it gradually coalesced into a stunningly beautiful woman with a delicate figure, wearing a Daoist robe, and lightly landed on the ground.
“Greetings to the Holy Maiden.”
A man and a woman outside the Taoist temple bowed to Qi Fayu at the same time.
“Creak!”
The wooden door of the Taoist Temple opened, and from the door, a man in his twenties walked out. He had thick black eyebrows and hard features, wearing a plain green-coloured shirt and holding an oil-paper umbrella, he walked over to Qi Fayyu in the rain curtain.
“I’ve already boiled a pot of your favourite Qinyong tea and have been waiting for you for a long time.”
The green-clothed man held the oil-paper umbrella, over Qi Fayu’s head, helping to shield her from the rain, and having his own body to help shield her from the wind.
He raised his head and looked towards the thunder and lightning in the sky, saying, “The storm came a little too quickly tonight, we’ll go into the Taoist Temple and then talk about it slowly and in detail. Wu Ba, Bird Nine, you guys will guard outside, be a little more careful.”
The man in green and Qi Fayu walked into the Lifeless Dao and sat on their knees opposite to each other, and on top of the fireplace between the two of them, there was a pot of tea boiling.
The tea, emitting a gurgling sound, emitted a clear fragrance that filled the entire Taoist temple!
