Chapter 36 (1/2)

Chapter 36: The Approaching Storm

Wuliang Sect had some matters that needed to be settled.

When the mysterious palace appeared in the field practice exam island, many of the formation masters banded together to examine it and concluded that it was not a natural phenomenon. Rather, after the destruction of the Universe Array Eyes, it appeared in the Heavenly Sea.

The things inside the mysterious palace were very strange. If an item was taken from it, no matter what kind of treasure it was or even if it recognized a master, it will vanish within three days after it was taken away and return to the palace.

The item could then be seen inside the palace again, looking unchanged, as if it had never been touched.

Everyone was puzzled and finally pointed to Wuliang Sect, who first discovered the palace. Did they have any special benefits? What weird things in this palace were related to Wuliang Sect? Or rather, related to the destruction of the Wuguang Sect’s Universe Array Eyes?

At that time there was only one person there who was at the Nascent Soul Stage – Lou Yanshan. The others were all new disciples who were partic.i.p.ating in the field practice exam. Therefore, Lou Yanshan was currently under the greatest pressure. Recently, he was struggling to deal with high-ranking cultivators from all the major sects and had no energy to go to the mysterious palace to search for treasure. In the end, he had no choice but to stay inside the Wuliang Sect, not daring to put a foot outside. He was forced to choke back to frustration and had a belly full of fire.

He was not a disciple of the Array Hall. He's not good at arrays. How could he have destroyed the array? How could he prove to the people who didn't believe him and asked him about it every day?

This was a terrible misfortune!

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On account of this matter, the other orthodox sects from the were to making insinuations about Wuliang Sect while at the same time trying to worm information out of them. In addition, the sect also had to guard against demonic cultivators so the sect had a very difficult time of it lately. When so many disciples were poisoned and they couldn't buy enough medicine to provide for everyone, it was a wake-up call for the sect.

Everywhere in the sect, people were extremely nervous. This sort of atmosphere even spread to the Heaven Firmament Peak. Occasionally, there were cultivators who took advantage of the fact that Spiritual Master Lingwu was away. Since the Great Elder was in closed-door training, they would run to the Heaven Firmament Peak to call on the Spiritual Master's 11 disciples. Du Xizhi and Yin Li were bored to death, but they also wanted to know the news about the field practice exam island so they could only endure and keep their temper to exchange information with those people.

Su Tingyun didn't pay much attention to these things until she heard that the other sects suspected them of destroying the Array Eyes.1 That attracted her attention.

Her pill flame was obtained from the field practice exam island but why would this pill fire be worthy of causing both the orthodox and unorthodox sects to dispatch their troops to turn-out in full force? The powerful Wuliang Sect, a major faction of the cultivation world, was hard-pressed…2

The innocent Su Tingyun understood that she was just an ordinary person who got into trouble on account of a cherished item.3 Besides, she also knew that the pill fire can be stripped off one's primordial spirit. Liu Feizhou's pill fire was originally owned by Gu Hao, which means that it can be taken away.

Thus, she no longer dared to use the pill fire. Whenever she made medicine, she used spirit firewood. Therefore, the quality of the pills she made were much lower than before. Lin Xinmei took the Meridian Moistening Pill every day when she cultivated. Naturally, she could tell the difference but she knew that the situation was dangerous and the secret must be kept so she made no excessive demands for pills.

However, she had become used to the high-quality Meridian Moistening Pills from before. When she took the lower quality pills, the pain she felt when cultivating seemed to have increased thousands of times more. This time, she hadn't yet finished one complete rotation of the spiritual energy in her body when she felt as though her meridians were tearing inch by inch. It was as though ten thousand ants were biting her. An avalanche of pain overwhelmed her, smas.h.i.+ng her willpower, forcing her clenched teeth to loosen and unleash a sad and miserable howl.

Ning Xuzi has always felt sorry for Li Xinmei. She had such great talent but because of her body's injury, it was impossible for her to advance. Most people would have given up a long time ago but she still insisted on cultivating. This teenage girl was stronger than most people.

If he knew who had hurt her, he would have broken that man to pieces!

Perhaps Li Xinmei’s persistence moved him, so even if he knew that she wouldn't be able to advance in the future, Ning Xuzi still treated her well and he had always been concerned about her.

That's why when he heard Li Xinmei's screams, Ning Xuzi quickly rushed over. Seeing her state, the eyes of the chubby elder became wet. He knew that she endured a lot of pain while cultivating but he didn't know that this little girl had been in such agony.

She was covered in blood and b.l.o.o.d.y beads were streaming from the surface of her skin. She looked extremely miserable.

This kind of injury can’t be cured by ordinary medicine. Ning Xuzi had to bring her to Heaven Firmament Peak. Sending her to the medicine master would be impossible but she can be sent to her close friend, the alchemist Wei Yun, to see if she can help Li Xinmei recuperate.

Normally he wouldn't send his disciple to another hall, but Li Xinmei had a good relations.h.i.+p with a cultivator from the Heaven Firmament Peak. They probably wouldn't refuse to help …

Ning Xuzi was unsure but he was still going to send her to Heaven Firmament Peak. However, just as he was about to do so, he found that the Sect Leader had sent some people over. They wanted to meet the new disciples who had gone to the field practice exam island to ask them some questions. There were only four disciples who had been to the island and they swiftly arrived. Li Xinmei was in a coma so Ning Xuzi put her down on a flying artifact in front of several people.

”This is them?” Jiang Feiyun, the head of the team, looked at these four disciples. He looked sideways at a man in black clothes who was beside him. His said in an impatient tone: ”The Array Hall sent these four disciples. However, they are only at the Qi Condensation stage. How could they have broken open the illusion array?”