Chapter 732 - The seeds of the Virtuous Golden Lotus (1/2)
Chapter 732: The seeds of the Virtuous Golden Lotus
Translator: G.o.dBrandy Editor: Kurisu
After landing, Venerable White waved his hand at the people present, and said, “Oh! Shuhang, Little Sixteen, Fellow Daoist Lychee, I’ve made you wait for a long time.”
Next, he took out his mobile phone, and said to Song Shuhang and Sixteen, “Shuhang, Little Sixteen, that important matter you were talking about earlier, is it related to this matter that is now being discussed in the Nine Provinces Number One Group?”
“Yes, it’s precisely that matter,” Song Shuhang said with a nod.
Since Venerable White had already read the conversation in the Nine Provinces Number One Group, there was no need to repeat everything from the start.
Then, Song Shuhang glanced at the person behind Venerable White—True Monarch Eternal Fire. Since this scholar of the True Monarch rank had come here together with Senior White, he should also know what was going on, right?
Venerable White said, “Since this news was related to the White Cloud Academy, I told Fellow Daoist Eternal Fire about it.”
True Monarch Eternal Fire greeted Song Shuhang and said, “Fellow Daoist Shuhang, I must thank you for this news.”
Song Shuhang likewise greeted him. From his face, True Monarch Eternal Fire didn’t really look surprised after knowing that the army of the Netherworld Realm was approaching, ready to attack… was it possible that the scholars already knew that the demons of the Netherworld were coming and had prepared in advance? Or perhaps, just like True Monarch Yellow Mountain had said, the White Cloud Academy was no pushover?
Right at this time, the nearby Fairy Lychee used the AOE secret sound transmission to ask, “Fellow Daoist Eternal Fire, from your look, it seemed you already knew about this attack coming from the Netherworld Realm, is that right?”
True Monarch Eternal Fire shook his head, and likewise replied via secret sound transmission, “I also just learned this information from Fellow Daoist White. However, our White Cloud Academy—or rather our whole scholarly faction—has been guarding against a possible surprise attack of the Netherworld Realm for the past several hundred years. After all, the Netherworld Realm has given us a lot of ‘attention’ since a long time ago. Whenever our scholarly faction shows any sign of recovery, the demons of the Netherworld Realm promptly make their appearance to attack us.”
Fairy Lychee light nodded her head. She was also aware of the history of the scholarly faction. Since the past several thousand years… no, even before that, the demons of the Netherworld Realm had been continuously suppressing the scholars, pus.h.i.+ng them on the brink of destruction several times.
Although the demons of the Netherworld Realm were the enemies of all cultivators and other people with similar practice systems, their relations.h.i.+p with scholars was particularly extreme.
The two sides wouldn’t stop battling until one was dead.
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Afterward, True Monarch Eternal Fire invited everyone to his dwelling. After all, the public square wasn’t the right place to discuss a delicate matter such as this one.
Along the way, True Monarch Eternal Fire calmly explained, “Actually, every time we scholars hold this ‘grand ceremony’, we make preparations to intercept an eventual surprise attack of the Netherworld Realm. During each grand ceremony, we are ready to welcome the attack of the demons of the Netherworld Realm. Fellow Daoist White should have also realized this point.”
Song Shuhang curiously looked at Venerable White. The White Cloud City was full of people, and he didn’t see any sign of scholars preparing to wage war…
“Yes, I discovered a bunch of interesting things while I was speeding around the city earlier.” Venerable White stroked the hair behind his ear, and explained, “This time, I sped around on my flying sword for one hour. During this period of time, I discovered that more than three-quarters of the scholars flying in the sky weren’t rus.h.i.+ng to their destinations, but patrolling and keeping an eye on the surrounding area. In addition… around one-third of the ‘fellow daoist’ from other sects flying in the sky were battle puppets of the Jet-Black Sect. They have a very good ‘illusory technique’ engraved on their bodies. Even I had to repeatedly get in close contact with them in that hour to notice the difference. That illusory technique makes them feel very lifelike. It should be the method of someone at the peak of the Seventh Stage Spiritual Venerable Realm… or perhaps even at the Eighth Stage Profound Sage Realm?”
“Fellow Daoist White’s guess isn’t wrong. That formation is something an old senior scholar of the Eighth Stage Profound Sage Realm left behind before their death. Unfortunately, we of the later generation are unable to perfectly control the formation they left behind,” True Monarch Eternal Fire said with regret.
Song Shuhang was dumbfounded, and didn’t dare to believe what he was hearing.
In turned out that the cultivators brus.h.i.+ng past them with their flying swords, flying sabers, and other flight-type magical treasures were mostly scholars on patrol? And one-third of the other fellow daoists were battle puppets of the Jet-Black Sect?
These scholars on patrol had acting skill worth that of a superstar. It was very difficult to believe that they were patrolling.
But, in hindsight, it sounded reasonable. Scholars held this grand ceremony once every three years, and they had prepared for an eventual attack for several hundred years… no, perhaps even thousands of years or even longer.
“No wonder the White Cloud City restricted the number of flying swords allowed to circulate. It was in order to reduce as much as possible the number of foreign cultivators flying in the sky, right?” Song Shuhang said.
True Monarch Eternal Fire forced a smile and nodded, an enigmatic expression on his face.
Song Shuhang sighed with emotion, and said, “As you would expect from scholars… this is simply like a real-life chess game!” They weren’t scholars for nothing; their thinking was simply too deep! He immediately felt like praising their ideas from the bottom of his heart.
True Monarch Eternal Fire wore a smile on his face and maintained his enigmatic expression.
Fairy Lychee pondered for a short moment, and asked, “What will happen to all the fellow daoists that have come to see the grand ceremony if a war between the scholars and the demons of the Netherworld Realm breaks out? If things aren’t managed properly, the White Cloud Academy might face several internal disorders.”
“Actually, most of the fellow daoists that have come to see the grand ceremony are allies of our White Cloud Academy. In addition, we have prepared a lot of secret pa.s.sages in the White Cloud City to evacuate people, and we can use them in case of emergency. If there are fellow daoists that want to leave as the battle begins, we can lead them to the secret pa.s.sages and have them leave from there,” True Monarch Eternal Fire explained with a smile.
Scholars had been preparing these plans for thousands of years—perhaps even before that. As such, they had already taken care of all the problems that one could think of.
Fairy Lychee narrowed her eyes, and said, “Have them leave from there? That’s rather unfortunate. If you could convince them to stay behind, these fellow daoists that have come to attend the ceremony might turn into a force to be reckoned with.”