Chapter 808: Deriving Enlightenment from Stone Statues (1/2)
Jiang Feng left by himself after taking Mu Biqiong back to the air-transportation spiritual tool where the other Bliss Mountain Sect Qi warriors were.
It appeared that he wasn’t among the ones who were going to stay and derive enlightenment from these stone statues.
Bright light flashed across his eyes as he flew away from the center of the blue sea, then he changed directions and flew after Yue Yanxi.
Jiang Feng wasn’t the only one who had noticed Yue Yanxi and Nie Tian’s arrival. The other two Void domain experts from the Jian Clan and the Chu Clan had also sensed Yue Yanxi and Nie Tian’s arrival.
They were none other than Jian Tong and Guan Fu, who Nie Tian was also rather familiar with.
Their ancient starship was berthed by the edge of the blue sea. Each of them had also arranged for ten members to derive enlightenment at the center of the blue sea.
Jian Tong and Guan Fu exchanged a glance. Without saying a word, they leapt off their ancient starships and sped through the void by relying on their Void domain cultivation bases.
Moments later, Jiang Feng, Jian Tong, and Guan Fu found Yue Yanxi simultaneously.
At this moment, Yue Yanxi had already flown to a location far from Nie Tian’s location. Zhou Shang from the Pure Heaven Sect didn’t pay attention to their behavior either.
All he cared was that no one violated the rule the Pure Heaven Sect had set up.
Jiang Feng, Jian Tong, and Guan Fu caught up to Yue Yanxi when he was still a significant distance from the Divine Flame Sect’s ancient starship.
After coming to a stop, Yue Yanxi nodded at Jian Tong and Guan Fu with a smile, but immediately afterwards, his face straightened as he fixed Jiang Feng with a stern look. “Can I help you with anything?”
The Divine Flame Sect didn’t get along with the Bliss Mountain Sect. Conflicts had broken out between them from time to time. If it weren’t for this, Mu Biqiong wouldn’t have ambushed Qiao Yunxi from the Divine Flame Sect in that forbidden region.
Even though the two sects had made temporary peace with each other in the Realm of Shattered Earth due to the arrival of Ke Jinpeng and the other experts from the Thousandsword Mountain Sect, that fragile peace had fallen apart immediately after their return to the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries.
“I dare not bother you with my business.” With these words, Jiang Feng smiled faintly and lowered his voice. “I’ve come to tell you than it seems that the Pure Heaven Sect still doesn’t know what happened in that forbidden region, or Nie Tian’s identity as a Son of the Stars.”
The people from the Bliss Mountain Sect, the Jian Clan, and the Guan Clan had avoided talking about what had happened in the Realm of Shattered Earth after their return.
The Pure Heaven Sect had only learned that not only had the other seven parties not come to significant gains in that forbidden region, but they had even suffered great losses.
The Pure Heaven Sect had taken pleasure in this.
After Jiang Feng’s return to the Bliss Mountain Sect, he had explained what had happened to their late Void domain patriarch. That person had been rather apprehensive of Nie Tian’s status as a Son of the Stars, and thus had ordered Jiang Feng and the others to guard their mouths like a closed bottle. (Idiom: keep one’s mouth shut)
He had even decided to let go of the fact that Nie Tian had seized Master Voidspirit’s legacies and killed a handful of Soul realm experts from the Bliss Mountain Sect with Zhao Shanling, and that he had imprisoned Mu Biqiong.
He had warned Jiang Feng against offending Nie Tian, and that he should try to lift Mu Biqiong from Nie Tian’s imprisonment through communication.
Jiang Feng was well-aware that their patriarch had only decided to swallow such an insult because he had been apprehensive of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace, which Nie Tian had at his back.
Yue Yanxi’s face grew cold as he gazed off towards Zhou Shang’s location. “It’s for the best that they don’t know. The Pure Heaven Sect has always been arrogant and domineering. Who would have thought they would become even more so now. The Seven-star Blue Sea was an unclaimed, mysterious place in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries. It should have been jointly owned and explored by all five major sects and three major clans.
“Patriarch Pure Heaven does whatever he like just because he’s the strongest Qi warrior throughout the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, and just about to enter the Saint domain.
“We let him be when he occupied the Seven-star Blue Sea years ago; who would have thought they actually wanted to explore its wonders by themselves after stone statues surfaced in it.
“If it wasn’t for the fact that they didn’t conceal the matter well and let us find out about it, and if we hadn’t pressured them together, we wouldn’t even have the opportunity to observe those stone statues.
“Now, each of us can only have ten members observe here at the same time, and we have to pay ten thousand spirit jades per person for just a two-week stay. The Pure Heaven Sect did some smug calculations.”
Judging from Yue Yanxi’s tone, he was rather unhappy with Zhou Shang and the Pure Heaven Sect’s way of doing things.
At the same time, Jiang Feng, Jian Tong, and Guan Fu shared his hatred of the Pure Heaven Sect, which seemed to bring them closer to a great extent.
Jiang Tong let out a weak sigh. “What can we do? Patriarch Pure Heaven is currently the strongest Qi warrior in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, and now he’s preparing for his next breakthrough in cultivation. You’re no stranger to his domineering manner. He’s taken the Seven-star Blue Sea as his own for years now before he entered the Saint domain. If he actually manages to advance to the Saint domain, who knows if we’ll still have a position in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries.”
Their faces grew grim as soon as they started talking about Patriarch Pure Heaven.
For every Qi warrior in the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, Patriarch Pure Heaven was a great mountain that was impossible to surpass. For the past thousand years, he had sat on the throne as the most powerful person throughout the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries. No one had been able to challenge his status.
After pondering in silence for a while, Jiang Feng seemed to hit upon a thought as he suddenly turned to Yue Yanxi and asked, “Brother Yue, did you bring Nie Tian here and intentionally hide his status from Zhou Shang to have Nie Tian develop enmity towards the Pure Heaven Sect?”
“That wasn’t my intention,” Yue Yanxi said. “It was Zhou Shang who demanded that he pay double the price due to his identity as a foreigner.”
Jiang nodded tacitly and said, “I see. Now I do hope that Nie Tian will be able to solve the mysteries of those eight stone statues. For one thing, it’ll be well worth the twenty thousand spirit jades he paid to observe the stone statues if he can actually make significant gains or breakthroughs.
“For another, I wonder what the Pure Heaven Sect will do or say about Nie Tian gaining that fortune as a foreigner.”
Guan Fu and Jian Tong also had meaningful looks in their eyes. Anticipating smiles even appeared on their faces as they seemed to think of something interesting.
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