A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 158
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Chapter 156 The Frustration of the Spirit Control Sect, Slander, and Seeing Xin Ruyin
The disappearances of Xin Ruyin and Han Li infuriated the cultivators of the Yu Ling Sect.
At the Panlong River’s gold essence mine, a major annual inventory of the collected ore is conducted, overseen by four of the Core Formation disciples under the Nascent Soul cultivator stationed there.
But this year…
The four Core Formation cultivators in charge looked at the collected gold essence ore with rather strange expressions.
One of them even frowned deeply.
“How come there’s so much less?”
A reduction of more than 80%?
There must be some mistake.
Upon hearing this, the Foundation Establishment stage managers exchanged bewildered glances. After a moment of silence, one of them finally forced a response:
“Reporting to Martial Uncle, the rich ore area of the Gold Essence Ore Vein is merely an illusion. On the surface, that area appears to be rich, but in reality, it’s just a collection of poor ores.”
“Yes, Martial Uncle, the rich ore area might not be as vast as we thought,”
another Foundation Establishment stage manager whispered.
Cautiously.
Upon hearing this, one of the four early Core Formation stage managers, a middle-aged man, immediately turned ashen-faced:
“You mean, the rich ore area initially detected is actually just a pile of poor ores? The ore doesn’t contain much Gold Essence at all?”
“Yes, Martial Uncle,”
the managers nodded repeatedly.
“Nonsense! Nonsense!”
the middle-aged Core Formation stage manager roared, flicking his sleeve.
What a joke!
He was one of the explorers back then.
These people were actually telling him that his tests from several years ago were wrong?
How could that be? Without a more detailed test, would he dare to jointly report that this was a medium-sized rich ore vein? If he dared to lie, even ten lives wouldn’t be enough for those Nascent Soul elders of the sect to harvest him.
“Uncle-Master, it’s indeed just a poor ore deposit. You can go and explore again if you don’t believe me.”
“Master, the senior brothers aren’t lying. The remaining veins are indeed just some poor ore deposits.”
The Foundation Establishment stage managers insisted on their conclusions based on what they had seen and heard.
“I…”
The middle-aged man wished he could slap these guys in the face to death.
Even his disciples, he wanted to slap them awake.
“Junior Brother, don’t be hasty. So many disciples say the results of the vein exploration are problematic, so it’s probably because you weren’t careful enough back then and made a mistake. After all, it can’t be that all of them are just stubbornly denying it, right?”
One senior brother seemed to be comforting him, but was actually secretly digging a pit for him, kicking him while he was down.
Another senior brother was indifferent, waiting to see the joke.
Another junior brother’s eyes even carried a hint of schadenfreude.
The fierce competition within the demonic sects only created a superficial harmony among the disciples; they weren’t necessarily of one mind.
Only those who reached the Nascent Soul stage could escape the game and become one of the many players.
“Let’s go, I want to see how this vast rich mine has turned into a pile of poor ore,”
the middle-aged man gritted his teeth. He didn’t want to be laughed at by his fellow disciples,
nor did he want to take the blame.
Three days later, the middle-aged man, who had stormed off in a huff, returned dejectedly. The reason was simple. The remaining gold essence ore in the vein was indeed mostly poor ore. The rich ore was almost gone, scattered only in the corners. ”Could it really be that I made a mistake in my survey back then?” ”That’s not right…” ”There were more than a dozen fellow disciples surveying with me. Even if I was wrong, it’s impossible for all of them to be wrong, right?” This was too illogical. They had checked everything repeatedly. ”Something’s not right.” ”Junior brother, why don’t we tell Master about this?” We must tell the truth, otherwise, if they investigate later, they won’t be able to escape responsibility. Turning his head, the Nascent Soul stage elder from the Yu Ling Sect personally went down into the mine to investigate the original ore vein. Initially, because the poor ore area was too large, he didn’t find anything. But as the elder entered what was once a rich ore area, now a poor ore area, he immediately noticed traces of the Restoration Technique. ”Huh? Restoration Technique?” With Han Li’s cultivation level, he could naturally use the Restoration Technique very well. His powerful divine sense could easily detect any omissions. However, while the details could deceive ordinary early-stage Core Formation cultivators, they were not easy to deceive mid-to-late-stage Core Formation cultivators who were scrutinizing the details, let alone Nascent Soul cultivators. If a Nascent Soul elder personally went down to investigate, even the traces of his presence would be traceable. A dignified Nascent Soul cultivator might not have such methods, but he would definitely leave some for the other party. Moreover, the mining area was so vast, and he had spent so much time cleaning up after the Gold-Eating Insect swarm. No matter how meticulous he was, it was impossible to guarantee that he hadn’t overlooked anything , even the slightest oversight. And any oversight would be enough for a Nascent Soul cultivator to trace back to the source. ”Master, what restoration technique?” ”Master, is this Gold Essence Ore Vein truly just a poor mine? Could it be that my exploration back then was truly flawed?” Two Core Formation cultivators pressed him one after the other. The old man glanced at the middle-aged man and immediately snorted coldly: ”You didn’t even realize your rich mine was stolen? Hmph, a bunch of useless trash.” Stolen mine? Upon hearing this, the Core Formation cultivators were all stunned. Those who had been gloating and waiting to see the joke immediately stopped laughing. They thought they could get some gossip about their junior brother, but unexpectedly, they were the ones getting the gossip. If it was just a mistake in exploration, it naturally wouldn’t concern them. But if someone had stolen the rich Gold Essence Ore Vein right under their noses, then the nature of the matter was completely different. None of them could remain uninvolved. ”Master, this…” Several Core Formation stage cultivators panicked. ”This way.” The Nascent Soul stage elder led the group along a mine tunnel to the edge of what was originally a rich mining area. He then reached out and grabbed at a vein of ore.
A few breaths later, a storage bag appeared in the old man’s hand.
“How can there be a storage bag inside the mine?”
Several Core Formation stage cultivators asked, puzzled.
“There are two hundred and fifty low-grade spirit stones inside,” the Nascent Soul elder of the Yu Ling Sect sneered. His old face was so gloomy it could drip water. ’What’s going on?’ Several disciples hesitated, not daring to speak. The old man took out more than two hundred spirit stones and two jade slips, then smashed the storage bag. As a conservative, he was all too aware of the strangeness of the situation, but sometimes, it’s better to see through it than to say it. He still had to shift the blame: ”So righteous, so Tianji Sect! They stole our sect’s gold essence ore and even deliberately left more than two hundred spirit stones to mock our sect? Do they really think our Yu Ling Sect has declined, that we are easy to bully?” Such extreme sarcasm made the old man’s lungs explode with anger. Inside the two jade slips, there was a piece of information recorded. One scene shows a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator from the Heavenly Extreme Sect being chased and killed by two cultivators of the same level from the Spirit Control Sect.
The other passage was an apology letter from the Core Formation stage cultivator of the Heavenly Pole Sect, who genuinely didn’t want to take advantage of the Spirit Control Sect, leaving behind 250 low-grade spirit stones as compensation.
The words were full of remorse, but this only infuriated the old man further.
“Young man, how arrogant!”
Several of the old man’s disciples took the jade slip and examined it, their faces flushed with rage:
“How dare this fellow!”
How could he be so arrogant?
“Isn’t he afraid our sect’s seniors will come knocking?”
“Even if our sect members hunt him down, what does it matter to us? How could he possibly affect us?”
“Heavenly Pole Sect, what a righteous sect…”
The group was filled with righteous indignation.
“Could someone be framing us?”
“Possibly.”
And very likely.
“Then…”
“Regardless of whether someone is framing the Heavenly Pole Sect, at least we need to give the sect an explanation.”
Who exactly was secretly mining their mine right under their noses? They didn’t even have a clue. If this got out, wouldn’t their lineage become a laughingstock among all the other branches within the sect and even outside?
Therefore, whether it was actually done by the Tianji Sect can be investigated.
But right now, we need a suspect.
“This person was able to quickly steal a rich mine that would take thousands of disciples we sent here ten or twenty years to mine. Their methods are extraordinary; this is a clue.” “
Also, those sects that were wiped out by the Tianji Sect a hundred years ago, those who escaped the net, are also suspects.”
“Some of the major sects that have lost their way also need to be watched.”
“Don’t forget the Mulan people; those grassland barbarians are hoping for a bloody internal conflict in Tiannan…”
In any case, right now, the Tianji Sect is the prime suspect.
The possibilities within the jade slip cannot be ignored.
…
So, what exactly happened?
Actually, this was all Han Li’s doing.
The reason is simple: to give the Tianji Sect and the Haoran Pavilion something to do.
To prevent them from constantly thinking about the Far West.
With an opponent, the Tianji Sect and the Haoran Pavilion, and other righteous sects, won’t focus their attention on the Far West. This will lessen the pressure on the Qianzhu Sect to some extent.
The operation is also very simple.
One was to recreate the scene of the two Yu Ling Sect members chasing the Hao Ran Pavilion cultivators. However, he used his late-stage Nascent Soul level divine sense to replace the Hao Ran Pavilion cultivators’ figures with those of a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator from the Tianji Sect.
The specific appearance and situation of that mid-stage Core Formation cultivator from the Tianji Sect were known through his soul-searching of two late-stage Core Formation cultivators.
This jade slip revealed the Tianji Sect cultivators’ motive for stealing the mine.
Furthermore,
he not only left a jade slip as a record, providing the Tianji Sect with an excuse for stealing the mine, but also left another jade slip and a storage bag as an apology. Well, seemingly an apology, it was actually an expression of his satisfaction at successfully stealing the mine and exacting revenge.
It was a provocation against the Yu Ling Sect.
He was directly attacking the faction guarding the mine, mocking them relentlessly.
Leaving only 250 spirit stones was neither too much nor too little.
The purpose was to provoke the Yu Ling Sect into causing trouble for the Tianji Sect.
As for whether the two sects would reconcile after discovering the other truth,
Han Li didn’t care.
He was merely helping to alleviate the pressure on the Thousand Bamboo Sect in the far west; he didn’t genuinely expect the Spirit Control Sect and the Heavenly Pole Sect to clash over this matter, let alone engage in a deadly battle.
The so-called other truth was that the two mid-stage Core Formation cultivators from the Spirit Control Sect who were pursuing him weren’t from the Heavenly Pole Sect, but from the Vast Righteous Pavilion. The two jade slips were purely misleading information left by the Vast Righteous Pavilion’s Core Formation cultivators.
In other words,
the two jade slips also planted another time bomb—
a hidden time bomb intended to drag the Vast Righteous Pavilion down with them.
The righteous Vast Righteous Pavilion had previously enjoyed substantial profits in the far west, having siphoned off the Thousand Bamboo Sect quite a bit. Therefore, framing them and dragging them into the mess was no problem for Han Li.
Of course, as he said before, he didn’t expect the deaths of a few Core Formation cultivators and the profits from a mine to trigger a deadly battle between major sects. With the Mulan people eyeing them covetously, and considering the lessons of a thousand years ago, a large-scale war between the top sects of the Southern Heaven was unrealistic.
In short…
If it succeeds, all the better; it will cause trouble for the two major righteous sects.
If it fails, so be it. Anyway, it
won’t cost him anything.
Of course, if they suspect him for this, he can only give them a thumbs up.
After all, why suspect him of the far west when there are so many people with strong motives to commit crimes—spies from the Mulan people, remnants of the righteous and demonic invasion, and those who lost their inheritance sites? What can he say?
Little does he know that because of the two Nascent Soul spies from the Mulan people who had infiltrated Tiannan early on, the Tianji Sect and the Yuling Sect almost went to war over this matter.
The two sides confronted each other on the border between Yuanwu Kingdom and Shayun Kingdom, each deploying multiple Nascent Soul cultivators.
In addition, the relationship between the Tianji Sect and the Haoran Pavilion became very delicate for a period of time afterward, no longer as close as before.
And this is the destructive power of Nascent Soul cultivators causing trouble behind the scenes.
Regardless of the truth or falsehood, it’s disgusting.
It’s incredibly annoying and impossible to guard against.
…
At the same time.
The Yu Ling Sect team, having swept through Qianjin Valley for months, increasingly sensed something was amiss.
“Senior Uncle, it’s been almost half a year, and we’ve swept through the inner 200-mile area, yet we’ve only captured two high-level demonic beasts. Could the intelligence be wrong?”
Even if high-level demonic beasts are adept at hiding and playing hide-and-seek with human cultivators, how could they possibly hide from their Yu Ling Sect’s hundred-odd high-level spirit beasts, two Nascent Soul elders, and a guardian spirit bird comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator?
The records of demonic beast resources here were severely inaccurate.
In response,
Han Li could only innocently pat his storage bag and spirit beast bag. He
had only five more high-level demonic cores.
He also had only a dozen or so living high-level demonic beasts.
He had only encountered them by relying on the forbidden area’s secret techniques while actively roaming the Golden Wind.
“It’s unreasonable to pretend you didn’t see them when you’ve already passed by, right?”
“Strange, where are those high-level demonic beasts?”
Where are they hiding?
They couldn’t have been swept away by outsiders beforehand, could they?
The two Nascent Soul cultivators leading the Yu Ling Sect were quite puzzled.
Even Nascent Soul cultivators like them couldn’t stay in the inner circle for long. Here, escape techniques were weakened by the powerful golden wind to less than a tenth of their effectiveness outside, and one could easily damage their divine sense. Moreover, deep within the inner valley of Qian Jin Valley, even the field of vision after using the Heavenly Eye Technique was less than two miles. Therefore, they could only rely on a large number of spirit beasts for a carpet search.
But in the Tiannan region, only their Yu Ling Sect had the resources to field dozens or even hundreds of high-level spirit beasts.
A sect lacking high-level demonic beasts wouldn’t be able to efficiently plunder this place even with a dozen or so Nascent Soul cultivators.
“Strange, very strange…”
Meanwhile
, Han Li was currently at
Xin Ruyin’s former residence. (
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