Watching the Mountain

Chapter 222: Chapter 153: Choice

The Demon Race was being extremely secretive about the matter of the human female killer, doing everything they could to hide information about her.

Aside from the fact that she was a human girl who appeared gentle and weak, no other information was revealed.

Furthermore, they showed intense hostility toward anyone attempting to pry into her affairs, which was why so little news had reached the Human Race.

Lately, however, many stories of internal strife and power grabs had come from the Demon Race. Several major clans had recently changed their leaders.

There were even rumors that the shadow of human Cultivators could be seen in the major clans that had changed leaders. Because of this, the Demon Race sent an official letter to the Immortal Ancient Human Race, condemning this behavior and demanding that the Immortal Ancient Human Race respect themselves and not interfere in the affairs of the Demon Race.

This left the Immortal Ancient Cultivation Realm completely bewildered. They had no idea what had happened, yet disaster had fallen from the heavens, and they were being strongly condemned by their Demon Race allies.

Subsequently, the higher-ups forwarded the official letter from the Demon Race to all the Major Sects, asking whose people were stirring up trouble in the Demon Race and damaging the relationship between the two races.

Each Sect conducted an internal investigation, but they too were at a loss. They had no idea they had such a disciple to be proud of. If they did, they would have shown them off long ago. Why would they keep them hidden?

In the end, after a thorough self-investigation, the Immortal Ancient Cultivation Realm sent a letter back to the Demon Race: ”We request that your noble race inspect the barrier between worlds. Are there any breaches? You must be on guard against the Evil Demon Race and Phoenix Race.”

The meaning was clear: This matter has nothing to do with us, the Immortal Ancient Cultivation Realm. It must have been the work of the Evil Demon Race and Phoenix Race.

This farcical piece of gossip sparked widespread discussion throughout the Cultivation Realm.

When Xu Ran heard about this, the first person he thought of was Qin Yufeng. That guy’s strength was mysterious. He could prevent Zhang Zhentian, who was already at the Nascent Soul Realm, from even getting close with just his aura. He also seemed to possess many secrets and wanted to reshape the order of the Cultivation Realm. Since he was in the Demon Race’s territory, he was highly suspicious and had the ability to accomplish these things.

But even if he had guessed correctly, there was nothing Xu Ran could do.

A hundred years ago, when Qin Yufeng had told him about these things, he had immediately reported it to the Sect through Teacher Qing Xuan without a second thought.

Out of trust in him, the Sect had also reported it to the Upper Sect at the first opportunity, even mentioning the potential hidden dangers within the Secret Realm.

However, when it came to this sort of thing, never mind the other Sects in the Cultivation Realm, even within the Profound Pure Sect, people had scoffed at it.

’Who would care about the words of a stray dog from a sect that has already been annihilated?’

’Just because he says he wants to reshape the world order, he can do it?’

’Who hasn’t had the thought of wanting to destroy the world after suffering some extreme grievance? Throughout history, plenty of people have shouted such slogans.’

’Every Tom, Dick, and Harry claims they’ll destroy the world, reshape its order, and make it run according to their will, but who has ever actually succeeded?’

’Let’s not even talk about other things. That what’s-his-name, Qin Yufeng, has he reached the Daoist Venerable Realm yet? Oh, he was only at the Purple Mansion Stage a few hundred years ago? Well, as long as he’s happy.’

In truth, it wasn’t just the people of the Cultivation Realm. Even Xu Ran himself was skeptical about whether Qin Yufeng could actually pull it off.

He felt that Qin Yufeng was only shouting about changing the world because his mind had become twisted from being shunned by the various Sects back then.

Perhaps Qin Yufeng had stumbled upon some incredible fortune, but it would already be impressive if he could make a few waves in the Cultivation Realm. As for anything else, Xu Ran wasn’t very optimistic.

Anyway, as long as that Qin Yufeng fellow was happy.

With this attitude, Xu Ran didn’t pay too much attention to the events in the Demon Race. He just sent a message to his disciple, Jiang Ling’Er, asking her to contact him immediately after she came out of seclusion.

After doing this, he continued with his own cultivation.

Ever since switching to his self-created Cultivation Technique, his cultivation speed had increased significantly, as if he had been enlightened. Even his insights were much more profound than before.

For cultivation in the Purple Mansion Stage, the most important thing was to nurture the Dao Seed within the Purple Mansion, hoping to make the Dao Seed blossom and bear fruit, achieving either Nascent Soul Formation or a Transformation Golden Core.

This process required a massive amount of insights as nutrients to succeed. As for absorbing Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi, on the other hand, one no longer needed to cultivate deliberately.

Upon reaching the Purple Mansion Stage, when a Cultivator comprehends the Dao Rhyme of the heavens and earth and transforms it into nutrients to cultivate their Dao Seed, the Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi will automatically merge with them along with the insights. It was no longer like the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining stages, which still required one to actively circulate a Cultivation Technique to absorb Spiritual Qi.

Xu Ran wouldn’t go so far as to call his current self a genius, but ever since switching to his self-created Cultivation Technique, he was confident he could at least reach the average level in this world.

At the very least, he wouldn’t be as pathetic in every aspect as he was before. Compared to his past self, he had improved in all areas, becoming what one might call a ”hexagon warrior.”

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Since the last batch of information had circulated, there had been no new rumors about the Demon Race’s human female killer for some time.

Xu Ran had assumed the matter was over, or perhaps that the female killer had been captured and subdued by the Demon Race, so he hadn’t paid it any more attention.

However, just as he was about to put the matter out of his mind, he suddenly received a message from Jiang Xiaohui.

”Teacher, please save Ling’Er.”

Seeing Jiang Xiaohui’s message, Xu Ran was startled and hurriedly asked:

”What’s going on? What happened? Didn’t you say that girl Ling’Er was in seclusion? Could it be that something went wrong with her training?”