"Everyone, please stop." The woman in white said softly.
Although her voice was not loud, it had an invisible power that made everyone present afraid to act rashly.
"Sword cultivator?"
The white-haired old man narrowed his eyes slightly, with a look of fear in his eyes.
The one-armed man was also a little surprised. He was silent for a moment and asked cautiously: "Could you be a master of the Fantasy Feather Sword Sect?"
Bai Qingruo glanced at everyone and said calmly: "I am not from the Huan Yu Sword Sect."
"Then why did you stop us?"
"You misunderstood. I have no intention of stopping you. It's just that my master doesn't like making noise. I would like to ask you to change places and fight elsewhere."
After hearing this, the one-armed man's face became uncertain. After a moment, he said in a deep voice: "Fellow Taoist, you are acting too domineering. Today is our battle with Menghua Sect and Leiling Pavilion. We seem to have the upper hand, but you
It is unjustifiable to interfere!"
"I don't mean to offend you, but I just made it very clear that you are not allowed to fight here."
Bai Qingruo spoke again. Although his voice was soft, there was an undeniable momentum.
The one-armed man and the white-haired old man looked at each other, both with gloomy expressions.
"I am the head of the Ghost Sect, and this is the head of the Huangsha Palace. We have a very good personal relationship with the Huan Yu Sword Sect. I advise you not to meddle in other people's business, otherwise you will get burned!" the white-haired old man said solemnly.
"Are you threatening me?"
Bai Qingruo was a little sulky and said coldly: "I count to three, if you don't retreat, don't blame me for being ruthless with my sword!"
"one!"
As soon as the first sound came out, the one-armed man's expression changed, and he pinched the magic formula in his hand, as if he wanted to fight her.
But the white-haired old man next to him immediately stopped him.
"Stop being reckless!"
The old man secretly transmitted the message: "This little girl is probably the reinforcements invited by Ling Xuan. She has the cultivation level of Tongxuan realm and is a swordsman. With the combined strength of you and me, we may not be her opponent! In addition, there are also
With Ling Xuan and Ding Yi eyeing us, the situation is not good for us."
The one-armed man was just impulsive. He quickly calmed down and said in the same voice: "Then according to what Duan Degong said, what should we do?"
Duan De smiled slightly, with a lewd look in his eyes: "This little girl is born well. She must have good looks and temperament. Have you forgotten what the eldest son of our Huan Yu Sword Sect likes?"
"oh?"
The one-armed man understood the idea and also laughed: "Sure enough, the old ginger is still hotter! This trick of borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha, I have to admire it!"
The two communicated briefly for a moment, and their expressions were no longer as angry as before.
Duan De glanced at Bai Qingruo and said with a faint smile: "Okay, since fellow Taoist insists on taking this initiative, our Ghost Sect and Huangsha Palace will sell you face today. We will see you later!"
After saying that, without looking at Ling Xuan and others, he waved his hand and shouted: "Let's go!"
At that moment, everyone stopped fighting.
The monks from the Ghost Sect came to Duan De's side, while the monks from the Huangsha Palace followed the one-armed man.
The two of them gave Bai Qingruo a meaningful look, and then led their disciples to fly away into the distance.
After the monks from these two sects left, the woman in red finally relaxed a little.
She quickly came to Bai Qingruo, cupped her hands and said, "Thank you so much for helping this fellow Taoist. I am Ling Xuan, the leader of the Menghua Sect. Do you know your surname?"
"I'm Bai Qingruo."
"It turns out to be Fellow Daoist Bai. I'm so glad to meet you!"
Ling Xuan said, pointing to the middle-aged scholar beside her, and introduced: "This is the master of Leiling Pavilion, Ding Yi."
The scholar also bowed his hands to Bai Qingruo.
Bai Qingruo nodded slightly in response.
"Thankfully Sister Bai took action just now, otherwise our two sects would have been in serious danger."
Ling Xuan seemed to be a "natural acquaintance". After talking for a while, she called Bai Qingruo "sister".
Bai Qingruo frowned slightly, but did not refute.
She pondered for a moment and asked: "What is the deep hatred between you and why do you want to fight to the death?"
"It's not like they want to take advantage of the situation..."
Ling Xuan sighed and looked Bai Qingruo up and down for a moment: "I think my sister is a foreign monk, and she doesn't know much about our power in Yunmeng Mountain, right?"
Bai Qingruo nodded.
Lingxuan said leisurely: "Our Yunmeng Mountain Range stretches for millions of miles, and there are more than a hundred sects of various sizes. Among them, the three most powerful sects are: Huanyu Sword Sect, Demonic Sound Valley and Qianfu
Sect. These three sects are called the 'Three Great Sects', and the other sects must rely on one of them in order to gain a foothold in this mountain range."
"Originally, the three great sects stood together and maintained the balance of power in the Yunmeng Mountains. Until twenty years ago... the Huanyu Sword Sect got an unknown opportunity and suddenly surpassed the Demonic Sound Valley and the Thousand Talisman Sect. After that,
The conflict is getting worse day by day, forcing Demonic Sound Valley and Qianfu Sect to unite."
"Half a year ago, Demonic Sound Valley issued a notice and decided to join forces with Qianfu Sect to attack the Huan Yu Sword Sect, which is the so-called 'Three Sects' Discussion.' But no one expected that the final result was that the Huan Yu Sword Sect would be greatly defeated.
Complete victory! Since then, both Demonic Sound Valley and Qianfu Sect have been in ruins and no longer have the strength to confront the Huan Yu Sword Sect..."
"After the decline of the two great sects, the sects that had previously taken refuge with them were also suppressed by the Huanyu Sword Sect. The former sect master of my Menghua Sect and several masters were killed by the Huanyu Sword Sect. The Huangsha Palace and the Ghost Soul Sect were originally
They are not as good as our sect, but relying on the support of the Huan Yu Sword Sect, they also want to add insult to injury, seize our sect’s resources, and enslave our sect’s disciples… That’s why we have today’s battle.”
Ling Xuan finished speaking in one breath, as if she had been holding back her anger for a long time, and now she found someone to talk to.
"That's it." Bai Qingruo nodded slightly.
"Sister Bai, I am very grateful for your help, but Duan De and Yu Wenxiong are narrow-minded and will retaliate. I am afraid that they will be unfavorable to my sister afterwards... If nothing happens to my sister, why don't you come to my Menghua Sect to stay for a few days?
I can take care of you." Ling Xuan said with a smile on her face.
After hearing this, Bai Qingruo shook his head and said, "No, the reason why I took action was not to help you, but because my teacher doesn't like making noise."
"teacher?"
Ling Xuan's eyes flashed, she looked around for a moment, and asked with a smile: "Where is your teacher? Why doesn't he show up? I want to thank him for his kindness."
"My teacher likes to be quiet and won't see you. You two fellow Taoists should lead your disciples out of here quickly." Bai Qingruo said calmly.
"That's...okay."
Ling Xuan originally wanted to please Bai Qingruo, but seeing her lukewarm expression, she finally gave up.
"In any case, I have accepted Sister Bai's kindness this time. If sister encounters any trouble, she can come to Menghua Sect to find me at any time."
"Yes, fellow Taoists are welcome at Leiling Pavilion at any time."
Ling Xuan and Ding Yi both thanked Bai Qingruo, and then led their disciples away from here...
After everyone had gone away, Bai Qingruo made a magic spell and soared upward into the sky.
She saw a white cloud in the distance. As she arrived, the clouds dispersed to both sides, revealing the figures of Liang Yan, Xiong Yuer and others.
"Reporting to Master, all the monks fighting below have been expelled by the disciples. The disciples checked carefully again to confirm that no one was staying nearby." Bai Qingruo reported back respectfully.
Liang Yan glanced at her, with a half-smile on his face.
"My master asked you to expel everyone. You just treat them equally. Why do you want to intervene in their fights?"
Bai Qingruo was stunned for a moment and said subconsciously: "Didn't the disciple intervene?"
"Still want to quibble?"
Liang Yan laughed and scolded: "If you really treated everyone equally, you should have stood outside the court after separating the four people, but you chose to stand in the middle, facing Duan De and Yu Wenxiong, and blocking Ling Xuan and Ding Yi behind you. If from
From Duan De's perspective, aren't you obviously trying to protect Lingxuan?"
"This..." Bai Qingruo was speechless.
Liang Yan added: "I know what you are thinking. Seeing that Ling Xuan is weak, and seeing Duan De and Yu Wenxiong being promiscuous, you have likes and dislikes in your heart, and subconsciously choose to stand aside."
"Hmm..." Bai Qingruo nodded, his voice as light as a mosquito.
Liang Yan sighed: "Qingruo, this is not Spirit Snake Valley. Not all female cultivators are as innocent and harmless as you think. Let's just talk about the 'Ling Xuan' you just rescued. She is not a simple thing. You
Not only did she not show any gratitude for helping her, she even wanted to drag you into the whirlpool and tie you to the Menghua Sect."
"Master... I understand that I was wrong." Bai Qingruo bit her thin lips and lowered her head to admit her mistake.
Liang Yan waved his hand: "I don't mean to blame you, I just want to remind all of you that in Dongyun Lingzhou, there will always be times when my master is not with you, so you have to be careful about everything."
"Yes, Master!"
Everyone responded respectfully.
Liang Yan nodded slightly.
He glanced at the mountains below and told everyone: "I plan to stay here for a few days, and you will patrol the nearby peaks. Don't let anyone get close."
"clear!"
All seven disciples took the order and left.
Liang Yan pondered for a moment, pinched the magic formula in his hand, and turned into escaping light, piercing the air, and flew towards the high mountain surrounded by nine peaks.
Not long after, he landed on the top of the mountain.
The huge spiritual consciousness spread around like a tide, shrouding the nine nearby peaks...
After a while, Liang Yan withdrew his consciousness.
"The spiritual energy here is very thin. No sect ruins have been found, and no monks have even built a cave here...Senior Tree Spirit, is the treasure you mentioned really here?"
"Can't be wrong..."
The old voice sounded slowly in Liang Yan's sea of consciousness: "The treasure is under this mountain peak. If you use the earth escape technique to detect eight thousand miles downward, you can see a hidden spiritual vein."
"good."
Liang Yan did not hesitate, and after simply placing a few restrictions around him that could sense the monk's aura, he pinched the magic formula and escaped into the mountains.
He probed all the way down, and there were gray-brown rocks along the way, without any fluctuations in spiritual energy.
Until seven thousand miles below, the surrounding space suddenly changed, emitting a green glow, and a faint spiritual energy circulated around.
Although this spiritual energy was very thin, it still made Liang Yan look excited.
He continued to go deeper, and after about nine hundred miles, he saw a crystal clear spiritual vein in the distance.
"What a spiritual vein!"
At this moment, Liang Yan admired the old tree spirit very much.
You know, there are more than a hundred sects in Yunmeng Mountain Range, large and small. They have been rooted here for so many years, but they have not discovered this spiritual vein.
As for the old tree spirit, when he first landed in Dongyun Lingzhou, he could sense it from thousands of miles away. This can no longer be explained by common sense...
Liang Yan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked carefully, and found that this spiritual vein was really quite big.
Although it is not as high as the Ziwei Dragon Vein, it can still be considered a large-scale spiritual vein. I am afraid that none of the nine major sects seen in the Wushuang Domain had this kind of spiritual vein as their family background...
As for why its spiritual energy did not spread out, it was because there were countless dark green vines wrapped around this spiritual vein!
These vines are like a big hand, strangling the spiritual veins and preventing its spiritual energy from spreading, causing the spiritual energy in this area to be very thin.
It is precisely for this reason that the sects in Yunmeng Mountain regard this place as a deserted land. No one comes to build a sect, and even casual cultivators do not build caves here.
Liang Yan pondered for a moment and spread his consciousness outward.
When this power of consciousness came to the edge of the vine, it was actually absorbed by the vine, as if it had fallen into a bottomless abyss...
"Huh?"
Liang Yan's eyes showed surprise.
Able to swallow the power of one's own consciousness, this vine is definitely not a mortal thing!
While he was thinking about it, the old tree spirit man slowly opened his mouth and said: "This is one of the three sacred trees of our Mu clan: Youhuang Divine Tree!"
"The sacred tree of the Wood Clan?"
Liang Yan became interested instantly and asked with a smile: "What's so special about this wood?"
"It has the characteristics of swallowing and growing. Just a small piece can make countless people crazy in our wood tribe." The old tree spirit sighed softly.
"So, did you sense the existence of this sacred tree and conclude that there is a spiritual vein here?"
"good."
The old tree spirit man said leisurely: "I have a special feeling for the sacred tree. This is my innate magical power. The Youzhuang sacred tree likes to coexist with spiritual veins. This is its characteristic, so I conclude that there must be spiritual veins here!"
"I see……"
Liang Yan nodded.
The next moment, he continued to use the earth escape technique and approached the spiritual vein.
As he got closer, the vines entrenched nearby seemed to wake up, like long whips hitting Liang Yan from different directions.
But what kind of cultivation level does Liang Yan have? He didn't even need to draw his sword. With just a thought, leisurely sword energy swayed around him, instantly cutting the vines that were close to him to pieces.
In this way, he moved forward without any obstruction. In the end, those vines knew that they could not do anything to him, and they dropped down as if appointed.
Soon, Liang Yan reached the sky above the spiritual vein.
Looking down, I saw a towering tree growing out of the middle of the spiritual vein.
This big tree is over a thousand feet tall. It treats the spiritual veins as soil and breaks out of the ground. It is dark green all over and exudes an aura like an abyss and a cold pool...
"That's it, the Youhuang Sacred Tree." The old tree spirit said leisurely.
