The four elders were typical Confucian dress, with spotless white robes and paper fans in their hands. They walked steadily and were kind and considerate to their disciples. “You should stay away from Old Nine. Luckily, he disappeared recently and didn’t cause you any trouble.”

“You should cherish the opportunity to learn from Yun Zhi. There is no future in learning from Old Nine.”

“As the sage said, there are five virtues of a gentleman: benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trust. Old Nine doesn’t have any of them. He cheats and swindles, and I don’t even know how many times I had to get him out of jail.”

“Do you know what your master’s sword technique is?”

Lu Yang replied, “I heard from my senior sister that it’s the technique of turning one sword into ten thousand swords. After using it with all your strength, one sword can turn into millions of swords, covering the sky and the earth. After killing the enemy, the swords will return to one, and it won’t take any blood.”

At that time, Lu Yang was fascinated by his senior sister’s description and thought that the so-called sword cultivation was most elegant and graceful in this way.

The four elders nodded. “Yes, turning one sword into ten thousand swords. Old Nine, as a sword spiritual root, is indeed a rare sword genius. There are not many sword cultivators in the world who can reach his level.”

Lu Yang was puzzled. He always felt that the tone of the four elders was somewhat difficult to describe… It was like biting their teeth, feeling ashamed, and hating iron for not becoming steel?

That was probably the feeling.

The four elders continued, “Once, Old Nine used his sword technique to turn one sword into ten thousand swords and sold the swords to the Falling Gold Coin Trading Company. After receiving the money, he used the technique to turn the swords back into one. If I hadn’t intervened and talked to them nicely, the head of the company would have been furious. Now your master is in jail!”

Lu Yang: “…”

Indeed, his master was now in jail, and he deserved it.

“Also, have you heard of the spell ‘Big and Small Wish (Partial Edition)’?”

“I just heard it from the Third Elder.”

“Don’t spread the existence of this spell. Even young disciples don’t know about it. If it were a hundred years ago, new disciples would have fought to become Old Nine’s disciples just to learn this spell.”

“Fortunately, Yun Zhi’s niece understands the situation and destroyed the copy of the spell. The original is kept on the upper level of the scripture pavilion, and with deliberate concealment, no disciples are clamoring to learn this spell now.”

The four elders had a pained expression. “The world is getting worse.”

Lu Yang felt guilty for wanting to learn this spell as well.

Sorry, I’ll reflect on it.

The tone of the four elders softened slightly. “But Old Nine also has some good points. At least, after he became the sect leader, our Seek Tao Sect became much stronger. Of course, this is not solely his credit. The eight of us have contributed greatly.”

Lu Yang did not know if the four elders were praising his master or themselves.

“By the way, why are you suddenly interested in what kind of person your Old Nine is?”Lu Yang laughed: “It’s nothing, I just haven’t seen my master since I joined the sect and I’m curious.”

“Curiosity is a good thing, but don’t waste it on Lao Jiu.”

After asking three people, Lu Yang roughly figured out what kind of person his master was.

And he still wanted to be let out?

…

Tiance Sect is located in the east of the continent, covering a huge area. Looking from the sky, Tiance Sect looks like an upside-down gossip plate, a strange sight.

Tiance Sect is quiet and sparsely populated, like a hidden sect in the deep mountains and old forests, peaceful but terrifying.

But the main reason for Tiance Sect’s quietness is that they have sent their disciples away and paid off their debts, leaving only a few people in the sect.

Reducing expenses and refining the heart in the mortal world can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

A shout broke the quiet atmosphere of Tiance Sect.

“Master, master, I’m back!” Luo Bu ran into the sect and went straight to his master.

The Sect Master of Tiance Sect heard his disciple’s shout and walked out of his cave: “Good disciple, why did you come back so soon? Did you come up with a way to repay the debt?”

Luo Bu was panting: “N-no, when I was traveling, I met a troublesome person and wanted to come back and let the sect be more vigilant.”

“Sit down and tell me slowly.”

Luo Bu calmed down his breath before saying: “I traveled to Yanjiang County, I had no money at the time and wanted to cheat some unlucky people out of their money by casually calculating a few divinations.”

“Coincidentally, I met three disciples from Seek Tao Sect and one disciple from Moon Palace, all fat sheep.”

“I didn’t plan to calculate seriously, just to fool around, but one of them was very unusual.”

“That person’s name is Lu Yang. Although his cultivation is not high and he just started cultivating immortality, his future is extremely terrifying.”

The Sect Master of Tiance Sect’s heart moved: “Are you saying we should invest in him in advance and let him help us repay the debt when he becomes successful?”

Luo Bu quickly extinguished his master’s terrible idea: “No no no, I saw that Lu Yang is destined to have karmic entanglements with several immortals.”

“Karmic entanglements with several immortals?!” The Sect Master of Tiance Sect exclaimed. Generally speaking, having karmic entanglements with one immortal is easy to die, let alone several immortals.

Their Tiance Sect’s most taboo thing is to have any intersection with people with great karma, which is unfavorable for transcendence. The heavier the karma, the more difficult the cultivation, and struggling to break free will only make the karma tighter.

“Not only that, I also found that Lu Yang will spread the bad practices of Seek Tao Sect to the entire world of cultivation.”

The Sect Master of Tiance Sect took a cold breath. Why didn’t you say this important thing earlier? Compared with this, what does the karma of immortals matter?

Having karmic entanglements with immortals means he will have a bright future, but spreading the bad practices of Seek Tao Sect to the world of cultivation means he has a problem with his mind!”In any case, we should avoid contact with the Seek Tao Sect as much as possible, especially that Lu Yang. The farther away, the better!”

Suddenly, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Strategy Sect’s face changed.

“Master, what’s wrong?”

“An extremely domineering aura is flying towards our Heavenly Strategy Sect. I suspect that the visitor has ill intentions! Activate the defensive array!”

The Sect Master of the Heavenly Strategy Sect made a decisive decision and activated the sect’s protective array.

The array nodes lit up like stars in the night sky, forming the pattern of a Bagua disk.

The huge Bagua disk covered the Heavenly Strategy Sect, indestructible, with eight complex directions, making it difficult to find an exit. Once trapped in the array, even if one exhausted their entire life’s energy, they would not be able to solve the mystery of the array. Countless powerful cultivators in the Unity stage had returned empty-handed, and some with impure intentions were trapped to death alive!

The power of the Heavenly Strategy Sect’s protective array was evident!

The visitor saw the Heavenly Strategy Sect activate the protective array but did not show any intention of stopping, arrogantly acting invincible.

Faced with the complex array, the visitor stretched out a hand and shattered it directly.

Only then did the Sect Master of the Heavenly Strategy Sect see the appearance of the visitor, who had an elegant demeanor, like a god or an immortal, untouchable.

“Yun Zhi from the Seek Tao Sect has come to pay respects to the Supreme Elder of the Heavenly Strategy Sect, and I request an audience.”

The Sect Master of the Heavenly Strategy Sect turned pale, as the Seek Tao Sect had indeed arrived.

(End of chapter)