Capítulo 61: Zixia Sect’s Mount Yunwu Branch
Editor: Caron_
Several days later, Yunwu Sect was officially renamed Zixia Sect's Mount Yunwu Branch.
As soon as she regained her freedom, Mo Tiange went for a trip down the mountain to visit Second Uncle, checking to see if he was well or not and informing him about what happened.
Ye Jiang had long understood the matter that happened over these past few days, so he only said to her, "You just need to focus on cultivating. You don't need to manage and have no ability to manage this kind of matter anyhow. As long as you can build your foundation, it doesn't matter which cultivation group you are in."
To be honest, Mo Tiange's feelings towards the sect weren't really deep. In the past ten years, it was Second Uncle who took her wandering all around, spending his best efforts for her, and raising her until she grew up. Yunwu Sect hadn't spent anything for her and she also hadn't directed much affection towards Yunwu Sect. In the entire Celestial Pole, or perhaps in the entire cultivation world, the majority of people were this pragmatic.
Having reached the tenth layer of the Aura Refining realm, she could now completely abstain from eating. Because of that, she bluntly shut herself in her room, stabilizing her cultivation realm and studying formations. Previously, she never had the time to study the Qimen Dunjia book she got in Miwu Valley two years ago. This time was the perfect time for her to study it carefully.
During the time she confined herself in her room, the impact of the sect being annexed grew increasingly heavier. Zixia Sect sent several Core Formation cultivators to take over. Right now, there was no Sect Head; there was only Mount Yunwu's Branch Master.
The one who took the job as Branch Master was precisely the Core Formation cultivator from Jiang Clan. Naturally, this matter didn't really affect Jiang Shanghang. The relationship between him and his clan had never been close. Furthermore, there was a grudge between him and Jiang Chengxian, so it could already be considered very good that he didn't get bullied. How could he get any special treatment?
Except for the members of Jiang Clan, no other Core Formation cultivators managed to escape this calamity. Even cultivation clans were also affected. Because most of the sect's disciples came from cultivation clans, Zixia Sect used threats and promises, in addition to killing the chicken to warn the monkey so to speak, causing the deaths of some disciples every day and turning their days into days of terror.
Rationally, all of them who lived in this courtyard were individual cultivators who joined the sect through the Immortals Assembly and thus shouldn't be too affected by this event. Nevertheless, there were a few disciples who were still affected and perished. Fortunately, Xu Jingzhi wasn't among them.
Later, Mo Tiange heard Wang Qianyi was married to a descendant of a Core Formation cultivator from Zixia Sect and went to live there. As a result, Wang Clan made a narrow escape and was no longer being investigated.
Regarding this matter, Mo Tiange could only heave a sigh. For women, their bodies were, after all, their last means. Senior Martial Sister Wang was a proud woman. Although she had a father who was a Foundation Building cultivator, she was never arrogant. However, in the end, she still couldn't save her own self.
Mo Tiange recalled the moment she met her and Shen Bing in Miwu Valley. When they were harassed with obscene words, Shen Bing, although furious, held herself back. Wang Qianyi, on the other hand, broke out into a torrent of curses. Thinking that now Wang Qianyi was compelled to marry a decadent son of an influential family who was the type of person she despised the most, really… no one could control fate.
After a period of time, Mo Tiange heard another piece of news. Shen Bing was forced to become a concubine of that Sect Head Li's son. Senior Martial Sister Shen Bing's beauty and talent were well-known across the three cultivation groups. Many disciples from the three groups were her admirers, so Mo Tiange wasn't at all surprised that Shen Bing would fall into this predicament. Beauty was a fortune, but it was also the root of trouble. If she hadn't disguised herself as a man and hid her woman's stature, perhaps she also wouldn't have a good ending today.
Fortunately, Murong Yan didn't have to follow their footsteps. Shen Bing's sacrifice saved her.
Some days later, Mo Tiange received a Summoning Talisman from Murong Yan. After going through this string of misfortunes, she expressed her frustration and her determination to cultivate diligently. Except for sending a Summoning Talisman back with her blessings, Mo Tiange really couldn't do anything else.
After a few months, the storm that arose because of the annexation of the two groups gradually calmed down.
When Mo Tiange came out of her room, she saw that the three others were all present in the sitting room. She couldn't help but feel rather surprised as she said, "What are you all doing?"
Liu Yidao beckoned to her. "Junior Martial Brother Ye, come here and let's discuss together."
With a belly full of questions, she walked towards them and found a seat for herself. She really didn't believe there weren't any problems. There wasn't anything strange about Liu Yidao and Xu Jingzhi gathering here. Both of them had an outgoing personality, so gathering and chatting together although there wasn't anything happening was normal for them. Qin Xi, however, never came out of his room unless it was necessary. He stayed outside only if there was a problem or the subject they talked about was something he was interested in.
Liu Yidao excitedly asked, "Junior Martial Brother Ye definitely hasn't heard about the newly released news, right?"
"What news?"
Liu Yidao gave off a mysterious vibe and paused for a moment before continuing, "News about the Foundation-Building Pills."
"Ah…" She almost forgot about this matter. After the sect extermination occurred, she forgot about the minor competition that should've been held several months ago. "What happened? They're going to hold the minor competition again?"
Liu Yidao shook his head and said in an extremely excited manner, "The news I heard said that to appease the sect's disciples, they will increase the number of Foundation-Building Pills they're going to grant and change the method of granting them."
"Granting method? What is it? We don't need to go through a minor competition?"
Liu Yidao nodded. "Correct! This time, the minor competition is canceled."
Out of confusion, Mo Tiange asked, "Then what kind of method are they going to use?"
Xu Jingzhi, who had been silent, sneered. "This happened only because too many people died already. Holding the minor competition would make them appear cold and merciless, so they changed the method."
Xu Jingzhi's mood wasn't good. Although the Xu Clan wasn't implicated, they also didn't have an easy time. Xu Jingzhi originally had an uncle who was a Foundation Building cultivator, but because his uncle was close to Sect Head Fang, his uncle was covertly forced back to his clan. Fortunately, his uncle was very quick in declaring his position and therefore didn't implicate other people.
On top of that, what Shen Bing and Wang Qianyi went through also made Xu Jingzhi, who was also a child of cultivation clan, harbor a grudge in his heart.
Seeing him behaving like this, Qin Xi gave a perfunctory cough and said, "Junior Martial Brother Xu, you better calm your mind. Regardless of what has happened before, the ones above us now are Zixia Sect."
Although Xu Jingzhi's expression went stiff, in the end, he still uttered a complying noise. He understood this fact, but ever since he was a child, he always had things easy. Except for the Immortals Assembly matter, he had never gone through this kind of depressing matter. Consequently, he couldn't hide his emotions.
This interruption made Liu Yidao feel extremely embarrassed. Xu Jingzhi was in a bad mood, yet he was still feeling excited. Nevertheless, he quickly hid his emotions and said, "I heard the demonic beasts in the depths of Kunwu mountain range are restless and are about to cause trouble. The small demonic beasts in our vicinity are also constantly injuring people. Because of that, the sect has decided that for us in Mount Yunwu, we will be rewarded according to the number of demonic beasts we manage to catch in one day. The top few dozen disciples will be qualified to receive Foundation-Building Pills."
"I see…" Mo Tiange said with a frown. The southern depths of the Kunwu mountain range included a very vast forest. The area reportedly had countless high-ranking demonic beasts. As for the area around their sect, there were only first and second rank demonic beasts.
The first rank was equivalent to the Aura Refining realm while the second rank was equivalent to the early-stage of the Foundation Building realm. As long as they were careful, Aura Refining disciples like them could beat a first rank demonic beast. As for second rank demonic beasts... although it would be slightly harder to handle, the beasts couldn't use formations, talismans, and the like. Those who could use magic were also few. Aura Refining disciples could still kill it if they worked in a team and attacked it together. Even if they couldn't kill it, they could still give themselves an opportunity to run.
Nonetheless, compared to having a minor competition, this method indeed sounded good. In minor competitions, even if one was strong enough, if they ran into a similarly strong opponent, one side would definitely leave the stage a loser. If the matter was thought through carefully, however, this method was actually a form of preferential treatment for cultivation clans. Because cultivation clans had a lot of manpower, they only needed to focus their efforts on one of their members to obtain a Foundation-Building Pill.
As for other disciples, on the other hand, none of them would be willing to sacrifice themselves for other people. After all, the things they might gain from their battle against the beasts could also be categorized as rewards.
"Can we work in teams?"
Liu Yidao shook his head. "The event this time is different from Miwu Valley's. This time, our disciples will compete against each other. Of course, if we happen to meet inside, traveling together is presumably allowed. But the odds of this happening are really low; the forest on this mountain is too huge…"
Mo Tiange started to make some calculations in her mind. This rule had both an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage was that she didn't need to be worried about people seeing her. She could use whatever means she wanted to. The disadvantage was that she had to double her cautiousness. She was, after all, going to fight against demonic beasts. If she wasn't careful enough, she would be buried inside a beast's jaws.
Capítulo 62: Monster-Hunting Trip
Editor: Caron_
The vast forest stretched as far as one's eyes could see. Grassy, lush vegetation spread endlessly for thousands of miles.
Mo Tiange stood on a tall cliff, watching her surroundings in silence. This was the southernmost end of the Kunwu mountain range, an area that bordered some parts of the forest. Countless demonic beasts lived in this place. Though some of them had been tamed by cultivators and became spiritual beasts, the majority still lived freely inside the forest, living, cultivating, and transforming.
According to legend, in the innermost part of the forest, at the area that was closest to the sea, lived a lot of demonic beasts that had transformed and taken a human appearance. Although they generally wouldn't come out of the forest, every once in a while, they couldn't help but want to command lower-ranking demonic beasts to seize the areas belonging to human cultivators.
Naturally, under normal circumstances, they wouldn't succeed. However, in each attack, they would obtain a lot of medicinal pills that they could use to aid their cultivations. Because of this reason, they liked attacking the areas belonging to human cultivators over and over.
When the attacks came was always a gamble. Sometimes, the damage human cultivators suffered would be disastrous, while sometimes they would harvest numerous demonic beasts' remains in pretty good condition which they could use them as materials to refine tools.
Mo Tiange had never experienced this matter. She was only an insignificant low-level cultivator who had been in Kunwu for only about ten years while the most recent demonic beast rebellion happened at least fifty to sixty years ago.
Standing beside her on this tall cliff were a Core Formation cultivator, more than ten Foundation Building cultivators, as well as several hundred Aura Refining disciples.
The consequence of Zixia Sect's annexation of Yunwu Sect was already apparent. Previously, when the minor competition was held, Yunwu Sect's Aura Refining disciples who were in the seventh layer and above numbered more than 400 people. Right now, perhaps their number wouldn't even reach 300 people.
Among these cultivators, Mo Tiange didn't see many familiar figures. Senior Martial Brother Zhou didn't come. Because his cultivation level already reached the eleventh layer of the Aura Refining realm, he automatically had a share of Foundation-Building Pills. Besides, the sect had just gone through a catastrophe; he didn't want to attract anyone's attention and simply didn't participate.
Wang Qianyi and Shen Bing also didn't come. Both of them had gone to live in Zixia Sect's headquarters. She also heard that both of them had long been selected to accept Foundation-Building Pills. This news actually made her feel slightly better. At the very least, their sacrifices wouldn't be pointless.
Unexpectedly, Murong Yan did come. She looked pale and skinny, expressionlessly standing by herself among the crowd. The formerly quite beautiful girl could no longer be seen. Seeing her appearance, Mo Tiange could only sigh in her heart. This was also good - at least this way, she wouldn't have to follow Shen Bing and Wang Qianyi's footsteps.
Before long, a group of people appeared on the horizon and flew towards them before they finally landed on this tall cliff. They were Jindao School's disciples. Just like Yunwu Sect's disciples, although the colors of their robes didn't change, the symbol of Zixia Sect had been added to their robes.
According to her estimations, Jindao School had roughly 100 disciples. Evidently, they had also undergone a period of purgation as everyone looked dispirited. Although they were going to fight for Foundation-Building Pills, unexpectedly, none of them seemed excited about it. It was very obvious that what they experienced was much more tragic than Yunwu Sect.
The Core Formation cultivator leading them was a Daoist dressed in the secular world's style of robes. Because of this reason, Mo Tiange took a longer look at him. Although every Righteous Path cultivator in the cultivation world practiced the Law of Dao, many of their Daoist robes had different styles than in the secular world.
In the secular world, most of the Daoists wore either black or dark blue buttoned robes, thick but without many layers. On the contrary, most of the Daoist robes in the cultivation world were already beautified. Inner clothing, buttoned robes, outer robes, and a pile of layers had been embroidered with primordial trigrams and the Yin Yang pattern. Different colors were also used to differentiate each party. Thus, they looked elegant but still maintained a solemn vibe. Compared with the Daoists in the secular world, they seemed even more ethereal and noble, so they rarely wore Daoist robes from the secular world. After all, they couldn't show off their temperament as someone from the cultivation world if they did.
The Daoist before her eyes was obviously a Core Formation cultivator, yet he paid not the slightest attention to his attire. From this fact, it was obvious that this person was someone with a very firm Dao heart.
Once this person appeared, the current Branch Master of Mount Yunwu, Branch Master Jiang, enthusiastically greeted him: "Long time no see, Senior Martial Brother Lin."
However, this Daoist didn't give him much respect and only uttered a soft grunt before closing his eyes and resting.
Branch Master Jiang seemed rather embarrassed after getting the cold shoulder.
From what Mo Tiange saw, many Yunwu Sect's disciples seemed to be secretly happy over this matter, like Xu Jingzhi for example.
On the other hand, Jiang Shanghang looked rather angry. It was as if he couldn't bear to see what his elder had done. Moreover, hatred flashed across his face while he stared at a cultivator standing beside Branch Master Jiang.
Mo Tiange found out that person was a child of Jiang Clan who once bullied him, Jiang Chengxian. Apparently, this Jiang Chengxian was a direct descendant of Branch Master Jiang. He always stayed by Branch Master Jiang's side and looked very proud of himself.
Although Mo Tiange and Jiang Shanghang weren't compatible, she couldn't help but have some contempt for this Jiang Chengxian after watching this scene. A privileged son of a powerful lineage who relied on his bloodline and elders to behave unscrupulously who never focused on cultivating and didn't have any real talent… It was no wonder Jiang Shanghang felt he was unpleasing to the eye.
After a while, another group once again appeared on the horizon and flew towards them. The number of people in that group was more than the number of disciples in their two groups combined together. That group was the disciples of Zixia Sect.
The cultivator leading Zixia Sect's disciples seemed quite friendly, but facing Branch Master Jiang, he was also indifferent. Nonetheless, he was extremely courteous when he faced that Daoist.
After the three of them had a brief discussion, all of them employed their respective magic weapons. All of a sudden, a Transporting Formation appeared in the sky. Apparently, they were using the same technique as they did in Miwu Valley. In all likelihood, this place had also been used to test disciples before.
"Disciples, you are to enter one by one. You mustn't cut in line!"
Having gone through such a disastrous event, the former disciples of Yunwu Sect and Jindao School were very quiet and nonchalant. Unlike them, the disciples of Zixia Sect were brimming with excitement, scrambling to get ahead of the others. The disciples of the two other groups completely didn't care and engrossed themselves in waiting.
Mo Tiange looked around to watch the senior martial brothers beside her; Liu Yidao looked excited, Xu Jingzhi was calm, Qin Xi seemed steady and composed, and Jiang Shanghang had a frown etched on his face. She then groped her own face. Sensing that her expression was somewhat stiff, she took a deep breath and hid her emotions.
She was determined to get a Foundation-Building Pill. In the future, if she couldn't bear the way Zixia Sect handled thing, she just needed to find an excuse to leave the mountain and didn't need to come back. After all, Zixia Sect didn't have the time to care about a low-level disciple. Before then, it'd be best if she could obtain Foundation-Building Pills and build her foundation while she was still in the sect. Otherwise, with her cultivation level only in the Aura Refining realm, added to the fact that Second Uncle's lifespan was almost exhausted, she wouldn't dare to leave at will.
Just as she was lost in her thoughts, she found that Xu Jingzhi standing close to her seemed to be trembling. She called out softly, "Senior Martial Brother Xu?"
Xu Jingzhi turned his head. His pale face was covered in sweat. His voice also had a slight tremble in it as he said, "En?"
Mo Tiange sighed and said, "We haven't even entered yet, you can't collapse now."
Hearing her comments, Xu Jingzhi hastily wiped the sweat off his face and pretended he was alright. "Junior Martial Brother Ye doesn't need to worry."
"This feeling is also overwhelming for me," Mo Tiange said. "The situation inside the forest will be very dangerous. Furthermore, we're not allowed to go in as a team. You have to brace yourself!"
Xu Jingzhi nodded. After a long while, he was still feeling uncertain, so he whispered to her, "Junior Martial Brother Ye, I'm really worried. There's obviously hostility between the three groups; won't putting all of us in the forest together cause some conflict?"
Mo Tiange was puzzled and asked, "Why?"
After a long moment of silence, Xu Jingzhi suddenly said through gritted teeth, "If I run into that Jiang Chengxian, if I can do it cleanly, I'll…"
A murderous expression appeared for an instant on his face. His meaning was obvious enough.
Mo Tiange was frightened by his words. She turned around to watch her surroundings. It was only after she found out that no one was paying attention to them that her nerves relaxed. She whispered, "Senior Martial Brother Xu mustn't say such nonsense! You're overcome with nervousness…"
Xu Jingzhi closed his eyes and nodded before once again wiping his sweat off. "What Junior Martial Brother Ye said is correct." After he said this, he closed his eyes again, focusing on meditating to regain his composure.
Mo Tiange pondered their situation then fetched something from her robe and passed it to him. "Senior Martial Brother Xu, this is a Heart-Calming Talisman. If you can't control your heart, just stick it on your body."
Xu Jingzhi's eyes opened. Without too many unnecessary superfluous words, he accepted the talisman and said, "Thank you, Junior Martial Brother Ye."
She smiled and stopped talking, shifting her attention towards that Transporting Formation.
After quite a bit of effort, most of Zixia Sect's disciples entered. Having composed herself, she stepped forward, walking towards the Transporting Formation.
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