Chapter 2001: Coercion

Douyuan Pavilion was a place specifically for high-tier cultivators to gather and discuss matters. Its owner was a Body Integration Elder in Tianyuan City, so anyone had to give this pavilion some face and would never dare to cause trouble or fight here.

Therefore, this pavilion's reputation among the cultivators of Tianyuan City had always been quite good.

If ordinary cultivators wanted to hold a small trading society or discuss some relatively secret matters, they generally liked to temporarily rent a floor of the pavilion so that everyone participating could feel at ease.

After flying for a while, a dense forest suddenly appeared in front, about a hundred acres in size.

In the center of the dense forest, there were four pavilions, one large and three small.

The largest pavilion was a thousand zhang tall, not at all lower than some stone towers in Tianyuan City. The three smaller pavilions were also three or four hundred zhang tall, looking quite magnificent from afar.

Seeing these buildings, Han Li's expression remained unchanged, but his flight speed increased by a fold.

At this moment, several Void Refinement cultivators in yellow robes were guarding the entrance on the first floor of the tallest pavilion, chatting about something.

But suddenly, they felt a blur before their eyes, as if something had flashed past them and entered the door.

With their cultivation, not one of them had time to see the thing clearly.

This immediately made the guards turn pale with fright!

A few of them hurriedly raised their hands to clasp their magic tools and turned to look at the pavilion. Others raised their arms, and with a flash of spiritual light, alarm talismans appeared between their fingers.

Just then, a cold snort came from inside the door, and a powerful spiritual pressure surged out from within.

These guards felt the air around their bodies tighten, and their bodies were immediately unable to move, as if pressed by a force of ten thousand jin.

The group couldn't help but gasp.

Only then did they see clearly that in the middle of the hall on the first floor of the pavilion, a figure in green robes had appeared at some point.

Although his back was turned to them, the spiritual pressure emitted by the figure was simply as powerful and irresistible as a demon god to them, making the guards sweat profusely.

"I'm looking for a friend. You don't need to do anything during this time, just stay here honestly. I'll leave naturally once I find the person," the figure said indifferently without turning his head, his words filled with an unquestionable tone of command.

The next moment, the figure's body blurred, and he disappeared into thin air, ignoring the restrictions in the pavilion.

And the moment the figure disappeared, the guards felt the huge pressure on their bodies loosen, and they regained the ability to move.

"Who is this Senior? How dare he break directly into Douyuan Pavilion? Doesn't he know who the owner of this pavilion is?" a seemingly young guard couldn't help but shout in shock and rage the moment he regained his freedom.

The others didn't say anything, but their expressions were naturally extremely ugly.

"Hmph, you'd better shut up, lest you bring a fatal disaster upon yourself!" A blue-haired old man, after his expression flickered for a while, suddenly interrupted the young companion's words in a low voice.

"Fellow Daoist, what do you mean by this? Do you recognize this person?" The young guard was stunned, but another middle-aged man who looked quite experienced asked with a stern expression.

"That's right. You are all new to this pavilion, so it's not strange that you don't recognize this Senior. But I once saw this Senior from afar. This Senior is a mid-stage Body Integration cultivator, with a cultivation base even one level higher than the Pavilion Master. If we offend him, aren't we just seeking our own death?" The old man exhaled a long breath before saying solemnly.

"What? A mid-stage Body Integration cultivator!" The other guards gasped, and the young guard who had spoken earlier turned even paler.

If a Body Integration cultivator made a move against them, it would absolutely be no more difficult than crushing an ant. If the other party held a grudge...

The young guard couldn't help but become more and more afraid!

"Surname Han, and a mid-stage Body Integration Senior! Could this Senior be..." The experienced man, after his shock, seemed to have remembered something and gasped.

"Hehe, Fellow Daoist remembered. That's right, it's that Senior Han who was rumored to have perished these past two years. Now that this Senior has appeared here safely, the rumors from before are naturally all groundless." The old man stroked his beard and nodded.

"But this Senior has such a thick murderous aura, he seems to have come with ill intent. I'm afraid it's not just as simple as looking for someone. If something really happens, wouldn't the pavilion's rules be broken?" the young guard muttered.

Hearing this, the others' expressions changed again, and a look of fear flashed in their eyes.

"What Senior Han is doing here is not for us to manage. Even if he tears down Douyuan Pavilion, the Pavilion Master would never blame us for it. The pavilion's rules only apply to ordinary cultivators; how could they be used on existences like Senior Han?" The blue-haired old man smiled lightly, returned to his original position, and didn't say another word.

Hearing the old man say this, the other guards nodded repeatedly and tacitly stopped discussing the matter, as if nothing had happened before.

Only the young guard was still somewhat distracted, looking back toward the door from time to time.

Almost at the same time, in a hall on the middle floor of the pavilion sealed by heavy restrictions, seven or eight men and women were surrounding a woman in white robes, trying to persuade her of something.

The white-robed woman had skin as clear as snow, phoenix eyes, and willow eyebrows, but her expression was extremely cold.

She was Ice Phoenix, who had been invited to attend the gathering here.

As soon as she arrived, she didn't see anyone holding a trading society, and the people attending were vaguely wrong, so she became alert and wanted to leave immediately. However, she didn't expect that the others would activate restrictions to seal the entire floor.

Afterward, these people participating in the gathering began to take turns persuading her, looking as if they had all been bought by Green Dragon.

"Fellow Daoist Phoenix, speaking of which, your Ice Phoenix body has some connection with our Black Phoenix clan. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been mediating between you and Senior Green Dragon all this time. But if you drag it out like this, you might really anger Senior Green Dragon. With Senior Green Dragon's mid-stage Body Integration divine abilities, if he uses force against you, I won't have the slightest ability to resist. It's better to just agree. With Senior Green Dragon's status, he is not a bit inferior to that Han brat, so why do you have to hold on so stubbornly?" The speaker was a beautiful young woman in a black dress, with a murderous aura vaguely visible between her brows. She was precisely Xiaohong of the Black Phoenix clan. This woman had been ordered by the Black Phoenix Demon King to go into seclusion for a while some years ago, and now she had actually appeared in Tianyuan City, looking as if her cultivation had improved quite a bit.

The others were also from both the human and demon races, and all of them knew Ice Phoenix to some extent, and at this moment, they were all trying to persuade her with earnest words.

The reason demon race members appeared here was naturally because after the demons began to attack the city, the boundaries between the two races in the city had been canceled, and both sides could go to each other's areas.

Even so, ordinary existences of the two races generally wouldn't go to the other's living area without reason; only high-tier existences would come and go without caring.

Most of these people were Void Refinement cultivators, so they naturally had the qualifications to appear here.

However, the words they used to persuade her had no new ideas, still constantly saying that Green Dragon Master was a Body Integration cultivator, and dual cultivating with him was naturally a mutually beneficial good thing, and there were countless female cultivators in the city who begged for such a good thing.

But no matter how Xiaohong tried to persuade her with moving words, or how others tried to persuade her with benefits, Ice Phoenix seemed not to hear, sitting in the chair without saying a word, but the coldness on her face was almost about to condense into frost.

"Sister Ice Phoenix, we have said everything that needs to be said. Give us a definite reply now: are you willing to agree to Senior Green Dragon's dual cultivation intention?" Seeing this, Xiaohong naturally frowned, and after a while, she waved her hand to let the others stop talking, her voice becoming somewhat gloomy.

Among these people, she was clearly the leader.

"Even if Fellow Daoist says it with flowers falling from the sky, I won't agree. I find it somewhat strange. Fellow Daoist Xiaohong is a member of the demon race; don't you know that the difference between humans and demons is one of the major clan rules of our demon race? You are helping Green Dragon Master to coerce me so openly; aren't you afraid of being punished by the Black Phoenix Demon King when you go back?" Ice Phoenix finally opened her mouth with a change in expression, but her words were as sharp as blades, piercing toward the demon woman Xiaohong.

Hearing this, Xiaohong's expression changed slightly, but she immediately recovered and laughed lightly.

"Sister Ice Phoenix doesn't know yet, but Senior Green Dragon originally has the spiritual blood of our demon race in his body, and was originally of half-demon origin. It's just that he chose to stay in the human race, which is why he became the Great Elder of the Nine Stars Sect. So I don't worry about this at all. Moreover, even without the fact that Senior Green Dragon is a half-demon, with the current situation where the human and demon races must join forces to resist the enemy, even if the Clan Master and other Body Integration Elders know, they will pretend not to know. However, Sister's answer still makes me extremely regretful, and I can only let go of the matter here." Xiaohong stroked her hair and said coldly.

"Hand it over to someone else!" Hearing this, Ice Phoenix's face turned pale, as if she already knew what the other party meant.

Sure enough, Xiaohong immediately turned around and said respectfully toward a side door on the side of the hall:

"Senior Green Dragon, we have done our best. But it seems Fellow Daoist Ice Phoenix still needs Senior to personally enlighten her."

"Since this little Ice Phoenix is so stubborn, I have no choice but to come out personally. But I was extremely unwilling to use this kind of method." A man's voice drifted out from the side door, and then the side door pushed itself open from the inside out, and a man in brocade robes walked out unhurriedly.

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