Chapter 508: Arrival at the Outer Sea Again

Seeing Han Li walk over, the burly man in brocade clothes and the others hesitated for a moment before walking over one after another.

Seeing all seven of them honestly step into the array, the cultivator surnamed Gan revealed a trace of a smile on his face, pinched a magic seal, and dots of white light appeared on his fingers.

"We two are letting you few Fellow Daoists go to the Outer Star Sea privately; you won't go around blabbering about it outside, will you?" He stared at the white light on his fingers and suddenly asked indifferently.

"Of course not. We are grateful that you Seniors could be so accommodating; how could we do such a petty thing? Besides, as we said, what could we really do to you two Seniors anyway?" The burly man in brocade clothes was quite clever and immediately swore with an expression of sincerity.

"Very good, it is good that you understand this point. We two are also people with some status in the Star Palace; even if those above knew, they would at most reprimand us. However, if any rumors spread from outside, Fellow Daoist Gu and I are not soft-hearted people. Also, I heard that you were afraid we would suddenly turn hostile, so you all carry sensing beads on you; that is quite thorough consideration. However, it is a bit superfluous. We two are not yet at the point of ruining our own reputations for a few spirit stones." He stared at the burly man in brocade clothes, his face carrying a chill. At the same time, his gaze swept over the others, but for some reason, he skipped Han Li.

"Senior is truly a reasonable person; this junior was measuring a gentleman's heart with a petty man's yardstick." The burly man in brocade clothes smiled reluctantly, cold sweat faintly breaking out on his back.

"Hmph! No need for empty words. Take care of yourselves!" The cultivator surnamed Gan seemed not to want to say more, flicked his finger, and that faintly appearing white magic seal struck the teleportation array.

Immediately, the spirit stones around the array shone with brilliant white light, and then the seven people in the array vanished within the light.

"What is going on? Didn't we agree to give them fake teleportation talismans? Why did you take out real ones? This is not quite the same as what we discussed at the beginning?" Seeing Han Li and the others teleport away just like that, the bald burly man suddenly changed his expression and asked in surprise.

"If we could really take out fake talismans, do you think I would have shown mercy? That guy who gifted us the Magic Treasure is fundamentally an old Nascent Soul stage monster. If we had taken out fake talismans, we would have been immediately destroyed by him in his rage." The cultivator surnamed Gan snorted coldly, spoke with a bad expression, and pulled out a silk handkerchief to wipe the cold sweat that had only just appeared on his forehead.

"Nascent Soul stage? Brother Gan, you aren't joking, are you? That person was clearly only at the Foundation Establishment late-stage." The bald old man was stunned at first, then his face changed drastically.

The thin man who had stayed behind and not left, upon hearing this, was even more bewildered.

"Brother Gu should know about the 'Yannao' spirit beast I raise. It has no other skills, but it is extremely sensitive when it comes to sensing other people's spiritual sense." The cultivator surnamed Gan flipped his palm, and a spirit beast resembling a small cat appeared on his wrist.

This spirit beast had long, thin ears like a rabbit's, and once it appeared, it flashed its emerald-green eyes, looking around constantly, appearing very cute.

"The other party's aura and spiritual sense were indeed concealed very secretly at first. Even the Yannao didn't discover any abnormalities. But after I removed the teleportation array's restrictions, the other party secretly checked the array with their spiritual sense, and it was only then that it discovered something was amiss. This Yannao beast of mine can detect the spiritual sense of even Core Formation mid-stage cultivators, and it can have a rough reaction to late-stage cultivators. But this time, besides shivering constantly in my sleeve, it had no specific response at all. It only told me that the other party's spiritual sense was unfathomable. I have only seen this situation when I took it to see several Elders." The cultivator surnamed Gan said while gently stroking the Yannao beast in his hand, a trace of lingering fear in his voice.

"In that case, the other party really was a Nascent Soul stage cultivator." The bald old man also began to break out in a cold sweat!

"Even if not, they are at the Core Formation late-stage cultivation base. Destroying you and me would not take much effort either." The cultivator surnamed Gan said very affirmatively.

"This is thanks to Brother Gan's cleverness! If we had taken out fake talismans, we would truly have been seeking our own deaths. I said this person gifted us one Magic Treasure each so easily without a hint of pain; it turns out he is one of those old monsters. However, teleporting the other party to the Outer Sea, will it cause any big trouble?" The old man remembered something and asked with a palpitating heart.

"What big trouble could there be? The other party should be a Nascent Soul cultivator among the rogue cultivators; he probably didn't want to get involved in the great war between our Star Palace and the Anti-Star Alliance, so he borrowed the path to go to the Outer Star Sea. There won't be any issues! Of course, the matter of a Nascent Soul cultivator teleporting to the Outer Sea from our hands must never be known by those above. Otherwise, we will definitely be severely punished."

The cultivator surnamed Gan comforted the old man with two sentences, but when he spoke the latter words, his refined face suddenly darkened. Then, he stared with malicious intent at the thin man who was still listening in a daze nearby.

Being stared at by the grim gaze of the middle-aged man surnamed Gan, the thin man shuddered instinctively and suddenly realized something.

He hurriedly retreated a few steps and said in panic:

"I didn't hear anything of what the two Seniors just said, and I certainly won't go around blabbering, I..."

Before the thin man could finish his words, a streak of yellow light flew in silently from behind, circled around him eerily, and in an instant, his entire body was sliced into several pieces.

"Such matters, naturally, cannot be known by one more person. I originally intended to let you off for the sake of the slight connection between you and me! It's a pity your luck is truly not very good!" The bald old man summoned his Magic Treasure back with a wave of his hand toward the yellow light and said gloomily.

Then, a fireball shot out from his hand, and the corpse immediately turned to ashes in the firelight.

Seeing this, the cultivator surnamed Gan nodded with satisfaction, revealing a look of relief.

At the other end of the teleportation array, Han Li and the other six appeared in a dilapidated stone room amidst a flash of white light.

Han Li swept his gaze slightly and saw a somewhat frail-looking Star Palace cultivator in the corner of the stone room, talking to a gray-robed cultivator with a face full of scars.

Upon seeing Han Li and the seven appear, this Star Palace cultivator couldn't help but frown and size them up a few times, but then he turned his head back to continue talking to the scarred man without the slightest interest.

"I have already said, there is a regulation from above; the teleportation array can now only teleport one-way, out but not in. The teleportation talismans on me have also been collected by people sent from above, and even I cannot go back. It is useless for you to force me, Fellow Daoist." The cultivator guarding the teleportation array said to the scarred man without a good tone.

"Nonsense, didn't someone just go back a few days ago? Why did it become one-way as soon as I arrived?" The scarred man also shouted with extreme annoyance.

"Hmph! Anyway, I have explained it; whether you listen or not is up to you. I have no obligation to say anything more." The Star Palace cultivator glared at the other party, then sat cross-legged and closed his eyes to rest without paying any more attention.

"You..." Seeing that the other party would no longer pay attention to him, the gray-robed man's face turned blood-red, but he had no way to deal with it.

He naturally did not have the guts to make a move against the other party, and for a moment, he was like an ant on a hot pan, spinning around in circles on the spot.

However, his gaze immediately fell upon Han Li and the others who were just walking out of the array, and suddenly his face turned happy.

"I wonder if you Fellow Daoists just came from the Star City?" He walked up a few steps, cupped his fists toward the burly man in brocade clothes who was clearly the leader, and asked politely.

"That's right, we just came over. Do you have business, Fellow Daoist?" The burly man in brocade clothes looked at the scarred man who was also at the Foundation Establishment late-stage and dared not be overly negligent, but he faintly guessed what the other party wanted to say.

"I am Xu Yun, and I have been in the Outer Star Sea for several years. May I ask, has an Anti-Star Alliance really emerged in the Inner Sea, and is a war about to begin?" He asked full of hope.

Seeing the other party's expression, how could the burly man in brocade clothes not know what the other party most wanted to hear? But the actual situation could only make the other party even more disappointed!

Therefore, he spoke without the slightest concealment:

"It is true that the righteous and demonic paths have formed the Anti-Star Alliance. And the great war over there is about to begin. We few are precisely because we didn't want to get involved in it that we teleported over. I am afraid Fellow Daoist Xu cannot go back for the time being."

"How could it be like this! I finally saved up enough materials and was just about to go back to refine pills for my son to take. Won't this delay everything?" Upon hearing this, the gray-robed man froze on the spot, and then his scarred face was full of disappointment.

These people were speechless upon hearing this.

They had racked their brains wanting to get to the Outer Sea, and now this person was racking his brains wanting to go back; it was truly helpless!

"I am Yi Jing, and these few are all my close friends. Since Fellow Daoist Xu has lived here for several years, could you introduce the situation of Qiyuan Island? We won't let you work for nothing, Fellow Daoist; we are willing to pay some spirit stones as compensation." After a moment, the burly man in brocade clothes rolled his eyes and suddenly said to the gray-robed man with extreme enthusiasm.

"Forget about the compensation. Since you answered my question just now, let this be the return. If you have any questions, Fellow Daoist, feel free to ask. Xu will tell you everything he knows." Although the scarred man still had a dejected expression, he pulled himself together and said.

Immediately, the burly man in brocade clothes and those behind him all revealed expressions of joy.

Arriving at such an unfamiliar place, being able to have someone explain the situation here was naturally greatly beneficial to them.

Seeing this scene, Han Li smiled slightly, stood behind the others with his arms crossed, and also wanted to hear what the other party had to say.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 509 =====