Chapter 949: Nine Nether Sect

Not long after the Yin Luo Sect cultivators left, figures flickered in a nearby building, and two more cultivators walked out. Net

The two glanced at the empty entrance, whispered a few words of transmission with gloomy expressions, and then followed them out.

Once out of the marketplace, the two split up. One of them lightly waved a small banner, and their figure immediately vanished into thin air, wrapped in a mass of purple Qi, and then chased after the direction Ge Ge Tianhao and the others had left.

The other went their separate ways, transformed into an escape light, and flew straight toward the Imperial City.

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At this moment, on an unnamed desolate mountain near Jin Capital, the old man surnamed Fu said to Han Li with an intriguing expression:

"We've already teleported here; don't you want to ask something, Fellow Daoist?"

"Why make such a fuss? I am indeed a bit puzzled as to why you insisted on using a teleportation array to leave the marketplace, Brother Fu. But I suppose you have your own reasons," Han Li had already scanned the surroundings the moment he teleported out. There was nothing unusual nearby, so he replied calmly.

Han Li's cautious action did not escape the old man surnamed Fu's eyes. But not only was he not angry, he was very satisfied inwardly.

"Actually, it's nothing. I received news in advance that there were Yin Luo Sect cultivators looking for someone at the marketplace exit. I estimated that Fellow Daoist Han definitely wouldn't want to see these people, so I borrowed this teleportation array to avoid them. You don't think I made a fuss, do you, Fellow Daoist!" the old man surnamed Fu's eyes flickered as he said with a smile.

"Yin Luo Sect? What do you mean by saying this, Fellow Daoist?" Han Li felt a chill in his heart, but he asked back with an unchanged expression.

"You don't need to worry, Fellow Daoist. If I really wanted to be unfavorable to you, I would have arranged some backup nearby long ago. Brother Han is probably the cultivator who had a conflict with Ge Ge Tianhao in front of the Treasure Light Hall that day, right?" the old man surnamed Fu smiled mysteriously and said slowly.

"I didn't expect Brother Fu to know even this. But why would you help me? Don't tell me you would risk offending a major demonic sect like the Yin Luo Sect just because of our agreement that day. I don't quite believe it," Han Li was silent for a while before admitting it indifferently.

"What is the Yin Luo Sect? It seems Brother Han doesn't know my background. I am a Law Enforcement Elder of the Nine Nether Sect. Our sect originally had some grudges with the Yin Luo Sect, and being able to make Ge Ge Tianhao suffer is exactly what I've been hoping for. Of course, my main reason for helping you, Fellow Daoist, is that I have a favor to ask," the old man surnamed Fu said frankly, not caring at all.

"Nine Nether Sect? My apologies, I have long heard of your sect's great name. However, with your sect's strength, what help do you need from me?" Han Li was shocked inwardly upon hearing that the other party was also an elder of the Ten Demonic Sects, and his vigilance rose.

"This is a private matter, and it's not convenient for me to borrow people from within the sect. However, this matter is not urgent. Let's wait until we participate in the exchange, and then I will discuss it with you in detail, Brother Han. You may rest assured, Fellow Daoist; this matter also has some benefits for you. If you feel it's inappropriate, I won't force you," the old man surnamed Fu said with a smile.

"Since that's the case, I will accept this favor first," Han Li pondered for a moment before smiling.

He had already offended one Yin Luo Sect, so naturally, he didn't want to offend another major demonic sect. He would just deal with the other party's request hypocritically for now.

"I knew Brother Han was a straightforward person. Let's go; the exchange location is not far from here," the old man surnamed Fu's face flashed with joy, seemingly very satisfied with Han Li's reaction. The two then transformed into two streaks of light and flew toward the distance.

After galloping for a while, in a pitch-black desolate mountain range three thousand li away from Jin Capital, the old man suddenly descended with Han Li, circled, and stopped in front of a seemingly ordinary stone wall.

The stone wall was slightly green, mostly covered with silt and moss, and really had nothing special about it.

Han Li didn't even look at the stone wall, but narrowed his eyes and swept his gaze around, only then discovering that this place was a wild mountain gully between two mountain peaks, filled with wild grass and shrubs. If the old man surnamed Fu hadn't brought him here personally, he would never have discovered that cultivators were active here.

The old man surnamed Fu was clearly no stranger to this place.

He shook his sleeve, and a palm-sized round disk flew out, white light flickering on it, and it went straight into the stone wall and vanished.

A moment later, yellow light flickered on the stone wall, and before Han Li's eyes, the stone wall vanished into thin air, revealing a massive cave entrance over ten zhang wide.

And in front of the cave entrance, two middle-aged cultivators in green shirts were standing straight there.

Both were at the late Core Formation stage, and one of them was holding the old man surnamed Fu's disk.

"So it's Elder Fu who has arrived. This Fellow Daoist's face is a bit unfamiliar; may I ask for your honorable name?" The cultivator holding the round disk first bowed to the two, and after sweeping his gaze over Han Li, asked neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"This is Fellow Daoist Han from overseas. I am his introducer; what is there to check? Give him an identity disk; the two of us are in a hurry to participate in the exchange," the old man surnamed Fu glared and said impolitely.

"Hehe, since Elder Fu is the introducer, naturally there is no problem. This is a Nascent Soul identity disk. Not only can you participate in this exchange with this item, Fellow Daoist, but the next three underground exchanges will also be free. Of course, if you violate the rules of the exchange, this disk will be confiscated or destroyed. And according to the rules, you need to pay ten thousand spirit stones to own this disk," the green-robed cultivator returned the disk to the old man surnamed Fu respectfully, and then took out a similar disk and explained to Han Li.

"Here, these are the spirit stones." Hearing such a large amount of spirit stones, Han Li felt a bit of a heartache, but on the surface, he paid it very readily. A bag filled with ten thousand spirit stones was tossed over directly.

"This is the disk, Senior, please keep it safe."

The green-robed cultivator on the opposite side checked the number of spirit stones in the bag and handed the disk engraved with three hundred and forty-seven characters to Han Li with both hands, full of smiles.

Han Li glanced at it, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked suspiciously:

"Three hundred and forty-seven? Are there so many people participating in this exchange?"

"Of course not. Senior Han, you don't know, but a portion of the seniors won't come to participate in this exchange due to various reasons. According to past experience, there are only about two hundred people participating," the other green-robed cultivator explained.

"Oh, that's quite a lot of people," Han Li nodded, somewhat enlightened.

"Alright. It's about time; the two of us will go participate in the exchange first. If there's a chance, give my regards to your master," the old man surnamed Fu saw that Han Li had the disk and said this before taking the lead and walking toward the depths of the passage.

"These two have significant cultivation; judging by your tone, Fellow Daoist, they have the same master. May I ask which Fellow Daoist it is?" Han Li followed behind and asked casually.

"Their master is extraordinary. Do you know the Four Great Rogue Cultivators of Great Jin?" the old man surnamed Fu laughed and asked back.

"Hmm, naturally I've heard of them. Could it be one of them?" Han Li became curious.

"Not bad, their master is the most mysterious Yi Xitian among the Four Great Rogue Cultivators, who has already advanced to the late Nascent Soul stage for many years. I had the fortune to meet this person once. At that time, I witnessed this person display heaven-defying divine abilities and easily behead an eighth-level demon beast; his cultivation is truly unfathomable. It is said that this person is one of the two people most likely to advance to the Spirit Transformation stage in Great Jin in the past thousand years. The organizers of this exchange letting these two guard the entrance probably also has the intention of borrowing their master's reputation," the old man surnamed Fu explained to Han Li while sighing with admiration, greatly envying this Yi Xitian.

"I see Brother Fu's cultivation is profound; once you break through the bottleneck, the late Nascent Soul stage is also just around the corner. What is there to envy? By the way, who is the other person who might advance to Spirit Transformation?" Han Li's heart stirred, and he began to inquire.

"The other person is Zen Master Biyue of the Pure Fire Sect of the Buddhist Sect. This person only spent four hundred years to advance to the late Nascent Soul stage and is also a genius recognized by the cultivation world as appearing only once in ten thousand years. As for me, I consider myself to have extraordinary aptitude, but that's compared to ordinary cultivators; I can't compare with those two at all. And I have been trapped at this stage for two or three hundred years and have long since given up the idea of advancing again. But you, Fellow Daoist, seem to have just broken through the mid-stage not long ago; perhaps you might easily break through the bottleneck?" the old man surnamed Fu said with a bitter smile.

"Brother Fu is really joking. How can there be such a good thing in the world," Han Li laughed dryly and brushed it off, naturally not taking the other party's words seriously.

At this moment, under the old man surnamed Fu's lead, Han Li had already seen white light flickering ahead, and a vague hall entrance appeared in front. The bustling sound came out, and his spirit lifted.

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Elsewhere, in the sky a hundred li away from the underground exchange, Ge Ge Tianhao had a ferocious expression, black Qi rolling all over his body, and he was grabbing the head of an unfamiliar cultivator with one hand, extracting the memories from the other party's spiritual sense using a soul-searching secret technique, and was currently at a critical point in the spell.

This cultivator's face was twisted, his eyes rolling back, and his body trembling non-stop, as if in extreme pain.

Lin Lin Yinping and another black-shirted cultivator in his fifties on the side watched all this with expressionless faces.

A moment later, the soul-searched cultivator suddenly shook violently, black blood flowed from his ears and nose, and he fell into a complete coma.

Ge Ge Tianhao frowned, and suddenly black, gloomy flames erupted from his five fingers, instantly turning the person in his hand into ashes. Then he closed his eyes lightly and digested what he had searched for bit by bit.

"How is it? Did you find out this person's identity? Why was he sneaking behind us?" Lin Lin Yinping asked with her cherry lips slightly parted as soon as Ge Ge Tianhao opened his eyes again.

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