Chapter 2: Has the Hehuan Sect Become a Righteous Xian Sect?

Zhang Yunlu, a senior-year student at Xuan Jian No. 3 Middle School, was influenced by her late parents and therefore liked researching the history of the ancient Cultivation World.

She had even represented her school in competitions in this field.

With a cultivation of Qi Refining Layer Eight, she could be considered a minor prodigy, so she had quite a reputation at school.

It was a rare Friday, and she planned to relax for a while, even though she had make-up classes tomorrow.

She walked into a beverage shop outside the school.

"One Dragon Scale Fruit juice, less sugar, less ice."

Dragon Scale Fruit — the name sounds quite fancy, but it's actually just an ordinary fruit.

Apart from tasting a little better, it has not the slightest trace of spiritual energy.

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【According to statistics, the Hehuan Sect has ranked first in enrollment for six consecutive sessions. Does this signify a shift in the cultivation trends of the Cultivation Realm?】

【The third phase of the City Protection Grand Array maintenance is complete. The mayor stated: "We will do our utmost to ensure the personal safety of all citizens."】

While waiting, the Xuan Guang Mirror hanging above broadcast a few news items and advertisements. Just as she took the juice and had found a seat to sit down—

The communicator in her pocket began to buzz.

She took it out and looked.

Big Brother.

She walked to the table, sat down, stuck in a straw, took a sip, and only then answered the call unhurriedly.

"Hello, Big Brother."

Because her parents had perished exploring a Secret Realm, this Big Brother of hers, nearly thirty years her senior, was her true guardian.

"Xiao Lu, are you still at school?"

"I just got out of school. What's wrong?"

Zhang Yunlu bit down on the straw, her voice a little muffled.

"Head back to the school right now and don't come out. A great cultivator above the Return to Void realm has emerged from closed-door cultivation nearby, and we can't yet confirm whether he's a demonic cultivator."

Return to Void realm... a great cultivator?!

His serious tone made her heart clench.

A great cultivator emerging from closed-door cultivation is no joking matter.

Three years ago, the Return to Void realm demonic cultivator 'Cang Jiezi' emerged from closed-door cultivation into the world.

With a single demonic array, he directly slaughtered half the population of the neighboring Heng Jian City to sacrifice to his sword and refine his art. Although he was ultimately slain by the righteous great cultivators who arrived, the dead were truly dead.

Those ancient demonic great cultivators would not abide by the rules of the new era.

Knowing the severity of the situation, she no longer cared about the juice she'd only just sipped. After hanging up the communicator, she got up and ran outside. However, just as she reached the outside—

Buzz~ A surge of spiritual tide, the spiritual energy churning mightily.

Zhang Yunlu froze, looked up into the sky, and saw streak after streak of crimson array patterns light up, enveloping the entire city.

The City Protection Grand Array had been activated!

Big Brother was right! "Attention!"

"A great cultivator above the Return to Void realm who has not experienced the Great Transformation Period has emerged from closed-door cultivation. It is not yet confirmed whether he is a demonic cultivator."

"To ensure the safety of every citizen's life, please immediately proceed to the nearest school or Xian Sect station. Do not leave the range of the City Protection Grand Array!"

"The Ancient Cultivator Response Department has dispatched Return to Void realm cultivator True Person Xiao Ning, along with twelve Soul Transformation cultivators and seventy-two Nascent Soul cultivators."

A familiar voice, amplified citywide by a magical artifact produced by Ling Yin Fang.

It was the principal of Xuan Jian No. 3 Middle School!

The highest-cultivation person in Xuan Jian City.

In an instant, everyone understood what was happening.

Some residents who had moved over from Heng Jian City were especially unable to suppress their panic. As people who had lived through that incident, they understood better than anyone else how cruel the methods of demonic great cultivators were.

Zhang Yunlu ran desperately toward the school, her figure trailing afterimages.

In the sky, beneath the grand array, dense streaks of spiritual light tore across the heavens.

Among them was the owner of the beverage shop from earlier — he hadn't even had time to close the shop door. An ice-blue longsword beneath his feet, he instantly overtook her.

Besides him, there was an aunty still holding a kitchen knife and wearing an apron, one carrying a broom, a sanitation worker in an orange-yellow uniform, and even someone flying a sword while putting on clothes — no telling what he'd been doing moments ago. Foundation Establishment, Jin Dan, even Nascent Soul cultivators — everyone rushed swiftly toward the school and the civilian stations of the various major sects.

Just as Zhang Yunlu was about to reach the school, she saw someone standing in the middle of the road, looking up at the sky.

Without thinking much, she shouted directly: "Hey! Get back to the school!"

That person turned around. He looked very young, appearing only a few years older than her.

"Okay."

He nodded and immediately followed her.

At the school gate, the crowd surged — all of them Qi Refining stage students.

Zhang Yunlu squeezed through the flow of people and successfully entered the school, finally letting out a sigh of relief.

"Phew~"

The teachers' cultivations were all quite high. The three vice-principals were Soul Transformation cultivators, and the principal was only one step away from achieving Return to Void realm.

With the might of the City Protection Grand Array, even if a Return to Void realm old demon truly came attacking, it could hold for a moment.

Oh right, there was also that person who had followed her in just now.

"I'm a student here. If you're not familiar with the place, I can..."

She turned her head.

Huh? Where's the person?

………

Beneath a teaching building at Xuanjian City No. 3 Middle School, Xu Xing walked along, stopping every so often, and occasionally glancing up at the sky.

Not a single person noticed him; even if a gaze swept past, it would pass right over him, as if he were completely invisible.

"The commotion caused by coming out of seclusion this time really isn't small."

The moment he heard the broadcast outside, he understood that the reason they had put on such a grand display here was entirely because of his emergence from seclusion.

As for the details, he had pieced together most of it from the fragments of conversation he had overheard.

Speaking of which, how did this world become so… modernized?

A sports field, teaching buildings, students in uniform school attire, and teachers in crisp Western suits.

Heh, at a glance it's obvious some leader is here for an inspection.

Everything that was both familiar and strange seemed to overlap with distant memories; if it were only one thing, fine, but so many familiar traces made Xu Xing couldn't help but suspect this was the handiwork of some fellow transmigrator.

After all, there were precedents, so having a few more seemed reasonable too.

In any case, he'd better head to the library first and take a look.

Crossing the sports field, with his divine sense spread out, he had already located the library.

At the library entrance, a wizened old man with a hunched frame, a face full of wrinkles, and only a few strands of hair left was lying on a reclining chair, looking perfectly content, completely unperturbed by the commotion outside.

Beneath that withered body was a blood qi as blazing as a great sun; if released in full, its range would be enough to cover all of Xuanjian City, and even a Golden Core Realm cultivator would be burned to death on the spot.

What a pity.

Xu Xing swept a glance at him and paid him no further attention, heading straight inside.

There weren't many people inside; the first floor was row upon row of bookshelves filled with all sorts of miscellaneous books, open to any student here.

The second floor was different—permission was required to enter; inside, several thousand jade slips were neatly arranged, all recording basic dharma decisions and Qi-training spells.

The third floor held Foundation Establishment level dharma decisions and secret arts, several hundred of them.

The fourth floor had only a few dozen jade slips, those being cultivation methods and divine abilities involving the Golden Core Stage.

As for the fifth floor, the final floor, inside were only seven jade slips shimmering with flowing light, surrounded by the Dao, recording the divine abilities of the Qidaxian Sect—non-Nascent Soul cultivators must not practice them!

Seeing this, Xu Xing finally showed a hint of surprise.

Setting aside the fact that these non-transmitted divine abilities had appeared in a school library—

"Qidaxian Sect?"

Since time immemorial, there had only ever been the Liudaxian Sect—when did a seventh suddenly appear? Apart from the divine abilities of the Liudaxian Sect, the additional one was called the *Dual Union Yin-Yang Qi-Gathering Wondrous Art*! It was a divine ability of the Dual Union Sect.

"……"

The Dual Union Sect has become a Zhengdaoxian Sect?!! (End of Chapter)