Chapter 306

306. Chapter 306: Discussing Devouring the Master

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Protagonist:

Yu Zhangsheng

Tong Yuan Zheng spoke animatedly, and as he kept talking, Zhu Zhengping listened quietly, his brow barely furrowing.

"Speaking of which, it's rather absurd. To deal with a group of Foundation Establishment brats, we sent out three Golden Cores from our covert forces. Even if it was just the weakest Golden Core, we still don't know what methods they had, but somehow they actually managed to turn the tables and kill them."

Tong Yuan Zheng said this, his eyes showing disbelief, without anger, only clicking his tongue in amazement.

"And this matter is also the fuse that led Wanxiang Sect to launch an investigation order against our covert forces; you know this. But what you might not know is that among those in Hui Shui Shan at the time were not only our covert agents, but also your beloved disciple, Yan Ta."

Hearing this, Zhu Zhengping's gaze sank slightly. He frowned and looked at Tong Yuan Zheng with a blank expression, speaking calmly: "When exactly did you rope in my disciple? Don't you think that's overstepping?"

"That's your disciple. Without your disciple, how would we dare to make contact so rashly?" Tong Yuan Zheng waved his hand and chuckled, not agreeing with Zhu Zhengping's words.

"This is your beloved disciple who actively sought us out. Over these years, for your beloved disciple, out of respect for you, we've done quite a few things for him. It's just a pity that his final outcome... I also find it regrettable."

As he said this, Tong Yuan Zheng sighed deeply at the right moment. Whether his tone was genuine or feigned, it revealed a hint of sadness.

Zhu Zhengping watched Tong Yuan Zheng silently, showing no reaction to his performance. After watching him finish his emotional display, he remained noncommittal, his lips twitching slightly: "Why?"

"Why?" Tong Yuan Zheng was stunned, looking at Zhu Zhengping and shaking his head with a smile. "Your disciple has quite the ambition. Still the same thing—moreover, he is your disciple; serving him isn't unacceptable."

Zhu Zhengping fell silent, looking deeply at Tong Yuan Zheng. Tong Yuan Zheng also restored his smiling expression, staring motionlessly at Zhu Zhengping.

"Regardless, he has already fallen. Continue. Who killed him?"

"I'm not clear on this either. During that time, several Wanxiang Sect disciples entered Hui Shui Shan. However, I compared the time of Yan Ta's Soul Lamp shattering..."

Tong Yuan Zheng's tone paused. He slowly exhaled, putting away his smiling expression, his face carrying a hint of solemnity: "Although I'm only guessing, I feel that the killer is very likely an Inner Sect Elder's Disciple of Wanxiang Sect, Yu Zhangsheng."

"Yu Zhangsheng?..."

Zhu Zhengping frowned, murmuring softly. After a while, he looked at Tong Yuan Zheng and continued: "Tell me. What is his situation, and what conflict did he have with Yan Ta?"

"How would I know that?"

Tong Yuan Zheng pouted and smiled lightly: "Of course, I don't have actual evidence for these things. I don't know exactly what happened either."

"What is his cultivation base?" Zhu Zhengping ignored the implication in Tong Yuan Zheng's words and asked in a low voice.

"Between late Foundation Establishment and the peak." Tong Yuan Zheng answered truthfully.

"Foundation Establishment?" Hearing this, Zhu Zhengping was stunned and laughed in surprise, looking at Tong Yuan Zheng with an expression full of meaning, the implication very obvious.

In contrast, Tong Yuan Zheng's response was also simple: "I know what you're thinking. But think about what I said—three Golden Cores of my covert forces were all turned back and killed by the other side. Even if Yan Ta was a Golden Core, how could one guarantee that no accident would happen?"

"That possibility is too small." Zhu Zhengping shook his head, his expression returning to calm. "What you say is also true. This Yu Zhangsheng indeed deserves attention."

"However..."

Zhu Zhengping paused here, his tone stopping. His gaze suddenly turned cold, and he looked sharply at Tong Yuan Zheng. The originally calm aura surged and rose in an instant, and a terrifying pressure pressed towards Tong Yuan Zheng.

"However, these are matters of my Sha Mountain. Tong Yuan Zheng, are you meddling too much? Or do you think that with just these few words, you can provoke me and Wanxiang Sect into opposition?"

"If that's really the case, then you are truly disappointed."

Tong Yuan Zheng curled his lips, shook his head slightly, and hurriedly waved his hand with a smile. A hint of gloom in his eyes vanished in an instant: "I didn't say that. These things, if you want to investigate, it's naturally easy to find out. I have no need to use this to deceive you. I'm simply stating a fact."

Zhu Zhengping remained unmoved. The light in his eyes as he looked at Tong Yuan Zheng flickered. After a long while, he spoke faintly: "I know what you're planning. But over these years, your covert forces have indeed been reaching too far. Especially you; in recent years, your actions have been reckless. This year, I am not at all surprised."

"Nowadays, many forces in Wu Zhou regard you as a thorn in their side. At this time, you want my Xuan Yin Sect to help you—obviously not rational. Moreover, until now, you've only just remembered who the master is? Giving you a bit of a warning is also your own doing."

Zhu Zhengping's voice was clear and cold, with no particular emotion detectable. His fingers lightly tapped on the tea table, his eyes slightly narrowed, watching every move of Tong Yuan Zheng.

Tong Yuan Zheng fell silent. After a moment, he took a deep breath and spoke in a low voice: "Nowadays, my covert forces in Wu Zhou can be said to be attacked from front and back. Over these years, you've disliked my covert forces acting more and more arrogantly, fearing they might cause trouble. But among this, how much have you tacitly approved?"

Tong Yuan Zheng laughed coldly. His figure was like a reef in the sea, remaining unmoved under Zhu Zhengping's pressure, and he continued to speak.

"Speaking of interests, doesn't the greatest benefit ultimately flow into your Xuan Yin Sect? Now that the covert forces have encountered such a change, if you just abandon them, can you bear to?"

Zhu Zhengping frowned, looking at the indifferent Tong Yuan Zheng, and also laughed coldly: "I think you still haven't figured out your position, Tong Yuan Zheng. You are too arrogant, and people who are too arrogant are usually not easy to control."

"The covert forces are merely a tool, a dog, to our Xuan Yin Sect. And a tool does not need to have its own thoughts. As for the covert forces, if they're gone, they're gone. I can completely cultivate a new one. As for you, why can't you be abandoned?"

Tong Yuan Zheng remained silent for a long time, then suddenly chuckled lightly. He looked deeply at Zhu Zhengping: "You're afraid."

"Huh?!"

Zhu Zhengping frowned and stood up instantly. A more vast pressure covered towards Tong Yuan Zheng. In response, Tong Yuan Zheng remained unmoved, instead laughing lightly with a composed tone, speaking more affirmatively:

"You're afraid. Not of others, but of me, right?"

The words had just fallen when Tong Yuan Zheng himself shook his head and laughed first. After looking at Zhu Zhengping again, his figure flickered and slowly merged into the shadows, disappearing. Only a cold voice echoed in the Main Hall.

"Regardless, the covert forces' hunting, Wu Zhou is furious. In such chaos, Zhu Zhengping, such an opportunity is not many..."

Regarding Tong Yuan Zheng's departure, Zhu Zhengping was expressionless and did not stop him. Inside the Main Hall, silence returned once more. After a long while, Zhu Zhengping returned to his senses from contemplation. Looking at the empty Main Hall, he shook his head and smiled: "Afraid of you? Ridiculous."

"However, Ta'er has fallen like this. This matter won't end so easily."

Zhu Zhengping murmured to himself. In his words, a cold light flashed in his eyes. The scholarly elegance on his body dissipated, replaced by a soaring killing intent that erupted wave after wave.

"Over these years, perhaps my Xuan Yin Sect has been silent for too long, to the point that the world has somewhat forgotten. In recent years, many heaven's prides have emerged in the outside world..."

Zhu Zhengping exhaled a breath. His gaze looked through the house towards the other two mountains. He laughed coldly: "Fine. Since your two lineages are silent, then let my Sha lineage take the lead. We cultivators have been silent for too long. How else can we temper our Dao Hearts? If it is to prove the Dao through killing, then being too peaceful—how can we comprehend the true Great Dao?"

Amidst the spreading aura, Zhu Zhengping frowned. A sky-covering divine sense surged out, covering the entire Sha Mountain. The astonishing fluctuation swept through the Void, turning into a thunderclap in broad daylight, booming and echoing throughout Sha Mountain.

"The Sha lineage of Xuan Yin Sect's Sha Mountain today emerges completely. Any disciple of my Sha Mountain lineage who meets the requirements may go out of the mountain for training. Soon, within Tian Sha Cheng, we will widely invite heaven's pride disciples from various sects for a battle, not to lose our sect's prestige, and let the forces of Wu Zhou, big and small, see who exactly is the Dragon Head among the Three Gates and Six Sects!"

In an instant, Sha Mountain trembled. E Shan and Xiong Shan were shocked, all turning their gazes over. While uncertain, they each remained silent.

"How? Are your Xiong Shan lineage and E Shan lineage afraid?"

After speaking, Zhu Zhengping looked towards the direction of the other two mountains and spoke lightly. The disciples of Sha Mountain also all looked over. Between them, they actually faintly condensed into a sky-shaking storm of killing intent, rampaging through the Void.

"What is there to fear?"

Inside Xiong Shan and E Shan, someone lowered their brows and sighed. Facing this pressure, they were helpless. In the end, it all turned into the sound of thunder as a response.

"Xiong Shan, same departure!"

"E Shan, same departure!"

Thus, the Xuan Yin Men trembled, one Long Rainbow after another flew out carrying a heaven-soaring momentum, each bearing an invitation letter, rushing toward the Four Directions, flying toward the various sects of Wu Zhou,

"This is more like it."

Outside the Xuan Yin Men Plain, Tong Yuan Zheng's figure emerged, gazing distantly at the Xuan Yin Men Three Mountains, smiling faintly, finally cupping his fists toward the Sha Shan Suo Zai Zhi Di in a bow, his figure thoroughly dissipating.

At the same time, Zhu Zhengping Si You Suo Gan, his gaze piercing through the Wu Qiong Xu Kong, looking at the Tong Yuan Zheng Suo Zai Zhi Di, within his expression, revealing a touch of deep meaning.

For Tong Yuan Zheng, this result was one he was willing to see; regardless of whether Zhu Zhengping ultimately exerted effort to help his undercurrent, as long as he decided to emerge from seclusion, then the Outside World's attention toward the Xuan Yin Men side would inevitably absorb most of the gazes for him, and the pressure on his side would also lessen somewhat.

Very quickly, news of the Xuan Yin Men three branches emerging into the world, broadly inviting Wu Zhou's outstanding heaven's favorites to Tian Sha Cheng to set up a stage for a battle, swept across the entire Wu Zhou, and even more so with each invitation letter shooting out, it triggered a huge sensation.

Yi Shi, countless large and small powers trembled, discussions abounded, and even more so the high-level figures within the remaining Two Gates and Six Sects each gathered and released divine sense projections, exchanging views within the Wanxiang Sect Sect Hall.

"What does the Xuan Yin Men mean by this, ignoring the undercurrent matter, but instead pulling a stunt like this?"

The one who asked first was the Cang Lei Sect among the Six Sects; his voice was like thunder, resounding through the surroundings while his divine sense also revealed a trace of violent intent.

"The Xuan Yin Men's move has a very simple purpose; the connection between the undercurrent and the Xuan Yin Men, you and I both know clearly in our hearts, no need to say more here."

"And right at this moment, the Xuan Yin Men makes such a high-profile emergence into the world — isn't it just planning to use this to absorb our attention, buying the undercurrent a chance to catch its breath?"

The one who replied to him was also the Chi Huo Sect Master among the Six Sects, speaking blandly.

"I'm afraid it won't be that simple," the Wu Nian Sect Master shook his head, saying in a buzzing voice, "The Xuan Yin Men, everyone knows clearly, its sect disciples are all Si Sha Shi Xue Zhi Sleeve, the techniques they cultivate are nearly demonic."

"That is to say, a thousand years ago, they were Suo Da Ya Yi Ci by the rest of us sects, only then did they Shou Lian Liao Bu Shao, acting low-key; now, such a high-profile proclamation to the world……"

"This is a demonstration of force toward us, especially the content within their invitation letters, I presume everyone has also read it; if this time we ignore them…… not only will it make them lose face, it will also make them think we're afraid, and once they fully emerge in the future, they'll only be even more crazy, devouring without scruples, Chong Xian the scene from a thousand years ago."

The Wu Nian Sect Master finished speaking, then Bu Zai Duo Yan, merely placing his gaze on the remaining sect masters.

The others fell silent, each with flickering light in their eyes, weighing things in their hearts.

"The Wu Nian Sect Master speaks correctly," after a long while, the Ba Huang Sect Master among the Six Sects acknowledged and spoke, continuing, "This time, if we don't respond, it will only grow their prestige and destroy our own morale; the Xuan Yin Men has always been tyrannical."

"This time setting up a bureau in Tian Sha Cheng, ostensibly to temper the heaven's favorites of each sect, to see the vigor of the new generation; plainly put, isn't it just wanting to use this to knock us down, to determine who exactly is the master of this Wu Zhou, the number one among the Three Gates?"

The Ba Huang Sect Master finished speaking, sneered once, his gaze sweeping over the remaining people, finally falling on the people of the Zi Hong Men and the Qixing Men.

Among the Three Gates, besides the Xuan Yin Men, the remaining two gates are also the Zi Hong Men and the Qixing Men; and at this moment the divine senses that arrived, only these two gates' arrivals, their divine sense projections were the most vast, revealing the might of the Zi Fu.

Therefore, the remaining Six Sects naturally took their opinions as primary, their expressions also involuntarily revealing a trace of respect.

And the Qixing Men's arriving divine sense projection was a white-haired, gray-haired old man, wearing a long robe, complexion ruddy, worthy of being called Tong Yan He Fa, eyebrows like great dragons undulating, possessing a unique charm, a pair of eyes, as if stars were being born and destroyed, within the profundity seemingly containing the ultimate principles of Tian Di, making one sink and float within.

And including the Zi Hong Men, everyone looking into this old man's eyes, all from the heart revealed a respectful color; no other reason, this person is not merely the Qixing Men Grand Elder, cultivation base Zi Fu, but also Mastery of divination and fate techniques, the current Qixing Men's Qixing Laoren, renowned throughout the entire Wu Zhou.

Relying on a lifetime of superb, spirit-penetrating astrology techniques, he is revered within Wu Zhou; and the various sect masters present, to varying degrees, have all received his grace.

After all, fate techniques are inherently profound and obscure; in the cultivation world, they are even more of infinite wonderful use. (Chapter End)