Chapter 102: They Actually Colluded with Foreign Enemies!

Su Ping hid inside the Pot Heaven at the same time.

He did not forget to send out the mice to investigate the scene and gather information.

At the same time, to prevent these mice from being wiped out by the shockwaves before they could report back.

Inside the cave, Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui were receiving information in real-time, using both paws to hold pencils and sketch records on snow-white paper while multitasking.

Yunshan Market.

The brutal war continued.

As the energy of the defensive talismans, Dharma Artifacts, and Arrays was nearing exhaustion.

The casualties on both sides were rising slowly but steadily.

Fighting until now, one side, the Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Punish Evil Alliance, had already begun to harbor thoughts of retreat.

The Punish Evil Alliance side had originally occupied the geographical advantage; controlling Yunshan Market, their initial plan was to ambush the Supreme Elder of the Song Family who was coming to the market.

Thereby obtaining ironclad proof that the other party was colluding with foreign enemies and practicing Magic Art!

Yet they had not expected this Song Family to be so bold!

The moment they were ambushed, they decisively activated a sleeper agent and destroyed the great Array of Yunshan Market!

And then, the family brought out all their hidden resources, which were surprisingly not inferior to the official strength of the Immortal Sect in this territory!

Even though the Punish Evil Alliance had urgently mobilized a Patrol Squad to rush over, they still could not take down the opposition.

On the contrary, because the Array had been destroyed by an insider, Yunshan Market had caused a riot... it was almost considered destroyed!

They had already completely lost this time!

Just as these Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Punish Evil Alliance had thoughts of retreating and wanted to negotiate with the other side to withdraw from the battlefield.

On the distant horizon, more than a dozen giant Immortal Boats suddenly appeared, which looked incredibly oppressive just by their sheer size!

If the Immortal Boats fighting above Yunshan Market were just ordinary 500-ton merchant ships or 1,000-ton ferry-level Immortal Boats.

Then those arriving now were 5,000 to 6,000-ton, or even 10,000-ton battleship-model Immortal Boats!

"Your Song Family actually colluded with foreign enemies!"

On the deck of an Immortal Boat, a Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Punish Evil Alliance widened his eyes, staring at the incoming enemy in the distance, and exclaimed in shock.

The other cultivators also had their expressions change drastically one by one.

None of them had expected this.

The Song Family they were planning to deal with really did have collusion with foreign enemies!

And at this very moment, they had actually brought the foreign enemies here!

They! Where did they get the guts!

This was a disaster that would truly lead to the extermination of their clan!

The Supreme Elder of the Song Family gave a cold snort, rose into the air, and shouted:

"Kill!"

Immediately, the morale of the Song Family side soared, and they gained the upper hand.

On the other side, the troops were defeated like a collapsing mountain, and Immortal Boats constantly abandoned their formations and chose to flee...

However, a few minutes later.

There were no more hostile Immortal Boats in Yunshan Market.

As for those arsonist Robber Cultivators, most of them also knew better and scattered after the foreign Immortal Boats appeared in the distance.

Leaving behind only broken walls and ruins.

The Supreme Elder of the Song Family flew to a giant Flying Boat and presented them with the map and Array layout of the nearby Outer Sect mountain gate.

The Foundation Establishment Elder sent by the other party also presented the agreed-upon items and immediately detached a giant warship to give to the Song Family.

"This time, I've truly boarded a pirate ship and there's no escaping."

The Supreme Elder of the Song Family succeeded in the transaction, but there was not a hint of joy on his face.

If it weren't for that bunch of idiots from the Punish Evil Alliance forcing his hand, how would he have resorted to such a desperate measure?

What collusion with foreign enemies?

It was clearly just a major power forcing the foreign enemies to collude with him.

Thinking of this, the Supreme Elder looked at the Immortal Boat Fleet heading off to attack the mountain gate, a sneer appearing at the corner of his mouth.

This sect came from Nanhuang; speaking of which, it was also a major Golden Core sect of Nanhuang.

Named the Artifact Heart Sect, it was a sect with heritage and quite a reputation in the way of artifact refining.

Relying on taking orders to help surrounding sects build Immortal Boats, their life was quite comfortable.

For a sect like this, without a major power pushing from behind and using both coercion and bribery, where would they get the guts to provoke the Chiyuan Immortal Sect?

This Artifact Heart Sect and his own clan were nothing more than pawns pushed out together to disgust and test the Chiyuan Immortal Sect.

This was also because the previous actions of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect were too sudden; all the Elders and True Disciples had returned to the Main Mountain.

It left the surrounding major powers with no choice but to overthink.

Plus, the Immortal Sect had handled so many things poorly during this period.

It was no wonder that some people could not help but want to see how much heritage the Chiyuan Immortal Sect still had left, and whether it was worthy of so many high-grade Spirit Veins and precious resource production areas.

"Sigh, Chiyuan Xianren, Old Ancestor, what has happened to you? Why did you let the Immortal Sect territory become like this?"

Although he had to betray the Immortal Sect for the sake of his family.

When this Song Family Supreme Elder was young, it was exactly the period when the Chiyuan Immortal Sect was at its strongest, and he still revered and missed that era immensely.

Pot Heaven.

Su Ping obtained a stack of letters from the Storage Bag of the Inner Sect Disciple.

With a sweep of his Divine Sense, he conveniently learned the contents of these letters.

"The Punish Evil Alliance is going to impose martial law on Yunshan Market today?"

"In other words, they knew in advance that something would happen today?"

"Is this a case of the incident backfiring on them?"

"Besides... I also sort of know why the harmless-looking Exorcist Mage Yunkong was targeted."

"It turns out it's because there is a Foundation Establishment martial uncle in the Punish Evil Alliance who wants a Body Cultivator genius to refine into a puppet!"

"And then there's my behavior of exchanging for Medium Pills and waste pills, which made these people mistakenly believe... well, it's not exactly a mistake, I really am a low-level Cultivator with no connections."

Having figured out the cause and effect, Su Ping breathed a sigh of relief.

It was good that it wasn't because Exorcist Mage Yunkong was involved in some ancient secret.

If it was just a Foundation Establishment puppet master, he could still escape even if he couldn't win.

And since it was only one Foundation Establishment cultivator, as long as he didn't continue to manifest as Exorcist Mage Yunkong, Su Ping didn't believe he could find him through his disguise!

Furthermore, although he hadn't been able to exchange for pills from the mountain gate.

There were quite a few Medium Pills that increased Dharma Power in the Storage Bags of those Punish Evil Alliance Cultivators.

Presumably, those were for the Outer Sect Disciples to take to speed up their cultivation in hopes of having a chance to break through to the Qi Refining Late Stage.

Su Ping wasn't afraid of them being poisonous, and he could make do with them for a while.

It was just that he probably wouldn't be able to go to the mountain gate near Yunshan Market for a while.

And not long after Su Ping returned to Jinque City in the Cultivation World from the Pot Heaven.

He learned a shocking piece of news.

The Song Family, the largest cultivation family in Yunshan Market, had colluded with the Artifact Heart Sect and turned Yunshan Market into scorched earth overnight.

Afterward, these invaders forcibly conscripted the Cultivators of the market and began to besiege the mountain gate where the Outer Sect was located!

This matter did not seem to have been covered up; it spread to everyone in the cultivation circle overnight through various propaganda channels.

Many Cultivators were waiting for the thunderous action of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect.

It wouldn't take much; as long as they sent one Elder carrying a Spirit Treasure, they could easily suppress this rebellious act!

However, a day passed.

Two days, three days passed.

The Outer Sect mountain gate had already sent out distress signals several times!

Except for a few extremely fast Immortal Boats that appeared nearby to scout for information.

The Chiyuan Immortal Sect actually had no further reaction!

Let alone the Elders, not even a single True Disciple had appeared!

And so!

The rumor that Chiyuan Xianren had major problems and the Elders were busy fighting over the inheritance suddenly became increasingly credible.

Although anyone with a little common sense would realize it wasn't that simple if they looked into it, what else could they openly believe in besides that?

"The Chiyuan Immortal Sect is probably not just simply lacking top-tier combat power!"

After Su Ping finished processing the information, he silently thought about the distance between his location and the Main Mountain of the Immortal Sect while fishing.

Then Su Ping discovered that the Main Mountain of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect was Chiyuan Mountain in the very center of the Central Region, which possessed the only remaining Grade 4 Superior Spirit Vein in the entire Cultivation World on the surface!

This Spirit Vein was restrained and fixed on Chiyuan Mountain by a grand formation, making the Spirit Qi concentration of the Cave Abode on the summit rumored to reach Grade 5 Lower.

It therefore satisfied the cultivation needs of Chiyuan Xianren.

And the straight-line distance from this location to Jinque City... seemed to be over ten thousand kilometers?

"So far away, even if a great catastrophe occurred, it shouldn't affect this place immediately, right?"

After Su Ping calculated the distance clearly, he felt a little more settled in his heart.

Then, after he completed his new week of fishing, bringing his Fishing Experience to:

【Current Fishing Level: Level 4 (1750/2000)】

Su Ping learned a new piece of news from a crane that flew over.

The mountain gate where the Immortal Sect's Outer Sect was located had reached a surrender agreement with the besieging Artifact Heart Sect two days ago.

The mountain gate's garrison Cultivators gave up resistance and surrendered the mountain gate and the registered inventory.

And the Artifact Heart Sect agreed to let the Inner and Outer Sect Disciples in the mountain gate who were willing to leave take their own supplies with them.

With this, the territory around Yunshan completely belonged to the Artifact Heart Sect!

And after this sect occupied a market and the Spirit Vein of a mountain gate, it seemed to be temporarily satisfied with its appetite and did not continue to send troops to expand, but instead announced widely that their Artifact Heart Sect would reopen Yunshan Market.

And they would hold an auction in the market to sell precious pills, including Foundation Establishment Pills.

They welcomed all Cultivators from different sects and even Loose Cultivators to come and trade.

In addition, the Artifact Heart Sect high-profilely announced that it would set up an Artifact Pavilion in Yunshan Market to acquire all rare treasures and Superior Pills.

And exchange them for corresponding items produced by the Artifact Heart Sect.

"This is the Merit Hall of the mountain gate, right?"

"It's just that the other party opened it up directly, without even needing to go through a recruitment order."

"It's just that one cannot guard against the possibility that the other party is worried about retaliation and is just grabbing what they can before running."

"I still need to observe for a period of time."

Su Ping knew about the Artifact Heart Sect; after returning, he received reports from Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui, and he was quite impressed by those giant ships.

In his view, these floating giant ships were definitely much more practical than the floating aircraft carriers of Water Blue Star.

They could not only fly, but also had protective shields and ultra-long-range attack methods.

This made Su Ping silently open his little notebook and list customizing a million-ton-class Immortal Boat as one of his small future goals.

He observed for a few more days.

The main reason was that there had been successive incidents over at the Chiyuan Immortal Sect.

There were even breakthroughs by Demon Beasts in many places within the Ten Thousand Mountains.

It was because of this opportunity.

The local cultivation families, using the excuse of defending against the Demon Beast chaos, wrote letters to the Main Mountain to report it, and then ignored the fact that they received no response from there.

They directly contacted several large sects from the outside to enter the territory of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect together.

While blocking the invading footsteps of the Demon Beasts once again.

These large sects also naturally occupied one Spirit Vein after another, and euphemistically called them frontline supply bases.

The large Market at Golden Cloud Mountain, which Su Ping had visited before, was actually slightly better off.

Because of the existence of the Great Golden Light Temple outpost, and for the sake of the Merit Stele.

It was not targeted by other sects.

At least in name, it was still territory under the jurisdiction of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect.

Su Ping could not understand this situation, so he simply stopped looking.

Anyway, as long as he knew that the Chiyuan Immortal Sect was truly shrinking its sphere of influence and letting the surrounding forces encroach upon it, that was enough.

Thus, Su Ping transformed into the White Crane Boy and took the Superior Pills accumulated during this period to the Yunshan Market.

Heading to the Market again, Su Ping saw many newly built buildings of various styles.

He even caught sight of the place where he used to sell spirit snake meat.

The restaurant there was already dilapidated and was currently being renovated.

Su Ping felt a sense of nostalgia for how things had changed, then headed to the Artifact Pavilion.

The other party clearly had the intention of recovering stolen goods from this period; they did not ask about the origins and would buy as many good items as were brought to them.

The price given was a little lower than the Merit Hall of the sect.

However, Su Ping did not care about this difference; what he wanted was to reach Qi Refining Perfection faster and then Foundation Establishment!

So he sold the Superior Pills, and even sold a portion of the Dharma Artifacts of Robber Cultivators he had harvested while maintaining order during this time.

Then he bought all the mid-grade and waste Pills that could be used in the Qi Refining Late Stage, and only then did he hurriedly go down the mountain and leave.

There were quite a few Cultivators selling stolen goods and hurriedly running away during this period, and the White Crane Boy was not the only one.

When leaving the sect, Su Ping clearly sensed a Divine Sense sweep over them.

It just swept past without lingering; in the state of Memory Phantom, as long as one did not deliberately collide, this Divine Sense clearly could not discover Su Ping's Divine Sense.

Su Ping guessed that this might be a Foundation Establishment from the Artifact Heart Sect, and he quickly left while pretending not to know.

He could guess that this Foundation Establishment was probably looking for something, otherwise, they would not have been so shameless as to use Divine Sense to scan.

However, this had nothing to do with him, an outsider.

He returned to Jinque City to continue his cultivation.

Waiting until the next Fishing spot opened.

Su Ping, inside the Pot Heaven, was already a Great Cultivator at the ninth level of both Qi Refining and Body Tempering!

With his strength increased once again, Su Ping also had more confidence to lay out more Merit Fields.

The Daci Dabe Temple was operating well and no longer needed more help.

Nierbo was also operating normally under the dual cooperation of money and mystery.

There were even more monks coming by reputation with their families and servants.

Huang Zong and the others also generously waved their hands to accept them.

During this period, a small twist occurred.

It turned out that two priests from the Bangzi Country, not knowing if their brains were broken, actually ran to the temple in person, shouting that the Holy Church was the only True God, and hoping everyone would join them in welcoming the salvation of the True God...

Consequently, they were beaten up and locked in the dungeon, nearly losing their lives.

Su Ping, upon learning of this, became interested in them.

He had an even greater intention in his heart to go to the Bangzi Country to set up Merit Fields.

After all, because the people in that place were under immense pressure, it was already one of the regions with the highest density of various cults.

Regardless of whether they were acting or deceiving themselves, the number of fanatical believers who did not fear death was also among the best.

Moreover, most Commoners tended to believe in Ghost Gods, and while holding the Holy Church in awe, they fully exerted the spirit of "the six classics interpret me, I interpret the six classics" for distorted modification, to the point that apart from the name being the Holy Church, they could be completely regarded as different sects.