Chapter 120: The Big Dipper Seven Stars Sect

Jiuye Mountain Market.

After Su Ping finished fishing at the two First Tier fishing spots for the week, he returned once again to this base of his.

He first checked to see if his subordinates were working diligently.

Afterwards, he wrote down the few materials needed and handed them to the manager.

Next, the manager would hand the list to the Wanbao Pavilion in the market to publish the acquisition request.

As long as the materials were not too precious or rare, relying on the face of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, one could generally acquire them from those cultivation families.

"Hmm?"

"An invitation from Mu Zhenren?"

Su Ping checked the note left behind and saw the message from the Foundation Establishment Daoist Mu Zhenren of Yunshan Market.

It was a request to go to Yunshan for a talk at the Zi hour today.

Su Ping had originally intended not to go, but he saw the other party mention matters concerning Dharma Artifacts for detecting Spirit Roots and ancient cultivation techniques.

Su Ping could not help but feel tempted.

It was not that he truly intended to establish a sect at Jiuye Mountain Market.

Rather, with a Dharma Artifact to detect Spirit Roots, he could detect more potential tools... ahem, Registered Disciples on Water Blue Star.

Even without a relevant Spirit Body, as long as they were high-grade, or even Earth-grade or Heaven-grade Spirit Roots.

These cultivation seeds, which large Immortal Sects would fight over, would surely also possess high cultivation potential for him!

Yet, these Dharma Artifacts for detecting Spirit Roots and related knowledge had always been tightly locked away by the major Immortal Sects.

There were restrictions on both their use and their inheritance.

Even if a True Transmission Cultivator was not in charge of the Ascension Meeting, they could not obtain the relevant Dharma Artifacts.

After thinking it over, Su Ping, considering that he had the Memory Illusion to ensure there would be no mistakes,

chose to get up and go see the situation.

Hurrying along, Su Ping arrived near the dense forest of Yunshan Market at the stipulated time.

Then, after switching to the Memory Illusion, Su Ping controlled the Memory Illusion to head toward Yunshan Market in the identity of Baihe Zhenren.

Although Baihe Zhenren in this state appeared to only have the cultivation of the Qi Refining Late Stage,

under the shroud of Divine Sense, those with lower cultivation than Su Ping would know that the person before them was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator upon sensing the Divine Sense pressure, and would naturally and tactfully avoid him.

Even if he encountered a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator with a higher realm and stronger Divine Sense,

since there was no enmity between them, they would generally not choose to break through Su Ping's Divine Sense shroud to probe the true state of Baihe Zhenren after detecting the Divine Sense.

It was more likely that they would simply assume the other party was practicing a Secret Technique and deliberately suppressing their cultivation.

Baihe Zhenren successfully entered Yunshan Market and did not rush to the mountaintop, instead strolling through the streets with stalls.

Spending some Spirit Stones, he bought different varieties of Spirit Rice and various Spirit Materials from them.

Relying on his Divine Sense, he still could not find any bargains; after all, there were no bargains to be found in this place.

Yet, no one dared to let him suffer a loss.

Those who could set up stalls in this large market were all shrewd, knowing very well which Spirit Stones could be earned and which could not.

Su Ping headed to the mountaintop and received a warm welcome from Mu Zhenren, who had been waiting there.

Then, not long after, when the time mentioned in the note arrived,

spiritual light suddenly appeared in the sky.

Then, one after another, Immortal Boats of varying sizes appeared, entering the market's Array and approaching the mountaintop villa.

Immediately, Cultivators riding Spirit Beasts or stepping on some kind of Dharma Artifact flew down one by one.

Su Ping scanned them; there were twelve Cultivators qualified to participate in Mu Zhenren's invitation.

Not all of them were Foundation Establishment.

Among the twelve, only two men and one woman had Divine Sense shrouds, indicating they were Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

The remaining nine were all Qi Refining Great Perfection Cultivators, and judging by their age, they were not young.

Several of them even gave Su Ping the feeling, within his Divine Sense, that their life force was fading and their bodies were in a state of Decay.

According to common knowledge in the Cultivation World, if these nine could not obtain some great opportunity, they would likely have no hope of Foundation Establishment in this lifetime.

Then, looking at the few Foundation Establishment Cultivators invited by the Yunshan Market Foundation Establishment,

it was clear that among the lower and middle strata of the current Cultivation World, Foundation Establishment Great Cultivators were still relatively valuable and rare.

In this region, which seemed to have been abandoned by the Chiyuan Immortal Sect, this seemed to be even more the case.

Most of those small cultivation families only had an ancestor who founded the sect who was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator in an Immortal Sect, and each subsequent generation was worse than the last.

The Supreme Elder with the highest cultivation was mostly at the Qi Refining Great Perfection.

Some had not even mastered any divine abilities and had not pulled away from other Qi Refining Late Stage Cultivators.

Those before him who could be favored and invited by Mu Zhenren were naturally the elite among the small cultivation families; one could tell as much from the fact that they could all afford Immortal Boats.

Su Ping also quickly discovered that they were likely not participating in this kind of gathering for the first time and had friendships with one another.

They were also quite interested in Su Ping, this newly promoted Foundation Establishment Cultivator, and every one of them showed their intention to befriend him.

Even the other three unfamiliar Foundation Establishment Cultivators were quite friendly toward Su Ping.

At least on the surface, everyone appeared to be in total harmony, just like family members who had never met before!

Having entered the villa for the second time, Mu Zhenren, as the host, clapped his hands.

Immediately, more than a dozen beautiful cat-women walked over carrying hot tea.

Su Ping looked over and immediately discovered something unusual.

These cat-women had hollow eyes and looked like puppets without Divine Souls.

"These are all some novelties from the merchant ships in the Western Wasteland; besides cat-women, there are also rabbit-women and snake-women."

"However, they are all superficial, and their Divine Souls were long ago worn away; they only had a bit of novelty at the very beginning."

Mu Zhenren shook his head slightly while commenting on these maidservants, then waved his hand to dismiss them.

Everyone drank hot tea, and only then did a female Foundation Establishment cultivator speak up, beginning this gathering.

Su Ping listened silently, and he eventually understood that this gathering was a meeting that the cultivation forces around Yunshan Market participated in regularly.

Before Mu Zhenren arrived, the host was handled by the Foundation Establishment great cultivator of the Immortal Sect's Outer Sect mountain gate at that time.

Mu Zhenren was merely following local customs, and he could also be considered to be using this as a platform for an outsider to leverage local forces.

As for Su Ping, whose public identity was previously only that of an Inspector of Jinque City, he was no different from an invisible person in the eyes of these people.

It is estimated that no one could have imagined that Su Ping, who was still an Inspector of a mortal city a few months ago, could appear in such a gathering and, in terms of status, be vaguely a cut above most of the people present.

As representatives from each family exchanged information.

Su Ping also learned that in the recent period, the general environment of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect had been becoming worse.

It was not just the Artifact Heart Sect; in other directions, other Golden Core sects were also being incited to nibble away at the various territories of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect.

And the Great Golden Light Temple seemed to have a tacit attitude toward this, never stopping it.

It seemed that these Fomen High Monks had come to the territory of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect truly just to Seal Evil Spirits and prevent the spread of the Evil Qi Tide.

But the Evil Spirits were erupting more and more, and the adverse effects produced were also becoming greater and greater.

In this regard, an old matriarch who claimed to be from the Yu Family brought out a Projection Jade Slip and played for everyone the footage sent by their relatives in the Immortal Sect.

In the north, where even the Great Golden Light Temple had given up and withdrawn.

It was already a dead land where no roosters crowed for a thousand miles, filled everywhere with Evil Spirits and evil ghosts.

Under such a general environment, Spirit Qi became even harder to cultivate with.

Even if some Markets or places with Spirit Veins did not fear the problem of being unable to hold their ground due to powerful Arrays.

They still had to migrate to reduce losses.

"The entire region has undergone a mutation; the Evil Qi Tide is actually this terrifying..."

After watching, Mu Zhenren sighed:

"No wonder the Great Golden Light Temple and those reclusive experts were all alarmed this time; not only did they create the Merit Ranking, but they are also putting out fires everywhere."

"It seems they knew about this long ago; if they don't act now, perhaps the entire Cultivation World will fall into a land ravaged by Evil Qi?"

Mu Zhenren started it, immediately causing a wave of agreement, and everyone felt a trace of worry about the future.

Afterward, they all felt that if the sky fell, the tall ones would hold it up, and it was more important for them to hurry and accumulate resources and strength, so as not to be swept away by the great trend and have nowhere to even flee.

Only then did it come to the focus of this meeting.

That Mu Zhenren smiled and tossed out a scroll, and after opening it.

Everyone saw that the scroll contained a map, and an area on the map was emitting a faint blue light.

"This is..."

"The outer sea beyond the Overseas Islands?"

"That is a dangerous place!"

Seeing the map clearly, a female Foundation Establishment cultivator frowned and asked.

"Correct, it is indeed the outer sea region beyond the Overseas Islands."

Mu Zhenren stroked his three-inch beard and said with a smile:

"However, everyone need not worry; although it is the outer sea, it is only the edge."

"The island we are going to is not far from there."

"It is a small ruin that emerged recently under the spatial turbulence!"

Mu Zhenren said this much.

Su Ping already knew his meaning; was he looking for people to explore the ruins?

Could it be that the Dharma Artifact for testing Spirit Roots he had was also there?

Su Ping frowned slightly, habitually feeling that it would be better not to go.

But he suddenly heard a familiar term.

"This place was first discovered by a group of fishermen, and later my people went to investigate and discovered that this was the mountain gate of the Beidou Qixing Sect!"

"Beidou Qixing Sect? One of the several ancient sects that split off from that ancient sect?"

"The background is big, but it's a pity the descendants are useless."

"I remember this sect was wiped out by Chiyuan Xianren a thousand years ago; is that place overseas left behind by those fleeing remnants?"

An old cultivator's heart stirred upon hearing this.

Mu Zhenren nodded:

"Correct, it is one of the branches that split off after the main peak of that sect, which was said to be the sole ruler of the world, perished."

"From the current look of it, that island should be an Outer Sect mountain gate they established back then."

"According to the data I have collected, there is a high probability that the Dharma Artifact for testing Spirit Roots that Daoist Baihe needs is there."

"In addition, there is a high probability that a portion of ancient cultivation techniques and rare or even extinct Spirit Materials will remain."

"A thousand years of time is not too long for a mountain gate protected by an Array; most items should still be usable."

"And this is just a ruin left behind by a branch of remnants; the danger will not be too great."

"Everyone... are you willing to accompany me?"

Mu Zhenren looked around and found that Baihe Zhenren, whom he thought would be tempted, was looking down with a mature expression and not stating his position.

After waiting for a while.

Only one male Foundation Establishment and one female Foundation Establishment expressed their agreement.

As for the others, only two Qi Refining Great Perfection cultivators who were about to die of old age hesitated for a long time before gritting their teeth and agreeing.

Including Mu Zhenren, this meant only five people had agreed to go on this trip.

Mu Zhenren seemed quite satisfied with this result; he had the maidservant serve another round of tea, and after keeping those who had agreed to go, the other attendees wished Mu Zhenren and the others good luck before dispersing and leaving.

Su Ping left Yunshan Market.

In his heart, he was actually somewhat tempted, and because of this, he memorized the location on the map.

He just didn't feel entirely at ease following an old-timer at the Foundation Establishment stage like Mu Zhenren to the ruins; he felt it wasn't very reliable.

Then, not many days after returning to Jiuye Mountain Market.

Su Ping learned shocking news from a Patrol Envoy of the Artifact Heart Sect who had suddenly visited to inquire about information!

The Soul Lamp of that Mu Zhenren from Yunshan Market... had actually gone out!

At the same time, he also learned that news of the island with the Beidou Qixing Sect ruins had, for some unknown reason, already spread throughout the surrounding regions.

Many large and small Immortal-cultivating families nearby had all dispatched personnel to go and investigate.

It was just that those at the Foundation Establishment stage had all perished there.

This made Cultivators both love and hate these ruins, and for the time being, no one dared to go in to seize new opportunities.

"The Beidou Qixing Sect!"

"As a branch, shouldn't it at least have a portion of the Beidou Scripture of Life and Death?"

"Perhaps, I could go take a look at this commotion?"

"After all, I can completely control a Memory Illusion to explore, and relying on the advantage of being able to expend countless lives, I should be able to get some good things, right?"

Su Ping checked the equipment on his person.

Especially the double-digit number of Teleportation Talismans and Thunder Light Fox Talismans.

This made Su Ping make up his mind to head to that island, and then, without his true body even stepping onto the island, he would use the Memory Illusion to explore.

To see if he could obtain any benefits.

I should have things to do tomorrow during the day, so the update will be posted in the evening.