Chapter 2129

Where are the descendants your Dao One Immortal Sect captured alive? Still not releasing them?

Since the negotiations succeeded, those beast tribes previously trapped by Xu Jie's formation should naturally be released.

It was just an offhand question, but Qi Xiong's answer left the elephant ancestor stunned.

"What descendants?"

"Those you Dao One Immortal Sect previously captured alive with a formation."

"Formation? What formation?"

"You....................."

After the shock came fury; the elephant ancestor stared wide-eyed at Qi Xiong, eyes blazing with anger.

Is this human speaking nonsense with eyes wide open? Such a huge formation, and you now claim ignorance?

"You don't know what formation?"

"I don't know."

"You want..................."

The elephant ancestor still wanted to say something, but the rat demon beside it quickly tugged it, calming it down.

Although extremely displeased inside, the elephant ancestor ultimately left straight away under the rat demon's frantic gesturing.

As for the beast tribes captured alive by the formation, Qi Xiong naturally knew, but they have now been taken back to the Dao One Immortal Sect to be kept.

Given the Dao One Immortal Sect's usual style, once the meat is in their mouth, wanting them to spit it out is obviously impossible—overthinking it.

The departing elephant ancestor, at this moment, shouted angrily.

"What do you intend to do?"

Glaring angrily at the rat demon, that human earlier was clearly just making excuses; such a huge formation, so many beast tribes—how could he not know? You're practically blind, you could even smell it.

But facing the elephant ancestor's angry glare, the rat demon calmly said.

"Ancestor, having finally succeeded in negotiations after great difficulty, we should not create further complications."

"But that human................"

"That human is indeed speaking nonsense with eyes open, but for such a trivial matter to waste all previous effort—do you think it's worth it, Ancestor?"

Upon hearing this, the elephant ancestor fell silent; for such a group of beast tribes to let all prior efforts go to waste is certainly not worthwhile.

Having understood this, the elephant ancestor, though still unable to swallow this anger, did not continue to dwell on it.

Having already paid a greater price, how could such minor subordinates not be abandoned?

The beast tribes' way of thinking often differs from that of humans.

The beast tribes gritted their teeth and returned to the depths of the Wuji Shanmai; as for those subordinates, they could only break their teeth and swallow them.

As for Qi Xiong's side, he certainly didn't take this matter to heart.

Don't ask; if you ask, I just don't know—what beast tribes? What formation? I've never seen them.

Bringing people back to the Dao One Immortal Sect, having resolved the beast tribe threat, his heart indeed felt much lighter.

Next, he should focus on developing the sect, ideally occupying another spacetime passage to Xia Jie.

If the sect could master a spacetime passage connecting to Xia Jie, they could maintain constant contact with the Dao Yi Shengdi of Zhu Tian Wan Jie.

At that time, those disciples still in Zhu Tian Wan Jie would also have the chance to come to the Immortal Realm to cultivate, gaining a broader expanse.

However, spacetime passages connecting to Xia Jie are exceedingly rare throughout the Immortal Realm; obtaining one is not easy, and most are already owned.

Moreover, they are all controlled by those powerful forces.

However, when everyone first arrived in the Immortal Realm, that spacetime passage was jointly controlled by several major powers.

Netherworld Palace, Guo family—these several major powers surely don't want to monopolize this spacetime passage? Obviously not.

Rather, even with their strength, it's difficult to monopolize the spacetime passage, so they can only settle for joint control.

As for the spacetime passage matter, it's hard to resolve in the short term; we can only take it slowly.

Regardless, first boosting the sect's strength is fundamental.

When strength is sufficient, the sect disciples' cohesion grows, and all problems will naturally be resolved.

"We also need to figure out how to obtain a few cultivation secret realms for training; the sect lacks even a decent cultivation ground, which is truly unacceptable."

At night, Qi Xiong pondered sect affairs inside his Dong Fu, then immediately said to the respectfully attending steward beside him.

"Go inquire whether there are any suitable cultivation secret realms in the Immortal Realm that the sect could vie for."

The acquisition methods for sect secret realms in the Immortal Realm currently fall into two main types.

One type is newly emerged, ownerless; then everyone relies on their own ability.

This is the simplest and crudest method; however, new cultivation secret realms that appear are rare and unpredictable, mainly a matter of luck.

Perhaps a few appear each year, yet sometimes over a hundred years pass without a new secret realm emerging.

As for the second type, it concerns secret realms that already have owners; for various reasons, the original sect may put them up for sale or exchange for other resources—basically they are obtained through trade.

These are the two mainstream methods; other ways naturally exist as well.

For example, forceful seizure, but that would likely bring disaster upon oneself, and Qi Xiong has no such intention.

Mainly, he wants to see whether there is any news of second-type cultivation secret realms in the Immortal Realm today.

If there is, it would be worth looking into whether there is a chance to exchange for one.

The Dao One Immortal Sect now possesses many treasures, yet lacks a cultivation secret realm altogether; after all, the sect was just founded, so its foundation must start from zero.

Hearing Qi Xiong's words, that person merely nodded respectfully.

"Yes, I'll go right away."

Having said that, he withdrew from the room.

The Dao One Immortal Sect side returned to normal, and several days later, inside the mansion of the Wuji Xiancheng city lord, Li Hongyan, who is the city lord of Wuji Xiancheng, sat in the hall with a complex expression.

The expression in his eyes was splendidly varied—shock, suspicion, apprehension, all intertwined.

He looked at his subordinates below, Li Hongyan asked.

"Is the news confirmed to be true?"

Reporting to the City Lord, we have verified it repeatedly; it's true, but the specific details cannot be ascertained for now, after all, there were no scouts present at the time.

Li Hongyan's shock was entirely due to the news of the battle between the Dao One Immortal Sect and the Elephant Ancestor being transmitted back.

Although we don't know exactly what happened, the Beast Race retreated while the Dao One Immortal Sect remained unharmed; this result is an indisputable fact.

In other words, the Dao One Immortal Sect used some unknown means to make the Beast Race retreat.

Perhaps they paid some price, or perhaps it was after negotiations, but regardless, the Beast Race definitely retreated.

This also means that the Beast Race acknowledged the existence of the Dao One Immortal Sect.

Breaking a long-standing rule, a sect power among humanity successfully established itself in the Wuji Shanmai and gained the Beast Race's acknowledgment.

This is what shocked Li Hongyan the most.

The fact that a human sect entered the Wuji Shanmai is of tremendous significance.

You should know that the greatest significance of his Wuji Xiancheng until now was that it was the nearest human outpost to the Wuji Shanmai, with no alternative.

But now, this has been completely shattered.