Chapter 2202: Suspicious Disciple

"I just knew your realm definitely isn't as high as mine!"

Qiong Qi also started mocking him.

The avatar also immediately returned to Xuan Kong Shi, swapped out Ye Liuyun, also took a lot of beast meat, and directly started roasting it in the Grand Hall.

He saw that these two people were both disciples of Qiong Qi, and Qiong Qi had specially instructed him to take care of them, so he knew Qiong Qi didn't treat them as outsiders.

So he also revealed his true appearance and started roasting meat for Qiong Qi and them.

Song An also came over to join the fun.

Ye Liuyun also gave them a brief introduction.

He also released Liang Xue, Lei Ming, and Long Nv, and they met with Qiong Qi.

They hadn't seen Qiong Qi in a long time either, so naturally they were very close.

"How many people does your Fire Emperor Palace have?"

Ye Liuyun asked Qiong Qi.

Qiong Qi said somewhat embarrassedly: "Although we have few people now, that's because I recruit disciples preferring scarcity over excess! But even though we're few, we still helped you burn the military camp of Zhongxing Wangchao!"

"Uh... it's not just you three, right?"

After seeing Qiong Qi's expression, Ye Liuyun started to guess.

"Ha ha!"

Qiong Qi forced a laugh and finally admitted: "You still insist on asking, how embarrassing!"

"... Your habit of bragging hasn't changed!"

Ye Liuyun also said helplessly in the end.

"Ha ha ha!"

Huo Lei hearing that, couldn't help but laugh first on the side...

They talked and laughed, eating and chatting, very lively.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill and chatted enough, Qiong Qi wiped his mouth with his sleeve and asked Ye Liuyun: "After not seeing each other for so long, I can't just come and mooch a meal off you."

Speak, what do you need from me?

Is it for refining artifacts or setting up formations?

"Hehe, you still understand me!"

Ye Liuyun laughed: "Help me set up a formation to guard against sneak attacks and assassinations, and also set up a city-defense formation!"

Ye Liuyun didn't stand on ceremony with Qiong Qi, directly telling him to get to work.

He also didn't specify any concrete requirements, just letting Qiong Qi arrange things as he saw fit.

"Alright! I think your original formation is really not up to snuff; even Martial Cultivators of the Ninth Layer Summit can't withstand it! Bring top-grade crystal stones, the more the better!"

Qiong Qi also agreed, but then immediately asked Ye Liuyun for crystal stones.

"Tch, you're a bare-bones palace lord, and you're still poor!"

Ye Liuyun immediately piled up a mountain-like amount of top-grade divine crystals, stored them in a storage ring, and threw it to Qiong Qi.

Qiong Qi nodded satisfiedly, went outside the Grand Hall, and began drawing formations in midair.

After a flurry of hand and foot gestures, he waved his hand to let the formation envelop Chengzhu Fu, then stomped his foot to finalize the formation, and then went on to arrange the divine crystals.

His two disciples, Huo Lei and Mo Ren, also stayed by his side earnestly learning.

"I just love seeing you pull this off."

"Only now do you deserve the title of Fire Emperor!"

Ye Liuyun changed his appearance again and came out to accompany him in setting up the formation.

After finishing setting up Chengzhu Fu, Ye Liuyun followed him outside the city to set up more.

After everything was set up, Qiong Qi then followed Ye Liuyun back to the Grand Hall again.

He had Ye Liuyun arrange lodging for the two disciples, let them go cultivate, and then he himself entered Xuan Kong Shi to cultivate.

"I think if you weren't stuck at a bottleneck in your breakthrough, you wouldn't have come looking for me, right?"

Ye Liuyun asked Qiong Qi with a smile.

"You say that! I saw you were about to dominate the Divine Realm, so I rushed over to mooch off you! Besides, I'm urging you to raise your realm!"

Qiong Qi laughed.

Ye Liuyun also couldn't be bothered with him, letting him cultivate on his own.

After Qiong Qi entered Xuan Kong Shi, Song An immediately sent a voice transmission to Ye Liuyun: "The Fire Emperor Palace is an old power of the Ten Thousand Gods Alliance, though it has vanished for many years."

But Mo Xiaotian pays special attention to all powers of the Ten Thousand Gods Alliance and has planted many spies.

So I observed those two disciples beside him, and I feel that Mo Ren is somewhat suspicious.

And he also has the surname Mo.

You'd better be more careful!

Ye Liuyun, out of trust in Qiong Qi, didn't pay attention to those two disciples.

Huo Lei, because he laughs in an exaggerated manner, only got a couple of extra glances from Ye Liuyun.

As for Mo Ren, he seems to have little presence, staying quietly aside and rarely speaking.

"Just because they share the same surname?"

Ye Liuyun thought it unlikely.

With Qiong Qi being so sharp, who could fool him!

"In the whole Central Region, you can't find a second family with the surname Mo!"

Song An said seriously.

"I also know a friend with the surname Mo! I just don't know if he's in the Central Region!"

Ye Liuyun suddenly thought of Mo Tianheng.

"Oh, what's his name?"

"You never know, I might know him!"

Song An also became interested.

"Mo Tianheng!"

Ye Liuyun told him.

"Ah?"

"The Mo Tianheng who returned from the Star Distant Continent?"

Song An knew Ye Liuyun also came from the Mortal Realm, but he didn't expect Mo Tianheng to also come from the same Mortal Realm as him.

"You really know him?"

Ye Liuyun was also somewhat surprised.

He immediately used spiritual energy to condense into Mo Tianheng's likeness.

"Are you sure it's him?"

Ye Liuyun confirmed it to him.

"That's right?"

The thirteenth son of the old God King.

After the old God King suffered serious injuries back then, this Mo Tianheng suddenly disappeared.

Now he suddenly returned from the Mortal Realm, claiming he had re-cultivated his realm.

But as soon as he returned, Mo Xiaotian had him thrown into the death prison.

At that time his realm was still the Sixth Layer.

Song An began to tell Ye Liuyun about it.

"You really know him! He was actually thrown into the death prison?"

"What crime?"

Ye Liuyun sighed, then started inquiring about Mo Tianheng's situation.

Song An also helplessly said: "There's no real crime at all."

"It's just that Mo Xiaotian worries he'll seize the throne!"

After the old God King was seriously injured back then, his offspring successively went missing or died.

Afterward the old God King also died without cure, and Mo Xiaotian, as the old God King's nephew, took over the throne.

"So you're saying the deaths of the old God King and his offspring were likely at Mo Xiaotian's hands?"

Ye Liuyun speculated.

"Everyone just speculates, but after all, no one has any evidence!"

Song An spoke rather objectively.

Ye Liuyun nodded and didn't ask further.

He was thinking about Mo Tianheng's affairs, completely ignoring Mo Ren.

He still felt that sharing the same surname was purely coincidental, not enough to make him suspect his friend's disciple, so he quickly put the matter behind him.

Moreover, he also knew that Qiong Qi would not casually leak his secrets to others.

For example, with the Xuan Kong Shi, Qiong Qi likely deliberately sent his two disciples away so they wouldn't see it.

Ye Liuyun also brought Liang Xue and the others back to the Xuan Kong Shi to cultivate.

Then he felt that the defensive array covering the entire City Lord's mansion was too large and consumed too much energy.

So he returned to his own cultivation room, had Qiong Qi set up a small defensive formation there as well.

Running it this way could also save a lot of crystal stones.

There are also many people around him who need resources, so he saves wherever he can.