Chapter 32: Let Me Search for Bai Haichan!

From then on, Chen Zheng and Xu Yueer and the other seven female disciples set out together on missions.

During the conversation with the women, Chen Zheng learned that they were all members of an organization called the Jialan Association.

It should be known that the Yuhua Sect has roughly one hundred true‑disciple seniors.

Most of those true‑disciple seniors are at Divine Skill ranks between the first and the sixth.

Only five have reached Divine Skill Rank 7 or higher, namely Dong Lingxiao, Nan Wanluo, Bei Yaoguang, Xi Jialan, and the most formidable Zhong Tiandu.

The Jialan Association was founded by Xi Jialan.

She is the boss lady.

The association only admits female disciples; its purpose is to train together while helping each other, preventing themselves from being bullied by other disciples.

In fact, within the Yuhua Sect there are many small groups like the Jialan Association.

There's no way around it; the sect has too many disciples from various nations, a mix of fish and dragons, inevitably forming factions and each vying for profit.

It's like a secular court, where civil and military officials inevitably form cliques and engage in open and covert struggles.

The Yuhua Sect's internal power struggles are even more intense; disciples fighting each other to the death is commonplace.

In short, wherever there are people there is the jianghu, and wherever there is profit there is conflict.

Back to the main story.

Chen Zheng quickly finished talking with the women, learned their general backgrounds, and completed the preparations before departure.

At this moment, Xu Yueer sat atop a snow‑white celestial crane as large as an adult elephant, her rosy face greeting Chen Zheng: "Junior Brother Chen, we sect members need not observe formalities; come up quickly."

The other seven women each rode a celestial crane, each crane entirely snow‑white and strikingly handsome.

These celestial cranes are beyond the rights of outer‑gate disciples; they were borrowed from the true‑disciple senior Jialan.

Because the mission is far away, riding cranes flies faster and saves a lot of time.

However, they only borrowed eight celestial cranes from Jialan, just enough for eight riders.

Chen Zheng, having joined suddenly, has no flying mount and must share a crane with someone.

The other seven women are not very familiar with Chen Zheng.

Since Chen Zheng was brought in by Xu Yueer, after the women's secret discussion and subtle glances, they decided to let Xu Yueer share a crane with him.

"Sister Yueer, rest assured, I, Chen, will never take any advantage from you."

Chen Zheng, not being pretentious, assured Xu Yueer, then lightly tapped his toe and leapt onto the snow‑white crane's back, sitting behind Xu Yueer.

He deliberately kept a distance of five point four inches from Xu Yueer, not pressing his chest against her back, maintaining a proper upright posture.

However, this Xu Yueer looked frail, yet her hips were rather large.

"Let's go."

At the women's command, the eight celestial cranes flapped wings larger than a door panel, rose into the sky, carrying the eight women and one man up into the heavens, heading out of the Yuhua Sect.

The celestial cranes flew at great speed.

Soon, they left Yuhua City.

Below, the mountains and palaces that were scattered like stars on a board receded rapidly.

On the crane's back, Xu Yueer saw that Chen Zheng kept his distance, and thought to herself that Chen Zheng truly is a gentleman.

Her tense body gradually relaxed as she briefed Chen Zheng on the specifics of the mission.

"Junior Brother Chen, the content of this mission is simple: by order of the Elder, we are to search for the whereabouts of the Qunxing Sect disciple Bai Haichan. It is said that this person obtained on Huangquan Mountain the treasured relics left by the former Demon Sect's first master, the Yellow Spring Emperor: the Nine Orifice Golden Core and the Jiao Fu Huangquan Map, and has been pursued by many high‑level practitioners of both the righteous and demonic paths, and has fled into the territory of the Great Li Dynasty." "Search for Bai Haichan?"

Just as Chen Zheng was about to close his eyes to cultivate and steady his spirit, his eyelids jumped at Xu Yueer's words.

He had originally assumed that the women's mission would involve slaying demons within some kingdom under the Yuhua Sect.

Therefore, without even asking, he gladly accepted.

After all, his goal is also to kill demon heads and drink blood to boost his strength; wherever he kills is fine.

But now that he hears the mission's details, he suddenly feels as if he's been forced onto a thief's ship.

Who Bai Haichan is, no one knows better than him.

He is a fragment of the thought of the greatest antagonist in the Immortal World, the Zhaohua Immortal King.

The Zhaohua Immortal King's true form is currently trapped within the threshold of the Immortal Gate, unable to escape.

Yet such a magnificent existence, even a fleeting thought, cannot be fathomed by any being in the three‑thousand great worlds.

It's astonishing that the Yuhua Sect Elder would send a group of junior disciples to search.

This novel you…

Besides the protagonist Fang Han, can an ordinary person even find Bai Haichan?

And if a blind cat happens upon a dead mouse and actually finds Bai Haichan, that would be even more troublesome, possibly exposing them.

Not fearing ten thousand, only fearing that one chance.

"Junior Brother Chen, what's wrong?" Xu Yueer, seeing Chen Zheng's prolonged silence, turned back and asked him puzzledly.

Chen Zheng met her gaze, expressionless, and said, "Who is the Elder who assigned you this mission?"

He felt an immediate urge to turn the Yuhua Sect upside down.

Then find that Elder, split open his head, and see exactly what's inside.

Why so restless!

Xu Yueer sensed Chen Zheng's gaze was a bit intrusive, thinking he found the mission too difficult and too dangerous.

Indeed, masters from both the celestial and demonic paths are hunting Bai Haichan, including many cultivators from the Shen Tong Mi Jing.

And we, a small group of outer‑gate disciples, what use are we?

If we dare to seize the Nine Orifice Golden Core or the Jiao Fu Huangquan Map, we will surely be slain by other contenders.

She quickly soothed, "Junior Brother Chen, the mission was issued by Elder Jin Rilie. But rest assured, our task is not to kill Bai Haichan; we only need to find any trace of him and report the information to Elder Jin via the messenger token."

"So it was Elder Jin Rilie."

A cold glint flashed in Chen Zheng's eyes.

Jin Rilie, one of the Elders of the Feather Ascension Gate.

His son is named Jin Shitai, a true disciple, and he has a famous nickname, Ba Ren Ba He.

These two father and son are not a single good thing.

"I still…"

"Junior Brother Chen, actually Elder Jin didn't send us to search for Bai Hai Chan's whereabouts on the surface of the Great Li Dynasty, but to search in this dynasty's underground world. Moreover, another Elder spoke up: even if we cannot find Bai Hai Chan's whereabouts, as long as we can slay a Flying Night Yaksha in the underground world, or jointly slay an Asura and bring back its bone spike for submission, we can still obtain the qualification for the inner sect disciple assessment."

Chen Zheng was about to tell Xu Yueer that he had remembered an urgent matter that must be dealt with immediately, that he would not take this task, and asked the woman to let the Immortal Crane descend; the woman then added another sentence.

"Like that?"

Chen Zheng seemed deep in thought.

Bai Hai Chan only needs to go to the Dragon Abyss Province of the Great Li Dynasty to deliver the Nine-Opening Golden Core and the Radiant Blessing Golden Circle Diagram to Fang Han.

If he goes into the underground world beneath the Great Li Dynasty, he indeed won't encounter the other party.

(End of Chapter)