Chapter 533: One Flower Qiongquan, One Leaf Changming, The Black Hand Behind the Scenes

"Oh? Then what did you find out, Fellow Daoist?"

Brother Qian Chen picked up the spiritual tea on the table and took a light sip, seemingly to cover up the curiosity that flashed in his eyes.

Feng Feng Yangzi chuckled, as if he hadn't noticed anything, and said frankly, "Yun He has a good reputation overseas. I carefully investigated his background, and there was nothing wrong. The Qingyu Sect is also a sect with ten thousand years of heritage, unlike me, whose foundation is too dirty to look at!"

After Feng Feng Yangzi was exposed by Yun He for colluding with the Mo Sect, he no longer avoided talking about it.

Brother Qian Chen was slightly shocked to hear this. Unlike Feng Feng Yangzi, who had to leave many traces in order to impact the Soul Transformation stage, and although he made cover-ups at the time, he couldn't avoid falling into the eyes of those with intentions afterwards. Just like Brother Qian Chen, who had no foundation overseas, he could see through his old background by relying on his understanding of the Mo Sect.

If Yun He True Person colluded with certain forces to seize the power of the Qingyu Sect, he would inevitably leave some traces.

Now that Feng Feng Yangzi had investigated carefully, he still couldn't find anything. If Yun He True Person truly had no selfish motives and was only entrusted by Master Master Dayou, the implications would be even more terrifying!

"If Yun He has no problem, then the Qingyu Sect has a problem!"

Brother Qian Chen understood.

The Qingyu Sect and the spiritual crane share their lives. Although they have ups and downs, they have been passed down without end and are also a sect with ten thousand years of heritage.

To be able to place such a piece in the overseas region, the force behind it must be the top-tier kind in the Earth Immortal Realm.

In this way, there are only four or five forces that would intervene in the overseas region.

Regardless of which force is behind Yun He True Person, it is absolutely worthy of Brother Qian Chen's attention.

"Those who can have such power are nothing more than the Four Seas Long Gong, the Dao Sect Shaoqing, the various sects of the Mo Sect, the overseas Buddhist Sect, and the Three Islands of Penglai. Of course, those top-tier sects and sects overseas: East Extreme Great Wilderness Mountain, West Extreme Yujing Sect, North Extreme Brightness Palace, South Extreme Minghai Alliance, Guanghan Palace, Shenxiao Sect, Lingqiao Immortal Mansion, Mount Luojia Mountain, etc., are not without the possibility of intervening..."

Brother Qian Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, put down the teacup, and thought thoughtfully, "If the Qingyu Sect is truly a chess piece of some great force as you think, Fellow Daoist! Then Yun He True Person's previous actions of 'being upright and peaceful' and 'speaking out for justice' are somewhat subtle!"

"I wonder, apart from this time, are there any other unusual actions by Yun He True Person?"

Feng Feng Yangzi fell into deep thought and continued, "Yun He True Person has a good reputation overseas. Over the years, many fellow Daoists have asked him to preside over justice! For example, three hundred years ago, when the Zhang Tian Shi Dao invaded the overseas region and Sun Zhang Tian Shi sent Lu Xun and Xu Xu Daofu to deal with the sixteen immortal sects of the East Sea, Yun He True Person was invited by the sixteen immortal sects to come forward with many overseas Soul Transformation experts to turn things around, preserving the vitality of the sixteen immortal sects."

"There is also the merger of the Qiongquan Sect and the Changming Sect, which were originally from the same lineage. He also came forward to witness the two sides agreeing to fight, and then the Qiongquan Sect merged into Changming."

"Even when Shaoqing sword-executed the various sects overseas that did not follow the Three Mountains Talismans in the past..."

Brother Qian Chen raised his hand slightly, stopping Feng Feng Yangzi's words. He heard a rather familiar term and immediately said in a deep voice, "Is the Changming Sect the sect that obtained the Gourd Seed from the Heavenly Realm? What happened between them and the Qiongquan Sect?"

"Oh!" Feng Feng Yangzi smiled, "The matter of the Changming Sect and the Qiongquan Sect can be considered a major event that happened overseas in recent years! Years ago, a gourd spiritual root fell from outside the sky into our Earth Immortal Realm and was obtained by True Person Qiongming, the common ancestor of the two sects. His cultivation was profound, and he was one of the Primordial Spirit Immortals overseas years ago."

"And what True Person Qiongming was most famous for was a yellow-skinned gourd he carried with him. He cultivated the great supernatural power of Sun and Moon in the Pot; a yellow-skinned gourd could contain heaven and earth, like a grotto-heaven within the gourd."

"Years ago, he even gambled with a Long Wang of the East Sea, putting his true body and ten thousand miles of seawater into the gourd, easily suppressing it, which convinced the East Sea Long Wang and opened a separate mansion in the Long Gong territory!"

"But it was this separate mansion that caused the split of his disciples!" Feng Feng Yangzi sighed with emotion.

"That spiritual island located in the Long Gong territory was not only vast, but also possessed a large spiritual vein, with few cultivators around and abundant resources, so all the disciples wanted to cultivate there. But True Person Qiongming's eldest disciple, True Person Quxuan, insisted on staying at the sect's ancestral land, which was where the gourd spiritual root took root."

"The sect's ancestral land was originally the grotto-dwelling of True Person Qiongming when he was a loose cultivator, and it was inhabited by only six or seven disciples. Later, many disciples took apprentices, and it seemed a bit crowded, so they went deep into the East Sea and asked the Long Gong for a blessed land. Such a grotto-dwelling could accommodate one or two virtuous immortals, but how could it be the foundation of the ancestral sect?"

"Therefore, several of True Person Qiongming's disciples split up. Most of the disciples, led by the second disciple, True Person Changliu, went to that separate mansion to open up the lineage. The other branch, True Person Qiongming's seventh disciple, followed True Person Quxuan to guard the ancestral land."

"If the matter had ended there, it would just be a trivial matter of a loose cultivator's lineage. Unfortunately, True Person Qiongming's lineage was truly extraordinary. Both True Person Quxuan and True Person Changliu reached the Primordial Spirit stage. If the lineage hadn't split, it would have been a great overseas sect."

"Before True Person Changliu left, in order to compete for the orthodoxy of True Person Qiongming's lineage, he wanted to seize the gourd spiritual root. During the struggle, he only snatched a leaf of the spiritual root, but it caused the second gourd flower borne by the spiritual root from outside the sky to wither!"

"True Person Quxuan was furious and said: 'You do not care about the feelings of the sect, and you have injured the master's legacy. From now on, our friendship will be like this gourd flower, drifting and falling. If this flower does not bloom again, you will never return!'"

"This was originally an angry remark, and from then on, there was little contact between Changming and Qiongquan, until three thousand years ago..."

Feng Feng Yangzi sold a mystery and smiled, "I don't know if True Person Quxuan calculated it in advance, or if it was a coincidence, but there was a turning point! Do you know what the turning point was, Fellow Daoist?"

Brother Qian Chen thought for a moment and smiled, "Could it be that another flower grew on that gourd spiritual root?"

Feng Feng Yangzi looked up and laughed, "What you said is correct, Fellow Daoist. This was originally an opportunity for the two sects to reconcile, but..."

He sighed slightly and began to tell the story, his voice melodious and his eloquence excellent: "The Changming Sect took that spiritual vein immortal island as its foundation, and gradually the population grew and the branches flourished. On the contrary, although the Qiongquan Sect's heritage was the most orthodox, through the generations, there were often only a few dozen disciples, and it was divided into two branches. Although there were Soul Transformation experts sitting in town, the power was much weaker compared to Changming."

"With one strong and one weak, the branches being stronger than the trunk, hidden dangers were buried. The Changming Sect pretended to be friendly with Qiongquan, using the excuse of the gourd flower blooming and the fulfillment of True Person Quxuan's words from before, to resolve the old grievances between the two sects!"

"This is a beautiful thing. What are the hidden dangers you mentioned, Fellow Daoist?" Brother Qian Chen asked knowingly.

True Person Feng Yang sighed: "The Changming Sect used the opportunity of the two sects reconciling to gradually develop influence in Qiongquan. After several hundred years, the then-sect master of Qiongquan, who was also a descendant of True Person Quxuan, the Han family, gradually realized something was wrong. They began to clean up the internal sect and strengthen their defenses against Changming, intending to weaken the forces Changming had planted in Qiongquan."

"But it is easy to invite a wolf into the house, and how difficult it is to drive the wolf away. After several generations of fighting, the Changming Sect finally found an opportunity. Taking advantage of the death of the Qiongquan Han family's Soul Transformation expert and the lack of successors for the sect master's lineage, they shockingly incited the forces within the sect that supported the Changming Sect, causing internal strife in Qiongquan, eliminating many loyal Qiongquan disciples, and swallowing the Qiongquan Sect in one gulp!"

"This Yun He True Person was invited along with various high-ranking people to witness the fighting between the two branches when the Han family was making a desperate counterattack." Feng Feng Yangzi naturally led to this matter.

"I don't know, what was the procedure for that fight?" Brother Qian Chen asked, "Yun He True Person... was there any unfairness?"

"There was no unfairness, and it even looked like he was favoring Qiongquan! Because Qiongquan had no more Soul Transformation experts, it was divided into three arrays: Nascent Soul, Core Formation, and Penetrating the Law. After the three arrays were compared, the Nascent Soul late-stage True Person of the Han family died, and the most talented Core Formation True Person of Qiongquan's younger generation fought to the death, and his cultivation was almost abolished, only then winning one array."

"And the person in the Penetrating the Law realm actually defected to the Changming Sect on the spot! And these three people were actually from the same master-disciple lineage..."

Feng Feng Yangzi's words were filled with endless sighs, obviously having no good feelings for the person who defected on the spot.

Brother Qian Chen nodded slightly, but he had already calculated the cause and effect of this past event in his heart, secretly thinking: "If this is the case, things will be interesting!"

"Yun He True Person was invited to witness this matter, and it sounds like there was nothing suspicious. The Changming Sect's counter-devouring of its own origin lineage is just a dispute within its own sect!"

"But if Yun He True Person, or rather the Qingyu Sect, is really the dark hand left by the force I thought of. Then his previous actions of blocking the Zhang Tian Shi Dao from annexing the sixteen overseas sects, and even secretly forming an adverse current against Shaoqing, were to block the development of the Dao Sect's power overseas."

"And if there is also the shadow of that force behind the Changming Sect matter, its infiltration overseas is truly terrifying!"

"It would be best if there is really no conspiracy in this matter. Otherwise, if the Changming Sect is infiltrated and Shaoqing is unaware... now that they are intervening in the East Sea with Qiongquan as a springboard, I don't know how many overseas sects have already been secretly controlled by that force!"

Brother Qian Chen had this thought, and his vigilance grew deeper. Between flashes of thought, he decided to push this game forward to probe the bottom of the matter.

"I have already understood your intention, Fellow Daoist."

Brother Qian Chen did not hesitate and said, "If I use the Golden Leaf Immortal Apricot as bait to refine spiritual pills, I am confident that I can lure the Divine Gourd three years in advance!"

Feng Feng Yangzi's eyes flashed with essence when he heard this, and he immediately said seriously, "The Divine Gourd's migration has its own laws. How many miles away can this pill lure it from!"

Brother Qian Chen opened his five fingers and said firmly, "Five thousand miles!"

"Good!" Feng Feng Yangzi stood up suddenly: "Then this game depends on your ability, Fellow Daoist!"

"Also... to increase the temptation of this pill bait, you must provide me with some branches and leaves of that original spiritual root as auxiliary materials to refine into the pill." Brother Qian Chen said gloomily.

Feng Feng Yangzi suddenly turned his head and stared at Brother Qian Chen for a while before whispering, "It will be as you wish, Fellow Daoist! But you should know, Gui Xu is not a good place. Even with the protection of the Divine Gourd, it is not entirely safe..."

"If Yun He has any plans, he must be coming for Gui Xu!" Feng Feng Yangzi had already seen that although he didn't know why, Brother Qian Chen, like him, had deep misgivings about Yun He True Person, and... seemed even more wary than him!

"Please rest assured, Fellow Daoist..." Brother Qian Chen said with his hands behind his back: "This kind of killing game involves so much that I'm afraid half of the East Sea will be involved. Since we still have a second chance, I will not act rashly!" ===== CHAPTER 534 =====