Chapter 678: Admonition

Yan Buji leads Xiao Lu strolling inside the sect, saying: "This place is not yet our main base; it's the Outer Gate of the Paolong Sacred Land. Once our sect's base is repaired, it will be larger than this."

Xiao Lu looks around curiously: "Yan Buji, are you going to stay here forever?"

Yan Buji pauses, asks: "If I'm not here, where could I go?"

"Hmm… go home?"

Yan Buji smiles: "We cultivators call the four seas our home."

Xiao Lu, perhaps just after shapeshifting, has many thoughts she can't articulate, her cheeks flushing, says: "I mean, go to your old home."

Old home?

Yan Buji, puzzled: "Why would you want me to return to my old home?"

"I don't know." Xiao Lu shakes her head: "But it seems the old home is your true destination."

"Is that so?"

"This is the innate divine ability of the Precious Beast clan, a sense of the mysterious. We can forecast a person's fortune trend; perhaps she felt that good things would happen if you return to your old home." Jianfan Fairy walks over, saying.

Yan Buji turns, quickly bows: "Jianfan Fairy, have you finished talking with the Ancestor Master and the others?"

"Hmm." Jianfan nods, walks over and pats Xiao Lu's head: "Xiao Lu, remember, if you ever encounter danger, come here to find him."

"Okay, will Yan Buji protect me?" Xiao Lu tilts her head, looking at Yan Buji.

Yan Buji smiles: "Naturally. Jianfan Fairy has helped me so much; I ought to repay."

Yet Yan Buji also hears the subtext in Jianfan's words, feeling as if it's a dying person's entrusting.

Yan Buji hesitates, asks: "Jianfan Fairy, what are your plans from now on?"

"No need to be overly attentive; take care of yourself first. I've already told you not to meddle with the Youming Jie, yet you insist. When the time comes, don't come back crying." Jianfan hums.

Yan Buji, puzzled: "Is the Youming Jie really that avoidable?"

Jianfan waves a hand, says little else.

Immediately, Jianfan grabs Xiao Lu, laughing: "Then we'll leave now. Oh right, since you insist on meddling with the Youming Jie, hurry and gather the Seven Great Wonders."

"Wonders?"

In Yan Buji's puzzled gaze, Jianfan drags Xiao Lu and vanishes.

Yan Buji finds it odd: "Can she sense how many wonders I have on me?"

But what does this have to do with the Youming Jie?

"Is it because of the Seven Treasures Seizing Heaven Technique?" Yan Buji is somewhat confused.

Though the Seven Treasures Seizing Heaven Technique does have some divination ability, its specific function should be to alter the laws of a realm.

Could I need to prepare such a means to get through some crisis?

Yan Buji ponders carefully.

After a while.

He Yun finds Yan Buji, then says: "Has Jianfan Fairy left?"

"She already left." Yan Buji recalls something, asks: "Sect Master, this time the Ancestor Master summoned Jianfan Fairy, is she about to undertake some great task?"

He Yun looks at Yan Buji in surprise: "She told you?"

"Not explicitly...."

Yan Buji offers his speculation, feeling that Jianfan might indeed be about to do something big, hence the entrusting tone.

He Yun also doesn't say much, just shakes his head: "What Jianfan Fairy intends to do is beyond our concern; even if someone could help her, across the Nine Heavens and Five Domains there are no more than six."

Six?

Yan Buji's complexion changes; it does seem like a big matter.

"Sect Master, may I ask another question: will what she intends affect us?"

"Rest assured, not getting involved won't affect us much."

Yan Buji hesitates, thinking it couldn't be that Jianfan is doing something in the Youming Jie, otherwise why has she kept telling me not to meddle with the Youming Jie?

Yan Buji, somewhat puzzled, asks: "Sect Master, what issues does the Youming Jie currently involve, why does Jianfan Fairy repeatedly warn me not to get involved?"

"That's not for us to know." He Yun shakes his head: "But if it's just business, there shouldn't be any major incident. No one would dare confront our Great Sinful Sect! If such a person exists, I will act, and the Ancestor Master won't ignore it!"

Receiving the Sect Master's reply, Yan Buji feels a bit safer.

Indeed.

Although Yan Buji knows Jianfan is unlikely to harm him, so he hadn't considered any further ties to the Youming Jie, now backed by the Great Sinful Sect, with strong members everywhere, doing business shouldn't lead to being chased to the ends of the world, right?

Even so, would the other side dare to storm the sect to trouble him?

Thinking of this, Yan Buji is no longer afraid; before he had no backing and had to be cowardly, now with backing he wouldn't be cowardly—what's the point of coming here?

"Since that's the case, let's wait another two months."

"Hmm, how's your formation study going?"

Yan Buji's complexion changes, laughs awkwardly: "Well, Sect Master, my Alchemical Furnace over there needs me to go check; it's about to explode, I must leave!"

Yan Buji darts off, He Yun chuckles wryly and shakes his head.

"Ancestor Master?"

He Yun suddenly senses something, turns back.

Xue Daoren, having been standing behind He Yun since an unknown time, holds his arms and says nothing.

"Ancestor Master, what is this?"

"Those old guys in the Youming Jie aren't that powerful." Xue Daoren looks strange: "Never mind, I'm just going out for a walk; staying here all day makes my bones rust, I'll go take a look!"

"Hey, Ancestor Master!"

He Yun hasn't finished speaking when Xue Daoren disappears.

He Yun sighs: "As the Sect Master I am, no one listens to me anymore."

When Yan Buji returned to Lian Dan Tang, he carefully recalled the words Jian Fan had said today.

If I truly encounter a situation where I need a method capable of changing one side of heaven and earth to resolve my own danger... then the danger I will face will at least be of this level.

Yan Buji trusted Jian Fan's words greatly, after all, what she said was basically true, and she has never deceived herself.

But where can one learn such heaven‑changing, earth‑shifting ability?

Not to mention his Martial and Law Dual Cultivation, I'm afraid even if he cultivated to the God Transformation realm he still couldn't do it.

Yan Buji's eyes shifted: "If I could use the Heaven Gate Law to escape, wouldn't that be the same? The trouble is only that once the opponent masters some space‑sealing technique, I couldn't run; but since there are space‑sealing techniques, there must also be space‑splitting techniques."

Thinking this, Yan Buji sent a message to Zhou Wan'an, wanting to hear what this Hall Master of the Transmitting Skills Hall had to say.

"Hall Master Yan, you're looking for me?!" Zhou Wan'an came running nonstop, laughing as he spoke.

"Well, we're about to start trading in the Youming Realm; how are your preparations going?"

"Everything's already ready; if it weren't for the people from the Sect Master's side... well, I won't say that. Hall Master Yan, do you have other business with me?"

Yan Buji nodded: "I'd like to consult—are there any powerful space‑splitting techniques?"

"Space‑splitting techniques? Yes, there are, but only cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage can practice them." Zhou Wan'an nodded, glancing at Yan Buji.

Although he knew Yan Buji was a Martial Dao Nascent Soul, he had no Martial Dao Profound Skill for Yan Buji to cultivate.