Chapter 760: The Reverse Saint's Red Lotus, the Dharma Realm About to Form

【Ying Mo Shen's Cang Xing Fa still needs to be patched up…】

Having his movements seen through at a glance, Li Yuan turned over this thought in his heart, yet he was not alarmed. Instead, he stepped out of the shadows, cupped his hands in greeting, and said:

"Li Yuan of the Underworld, paying respects to you, Senior."

Li Yuan had stopped to watch the battle for a long time, not to loot corpses, but to keenly seize an entry point from the two combatants' heated exchange.

An entry point into the Ru Zui Fa Jie battlefield.

"Underworld?"

Yu Yu Xuanji gave a slight start. A trace of disgust and hatred flashed through his eyes, then he rose to his full height and vanished into the cold wind:

"Follow me."

Li Yuan silently adjusted his weapon combination and followed.

He discovered that Yu Yu Xuanji was in possession of an extremely masterful Cang Xing Zhi Fa; if he had let his gaze wander for even a moment, he would have lost him.

……

Half a shichen later, when Li Yuan came to a halt, he had already arrived in a Shenshan shrouded in miasma. The moment he raised his eyes, he saw a ruined temple quite similar to the Three Saints Temple.

The ruined temple had no plaque, and within it stood several broken divine statues whose original forms could no longer be made out.

But what he could be certain of was that these divine statues were certainly not recorded on the Three Teachings Rank Chart.

"Hoo—"

"Hee—"

In the ruined temple, Yu Yu Xuanji sat on the ground, his breathing long and steady. Though he was not drawing in the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth, his complexion was much improved over before, as if he had swallowed some kind of spirit pill.

【This temple…】

Li Yuan paused in the courtyard, surveying the ruined temple with its nine stories above and below, taking in every trace with his eyes.

Among the crumbling walls and broken tiles, he saw a relatively intact divine statue. From its appearance, it seemed to be in the likeness of a Vajra Bodhisattva, with only half its head remaining — he could not tell whether it was smiling or glaring in wrath.

"That is Jin Xian."

At that moment, Yu Yu Xuanji's voice came through.

This great cultivator at the peak of the sixth realm had already steadied his breathing, but the aura of decay on his body grew ever thicker, clearly indicating that his failed Tribulation Crossing had damaged him grievously.

"Jin Xian… the legendary sixth sovereign of Xuanhuang?"

Li Yuan's heart stirred.

Jin Xian, an unprecedented prodigy of the Xuanhuang Great World, favored by the Xuanhuang World Tree, had already attained the Dao several epochs ago, his fame surpassing even that of the Misty Waves Fishing Elder.

Before the Xuanhuang Realm was sealed, he was vaguely hailed as the sixth sovereign of Xuanhuang…

"Sixth sovereign? Hasn't been that for a long time."

Yu Yu Xuanji sighed. He could see the astonishment in the cultivator before him, but did not explain. Instead, he asked in a low voice:

"Underworld cultivators never come without profit in mind. Have you come here to scheme after the Ru Zui Fa Jie?"

This blunt?

Li Yuan was so taken aback by the question that he nearly choked, but on second thought, he figured it didn't matter much.

Underworld wanderers were a mixed lot, and among them there were bound to be Xuanhuang cultivators; Underworld missions were largely an open secret.

"Correct."

His thoughts flashing like lightning, Li Yuan nodded.

"As expected…"

Yu Yu Xuanji's gaze darkened. If this had been before the Ruo Shi Fa net appeared, hearing such words, he would have slain this otherworldly demonic cultivator even at the cost of his Suffering heavy injuries.

But now…

Yu Yu Xuanji was silent for a moment, then said: "Your realm alone does not qualify you to scheme after the Ru Zui Fa Jie. Who stands behind you?"

"May I ask in what capacity the Senior asks me this?"

Li Yuan countered.

The shattering of the Fa Heaven had too great an impact on cultivators. Relying on the enhanced perception of the Weapon Register, he could faintly detect the faintest stirrings of emotion in this great cultivator before him.

Though it lasted only a moment, it was clearly not goodwill.

But he did not much care. Whether in the present world or the Opening Gui Xu, the number of forces that could harbor goodwill toward an Underworld wanderer was, to say the least, few enough to count on one hand.

"Hmm?"

A trace of fierce brutality rose in Yu Yu Xuanji's eyes, then he suppressed it and said calmly:

"I am Yu Yu Xuanji, a disciple under Ancestor Hunyi. My Ancestor is the Red Lotus Envoy of the Ni Sheng Hui. Is that enough qualification to question you?"

Daoist Hunyi?

Never heard of him…

Li Yuan grumbled inwardly, feeling keenly that his intelligence gathering had been insufficient. On his face, of course, he appeared quite awed:

"The name of Ancestor Hunyi rings in my ears like thunder, yet I do not know — what is this Zhu Sheng Hui?"

【How does this little demonic whelp not know anything?】

Yu Yu Xuanji frowned inwardly, but on reflection, this demonic cultivator was clearly a mere pawn, so he steadied his thoughts and reluctantly answered a few questions.

The Zhu Sheng Hui, as the name suggested, was a force that opposed the Three Saints of Xuanhuang.

Within this assembly were all Xuanhuang cultivators who were not tolerated by the Three Saints' teachings. Its leader was Jin Xian, and under his command were thirty-six Red Lotus Envoys, all great cultivators of the Shi Jing.

Take Ancestor Hunyi, for instance — only half a step from Dao Lord, he was the Zhu Sheng Hui's man in charge of affairs in the Ru Zui Fa Jie.

"Any cultivator outside the Fa net may join our Zhu Sheng Hui, even cultivators from other worlds."

Yu Yu Xuanji paused slightly, then said:

"Who stands behind you?"

Li Yuan did not answer, but simply traced two Origin Divine Characters in the air with his hand, then erased them in an instant.

"Daoist Yuan Ming?"

As Yun Yun Changlong's thoughts shifted, he realized he had heard this name before, yet when he calculated with his fingers, he felt a deep chill.

'A great cultivator above the Jiu Jing...'

While his mind raced, Li Yuan traced out two more characters:

"Five Declines."

"Hmm?"

Yun Yun Changlong's gaze sharpened; he had indeed heard of the Five Declines Daoist, for one who dared to curse a Bodhisattva to death and yet survive bore a reputation far greater than that of Daoist Yuan Ming.

The Shan Xuan Huang Law Net severed the inner and outer worlds, yet the Saint-Slaying Assembly naturally possessed channels to gather intelligence from the outside.