Chapter 312

"Five great Immortal Sects already have disciples who have taken the ruins' fruits, their realms rising rapidly, without any abnormalities or evil transformation."

"However, the methods of the major Immortal Sects are different; some refine them into medicinal liquid to take, some refine them into elixirs, and some absorb them after melting them into the body's blood and energy."

"Additionally, west of the Mountain Sea Pavilion Daoist field in Yongzhou, the Heavenly Pool ruins have been opened."

"One of the five main veins of the Asking Dao Sect headed to Broken Soul Mountain."

"The Heavenly Sword Peak has had Boundless Realm aura surging these past few days; it seems a great realm expert has already tried the fruit."

On the rainy spring day, the sky was covered by dark clouds, all sides were gloomy, and the daylight couldn't penetrate.

Ji You was sitting in a tea house in a county town named Wang Yue in the southeast of Qingzhou, holding the little Appraisal Master's message in his hand, checking it carefully.

Since leaving the Pill Sect, he had come to this place without stopping, and then had been watching the Great Wilderness Forest for a long time, confirming that people were indeed entering and leaving the ruins.

But the Immortal Sects acted strictly, sealing off the surroundings of the Great Wilderness Forest, and even intercepted the surging torrents of the Fog River with secret techniques, causing him to turn around for a long time without being able to enter the ruins to find out.

However, there were constant auras of breaking the realm coming from the forest, which made Ji You confirm that someone had already taken the fruit.

After all, for the practitioners of the Azure Cloud World, when facing "immortal objects" that can improve realms, it is really hard for them to resist using them.

And this letter from Yan Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi completely confirmed his thoughts.

Even without the assistance of alchemists, they had already begun to try, and even researched various methods of taking the ruins' fruits.

Absorbing by melting into the body's blood and energy sounds truly high-end.

Ji You finished reading the letter, then asked the waiter for paper and pen, and wrote back to Yan Kuangcheng Yan Shuyi amidst the hidden thunder.

"There have been two contentions in the Great Wilderness Forest, with two major veins of the Asking Dao Sect drawing blades and swords against each other. It seems that like your Spirit Sword Mountain, the interior is not united, and now the so-called immortal fate has magnified their desires, and contradictions are growing; it is gratifying."

"In addition, the number of people coming and going in the forest has continued to decrease these past few days, especially experts above the Responding to Heaven Realm have almost all withdrawn. I think this place should have been emptied, perhaps this is the reason why the Mountain Sea Pavilion opened the ruins in front of their own door."

"No evil seeds have been found in the forest, which is a good thing. I will go to Yongzhou to see later."

"Qiu Ru doesn't love cultivation and is greedy for food; take good care of her, don't spoil her too much."

After the letter was written, Ji You put it into his sleeve, then drank the water in the teapot dry.

From the current point of view, the fruit in the ruins seems to be a great creation bestowed upon the human race by the Heavenly Dao, just like the Heavenly Dao favor that practitioners often think of.

But the ruins contain Dao fruits, and the appearance of immortal fate in a place that eats people is itself a problem.

But for Ji You, if this immortal fate really wouldn't brew a disaster, wouldn't cause corpses to lie all over the field, and wouldn't harm Fengzhou, he really wouldn't want to manage this kind of idle business.

Ji You pondered for a long time, then stood up and walked toward the tea house, deciding to go to the Heavenly Pool to take a look.

And with his standing up, the sixteen bamboo chopsticks arranged in an array on the table suddenly fell with a "clatter," as if they had been drawn of all support, scattering on the wooden table.

The spiritual energy gathered in the middle of the chopsticks lost its direction and instantly began to swirl, rolling the uneaten tea and food on the table until they flew everywhere.

After a few breaths, the spiritual energy gradually dissipated, and everything returned to peace.

The little servant in the tea house hadn't seen this strange thing, stared at it for a long time before trying to approach to clean it up.

Three days later, the temperature gradually rose, and wild flowers bloomed all over the hills.

Ji You flew to Yongzhou and headed toward the direction of Broken Soul Mountain in Yuzhou under the cover of night.

This place is in a warm wind zone, with a ring-shaped high mountain in the middle. The rainwater accumulated all year round makes the sunken mountain top form a huge lake, looking magnificent from afar, hence the name.

The Heavenly Pool ruins are in a desolate dense forest on its southeast side, with a scale even larger than the Great Wilderness Forest.

Yongzhou only has one Immortal Sect, the Mountain Sea Pavilion. Although it is not written in the Azure Cloud Immortal Rules, according to the default of the world, the Mountain Sea Pavilion is the true master of Yongzhou.

So unlike the posture of the Immortal Sects gathering in the Great Wilderness Forest, there were only Mountain Sea Pavilion disciples around the Heavenly Pool ruins, no other Immortal Sects, and the defense was even tighter than the Great Wilderness Forest.

However, although there was only one family, it didn't mean there was no contention.

Ji You had just converged his aura and entered the forest when he saw blades and swords flashing constantly, and spiritual energy flowing everywhere.

"Second Young Master, we belong to the same sect, why did you suddenly attack?"

"Father has already handed this matter over to me to handle entirely. I don't know what Huo Huo Xingzhong's intention is in arranging for you to come."

In the gloomy forest, a man wearing a gorgeous robe with a face like jade had cold eyes and spoke slowly.

The questioner raised his head after hearing this: "The Eldest Young Master is the next Sect Master of our Mountain Sea Pavilion, and naturally has the right to handle sect affairs. The Second Young Master is so aggressive, don't you feel it's somewhat overstepping?"

"Don't use this to suppress me. Eldest brother is just trying to take charge of the Holy Artifact, he is not yet the Sect Master."

"You..."

The gorgeously dressed man raised his eyes and looked at him: "After the ruins' fruit is taken out, I will naturally send it to the pavilion as it is. Please go back and tell Eldest brother to take charge of the artifact well, and don't waste his thoughts on worldly things."

Ji You watched this scene from the side, feeling it was quite interesting.

The inheritance mode of the Azure Cloud World determines the disorderly reproduction and dispersion of bloodlines. For example, if an Immortal Sect Sect Master gives birth to three sons, then these three sons will become the three major veins for the next hundred years.

For a huge Immortal Sect, three major veins are not many, but there are their elders, elder elders, all of whom will participate in the struggle for inheritance, betting in secret.

If it were normal times, everyone would sit in the deep mountains, competing in realm and talent; whoever is superior wins, and there wouldn't be too much friction.

But now that the ruins' immortal fate is born, it seems to have given everyone a cheating option, naturally provoking countless desires.

Ji You often saw in some literary works back then that so-and-so wealthy family had only one heir for three generations, five generations, etc., and always felt whether they had done too many evil deeds to not be able to give birth to a son.

But being in this environment, he understood that having only one heir is entirely to gather power in the continuation.

Otherwise, just splitting the family, within three generations, it would definitely tear apart a top-level family.

Even if the Immortal Sect has a Holy Artifact to suppress, the family won't split, but the struggle within the family will also rapidly consume a family's luck.

Ji You hadn't investigated the specific situation of the ruins during his time in the Great Wilderness Forest, but he learned quite a bit of gossip, and thus remembered some people.

For example, the Third Young Master of the Asking Dao Sect, and this Second Young Master of the Mountain Sea Pavilion.

The Third Young Master of the Asking Dao Sect is named Shang Shang Xijie, whose talent is no weaker than his direct elder brother Shang Senior Xi Yao, and he has always been eager to move toward the inheritance right.

The contention in the Great Wilderness Forest was because Shang Shang Xijie suddenly intervened. At that time, many Asking Dao Sect disciples were shouting for the Third Young Master.

And according to Ji You's observation, this Third Young Master had quite a few supporters behind him, all seeming to want to turn the tables by relying on the immortal fate in the ruins.

After all, although the Asking Dao Sect had just announced that Shang Senior Xi Yao would take charge of the artifact, it hadn't succeeded after all. For this Third Young Master, if he could also rely on immortal fate, it wasn't entirely without opportunity.

As for the Second Young Master of the Mountain Sea Pavilion, Huo Xingyun, his situation is similar to Shang Shang Xijie of the Asking Dao Sect.

The direct disciple Huo Huo Xingzhong is his half-brother, but since Huo Huo Xingzhong became a direct disciple, Huo Xingyun has always been unwilling.

If it were in the past, no matter how unwilling, it would just be incompetent rage, but the immortal fate of the ruins gave him a glimmer of hope.

This is like the struggle for the imperial throne; everyone will try their best to increase their advantages, no matter how unclear the risks are.

Even if they truly couldn't control the Holy Artifact in the end, as long as they increased their stakes before the change of power, they could avoid liquidation during the succession.

The stalemate in the gloomy mountain forest lasted for a long time, and finally, the people arranged by Huo Huo Xingzhong retreated temporarily.

After all, they belong to the same sect and couldn't really fight to the death on the surface.

Ji You watched that batch of people leave, his gaze turning back to Huo Xingyun.

He had just entered the Responding to Heaven Realm, his aura was stable, don't know if he had eaten the Zhu Fruit.

If he hadn't eaten it, he could indeed be considered a heaven's pride expert, which is why a desire for power struggle was vaguely revealed in his eyes.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think of the illegitimate son of the Mountain Sea Pavilion, Huo Hong, who broke two legs in the Dongping Mountain Range.

This person had no news after leaving the Dongping Mountain Range, and it seems he also became a sacrifice for the power struggle...

He is different; their family has no family business to inherit, and the follow-up is probably whoever's child inherits whose family's things.

Just as he was thinking, Ji You suddenly regained his composure.

In the gloomy mountain forest, a surging spiritual sense was attacking toward this place.

Seeing this scene, Ji You instantly snapped off a few branches hanging in front of his eyes, simultaneously quickly converging the golden light in his eyes, and leaped down from the cliff.

However, that spiritual sense pursued relentlessly, whistling along the mountain ridge.

Buzz!

The mountain forest trembled, ten thousand trees rustled.

An aged figure appeared under the night, his beard and hair like snow, his robe fluttering, like a giant eagle flapping its wings, his arms suddenly vibrated, and a pair of large hands covered in wrinkles suddenly slapped down across the air.

The vast palm force wrapped in a blinding mysterious light, like the Heavenly River pouring down, fiercely smashing toward the mountain foot.

In an instant, dust and sand rushed into the sky like an angry dragon, rocks splashed, and the piercing explosion awakened the entire dark night.

However, after the dust and sand dissipated, the old man couldn't help but furrow his brows.

Because the position he slapped down only had a few snapped branches and a spiritual stone smashed through by energy, with no trace of anyone, making him feel strange.

He clearly felt a faint spiritual energy fluctuation just now, chasing with the movement method of a Boundless Realm expert ignoring distance, how could he not find anyone.

The old man looked at those few branches and looked at the surrounding trees, his brows furrowing even tighter.