On the mirror, the main hall of the sacrificial temple was empty.
They waited in the Virtual Sky World for a year. The trapped cultivators in the clouds finally killed all the ghost cultivators and left.
They waited for more than half a month, but they didn't come back.
"Shouldn't we also leave?" Mo Tiange asked the others for their opinion.
Everyone looked at each other. In the end, Nie Wushang said, "I think we can go."
Jing Xingzhi stretched his waist. "Let's go. It's not convenient to practice swordsmanship here." In fact, as soon as he started practicing, Mo Tiange rushed out and ordered him not to destroy the bamboo forest.
But how big was this place?
As a Nascent Soul sword cultivator, how could he control his swordsmanship within a few miles?
That being the case, he didn't envy this so-called space crack at all. He wasn't a Dharma cultivator who could make a realm-breakthrough by meditating.
Yang Chengji also nodded.
For Devil Cultivators, the rich spiritual aura here was nothing to be envious of. He couldn't wait to leave.
Finally, Qin Xi said, "They've been gone for so long; they probably won't come back."
Mo Tiange made a decision. "Okay, let's clean up and go out!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly felt all the spiritual aura in her body flow and rush outside.
Everyone was stunned. Jing Xingzhi, who was twisting his waist halfway, stopped. "What's going on?"
Mo Tiange stood up and pushed the door open. She saw flashing spiritual light outside and countless spiritual aura visible to the naked eye rushing to one place.
"Xiaofan!" She was surprised.
Feifei squatted on Stone's shoulder. Stone sat in front of Xiaofan's nest by the stream and stared at it.
When it saw them coming out, Feifei scratched its golden fur and said faintly, "It actually beat me to it."
It was very resentful. It was the first spiritual beast to absorb the divine beast's breath, and it had already taken human form. How could it let Xiaofan beat it to it?
It only had Black Tortoise's breath for a year!
Mo Tiange said, "Who told you to be so lazy?
Even Xiaohuo is more diligent than you! "
"I'm not lazy anymore …" After he was ordered to enter Closed Door Meditation, he was already very diligent, but things like realm-breakthroughs were hard to say!
Qin Xi said, "Xiaofan is nearly a thousand years old. It's always been diligent in its cultivation and has accumulated a lot of experience. Now that it obtained Black Tortoise's breath, it broke through its shackles in one fell swoop. It's not strange at all."
Among the few spirit beasts, Lil Fan was the one who had accumulated the most. Moreover, it was well-behaved and never slacked off in its cultivation. Its advancement was a matter of course.
After watching for a while, Mo Tiange raised her voice and said, "Xiaofeng?"
In midair, Xiao Feng transformed into her human form. Her red clothes fluttered as she landed. "Master, Madam."
"I'll leave this place to you." Mo Tiange pointed at Xiaofan.
Xiao Feng nodded. "I understand."
"Let's go," Mo Tiange said. "Xiaofan's realm-breakthrough isn't something that can be done in just one or two days."
Jing Xingzhi sighed. "Another one …"
Mo Tiange ignored him and summoned the bead between her eyebrows. She then cast an incantation to send them out of the Virtual Sky World.
The Black Tortoise Sacrificial Temple was quiet and devoid of any human activity.
The five of them cautiously made sure that no one was around before coming out of the shrine.
When they came out of the sacrificial temple, there was only a little dead aura around them. It was obvious that the ghost cultivators had all been killed.
Going back along the original path, they found that the road was incredibly clean. The black water in the karst cave had decreased a lot, and the power of the condensed "people" was greatly reduced. Mo Tiange guessed that the black water also existed by relying on the dead aura produced by the ghost cultivators. Now that the ghost cultivators had been slaughtered and the source of the dead aura was gone, presumably the black water would also disappear slowly.
After walking through the karst cave, they found that the cracked canyon was empty and only left with the dead aura.
Looking down from above, they could vaguely see that the canyon was full of broken walls, tiles, and piles of bones.
Presumably, this used to be a human settlement, but it suddenly encountered a shocking change and everyone suffered a disaster. That was why it became a world of ghost cultivators.
After passing the canyon and crossing the underground river, they drilled out of the cave and found that the atmosphere in Carefree Valley had changed greatly. The remaining spiritual aura fluctuated violently.
"What's going on?" Jing Xingzhi frowned. "Fighting alone shouldn't have such a big impact, right?"
Mo Tiange spread her divine sense and said a moment later, "Sure enough, Devil Monarch Moon Shadow and the others have long prepared a trap, waiting for them to step into it."
"What trap?"
"A killing formation that's even more dangerous than the Great Mountain-Protecting Formation of a big cultivation group. It's probably the work of Five Elements Valley," Mo Tiange said.
"Let's go quickly. With such a great formation, Carefree Valley is full of danger. If we get dragged into it again, it'll be troublesome."
Everyone understood that the two forces in Yunzhong were fighting, so they'd better leave as soon as possible.
Following Mo Tiange, they took many turns, bypassed the dangerous formation, and quickly left Carefree Valley.
There was no one outside Carefree Valley; it was no longer as grand as before. Without any delay, they left Jia Ling Mountain Range and went to the nearest cultivator town to borrow a Transporting Formation.
When they arrived at a small town not far from Jia Ling Mountain Range, they found that there were many high level cultivators coming and going in the town. Among them, there was no lack of Nascent Soul cultivators, while the low level cultivators were trembling with fear and acting cautiously.
Yang Chengji volunteered to scout for information. After a while, he came back and said, "Yunzhong is in chaos."
Mo Tiange hastily asked, "What's the situation?"
Yang Chengji said, "Sure enough, Devil Monarch Yue Ying set up a trap in Carefree Valley. More than fifty Nascent Soul cultivators were killed or injured, and only twenty managed to escape, including Master Daoist Yuanmu of Jiuyan Sect.
In the past year, Yue Mountain Academy, Danxia Sect, and Five Elements Valley put pressure on Jiuyan Sect. Nearly ten Nascent Soul cultivators from Jiuyan Sect went missing, and the people of Jiuyan Sect were in chaos. Fortunately, they had a solid foundation and Master Daoist Iron Mask oversaw the situation, so they managed to hold on.
As soon as Master Daoist Yuanmu escaped and returned to Jiuyan Sect, he declared war on the three great sects. "
"Ah!" Nie Wushang said in surprise, "Although Jiuyan Sect is powerful, how can they fight against the three great sects?
Are their losses serious? "
"It doesn't seem serious. Jiuyan Sect didn't announce how many casualties they suffered."
Jiuyan Sect naturally wouldn't announce this kind of information. However, judging from their confident looks, their losses shouldn't be big.
Qin Xi said slowly, "The Nascent Soul cultivators who escaped from Carefree Valley all chose to stand on Jiuyan Sect's side. The three great sects schemed against them, so how could they tolerate this?
In this way, both sides can stand on equal footing. "
"Exactly."
Yang Chengji nodded. "The Devil Path and the Buddhist Path aren't calm either. Night Owl City also declared war on Moon Shadow City. Venerable Xuxiang and Devil Monarch Night Frost joined hands to attack Moon Shadow City. There's also Old Donkey Ma …" In the end, he sighed. "Most of the forces in Yunzhong are involved. Presumably, it won't be peaceful for at least several decades."
"What about Lingyunhe?" Mo Tiange asked, "Do you have any news about him?"
"He's fine," Yang Chengji said faintly, "It can be said that he profited from a disaster and regained Master Daoist Yuanmu's trust."
Mo Tiange nodded. She felt relieved if that was the case.
The five of them were silent for a while. In the end, Mo Tiange said, "Fellow Daoist Yang, what do you plan to do next?"
Yang Chengji said without hesitation, "I don't want to get involved in Yunzhong's affairs, but if you have any news about the sacrificial temple, please allow me to go with you."
Mo Tiange nodded. After fighting side by side this time, Yang Chengji proved his trustworthiness with his actions. They had no reason to refuse such a helper.
"Then … Shall we go back to Yunzhong?" She turned to look at Qin Xi.
Qin Xi uttered an "en" and said, "Yunzhong is in chaos, so it'd be better for us to leave. What about you?" He looked at Jing Xingzhi and Nie Wushang.
Nie Wushang said, "I want to enter Closed Door Meditation for a while, then I'll go back to Yunzhong to solve a matter." She looked calm. Obviously, she had already thought about it carefully.
Mo Tiange thought for a moment and immediately knew what matter Nie Wushang wanted to solve. She looked at her and said, "If you need help, come to me."
Nie Wushang nodded then smiled. "I'm afraid I won't have this chance. I have to do this matter myself." That was her own karma.
Mo Tiange also smiled and patted her shoulder. "Then I wish you all the best."
"What about you?
Are you willing to accept my suggestion? "Qin Xi looked at Jing Xingzhi.
Jing Xingzhi stretched his body then said, "I'll go back with you." He seemed to say it casually without the slightest hesitation. Presumably, he'd thought about it for a long time.
Qin Xi was surprised to see him agree. "You've thought it through?"
Jing Xingzhi smiled faintly. "You're right. At this critical moment, what's the use of thinking about those things?
Gujian Sect is my beginning. I want to go back and take back everything my master lost! "
Perhaps he didn't have the same reverence for Gujian Sect anymore, but there were people he respected in Gujian Sect. Whether it was his late master or Venerable Swordsman Yuanying, he didn't want their efforts to go to waste.
If it was really like what they said, that the world would be destroyed after the world fell into chaos, he still wanted to go back to Gujian Sect.
"Hey, if you go back to Gujian Sect, what's your title?
Venerable Swordsman Xingzhi?
Ah, no, I have to pick up goosebumps. "
Jing Xingzhi rolled his eyes at Mo Tiange and said, "Among our Gujian Sect's titles, some are names, some are Daoist names, and some are sword names. I've never taken a Daoist name, so I'll naturally take my sword name as my title."
Although Gujian Sect was also based on Daoist Laws, it wasn't like orthodox Daoist groups where Core Formation cultivators took Daoist names, Dao Masters, and Lord Daoists. Whether they took Daoist names or not was entirely up to them.
Among Venerable Swordsman Nascent Soul, Yuanying was his name, Fuling and Zhongguang were his Daoist names, and Xiaohe was his sword name.
Jing Xingzhi's name was three characters, and he didn't have a Daoist name, so he naturally followed the habit of taking his sword name as his title and took it as Venerable Swordsman Still Water.
"Venerable Swordsman Still Water, Venerable Swordsman Still Water …" Mo Tiange repeated it twice and held back her laughter. "They really match …"
Jing Xingzhi ignored her.
"Congratulations." Nie Wushang nodded at him with a smile.
Jing Xingzhi, who was used to Nie Wushang's sarcastic remarks from time to time, felt awkward and asked cautiously, "Are you normal?"
Nie Wushang stopped smiling and said seriously, "Do you want to change your sword name?"
"…"
"If there's nothing else, let's go!" Qin Xi said, "Our group is too eye-catching, so we better not stay here for too long."
Mo Tiange nodded and said, "Let's leave a message for Ling Yunhe. After all, he's now our companion."
No one objected.
Mo Tiange thought for a moment then said to Nie Wushang and Yang Chengji, "You two have the Primordial Devil Great Technique, so you'd better leave Yunzhong to avoid running into Moon Shadow Devil Monarch."
Yang Chengji said, "I still have some things to deal with. After I'm done, I'll leave Yunzhong and maybe go to the Celestial Pole."
Nie Wushang said, "I've already decided to go to Xiaoyang to hide."
Mo Tiange was stunned. "Xiaoyang?"
"En." Nie Wushang nodded. "Xiaoyang is a barren place with complicated people. It's a good place to hide.
Whether it's Yunzhong or the Celestial Pole, they're not suitable for me right now. "
Mo Tiange thought of Master Song Feng and sighed.
The five of them finally agreed that Yang Chengji would send a message to Ling Yunhe, then they would exchange Ten Thousand Miles Sound-Transmitting Talismans with each other to decide on a place to contact each other.