Changes in Wuji
"This Mister of the [Assassin] Path, the Heaven-Reaching Star Position has already been prepared for you."
A staff member stood behind The Assassin, speaking calmly.
The Assassin didn't die in battle, so naturally he didn't need to be resurrected either. He only had a large amount of bandages wrapped around his body, sitting alone on a short peak at the edge of the Old District, silently watching the moonlight above his head.
"Mister?"
Seeing that The Assassin had no reaction, the staff member repeated himself.
Only then did The Assassin recover his senses, shifting his gaze away from that streak of moonlight, "I got it... Wait for me at the side for a moment, I need to go to the bathroom."
"Uh... okay, then please hurry."
The staff member scratched his head somewhat awkwardly, and ultimately still walked down the short peak.
The hazy moonlight sprinkled on the ground in front of him, as if covered with a layer of white frost.
A faint Aura spread on that moonlight...
"... Indeed."
The Assassin seemed to have detected something, a trace of surprise flashing in his eyes. "Moonlight as an 'Anomaly', contains an Aura extremely similar to my 'Maohua'... There's no mistake, this is the legend that father mentioned back then..."
The Assassin pursed his lips slightly. After hesitating for a moment, he still knelt on one knee, respectfully cupping his fists to that bright moon overlooking the world:
"Junior Cui Ran, greets the Pathway Chief of the [Assassin] Path."
"Do you... have any guidance?"
...
"Please, Mister Huai Meng." The staff member behind spoke. "... This is what you deserve."
The Young Sect Leader slowly stopped his steps in front of the Heaven-Reaching Star Position.
He looked at that throne shrouded in starlight. Behind him, it was as if there were figures cheerfully applauding and cheering.
"Young Sect Leader! You really did it!"
"You're too amazing, Young Sect Leader! You are the pride of our Esoteric Sect! Father will definitely be very happy when we go back this time."
"From now on, you are the pillar of our Hanging Jade Domain. When Lord [Tian Huai] returns, he will definitely be proud of you!"
"Young Sect Leader, you must eat more when eating in the future. The man who supports the Hanging Jade Domain has to grow stronger..."
"..."
The whimpering wind brushed past the Young Sect Leader's ears, and those voices gradually disappeared without a trace.
In a daze, a towering figure unconsciously surfaced before the Young Sect Leader's eyes. That person stood in front of him, standing in a place further than the Heaven-Reaching Star Position. After looking back at him with a glance, he walked into the dark night alone... only leaving behind a blurred and unreachable back.
"Brother... I will catch up to you very soon." The Young Sect Leader silently clenched his fists tight, a trace of resoluteness emerging in his eyes,
"One day, I will rescue you from the Wuji Domain... and bring you home."
The Young Sect Leader stepped onto the Heaven-Reaching Star Position step by step, and sat down on the throne...
In the next moment, starlight became resplendent!
In the distance, the Master of the Babel Tower and the several domain representatives looked back, only to see that several Heaven-Reaching Star Positions had already been activated, the resplendent pillars of starlight shooting straight into the clouds.
"Of the seven Heaven-Reaching Star Positions, five have already chosen their masters, and one was smashed by the Dusk Society... What should we do about the last quota?"
"I heard that some young chosen ones from further domains haven't arrived yet, and the Red Dust Domain hasn't sent anyone either... How about this, the competition time for the last Star Position will be extended by another week."
"Extended by a week? That works too... Then how do we screen people, by fighting in an arena?"
"Those screened by fighting in an arena are all Divine Pathways adept at combat. We already have five such Divine Pathways now. For the last quota, let's give other Divine Pathways some chances. Some Divine Pathways, although not adept at head-on combat, possess extremely powerful abilities, such as the Path of the Physician, the Path of the Actor, and so on..."
"The last Star Position quota, based on potential and functionality as conditions, will be uniformly screened by representatives sent by the Five Great Realms."
"Understood."
Just as the several domain representatives were discussing, a figure hurriedly ran over from afar!
"What's going on, panicking like this."
"There's... there's news from the Wuji Domain side again!"
The complexions of the several representatives stiffened, immediately becoming serious, as they asked in deep voices: "What's the situation?"
"It's said that the situation inside the Wuji Domain is currently chaotic. A group of public members spontaneously crossed the border of the Wuji Domain, seemingly planning to cross the Gray World on foot to seek refuge in the Tianshu Domain."
"What?"
The several representatives were stunned, and subsequently asked, "How many people are there?"
"When they set off, there seemed to be two to three hundred people... But now, it's hard to say."
"Two to three hundred people? Crossing the Gray World on foot together? Are they crazy?" One representative knitted his brows tightly. "Once humans are exposed to the Gray World, they will continuously attract Calamities, and they themselves will also be affected by the Gray World, causing all sorts of mutations... They're courting death!"
"Indeed, doing this is too absurd. Although the Wuji Domain is perilous and chaotic, compared to the Gray World, it should still be much safer."
Just as the several representatives were puzzled, the messenger opened his mouth, but still spoke:
"It's said... they are doing this because someone passed on a prophecy..."
"What prophecy?"
"The Wuji Domain is about to sacrifice the large district they are in to refine the Philosopher's Stone."
The representatives were simultaneously stunned.
"The Wuji Domain is going to start refining the Philosopher's Stone again?" The Master of the Babel Tower narrowed his eyes. "Has the Lord of Wuji awakened?"
"I don't know, all the intelligence right now is fragmented, there's fundamentally no way to accurately judge the situation inside the Wuji Domain... But once this news spread out, the residents in those large districts went crazy with anxiety. They all know the miserable state of the other large districts. Staying in place is definitely Ten Deaths and No Life."
"So... they took a desperate risk, wanting to cross the Gray World." The Master of the Babel Tower roughly understood the cause and effect, but there was one thing he still wasn't clear about,
"With so many of them, how did they cross the Wuji Domain silently? Wasn't it said that place had already been completely locked down?"
"It's the civilian Path of the Witch God scattered within the Wuji Domain that took action. Besides the Witchcraft Association, there are also a large number of small and medium-sized witchcraft organizations within the Wuji Domain. After undergoing a round of bloodbath by Brand previously, they had already turned from the light to the dark... Moreover, they seem to have also united with the Judgment Delegation sent by our Five Great Realms."
"Civilian Path of the Witch God..."
The several representatives muttered to themselves.
"Since they are witchcraft organizations, it's impossible they don't know how perilous the Gray World is." One representative said in a deep voice. "They dare to escort such a group of unarmed public members, does this mean they have the certainty to cross the Gray World?"
"Below the Seventh Rank, no one dares to say they have the certainty to cross the Gray World. I don't think there are any Seventh Rank Path of the Witch God practitioners surviving in the current Wuji Domain."
"Then for them to do this..."
"It's like this." The messenger paused for a moment,
"It's said that those civilian Path of the Witch God practitioners have some kind of means that can resist Gray Realm Contamination for a short time and isolate human Aura... That seems to be an item wrapped in bandages... Some also say it's a human wrapped all over in bandages."