Behind them, standing at the entrance of the Night Weaving Gate's Enforcement Hall, the Enforcement Hall elder who had bowed toward Qin Qingyu's direction slowly raised his head.
Shadows shrouded this Enforcement Hall elder's face. When the light from the hall once again illuminated his face, what was revealed was a youthful and handsome countenance.
"Elder Qin addressing me as Fellow Daoist Xiao is far too excessive and undeserved," Xiao Bo'an said with a smile.
"Fellow Daoist Xiao need not be so modest," Qin Qingyu slowly turned around, "Fifteen years ago, after the Heavenly Summit Mountain Cataclysm ended, when I heard the news that you, Fellow Daoist Xiao, were still alive, I already knew you were certainly no simple character."
Because she had personally witnessed Xiao Bo'an's corpse on Heavenly Summit Mountain.
There was no possibility of feigning death.
"To receive such praise from the renowned Elder Qin, I am endlessly grateful," Xiao Bo'an laughed.
"If Fellow Daoist Xiao merely wanted to see me, with your status in the Mirage Palace, you could say there were ten thousand methods available," Qin Qingyu's gaze fell upon the corpses of those Night Weaving Gate disciples within the Enforcement Hall, "Yet you, Fellow Daoist Xiao, deliberately chose this suicidal approach."
"You cannot kill me," Xiao Bo'an stated.
"I have come to make a deal with you, Elder Qin," Xiao Bo'an said.
"Then Fellow Daoist Xiao truly does have sincerity," Qin Qingyu said calmly, her words naturally carrying a tone of sarcasm.
"If I didn't show some sincerity, how could I possibly convince Elder Qin to accept my business proposal?" Xiao Bo'an said with a laugh, as if killing over a dozen Star Heaven Sect inner disciples was some insignificant, trivial matter. "This world should belong to us, the contemporary prodigies of this era, not those so-called immortals who still cling to life in this world, isn't that right, Elder Qin?"
"Stop circling the point," Qin Qingyu said directly.
"I want the Heavenly Summit Mirror fragments from the Star Heaven Sect," Xiao Bo'an stated his demand.
"......"
Qin Qingyu said nothing.
Only, within the Enforcement Hall's main hall, a flash of moonlight suddenly gleamed.
In the next instant, Xiao Bo'an's head slowly slid to the ground.
Wishful thinking.
And he had killed so many Star Heaven Sect disciples...
Qin Qingyu hadn't yet decided how to handle this matter, but since it involved the other four great sects, she didn't have the authority to decide this alone.
Therefore, she planned to first communicate and report to the Star Heaven Sect's Grand Elders, then decide on subsequent actions.
Even though the current Mirage Palace had a reincarnated great power of the Immortal Ascension Realm overseeing it, while the Star Heaven Sect did not.
For Mirage Palace disciples to bully the Star Heaven Sect like this was absolutely intolerable for the Star Heaven Sect.
"What is the meaning of this, Elder Qin?"
At that moment, a corpse within the Enforcement Hall suddenly stood up, its gaze dull as it turned toward Qin Qingyu's direction.
The corpse's appearance was entirely that of a Night Weaving Gate Enforcement Hall disciple, yet the voice emanating from its throat was completely Xiao Bo'an's voice.
Although Qin Qingyu was slightly surprised, this astonishment only lingered in her eyes for a fleeting moment.
"End this farce, Elder Qin," Xiao Bo'an's voice said, "Send those who do not belong to this era back to the era they should belong to."
"I am not interested in your proposal, Fellow Daoist Xiao. Regarding your killing of my Star Heaven Sect disciples today, my Star Heaven Sect will naturally seek justice from the Mirage Palace," Qin Qingyu stated.
Immediately after, another flash of moonlight gleamed, severing that corpse's head.
"Fine, fine. Since Elder Qin is so resolute, I will no longer insist," another corpse slowly stood up, "There is one more thing, Elder Qin."
Qin Qingyu simply stared silently at the standing corpse of the Star Heaven Sect disciple.
"The former chief disciple of Kongyuan Mountain from the Kongshan Sect, Chen Yan, is still alive. And now, he has also stepped into the Myriad Transformations Realm," the voice of Xiao Bo'an issued from the corpse's throat, after which it fell forward, rigidly collapsing.
"......"
Qin Qingyu stood in the Night Weaving Gate's Enforcement Hall main hall.
And Xiao Bo'an, after leaving those words just now, had vanished without a trace.
......
Fusheng Island.
Chen Yan looked at the leisurely, unhurried Mr. You walking ahead of him and suddenly felt a certain familiar sensation.
Back when he had just escaped from the Star Heaven Sect's mine, it had been like this.
And the only city that appeared before them on this island was Fusheng City.
Ordinary.
This was Chen Yan's sole impression of Fusheng City.
The architectural style was that of the Southern Region of the Chenping Continent, but in terms of the city's scale and size, Fusheng City was truly far too unremarkable.
Only slightly better than those second-rate secular dynasty border cities.
Chen Yan remembered that the first time he heard rumors about Fusheng City was back in the Kongshan Sect.
Titles like the Chenping Continent's only immortal city, the final legacy of Immortal Venerable Fusheng, and so on.
Made Chen Yan think that Fusheng City should originally have been extremely majestic and magnificent.
To throw back this karmic backlash spanning over sixty thousand years.
This was the idea Mr. You had given Chen Yan.
But to achieve this goal, one condition had to be met first.
That was to find a vessel, besides Chen Yan himself, that could still bear this over sixty-thousand-year karmic backlash.
In truth, Chen Yan himself didn't know why he could withstand this karmic backlash spanning over sixty thousand years.
Was it because he was a transmigrator, or because of the Hidden Immortal Art, or perhaps his own ability to cycle through reincarnation and save-scumming?
Chen Yan didn't know.
However, Mr. You was absolutely convinced that the reason Chen Yan could withstand such immense karmic backlash was entirely because he was accompanied by "Heavenly Dao Fate."
Mr. You stopped walking.
He was already standing at the foot of Fusheng City, looking up at the city wall before him that was only about five zhang tall.
At this moment, Mr. You still had not stepped into the Immortal Ascension Realm, remaining only at the peak of the Dao Union Realm.
Why hadn't Mr. You ascended to immortality?
Logically speaking, after he eradicated the Cause of Calamity and the Chenping Continent's Great Dao recovered, when a reincarnated body of the Immortal Ascension Realm stepped into the Passable God Realm and regained memories, wanting to re-enter the Immortal Ascension Realm would be just a matter of thought.
Yet Mr. You had not ascended.
Chen Yan didn't understand the specific reason, but based on Chen Yan's understanding of Mr. You, if he hadn't ascended, he certainly had his own reasons.
Or perhaps, it relied on "intuition."
"So then, what should we do?"
Chen Yan stood beside Mr. You, glanced at the Fusheng City before them, then asked.
"Of course we enter the city."
Mr. You revealed a confident, effortless smile, then took two more steps forward, "Today, the two of us have specially come to visit Fusheng City. Please open the city gates!"