The special envoy from Mirage Palace would come to Wushi Town.
This news was first known by the larger cultivation sects like the Han Crow Sect and the Jiugong Sect.
Then, the news that the Mirage Palace special envoy was about to head to Wushi Town began to spread gradually.
Until now, all cultivators around Moxu Mountain knew about this matter.
Including Chen Yan, Su Hongzhen, and Zhou Jinyun, these three people.
"So many things have happened in just two days."
Chen Yan said with emotion.
First, Elder Du, one of the Three Titans of Moxu Mountain, was discovered to have died mysteriously in Cloud Ridge Cave.
Then, the Mirage Palace special envoy would arrive in Wushi Town tomorrow.
At this critical juncture, no matter how you looked at it, something felt off.
Even on the streets of Wushi Town, all kinds of conspiracy theories had started circulating.
For instance, the reason Elder Du had fled to Wushi Town thirty years ago was because he had offended Mirage Palace back then, which led to Mirage Palace hunting him down.
This time, the Mirage Palace special envoy had come to Wushi Town to settle accounts with those who had harbored Elder Du.
As soon as this kind of rumor spread, panic immediately set in among the people of Wushi Town.
Even though these Body Forging and Energy Channeling realm rogue cultivators had absolutely no connection whatsoever to Elder Du, a lofty, high-above Spirit Connection realm great power.
But if Mirage Palace were truly enraged, killing one was killing, and killing two was killing.
Killing a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand — it was all still killing.
In fact, two days ago, the moment Elder Du was killed, Chen Yan had already sensed it.
Chen Yan didn't believe this was Mirage Palace's doing.
Because if the Five Great Sects wanted someone dead, they would never do it so stealthily; they would make a big show of it.
To establish their authority for the world.
Unless it was connected to the conspiracy brewing behind Mirage Palace.
"What do you think? Why has the Mirage Palace special envoy come to Moxu Mountain?"
Chen Yan asked in Zhou Jinyun's direction.
Zhou Jinyun slightly lowered her eyes, pondered for a moment, then shook her head:
"I don't know, Senior. I've been away from Mirage Palace for some time now. As for internal sect affairs, it's really..."
"Then let me ask differently."
Chen Yan continued:
"Do you think the Mirage Palace special envoy who came this time might have some connection to Grand Elder Jing Bai's lineage?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Jinyun was silent for another moment, then only uttered one word:
"Yes."
Chen Yan thought so too.
The Mirage Palace special envoy heading to Wushi Town this time would most likely have countless ties to Jing Bai or the real puppet master behind him.
Shen Chuan of the Return-Into-Emptiness Pavilion was probably just the first cockroach to appear in Mirage Palace's room.
And when a cockroach appears in your room, it's impossible that there's only one cockroach in your room.
Instead, there are many.
More critically, it was basically already confirmed that Shen Chuan, this Sixth Realm cockroach, was not the biggest in the room.
Even Grand Elder Jing might not be the biggest cockroach in this room.
As for what Mirage Palace was actually trying to do on this Moxu Mountain, Chen Yan wasn't entirely sure. He just had his own speculations, nothing more.
Chen Yan speculated that it would almost certainly be related to Kang Zongdan.
That is, the possession technique.
As the chief disciple of Weaving Dreams Tower, Zhou Jinyun only knew that the secret illusion arts of Weaving Dreams Tower could be used to manipulate others for a short time.
But even so, this was an absolute taboo of Mirage Palace.
As for possessing others...
At just fourteen years old, Zhou Jinyun didn't even dare to think about this issue.
It went against ethics and could bring unimaginable disaster to the cultivation world of the Chenping Continent.
But in fact, in later generations, Mirage Palace did develop the possession technique and could use it without restraint.
Xiao Bo'an was certainly not the only Mirage Palace disciple who had ever possessed someone.
It was very possible that the vast majority of cultivators eight thousand years later wouldn't know about Mirage Palace's possession technique.
But among the high-ranking officials of the Five Great Sects, such as at the Grand Elder level, a consensus had already been reached.
That is to say, now might be an important turning point in the evolution of Weaving Dreams Tower's illusions.
"Senior."
Zhou Jinyun seemed somewhat hesitant. Although this chief disciple of Weaving Dreams Tower was quite intelligent, she was still just a fourteen-year-old girl after all.
Faced with increasingly complex circumstances, Zhou Jinyun was already starting to have trouble coping.
The amount of information was simply too great.
"What should we do next?"
Zhou Jinyun asked.
"Tomorrow, I'll go to the town myself and see what exactly this special envoy from Mirage Palace wants to do."
Chen Yan said calmly, as if everything was within his control.
"Senior is going personally?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Jinyun shook her head:
"I think that's absolutely not possible, Senior. Grand Elder Jing has seen you before. If you show yourself now, he might..."
She had only gotten halfway through her words when she abruptly stopped.
Zhou Jinyun couldn't help but widen her eyes, staring at everything unfolding before her.
She saw the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around her begin to slowly gather, and then, out of thin air, it sketched the shape of a human body.
Then, this human form outlined by spiritual energy began to gradually condense into a solid entity.
Blood, internal organs, bones, muscles, skin, facial features, hair, and then the shoes and daoist robes worn on its body.
A lifelike figure of a cultivator sat upright on the chair opposite Zhou Jinyun.
"...An illusion?"
Zhou Jinyun murmured to herself.
"No."
That strange cultivator who had appeared out of nowhere slowly turned his head and revealed a smile in Zhou Jinyun's direction:
"It's real."
Zhou Jinyun's mind exploded with a thunderous roar, and her entire body began to bristle with terror.
At this very moment, the shock brought to her by that strange "monster" sitting there and talking to her was no less than what she had felt back in the Kang Mansion in Jiangdu Prefecture, when she saw Chen Yan conjure an immortal artifact out of thin air.
Even a person could be conjured up. How outrageous was that?
"This is also me."
Chen Yan and that strange cultivator sitting there said in unison.
The "person" he had derived through the Great Derivation Art had no consciousness whatsoever; it was just an empty shell.
And the senses of this empty shell were completely shared with Chen Yan.
Chen Yan could even use the Great Derivation Art and the Hidden Immortal Art to fake the cultivation level of this empty shell.
Just like now, the empty shell currently sitting on the chair had a complete network of meridians within its body, as well as a Martial Spring and a Qi Sea.
It was an ordinary, middle-stage Martial Spring Realm "cultivator."
No different from a normal cultivator at all.
Chen Yan had already formulated his plan.
He decided that tomorrow, he would use this empty shell to go to Wushi Town and meet the special envoy who had come from Mirage Palace.
Then, from that, he would obtain more, and more useful, information.