Chapter 516 Immortal Cultivation Sect
Three days later, when Su Li ended the practice in isolation, Hua Yan immediately came to find her.
“The sects that are easy to control have all been conquered. The remaining sects are interconnected, and their old ancestors have close tie with each other. If we cope with one sect, the others will unite to attack. It is not easy to handle.”
Su Li thought for a moment, and stretched out her hand, “Is there a diagram of the relations.h.i.+p of all sects?”
Hua Yan smiled proudly, “Of course, otherwise the network of relations.h.i.+ps I established would be in vain.”
Saying that, she wiped the universe ring to take out a jade slip and handed it to Su Li. Su Li took a look with divine awareness, and completely understood the relations.h.i.+ps of the twenty-five sects.
Seeing Su Li was lost in thought, Hua Yan waited quietly without disturbing her.
After a short while, Su Li frowned suddenly, and showed an expression of interest, “What’s the matter with the Immortal Cultivation Sect? The lord of the Sect only reaches the early stage of the Yuanying Realm. There are lots of sects like it in the Jiuzhou Region. Why can it be one of twenty-five sects?”
“Well, it goes like that.”
Hua Yan chuckled, as if she had expected that Su Li would be curious about it. She immediately explained, “The Immortal Cultivation is indeed the last one in twenty-five sects, which has never changed for thousands of years.”
“Why?”
“In fact, it has a lot to do with the strategy of the lord of the Sect. The inheritance in the Immortal Cultivation Sect has long been broken. But it provided many excellent disciples with potentials to the other sects in early years. Now they have grown up and can protect the Sect in return. Therefore, those sects who want to develop themselves would rather choose to invade a more powerful sect than a small sect with endless troubles.”
Hearing this, Su Li didn’t comment, but said significantly, “People’s mind is unpredictable, let alone in the cultivation circle. The Immortal Cultivation Sect can keep the position in the twenty-five sects with a few favors, don’t you think it’s strange?”
Hua Yan was startled slightly. Hearing Su Li’s words, she also wondered, and then said uncertainly, “Maybe it is very lucky?”
Su Li smiled and waved her hand. Then the diagram of the relations.h.i.+p of Immortal Cultivation Sect in the jade slip appeared in the void. She pointed at several persons.
“The elder of the Neimen Branch in Tianluo Valley, the chief executive elder of Xuanbing Sect, the protector of Feiyin Cult… Each person of the Immortal Cultivation sect occupies an inconspicuous position, but they all have real power. If these people are truly loyal to the Immortal Cultivation Sect… Hua Yan, do you still think the Immortal Cultivation Sect is weak?”
Hua Yan quivered slightly, and her pupils constricted, “You mean…”
She broke off in mid-sentence, as if she thought of something. Then she showed an expression of comprehension, “Oh! Li, if you didn’t talk about it, I would forget that Yan Ziye once said when he went to subdue the Sect, it processed very smoothly. The lord of the Sect not only didn’t resist, but also intended to send some excellent disciples to us. Yan Ziye felt confused, so he refused. The lord of the Sect did not force it, and then the matter pa.s.sed. Now thinking about it…”
Hua Yan shuddered. Her impression on the Immortal Cultivation Sect suddenly changed from weak to mysterious and strange.
“Tell Yan Ziye to contact the lord and arrange for me the ident.i.ty of a core disciple.”
Su Li suddenly said. Hua Yan was startled, and nodded immediately.
“I will be ready and wait for your news.”
If the Immortal Cultivation Sect was indeed very powerful, as long as she controlled this sect completely, the twenty-five sects except Yuxu Sect and Zihan Sect would be all under control at one stroke. It was the fastest way!
She wasn’t worried about Su Li’s safety. Few people knew the truth about the destruction of the Tianyin Tribe, and she happened to be one of them. Su Li could cope with the holy sect, not to mention just a small sect with a bit of mystery.
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The Immortal Cultivation Sect was located in a very remote mountain. Wearing a glamorous silk dress for the female disciple of Ni Sect, Su Li stopped at the dilapidated gate to the mountain. She glanced at the dark sky, and frowned her arch brows slightly.
This place…made her feel a little uncomfortable, but she couldn’t tell what was wrong with her on earth.
On the second day after Yan Ziye delivered the order, the Immortal Cultivation Sect immediately agreed, without showing the any resistance. Su Li estimated that it would take some time to improve herself before she headed to the Chuangxing Path.
Now she had nothing to do, so she dressed up as an ordinary disciple of the Ni Sect, and got there after a few days.
“You must be the new junior sister apprentice.”
After Su Li stood there for a short while, a gentle voice reached her ears. She looked up and saw a stream of white light falling in front of her in the blink of an eye.
With the light dispersing, a young man in a white robe appeared in front of her. The young man, with waist-length hair, looked unusual pale and immature. He looked less than one hundred years old.
He was extremely thin and seemed not to stand a gust of wind, exuding a breath of femininity. But his cultivation was surprisingly high, and he had reached the late stage of the Jindan Realm. Su Li even sensed there was a great hidden energy in his body.
“The Immortal Cultivation Sect is really not simple. It’s wise to come here.”
The thought flashed in Su Li’s mind, while she seemed to be frightened on the surface. With her face blushed, she hurriedly gave a salute, “h.e.l.lo, Senior Fellow Apprentice, I am Su…Su…Su Yue!”
Seeing the clumsy Su Li, the young man was also slightly stunned.
He originally thought that the Ni Sect would send someone awesome to come to probe, so the master ordered him go down the mountain to receive the guest personally, so as not to reveal any flaws.
Unexpectedly, they sent a pure-minded female disciple.
However, it would take time to observe whether this woman was really pure-minded.
Although he had many thoughts in his mind, he didn’t look dull on the surface. He naturally accepted the role of the brother and said with a nod, “It’s getting late. Please follow me to see the master.”
A doubt revealed in Su Li’s eyes, “Senior Fellow Apprentice, the master is…”
The boy smiled gently, “He’s the lord of Immortal Cultivation Sect.”
“What?”
Her innocent eyes wide opened and were full of tension. She grabbed the corners of her clothes and stammered, “Senior Fellow Apprentice… I haven’t washed my clothes for several days. It’s not polite to wear it to see the lord?”
The young man, “…”
After a while, they arrived at the lord’s hall.
The young man stood aside respectfully, only leaving the anxious Su Li standing in the middle with her head lowered.
Standing on the throne above, the old lord in a brown robe, He Jiu, looked at Su Li with a kind of kindness in his eyes.
“Girl, raise your head and let me have a look.”
Su Li raised her head obediently. It was a normal face, and definitely considered ugly in the cultivation circle.
He Jiu stared at her for a moment and did not see the trace of disguise skill. In the Huajian Sect, the origin of Ni Sect, there was indeed a female disciple named Su Yue, who was very young. Originally, she was the disciple of the Immortal Hongyu, and then became an ordinary disciple of Neimen Branch after the Immortal Hongyu died.
Her origin and background were convincing. Then why did the Ni Sect send this woman here?
To probe?
He Jiu thought about it for a long time. He saw the young woman lowered her head again in fear and couldn’t help laughing.
Just an ordinary female disciple. Even if she was imposed some tactics, what was he afraid of.
“The rise of the Ni Sect is weird. Recently, it has done little tricks, and contacted with the other twenty-five sects frequently. They want the Jiuzhou Region, which was not incompatible with my purpose…”
The various thoughts pa.s.sed in the old man’s mind. Then he asked Su Li a few questions briefly, and her answers were all consistent with the secretly investigated intelligence.
He smiled and waved to the young man, “Although few people are willing to stay here to be my disciple, those left are the pure-hearted people and don’t intrigue against each other like disciples of great sects. Since you have been sent to my Sect, you will be my twelfth personal disciple from now on. How about that?”
The girl was completely stunned. It seemed that she didn’t expect she was so lucky, but she quickly calmed down. A little hesitation revealed on her face, as if she recalled something bad.
But soon she knelt down respectfully, and a crisp and tender voice resounded through the hall.
“Disciple Su Yue, pay…pay respects to Master!”
He Jiu stroked his beard and smiled immediately. The little girl was so simple, and always showed all her emotions on the face.
He stood up to walk off the throne and lifted Su Li up. Looking at the innocent face with some doubts, he laughed and said in a sincere tone, “It doesn’t matter that Ni Sect discards you. From now on, here will be your home.”
The young woman was moved. She seemed to think of many bad things again, and said in a chocked voice.
“Thank you… Master…”
After that, beside the feminine young man, there was a young woman, who always chattered and asked questions. Most of the time, the feminine young man answered helplessly, and did not show any impatience. He seemed to be very patient by nature and was very popular with people in the Sect.
Su Li also knew his name, Wen Hun, which was a strange name.
A few days later, news that the lord received a new disciple spread. Although the Immortal Cultivation Sect was a small sect, there were hundreds of disciples in Neimen Branch and Waimen Branch. This news did not cause any disturbances, which made Su Li feel a little strange.
She pretended to be an innocent young woman then, so she asked directly.
“Senior Fellow Apprentice Wen, I have become a personal disciple of the master. The senior fellow apprentices and senior sister apprentices who joined the Sect earlier than me don’t show any reaction?”
In the book pavilion, Su Li followed the thin young man, and finally spoke it out after a few hesitations.
Wen Hun put down the scroll unhurriedly, and said, “I know you can’t help to ask. But it’s not a secret. In our Immortal Cultivation Sect, no matter the disciples in Neimen Branch, Waimen Branch, or personal disciples, they enjoy the same cultivation resources. There is no restriction on ident.i.ty to enter and exit the book pavilion. Why do they envy you?”
“Enjoy same resources?”
Su Li blinked. She was really surprised this time, “Then our sect is so poor, and how can we raise so many people?”
A glimmer of flush appeared on Wen Hun’s pale face, as if he was angry or was helpless, “Our sect is as poor as you said. When you get the first month’s monthly salary, you will know why.”
“The first month’s monthly salary?”
Su Li repeated, and intended to continue to ask, while Wen Hun’s figure flashed, and disappeared into the distance instantly.
He slipped away?!