And so, these cultivators from the Moon-Embracing Sect continued wandering aimlessly through the Martial Immortal Mountain Range.

And they found nothing.

Nie Yu grew increasingly bored, and he had already noticed that Senior Brother Zhou's attitude was extremely passive, as if he simply wanted to wait until everyone's patience was exhausted before returning to the sect.

But there wasn't much he could criticize either. Nie Yu could guess what was going on in Zhou Wu's mind.

"Let's go back, Senior Brother Zhou."

Finally, Nie Yu spoke up toward Zhou Wu.

Zhou Wu cast his calm gaze upon Nie Yu, but his inner heart was nothing like the calmness his eyes currently displayed. One could say that every breath, every moment he spent walking through the Martial Immortal Mountain Range, he was on tenterhooks, afraid that some accident might occur.

Therefore, at Nie Yu's suggestion, Zhou Wu first felt immensely relieved, then nodded:

"Alright-"

"Look!"

Suddenly, a young female cultivator traveling with them shouted loudly:

"Over there, there's someone over there!"

Upon hearing this, everyone turned to look in the direction the female cultivator was pointing. Indeed, they could see that at a distance of over a hundred zhang, there seemed to be a blurry figure, pushing aside the grass and shrubs in the forest, walking slowly.

"What do we do?"

Not long ago, the Qi Circulation Realm disciple named Gao Tai, who had nearly clashed with Zhou Wu, spoke up to ask, his gaze shifting back and forth between Nie Yu and Zhou Wu.

"They might be residents living in the deep settlements of the Martial Immortal Mountain Range. I've heard that the residents deep within the Martial Immortal Mountain Range drink beast blood and feast on demonic beast meat in their daily lives, and their physical bodies are extremely formidable, comparable to Body Forging Realm cultivators or even Qi Circulation Realm cultivators... Senior Brother Zhou, have you ever had dealings with these people?"

Nie Yu said this, then asked in Zhou Wu's direction.

"No."

Zhou Wu shook his head:

"The Martial Immortal Mountain Range does indeed contain dozens of settlements scattered throughout, but those settlements are all located very deep within the Martial Immortal Mountain Range, not in a place like this."

"Well then, isn't this the perfect opportunity to have dealings with these settlement residents?"

Nie Yu smiled.

"No."

Facing Nie Yu's proposal, Zhou Wu immediately rejected it:

"We should return to the sect, Junior Brother Nie."

Upon hearing this, Nie Yu's expression immediately turned even colder:

"Whether we go or stay shouldn't be decided by you alone, Senior Brother Zhou, should it?"

"Junior Brother Nie is trying to threaten me?"

Zhou Wu said in a calm tone:

"You should know that I'm not the only one who entered the Martial Immortal Mountain Range. You and I, aren't we accomplices?"

"Accomplices?"

Nie Yu then revealed an expression as if he had heard some tremendous joke:

"If the sect were to learn that Senior Brother Zhou entered the Martial Immortal Mountain Range, how would they react? And if they learned that I entered the Martial Immortal Mountain Range, how would they react... Senior Brother Zhou, how can you speak of us being accomplices?"

What Nie Yu meant was perfectly clear.

Who am I, Nie Yu? And who are you, Zhou Wu?

Even if they had committed the same mistake, the punishments they would face next would certainly be completely different.

Zhou Wu clearly understood the meaning behind Nie Yu's words, and his gaze began to grow increasingly icy.

"Very well then, we'll follow Junior Brother Nie's arrangements."

Equally icy was his voice.

......

Chen Yan, or rather Chen Yan's External Incarnation, was at this moment slowly walking along the southwestern edge of the Martial Immortal Mountain Range.

He was not wearing daoist robes, but rather the ordinary coarse cloth garments commonly worn by mortals.

Because Chen Yan knew the rules that the cultivation sects surrounding the Martial Immortal Mountain Range jointly upheld.

Without permission, cultivators were not allowed to enter the Martial Immortal Mountain Range at will.

Of course, as the current Ascended Steward of Chenping Continent, these damn rules naturally could not bind him.

The reason he still did this was because Chen Yan did not want to make a big commotion, and preferably wanted to completely conceal his whereabouts.

After all, the current Chenping Continent was not yet fully under Chen Yan's control.

Even now, Chen Yan still did not know exactly who the Offering Elder that Qin Qingyu had seen at Star Heaven Sect was.

And his current disguise and concealed movements were all for the sake of caution, so that he would not be discovered or detected by that Offering Elder.

However, trying to find the strand of cause and effect that Sage of Imperial Void Bai Chen had hidden within this Martial Immortal Mountain Range stretching millions of li was by no means an easy task.

The simplest and most efficient way to find the cause and effect Bai Chen had concealed within the Martial Immortal Mountain Range was to peer into the secrets of heaven and calculate the specific location of that strand of cause and effect.

But the backlash that might come from peering into a Sage's cause and effect...

The "Cause of Calamity" that Chen Yan had once borne, that strand of over sixty thousand years of karmic backlash, was something that all the Immortal Ascension reincarnations of Chenping Continent avoided at all costs.

Even Mr. You himself did not dare to touch even the slightest bit of it.

However, among the four strands of cause and effect that the Sage of Imperial Void had placed upon the world, that "Cause of Calamity" which had once severed the Path to Immortality of Chenping Continent was actually the shortest strand among them.

After all, the Sage of Imperial Void's cause and effect spanned a total of millions of years.

Chen Yan extended his spiritual sense to land upon those six cultivators, like ants, located over a hundred zhang away from him.

From the moment those six cultivators wearing dark cyan daoist robes had stepped into the Martial Immortal Mountain Range, every movement they made, every word they spoke, every ripple of true qi, was completely within Chen Yan's control.

With Chen Yan's experience, from the fragments of conversation he overheard among those people, he could deduce all the truth behind it.

These young cultivators, whose highest cultivation was merely the Martial Spring Realm, might have some use value to him.

Thinking this, Chen Yan deliberately revealed his form in front of those Moon-Embracing Sect disciples.

Sure enough, they took the bait.

Sensing the figures of those Moon-Embracing Sect disciples chasing toward him, Chen Yan first activated the Great Derivation Art. In just an instant, Chen Yan's entire complexion turned dark and swarthy, and his face had completely transformed into that of a middle-aged man. From the wrinkles and furrows on his face, one could see the weathering of harsh storms and the tempering of time.

Hearing the sound of footsteps coming from behind him, Chen Yan revealed a bewildered expression, slowly turning his head around to look at those cultivators wearing exquisite dark cyan daoist robes.

"You are..."

A confused and slightly world-weary voice came from Chen Yan's mouth.

Those young cultivators of the Moon-Embracing Sect simply looked at the middle-aged man in coarse cloth garments standing before them with curious eyes, and then Nie Yu gave Gao Tai, who stood beside him, a look.

Gao Tai immediately understood, stepping forward two paces to stand before Chen Yan with an arrogant air, lifting his chin to ask:

"We are cultivators of the Moon-Embracing Sect. Are you a wild man of these mountains?"

Every word and tone dripped with the air of looking down from above.

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