txolops Chapter 230 Senior, you don't want your secret to be known either, do you?
Chapter 230 Senior, you don't want your secret to be known either, do you?
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Li Ping stayed in Flying Snow City.
Cultivating oneself, refining elixirs—a time of tranquility and peace.
On the Silvermoon City side, however, a life-or-death moment had arrived.
Silvermoon City was already in grave danger under the siege of several third-tier demonic beasts, but fortunately, Master Muyun of the Flying Snow Sect arrived in time to provide support and stabilize the situation in the city.
After that, a stalemate ensued.
But who could have predicted that after blocking the monsters, the barbarians would suddenly take the opportunity to cause trouble?
The Barbarian Bone Tribe is the most powerful barbarian tribe near Silvermoon City, and they frequently clash with the cultivators of Silvermoon City.
Over the years, the two sides have accumulated countless grudges.
Originally, Silvermoon City did not take the Barbarian Bone Tribe seriously.
After all, monsters have no intelligence and cannot distinguish between barbarians and humans. All life they see is food for them.
They attack human cities as well as barbarian tribes.
Moreover, the alien races do not need to stay in one place, unlike human cultivators who can only cultivate in spiritual veins. When faced with a beast tide, they can simply migrate and move their tribes to places far away from the beast tide.
Therefore, the higher-ups in Silvermoon City always believed that the Barbarian Bone Tribe had already migrated away.
To their surprise, the Barbarian Bone Tribe not only did not relocate, but also launched a full-scale attack on Silvermoon City at the very moment when it was facing the onslaught of the beast tide!
Judging from their appearance, they seemed completely unconcerned about the damage the demonic beasts had caused to their people, as if they intended to perish together with Silvermoon City.
In desperation, the Core Formation cultivators of the Silver Moon Sect personally went out of the city to try to negotiate with the elders of the Barbarian Bone Tribe, but they couldn't even see the elders.
Silvermoon City was already struggling to defend against the beast tide, and now the attacking side has been joined by the Barbarian Bone Tribe. Finally... Silvermoon City couldn't hold on any longer.
……
Inside Silvermoon City, cultivators paced back and forth, while mortals gathered in the city, seemingly sensing something and restless.
Inside the main hall in the city center.
Two Core Formation cultivators stood at the highest point of the hall, while below them were hundreds of young Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators.
The Silver Moon Sect Master's gaze swept over everyone below before he finally sighed softly, "Silver Moon City cannot be defended, and the other main cities do not have enough strength to spare to support us."
His words immediately caused an uproar among the cultivators below.
"Silence!" The Silver Moon Sect Master shouted coldly, and at the same time, the pressure of a Core Formation cultivator filled the entire hall, causing everyone to obediently shut their mouths.
He then continued, "You are all young talents of my Silver Moon Sect, the future hope of the sect. That's why I've summoned you here, hoping that you will follow Fellow Daoist Mu Yun of the Flying Snow Sect to retreat first, retreat to the Flying Snow Sect to cultivate diligently, and when you are capable, return to rebuild the sect and rebuild Silver Moon City!"
Upon hearing this, the crowd below displayed a variety of expressions: some were astonished, some were indignant, and some were secretly pleased... But the Silver Moon Sect Master didn't give them any more time: "You should follow Fellow Daoist Mu Yun now, and I will buy you some time!"
At this point, Sect Master Yinyue looked at True Person Muyun with a sincere expression: "Fellow Daoist Muyun, I beg you!"
Master Muyun opened his mouth as if to speak, but facing the gaze of the Silver Moon Sect Master, he ultimately only nodded slightly: "Don't worry!"
In fact, what Master Muyun wanted to say was that, given the Silver Moon Sect Master's Core Formation stage strength, if they had gone together, the probability of him surviving would have been extremely high.
But Master Muyun knew in his heart that Sect Master Yinyue was prepared to live and die with the sect and the city.
There are nearly ten million living beings and thousands of cultivators in Silvermoon City. How could he, as the sect leader, just leave and let the demonic beasts wreak havoc on the lives of the living beings?
These are all living, breathing human beings!
But at this moment, there's nothing he can do.
He could only hold out until the city fell, allowing some of the Silver Moon Sect cultivators to evacuate with True Person Mu Yun.
Then... if he's lucky, he might be able to lead the surviving cultivators in another attempt to break through!
As for ordinary humans?
Once the magic circle is broken, the low temperature alone will be enough to kill them instantly without pain.
……
Whoosh!
A cyan flying boat quietly left Silvermoon City, transforming into a streak of cyan light and rapidly shooting towards the direction of Flying Snow City.
But it hasn't flown very far yet.
A black banner that blotted out the sky swept in, instantly enveloping the flying boat. The banner billowed up from time to time, as if Master Muyun was using his magic weapon to attack!
But only for a moment—
There wasn't a sound coming from inside.
The black banner fell back into the hands of the dwarf hidden behind the clouds. He chuckled, "Heh heh... You still want to escape from me? You'll be a perfect main soul within my White Bone Banner!"
As he murmured, his gaze fell upon the crumbling city below, a look of satisfaction in his eyes, and he waited patiently.
A few days later, Silvermoon City's third-tier defensive array was breached, and the temperature inside the city quickly dropped to a level similar to that outside.
The dwarf, witnessing the carnage below, burst into manic laughter: "Good darling, you can eat your fill now!"
The Silver Moon Sect Master looked down at the ruined city below, his face filled with grief and indignation.
But before he could develop any further expression, the sky-covering black banner had already enveloped him... At the same time, wisps of black smoke rose from the banner, and a terrifying suction force emanated from it, directly devouring all the souls of the dead humans.
After the extinction of humanity, a great war broke out between monsters and barbarians.
The dwarf had already made arrangements; all the barbarians would perish here today.
The barbarians and humans perished together, while he remained perfectly invisible.
Witnessing the continuous devouring of souls, the dwarf's smile deepened as the damaged surface of the white bone banner in his hand began to slowly repair itself.
But at that moment—
Whoosh!
A black streak of light rose from the city below and flew rapidly southward.
The astonishing speed startled the dwarf: "There's still a Core Formation junior alive? Strange, how come I didn't detect him with my divine sense?"
However, he didn't think much of it. He was determined that no information about what had happened today could be leaked, so all intelligent life present except for him had to die.
call out!
Holding a white bone banner, the dwarf swiftly approached the black light and gently waved the banner.
Instantly, the black light disintegrated as if it had been sliced into a thousand pieces. But when the dwarf saw the pieces of the body, he was instantly astonished.
Because the 'Core Formation cultivator' he had just killed turned out to be just a puppet!
"It's a puppet!" The dwarf's face turned ugly.
The existence of puppets implies the presence of cultivators who manipulate them in the shadows, and everything they do has likely been discovered by those in the dark.
"Who is it?"
Ignoring the scattered third-tier puppets, his icy divine sense instantly covered an area of tens of thousands of feet. The dwarf transformed into a blur, constantly shuttling back and forth, trying to find the person secretly controlling the puppets.
But in the end, he gained nothing!
But just then, a figure slowly flew in from afar. The dwarf scanned it with his divine sense and easily discovered that it was a second-tier puppet. He did not make a move, but waited for the puppet to fly closer.
The puppet flew closer, and a stiff voice came from its mouth: "Senior, you don't want the Confucian sect to know about your slaughter of humans and collection of souls, do you?"
Upon hearing this, the dwarf's expression instantly turned gloomy.
……
"Thank you for your trouble, Brother Li."
Shi Yutong took the refined pills and left in a hurry, without teasing Li Ping as usual.
Li Ping looked on with a solemn expression as he watched Shi Yutong's departing figure.
As a cultivator, he constantly observes everything around him with care, wary of anything that seems unreasonable.
Li Ping found Shi Yutong's hurried demeanor this time quite illogical.
Without the aroma of tea and the use of tea-related language, is she still Shi Yutong?
"Could something have happened in the city?" Li Ping couldn't help but wonder to himself.
Thinking of this, he could no longer continue his cultivation, so he left his cave and flew towards the city.
Just as he left the cave, a slender female cultivator flew out from a cave several hundred feet away and happened to run into Li Ping.
"Master Li, are you heading to the city?" Bai Yi asked with delight upon seeing him. "I happen to be going to the city as well. Shall we travel together?"
Li Ping frowned, but quickly relaxed: "Fellow Daoist Bai, you misunderstand. I am going to visit a friend, so it is inconvenient for me to travel with you."
"Is that so? Then forget it." Bai Yi nodded, her expression unchanged.
……
After shaking off Bai Yi, Li Ping arrived at Ji Shuxuan's shop.
He didn't have time to gather information, so he always ordered Ji Shuxuan to keep an eye on and collect intelligence within the city, and he would come to check it every now and then.
However, after entering the store and seeing the situation inside, Li Ping was taken aback.
Besides Ji Shuxuan, there was another young cultivator in the shop at this moment, whose figure was sharp and whose gaze was as aggressive as a sword.
"Uncle Li."
"Fellow Daoist Li."
Upon seeing Li Ping enter the store, Ji Shuxuan and Xu Guike both greeted him with smiles.
Li Ping smiled and nodded in return: "Fellow Daoist Xu, you've emerged from seclusion."
"Yes! I don't have Fellow Daoist Li's high-level skills. I can only go out of seclusion every now and then to hunt demons and earn cultivation resources!" Xu Guike said with a self-deprecating laugh. "If I stay in the city all the time, I'm afraid I won't even be able to afford the rent for my cave dwelling."
Li Ping gestured for Ji Shuxuan to bring him the intelligence he had gathered over this period of time, while casually chatting with Xu Guike: "How has the situation outside the city been lately? Those demonic beasts haven't made any moves, have they?"
Xu Guike nodded: "It's the same as always, but I heard from a fellow Daoist I met while hunting demons that the demons are showing signs of retreating, which is why I'm going out of seclusion to take the opportunity to hunt down a few more demons."
Otherwise, once they retreat, hunting demons will require a long journey to the icy sea.
"The monsters are retreating?" Li Ping asked, somewhat surprised.
He thought Shi Yutong's behavior meant something terrible had happened.
Otherwise, once they retreat, hunting demons will require a long journey to the icy sea.
"The monsters are retreating?" Li Ping asked, somewhat surprised.
He thought Shi Yutong's behavior meant something terrible had happened.
But then they heard from Xu Guike that the beast tide might be about to recede.
This is great news!
So here's the question.
What's wrong with Shi Yutong again?