Chapter 1411: Shedding Involvement (Part Three)

“It’s Fellow Daoist Li… and Senior Chongyangzi!” Donglin Tingyue exclaimed in pleasant surprise.

Overjoyed, she was about to stand up when Jia Fugui raised a hand to stop her.

“Fellow Daoist Donglin, wait. We still need to confirm whether it’s really the two of them.”

Donglin Tingyue was taken aback, then she realized her mistake. She had likely been too happy and had let her guard down.

Li Yan had been out of their sight for some time. It was possible he had been discovered after going up.

The enemy could have soul-searched him and learned that the two of them were still alive. Although they might also know they were hiding at the stern, they might also guess that they had moved.

Moreover, her concealment magical treasure was quite good, making it troublesome for the enemy to search for them.

So, the enemy might have learned from Li Yan’s memories that they trusted Li Yan and Chongyangzi of Pure Yang Hall, and deliberately transformed into their appearances to easily find the two of them.

But looking at the scene before them, even Jia Fugui felt that his guess was overly cautious. However, having survived life-and-death situations before, he did not want to lose his life at this moment due to a moment of carelessness.

As he said this, he looked at Donglin Tingyue. Donglin Tingyue immediately calmed down as well.

She herself had not realized why, at the moment she saw Li Yan, she, who had always been calm, had lost her usual composure.

After calming down, she flipped her hand, and the jade slip Li Yan had left behind immediately appeared in her hand.

Then, she and Jia Fugui’s Divine Sense simultaneously entered it, and they saw that the Divine Sense Imprint inside was still preserved…

After Li Yan descended the stairs, he called out as he walked.

At the same time, he and Chongyangzi walked quickly towards the center of the deck. But even several breaths after his voice had faded, no one appeared. Chongyangzi glanced at Li Yan, and Li Yan smiled and said, “They probably think we are illusions, that I might have been captured and soul-searched.”

Hearing this, a cold glint suddenly appeared in the depths of Chongyangzi’s eyes. It was because of the words “soul-searched” that Li Yan had spoken.

Of course, the cold glint in his eyes was not directed at Li Yan, but at the two sects, Heavenly Mountain Garden and Spirit Subduing Manor.

And just as the two were continuing to talk, Chongyangzi suddenly looked up towards a certain place at the stern of the boat. And Li Yan only looked towards the stern when the other party looked up.

This was not Li Yan deliberately concealing anything. Although it was such a close distance, his Divine Sense perception was still much slower than the other party’s.

At the same time, his Divine Sense had been greatly consumed before, having forcibly dragged two Spirit Transformation cultivators into the “Earthen Patch.”

The recovery of Divine Sense power was not like Magical Power; it was a slow process.

At the stern of the boat, after a flash of white light, two figures walked out, a man and a woman.

Seeing this scene, Chongyangzi glanced sideways at Li Yan again. It seemed that these Nascent Soul cultivators had come this time with their eyes on those supreme-grade Spirit Stones; they really had some good things on them.

In his previous investigation, he really had not been able to find anyone hiding at the stern. But Li Yan’s goal had been achieved. Chongyangzi had come to believe that he had an equally good concealment magical treasure.

Chongyangzi was knowledgeable and experienced. Although the other party’s magical treasure was good, he was not an evil cultivator who would immediately snatch any good thing he saw, so he no longer paid it any mind.

This was also one of the reasons why the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator had gathered everyone on the deck before. These Nascent Soul cultivators who had come were here to fight each other, and they definitely had some high-grade good things in their hands.

Once they realized that someone was going to slaughter them, even a Spirit Transformation cultivator would have to put in some effort.

Therefore, the old woman surnamed He had immediately used thunderous means to kill everyone upon meeting them.

Unfortunately, the storage space magical treasures of many of the cultivators here had been taken by the old woman surnamed He. And she, in turn, had been directly knocked out of the flying boat by Li Yan in a desperate struggle. Li Yan had also been unable to leave behind anything of the other party.

The two who had revealed themselves, with a flicker, had already hurriedly flown towards Li Yan and the others…

Half a cup of tea’s time later, Jia Fugui and Donglin Tingyue looked respectfully at the gloomy-faced Chongyangzi.

After they had paid their respects before, Li Yan had just stood to one side without saying a word, not even a trace of Divine Sense fluctuation.

Then, Chongyangzi had directly questioned them. They didn’t know what had happened, but they could only answer Chongyangzi’s questions, telling him everything they had seen and heard, one by one.

Until the end, Chongyangzi did not ask any more questions, but with a gloomy face, he fell into his own thoughts.

The two of them secretly glanced at Li Yan again, filled with the urge to ask what had happened, but Li Yan shook his head.

This left Jia Fugui and the other not knowing if Li Yan was not clear about the specific situation, or if this matter had nothing to do with their two sects. Their hearts were in a state of turmoil.

But looking at Chongyangzi before them, although there were some bloodstains on his body, his aura did not reveal any weakness. He did not look injured at all, which was different from what the old woman surnamed He had said before.

However, seeing Li Yan standing safely by Chongyangzi’s side showed that Chongyangzi should have believed Li Yan’s explanation.

And at this moment, Chongyangzi was combining the words of these two Nascent Soul cultivators and was deducing the whole process of the matter in his mind.

As for whether these two were lying, when he had questioned them before, his Divine Sense had been firmly locked on them. Moreover, it was a fact that the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator had sneak-attacked him.

Of course, he could use a more direct method and also soul-search these three people. But the fact that he could stand here now was at least inseparable from these three people. Chongyangzi could not do such a thing.

Heavenly Mountain Garden and Spirit Subduing Manor were the rebels this time. Why did they rebel? Who did they really defect to? This needed further investigation later.

Their purpose this time was very likely to take away the “Great Nothingness Tree,” so they had to secretly plot against him first.

Then they wanted to plot against Chen Xingshan and the other two. But his voice transmission in the crisis still had an effect. Chen Xingshan and the other two directly charged towards his room, so a great battle took place there.

In the end, although Chen Xingshan and the other two perished, the two Spirit Transformation cultivators must have also fought with all their might. They had to fight with all their might. In this desert, if they left the flying boat, they would immediately perish.

To make a Spirit Transformation cultivator perish, even Chongyangzi, facing Chen Xingshan and the others, did not dare to say how much confidence he had in doing so without getting injured himself.

In the end, the deaths of these two were exchanged for the death of the “Netherworld Demon Vine.” This could be inferred from the fact that he was released and the scattered branches and leaves on the ground.

Especially Li Yan, who had rescued him. In the end, this child also did not see the existence of that “Netherworld Demon Vine.”

And Chen Xingshan and the other two’s desperate struggle also caused the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator and the old woman surnamed He to be injured to varying degrees. Although it might not be a serious injury, it was definitely not the kind of injury that could be healed immediately after taking a pill.

Then, the Yuan-surnamed female cultivator controlled the flying boat, and the old woman surnamed He went down to the first floor to slaughter the other two teams.

Although they had gathered almost all the cultivators together, they had still underestimated the abilities of these cultivators. Which of these Nascent Soul cultivators was not an ancestor or elder of a small sect?

In the end, they had managed to escape from the other party’s hands with a small half of the cultivators and had entered the rooms to defend themselves with restrictions.

Although these people were almost all killed in the end, they had still attracted the other party’s attention and tied up a lot of their combat power.

This allowed a Body Cultivator to take the opportunity to set up a trap and successfully sneak-attack the old woman surnamed He.

All of this, Jia Fugui and the other two had also seen with their own eyes. Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental that the Spirit Transformation cultivators here had ended up with only him left?

But even so, Chongyangzi still felt that Li Yan’s combat power was a bit fantastic.

But this was also something Li Yan couldn’t help. The development of things couldn’t all go according to his ideas, and there were times when he was powerless to cover things up.

Unless he directly killed these three people, and then he himself would have to flee for his life. Otherwise, it was impossible to say that after this resource scramble, he was the only one who survived, and even the notary Chongyangzi was dead.

If he said this, he would only be fooling a three-year-old child.

But even so, Chongyangzi also had a new understanding of Li Yan’s combat power. A powerful Body Cultivator with strength comparable to the peak of a Late-stage Nascent Soul.

But with some of the “real scenes” from Chongyangzi’s memory, with the old woman surnamed He injured and her combat power reduced, and Li Yan having the advantage of a well-planned surprise attack, these could still be explained.

After that, after Li Yan and the others had dealt with all the enemies on the first floor, because they were afraid that the Spirit Transformation cultivators on the second floor would notice something was wrong and come down to find out the reason, Jia Fugui and the other two said that Li Yan had wanted to go up to find out the news himself. This connected with what Li Yan had said later.

All of this seemed to have an incredible flavor, but with the proof of these two Nascent Soul cultivators, and the fact that the other Spirit Transformation cultivators here had indeed disappeared, Chongyangzi couldn’t help but believe it.

He also repeatedly scanned Li Yan’s cultivation and confirmed that the other party was at the Mid-stage Nascent Soul realm, without any concealment.

He planned to go back and thoroughly investigate Li Yan’s background. If the other party’s combat power was really so formidable, this kind of person could actually be directly recruited into Pure Yang Hall.

Perhaps because the other party had saved him in the end, Chongyangzi’s goodwill towards Li Yan had increased imperceptibly.

He was not stupid. The places that made him suspicious meant that the other party definitely didn’t want to talk about them. Everyone had their own privacy.

And the most crucial point here was that he had survived. After he went back, he would also speak up for Li Yan.

After Chongyangzi had this thought, when he went back, he indeed immediately and urgently found the information about the Broken Army Sect. He was also doing this to protect Li Yan.

But after just one look at the information, he felt that everything was easy to explain.

Pure Yang Hall would secretly and carefully investigate all the Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivators of its subordinate sects, for fear of spies being planted by their rivals.

With their investigation capabilities, it was simply incomparable to the Blood Lantern Sect. They had actually captured the Nascent Soul of the sinister man whose physical body had been destroyed by Li Yan and was secretly looking for a suitable body…

Then, without any hesitation, they soul-searched him and obtained the memory of his fight with Li Yan.

With the methods of Pure Yang Hall, they quickly determined Li Yan’s fighting style and the delicacy of his control over his physical strength, which was unlike the body refining sect cultivation arts known in this realm.

Moreover, they also learned from some of the markets Li Yan had been to that this person had been asking how to transmit messages to the lower realm, and at the same time had been asking if there was a possibility of going to the lower realm. And there had been similar inquiries many times.

Under such circumstances, Pure Yang Hall basically determined that Li Yan was an ascended cultivator from the lower realm, which was why his combat power was so formidable and he acted in a low-key manner!

Of course, this was all in the future. Now, Chongyangzi was quickly filtering and analyzing the information he had obtained in his mind, constantly confirming his suspicions…

So, the other three on the deck stood to one side, all silent.

It was not until half an hour later that Chongyangzi looked at the three of them again, his gaze finally sweeping over Donglin Tingyue and Jia Fugui.

“When you go back this time, you will undergo the ‘Bright Refining Mind-Inquiry.’ If there are no problems, then this matter will have nothing to do with you!”

“Bright Refining Mind-Inquiry?”

When Donglin Tingyue and Jia Fugui heard these four words, their hearts also relaxed. It seemed that their previous guess was correct.

The Blood Lantern Sect had not rebelled after all. Otherwise, it would not just be the three of them who were questioned, but the entire sect, as well as the Seven Tigers Alliance, would first be imprisoned and then interrogated one by one.