Chapter 1494: Li Yan's Intervention (Part Two)

He had just gone to the rear mountain’s soul palace before, and he had immediately rushed over now. Li Yan suddenly had a faint, ominous feeling. They weren’t even giving him any time to rest.

“Oh, to come looking for Brother Li so quickly, there is indeed a rather important matter. But Brother Li doesn’t need to worry, it’s not that an accident has occurred in the sect…”

As Tang Feng spoke, he began to look around.

Li Yan watched Tang Feng’s movements. Although he was saying that it was no big deal, his expression showed a sense of caution. Li Yan then waved his large sleeve, and a set of invisible restrictions was instantly generated, enveloping the entire reception hall.

“All the formations here have been activated. There are only two Soul Slaves cultivating in the other rooms, and the restrictions there have also been separately activated. Brother Tang, if you have something to say, feel free to speak!”

Sensing that Li Yan had once again set up a restriction, Tang Feng also sensed that his own soul power had been blocked, and he could no longer hear any movement from outside. Only then did he nod.

“Does Brother Li already know the reason for the betrayal of the nine major forces this time?”

Upon hearing him ask this question, Li Yan knew that it was indeed not a major change in the sect. He couldn’t help but feel a sense of relief in his heart, but he didn’t know why Tang Feng had brought this matter up. He still immediately nodded, indicating that he knew the cause of the matter.

Before Li Yan had gone on the mission, Grandmaster Lan had already roughly told him some of the reasons. And this matter, from the moment the nine major forces had betrayed them, was actually no longer a secret. During his clean-up mission, he had also carefully interrogated the small and medium-sized sects he had passed through. The nine major forces had used the banner of the “True Earth Domain’s” top-tier resources being monopolized by the Soul Suppression Palace to go around and lobby other forces.

“I roughly know the reason. I heard it was because of a dispute over cultivation resources, the main purpose being that treasured land where one can advance to the Body Integration realm. But I’m not too clear on the specific details. Why? Is the matter Brother Tang wants to talk about related to that treasured land?” Li Yan asked, somewhat strangely.

“The reason I was able to get to know Brother Li in the sect was also because I was carrying out a mission to investigate the traitors that I met you!”

Tang Feng did not answer Li Yan’s question, but continued to mention other matters.

This time, after hearing this, Li Yan did not ask any further questions, but just quietly looked at Tang Feng. Although the two matters the other party had mentioned were related, to him, they were somewhat unrelated. He just needed to listen.

Tang Feng glanced at the calm-faced Li Yan, and then he began to speak on his own, about the specific reasons for the betrayal of the nine major forces this time.

The cause of the matter was, as Li Yan knew, due to the long-term occupation of that treasured land by the Soul Suppression Palace, which had long caused dissatisfaction among various forces. No Void Refining cultivator, knowing that they had a chance to improve their cultivation again, would be willing to have their hopes dashed by someone else. Such a thing, on anyone, would make them feel dissatisfied and resentful, and they would not be willing to die here. The strong pressure of the Soul Suppression Palace would only bring about a stronger undercurrent of agitation.

However, given that the Soul Suppression Palace had a Body Integration old monster in charge, all the dissatisfaction could only be just that. No one dared to show it. But where there was oppression, there was resistance. Although they did not dare to resist openly, the accumulation of this resentment still made many people begin to consider how to eradicate the Soul Suppression Palace.

Thus, with some forces deliberately plotting, those sects began to take action, continuously sending people to infiltrate the Soul Suppression Palace. However, this plan of theirs had to be very patient. The plan itself was aimed at succeeding only after a thousand or ten thousand years. They knew that it was impossible for them to immediately gain the sect’s recognition and then be able to seize important power in the sect as soon as they sent people in.

So, this long-term plan of theirs was to let their own people take root and blossom in the Soul Suppression Palace, slowly developing and growing, and then slowly have someone who could enter the high levels of the sect. When a certain level was reached, various potential powers would erupt one by one.

In their initial conception, if some of them performed too well, then there would be hope of being accepted as a disciple by the Body Integration realm old monster. After this step succeeded, they could further obtain the secrets of that special place, get the exact location, and then see how to steal that treasured land. Or, they could simply think of a way to have these disciples of their own side harm their own master, so that the Soul Suppression Palace would completely lose the strongest person in this world.

But this was just the initial plan, too wishful thinking! Even later, when some of them had really become high-level core members of the Soul Suppression Palace, it was almost an impossible task to go one step further and become a disciple of a Body Integration realm old monster.

How many years had an old monster who could reach the Body Integration realm cultivated? They already had their own disciples. In addition, after reaching their realm, they basically went into seclusion and cultivated painstakingly, single-mindedly for their own breakthrough, and did not ask about worldly affairs. How could they come out and accept any more disciples?

And later, in the Soul Suppression Palace, there were other Void Refining elders who had advanced to the Body Integration realm, which had further strengthened the sect’s strength. Even if you could successfully design a plan and kill a Body Integration realm expert, as long as the other party had other Body Integration realm cultivators, they would have absolute suppressive power. Thus, the feasibility of this matter was cut short, which also made those secret forces dare not act rashly all this time.

And it was not until thousands of years ago that they finally got a possible clue. The two Body Integration realm old monsters of the Soul Suppression Palace seemed to have encountered some problems. The two of them, like the first-generation Supreme Grand Elder back then, perhaps in order to break through their cultivation, or perhaps in order to break the shackles of heaven and earth here, had also entered the perilous land in the northern region of the Soul Suppression Palace. Then, they should have been trapped inside and had never appeared again.

To have such a final guess, they had spent years and years of painstaking effort to finally obtain the news that the natal soul lamps of the two Supreme Grand Elders had not been extinguished. It was just that with only the news that the two Supreme Grand Elders had never appeared again, the few sects outside could not be sure whether the two of them had really been trapped. If they were to misjudge and launch a large-scale attack on the Soul Suppression Palace, the fate awaiting them would almost be instant and complete annihilation.

As long as one Supreme Grand Elder appeared, with a wave of his hand, he could take all their lives. So the other party had also been making a final confirmation all this time.

But this time, because Tang Feng had accidentally triggered the other party’s formation, they had discovered a clue. A Void Refining cultivator had actually snuck into the sect. They immediately realized that their secret plot had been exposed, and suddenly launched a pincer attack! They had originally thought that by coordinating from inside and out, they could take down the Soul Suppression Palace in one fell swoop. But the Soul Suppression Palace had also long been on guard, and had been keeping an eye on the leaders of the traitors they had already found out about.

In the end, not only did the nine major forces fail to break into the Soul Suppression Palace in one go, but they themselves had lost three Void Refining realm traitors in this one battle. And the Spirit Transformation and below cultivators who had remained in the Soul Suppression Palace had suffered a fatal blow and were almost completely slaughtered.

“That place where one can advance to the Body Integration realm can actually only be used for one person’s cultivation. And once the resources are consumed, it will take at least ten thousand years to regrow and gather again before it can be used again. Therefore, every elder who enters to cultivate will try their best to reduce the consumption inside and rely on their own strength to break through as much as possible.

The two current Supreme Grand Elders of our sect also broke through successfully after entering in batches. At the same time, the Soul Suppression Palace, as others think, is indeed impossible to allow a Body Integration realm cultivator to appear in other forces. This is the case in any place.

There is no sect that does not want to have the status of an overlord and hold all the important resources in its hands. You can say it’s selfish, or tyrannical and unreasonable. The cultivation world, isn’t it just like this?

How strong you are, how many cultivation resources you take. If the Soul Suppression Palace were to lose this strong power, then its own inheritance would only weaken day by day. This is a result that any sect that wants to continue its inheritance would not want to see…”

Listening to Tang Feng’s narration, Li Yan heard a kind of desolation from his words, not just for the Soul Suppression Palace, but for the entire “True Earth Domain.”