Chapter 1559: The Sect, Then and Now (Part One)
An hour later, watching Tinglan’s figure disappear into the distance as a long rainbow, Li Yan glanced at Mu Guyue.
“This matter is finally settled. We can go back now!”
When Mu Guyue heard Li Yan say the word “we,” although there was no change in her face, at this moment, she thought of Mu Sha again in her heart.
She had a feeling that when she faced Mu Sha again, she would no longer feel that kind of guilt. After all, she could give Mu Sha an explanation.
And the person Mu Sha had always wanted to know was actually not a weak human. This point was actually very important to the Black Demon Clan.
After all, the Demon Clan had always worshipped the strong!
Yu Banjiang, who now had the handsome appearance of a young man, was in the main hall of the sect, arranging matters for his two disciples.
As the current Sect Master, with the Broken Army Sect growing stronger by the day, he had also experienced the hardships of his master and martial uncle back then.
However, as time went on, he became more and more proficient in handling the sect’s affairs, and all matters were arranged in an orderly manner.
After regaining his confidence, he had also taken in two disciples to continue the lineage of his master. Today, he was instructing them on some matters.
And just at that moment, someone outside the main hall suddenly shouted loudly.
“Who goes there? How dare you trespass on the sect’s important grounds!”
Li Yan frowned. He and Mu Guyue had not entered through the mountain gate, but had directly descended from the sky into the sect.
The token at his waist flashed, and the sect’s grand formation did not attack him. This showed that the sect’s grand formation had not changed much in the past nearly two hundred years.
This was actually the most normal. A hundred years was often just a flick of the fingers for a sect.
Especially for a formation like the Sect-Protecting Grand Formation, they would usually only constantly think of ways to increase its power, and rarely replace the entire formation.
After Li Yan entered with Mu Guyue, he did not deliberately conceal his figure. Immediately, many streams of Divine Sense swept over. Many of these Divine Senses trembled violently; those people recognized who Li Yan was.
But there were also many disciples who did not recognize Li Yan at all. And those who saw Mu Guyue were shocked by her peerless beauty.
Li Yan just swept his Divine Sense slightly and found the aura of Yu Banjiang in the sect’s main discussion hall. And further in, there were two very strong auras.
Li Yan immediately thought of Ren Yanyu, but after a slight hesitation, he still led Mu Guyue and flew directly towards the discussion hall, ignoring the other disciples.
By the time those people reacted, Li Yan and Mu Guyue had already landed in front of the sect’s discussion hall.
In front of the main hall, two Golden Core cultivators were standing there, talking to each other. They were startled by the two who suddenly descended from the sky.
The two Golden Core cultivators were furious. This was an important place in the sect. Even core disciples of the sect should have landed early and walked over.
Who was so bold as to fly directly and land in front of the main hall? They were also startled.
When they looked at the newcomers, the two Golden Core cultivators found that they did not recognize Li Yan. One of them, a handsome young Golden Core cultivator, had a vigilant look in his eyes as he shouted sternly.
The two of them surrounded them and carefully sized up Li Yan and the other.
Li Yan glanced at the two of them. He didn’t recognize either of them. When he had just entered the sect, he could still sense some familiar Divine Senses among those that probed him.
But he was not familiar with the two people in front of him!
He didn’t know that the current Broken Army Sect, ever since the appearance of two Spirit Transformation cultivators, had been growing stronger day by day. Not only had it recruited a large number of disciples, but it had also recruited many guest Golden Core deacons.
Today, those guarding the main hall were all new cultivators.
The two Golden Core cultivators, a man and a woman, the man, while asking questions, also swept his Divine Sense towards the newcomers. But when his gaze fell on Mu Guyue, it was already filled with infinite amazement.
The female Golden Core cultivator at his side, after glancing at Mu Guyue, her small cherry mouth had already opened.
She considered herself to be very beautiful, but at the first sight of the woman in front of her, she was immediately stunned.
She had not thought that there would be such a peerlessly beautiful person in the world. Especially Mu Guyue’s figure, that was a masterpiece of heaven that only a demon could possess.
Li Yan waved his hand, and the token at his waist flew in front of him. He looked at the young Golden Core cultivator with a calm expression.
“I am Elder Li. I have business with Sect Master Yu!”
At this time, the young Golden Core cultivator’s Divine Sense had already swept over Li Yan and the other. He was suddenly shocked. He couldn’t see through the cultivation of these two people at all. He could only describe it as unfathomable.
And at the same time as he heard Li Yan’s faint voice, he also saw the token floating in front of the other party.
He was also very familiar with the style of that token; it was the elder token of his own sect.
“Elder… Elder Li? Which Elder Li?”
For a moment, the young Golden Core cultivator did not react. But because the other party’s cultivation was too profound, coupled with the floating token.
He immediately looked at his companion at his side and did not dare to be too presumptuous.
And just at that moment, a figure flashed at the entrance of the main hall, and Yu Banjiang’s figure had already appeared there.
When he heard the disciples at the entrance of the main hall questioning, he knew that someone was trying to force their way into the discussion hall.
This had never happened in the sect before. He immediately released his Divine Sense.
And the next moment, Yu Banjiang was stunned for a moment, because he saw a familiar, yet somewhat unfamiliar figure.
“Elder… Li!”
He murmured subconsciously, and then, in disbelief, he scanned again and found that he was not mistaken.
As for Mu Guyue, he was also surprised by her beauty, but he quickly returned to normal. Since she had come with Li Yan, he naturally ignored her for the time being.
As soon as Yu Banjiang appeared, he shouted at the two of them.
“What are you doing? You are blocking Elder Li’s way. Why aren’t you kneeling down to apologize!”
His voice was full of anger.
Li Yan was a special existence in the Broken Army Sect. Even though he had been missing for so many years, his master and martial uncle were still looking for him.
And more importantly, although he had also saved Li Yan back then, Li Yan had given him much more in return, allowing him to completely emerge from his slump and become who he was today.
The disciples guarding the main hall were startled by the stern shout from behind them.
They hurriedly turned their heads and saw the usually gentle Sect Master looking at the two of them with a face full of anger.
“Sect Master!”
“Greetings, Sect Master!”
Yu Banjiang’s face turned cold.
“Why are you paying respects to me? I told you to pay respects to Elder Li and apologize. Didn’t you hear me clearly?”
When the two Golden Core cultivators heard this, although they were a little confused, seeing their Sect Master’s angry face, they hurriedly turned their heads and were about to pay their respects.
“No need, they don’t know me!”
Seeing Yu Banjiang come out and get angry at the disciples guarding the main hall, Li Yan also hurriedly waved his hand. How could he fuss with the sect’s disciples? Besides, they were indeed on duty here.
Seeing that Li Yan was not angry at all, Yu Banjiang nodded.
“This is Elder Li. He was just traveling outside. You’ve already seen the token, why haven’t you let them pass…”
After Li Yan and the other left with the Sect Master, the female Golden Core cultivator sent a voice transmission to the young man.
“Senior Brother, I joined the sect relatively late. Do you know who this Elder Li is? Why is the Sect Master so polite to him? I have never seen this Elder Li before.”
A light flashed in the young cultivator’s eyes several times. The sect now had two Nascent Soul elders, but he had never seen the Sect Master be so polite.
After hearing his junior sister’s inquiry, he also thought about it carefully and suddenly sent a voice transmission.
“It seems there really is such a person, but he is rarely mentioned! Junior Sister, do you remember that there is an area in the northeast corner of the sect, where there is a Cave Residence? It’s very remote, and very few people go there!”
After hearing this, the female Golden Core cultivator thought for a moment and then nodded.
“There is a Cave Residence in that area. I always thought it was an unused Cave Residence, reserved for other elders. Could it be that there…”
The female Golden Core cultivator also remembered that Cave Residence because although it was remote, the Spiritual Energy there was very dense, so it should have been built to be allocated to a Nascent Soul elder.
“When I was leading a patrol before, I saw that it was vacant. But the new elders had not moved in; instead, they had opened up other Cave Residences. So I asked Senior Brother Hu, who was on patrol with me. You know he’s an old disciple of the sect, so Senior Brother Hu knows a lot of things. He later just said a few things. I remember he said that it was the former residence of the sect’s Elder Li. After he went out, very few people went in and out of that Cave Residence!”
The young man remembered something at this moment, but it had been a long time ago.
And at that time, that Senior Brother Hu had only said a few words, which he had long since forgotten. It was only now that he remembered that someone had indeed mentioned “Elder Li.”
“Junior Sister, I don’t know much either. Let’s just focus on our duty and not talk about this anymore!”
The young man did not dare to discuss too much. After saying a word, he hurriedly changed the subject…
In the main hall, Yu Banjiang had already sent his two disciples away. His two disciples did know Li Yan. When Li Yan was in the sect, they were still minor Foundation Establishment cultivators.
After seeing that it was Li Yan, the two of them also hurriedly came forward to pay their respects. They still remembered the might of Li Yan killing Mang Yan back then…
After the two disciples left, Yu Banjiang didn’t even bother to sit down and said anxiously.
“Elder Li, where have you been all these years? We’ve been looking for you all this time. Master even went to the Heavenly Demon Prairie several times himself. He searched back and forth many times in the place Donglin Tingyue mentioned, but he couldn’t find any trace of you!”
Although Yu Banjiang saw Mu Guyue, he didn’t have time to ask much. He was more concerned about Li Yan’s disappearance all these years.
“Hahaha… Let’s not rush to talk about my affairs. How is the sect doing now? I sensed you were here, so I came over first. We’ll go find Fellow Daoist Shangguan and the others together in a moment, and we can talk about it all then!”
Hearing this, Yu Banjiang felt it made sense.
He was in the front part of the sect. Li Yan had sensed him and come here first. If he recounted his situation now, he would have to repeat it to his master and martial uncle again in a moment.
However, at the same time, he thought of another matter. His master and martial uncle’s place was protected by a very strong formation.
And it was one that his master had re-refined and reinforced after reaching Spirit Transformation.
On a normal day, he couldn’t sense any situation there at all. But this Elder Li’s words, both implicitly and explicitly, revealed one thing.
That was, the other party knew that his master and the other were in the sect, and he seemed very certain.