Chapter 959: The Six Yang Realm |
Elders like Zheng Chao, who joined Taiyi Sect in its early stages and served the sect diligently throughout their lives, are becoming scarce within the sect.
With another elder passing away, Meng Zhang couldn't help but feel sorrowful.
Zheng Chao had dedicated half his life to battles for Taiyi Sect, and he can truly be described as giving his all for the sect until the end.
Although Zheng Chao died a warrior's death on the battlefield, it is no wonder Yang Xueyi feels regretful.
But when Meng Zhang closed his eyes, images of Zheng Chao kept appearing before him, and for the first time, he harbored some grievances towards Yang Xueyi.
Yang Xueyi gave Niu Dawei a detailed account of the events leading to Zheng Chao's death and its aftermath.
After learning that Meng Zhang had come out of seclusion, she even left Heavenly Palace and specifically returned to Taiyi Sect to report the matter to Meng Zhang in detail.
It turned out that Yang Xueyi had been cooperating with Grandma Qiansi from the start and took on tasks that mainly involved pulling some small worlds.
The countless small worlds in the vast void are not easy to discover, especially those that are easy to pull into the Grand Dust World, which are limited in number.
After years of experience, Yang Xueyi had completely adapted to the situation in Heavenly Palace.
Even without cooperating with Grandma Qiansi, she could still take on other tasks and complete them excellently.
With Xu Daohai achieving the Primordial Spirit stage, Xu Mengying had more time to stay in Heavenly Palace.
She, too, actively completed various tasks to obtain rewards.
Perhaps due to their continuous success, they became somewhat relaxed and careless.
Over two years ago, Yang Xueyi and Xu Mengying took on a major task.
This time, they were not dealing with a small world but a large world called the Six Yang Realm.
The task was led by the Holy Land Sect Nine Profound Pavilions from the Middle-Earth Continent.
Nine Profound Pavilions hired many sects to participate in this mission.First, the rewards for completing the task were extremely generous. Second, they wanted to establish a relationship with a Holy Land Sect like Nine Profound Pavilions. So, Yang Xueyi and Xu Mengying actively participated in this mission.
In their minds, a task led by Nine Profound Pavilions, a Holy Land Sect, shouldn't encounter any major issues.
Their blind trust in Nine Profound Pavilions caused them to overlook the significant differences between large and small worlds.
Both Taiyi Sect and Yellow Lotus Sect were not the main forces participating in the mission, and their mobilized cultivators accounted for only a small portion of the overall participants.
Taiyi Sect dispatched five Gold Core cultivators and sixty Foundation Building cultivators for this mission.
However, to their astonishment, the mission ended in failure, and all the participating cultivators were annihilated.
Initially, Yang Xueyi was unaware that all the dispatched cultivators had already perished, and she believed the mission was still ongoing.
A long time ago, Meng Zhang had wanted to establish soul lamps for the disciples within the sect.
But only after accepting the rebuilt Taiyi Sect's heritage did he learn the secret method for setting up soul lamps, recorded in the sect's inheritance scriptures.
Later, at great cost, he collected all the necessary materials to establish the soul lamp system.
Within Taiyi Sect, there was a Ancestral Hall where the tablets of past ancestors were enshrined.
Next to the Ancestral Hall was the Soul Hall, where the soul lamps of the sect's members were kept.
Any cultivator with a certain status in the sect would extract a trace of their Soul aura, which the elders would then ignite using a secret method to light their personal soul lamp.
Through the status of the soul lamps, the sect could roughly understand the situation of these disciples.
The soul lamps of cultivators like Zheng Chao, who participated in the mission, all went out shortly after they entered the Six Yang Realm.
Extinguishing so many soul lamps at once was very rare, except in the case of major wars between Taiyi Sect and other sects. During peacetime, such a situation was extremely uncommon.
The higher-ups of the sect were quickly alerted, and Niu Dawei, who presided over the sect's mountain gate, personally went to Heavenly Palace to inform Yang Xueyi of the situation.
At first, Yang Xueyi couldn't believe it, but later, Xu Mengying rushed over to tell her that Yellow Lotus Sect had also encountered a similar situation, with all the soul lamps of their participating cultivators being extinguished.
Filled with anger, Yang Xueyi and Xu Mengying went to confront the cultivators from Nine Profound Pavilions.
The cultivators from Nine Profound Pavilions were dismissive and told them that casualties during missions were normal.
They had been warned before the mission started, and the relevant exemption clauses were also publicly displayed in the Heavenly Palace's main hall for mundane affairs.The two of them couldn't argue with the cultivators from Nine Profound Pavilions, and it was impossible for them to take action in Heavenly Palace.
Previously, due to their excessive trust in the reputation of the Holy Land Sect, they hadn't delved too deeply into the details of this mission.
It was only after this incident that they calmed down and began to investigate the mission in detail.
For this purpose, they didn't hesitate to use the connections they had built in Heavenly Palace over the years and spent a considerable amount of pure jade inspiration to purchase information.
The results of their investigation made them furious.
Many years ago, Nine Profound Pavilions had already targeted the large world known as the Six Yang Realm, formulating various attack operations.
It seemed that Nine Profound Pavilions' Return to Emptiness power could not directly enter the Six Yang Realm, so they continuously sent low-level cultivators inside.
Among these low-level cultivators, only a very small number were cultivators from Nine Profound Pavilions. The majority were low-level cultivators hired from other cultivation forces.
Almost none of these cultivators who entered the Six Yang Realm returned. From the situation of Taiyi Sect and Yellow Lotus Sect, it seemed that all of these cultivators had perished.
The strongest cultivation level among the cultivators sent to the Six Yang Realm seemed to be in the Gold Core stage.
Over the years, the number of cultivators who died in the Six Yang Realm was definitely not a small one.
Gradually, some cultivation forces that knew the truth started to distance themselves from this mission and were unwilling to send their disciples to their deaths.
Of course, there were still some cultivation forces that were dependent on Nine Profound Pavilions or wanted to curry favor with them, and they continued to send out cultivators without hesitation.
This behavior was akin to sacrificing their own cultivators' lives for Nine Profound Pavilions.
Additionally, Nine Profound Pavilions would also offer a high reward to hire some cultivators who didn't understand the situation to enter the Six Yang Realm.
Without fully understanding the truth of the matter, Yang Xueyi and Xu Mengying accepted the mission from Nine Profound Pavilions.
They originally thought it was a Holy Land Sect-led conquest of the Six Yang Realm, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be a one-way mission to their deaths.
After learning the truth, the two of them wanted to continue arguing with Nine Profound Pavilions.
However, Nine Profound Pavilions had experienced many similar situations before and prepared very thoroughly in advance. The seemingly insignificant exemption clauses were airtight, and they had received official recognition from Heavenly Palace.
In the midst of the argument, Yang Xueyi and Xu Mengying were at a disadvantage and were seen by Nine Profound Pavilions as making trouble without reason. The Heavenly Palace officials were not going to support them.
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