Chapter 54 (Part 3)

“Boy, our master has taken a fancy to your planting talent. Obediently come with us, and we’ll spare your senior brother.”

The other side thought that as long as they said this, Yu Yu would obediently go with them.

Although Lingji was a sword cultivator, in a one-against-four fight, no matter how strong he was, he could not win.

This was their confidence. After all, no matter how strong Lingji was, there was a limit. They were certain they could keep this pair of senior and junior brothers here.

“But my eldest senior brother doesn’t seem to need you to spare him! Why not say it the other way around? Shouldn’t you be begging my senior brother to spare you instead?”

After Yu Yu finished speaking, he hid behind Lingji. Lingji’s bonded spirit sword appeared in his hand, and with one sweep of the long sword—

Bang.

Four bursts of blood mist exploded.

“Trying to escape?”

Their primordial spirits fled out, and Lingji swung another sword strike. The four primordial spirits were also shattered by sword intent.

“Who told you I was a Zhenjun at Soul Transformation? This venerable one is a Daoist Lord at Tribulation Transcendence.”

Lingji spoke with overwhelming dominance. It was just that the other side probably could not hear such domineering words anymore.

“Pfft. Eldest Senior Brother is amazing!”

Yu Yu clapped. He had destroyed four Soul Transformation cultivators with one sword strike. It looked like after their master ascended, Eldest Senior Brother had a good chance of taking the title of the number-one sword cultivator in the Holy Feather World.

“Hmph. They were simply too weak.”

Lingji’s words were not false. Although they were four peak Soul Transformation cultivators, their combat strength was at most about the same as ordinary sword cultivators.

If he were still at Soul Transformation, fighting four at once truly would have been somewhat difficult.

But he was not at Soul Transformation. He was at the Tribulation stage!

It had been right not to hold a grand ceremony for his advancement to Daoist Lord of the Tribulation stage back then. Otherwise, how would they have tricked people from behind?

The other side had calculated everything, yet they had failed to calculate that Lingji was not at Soul Transformation, but a Daoist Lord at the Tribulation stage. So their scheme was doomed to fail.

As for why they did not leave anyone alive to interrogate them about who their master was, both Lingji and Yu Yu felt there was no need.

As long as they caught the traitor, everything would be known.

On the contrary, if they wanted to interrogate the truth from these people’s mouths, they would have no choice but to temporarily stop their return to the sect.

Neither Yu Yu nor Lingji was willing to stop for an interrogation.

It was better to return to the sect first. Although Lingji was powerful, he had to protect Yu Yu, so it was inevitable that he would be constrained and that moving around would be inconvenient.

After killing them, the two senior and junior brothers continued on their way.

Finally, before nightfall, they reached the nearest immortal cultivation city—Immortal-Receiving City.

A grand ceremony to test spiritual roots was currently being held here. It was an annual event in Immortal-Receiving City. As long as children were seven years old, they could go test their spiritual roots.

One step to immortality, one step to mortality.

Every year, many children and families were delighted, and many children’s families also showed disappointment.

Those who could remain in an immortal cultivation city to live all had cultivators among their ancestors. That was why they were qualified to stay in the city.

Because families that had produced cultivators among their ancestors also had a somewhat higher chance of spiritual roots appearing in later generations.

However, families that went ten consecutive generations without producing anyone with spiritual roots had to move out of the immortal cultivation city and could no longer live in the city.

So every year, many families moved outside the city to live. They were all families that had gone ten consecutive generations without producing anyone with spiritual roots.

After paying two lower-grade spirit stones, Yu Yu and Lingji entered the city directly.

After entering the city, they saw two sharply divided crowds. One side was happy, while the other side had bitter faces. Some people were even crying.

These were all crowds whose testing results had already come out. The ones who were happy had children with spiritual roots, while the miserable ones were families whose children did not have spiritual roots.

Yu Yu and Lingji had no intention of joining the excitement. Recently, because of the grand ceremony to test spiritual roots, people had been constantly pouring into Immortal-Receiving City from outside the city, so it was not only lively, but also very crowded.

They were not people participating in the ceremony, so naturally they had no way to join in this excitement. Compared to watching the bustle, they wanted to return to the sect more quickly.

So the two senior and junior brothers asked around and decided to first go to the city lord’s manor to inquire when the teleportation array would open, then find an inn to rest.

“Little Junior Brother, I’ve asked clearly. The nearest teleportation array heading to Taiyin City won’t open until ten days from now.”

Lingji came out of the city lord’s manor and said this to Yu Yu, who was waiting at the gate.

As for why Yu Yu had not gone in and had instead waited outside, it could only be said that the city lord’s manor was not a place just anyone could enter. Only one person in a group could go in, so Yu Yu had remained outside.

Right now, he was still wearing the demon race’s clothes. Going in would draw too much attention. Just look. As he stood at the gate, quite a few people glanced over from time to time.

“Let’s hurry up and go. We’ll buy a set of clothes to change into while we’re at it.”

Yu Yu pulled Lingji onto the main street to search for a ready-made clothing shop.

After changing clothes and coming out, sure enough, no one paid them any attention anymore.

“It’s not as if they’ve never seen a demon cultivator before. Is there any need for these people to make such a fuss?”

Lingji was very angry. The clothes the Demon Lord had prepared were much better than the artifact robes they had bought in the clothing shop.

“Eldest Senior Brother, don’t be angry. Didn’t I wear all the clothes Senior Demon Lord prepared underneath?”

Yu Yu also had not expected that in such a large ready-made clothing shop, the best artifact robe would only be at the level of a magic artifact and could not even block a Golden Core attack.

There was no other way now. He could only wear the artifact robe on the outside to deal with things for the time being.

“Come on. Let’s find an inn.”

An immortal cultivation city had Daoist Lords standing guard, so no one dared cause trouble in the city. This was also the reason Lingji had been at ease leaving Yu Yu at the gate of the city lord’s manor.

If the other side was not stupid, they would not capture anyone in the city.

Otherwise, before they could even leave the city, they would be stopped.

An immortal cultivation city did not have only one or two Daoist Lords guarding it. At the very least, there had to be three Daoist Lords standing guard.

Because this place was the main source of their recruitment. If everyone in the city died, the major sects would lose many potential disciples.

This was the territory of one of the ten great sects, the Buddhist Sect, so the Daoist Lords guarding this place were actually people of the Buddhist Sect.

However, the Buddhist Sect’s Daoist Lords were not called Daoist Lords. They were called Sarira stage cultivators, or Arhats.

Do not look at the other side’s name as the Buddhist Sect. When it came to fighting, they were famously vicious.

So ordinary people truly did not dare cause trouble in the Buddhist Sect’s territory. These monks were all violent monks.

Speaking of it, it was rather funny. The Buddhist Sect’s territory was closest to the Demon Realm, so the two sides often had conflicts.

The main reason was that the Buddhist Sect was prejudiced against demon cultivators. Although they knew demon cultivators were not the same as evil cultivators, they still found those pitch-black demon cultivators displeasing to the eye.

Faced with the Buddhist Sect finding them displeasing, the demon cultivators merely rolled their eyes and did not bother looking at that group of violent monks any longer.

What did whether you found us pleasing or not have to do with us demon cultivators? The two sides did not interact. As long as the monks did not meddle, the demon cultivators were also unwilling to have contact with people of the Buddhist Sect.

They were always advising them to put down the butcher’s knife and become Buddhas on the spot. They were not evil immortals, so what Buddha were they supposed to become?

Besides, if evil cultivators were persuaded by them to become Buddhas, did that mean the sins they had committed no longer counted?

This was also one of the reasons demon cultivators could not stand the Buddhist Sect. They told everyone to put down the butcher’s knife and become Buddhas on the spot. Wouldn’t those innocent victims have nowhere to seek justice?

The monks felt that they were persuading people toward goodness, but had they considered the feelings of the victims?

On what basis could the Buddhist Sect say the other side had turned toward goodness and then decide the matter no longer needed to be pursued?

In any case, the demon cultivators could not understand it, and the victims also could not explain it.

Although cultivators did not interfere much in Buddhist affairs, they also found the Buddhist Sect’s methods somewhat hard to watch.

It was just that the Buddhist Sect’s background was also powerful, so it would not be good for everyone to push the Buddhist Sect out of the Holy Feather World.

Originally, the Holy Feather World had no Buddhism. Ten thousand years ago, during the war between races, the Buddhist Sect had come running over from another world, established a sect in Holy Feather, and occupied a piece of territory.

By the time the local forces of the Holy Feather World reacted, the Buddhist Sect had already gained momentum. In addition, the Buddhist Sect had Buddhism in the Immortal Realm backing it, so everyone could only pinch their noses and accept it.

This Immortal-Receiving City was, logically speaking, in the Buddhist Sect’s territory. It should have been called Buddha-Receiving City instead!

“Little Junior Brother, do you think Immortal-Receiving City sounds better, or Buddha-Receiving City?”

After Lingji heard his disciple’s words, he could not help asking in return.

“Ahem. Let’s still call it Immortal-Receiving City!”

Yu Yu also had not expected that this was the reason there was an Immortal-Receiving City in the Buddhist Sect’s territory.

“The city lord is a lay disciple of the Buddhist Sect, with strength equivalent to Soul Transformation.”

Lingji told Yu Yu everything he knew, and only then did Yu Yu understand that the city lord was not a monk, but a lay disciple!

“However, there is an Arhat at Sarira stage in the city lord’s manor. His strength should be pretty good.”

Lingji had sensed it before even approaching the city lord’s manor.

The other party’s strength was not bad, but unfortunately, he was still inferior to Lingji.

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