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In the secret realm, the divine sense of ordinary cultivators was restricted, but Ling Buyan was not affected. As the master of this secret realm, everything in the Guanzhi Mountain secret realm should be under his control.
Ling Buyan’s expression turned serious as soon as he glanced at the person there.
“Master, who is that person?” Li Fenglan instinctively lowered his head and whispered to Ling Buyan.
“A nascent soul stage wandering cultivator?” After saying this, Ling Buyan shook his head suddenly, “No, someone has taken over his body.”
“What? Taken over his body!” Hearing the words “taken over his body,” Li Fenglan looked up again. Although the term was common, those who were truly capable of doing such a thing in the cultivation world were few and far between.
If nothing unexpected happened, Li Fenglan should know this person.
Sure enough, Ling Buyan mentioned a name.
“It’s Cheng Duan.” This time, Ling Buyan’s tone was very certain.
“Cheng Duan…”
Recently, Li Fenglan had experienced too many things in the past few months. If Ling Buyan hadn’t mentioned this name now, he would have almost forgotten about this person.
Almost as soon as he heard the name, the sentence that Cheng Duan said when he slipped away from under Li Fenglan’s eyelids a few months ago rang in his ears again –
“Li Fuyue, you can’t get rid of me…”
“You will never get rid of me…”
Li Fenglan quickly shook his head as if trying to clear these two sentences from his mind. After a few moments, he couldn’t help but whisper, “What is Cheng Duan doing here?”
“His divine soul is severely damaged. If he doesn’t come here, he probably won’t live long,” Ling Buyan said.
Li Fenglan understood. Like many young or mediocre cultivators, Cheng Duan felt that he couldn’t survive without coming to Guanzhi Mountain, so he gritted his teeth and came here to seek a glimmer of hope.
Unlike Cheng Duan, who was wearing a gray cloak and couldn’t see his face clearly, Li Fenglan didn’t wear a veil, and Cheng Huang was by his side. Anyone who wasn’t foolish could recognize him.
“Don’t worry.” Ling Buyan comforted Li Fenglan with a sideways glance.
“It’s fine…” Li Fenglan smiled and said, “If there’s anyone who should worry about meeting here, it’s Cheng Duan.”
Seeing Li Fenglan’s expression when he spoke, Ling Buyan was a little surprised. Li Fenglan had gradually changed without him noticing it… Ling Buyan smiled and nodded gently.
In the meantime, the mist in the wilderness had dissipated completely.
Li Fenglan saw that there were probably hundreds of cultivators standing in front of him.
At the same time the green mist dissipated, Mo Shenyu appeared once again.
However, before all the people in the sword formation picked up their weapons, Li Fenglan saw that Mo Shenyu’s face changed.
Mo Shenyu, who was draped in golden light, had a very ugly expression. He frowned and shook his head gently, muttering to himself, “Impossible, how is this possible?”
Li Fenglan didn’t understand why Mo Shenyu reacted this way, and he instinctively turned to look at Ling Buyan. Then Li Fenglan saw his own master smiling and looking at Mo Shenyu, saying, “Junior Brother’s desire to absorb the spiritual power of everyone in the Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm is too greedy.”
Ling Buyan’s voice was not loud, but Mo Shenyu heard it very clearly. He opened his eyes wide and tried to activate the formation again to absorb the spiritual power of the people inside, but unlike before, Mo Shenyu didn’t feel any spiritual power.
Thinking back to what had just happened, Mo Shenyu finally realized that something was off with his senior brother. As if he had guessed what Mo Shenyu was thinking, Ling Buyan smiled at him and said meaningfully, “After being a person for so long, you should be content with what you have.”
“You…it’s you!” Mo Shenyu’s face turned gray.
After saying these words, he understood that he couldn’t beat Ling Buyan in the Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm. So he immediately turned around and transformed his entire body into a golden light, disappearing in front of everyone at the fastest speed.
Except for the people who were just in the sword formation, the others probably didn’t understand what had just happened in front of them from beginning to end. Unlike Li Fenglan, they still didn’t know Ling Buyan’s identity for the time being. When they saw him talking to Mo Shenyu just now, many people looked at Ling Buyan as if they wanted to ask for an explanation.
However, although Mo Shenyu had left, the Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm was not safe yet. It was unclear who shouted “be careful!” first, but then everyone saw the familiar Guanzhi Mountain appear in the void again. But this time, the previously calm snowy mountain began to collapse from the top.
“Ah!” Duan Wannian, who had been hiding in Li Fenglan’s hair, couldn’t help but exclaim in shock.
She had traveled through the human and demon worlds for so many years, and had seen many avalanches, but this was the first time she had seen an entire mountain collapse like this.
Even the entire secret realm was collapsing before their eyes at a visible speed, not just Guanzhi Mountain.
No one knew what would happen to them if the Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm really collapsed. Li Fenglan saw that everyone around him was forming seals and setting up barriers to withstand the upcoming burst of spiritual power.
After setting up a barrier around Meng Linzhou, who was badly injured and moving at the fastest speed possible, his attention turned to Ling Buyan.
The collapse of the secret realm was bound to affect Ling Buyan, as it was his secret realm.
“Master!” Li Fenglan instinctively grabbed Ling Buyan’s arm.
At this moment, Ling Buyan’s face was a paleness that Li Fenglan had never seen before. His appearance reminded him of a scene he had seen before… Ling Buyan’s condition was not as good as he had pretended.
“Cough cough…” Ling Buyan’s condition was visibly poor, but he still shook his head lightly when he saw Li Fenglan’s concerned gaze and said, “I’m fine.”
At this point, the secret realm had already begun to collapse.
Waves of spiritual power swept towards them, and the scene before them changed from a wasteland covered in boulders to the plain outside the Guanzhi Mountain Secret Realm.
Li Fenglan could see that Ling Buyan was now struggling to control the speed of the barrier’s collapse, but despite this, many people’s protective barriers were still shattered. Knocked down by spiritual power, they vomited blood on the ground.
Even in places that Li Fenglan could not see… the jade pendant that Lin Chaochen wore on his chest finally slowly shattered into dust.
As a sword cultivator, Lin Chaochen’s protective barrier was originally composed of Qi. But now, the pure and clear Qi has become visibly turbid. Lin Chaochen’s spiritual power was running wild in the secret realm, even uncontrollably attacking other cultivators.
“Oh my god, what’s happening?”
While resisting the influx of spiritual power caused by the collapse of the secret realm, Li Fenglan looked towards Lin Chaochen’s location. He saw that most of the cultivators around his junior brother were injured, and those who were not injured had a look of horror on their faces.
After a few breaths, a familiar conversation reached Li Fenglan’s ears.
“What’s wrong with Senior Lin?”
“I don’t know… it looks really strange.” It seemed like he was possessed by a demon, but not quite the same.
This unlucky junior brother couldn’t control himself and actually revealed the fact that he had been possessed by a demon for a long time in front of everyone! Fortunately, there was a broken piece of spirit jade blocking the view, so although the people around him had noticed something abnormal, they couldn’t tell what was going on for a while.
…
That day was the most chaotic day in the cultivation world in a thousand years.
The secret realm of Guanzhi Mountain collapsed, and the huge surge of spiritual power dispersed everyone. At the same time, Ling Buyan was seriously injured, and even the fact that Lin Chaochen fell into qi deviation almost came to light.
During the final and largest surge of spiritual power, Li Fenglan held onto Ling Buyan tightly, so they were carried in the same direction by the surge. Although Ling Buyan was seriously injured, he was unrivaled in strength. He didn’t spit out a mouthful of blood until he returned to Tianmian Palace and went into seclusion.
Ling Buyan’s behavior in the secret realm was too unusual. Both Tianmian Palace and other sects in the cultivation world wanted to send someone to check on him.
But in the end, all of it was blocked by Jiang Yichang, the head of Tianmian Palace.
Miguang Mountain was temporarily quiet.
A few days later, early in the morning, Li Fenglan went to knock on the door of the main hall of Miguang Mountain as usual. Like the previous days, there was no response from inside.
Li Fenglan didn’t know how Ling Buyan was doing now. He seemed calm on the surface, but in reality, he was already in chaos.
After a stick of incense time, Li Fenglan finally left the main hall of Miguang Mountain and walked towards the edge of the cliff.
— The entire Tianmian Palace, including Miguang Mountain, was in chaos a few days ago, so Li Fenglan didn’t have time to think about what would happen next.
But last night, Li Fenglan didn’t sleep all night and spent the whole night sorting out all the plots he knew…
“Fenglan~” Just as Li Fenglan was staring at the distant sunrise, Cheng Huang suddenly came over and rubbed against his leg. “What’s wrong with you?”
Li Fenglan shook his head and suddenly sat on the ground. He touched Cheng Huang’s head and said, “I have something important to do later and need to leave Miguang Mountain for a while.”
“Huh?” Although Cheng Huang didn’t understand the twists and turns in the recent events of the cultivation world, as an ancient fierce beast, he also sensitively noticed the change in the atmosphere around him.
Cheng Huang was a little worried about Li Fenglan.
“Don’t worry,” Li Fenglan smiled at Cheng Huang, “I just need to go to the main peak.”
“Why?” Cheng Huang asked. However, this time, Li Fenglan did not answer.
In “Tianmian Daosheng”, it was written that before the battle where Ling Buyan and Mo Shenyu perished together, Mo Shenyu had sneaked into the Xieguang Tower and stole Finished Karma.
Although until now, Li Fenglan still didn’t understand the purpose of Mo Shenyu’s actions, his intuition told him that Finished Karma might be closely related to the final outcome.
More importantly, his spiritual sword had also reached the time to come back.