Asura Mad Emperor-Chapter 276 Conspiracy

Chi Shan tried to speak again, only to find that Qinchuan had vanished at the end of the small path.

Chi Shan did not follow after him, but took out the Soul Calming Lamp from his storage space and entered the room of the ancestor. As per Qinchuan’s instructions, he placed the Soul Calming Lamp at the foot of the ancestor.

Chi Hai’s condition had stabilized, with his Asura Emperor Soul suppressing the remnant soul, coupled with the blessing of the Soul Calming Lamp, a Supreme Dao Artifact, his last wisp of soul was sufficient to last until the Great Elder gathered all the materials.

Before this, there was no use in Qinchuan staying there.

In the following days, Qinchuan was not idle, leaving early and returning late on his own, and Chi Shan rarely saw him in the hall.

Qinchuan understood that there were many forces in the shadows targeting the Burning Heaven Sect.

Besides the Jiuxiang Ancient Country, there could be other forces involved, and he now needed to figure out as soon as possible which other forces were partaking, and what were their intentions? For how long they had been hiding in the shadows, some might be aiming for the Fusang Tree, while others might not.

However, whether they were or not, Qinchuan had no intention of letting these people go.

Although he did not personally establish the Burning Heaven Sect, he had put effort into it, so since these people dared to harbor intentions, they must be ready for annihilation.

However, having stood in the Great Wilderness for over a hundred thousand years, the Burning Heaven Sect had deep reserves. Though protected by many Mountain Protection Arrays, these people had been plotting for a long time, and such arrays would hardly stop them, especially now that the Burning Heaven Sect’s strongest force, Chi Hai, was unable to fight against the enemies.

The Burning Heaven Hall was unlike the summit of Fusang Mountain, where Qinchuan, backed by the Minor Zhoutian Starry Sky Formation, was unmatched. Around Burning Heaven Hall, he had to lay out other means in order to ensnare those people all at once, and this was what he had been busily arranging.

During these days, Chi Shan also came looking for him, mentioning a strange event from the Myriad Manifestation Ancient Country a thousand years ago.

A thousand years earlier, the Myriad Manifestation Ancient Country had asked the Tianyuan Nation to borrow the Soul Calming Lamp.

The relationship between Tianyuan Nation and Jiuxiang Ancient Country was not as friendly as with the Burning Heaven Sect.

There had always been border disputes between the two nations, with the Jiuxiang Ancient Country invading and occupying lands of the Tianyuan Nation multiple times, making their relationship akin to fire and water.

Naturally, Tianyuan Nation would not lend the Soul Calming Lamp to an enemy.

However, what was strange was that Jiuxiang Ancient Country seemed desperate to borrow it, with Emperor Yun Huan personally visiting Tianyuan Nation to negotiate. Yun Huan not only agreed to return the previously occupied territories of Tianyuan Nation but also ceded the hundred thousand miles of land with the richest Mysterious Crystal mine, located south of Tianyuan and north of Jiuxiang, to Tianyuan Nation.

In the end, they even took an oath by the Heavenly Dao to become friendly nations and never invade each other again, and thus they borrowed the Soul Calming Lamp.

Burning Heaven Sect also inquired, and back then, there was no word of any soul in Jiuxiang Ancient Country being damaged, so it was unknown why they needed the Soul Calming Lamp. Explore more at novelbuddy

While Chi Shan did not know, Qinchuan had a clear understanding.

The Netherworld Hall was adept at cultivating the soul, and the Soul Calming Lamp was one of the best soul cultivation Dao Artifacts on the Divine Wilderness Continent; thinking of this, it became clear why Jiuxiang Ancient Country needed the artifact.

With that said, Jiuxiang Ancient Country had already colluded with the Netherworld Hall a thousand years prior.

Yet Qinchuan had always been clueless about why exactly Netherworld Hall and Jiuxiang Ancient Country went through so much trouble to plot against the Burning Heaven Sect.

After setting up his tactics in the dark, Qinchuan began to stroll leisurely in the mountains, waiting quietly.

In these days, Qinchuan also met many disciples of the Burning Heaven Sect and discovered that besides Jiuxiang Ancient Country’s spies, there were also people from Heavenly Sword Sect and Jiuli Ghost Sect, and he noted down the remaining small forces one by one.

Most of the Burning Heaven Sect disciples had also heard that someone named Qinchuan had joined the sect, bypassing the sect’s assessment and being directly taken as a direct disciple by the Sect Leader.

Initially, most disciples did not believe that the Sect Leader had taken a direct disciple.

But quite a few elders’ disciples went over to their elders and subtly probed, and they all received the news that the Sect Leader had indeed taken in a new direct disciple recently.

Although no one explicitly said who it was, they had all recognized it must be this Qinchuan who returned to the mountain with the Sect Leader on that very day.

Many who saw Qinchuan couldn’t help but comment, "Is this kid the new disciple the Sect Leader just took in?"

"Merely at the Meridian Opening Realm, I really don’t know what kind of dogshit luck he had for the Sect Leader to take special notice of him!" Another disciple looked at him with disdain, naturally assuming that Qinchuan must not have become the Sect Leader’s disciple through normal means and must have gotten the position through the back door.

Even more disciples could hardly wait and wanted to humiliate Qinchuan thoroughly in the upcoming sect competition.

The sect competition was an event held by the Burning Heaven Sect every ten years for disciple selection.

Burning Heaven Sect’s inner disciples could be divided into menial disciples, outer sect disciples, inner sect disciples, true disciples, and direct disciples.

The cultivation resources available to each level of disciples varied widely, with the resources obtained by one outer seat disciple enough for ten menial disciples to cultivate, and those obtained by an inner seat disciple far exceeding ten times that of an outer sect disciple, with the resources of true disciples being ten times that of the inner sect disciples.

As for direct disciples, they are ones who have already been taken as direct disciples by the elders of the sect and can directly obtain resources from their masters, which could be described as inexhaustible.

Advancement from menial, outer sect, and inner sect disciple levels was quite simple, with the opportunity to apply for advancement trials once each year, passing the trial meant advancing one level.

However, upon reaching the level of true disciple, to be taken as a direct disciple by the elders and the Sect Leader quite required destiny.

If you possessed clever talent and were noticed by an elder with a ’Wisdom Eye,’ you could be taken directly as a direct disciple; even if you were lucky enough, you could advance directly from a menial disciple to a direct disciple.

Besides that, the only other opportunity to be promoted to a direct disciple was at this decennial selective competition.

This disciple selection competition was divided into preliminaries and finals, with disciples from the four different levels being mixed and divided into four groups, alphabetically from A to D, with each group competing in pairs to select 25 winners.

Finally, a hundred competitors from the four groups would participate in the finals, and placements in the sect competition would be rewarded with corresponding cultivation prizes.

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In addition, among these hundred winners, the top ten would mostly be noticed by the elders and taken as direct disciples.

With the impending sect competition, most of the disciples in the sect were talking about it.

And just as the enthusiasm of the various disciples was high, a rumor spread within the Burning Heaven Sect that this year’s champion of the sect competition would be awarded a Fusang Fruit.

As disciples of the Burning Heaven Sect, they were naturally aware of the Fusang Fruit.

Though they had also received news that the Fusang Fruit would ripen soon, many disciples didn’t believe it.

"What? A Fusang Fruit as the top prize for the sect competition?"

"How is that possible? The Fusang Fruit condenses only once every hundred thousand years, and even for the Sect Leader and the Great Elders, it’s a rare treasure; how could it be used as a reward?"

But as the day of the competition drew near, the Sect Leader personally came out and declared that the reward for this competition was indeed a Fusang Fruit, and the prizes for the top ten had been increased.

Moreover, in addition to this, there was an additional Great Elders Competition set up for this competition, where the sect’s Great Elders would compete against each other to allow the disciples to witness the way of the sages above, and in the Great Elders Competition, the final victor would also receive a Supreme Dao Artifact as a reward.

With the Sect Leader’s personal decree, everyone’s doubts were dispelled.

With this, not only the various disciples but even the elders were rubbing their hands in anticipation, preparing to fight for a good place in the competition, and many elders who had been in closed-door cultivation for years emerged, wanting to compete for this Supreme Dao Artifact.

Qinchuan saw that the atmosphere in the Burning Heaven Sect’s mountain had changed imperceptibly, and everything was developing in the direction he had anticipated.