The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 751 - 418: The Disrupted Situation

Bright Moon Sect was caught completely off guard. Although this small sect fought back, how could it possibly stand a chance against a group of ferocious demons? With seven hundred demons against ten thousand people, Hidden Stream’s victory was swift and overwhelming. Ning Xiaoxian learned from the demons who personally participated that, although Bright Moon Sect was not large, its disciples had firm resolve, with many cultivators preferring death over submission; the entire immortal sect was almost slaughtered, with rivers of blood flowing, and the envoy sent that day to Hidden Stream was only then found.

Having started, Hidden Stream’s expeditionary army rested only for a few two-hour periods before immediately moving on to the second immortal sect. In just half a day, they had destroyed a large part of the sect’s Immortal Mountain, forcing them to hand over the envoy from that day.

Hidden Stream has struck the surrounding sects! The news spread like wildfire in every direction, like oil splashed on boiling water, shocking the entire Northwest Region.

There has been warfare in the northern part of the Southern Continent for hundreds of years, but "No War in the West" had always been a common understanding among cultivators. This time Hidden Stream brazenly instigated conflict in the west, causing many immortal sects to accuse Hidden Stream of disregarding morality and being recklessly arrogant, while they formed an alliance as close as branches on the same tree. Everyone’s eyes were wide open; the combat strength displayed by Hidden Stream in defeating the first two sects was enough to terrify people. A group of demons that were stuck in the deep mountains all day long, with no form of entertainment and doing nothing but cultivating and fighting, are ones no Human Clan immortal sect wants to face alone.

Before long, even Guangcheng Palace in the central region was alarmed, and for a simple reason: their envoy to Hidden Stream, Vice Pavilion Master Li Jianming of Duobao Pavilion, had been visiting the Ba Snake Mountain Range and then went missing without a trace! Shortly afterward, news came of Hidden Stream capturing envoys from various sects. Putting these two things together, what kind of thoughts would that provoke from Guangcheng Palace? What truly enraged this great Human Clan sect was Hidden Stream’s actions—these demons had actually captured suspects and conducted interrogations on the spot inside the recently blood-washed sect gates!

Thorny Hall always treated interrogation as an art form, creating myriad bizarre methods, such as chopping off hands and feet, a gruesome and unsightly ancient punishment long abandoned. They have a hundred ways to make a prisoner suffer agonizingly like they are in Purgatory, regretting why they were ever born into this world, all without a single scrape on their skin! Yet under such cruel interrogation, the two who were interrogated were proven innocent, without any suspicion.

Thus, Hidden Stream’s slap across the face of the Human Clan immortal sects resounded both sharp and loud—if they swallowed this insult and did not seek revenge, they would really be condemned by the world as cowards! Two days later, this newly formed alliance began to operate, and no matter which immortal sect within the alliance Hidden Stream attacked, the other sects would come to support. Hidden Stream’s aim was simple: they just wanted to capture the person who wrecked the Immortal Plant Garden, with no intent to annihilate the surrounding sects, hence the situation momentarily reached a deadlock.

By this time, more than ten days had passed. And within Hidden Stream, some troubles had also emerged.

For one, the Dianjing Pavilion had lost an extremely precious handwritten manuscript, "Dragon Transformation Technique." Hidden Stream’s Dianjing Pavilion is actually a storeroom that holds various cultivation techniques and secrets, derived from the phrase "Dragon Painting." This copy of the "Dragon Transformation Technique," although not the original, was greatly famed because the person who copied it was very famous, making this technique a treasure of the Dianjing Pavilion—this was written by Lord Ba Snake himself, and was also knowledge of the Dragon Transformation passed down by Azure Dragon, one of the Four Divine Beasts.

Since all creatures with scales can potentially transform into dragons, this handwritten manuscript is of immense significance to fish and snake demons. Shaking Heaven God was the last person to see Azure Dragon alive; thus, this booklet is the only one of its kind in the world, even though several copies have been made by great powers of Hidden Stream through generations, none can compare to the one written by Changtian. More importantly, if "Dragon Transformation Technique" were to fall into the outside world, it is unknown how much commotion it would cause, given that the world had not seen the emergence of new Dragon Clan members for a long time.

When Qi Zai passed on this news, Ning Xiaoxian was just preparing a snack to take into the God Demon Prison. Now that Xu Nongyou was living in her small building, she could only take the opportunity to bring things for Changtian to eat when this old man was out. Although Lord Divine Monarch didn’t lack for food, he was very dissatisfied with the few opportunities she had to meet him in God Demon Prison, making it seem like she was doing something sneaky.