"No, no, no," True Immortal Dou Po desperately cried out, "Spare , Immortal. I am on very good terms with the heads of the nearby Spirit Plant Divisions, like Ben Hong, Tie Li, Wan Ni... You can ask them yourself if you don’t believe . How would I dare Soul Search a Spirit Plant Master?"
These three are all heads of the Spirit Plant Division in nearby plates. Although True Immortal Yi Jue doesn’t much care about the mundane affairs of the Spirit Plant path, she has heard of these three people. Ben Hong and Tie Li are both Nascent Soul True Immortals.
"Whether you dare or not, I don’t know," True Immortal Yi Jue replied indifferently, "I’m just curious who gave you the courage to utter ’Soul Search the Spirit Plant Master’? If you can na this person... I can spare you."
"I was just bragging, just bragging," True Immortal Dou Po was about to cry, "Immortal, I promise I won’t speak recklessly anymore in the future."
"Oh," True Immortal Yi Jue nodded and spoke softly, "I see, the Spirit Plant path is easy to bully... Have you ever boasted about wanting to Soul Search a Jinwu Disciple?"
Am I crazy, Soul Searching a Jinwu Disciple? True Immortal Dou Po wanted to retort but finally realized—it’s the ss I got myself into with my gibberish just now, "Well, here’s the thing, Jinwu had a Guest Elder who lost a Fire Seed a few days ago..."
This Guest Elder is also at the Nascent Soul Initial Stage, not of much importance in Jinwu Sect, but extrely formidable within the Honggu plate.
Here we can compare Honggu with Yiyao; Yiyao is one of the six major plates of the Taixu Sect. Though not as important as Blazing Fla, it is much stronger than Honggu—the Honggu Plate even has Secret Realm Families.
However, the combat strength Jinwu stationed in Honggu is more than what Taixu designated in Yiyao.
The reason is simple: Yiyao is thoroughly assimilated into Taixu, highly controlled, so not much combat strength is needed to guard it. Anyway, if sothing happens, Taixu will quickly reinforce—if things blow up, that would be disgraceful.
On the other hand, Jinwu hasn’t fully assimilated Honggu yet; it’s more of an edge plate—having more troops stationed along the border is common sense, right?
Although rely a Guest Elder, this person is like a small army captain, responsible for one area where his word goes.
Similarly, look at Yiyao, Liu Xingyu is also a Guest Elder at the Nascent Soul Initial Stage, yet has nothing to do with East City affairs; everything is decided by Master Moran.
Saying all this mainly shows that different plates have varying rules, none is the most standard, only the most suitable.
True Immortal Dou Po expressed that although he is a True Immortal, he doesn’t qualify to apply for Jinwu’s Guest Elder. So, in terms of status, he is a bit lower than the other one, and he has so interests in Honggu Plate, so cozying up to the counterpart would be perfect.
Thus, he followed the patrol out, but mostly, he just oversees things without taking much action.
Earlier, soone thought Feng Jun and Yi Jue’s reactions were strange, yet they only dispatched a Golden Core cultivator as a follower. Discovering sothing amiss, they didn’t urgently seek assistance, primarily aiming to lure out the thief—everyone’s fishing, who’s afraid of whom?
Unfortunately, True Immortal Yi Jue also wanted to fish, but her patience was limited. Seeing True Immortal Dou Po approaching, she could no longer hold back and directly made a move–you can choose not to speak, but I can perform a Soul Search.
Nonetheless, True Immortal Dou Po felt rather aggrieved, following rules and regulations. Just a wrong word, and now facing Soul Search?
If soone else were to say that, he wouldn’t believe it. But seeing the opponent is clearly a higher Cultivation Level True Immortal and looking at the Technique of the Green Vine Prison, it’s clear the opponent belongs either to Lingmu or Spirit Plant path—can he afford to provoke such a figure?
Never mind him, even the Jinwu Guest Elder he fawned over probably couldn’t afford to provoke such an individual—though Seven Gates are indeed slightly stronger than Eighteen Paths, a re Guest Elder is sowhat below the mark.
He explained continuously for quite a while, but True Immortal Yi Jue listened expressionlessly. After finishing, she coolly asked, "Done talking? I still didn’t hear why you want to Soul Search a Spirit Plant Master... Give a reason not to Soul Search you."
I was rely saying, True Immortal Dou Po was on the verge of crying, but finally had a flash of inspiration, "The pressure from Jinwu Guest Elder on is indeed too great. He even gave the Fire Seed’s aura... I was forced with no choice."
"Fire Seed’s aura?" True Immortal Yi Jue, upon hearing, was slightly moved. She is actually expert in divination, though not as adept as Feng Jun, but evaluating the truthfulness of these statents wouldn’t be too problematic—the statents were indeed true.
She mainly suspects the counterpart intends to commit murder and robbery in a remote place and secondly suspects these individuals might be connected with the attackers, hence her intense anger. As for the Soul Search on a Spirit Plant Master remark, it was rely a trigger.
Since the first two concerns were put aside, the offensive remark deserved so minor punishnt, but True Immortal Yi Jue isn’t bloodthirsty.
She raised her hand to seize the opponent’s Storage Bag, scanning it with her Divine Sense, with a hint of a cold smile on her lips, "Poor thing... Where’s the Fire Seed’s aura?"
True Immortal Dou Po dared not say anything more, raising his hand to point at one of the Eighth Layer Outsider, "It’s in his Storage Bag."
Yi Jue took out the Fire Seed’s aura, a square box, from which she captured a streak of aura and moved aside to comnce divination.
After deducing for a while, she transmitted a thought to Feng Jun, "Feels like it’s to the north and slightly to the east. Would you like to deduce yourself?"
Feng Jun sent her a ntal ssage, "I’m not good at these things, do whatever you think, I support you."
Yi Jue knew he wasn’t very skilled at these things, glanced at Dou Po the True Immortal and others, and asked, "What should we do with these people?"
"I don’t care," Feng Jun spread his hands and answered nonchalantly, "Kill or release them, it’s up to you. But if you want to release them, don’t do it right away; we have other matters to attend to."
"I’m not in a hurry to leave," Dou Po the True Immortal imdiately expressed his stance, not doubting at all that the other party had the guts to kill them. The key was that probably no one would be able to take revenge afterward, "I also won’t expose your identities."
"If you’ve got the guts, go ahead and expose us," Feng Jun turned his back, took out his mobile phone and swiped twice, then let out a cold laugh, "I thought your surna was Dou, but it’s actually Du... do you need to say more?"
"No need," the face of Dou Po the True Immortal turned deathly pale in an instant, shaking his head desperately, "We definitely won’t speak of this, you can lock us up anywhere, we absolutely won’t resist."
"Exactly, we won’t resist," the remaining seven swore and pledged desperately.
"Then I’ll take your Spirit Stones," Yi Jue the True Immortal wasn’t a greedy person and disdained their Magical Treasures. Taking those Spirit Stones was what she called "a slight punishnt."
Then she flicked out eight green lights that entered the bodies of the eight people. The one who had spoken out before, at Golden Core Sixth Layer, recognized it and gasped, "Soul-Controlling Spirit Seed?"
Yi Jue glanced at him coldly, "Don’t want to accept it?"
"No problem, we can accept it," Dou Po the True Immortal quickly replied with a forced smile and then glared fiercely at the person, "Spirit Seed or death... which one would you choose?"
"That’s not what I ant!" The Golden Core Sixth Layer was so frightened that he shook his head hastily, explaining in a fluster, "I an, this is a Technique unique to the Lingmu Sect... Since you are experts from the Eighteenth Dao, if you said you’d spare us, I’m sure you really an it."
"Alright, no more talking," Yi Jue snorted coldly, silencing them, then raised her hand to point at Dou Po the True Immortal, releasing his restraint, "Take us flying north by northeast."
Flying with a group on a Nascent Soul’s back is actually quite simple. After flying for a while, about seventy to eighty thousand miles, a small town appeared ahead, and Yi Jue the True Immortal spoke, "Here will do."
The town at Honggu also has its unique features. There’s a small castle at the town’s center—actually, more like a wilderness fort covering about three to four miles, but it’s fully equipped with not just protective formations but also weapon shops, pharmacies, and talisman shops.
The main purpose of the castle is survival in the wild, but it’s been peaceful for many years. A large amount of Spirit Fields has been developed outside the fort, and many adventurers have settled outside, even setting up street stalls, making the inside of the fortress rather deserted.
After landing, Yi Jue couldn’t stop calculating directions until she finally determined the direction, which was in a large courtyard.
Seeing her walk toward that direction, Dou Po the True Immortal hurriedly spoke up, "Master, that’s the courtyard of the Secret Realm Qin Family."
Dou Po really had a wide network here; as soon as he landed, many people ca up to greet him. His entourage was also being received, and soone even greeted Yi Jue, clearly as a courtesy to Dou Po the True Immortal.
Dou Po responded perfunctorily, his attention entirely focused on Yi Jue. Seeing her head that way, he couldn’t help but call out loudly. Yet, not daring to address her as True Immortal, he could only use the title "Master"—a title befitting a Spirit Plant Master.
When he called out, sure enough, others turned to look, but didn’t dare to ask more—would they casually inquire about soone whom even a True Immortal calls Master?
Yi Jue the True Immortal was a bit surprised, "The Secret Realm Qin Family... would they choose to set up here?"
As one of the Three Hundred Secret Realm Families, the Secret Realm Qin Family could live in Honggu but would most likely choose seclusion. Isn’t it risky to be so close to the Jinwu wilderness fort?
Dou Po the True Immortal ca over and explained in a low voice that this wasn’t a Qin family residence but a small Fang Market they opened to facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers, not for profit but to collect various rare Heaven and Earth Treasures.
In short, with the Qin family’s endorsent, the order here is quite decent, much better than street stalls. Compared to the formal Fang Market in the town, you can often buy so Qin family products here, which are of guaranteed quality, complenting each other well.
Jinwu Sect maintains a "three no’s principle" regarding this: no support, no opposition, no contact.
Of course, if soone were to complain about that private Fang Market with solid evidence, Jinwu Sect would send enforcent disciples.
Dou Po the True Immortal dared not cause trouble in that Fang Market, so he had to remind Yi Jue the True Immortal.
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