Back when Zheng Yi made his move, using the secret technique of the Five Ghosts Dao to control the Illusion Spirit Sect Leader, Lady Yin Yu, and Yellow Crane Daoist in one stroke, his backup plan was already in motion. Yi Qing Zi realized the situation was dire and understood that the entire Black Cliff Mountain had fallen into Zheng Yi's hands, and afterwards, he would surely be looking for his whereabouts.
Therefore, Yi Qing Zi avoided contact with the original subordinates of Black Cliff Mountain, kept his whereabouts hidden, and completely disappeared from Zheng Yi's Heaven and Earth Net.
As Yi Qing Zi recounted his tale, Zheng Yi also pieced together the whole genesis of the events.
Firstly, according to Yi Qing Zi, he himself was not from the Great Yi City Immortal Realm, but was a cultivator from another realm called the Profound Spirit Realm.
Moreover, in Yi Qing Zi's words, in the mouths of cultivators from other realms, Great Yi City Immortal Realm was simply referred to as Great Yi City Realm. Calling it an Immortal Realm was rely the local cultivators self-aggrandizing.
To put it bluntly, in the eyes of Outer Realm cultivators, Great Yi City Realm was just a barren land, not even worth noticing by outsiders.
The Secret Immortal Cave Mansion Yi Qing Zi was searching for was not a native inheritance of Great Yi City Realm, but was one of the relics of the Secret Immortal Sect, which perished thousands of years ago in the Profound Spirit Realm.
In its heyday, the Secret Immortal Sect was one of the most deep-rooted and influential Immortal sects in the Profound Spirit Realm, but due to certain forbidden reasons, it was attacked by other major sects and was exterminated, its main gates broken, its leaders besieged and killed, with the remaining disciples fleeing for their lives.
The Secret Immortal Sect had long been aware of this possibility. To avoid calamity, several core disciples disguised themselves and were secretly sent out of the Profound Spirit Realm. They were teleported to unknown corners through teleportation arrays.
Among them, a team of inheritors fled with the most core items of the Secret Immortal Sect, eventually ending up at Great Yi City Realm, thus creating the so-called Secret Immortal Cave Mansion.
Originally, Yi Qing Zi was a Loose Cultivator, and by studying relics, he accidentally obtained an intergenerational inheritance of the Secret Immortal Sect. Along with the opportunity, it also brought about deadly threats.
The inheritance he accidentally obtained recorded the history of the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion in Great Yi City Realm. With critical information in hand, Yi Qing Zi quietly used a secret teleportation array to get here.
However, with ti passing and imprecise maps, in order to find the cave mansion, Yi Qing Zi propped up puppets like Lady Yin Yu and others, forming the Independent Cultivator Alliance of Black Cliff Mountain, all for the purpose of finding the advent of the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion.
"...To gain it was my blessing, to lose it is my doom. I spent more than thirty years of painstaking effort, just a step away, ultimately failing at the critical mont..."
"...The purpose of establishing the Independent Cultivator Alliance at Black Cliff Mountain was to search for the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion. The reason for hiding behind the scenes was to avoid detection by people from the Profound Spirit Realm and to avoid the discovery of any clues. The Secret Immortal Sect has major enemies, those few sects with a long heritage in the Profound Spirit Realm; they are also eyeing the Secret Immortal inheritance. It was almost a success, but unfortunately, ultimately a slip left traces, not my fault, truly the heavens' mockery, still unable to achieve complete success..."
Seeing this, Zheng Yi understood that, it turns out that before Yi Qing Zi supported the Illusion Spirit Sect Leader, Lady Yin Yu, and others, he had already left hidden triggers on them. Once triggered, they would imdiately raise alarms.
No wonder Zheng Yi was so cautious, disguising with the Ghost Child without touching the origins of the trio, and Yi Qing Zi could still detect a clue, and thus hid away. No wonder no matter how hard he searched, he couldn't find any trace of Yi Qing Zi.
One has to say, this Yi Qing Zi is indeed an extrely cautious person.
However, such a cautious person ended up dying so miserably. He said people from the Profound Spirit Realm ca after him—were they enemies of the Secret Immortal Sect line? Or were they the ones coveting the Secret Immortal Sect's inheritance?
This fellow faced a fierce battle during his lifeti. Given his peak Foundation Establishnt Stage strength, those who hunted him down so cruelly must be extraordinary. Who knows what he encountered afterward?
Zheng Yi was confused; he still had too many unresolved questions.
But he believed Yi Qing Zi intentionally left clues for him to discover, leaving marks, presenting his body and everything to him, indicating that he had his reasons.
Zheng Yi believed that Yi Qing Zi would give him a perfect explanation, so he slightly cald his mind and continued to read on.
"...Through the years of searching, I finally found the inheritance of the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion. It is unexpectedly related to the founding ancestor of the Soul Catching Sect, the Soul-Catching Ancestor. This old turtle hid for so many years, leaving only a few words, and due to many upheavals, the lineage struggled to survive. The disciples and grand-disciples long forgot this piece of history."
"The Secret Immortal sectarians, who once boasted a glorious reputation in the Profound Spirit Realm, now pitifully and ridiculously dwindle in a remote corner, reduced to a minor Foundation Establishnt sect."
"Through the Illusion Spirit Sect Leader, I probed the docunts of the Soul Catching Sect, coupled with the precise information of the inheritance location I held, and finally discovered the whereabouts of the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion in Great Yi City Realm. Sadly, when the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion was set up, it was extrely secretive, relying on an array to constantly move within the earth veins; only during the full moon every thirty years does it reappear at a fixed location. I can only wait for the full moon night five years later for the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion to open."
"Until then, to avoid alerting more trouble, I decided to hide completely, not communicating with the outside world. Until it's ti, opening the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion and using the inheritance to step into the Purple Mansion Stage would mark my return to the Profound Spirit Realm, and previous issues would vanish."
"Unfortunately, ti did not wait for . Ultimately, it was a slight oversight; I was found and ambushed by three cultivators from the Profound Spirit Realm who tracked down. Severely injured and desolate, I fled in despair... These three were extrely ruthless, and my injuries were too severe, with my Divine Soul Origin shattered. Even if there were a spirit dicine capable of reviving the dead and regrowing flesh, it would still be powerless. I can only watch helplessly as the sect's enemies obtain the treasure, but I am unwilling..."
"Now, I am telling you everything. I know you are also investigating the matter of the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion. Now, the item to open the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion has been obtained by those three Outer Realm cultivators. They are guarding the secret chamber, waiting for the once-every-thirty-years full moon night to open the treasure trove. I just don't know if you have the courage to snatch it back, haha..."
The information stopped here, and Zheng Yi's expression unwittingly turned rather strange. He raised an eyebrow slightly, and the overarching outline of the situation finally clearly erged in his mind.
However, things had beco a bit thorny now. Initially, he thought that by finding this Yi Qing Zi, he would get the information on the Secret Immortal Cave Mansion. However, it unexpectedly involved Outer Realm cultivators, complicating matters greatly.
Nevertheless, one thing made his heart race: the fact that the founding ancestor of the Soul Catching Sect, the Soul-Catching Ancestor, was indeed an outsider, and was even connected to the already-extinct Secret Immortal Sect line. This perfectly aligned with so earlier clues.
After all, back then, there were always rumors circulating about the Soul Catching Sect and the Secret Realm of the Soul-Catching Ancestor. The previous sect leader Wu Daoist deliberately maneuvered, expelling the Illusion Spirit Sect Leader from the sect and stirring things up with Yi Qing Zi, aiming to uncover certain pieces of information.
Zheng Yi further thought of the Divine Five Ghosts Technique cultivation technique, which was vastly different from the Immortal Cultivation Technique of Great Yi City Realm, entirely another style, following the path of the Divine Soul Dao. If it was passed from the Outer Profound Spirit Realm, then everything made sense.
Zheng Yi did not dwell on these matters deeply; instead, he continued to look further down. He knew that Yi Qing Zi must have left the most critical clue within the jade scroll, which was his ultimate goal.
And this crucial piece of information was sufficient to incorporate him, giving him a reason that he could not refuse to act against the three Outer Realm cultivators, crafting the scene Yi Qing Zi wanted: enemies biting at each other's throats.
By then, whether he perishes, or the three Outer Realm cultivators do, or both sides suffer, was what Yi Qing Zi wanted to see, sufficiently relieving his oppressed anger in the Yellow Springs.
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