Mysterious mirror hanging high

The news of the invasion of the Tiannan Demon Sect and the fall of the Huanhuo Sect's mountain gate could not be concealed after all. In more than a month, it had spread throughout the entire Xiaoyao Immortal City.

Another unconfirmed rumor has also been circulating in the streets in recent days, saying that several great masters from the four major sects and the Yellow Wind Valley secretly came to the outskirts of Xiaoyao Fairy City to discuss peace with the two great masters Yuehua and Tota from the Xiaoyao League, and by the way, formed an alliance of righteousness with the Xiaoyao League to jointly fight against the evil ways.

Although the authenticity of this news is unknown, the ceasefire between the two forces should be a foregone conclusion. Nowadays, on the streets of Xiaoyao Xiancheng, one can even see many monks wearing the uniforms of the Huanhuo Sect, the Bishui Sect, and the Xiaolei Temple, who are obviously in a posture of shaking hands and making peace.

The monks from these sects walked on the streets one by one, all looking worried. They mostly went to shops in the fairy city that sold magic tools, talismans, and elixirs to buy supplies and increase their strength. Obviously, they were also preparing for the subsequent invasion of the demons.

On the contrary, the cultivators of Xiaoyao Immortal City no longer have the tension they felt in the previous battles with the four major sects, and many cultivators have even regained the relaxation they had before the war began.

The reason is very simple. [Yunchuan Region] is located in the southeast of Penglai Fairyland, and [Tiannan Region] is in the southernmost part of Penglai Fairyland. Therefore, the location of [Yunchuan Region] is roughly in the northeast direction of [Tiannan Region].

The Xiaoyao League's sphere of influence happens to be in the northeast of the Yunchuan Territory, and Xiaoyao Fairy City is located in the northernmost part of the Yunchuan Territory, bordering a continuous mountain range of monsters, the Shiwan Mountains. If the demon cultivators from the Tiannan Territory want to break into the Xiaoyao League's territory, they must first find a way to break through the barriers of the four major sects.

It can be said that the headquarters of the four major sects and the Yellow Wind Valley have now become the natural barrier of the Xiaoyao League against the demonic cultivators. The cultivators of Xiaoyao Immortal City probably feel that unless the entire Yunchuan Region falls, no matter how fierce the fighting on the front line is, it will have nothing to do with them, the registered residents of Xiaoyao Immortal City, and they can naturally live in peace and prosperity.

But the premise of all this is that the Yunchuan region will not fall completely!

Jing Yu sat in his retreat room, a [Spiritual Stone Embryo] resting between his knees. He probed into it with his divine sense, and this time he appeared directly in the [Illusionary Realm of Great Void]. Still wearing the tortoise-shell mask, he sat at a table in the tavern on the first floor of [Tianming Building], conversing with a cultivator codenamed [Bai Xiao].

"Fellow Daoist Bai Xiao, the demonic sects of the Tiannan Territory are launching a massive attack on the Yunchuan Territory. Have you made any progress on the matter I asked you to investigate earlier?"

The monk opposite him, code-named "Bai Xiao", looked like a female with well-developed limbs and muscular body. She wore a white mask with a big question mark pattern on it.

Bai Xiao's voice was extremely deep and rough. If it weren't for her extremely obvious secondary sexual characteristics, Jing Yu would have found it hard to imagine that the person sitting in front of her was a female cultivator:

"Fellow Daoist Yiyuan, I have already found out that the reason the demons from the Tiannan Territory invaded the Yunchuan Territory this time is because the third demon from the [Three Demons of the Tang Family] formed a golden elixir."

"These three demons are originally half-brothers from the Tang family of the Tiannan Demon Sect. The Great Demon and the Second Demon have long since achieved elixir cultivation, and now the youngest of the three demons has also been promoted to a Golden Core True Person. The three brothers have always been like-minded, and now that they are all True Persons, they want to establish their own sect and find a suitable place to practice and wield their power."

"However, the Tiannan Region has been completely divided up by the various demon sects. The three Tang clan demons are the younger generation of the Tang family. Although their father, the Three Poisons True Lord, is a genuine demon dao True Lord, he cannot arbitrarily distribute the clan's resources to his three sons. So he set his sights on the Yunchuan Region."

"The invasion of Yunchuan Territory this time was carried out by the Yuanying Immortal Clan, the Tang Clan, in alliance with another Yuanying Demonic Sect in Tiannan Territory, the Beast Taming Sect. The two families are jointly dividing the benefits of this war."

"Just to occupy a dojo? You can start a war between two realms?"

Jing Yu looked a little unhappy and asked in disbelief.

Bai Xiao said helplessly, "Fellow Daoist Yiyuan, please be careful with your wording. How can this be considered a war? It's just the Tiannan Territory's demonic cultivators unilaterally beating up the Yunchuan Territory!"

"A small domain like Yunchuan Domain can't even raise a Nascent Soul True Lord, so how can it have the qualifications to speak at the table?"

Jing Yu sighed, "They say that Penglai Immortal Continent is dominated by the righteous path and is the most disciplined. I think it's just like that..."

"Fellow Daoist Yiyuan, you may not know this. Some time ago, several Demonic True Lords from the Tiannan Region personally traveled to the Zhongzhou Region to greet several Great True Lords of the Righteous Path. After a long discussion, the two sides finally established the rule that the True Lords are not allowed to interfere in this war. It is because of this that your Yunchuan Region has had some breathing space."

"This is only in a place like Penglai Xianzhou where the righteous path prevails. If it were Juechen Xianzhou where the evil path is rampant, why would I bother with all this nonsense? A True Lord could travel through the void and dismantle all the Jindan formations of the major sects and alliances in Yunchuan Territory, and then plant soul restrictions on the Jindan True Lords in the enemy camp. Yunchuan Territory would have fallen in an instant. Who would still want to advance the battle line with you in such a rigid manner?"

"To put it bluntly, the world of immortal cultivation is not a place of warmth and affection. The reason why you think the cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation are always well-behaved and harmonious is that you happened to be lucky enough to be born in a domain like Yunchuan Domain, where righteousness is the most important. But the real world of immortal cultivation is not like this, at least not in places like Yunchuan Domain and Zhongzhou Domain, which are not dominated by righteousness."

Jing Yu nodded helplessly. He was not a naive person who had never experienced the world.

In fact, before traveling through time, he had read a lot of novels about cultivating immortals, so he was prepared to face the dark, even weird, and cannibalistic world of cultivating immortals.

Who would have thought that after he was born, apart from Taoist Black Blood and Lei Yunzi, the first cultivator he had direct contact with was the good-natured Mu Shan. Taoist Cangsong, who was obviously a foundation-building cultivator, was also a virtuous elder with profound cultivation. Even to those with spiritual roots who had not yet embarked on the path of cultivation, he was polite and called them fellow Taoists.

Then we arrived at Wushan Market, which was a very orderly and harmonious environment.

Although one may encounter some evil cultivators who kill people and steal treasures, the overall atmosphere is still a happy one of cultivating immortals.

After building the foundation, he lived in Xiaoyao Fairy City for a long time. Naturally, there were hypocrites like Yuwen Baoding who appeared to be righteous but were actually full of evil intentions. However, that was also a calculation that could not be seen in the light. Even someone as powerful as Yuwen Baoding, the number one Jindan cultivator in Yunchuan Domain, did not dare to bring the dirty things he did in secret to the table.

All these experiences had almost completely rectified Jing Yu's previous impression of the world of immortal cultivation, which he imagined was a world of peril and the survival of the fittest...

But now he was suddenly told that the world of cultivating immortals was actually a place where every step was filled with fear and danger, and the strong preyed on the weak. The place where he had been staying could actually be regarded as the moral ceiling of the entire immortal world, and it was hard for anyone to bear it.

From this perspective, my birth into this "Newbie Village" with its extremely high moral standards was most likely orchestrated by the Nine-Life Dao Monarch...