Mysterious mirror hanging high

Jing Yu's scalp tingled, and he felt completely bewildered: "What are they doing?"

Li Suxuan was stimulated by the escaping magic power, and his eyebrows raised. He was about to draw his sword, but he saw Jing Yu quickly stepped forward and said:

"Sir, several True Lords from the Zhongzhou region have come to visit. Mystical Mirror has not yet been passed on. I didn't expect you to be so diligent and practice your magical powers here!"

After saying that, he blinked at Yuwen Baoge. Some of the True Lords behind him had opened their ears, so it was completely ineffective to transmit secret messages to cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage. He didn't even dare to send a warning to Yuwen Baoge.

"hey-hey."

Yuwen Baoge put away his attire, his imposing aura dropping as he returned to his usual self. He triumphantly sent a message to Jing Yu, "These Penglai Righteous True Lords have always looked down on me. I'm, after all, a peerless genius who's achieved the Seven Apertures of the Infant Realm, and the most direct descendant of the Yuwen family. I'm afraid they've underestimated me... This is why I'm displaying my magical powers to intimidate them and let them know that my Yuwen family isn't to be trifled with!"

"No, are you mentally ill?" Jing Yu cursed inwardly, "Not to mention that there are many latent Divine Transformation monsters in Penglai Immortal Continent, your Yuwen family only has one lame Divine Transformation hiding in a cave... Even today, Xiao Beiyue of [Songfeng Pavilion] and Yu Niancheng of [Yinhuai Dao] are both in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage... And Li Suxuan of [Jiang Pavilion] is a pure swordsman who has reached the eighth level of the Nascent Soul stage! Just this one person is not something you, a fool, can mess with!"

"A show of force? Who's trying to show force to whom?"

Fortunately, they were all in the Nascent Soul stage, and Xiao Beiyue, Li Suxuan and the others could not hear Yuwen Baoge's voice transmission, otherwise they would have laughed their heads off!

But after all, Yuwen Baoge is now his official master. Based on the principle that a loyal minister should not serve two masters, Jing Yu can't change his allegiance immediately, so he can only force a smile and say:

"Please take your seats, all True Lords."

Jing Yu even thoughtfully prepared a seat for Yu Niancheng's corpse.

Yuwen Baoge looked at the woman refining the corpse in surprise, but didn't say anything, which made Jing Yu breathe a sigh of relief: "She's not that stupid after all."

He was afraid that this silly bastard would make some low EQ remarks again, which would embarrass the True Lord of Yin Huai Dao. Today's matter would really not be resolved peacefully.

When all the True Lords took their seats, Jing Yu did not take his leave, but stood beside Yuwen Baoge with his hands hanging down.

Xiao Beiyue just glanced at Jing Yu. What he was going to talk about next was a confidential matter that only Yuanying Zhenjun was qualified to know. But in his eyes, Jing Yu was, after all, a genius who had achieved the golden and purple elixir. As long as he did not die prematurely, his promotion to Zhenjun was a sure thing. So he had no intention of driving him away and just acquiesced.

The renowned Shu Zhenjun of Penglai said, "Beiyue would like to congratulate Baoding Zhenjun on his Nascent Soul formation. With the Nascent Soul Ceremony about to begin, I and several fellow Daoists, representing the Songfeng Pavilion, Xuanyin Pavilion, and Jian Pavilion of Zhongzhou, as well as the Yinhuai Dao, one of the Six Daos, have come to congratulate you."

"Oh?"

Yuwen Baoge said bluntly, "It's rumored that the twelve major forces in Zhongzhou, namely [One Mountain, Two Temples, Three Pavilions, and Six Paths], dominate the local immortal sects. Now that three pavilions have arrived, only one from the Six Paths has come. Why haven't the True Lords from One Mountain, Two Temples, and the other five paths come to congratulate us?"

Xiao Beiyue's smile froze on his face. Even though he was a very tactful and experienced person, he didn't know what to say at this moment.

Jing Yu's forehead was bulging with veins, and his temples were throbbing. He regretted not leaving immediately. He thought to himself, "If a fight breaks out soon, the aftermath of the Nascent Soul duel could be fatal. The protection token given by the Taoist Master shouldn't be wasted in a place like this!"

"cough."

Jing Yu still wanted to make amends, so he deliberately changed the subject. "Senior Xiao, the Nascent Soul Ceremony is still a few days away. Other True Lords have timed their journeys through the abyss, even to places as far away as the Celestial Continent, and usually arrive that same day. Zhongzhou isn't that far from Yunchuan either. If they were to escape through the abyss, the journey would only take a few hours. Why are they arriving so early?"

Xiao Beiyue twirled his beard and smiled, "Xuan Jing, you don't know, but there are indeed some things that need to be explained in advance this time."

"The Yunchuan Region borders the Tiannan Demon Region, and it was originally a barrier that restricted the Tiannan Demon Dao from advancing northward. Before, when there were no Nascent Souls in the Yunchuan Region, a war between two Nascent Soul forces nearly led to the entire Yunchuan Region's fall."

"Later, Fellow Daoist Banshan was promoted to the rank of True Lord, and the situation improved slightly, but it was still difficult to handle the situation alone. In recent years, the Tiannan Demon Territory has been invaded many times. Although a full-scale war has not yet been launched, no one knows when chaos will break out..."

"Fortunately, Daoist Yuwen has now achieved the Seven Apertures, and Yunchuan Territory has produced another Nascent Soul. Daoist Banshan is under much less pressure now."

"The Yunchuan Territory is only a small territory after all. It's not a big area. It's not worth it for the Tiannan Demon Territory to send too many cultivators. Two Yuanying are barely enough to defend it."

Xiao Beiyue paused and continued, "Fellow Daoist Yuwen mentioned it just now. Why did only the Three Pavilion True Lords and Fellow Daoist Yu come? In fact, there are major disagreements within the Penglai Orthodox Sect."

"[Penglai Holy Land] has long ceased to care about human affairs. Penglai Mountain has been closed for many years, so let's not talk about it."

"[Juntian Temple] and [Liangyi Temple] have long been vying for the title of the foremost Taoist sect. They are already at loggerheads with each other. How could they have the time to dwell on the struggle between good and evil?"

Li Suxuan interjected, a sneer on his face and a hint of mockery in his words: "The righteous path lacks the resolve of the upright to uphold the rules and laws, nor the tranquility and inaction of the Taoist sect... They've cultivated immortality to the point of being a dog!"

Yu Niancheng sighed and shook his head. "Except for the Yin Huai Dao where I belong, the other five Daos all believe that the Yunchuan Territory is just an insignificant small territory. Whether it falls or not, it will not have a significant impact on the overall situation of the struggle between good and evil in Penglai Xianzhou. Therefore, they are unwilling to contribute..."

"But the overall situation is also built up piece by piece. A piece is taken here, a piece is taken there. Over and over again, the overall situation is eroded, isn't it?"

"Besides."

Xiao Beiyue said gently, "The Yunchuan Region is backed by the Hundred Thousand Mountains. It is the territory of the Penglai Demon Clan. If the Yunchuan Region falls, the Demon Clan's sphere of influence will be connected to the Demon Clan. If the Tiannan Demon Clan reaches an agreement with the Demon Clan, and demons and monsters coexist, I'm afraid the people of Penglai Immortal Continent will suffer even more."

"Beiyue, as a member of the righteous Penglai sect, will never allow this to happen!"

Yuwen Baoge frowned upon hearing this and was about to speak when Jing Yu interrupted him and asked first:

"Senior Xiao, I have something I'm confused about. Currently, only the Tiannan Region of Penglai Immortal Continent is completely occupied by the demonic forces. Even though the Tiannan Region is a vast domain comparable to the Zhongzhou Region, it's even slightly smaller, at most only one-tenth the size of the entire Penglai Immortal Continent. With such a huge disparity in power between the righteous and the demonic, why don't they simply gather the righteous forces of the entire continent and defeat the demonic forces in Tiannan Region in a single battle?"