After her senior sister was reborn, she actually became a powerful and arrogant protagonist?!

"here it is?"

The darkness dissipated, replaced by a huge, empty cave.

Chu Luobai gripped Lingxiao tightly, glancing warily around.

The cave was enormous, as if it had hollowed out the entire interior of the mountain.

The slightest movement produced a sound that echoed continuously within the cave.

The cave is filled with various enormous stone pillars, stretching as far as the eye can see.

"The situation is not good; our cultivation level has been suppressed."

Gu Lin looked down at his palm and said softly.

Upon hearing this, Chu Luobai began to circulate the spiritual energy within her body, and as Gu Lin had said, her cultivation level was forcibly suppressed.

With her cultivation at the mid-stage of the Dao Integration Realm, she can now only exert combat power at the mid-stage of the Void Refinement Realm.

"We're getting close to the boundary."

Any cultivator's cultivation level will be suppressed when they get close to the boundary.

The higher one's cultivation level, the closer one gets to the other, the more severely one's realm will be suppressed.

“My cultivation has been suppressed by an entire realm. I estimate that we are less than a hundred miles away from the boundary.”

Chu Luobai sensed the flow of spiritual energy in the air, and among it was a faint, unsettling aura that was flowing forward.

At the same time, the sound of the gourd echoed in Chu Luobai's mind.

"Master! Master! There's the scent of many insects ahead!"

"There seem to be several hundred! So many!"

so much?

Chu Luobai was startled and subconsciously looked ahead.

"Fellow Daoist Chu, we've struck it rich!"

Gu Lin, who was squatting beside a stone pillar, suddenly spoke up. He was carefully blowing away the dust from the surface of the stone.

As the thick layer of dust dissipated, a mark was revealed on the stone pillar.

This mark is very familiar to all cultivators in the Qingzhou region.

"Isn't this the symbol of the Immortal Alliance?"

Chu Luobai walked to Gu Lin's side, her gaze falling on the complex mark.

The spiritual energy on it is extremely faint, as if it has been depleted over a long period of time, and is now just a tiny bit left.

"This marker can be used for location, or a special method can be used to activate the hidden array beneath it, teleporting people from the Immortal Alliance here."

"This area has probably already been taken over by the Immortal Alliance."

As a leading figure among the younger generation of the Tianyan Sect, Gu Lin had done a lot of odd jobs for the Immortal Alliance and witnessed many power struggles within the alliance.

He is very familiar with all matters within the Immortal Alliance.

"However, the Immortal Alliance abandoned this mark fifty or sixty years ago, and now they are using a new mark designed by my master."

"Even if it was brought over by the Frostfrost Sect, the timeline doesn't match up. The Frostfrost Sect moved here less than fifty years ago..."

No wonder the Immortal Alliance was able to take control of the entire Qingnan Mountain Range so quickly in the previous life; it turns out they had already made their move long ago.

Chu Luobai understood, but she didn't intend to reveal this information yet. She just looked at Gu Lin with surprise.

"The Immortal Alliance actually knew about this place all along, and about the Demonic Language Insect..."

After carefully examining the mark, Gu Lin stood up and dusted off the corner of his clothes.

"The Immortal Alliance appears peaceful on the surface, but in reality, it is riddled with factions, and none of them are willing to submit to the others."

"It's still uncertain who left this mark, but it definitely has nothing to do with your Qingyun Sword Sect."

Seeing the surprise on Chu Luobai's face, Gu Lin added a pointed remark.

"After all, your Sword Sect is one of the few neutral factions within the Immortal Alliance that directly pretends to be stupid."

"..."

Chu Luobai raised an eyebrow, his surprised expression vanishing.

Is my acting really that bad?

"Then, Fellow Daoist Gu, what should we do next?"

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Blackstone Sect.

Zu Yang stood outside the sect gate, even though he already knew that this place had been dealt with by two disciples of the Tianyan Sect using the Karmic Fire Array.

But seeing it with my own eyes still shocked me.

The original sect buildings are now just black ruins, remnants barely left after being burned by a fire.

Behind these wrecks lies a half-collapsed mountainside.

The rocks on the mountain are blackened by fire, blending into the surrounding black rocks from which the Black Stone Sect got its name.

The air still carried a faint smell of flames and a faint stench of blood.

And in front of that pile of ruins stood a person.

The person had striking pink hair, a tall and slender figure, and a particularly neat black outfit.

This person's attire...

Zu Yang stepped forward and waved to them from a distance.

"I am Zu Yang from the Qingyun Sword Sect. I have come here on the orders of the sect leader to investigate. This place is dangerous. May I ask who you are?"

The pink-haired man turned around, his black beauty mark standing out prominently beneath his scarlet eyes.

This further confirmed Zu Yang's suspicions.

"You are Zu Yang?"

The pink-haired man looked Zu Yang up and down, his tone extremely impolite.

"I am Gong Bieye. I have been ordered by the Immortal Alliance to take over the affairs of the Demon Language Insects. You do not need to concern yourself with anything after the Black Stone Sect."

"No need to worry about it anymore? Why didn't we see your so-called Immortal Alliance show up before?"

Seeing how rude this person was to his senior brother, Zhao Jingren couldn't hold back any longer.

Zu Yang reached out and blocked Zhao Jingren's way, shaking his head at him.

The so-called Immortal Alliance is an alliance of all righteous sects within the Qingzhou Realm.

Regardless of the size of their sect or whether they live in seclusion, all should join the alliance.

Otherwise, if any unforeseen opportunity arises within Qingzhou, you won't get a share.

The Immortal Alliance will directly kick out those sects that haven't joined, and then divide up the opportunity among themselves.

Offending the Immortal Alliance brings no benefit whatsoever.

"I came here on the orders of the sect leader, and I have never heard of anyone from the Immortal Alliance taking over."

"Moreover, many mortals have been affected by this Demon Language Insect incident. If you were to handle it alone, I'm afraid you wouldn't have enough manpower."

Zu Yang looked at the pink-haired man in front of him with a scrutinizing gaze.

Gong Bieye was a rogue cultivator who was personally recruited by the Immortal Alliance.

He possesses considerable talent in physical cultivation and has a very close relationship with the higher-ups of the Immortal Alliance.

After joining the Immortal Alliance, he quickly became the youngest law enforcement officer in the alliance.

However, matters that require law enforcement officials of this caliber to intervene are usually not trivial.

The sect leader shouldn't have reported the matter of the Demonic Language Insect to the Immortal Alliance yet, so why did the Enforcement Envoy arrive so quickly?

Moreover, there was only one person.

No matter how you look at it, this matter seems eerie.

"Whether we have enough manpower is not your concern. You just need to know that the Immortal Alliance will take over the follow-up matters."

Gong Bieye spoke in a cold tone, showing no intention of paying much attention to Zu Yang.

"you!"

Zhao Jingren was almost laughing out of anger. He was just a law enforcement officer, but he really thought he was something special?

Zu Yang stopped Zhao Jingren again, his tone indifferent.

"I have not received any orders from the sect. Whether the Immortal Alliance takes over is none of my business. I only hope that the Enforcement Envoy will not delay the affairs of my Qingyun Sword Sect."

Gong Bieye glanced at Zu Yang, his gaze gradually turning unfriendly.

"Once the Immortal Alliance takes over, it's none of your business. Or are you planning to betray the Immortal Alliance?"

"Enforcer, you jest. There are many mortals here who are parasitized by the Demon Language Insects. We can afford to be delayed, but they cannot."

Zu Yang looked coldly at Gong Bieye, completely disregarding the threat in the other party's words.

"Or does the Immortal Alliance think there's something wrong with my Azure Cloud Sword Sect's approach of saving the world?"