Tracing the Source

Xian Yao and Xian Feng exchanged a glance. They both knew that what was coming could not be avoided, so Xian Yao spoke first:

"We knew nothing about the loss of the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers. Only after receiving notice from our master, Venerable Huitang, did Xian Feng and I leave the sect to search for it. However, Venerable Huayu mentioned that the theft of the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers was likely connected to the Evil Cultivators of the Upper Realm."

Yunxi nodded. This matched their own conjectures, and she waited for what came next.

This time, Xian Feng spoke:

"We know very little about the sect possessing a Teleportation Formation connected to the Upper Realm. Because it is an interrealm transmission, each activation consumes a tremendous number of spirit stones, so the array is rarely opened.

Only after every Grand Competition of the Five Regions would the sect, according to custom, send the outstanding disciples selected from our own sect, along with exceptional disciples recommended by the other Four Regions, to the Huaxian Sect. They would then be teleported ahead of time to the Upper Realm, where the Sect Old Ancestors of the Huaxian Sect who had ascended would receive them.

However, such a major incident occurred during this Grand Competition of the Five Regions. The sect lost many outstanding Nascent Soul disciples, so the array was ultimately never activated.

We simply do not know what method the Evil Cultivators used to forcibly open the Teleportation Formation from the other end. That was how they entered Huaxian Sect territory. At the time, Xian Yao and I were searching the Qinghua Mountain Range for the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, where we were also ambushed by Evil Cultivators. After receiving the sect's urgent summons, the two of us