Lingxiao City of a Hundred Wards Spanning Ten Thousand Li

An Xianjing first looked at Jiang Xin's blood-written letter, her gaze gradually darkening from calm.

The Vice Hall Master of Heavenly Principle Hall chuckled, "The Sui Sect's betrayal? I've never even considered that possibility..."

"Now you can think about it!"

An Xianjing threw the blood-stained letter out, causing a violent shockwave in the hall.

The Sheng Family Ancestor became cautious and whispered, "Is the Palace Master going to trust a mere child?"

"Look for yourselves, look at the good deeds your Sui Sect has done. Jiang Xin accused you of ten major crimes. After the accusations, people died!" An Xianjing said.

The Sheng Family Ancestor was shocked, feeling as if he had been ambushed and at a loss. Just as he was hesitating whether to pick it up, the Vice Hall Master of Heavenly Principle Hall used his magic energy to roll up the blood book in his hand first.

He read aloud, "Rice Ancestor Heavenly Venerable above, Elder Jiang Xin of Fuzhou, presents this blood-written letter... Hiss! Written by Jiang Xin before his death?"

He was stunned.

The Sheng Family Ancestor's expression changed. "It must be a forgery."

"Do you think we can't even distinguish between real and fake? Blood, words, the meaning behind words—these are all things that can be examined in minute detail."

The Vice Hall Master of Heavenly Principle Hall gave a light snort and continued reading, "Sui Sect of the Yang Shen Realm is domineering and arrogant. After entering the Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain for more than a month, he used the Luantai as a sharp weapon to leak the secrets of the Divine Sect, resulting in the tragic deaths of dozens of experts in the sect. Under the guise of external pressure, he secretly took over the Divine Sect's forces in Lingxiao City and the four major city gates. The situation in the other states can be seen from this."

The two hall masters of the Ku Rong Hall looked at the Sheng Family Ancestor with concern, their gazes filled with doubt and coldness.

The Vice Hall Master of Heavenly Principle Hall said, "I have heard that the Second Palace Master, the lowly maid Xianmin, bestowed upon the Yang Shen Realm the Thousand-Year Longevity Pill, intending to cultivate him to the Transcendent Realm. This old scoundrel Shenjing was originally a retainer, yet he gluttonously devoured the main family of the Jiu Li Tribe to grow stronger. Now he has become a disciple of Xianmin, and the future of the Sui Sect is bright, with countless sects within reach. He will surely devour the Divine Sect to serve his new master."

The Sheng Family Ancestor flew into a rage. If the blood-written letter hadn't been in the hands of a Deputy Hall Master, he would have already killed it. "Slander! Fake... This blood-written letter must be fake. It was written on after Jiang Xin's death, using his blood to imitate his handwriting."

The Deputy Hall Master the Ku Rong Hall reminded him, "The news from your Sui Sect indicates that Jiang Xin's identity was exposed, and Yao Qian was forced to silence him, resulting in his death in the Attendant Hall prison. No matter how powerful the Fourth Divine Son is, could he be a match for Yao Qian? Could he possibly come into contact with a corpse right under Yao Qian's nose and write a letter in blood?"

The Vice Hall Master of Heavenly Principle Hall was still reading. "First crime: selling disabled rice men to the Three Island Barbarians to be used as mounts and food."

After reading it all, the face of the Sheng Family Ancestor turned ashen, because seven or eight out of ten of the charges were true.

It is clear that the blood oath was genuine.

But...

How could such a mistake happen?

Before the Sheng Family Ancestor could explain, the Vice Hall Master of Heavenly Principle Hall, who had previously been working with him, instantly switched sides, standing up with a gloomy expression. "Very well, very well indeed. Your Sui Sect is truly insatiable. The Divine Sect has secretly given you so much support, yet you are still not satisfied."

"Do you really think you've covered your tracks perfectly? I've received countless secret reports long ago, and I've kept quiet because your usefulness outweighs your mistakes."

"What are the Rice People in your eyes? Tools to be used? Food to feed the strange beasts? You have gone too far in deceiving the Divine Cult... Just wait, when the Rice Ancestor emerges from seclusion, we'll see how your Sui Sect climbs to the position of one of the millions of sects."

The Palace Master of the Ku Rong Hall took the blood-written letter and checked its authenticity.

The Deputy Hall Master the Ku Rong Hall said, "I noticed something strange a long time ago! The secret report said that the Divine Sect's assets in Nanyan Pass were all wiped out by the Attendant Hall and the General's Office. How come you've pinned it all on the Jiu Li Hidden Gate?"

Yao Qingxuan had grasped the general outline, but he still couldn't understand how Li Weiyi had gotten Jiang Xin to write the blood letter; this move was incredibly ingenious.

She had to retaliate. "You lured Li Songgu to Nanyan Pass, didn't you? Using me as bait, or my Head Disciple?"

"You... Yao Qingxuan..."

The Sheng Family Ancestor was furious. "And you all... you were all completely fooled by that callow brat..."

"The blood letter is real; it must have been written by Jiang Xin." The Lord of the Ku Rong Hall had a sinister look in his eyes, making no attempt to hide his murderous intent.

The things revealed in the blood-written letter have crossed the line for all rice farmers.

The vast majority of rice people have a great prejudice against humans, not only against Yao Qingxuan, but also against the Yang Shen Realm and the Sheng Family Ancestor.

Yao Qingxuan took out a thick stack of things from his storage bag. "Over the past ten years, I have also collected a lot of evidence of your Sui Sect's crimes. All of you hall masters, please take a look."

After reading the second letter written in blood, An Xianjing sighed and turned her gaze to Tuoba Butuo: "You were hunted down as soon as you left the main altar?"

Tuoba Butuo nodded. "After receiving the blood letter, my first thought was to rush to the Rice Ancestor Temple, hoping to return to the main altar via the Spatial Teleportation Array. However, I was ambushed and nearly died. I had no other choice but to travel thousands of miles to the Underground Immortal Mansion Entrance."

Elder Xu cursed loudly, "Damn it, this is outrageous! We'll die if we go out, and we'll die if we come back. How are we supposed to live?"

Yao Qingxuan said, "Did you all hear that? Information about entering and leaving the main altar has long been controlled by others. What we know is entirely up to them. Why did Qi Xiao go to Qiuzhou? Like Tuoba Butuo, he can't return and can only go to the Underground Immortal Mansion. Tuoba Butuo, Fourth Divine Son really dead?"

Tuoba Butuo shook his head, his heart filled with anguish. "I don't know... The gates of Nanyan Pass are closed. I heard that Shaoqing of Luantai, the General's Mansion, and the Jiang family have joined forces against him. He can't escape, and he's most likely already dead."

Yao Qingxuan walked to An Xianjing's side and looked at Li Weiyi's blood-written letter, "If my disciple truly meets with misfortune, I will take Yao Qian's life. At that time, I will not care whether he is a member of the Divine Cult or not. I will make the entire Sui Sect go down to their graves one by one."

"He wrote to me to ask for my help," An Xianjing said.

Yao Qingxuan said, "It's too dangerous. You can't go. Let me, as your master, go! He's incredibly audacious to compare the Rice Cult to a cult. If he's still alive, I'll definitely teach him a lesson."

The Vice Hall Master of Heavenly Principle Hall looked at Tuoba Butuo and smiled, "You have a tenacious spirit. It's fortunate you escaped, otherwise the Sui Sect would have deceived everyone again. Would you be interested in becoming my disciple?"

Tuoba Butuo said, "Tuoba Butuo will never betray the Venerable Nan Southern Clear Palace in this lifetime."

The Hall Master of the Ku Rong Hall stood up. "The Sui Sect is powerful, posing a great threat and having a significant impact. This matter requires careful consideration. Elder Qiu, you must have many secrets in your mind, right? I wonder if Yang Shen Realm planted Death Spirit Fire in you and took you away!"

Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain a plateau three thousand feet high that rose abruptly from the ground, with no buffer zone and only cliffs and precipices.

From a distance, it resembles a flattened sacred mountain, or a stone platform connecting heaven and earth.

Its origin is unknown, yet it has existed since ancient times.

Starting from Nanyan Pass, follow the Xushan Heavenly Vein upwards to reach the entrance of Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain, the magnificent Nantianmen.

The South Heavenly Gate is as vast as the sky, with pillars resembling mountain peaks, cast from iron with cloud-patterned patterns. Two giant guardian beasts, "Panchi," resembling pythons or dragons, are over two hundred meters long and coiled around it, their scales as metallic as metal.

After a brief inspection, the Taishi Family's forces officially entered the Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain above the sea of clouds.

Abundant magical energy rushed towards me.

Along the wide sky road where ten Exotic Beast Carriage can travel side by side, there are numerous spiritual lakes and hills, where strange beasts and birds roam, and ancient buildings can often be seen shrouded in the Light Veil array formations.

Seeing that Li Weiyi was looking outside, Taishi Bai smiled and said, "Is this your first time visiting Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain? Have you noticed anything special about it?"

"The magical energy is too dense! The entire Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain seems to be a Dao Domain," Li Weiyi said.

Taishi Bai said, "Look at the soil on the ground."

"Spiritual soil? The entire soil of the Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain is spiritual soil?"

Li Weiyi was genuinely shocked.

The soil on both sides of the road was surprisingly a light tricolor.

Taishi Bai laughed and said, "In extremely ancient times, Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain indeed all spiritual land, and the central area even contained a large amount of Immortal Soil, which was the Immortal Fallen Realm. Because it fell down, it dispersed the surrounding Netherworld of the Departed, forming the living world we can survive in now."

"But its spiritual essence has already been largely lost, amounting to only one or two tenths of the original spiritual soil."

Li Weiyi said, "It's already quite remarkable. Whoever occupies the Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain will have inexhaustible resources and the best cultivation environment in the world."

Taishi Bai said, "Indeed, the Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain, with its three thousand miles of fertile land, is on a much higher plane than the Twenty-Eight Prefectures of Lingxiao. The strength and stability of its matter are several times greater than those below, and many of its minerals are unique to this world."

Li Weiyi thought to himself, no wonder whoever became the master of Cloud Heaven Immortal Plain felt like a celestial being, transcending the mortal world.

Several streams, several meters wide, appeared on both sides of the Heavenly Road, their waters gurgling and spiritual mist drifting. In the distance, Lingxiao City, shrouded in the glow of the four-colored Immortal Soil, was already in sight.

The city walls are majestic and were built using "glass spirit stone," a unique material found on the Immortal Plains.

They also cast ten thousand dragons from a certain metal, forming the Ten Thousand Dragons Wall Array on the South City wall.

The convoy drove along the increasingly wide Lingxi Sky Road into the city, where a bustling and vibrant scene unfolded before Li Weiyi's eyes.

Taishi Bai laughed and said, "Zuo Ning, do you know what the most distinctive feature of Lingxiao City is?"

"What?" Li Weiyi asked.

Taishi Bai said, "Safety! Extreme safety has created the ultimate prosperity here from ancient times to the present. Unlike those prefectures, where once chaos breaks out, the death toll is countless."

"Does Lingxiao City prohibit martial arts?" Li Weiyi asked.

Taishi Bai waved his hand. "Lingxiao City is divided into ten li (a unit of distance) and ten li (another unit of distance) into one fang (a unit of area), totaling ten thousand li and one hundred fang. Each fang houses one hundred thousand people... After Xiao Tian Order, the city's population decreased sharply, but now it has far exceeded that number again."

"Each ward and each village has its own independent formation, isolating them from each other. Once a battle breaks out, the formation will activate instantly, minimizing the impact."

"Furthermore, there are thirty-six earth veins beneath the city, each ward has a boundary marker, and there is Nine Heavens Beyond the Clouds Great Formation in the heavens above. All three of these can absorb the energy dissipated during battle. Even if you are Dao Seed Realm Martial Cultivator, you can forget about causing much damage in the city."

"Besides the neighborhoods, there are four spiritual streams, numerous scenic spots and historical sites, six Ancient Son of Heaven's manors, the Thunderclap Heavenly God's Palace, and countless transcendent mansions and gardens, all covering the city. The entire Lingxiao City spans hundreds of miles."

"When we have some free time, I'll take you and Xiangcen sightseeing. I guarantee you'll be amazed."

Li Weiyi was more interested in the main matter and asked, "What exactly is the situation at the Taichang Temple? What can we, as Mind Master, do?"