Every Time There's a Crackdown on Vice, You're There

"Is the hunter who witnessed the Ancient City still alive?"

Bai Qiuran asked.

"Of course, after discovering the village had become like this, we immediately asked him to stay."

Dust Zen Master replied, "He is currently in the village, and I have sent two disciples to protect him."

"The others will take a while to arrive. Take me to ask him."

Bai Qiuran said.

"Alright, although I've already asked everything I needed to, since the Sword Ancestor wants to ask..."

Dust Zen Master led the way into the village.

This way, please.

"I was afraid your face was too fierce, and that it would frighten the hunter so much that he wouldn't be able to say anything."

Bai Qiuran smiled.

Dust Zen Master scratched his head and didn't refute it, because it was indeed a possibility.

Under his guidance, Bai Qiuran met the hunter. After some questioning, Bai Qiuran learned the basic situation, but was unable to get any further information.

The hunter was just an ordinary hunter. Both Bai Qiuran and Dust Zen Master had sensed his true identity with their Spiritual Sense, and there was no active energy within him. According to the hunter, he had just caught a rabbit and was descending the mountain when he happened to see fog rising in the direction of the village. After the fog dissipated, a city appeared on the river.

However, with his limited vision, he couldn't see what happened in the village after the city appeared from the cliff. After that, he met Dust Zen Master Weichen who had come with his disciples, but by then, the City had already disappeared with the thick fog.

Afterwards, Bai Qiuran went to the river where the Ancient City he mentioned had appeared and wandered around it. Near the river, he sensed that the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth was being disturbed. It seemed that the spiritual energy here had been stirred into a Vortex by something. However, many known Formation Divine Ability could achieve this effect, so Bai Qiuran still came up empty-handed this time.

Somewhat unwilling, Bai Qiuran and calmed herself down. This time, she was facing an enemy she had never heard of before, from a time in Jiuzhou past, and she needed more clues to analyze their methods.

After waiting in the village for a while, the remaining people also came here after receiving the news.

Because the people coming from nearby were different this time, the personnel were different from last time. Except for Bai Qiuran, who was still the oldest and fastest runner from the Azure Nether Sword Sect, the other sects had changed their personnel.

Bai Qiuran and Dust Zen Master went out of the village to greet them. Upon seeing the representatives of the Hehuan Sect, Dust Zen Master Weichen's already somewhat fierce expression immediately turned into one of wrath.

"Ouch."

Seeing the anger on Dust Zen Master's face, the Hehuan Sect Elder, dressed in a thin black veil and with a bewitching face, chuckled.

Why does Master Weichen look so angry? Does he not welcome us?

"Mu Huan, how dare you say that!"

Dust Zen Master angrily retorted, "You were there again during the last crackdown on prostitution! How come you're always there during the Heavenly Saint Buddhist Sect's crackdowns on prostitution?!"

Elder Mu Huan, who came from the Hehuan Sect, and Dust Zen Master, who came from the Heavenly Saint Buddhist Sect, had quite a connection.

Master Dust Zen Master is a practitioner of the Mingwang path in the Heavenly Saint Buddhist Sect. He is known for his strong sense of justice and has been active on the front lines of the Righteous Path Alliance's anti-prostitution campaign for a long time, dismantling countless illegal dens of the Hehuan Sect over the past thousand years. Ms. Mu Huan, on the other hand, is a long-established Elder under Su Xiangxue and the pinnacle of the Hehuan Sect's technical staff. She has long been active on the verge of violating the agreement.

In the early days, before Su Xiangxue became the Hehuan Sect Master of the Hehuan Sect, Mu Huan was a Valiant General in the Hehuan Sect. The two had fought many times and were mortal enemies for hundreds of years. Later, the Righteous Path Alliance and the Demonic Sect Alliance signed a series of agreements. In addition, after Su Xiangxue took over and reformed the Hehuan Sect was no longer allowed to cause casualties. Mu Huan then shifted from the front lines to the technical level, helping Su Xiangxue to focus on managing the Hehuan Sect's business.

However, Elder Mu Huan has a hobby: when conducting private technical activities, she likes to hold them in the temples of the Heavenly Saint Buddhist Sect, specifically to sow discord among the Buddhism. As a result, the hostile relationship between her and Dust Zen Master has not improved to this day.

So now, whenever they meet, Mu Huan still starts to provoke Dust Zen Master with flippant remarks.

"Oh dear, you're really quick to anger."

Upon hearing Dust Zen Master's words, Mu Huan stuck out his tongue and licked the corner of his mouth.

"Buddhism has rules; anger is a violation of the precepts. Master, please don't let anger get the better of you."

"Fart!"

Dust Zen Master rolled up his sleeves, revealing the Vidyaraja (wisdom king) on his arm.

"Weichen cultivates the wrathful form, specifically to deal with Fairies like you who wreak havoc on the world!"

"Come on, come on, hit me!"

"Alright!"

Seeing that the two were about to start fighting, Bai Qiuran shouted something.

"Getting down to business is the priority, Weichen. Control your anger. Mu Huan, you should also keep quiet and get down to business."

Upon hearing Bai Qiuran's words, Dust Zen Master tried his best to control his emotions. He closed his mouth and walked to the side to sit down and began to silently recite the Buddhism Heart Sutra. Mu Huan and Tu Shu glanced at Bai Qiuran kept their mouths shut and moved a little further away from him.

Among all the members of the Hehuan Sect, only Su Xiangxue was not afraid of Bai Qiuran. Everyone else, especially Mu Huan, a "remnant of the Previous Dynasty," still remembered how the Qingming Sword Ancestor killed their Sect Master.

After Bai Qiuran stopped the two, an awkward atmosphere lingered for several seconds, with no Mortal World speaking. Then, an Elder from the Yin Ling Sect spoke first, asking, "Everyone, let's not waste time. Let's talk about the intelligence our respective sects have gathered in the past few days."

Seeing everyone nod, he slowly said in a deep voice, "After the meeting that day, our Yin Ling Sect members searched the area near the Sinkhole at headquarters. As a result, they discovered an abandoned village in the area north of the Sinkhole, and there was a Vortex of Spirit Qi in the village, just like..."

He pointed to the river beside the village.

"Just like this."

The Sinkhole is the headquarters of the Yin Ling Sect, one of the ten lands of the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou and Ten Lands. It has a special geography. The ground of this area is a layer of Rock Layer that can be described as riddled with holes, full of countless bottomless pits. The real Sinkhole is located below these pits and Rock Layer, an underground kingdom with an area comparable to an entire province.

Because it is close to the ground, with heavy Yin Qi and dark light, it has nurtured many rare treasures that are hard to find on the surface, as well as many dangerous spiritual creatures such as wandering souls, zombies, and skeletons. That's why the Yin Ling Sect moved its lair here.

However, these are not the main concerns of the public at present. The Sinkhole is tens of thousands of miles away from Qingzhou, and the traces of that Ancient City have also appeared in the Sinkhole, which means that its range of Mobile is not limited to Qingzhou.

The group exchanged glances and realized the key point. Then, Elder Mu Huan of the Hehuan Sect and the Elder of the Immortal City Jade Tower explained that the intelligence networks of the two sects had found uninhabited settlements in Yunzhou and Liang Province that resembled those that had appeared in the Ancient City.

How exactly did it Mobile?

At this moment, everyone fell into deep thought.