Did the Joyous Union Sect Become a Righteous Immortal Sect?

Zhang Yunlu, a senior at Xuanjian Third Middle School, had a penchant for researching the history of the ancient cultivation world, a hobby inherited from her late parents.

She had even represented her school in competitions related to the subject.

With a cultivation base at the eighth level of Qi Refining, she was considered a minor prodigy and enjoyed quite a bit of fame within the school.

It was a rare Friday, and she intended to relax for a while, even though there would be make-up classes tomorrow.

She walked into a beverage shop outside the school.

"One Dragon Scale Fruit juice, light sugar, light ice."

Dragon Scale Fruit sounded high-end, but it was actually just an ordinary fruit.

Aside from tasting a bit better, it contained absolutely no spiritual energy.

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[According to statistics, the Joyous Union Sect has ranked first in enrollment numbers for six consecutive terms. Does this signify a shift in the cultivation trends of the cultivation world?]

[The third phase of the city-wide defensive array maintenance is complete. The Mayor stated: "We will do our utmost to ensure the personal safety of all citizens."]

While she waited, the Mystic Light Mirror hanging above broadcasted several news items and advertisements. Just as she took the juice and found a seat, the communicator in her pocket buzzed.

She took it out and glanced at it.

Big Brother.

She walked to the table, sat down, inserted the straw, and took a sip before slowly answering.

"Hello, Big Brother."

Because her parents had perished while exploring a secret realm, this brother, nearly thirty years her senior, was her true legal guardian.

"Xiao Lu, are you still at school?"

"I just got out of school, what's wrong?"

Zhang Yunlu bit the straw, her voice slightly muffled.

"Return to school immediately and do not come out. A grand cultivator at or above the Void Return Realm has emerged from seclusion nearby, and it is not yet certain if they are a demonic cultivator."

Void Return Realm... a grand cultivator?!

The grave tone made her heart tighten.

The emergence of a grand cultivator was no laughing matter.

Three years ago, the demonic grand cultivator 'Cang Jiezi' emerged from seclusion and entered the world.

With just a single demonic array, he slaughtered half the population of the neighboring Hengjian City to refine his sword and arts. Although he was eventually killed by a righteous grand cultivator who arrived on the scene, those who died were truly dead.

Those ancient demonic grand cultivators did not abide by the rules of the new era.

Realizing the severity of the situation, she didn't even care about the juice she had just sipped. She hung up, stood up, and ran outside, but the moment she reached the street:

Hum~

Spiritual tides surged, and vast spiritual energy churned.

Zhang Yunlu froze. She looked up and saw crimson array patterns lighting up in the sky, enveloping the entire city.

The city-wide defensive array had been activated!

Big Brother was right!

"Attention!"

"A grand cultivator at or above the Void Return Realm from before the Great Transformation has emerged from seclusion. It is currently unconfirmed whether they are a demonic cultivator."

"To ensure the safety of all citizens, please proceed immediately to the nearest school or immortal sect station. Do not leave the range of the city-wide defensive array!"

"The Ancient Cultivation Response Department has dispatched True Person Xiaoning, a Void Return Realm cultivator, along with twelve Spirit Transmutation cultivators and seventy-two Nascent Soul cultivators."

A familiar voice, amplified by a magical artifact produced by the Spirit Sound Workshop, spread across the city.

It was the principal of Xuanjian Third Middle School!

The person with the highest cultivation in Xuanjian City.

In an instant, everyone understood what was happening.

Some residents who had moved from Hengjian City felt uncontrollable panic. As people who had experienced that incident, they understood better than anyone how cruel the methods of a demonic grand cultivator could be.

Zhang Yunlu ran desperately toward the school, her figure leaving behind trails of afterimages.

In the sky, beneath the array, dense streaks of spiritual light cut across the horizon.

Among them was the owner of the beverage shop she had just visited; he hadn't even had time to close his shop door before a long ice-blue sword beneath his feet shot past her.

Beyond him, there were aunties holding kitchen knives and wearing aprons, people carrying brooms, sanitation workers in orange-yellow uniforms, and even someone putting on clothes while flying on a sword—it was unclear what he had been doing just moments ago.

Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and even Nascent Soul cultivators—everyone was rushing toward the schools and the civilian stations of the major sects.

Just as Zhang Yunlu was about to reach the school, she saw a person standing in the middle of the road, looking up at the sky.

Without thinking, she shouted: "Hey! Hurry back to school!"

The person turned around; he looked very young, appearing only a few years older than her.

"Fine."

Nodding, he followed directly behind her.

At the school gate, the crowd was surging, all of them students at the Qi Refining stage.

Zhang Yunlu squeezed through the flow of people and successfully entered the school, finally letting out a sigh of relief.

"Whew~"

The teachers' cultivation levels were not low; the three vice-principals were Spirit Transmutation cultivators, and the principal was merely a step away from becoming a Void Return Realm cultivator.

With the aid of the city-protecting grand formation, even if a Void Return Realm Old Devil were to attack, they could hold them off for a while.

Oh right, there was also the person who had just followed her in.

"I am a student here; if you aren't familiar with the place, I can..."

She turned her head back.

Hm?

Where did he go?

At Xuanjian City No. 3 Middle School, beneath an academic building, Xu Xing walked and stopped intermittently, occasionally looking up at the sky.

Not a single person noticed him; even if their gazes swept over him, they would simply skip past, as if they were completely unable to see him.

"The commotion caused by my emergence from seclusion this time is truly not small."

He had understood the moment he heard the broadcast outside; the reason such a grand display was set up here was entirely because of his emergence.

As for the ins and outs of the matter, he had already gathered enough from the fragments of conversation he overheard.

That said, how had this world become so... modernized?

Playgrounds, academic buildings, students wearing uniform school attire, and teachers in suits and leather shoes.

Heh, it looked exactly like a leadership inspection.

Everything, familiar yet strange, seemed to overlap with distant memories. If it were just one thing, it might be a coincidence, but with so many familiar traces, Xu Xing could not help but suspect this was the handiwork of some fellow transmigrator.

After all, there were precedents; it made sense for there to be a few more.

In any case, he should head to the library first to take a look.

Passing through the playground, under the coverage of his divine sense, he already knew the location of the library.

At the entrance of the library, a hunched, wrinkled, skinny old man with only a few strands of hair left lay on a recliner, his expression content, completely unaffected by the commotion outside.

Beneath his withered frame lay blood and energy as scorching as a great sun; if fully released, the range would be enough to cover the entire Xuanjian City, and practitioners at the Golden Core stage would be burned alive.

A pity.

Xu Xing glanced at him and paid him no further mind, walking straight inside.

There were not many people inside. The first floor consisted of rows of bookshelves filled with various miscellaneous books; any student here could enter.

The second floor was different; it required authorization to enter. Inside, thousands of jade slips were neatly arranged, recording various basic techniques and Qi Refining spells.

The third floor contained Foundation Establishment level techniques and secret arts, numbering in the hundreds.

The fourth floor had only a few dozen jade slips; those involved cultivation methods and divine abilities of the Golden Core stage.

As for the fifth floor, which was also the final floor, it contained only seven jade slips shimmering with brilliant light, surrounded by Dao aura. The divine abilities recorded within were those of the Seven Great Immortal Sects, impossible to cultivate without reaching the Nascent Soul stage!

Seeing this, Xu Xing was finally somewhat surprised.

Not to mention these non-disseminated divine abilities appearing in a school library.

"The Seven Great Immortal Sects?"

Since time immemorial, there had only been six great immortal sects; how had an extra one suddenly appeared?

Excluding the divine abilities of the six great immortal sects, the additional divine ability was named—Joyous Union Qi-Harvesting Yin-Yang Art!

It was a divine ability of the Joyous Union Sect.

"..."

The Joyous Union Sect had become a righteous immortal sect?!!