After leaving the Ninja Sect, Mu Yuyi returned directly to his secluded cultivation grounds at Heavenly Mystery Academy. By this point, the entire Southern Bright Continent had descended into chaos. Not only had the successors of many major factions died in the Grand Competition space, but news had also spread that the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor and the other two immortals had joined forces to kill the presidents of the five great academies. To the entire continent, this news was no different from a thunderclap.
The scene of the Five Absolutes Immortal Emperor, Jiang Yuandao, descending upon the Southern Bright Continent was still fresh in everyone's minds, and there were countless different accounts of what had happened in the Grand Competition space.
However, everyone who truly knew the course of events had been subjected to Mu Yuyi's Caged Bird and Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal. Thus, although rumors abounded, no one suspected the Ninja Sect or [Akatsuki].
Mu Yuyi did not pay much attention to these matters. Instead, he focused all his efforts on consolidating his cultivation. After breaking through to the middle stage of Deity Transformation during the previous battle, his successive breakthroughs in such a short time had caused signs of instability in his cultivation, forcing him to enter seclusion and cultivate properly.
At the same time, faced with the sudden upheaval sweeping across the continent, the Ninja Sect remained utterly calm and restrained. It took no part in any of the turmoil and even pulled back all its lines of defense, keeping such a low profile that everyone overlooked its existence.
Only a small number of people knew that this was the calm before the storm.
In the blink of an eye, ten days passed. The injuries the battle had inflicted upon everyone in [Akatsuki] had mostly healed,