Disguise (Seeking Follow-up Reads, Monthly Votes)

The laws of the sect permit no defiance!

Seeing that Senior Brother Han, who led the group, was angry, Old Wu abruptly fell silent. He looked at Senior Brother Han with an awkward, apologetic expression.

"Everyone wait quietly! Say nothing more."

Another outer disciple, who had been leaning against a large tree with his eyes closed to rest, spoke up leisurely at this moment.

Instantly, the four people by the mountain path fell silent.

Not long after, Li Yunjing saw these four outer disciples from a distance.

"Heh heh! Senior brothers, sorry to have kept you waiting for so long! After all, Qiongze Peak is quite a distance from Feixia Peak."

Li Yunjing wore an apologetic look and apologized repeatedly.

"Senior brothers, is everyone here? Can we go and accept the mission now?"

Li Yunjing kept his posture very low as he continued to ask.

"Hahaha! No matter. The provisions for the sect mission have already been collected by us. Let's go!"

The leading Senior Brother Han laughed loudly. As he spoke, he patted the two Hundred Treasure Pouches at his waist, clearly intending to show Li Yunjing that they had already taken care of everything.

Li Yunjing swept his gaze across them; everyone was carrying at least two Hundred Treasure Pouches, and the one with the most actually had four.

A total of ten Hundred Treasure Pouches!

That was clearly the amount for the five of them to escort.

But these four bastards clearly did not hold him in any regard at all.

The portion he was supposed to be responsible for had been collected by them, and there was no intention of handing it over to him for safekeeping.

From the very beginning, these four outer disciples seemed to be full of malice toward him!

"Good! This junior brother will listen to everything you senior brothers say! Whatever you say, I will do!"

Thinking of this, Li Yunjing revealed a delighted smile, though he was sneering coldly in his heart.

These bastards were quite impatient; it seemed the people traveling with him were indeed the ones Wei Henian had prepared for him.

However, at this moment, Li Yunjing was no longer worried about his own safety.

They didn't even have flight artifacts issued by the sect.

Clearly, everyone was the same, possessing no status.

No status meant no strength!

This time, the escorting of provisions would definitely involve traveling across mountains and ridges.

It seemed the four of them intended to find a deserted place to make their move.

That was fine!

It suited his wishes perfectly; four outer disciples were not impossible to kill!

We shall see who is more ruthless when the time comes!

The mission had been accepted so easily this time that Li Yunjing hadn't even stepped foot inside the Mission Hall on the mountain.

Yet the mission was already accepted.

For a servant disciple to receive such treatment was likely the first time since the founding of the sect.

Emerging from the Divine Firmament Dao Sect, Li Yunjing wore a cold sneer on his lips as he followed the other four, running rapidly along the mountain path.

The four outer disciples were all between the fourth and fifth levels of the Qi Refining Realm.

For these outer disciples of the Qi Refining Realm, brief mid-air gliding was no problem, let alone running.

One by one, they ran ahead of Li Yunjing at great speed. In the blink of an eye, they had already left the Guest-Welcoming Peak, where Li Yunjing had first entered the sect, and were heading down the mountain.

Li Yunjing, meanwhile, put on a panting display, stumbling along with heavy and light steps, barely keeping up behind the four.

Before long, he was left seven or eight feet behind.

But no one knew that while running, Li Yunjing had the Mystic Jade Inner Armor, Cold Star Sword, and Gale Boots all in a state of activation, and the five talismans were in the pockets of his Daoist robe, ready to be pulled out and triggered at maximum speed.

"This piece of trash..."

The outer disciple surnamed Wu looked back during a spare moment. Seeing Li Yunjing's disheveled appearance, he couldn't help but send a voice transmission to the other three.

"Heh heh! Isn't this good? Once we leave the Divine Firmament Mountain Range and enter Emerald Forest Ridge, we'll finish him off directly!"

The leading Senior Brother Han sneered repeatedly, sending a transmission to his brothers.

"Sigh! For such a small fry, just sending anyone would have sufficed. Senior Brother Ye is really something, actually sending all four of us."

The thin, withered outer disciple from before complained.

"Don't spout nonsense! This is Senior Brother Ye looking out for us. This small fry is worth 100 spirit stones, and we've also completed the mission to escort the provisions. We'll make a good profit this time, plus we get a week of vacation. Isn't that a good thing?"

Hearing this, Senior Brother Han glared fiercely at the man.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! This junior brother spoke out of turn."

The thin man apologized repeatedly.

"Heh heh! Once we finish the mission, I'll head over to the market near Red Sun Valley. I haven't been to the Warm Fragrance Pavilion in ages; this time, I'm going to properly settle the score with those little vixens!"

The outer sect disciple surnamed Wu wore a lecherous grin.

"You guy! Wasting all your spirit stones on women's bellies!"

Senior Brother Han shook his head slightly. Clearly, he still possessed a heart set on the Dao and was unwilling to squander his spirit stones on harlots.

Even if they were harlots of the cultivation world, he remained unmoved.

"Heh heh! The few of us don't have much of a future! Unlike you, Senior Brother Han, you'll probably be advancing to the sixth level of the Qi Refining stage soon, right?"

The outer sect disciple surnamed Wu sighed, his expression complex.

It wasn't that he was obsessed with lust; it was simply that he had no future. Although he looked like a sturdy middle-aged man, he was actually sixty years old and only at the peak of the fourth level of the Qi Refining stage.

There was certainly no hope for him to reach the Foundation Establishment stage in the future.

Since that was the case, he might as well enjoy life so he wouldn't have regrets when his time eventually came.

Qi Refining cultivators could live for at most two hundred years or so, and he was currently in his prime—yet his prime was a pathetic fourth level of the Qi Refining stage!

Even if he managed to grind his way to the seventh level or higher in the future, he would likely have long passed his prime and be on the decline.

Advancing to the Foundation Establishment stage required one's essence, energy, and spirit to all be at their peak; he was destined to have no future.

When the topic of their future path on the Dao came up, all four fell silent.

It was a heavy subject.

Within the Divine Firmament Dao Sect, countless inner sect disciples and innumerable prodigies successfully broke through their bottlenecks to live another life.

Yet, in the shadows beneath that brilliance lay the bleached bones of countless outer sect and miscellaneous disciples.

Even the Divine Firmament Dao Sect could not allow the majority of people to advance further!

It wasn't that the Divine Firmament Dao Sect lacked the ability or the resources; it was simply that, to such a vast sect, ordinary Foundation Establishment disciples were merely strong ants.

The Foundation Establishment stage held no significance for the development of the sect.

Foundation Establishment disciples were neither the pursuit nor the hope of the sect, so no resources would ever be wasted on raising their cultivation.

Only Golden Core stage seeds were worthy of being valued!

This was the source of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect's strength!

As the four remained silent, Li Yunjing lagged nearly thirty meters behind them. His entire body was drenched in sweat, and his legs felt as if they were filled with lead, growing weaker with every step.