At this moment, Mo Yanyu looked at Qing Mo beside her and asked, "Master, the arrangement of these formations is very ingenious! If you hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have been able to tell that there were formations here!"
Qing Mo nodded and then said, "It's obvious that the person who set up these formations is a seasoned expert in formations!"
If you don't observe carefully, who would have thought that the key to the formation is not inside the formation, but outside of it!
Moreover, the illusion array within, combined with the environment, creates a seamless blend of reality and illusion, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake!
Cang Lanyue and Yueji listened quietly to Qing Mo's explanation. Qing Mo casually pointed to a spot in the air, and the array patterns of these formations suddenly appeared!
Ripples then spread across the surface of the array, and soon a gap appeared. Qing Mo strode in first, followed closely by his three maids!
However, when a gap was broken in the formation, more than a dozen seemingly dying old people in the small village that was enveloped by the formation immediately sensed it and came to the entrance of the village!
Although these old people all looked like they were about to die, their actual cultivation levels were all between the early and middle stages of the Dao Palace Realm!
Such a powerful fighting force would be treated as honored guests by most forces outside, but they are willing to hide in these towering mountains and remain secluded from the world!
Before long, Qing Mo and his companions arrived at the village entrance. They saw more than ten elderly people standing there, as if they were waiting for Qing Mo!
One of the elders, a mid-stage Dao Palace Realm cultivator, stepped forward and asked Qing Mo and the others, "Who are you? Why did you disrupt our formation? And why did you come here?"
Qing Mo responded first, "Who we are is not important. What's important is that there's something here that I need. So, will you hand it over yourselves, or will I take it myself?"
Hearing Qing Mo's arrogant tone, several people were about to make a move, but they were glared back by the old man who spoke first!
He wasn't blinded by Qing Mo's words. He realized that these people were more skilled in array formations than they were, since they could discover and break through the array formation they had painstakingly set up so easily.
Moreover, Qing Mo and the others were standing right in front of them, but he couldn't sense any spiritual energy fluctuations from them, as if they were just ordinary people!
However, he certainly didn't regard Qing Mo and the others as ordinary people. In an instant, he realized that their cultivation level must be far higher than his own, which was why he couldn't tell their strength!
Then the old man spoke first, saying to Qing Mo, "I am Fan Yuan! I am here to spend the rest of my days with you all, though we have never met before!"
I wonder what this young master was referring to? If we truly possess such a thing, we will gladly offer it to you with both hands!
At this moment, Qing Mo smiled and said, "Actually, it's nothing particularly valuable, just the half of the purple jade Jade Pendant you hid!"
When they heard Qing Mo say that he wanted half of the purple jade Jade Pendant, the elders' eyes were filled with shock and curiosity, and then a hint of killing intent emanated from each of them!
It was obvious that they didn't intend to give this to Qing Mo, and even planned to fight Qing Mo and his group, wanting to kill Qing Mo right there!
However, the old man named Fan Yuan still held a sliver of hope. After all, he couldn't discern the cultivation levels of Qing Mo and the others, and if he rashly attacked without knowing their strength, the risk would be quite high!
He then feigned ignorance and said, "What half a purple jade Jade Pendant? This old man has no idea what you're talking about, young master?"
Qing Mo then laughed and said, "It seems you don't intend to hand it over to me!"
"Since that's the case, I'll just have to kill you all and search for it myself!"
After saying that, the old men stopped hiding and unleashed their Dao Palace Realm auras. Meanwhile, Qing Mo's three maids took out their spirit swords from their storage rings and engaged in battle with the opponents!
On average, each maid had to fight five or six old men. They fought from the ground to the air, displaying all sorts of martial arts techniques. The once peaceful village was instantly reduced to dust!
Qing Mo and Fan Yuan remained standing in place, staring at each other, as if neither of them had any intention of making a move!
At this moment, Fan Yuan's eyes were sharp, and his old eyes seemed to be able to see through everything in the world, giving people an inexplicable pressure. However, this pressure was not even as great as the Qingfeng blowing by the roadside in front of Qing Mo!
Fan Yuan then said in a deep voice, "You lot, were you sent by them to eliminate any future threats?"
Qing Mo shook his head and took a step forward. Fan Yuan immediately tried to make a move, but the next second Qing Mo grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up!
Fan Yuan's eyes widened at this moment. He could not detect the slightest fluctuation of spiritual energy, nor could he see how Qing Mo came to his side. Moreover, it seemed that all of Fan Yuan's spiritual energy had vanished in an instant!
Then Qing Mo slowly said, "I am not one of those sent by them, as you say. Apart from my master, the old man who taught me, no one else can order me to do anything!"
Let me see where that half of the purple Jade Pendant is hidden!
The moment Qing Mo and Fan Yuan locked eyes, Qing Mo went through Fan Yuan's entire memory, and finally Qing Mo that he had hidden the half of the purple Jade Pendant in a secret compartment by his bedside!
Moreover, the hidden compartment was set up with an extremely special array. If someone tried to forcibly break the array to take out the contents, the array would randomly teleport the contents to another location and completely erase the aura emitted by the contents!
Unless the person who set up the formation personally uses special methods to break it, even killing the person who set up the formation doesn't guarantee you'll get what you want!
Fan Yuan stared at Qing Mo in horror. He could clearly feel that his memories were now completely known by the person in front of him!
He had never seen anyone who could enter his mind and examine his memories so easily, as if he were in an empty space, simply by exchanging a glance!
Before Fan Yuan could speak, Qing Mo's voice rang out again. He said, "I hope that the kid you all raised won't get in my way!"
Otherwise, it won't be long before I send him down to meet you! Even if he is the long-lost son of an Immortal Emperor of the Immortal Realm!"
Upon hearing Qing Mo reveal the biggest secret that Fan Yuan and the others had kept hidden in their hearts, before Fan Yuan could even speak, Qing Mo snapped his neck and then tossed Fan Yuan body aside like trash!
Upon seeing Fan Yuan killed by Qing Mo, the old men who had been fighting the three maids cried out in pain. However, while they were distracted, several more of them were killed by the three maids!
Ignoring the people still fighting in the sky, Qing Mo went directly to the door of Fan Yuan's thatched hut. Then, Qing Mo went inside and went to the hidden compartment where half of the purple Jade Pendant was placed!
With a mere thought, Qing Mo destroyed the Qing Mo before it could even fulfill its original purpose. Then, Qing Mo retrieved the half of the purple jade Jade Pendant from the hidden compartment!
By the time he turned to leave, the three maids had already finished their work and taken care of almost all the old men who had fought with them!
Only an old woman, covered in blood and severely injured, lay on the ground. She used a secret technique to reduce her life force to a minimum, and then emitted wisps of death energy from her body in an attempt to confuse Qing Mo and his group!
However, this trick might fool the three maids, but it couldn't fool Qing Mo's eyes. Immediately, Qing Mo's mind stirred, and he directly shattered the heart meridian of the old man who was pretending to be dead!
Just a few days after Qing Mo and the others left, heart-wrenching cries echoed through this dilapidated little village!
"Who killed them? Who was it? I will avenge them! I will kill you!"
The two boys had just arrived in the small village through a special passage, but what they saw was a ground littered with corpses, including their Uncle Fan, Grandma Zhou, Grandpa Wu, and others!
All the old people who raised Yun Xiaotian, taught him skills, and treated him like family died tragically here, some of them not even leaving behind a complete corpse!
Yun Xiaotian, dressed in ordinary clothes, immediately knelt down and wept uncontrollably. He thought that he had only gone out to train, but when he returned, he saw these old people being brutally murdered. He immediately unleashed spiritual power comparable to the peak of the Divine Bridge Realm and roared that he would kill his enemies with his own hands!
The other boy standing next to him was a brother Yun Xiaotian had made outside, named Hao Jinghong!
Moreover, Hao Jinghong is the young master of a first-class family. After seeing the tragic scene, he also expressed his willingness to help Yun Xiaotian find his enemies!
After the initial shock, Yun Xiaotian and his companions decided to work together to find clues and then bury these elderly people here!
Sure enough, after searching for a long time, they found that the storage rings of the old people had not been forcibly broken, even though they had initially thought the other party was trying to kill them for their treasures!
The contents of the storage ring appeared untouched, but after a careful search, they discovered that a Recording Stone in Grandpa Wu's storage ring seemed to have recorded something!
On the way to the next place, Yueji couldn't help but ask curiously, "Master, is there anything special about this half of the Jade Pendant?"
"Is it really necessary to have so many old guys at the Dao Palace Realm guarding this place?"
Qing Mo slowly answered, "There is actually a secret realm hidden in this half of the Jade Pendant, but we need to get the other half of the Jade Pendant before we can open that secret realm!"
"Inside the secret realm, there's something we need! And it's also something that verifies our identity!"
Upon hearing Qing Mo's words, the three maids beside him became curious. Qing Mo then continued to explain to them, "This Jade Pendant contains immortal power. I used the River of Time to examine the Jade Pendant's past...!"
It turns out that the largest and strongest immortal palace in the Celestial Spirit Immortal Realm back then, the Supreme Mystery Immortal Palace, underwent a major upheaval. The two most outstanding young immortal Immortal Emperor in the palace broke out in internal strife for the position of sect leader!
Blood flowed like a river within the Supreme Mystery Immortal Palace in an instant. The originally strongest Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan was caught off guard, which allowed his opponent, Immortal Emperor Yang Hui, to plot against his newborn son, Yun Xiaotian!
Although Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan discovered it in time and intervened to stop it!
However, the powerful immortal energy unleashed during their fight shattered many passages from that Immortal Realm to the lower realm. The powerful suction generated by the shattered passages pulled many West City from that Immortal Realm down with them!
This also includes Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan Yun Xiaotian. Although Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan wanted to save his bloodline, he was constantly entangled by Immortal Emperor Yang Hui, which prevented him from being distracted!
Finally, seeing that he couldn't save Yun Xiaotian, Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan threw the Jade Pendant containing a secret realm into Yun Xiaotian's arms. This way, the immortal power within the Jade Pendant would ensure that Yun Xiaotian wouldn't be torn apart by the powerful suction in the passage!
Because these passages collapsed almost simultaneously, the various lower realm passages instantly became chaotic, making it impossible to know which lower realm one would be transported to!
Finally, Fan Yuan, who was also the steward of Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan back then, saw that the situation was irreversible, so he also risked his life to jump into the turbulent currents of the passage. Fortunately, at the last moment, he managed to hold onto Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan's son, who had not yet opened his eyes!
In fact, it wasn't just Fan Yuan who jumped in; some of Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan's followers also followed in Fan Yuan footsteps and jumped in, intending to protect Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan's bloodline together!
However, Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan underestimated the power of the turbulent currents in the passage. He originally thought that his Jade Pendant could completely protect the two of them, but when they were about to reach the lower realm, the Jade Pendant shattered into two pieces!
Fortunately, Fan Yuan and the others had burned most of their lifespans and exhausted all their immortal power and trump cards to barely survive in the passage!
After arriving on the Crimson Spirit Continent, Fan Yuan woke up to find that only half of the Jade Pendant given to him by Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan remained in his bloodline, while the other half was nowhere to be found!
In order to allow Yun Xiaotian to be recognized as a member of his family in the future, Fan Yuan and the others planned to keep the half of the Jade Pendant safe for now and tell Yun Xiaotian about his origins when he achieved success in his cultivation!
Unfortunately, Fan Yuan and the others were almost like mortals at that time. Fortunately, the bloodline of the Immortal Emperor Yun Chuan was not injured or harmed. At this moment, they had no choice but to stay on the Crimson Spirit Continent!
After more than ten years, Fan Yuan and the others recovered some of their cultivation. Because they had burned too much of their lifespan in the turbulent passage, they all looked like they were on the verge of death!
Moreover, in order to protect Yun Xiaotian, Fan Yuan and the others all suffered serious injuries, which were caused by the turbulent flow in the passage, so they have never been able to fully heal!
That's why, even after more than ten years, they've only managed to recover their cultivation to around the Dao Palace Realm. They know they can't possibly return to their peak state!
Therefore, they decided to pass on all their skills to Yun Xiaotian, so that he could go faster and farther than his peers and Ascension the Immortal Realm more quickly!
After hearing this story, the three maids nodded in agreement. They admired Fan Yuan and his group for their courage in risking their lives to protect their master.
Then Cang Lanyue asked Qing Mo softly, "Master, why haven't Fan Yuan and the others gone to search for the other half of the Jade Pendant all these years?"
Qing Mo then laughed and said, "Because that half of the Jade Pendant was picked up by a person Sun Tian in another Middle Thousand World and is about to be taken to the Great Thousand World!"
How could they possibly find it? But fate has its own design! These two broken Jade Pendant will eventually be reunited!