The Dream-Devouring Manifestation (Double-length catch-up update; monthly votes requested)

Desert Sea, Heavenly Phoenix Oasis.

As white light emerged, two figures appeared on the teleportation array.

"Eleventh Great-Grandfather, Patriarch Qingyan." The guard stationed at the teleportation array was a Purple Palace cultivator of the Zhi generation, who had been studying notes on arrays off to one side.

When the teleportation array lit up, he had assumed that members of the Lineage's Trading Hall were urgently transporting some spirit herbs. But at a glance, he realized they were Patriarch Qianchen, the Ye Family's most legendary figure, and the master of the Alchemy Hall. He jolted in fright, dropping the jade slip from his hand, then hurried forward to bow with clasped hands.

"Your response was decent, but you need to take this more seriously. Your vigilance is too slow and too weak!" A trace of displeasure showed in Ye Jingcheng's eyes, but he was in a hurry and headed straight for the Thunder Tribulation Mountain prepared at Heavenly Phoenix Oasis.

Ye Qingyan, who accompanied him, shot the guard a glare.

The Ye Family's teleportation guards generally worked in groups of two or three, with a Purple Palace cultivator paired with two Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Only one Purple Palace cultivator had appeared, and he had been engrossed in his studies. This showed that many members of the Ye Family had begun growing negligent after the family became an immortal Lineage.

The Ye Family did not forbid its guards from reading jade slips or studying secret arts while watching over teleportation arrays.

But they still needed to respond quickly enough. With so many members now in the Ye Family's Inner Hall, they ought to have checked Ye Jingcheng's beast mark to confirm his identity, even if he was a Spirit Transformation cultivator.

Both the blood-related members of the Heaven Inner Hall and the