All Is Ready

Chapter 250: All Is Ready

In the blink of an eye, several more months passed.

When Fang Shu emerged from seclusion, he found the atmosphere in the temple oddly tense. It was so strange that he thought spies had infiltrated the temple again, or that disciples—even Foundation Establishment Immortals—had been attacked.

Fortunately, after finding Senior Sister Fang Lu and asking around, he learned the inside story.

It was not the Five Viscera Temple that had suffered an incident, but Withered Bone Abbey.

Senior Sister Fang Lu said with undisguised glee, "I heard that Withered Bone Abbey originally had four promising Foundation Establishment candidates. But this time, demons and ghosts caused trouble within their mountain gate, and one and a half of those four great candidates were lost on the spot."

Fang Shu's brows immediately rose slightly.

After giving it some thought, he realized that after the Five Viscera Temple, this was already the third immortal sect to have disciples harmed. Of the Five Sects of Mount Lu, only Beauty Palace remained, its disciples yet untouched.

However, if the other four sects have all suffered mishaps, then no matter how powerful Beauty Palace is, it likely cannot escape this trial either, Fang Shu thought to himself.

He made this guess because, by now, regardless of exactly what the disciples of the four afflicted sects had encountered,

everyone throughout Jade Kingdom knew that it must have been the work of the various immortal sects!

The purpose was simple enough: to weaken the disciples of the other immortal sects in advance, before entering the secret realm, so that they would not hinder their own disciples afterward.

Yet after all this cutting and weakening, none of the sects had gained an advantage. Instead, they had lost the spies they had planted within the other