The Official Dispatch from the Imperial Court
Thus, when Wei Hai was enjoying the prestige of the sect leader for the first time at the Shangyang Sect, learned of the Lingxian Sect's news, it was already the dead of winter.
Tomorrow is Lunar New Year's Eve.
It was already freezing cold outside.
At that time, Wei Hai was squandering the Shangyang Sect Shangyang Sect's secret treasury.
Although Elder Jin had taken many good things with him before.
But most of those are kept in a small treasure trove inside another door, known to very few people, containing some rather rare little things.
As for the warehouse storing a large number of basic cultivation items, they dared not risk going there because Wei Hai had taken control of it immediately after occupying Shangyang Sect.
With hundreds of years of accumulation, the quantity of items in the Shangyang Sect's large warehouse was still quite considerable.
At least in terms of the number of Spirit Stone, there are quite a few.
Not to mention all the many other things.
Many of them, even to a Rogue Cultivator like Wei Hai, had never used.
Don't let his current status as a Nascent Soul Cultivator fool you; he's among the poorest Nascent Soul Cultivator.
Although he had been guarding a Spirit Stone mine, he always hoped that once the mine was fully Spirit Transformation Spirit Stone stage, he could use it to exchange for a large enough profit in one go.
Therefore, he had been living a rather frugal life before this.
However, although this sect's treasury could not completely compensate for the loss of one Spirit Stone mine, he was still very satisfied.
It would be even better if his Spirit Stone mine could be found.
What's infuriating is that the people from the Shangyang Sect are too stubborn; they just won't tell me where the Spirit Stone mine is.
Wei Hai was eating and thinking at the same time, stuffing handfuls of nourishing or enhancing pills from the warehouse into his mouth like candy.
Then they heard the voices of disciples coming from outside:
"Reporting to the sect leader, another official document has arrived from the imperial court."
Upon hearing that another official document had arrived from the imperial court, Wei Hai felt somewhat irritated.
This is really troublesome.
Although he occupied Shangyang Sect, he had no intention of becoming a responsible sect leader or developing the sect.
He just wanted to experience the power of the sect leader for a while, and incidentally take over the Shangyang Sect's warehouse for himself.
Once he had squandered all the money from the treasury, the sect leader grew tired of his arrogance and simply left.
As for the Spirit Stone mine, he later examined it carefully and thought about it seriously.
It's unlikely that Shangyang Sect could directly replace the entire Spirit Stone mine with that large area of rocks. This is a spatial array, something that even in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, most small and medium-sized sects wouldn't have, let alone Shangyang Sect, which lives peacefully in a corner of the Mortal Realm.
He guessed that the Spirit Stone mine was likely given to their sect's backer in the Immortal Cultivation Realm by the Shangyang Sect.
He knew that most of the sects in the Mortal Realm had some connection with sects in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
However, he also knew that the sects in the Immortal Cultivation Realm did not value these sects in the Mortal Realm, so they had very little contact with them.
Therefore, he was not worried that anyone would come looking for trouble for him after he breached Shangyang Sect.
In a few years, once that Immortal Cultivation Realm has truly made contact with the Shangyang Sect, even if they are willing to stand up for the Shangyang Sect, they will have already fled far away.
Moreover, he knew that the backers that small sects like Shangyang Sect found were generally not major sects in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
After all, the major sects look down on them.
Only small and medium-sized sects in the Immortal Cultivation Realm would want to show off their superiority in front of these Mortal Realm sects.
As for those sects, the sect leader could only reach the Spirit Transformation Stage at most.
It's not that he looks down on those in the Spirit Transformation Stage.
Rather, as a Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator and the leader of a sect, he would certainly not go to great lengths to hunt him down for the sake of such a sect.
For all these reasons, he was very confident in his own safety.
Therefore, during this period of time, he would only glance at the official documents sent by the imperial court, get a general idea of the situation, and then ignore them all.
They're just waiting to enjoy themselves for a while before leaving.
However, he was bored at the moment, so he decided to kill time and see what kind of boring news this damned imperial court had sent him this time.
So he said to the outside:
"Bring it here."
Then a disciple came in and presented him with the official document with great respect, or rather, fear.
Wei Hai leaned back lazily on the comfortable chaise lounge, took the book, and casually flipped through it.
At first, he read it very perfunctorily.
However, after reading only a few lines, he suddenly sat up from the chaise longue and stared at the official document in his hand, looking very serious and focused.
"A new Lingxian Sect has appeared? And it's even located in a village under the jurisdiction of Liaoju Prefecture?"
When I returned to check on the Spirit Stone mine ten years ago, I also inquired about various news from Hufang Province.
At that time, I had never heard of such a sect.
Besides, Pusi Kingdom already has three sects, how could a new sect suddenly appear?
Where in this mortal nation can one find so many resources to support the cultivation practices of these sects?
Moreover, there's already a Shangyang Sect in Hufang Province!
How could they possibly allow a new sect to grow up right under their noses?
Judging from this situation, it seems the imperial court intends to place this new sect alongside the three major sects, making it one of the four major sects.
Wei Hai frowned, feeling for some reason that something was very wrong!
In a flash, he remembered when he had questioned the disciple named Jin Nanhuan who had interfered in the matter related to his Spirit Stone mine. Jin Nanhuan had kept insisting that he was innocent.
He said he didn't see any Spirit Stone mines; when he tried to go down to check, the cave was already full of rocks.
He also claimed that someone else had actually saved the children, and that he fabricated the story of being partners with that person to gain credit, when in fact he did not know the person who saved them.
At the time, Wei Hai thought that Jin Nanhuan indeed stubborn, not telling the truth even to Nascent Soul Cultivator like himself, and that he might be a disowned disciple of the sect.
So at the time, Wei Hai didn't think much of what he said, assuming he was just making excuses or lying.
Now, considering this official document from the imperial court, it doesn't seem impossible.
If what Jin Nanhuan said is true.
So, the person who stole the mine back then was most likely the one who saved the person.
And the person who saved them might have risen to prominence and made the newly emerged Lingxian Sect possible precisely because of their Spirit Stone mine!
Does this mean that my Spirit Stone mine might not be located in some unknown sect in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, but rather in a new sect that suddenly appeared in this Mortal Realm?
Then you can completely recover your Spirit Stone mine!
The thought that he might be able to reclaim his Spirit Stone mine after taking control of the Shangyang Sect's treasury filled Wei Hai with excitement.
So he immediately summoned several Foundation Establishment disciples, fed each of them a few poison pills, and said:
"Listen carefully, you must immediately go down the mountain and find the exact location of the Lingxian Sect Liaoju Prefecture, then report back to me immediately. I only have five hours."