You Think I'm Slow? I'm the One Who Thinks You're Too Slow
For cultivators, Storage Bag are an essential item, but Cui Yan, who has lived for nearly a hundred years, has never seen another person like Yi Xuan who carries more than ten Storage Bag with him.
Yi Xuan wasn't embarrassed by the crowd's gaze. Instead, he looked at Cui Yan and said, "Sect Leader, what are you saying? Where else could I go if I didn't come back?"
"I don't know where you're going, but you don't look like you're going to a secret realm, you look like you're moving house!" Cui Yan said, pointing to the dozen or so Storage Bag on Yi Xuan's waist.
Oh! You're talking about these things!
Yi Xuan understood that he did look somewhat different, but his life was more important, and the items in these Storage Bag were his reliance for this trip to the secret realm.
When it comes to personal safety, Yi Xuan doesn't care about his image at all.
What's the point of maintaining such a good image? Do you expect the enemy to think you're good enough to leave you a whole corpse?
Yi Xuan is a traditional science and engineering man. Although he is good-looking in this life, his long-term scientific research work makes him not want to focus his energy on his appearance.
This is probably a common problem among researchers!
"Senior brother! These are things I might need after entering the secret realm. There are a lot of things, please forgive me! Haha!"
After hearing Yi Xuan's words, Cui Yan thought of Yi Xuan's fighting style during the previous attack by the Gazing Immortal Sect, and stopped worrying about the Storage Bag at his waist.
Cui Yan pulled Yi Xuan to his side, pointed to the nine people standing side by side below, and introduced them, "Junior brother, do you see them? These nine disciples are the ones who accompanied you into the secret realm this time! They are all experts at the peak of the Grain Avoidance Perfection stage, and are the backbone of our sect."
After speaking, Cui Yan glanced at the nine people below again, then solemnly said to Yi Xuan, "Junior brother! From now on, I'm entrusting them to you. I hope you can bring them all back safely!"
"And you nine! This time, Protector Yi, the Sect Protector's protector, will lead the team. You must all obey Protector Yi's orders!"
Upon hearing the sect leader's order, the nine immediately knelt down and said in unison, "We will obey the sect leader's orders and the protector's orders!"
Hearing what the others said, Cui Yan nodded in satisfaction. Then he handed the map he was holding to Yi Xuan.
Yi Xuan looked at the map in his hand, which was brighter than it had been a few days ago. The textures on the map were now fully displayed, which meant that Yi Xuan could now use the map to find the entrance to the Artifact Ruins.
Yi Xuan cupped his hands in greeting to the elders and sect leader before him and said, "Senior Brother Cui, elders! Wait for our return!"
After speaking, Yi Xuan waved his hand at the nine disciples behind him, and the nine disciples took to the air one after another.
Nine people hovered in the air, waiting for Yi Xuan. Yi Xuan, somewhat curious, asked Cui Yan, "Senior brother, I'd like to ask another question. What were the casualties among our sect's disciples during previous expeditions to the Artifact Ruins?"
Upon hearing Yi Xuan's question, Cui Yan's eyes revealed a look of melancholy. "A fifty-fifty number!"
Upon hearing this proportion, Yi Xuan was terrified, but he couldn't utter a single word.
With a wave of his hand, Yi Xuan summoned the Firmament from his Storage Bag.
The members of the Azure Cloud Sect watched as Yi Xuan entered the Firmament then took off, accelerated, and flew into the distance.
The nine disciples who were flying in the air saw Yi Xuan leave on a strange magical Law Treasure and quickly followed.
The elders below were only now recovering from the shock of the Firmament.
"What is that?"
"Is it Yi Xuan's Law Treasure?"
"Judging from the speed just now, that Law Treasure's flight speed is no weaker than that of Golden Core!"
Hearing the conversation, Cui Yan didn't say anything. However, he was also shocked by the appearance of the Firmament, and at the same time, his confidence in Yi Xuan increased considerably.
Two days later, nine cultivators flying through the air were rapidly heading in one direction, their combined speed exceeding the speed of sound.
These nine people are the nine disciples of the Azure Cloud Sect who participated in this secret realm.
However, Yi Xuan was nowhere to be seen. Moving their gaze upwards, they saw a huge flying machine flying at the same speed as the nine people, about several hundred meters above their heads. It was Yi Xuan's Firmament.
"Senior brother! Elder Yi is truly amazing. I never imagined that although he is Rootless Person, the Law Treasure he crafted could keep up with our speed!" Chu Hong, who was flying in the air, said to He Hongfei beside him.
He Hongfei, however, curled his lip and said, "That's heretical and unorthodox. The strength of us cultivators comes from within ourselves. True strength comes from within; you can never achieve greatness by relying on external things. I really don't know what the sect's higher-ups were thinking this time, actually sending him to lead the team!"
He Hongfei had no good feelings towards Yi Xuan. In fact, when Yi Xuan was identified as Rootless Person, he made sarcastic remarks about Yi Xuan several times.
He had thought that this former successor to the sect would never appear before him again after becoming Rootless Person.
Unexpectedly, after the Gazing Immortal Sect's attack, the sect inexplicably appointed him as Sect Protector.
To He Hongfei's surprise, this person, who had almost disappeared from his memory, reappeared in everyone's sight and directly entered the sect's upper echelons, distancing himself from them, the disciples.
What was even more unexpected was that the sect's higher-ups actually assigned Yi Xuan to lead this expedition to the secret realm. These disciples were unaware of Yi Xuan's actions during the great battle with the Gazing Immortal Sect, so He Hongfei was extremely dissatisfied with Yi Xuan.
"Senior Brother He! Protector Yi was, after all, the sect's designated leader for this mission! It doesn't seem right for you to speak of him like that!" A pretty female disciple beside her reminded him.
Yan Siruo, on the other side, also agreed with Qiao Yu's words, and said, "Junior Sister Qiao is right! Junior Brother He, besides, you said it yourself, the sect knows that Protector Yi is Rootless Person. A Rootless Person hope of cultivation, so it's already quite impressive that Protector Yi can match our speed with these Law Treasure! Besides, the sect has its reasons for arranging for him to lead the team!"
Yan Siruo the nine people. Although He Hongfei was somewhat arrogant, he still had to give Yan Siruo face, so he could only nod to indicate that he understood.
Meanwhile, Yi Xuan, who was above the nine people, was idly playing a game on the screen in the co-pilot's seat of the Firmament Dome. Yi Xuan's interest wasn't in games; he was just bored and wanted to kill time, so he casually asked the Firmament's artificial intelligence to temporarily create a game similar to a plane battle.
Seeing his plane destroyed again, Yi Xuan slumped listlessly in the co-pilot's seat, muttering to himself, "Disciples in the Grain Avoidance Realm are really useless; they fly way too slowly. If Senior Brother Cui hadn't told me before he left that I shouldn't take action unless it was a matter of life and death, I really wanted to take them with me. If the Firmament Piercing Star had been running at full speed, we might have arrived by now!"
Fortunately, the people below were unaware of Yi Xuan's condition. Otherwise, if they had known that their praise of Yi Xuan's Law Treasure for keeping up with their speed was actually the result of Yi Xuan deliberately slowing down, they would probably have wished they were dead.