What If (Eleven)
Although Sang Ying is gone, she left behind a considerable mess for the entire Flowing Light Sword Sect.
She took almost everything useful from Settled Frost Peak, leaving nothing for the sect members. When an elder realized something was wrong and went to challenge the peak, all he found was a barren mountain with nothing else.
Sang Ying had no idea how much these people would ultimately feel sorry for her. At this moment, she was sitting on the inter-realm flying boat heading to the Immortal Spirit Realm, listening to Jiulian tell her about the things that had happened these past few days.
After arriving in this world, Sang Ying knew that with her Foundation Establishment at the time, she would definitely not be able to prevent the impending catastrophe. So she simply severed her master-disciple relationship with Gu Huaiwei, pretended to be in seclusion on Settled Frost Peak, but in reality, she devised a plan and went directly to the Immortal Spirit Realm.
Although her cultivation level was not high at that time, fortunately, her parents left behind many good things, enough to protect her and ensure her safe arrival in the Immortal Spirit Realm.
In the Immortal Spirit Realm, Sang Ying successfully found Ten Thousand Daos Born by relying on her previous memories. Because of her parents' connections, she didn't have to wait for the selection of new disciples and went directly into the Thousandfold Formation for training.
As expected, she successfully passed through several formations and qualified to become a disciple of Ten Thousand Daos Born.
Just like in her previous life, Sang Ying directly became Jiulian's disciple, giving Jiulian no chance to try and steal her as her apprentice.
For the next hundred years, Sang Ying spent most of her time in Ten Thousand Daos Born. She did not forget the friends she met in her previous life, so after forming her Golden Core, she retraced her steps from her previous life and got to know all the friends she had met before.
Strangely, in this life, Sang Ying also went to the cave White Foothill City, but she did not find the Sword Qi left behind by Gu Wangchuan, Gu Shu, inside.
This strangeness intrigued Sang Ying, and she even went so far as to sneak into the back mountain of the Flowing Light Sword Sect to see Jiang Zhuoxue, who was sealed there. But, just like before, Jiang Zhuoxue did not exist in this world.
Later, when Sang Ying was no longer pulled into the illusion on Gleaming Gold Island and did not see Bai Qinglong's remains, she knew that everything she had experienced in the past had changed in this world.
Perhaps these people in another world have already found liberation, and she came to this world only to allow another version of herself to be reborn.
Having figured all this out, Sang Ying stopped obsessing over finding her companions from her past life and instead focused her attention on the hidden "Gu Huaiwei".
To Sang Ying's surprise, even though Gu Shu, Jiang Zhuoxue, Bai Qinglong, and others had all disappeared, the immortal Gu Huaiwei still existed in the world.
Remembering how he had caused so much trouble behind the scenes in his past life, almost destroying the entire Lower Realm, Sang Ying naturally didn't want him to repeat those evil deeds.
So, after joining the Flowing Light Sword Sect, she made up a random excuse, saying that she saw the future and that someone who looked exactly like Gu Huaiwei would bring disaster to the Cultivation World.
As for Mara Gate, who colluded with the Devil Race and gave birth to the madwoman Qi Yaoji, Sang Ying did not let him go either.
At that time, Sang Ying held a certain position in Ten Thousand Daos Born, and with Jiulian and Sang Zheng willing to vouch for her, Ten Thousand Daos Born's men still conducted an investigation.
This investigation revealed something truly astounding: not only was there a strange force behind the Mara Gate, but it also seemed to be connected to the Devil Race!
This discovery almost confirmed Sang Ying's guess, and also made everyone wary of the person she mentioned.
However, because the other party was so well hidden, even though Ten Thousand Daos Born had discovered that the Mara Gate was involved with "Gu Huaiwei", he was unable to follow this clue to find where "Gu Huaiwei" was hiding.
Fortunately, things took a turn for the better during the days when Sang Ying returned to the Flowing Light Sword Sect to undergo her tribulation. Ten Thousand Daos Born's disciples at the Mara Gate finally found out some information about "Gu Huaiwei".
"It's said that the person came out of a Teleportation Array. He was dressed in a black robe, completely concealing his appearance, and didn't reveal a single trace of his true face. Fortunately, one of our disciples had previously met a Gu cultivator, and the Gu worm the cultivator gave us had tracking abilities, which allowed us to find that person's lair," Jiulian explained to her disciple.
Calling it their lair isn't entirely accurate. The other party is cunning; every small world has one of these places used for resting. What they found was merely a residence that person had set up in the Immortal Spirit Realm.
Moreover, it seemed that the person had discovered the problem with the Gu worms in advance. Before everyone could go there, the place was already deserted, with nothing of any use left. Even the Gu worm used for tracking was found dead in that hiding place.
After that, the Mara Gate received the news and began a frantic search for traitors within the sect. Many of the spies they had planted were eventually pulled out.
"Fortunately, we didn't come away empty-handed." A smug look appeared on Jiulian's face as she said this, "No one expected that the slain Gu worm would contain that person's blood!"
In the Cultivation World, if you obtain someone's blood, there are countless ways to use it.
Using this drop of blood, Ten Thousand Daos Born's men created a special array to track that person's movements and thwarted many of his schemes.
The first thing to be destroyed was the enemy's setup in the Hidden Moon Forest of the Black Tortoise Realm.
It is said that they found a ball of Demonic Qi abandoned in the Hidden Moon Forest. This ball of Demonic Qi was trapped in a Storage Bag, but the Storage Bag was not sturdy. Once Demon Beast discovered it and tore it open, the Demonic Qi inside would rush out wildly.
At that time, all the Demon Beast in the Hidden Forest will be in trouble, and the Black Tortoise Realm will also face a great calamity.
Besides that, there is a strange organization in the Hidden Nether Realm. If it weren't for the connection with "Gu Huaiwei", Ten Thousand Daos Born probably wouldn't have discovered that such an unknown organization was secretly hiding in the Hidden Nether Realm.
When this organization was discovered, more than 10,000 cultivators had already been bewitched and become its followers. The powerful figures in the Hidden Nether Realm were also astonished, and they were all glad that they had discovered this matter so early.
After the two plans related to "Gu Huaiwei" were successively canceled, the other party finally became angry.
He suddenly appeared at Ten Thousand Daos Born one day, throwing down a ball of Demonic Qi that directly corrupted most of the sect. Before anyone could react and catch him, he had already vanished without a trace.
Before fleeing, the person made sure to destroy their drop of blood, so now they truly couldn't find the person's location.
"So, Master, what do you want me to do by telling me all this?" Sang Ying didn't think that Jiulian was just chatting with her; she was sure that Jiu Lian wanted her to do something through this.
And Jiulian certainly didn't disappoint Sang Ying: "Because you predicted that person's existence before, the sect thinks there might be some connection between the two of you. Didn't they say that person looks exactly like Gu Huaiwei? They want to use you to find that person's location and then capture him completely!"