Chapter 2261: Chapter 2263: Pushing It Too Far
Feng Jun didn’t need to travel to Xuanhuang Sect on his own; three days later, people from Xuanhuang Sect rushed over to pick them up.
The one leading the team was still True Immortal Chen Xi. In fact, his Cultivation Level wasn’t that high, just Nascent Soul Fifth Level, but his personal authority wasn’t small, and he was also the first Xuanhuang True Immortal to come into contact with Feng Jun, so having him lead the team couldn’t really be said to lower the grade.
Since Xuanhuang Sect was willing to part with a wisp of Xuanhuang Qi, that level of treatment needed no further comment. The group passed through Transmission Arrays between plates, and after a few transfers arrived at one of Xuanhuang’s edge plates.
This plate, to Xuanhuang, was like the Ice Plate is to Taixu—already as marginal as it could possibly be.
But compared to the location Feng Jun had previously deduced, this place could at least be considered legitimately within Xuanhuang Sect’s sphere—last time, for the place where Feng Jun did his deduction, Xuanhuang Sect and Yuangang Sect had to work hard for quite a while to get the surrounding powers to recognize it as their "border area."
This plate was called Yellow Sky. It wasn’t very big, about the same size as the Yiyao Plate—well, if compared with the Earth Realm, then it was indeed already enormous.
There were a lot of people around Feng Jun. Besides Yi Jue, Qing Ji, and Cang Jing, Elder Duan Liang had come along as well.
True Immortal Jing Quan was also there; he had to keep an eye on Feng Jun, otherwise no one would be overseeing his disciple’s recovery, and True Immortal Wu Xiu had tagged along to join in the fun.
With so many True Immortals accompanying him, Feng Jun certainly wasn’t worried about his own safety, and he followed the people from Xuanhuang Sect to the reception site.
The reception site was not far from the core region of the Yellow Sky Plate, leaning against mountains and facing water, with beautiful scenery. The Earth Vein had been remodeled, Spiritual Energy was abnormally abundant, and it was said that if the Spirit Gathering Array was fully activated, it could simultaneously support the Cultivation of more than ten Nascent Soul High Stage cultivators.
Before stepping into this place, Feng Jun directly took out his Mobile Phone and started tapping away at it, not caring what others thought.
Most of the people around him already knew that this screen that lit up again and again was, in itself, a mundane object. He could use it for deduction, but others couldn’t. Even back at White Pebble Beach, quite a few had already been sold, and no one had discovered any connection between this thing and deduction.
So Mountain Master Feng operating it like this now was obviously him deducing whether there was anything here that might be detrimental to him.
But before anyone could open their mouths to ask, they could only watch, eyes wide, as he went through his motions step by step.
Feng Jun walked a bit, then stopped, occasionally swiping his phone. The others could only follow closely in his footsteps, not even daring to make a sound. The whole scene was actually a little eerie.
After walking for a while, even Feng Jun himself noticed it: with this posture, why did he feel like some kind of geomancer?
Just then, True Immortal Chen Xi really couldn’t hold back anymore and spoke up to ask, "Mountain Master Feng, what are you doing? If there’s anything about this place you don’t understand, you can just ask me directly."
Feng Jun happened to get some inspiration and casually replied, "I’m sensing and deducing the aura field a bit... to see whether it’ll affect my luck."
True Immortal Chen Xi was stunned on the spot, then turned his head to look at Elder Duan Liang. "Senior Duan Liang, can an aura field affect someone’s luck?"
Elder Duan Liang pondered for a moment, then shook his head. "I’m not particularly adept at deduction either, but in Taixu’s vein-seeking arts there are indeed similar statements. Ominous and baleful lands do exist."
A True Immortal beside Chen Xi couldn’t help retorting when he heard this, "This is where we receive honored guests. How did it become an ominous or baleful land in Elder’s mouth?"
"That’s not how you’re supposed to understand it," True Immortal Yi Jue spoke up. She was used to defending Taixu’s reputation, doing so almost subconsciously. "So-called ominous and baleful lands are all relative. Only those places that are unfriendly to the vast majority of people are what we generally acknowledge as ominous or baleful..."
"But there are places that might be auspicious for most people yet very unfriendly to a small number of individuals. This phenomenon objectively exists."
What she said was quite reasonable. Most cultivators had some understanding of metaphysics, and coupled with the fact that she herself was a deduction expert, the others actually accepted Feng Jun’s excuse.
Some people even secretly pondered whether they should ask Mountain Master Feng to deduce their own fortunes at some point.
The day passed just like that. Early the next morning, True Immortal Chen Xi invited Feng Jun and his group to use a temporarily erected Transmission Array to once again go to the location of the previous deduction.
This time, the place was no longer that calm starry sky, but a frenzy of surging energies: Fierce Wind, flames, Profound Ice, lightning arcs... there were even occasional spatial rifts, like a scene of doomsday.
The spot where the Transmission Array was set up was about a hundred thousand li from the previous deduction site, yet they could still feel those raging, violent energies.
Feng Jun furrowed his brows. "This sight... is a bit strange. Will it affect us over here?"
True Immortal Chen Xi replied with great certainty, "No. These chaotic phenomena have boundaries; there’s a subtle yet very solid demarcation line."
Another True Immortal added, "If things weren’t stable here, we wouldn’t dare set up a Transmission Array, would we?"
Even if it’s unstable, I’m not afraid of taking the transmission array! Feng Jun really didn’t care about that point—at worst, he’d just be exiled into the Void.
What he was focused on was something else. "How did it turn into this? In my divination, a small world passage could be born here. The energy over there is very abundant, but it was absolutely not this violent."
True Immortal Chen Xi hesitated for a moment, and in the end could only sigh. "Later our two sects discussed it and felt that the small world could be captured, and then... refined into a Cave Heaven True Treasure."
Everyone fell silent at those words. Only Golden Crow Sect’s Elder Qing Ji gave a cold snort. "The small world could have completely served as a training ground for the disciples of the Seven Sects Eighteen Paths. For you to capture it like this... you didn’t inform us."
"This was originally a resource belonging to our two sects," a True Immortal of Yuangang Sect spoke up. "If we couldn’t capture it and opened it up for you to train in, that would also require a resource exchange. Your accusation is very improper."
Elder Cang Jing frowned and bluntly rebuked, "The problem is that you didn’t have the ability, and stirred up such a huge commotion. In the future, the one who might suffer for this is the entire Tianqin Plane. How are you going to explain that to us?"
"Explain?" the Yuangang True Immortal shot back directly. "Then when you three clans obtained the Tunxing Clan corpses, did you ever give us an explanation?"
"Of course we did!" Yi Jue was the first to speak. At the moment the Tunxing Clan corpses were in Spirit Plant Path’s hands, so she had to speak up in their defense. "Ownership belongs to our three clans, but after we properly discuss it, we will open it up to others to a limited extent..."
Elder Qing Ji also took the initiative to continue, "It may even benefit clan practitioners, because the Tunxing Clan is the great enemy of all the Human Race."
The Yuangang True Immortal fell silent at that, and it could be said his goal had been achieved. But someone still muttered under their breath, "But the Tunxing Clan corpses are very crucial too. What’s the point of only sensing their Dao patterns?"
True Immortal Cang Jing turned her head and stared at a Nascent Soul First Layer cultivator. "As for how we handle them, we have our own sense of proportion. Or do you think that if Yuangang and Xuanhuang Sects don’t put away the small world, everyone else then has the right to apply for ownership of the small world?"
The man’s mouth moved a couple of times, looking like he wanted to vent but didn’t dare. Feng Jun, however, waved his hand. "Take your quarrel somewhere else. Right now I just want to know: has the small world been put away or not?"
Elder Duan Liang gave him a surprised glance. "You can’t divine that?"
Those words sounded a bit like a jab. Realizing that, he immediately added, "What they say isn’t important. The key is what they actually did... I think it’s more reliable to divine it himself."
Feng Jun didn’t pick up the thread of that comment. Instead, he glanced at Yi Jue—"I can only divine at close range, you know that."
Yi Jue didn’t say a word and pulled out the lot sticks, set up a small table, and began divining.
Seeing this, True Immortal Chen Xi could only sigh and answer, "The small world... more than half of it was captured, and a small remaining part collapsed. The result is what you’re seeing now."
Yi Jue ignored them and continued her divination. Feng Jun, however, nodded slightly. "That’s possible. When I was divining, I could sense that the small world’s energy was extremely enormous. For it to cause this kind of outcome is not surprising."
Wasn’t it precisely because you said ’the energy is enormous’? True Immortal Chen Xi was bitter in his heart. If not for that, the two sects would not have decided to jointly harvest the small world—tremendous energy often implies immense resources.
But he obviously couldn’t shift the blame onto Feng Jun, so he could only let out a long sigh. "Our two sects each sent out one True Sage. It can’t be said we took it lightly, but it’s a pity—our efforts still ended in failure."
"Good thing you did send True Sages," Elder Duan Liang said coldly. "Otherwise, who knows how many Nascent Souls you would have gotten killed. Am I wrong?"
That statement was certainly not wrong, but True Immortal Chen Xi still said awkwardly, "In the end it turned out not too badly. We anticipated the danger involved and made thorough preparations, so we only lost some wealth; the loss in personnel wasn’t too great."
Just then, Yi Jue stopped working the lot sticks and frowned. "The aura of the small world has changed. But why do I feel... that it’s even vaster than before?"
Feng Jun looked at her and asked in a low voice, "You can’t get anything more out of it?"
"Impossible in a short time," Yi Jue shook her head slowly, her brows tightly knitted. "It’d take a fairly long period, and I can’t guarantee the result. The most crucial thing is... I keep having this heart-palpitating feeling, telling me not to keep divining."
Feng Jun’s expression grew darker and darker. He knew very well just how proud Yi Jue was. For something to make even her feel a creeping sense of dread, the risk wrapped up in it was something ordinary people simply couldn’t imagine.
After a brief silence, he spoke in a deep voice. "True Immortal Chen Xi, is there nothing you can add?"
Chen Xi also stayed silent for a while before countering with a question. "Could it be that Mountain Master Feng hasn’t thought of it?"
Feng Jun replied without the slightest hesitation, "Whether I can think of it is my business. I need to hear your answer."
In that moment, he displayed the aura of a "professional" to the fullest—Second Layer Golden Core, speaking to a Nascent Soul Fifth Level like this!
And True Immortal Chen Xi had no other choice. He answered with a blank face, "According to our deductions, the half of the small world we harvested might be linked to... another great world!"
