Chapter 711: Chapter 710: Yao Mie Sheng
"Zong Wei, the Ghost Lethal Assembly is near, and we will depart the day after tomorrow. I summoned you here today to ask you to prepare. The safety of the young lady will be entrusted to you."
In the first half-month after Shi Xiaole returned to the Left Sect, he was summoned once more to Ice Heart Pavilion. The person addressing him was Aunt Mei, who had a serious expression on her face.
The venue of the Ghost Lethal Assembly changed every year, so ensuring safety during the journey was the top priority. In the past, there had been instances where members of the two Sects were killed mid-journey.
Of course, the high-ranking officials of the Left Sect would not disregard Yun Chuoxi’s safety, but this was also an opportunity to train Shi Xiaole, which they certainly wouldn’t pass up.
As the leader of the Ghost Guards, Shi Xiaole had the authority to assign tasks to the other five Ghost Guards, as well as command the Ghost Riders, which gave him a great deal of power.
The so-called Ghost Riders were Yun Chuoxi’s private guards, consisting of 88 members. Each one of them possessed the strength of a top-tier Lord and were all under a hundred years old, with the potential to advance to the Divine Barrier Realm in the future. They were the second-tier genius team of the Left Sect, just below the Ghost Guards.
After receiving the orders, Shi Xiaole wasted no time in arranging his personnel.
On the day of departure, the 88 members of the Ghost Riders were divided into several circles. Each circle was a few hundred meters apart, and they protected Yun Chuoxi’s carriage so firmly that no wind could get in.
"This Zong Yue has a few good ideas."
In the carriage, Aunt Mei said to Yun Chuoxi with a smile.
She could see clearly that the positions of the Ghost Riders around them were not randomly arranged.
For instance, members with strong offensive abilities were placed at the front. Those with outstanding defensive abilities were generally in the inner circle. Those with excellent sensing abilities were scattered in the corners of each circle, enabling them to observe the surroundings to the greatest extent.
This was nothing big by itself.
However, in every circle, the pairing of personnel, and even the small formations, were taking into account both offense and defense. Should there be an enemy attack, according to everyone’s positioning, they could set up the combined battle formation of the Ghost Lethal Sect at the fastest speed!
This simple personnel arrangement fully demonstrated Shi Xiaole’s ingenious planning, and even more so, his perfect understanding of the Ghost Riders’ individual strength and their combined battle formation.
Yun Chuoxi nodded. She could see his careful planning, but after hesitating for a moment, she said in a low voice, "Aunt Mei, don’t you feel that this Zong Yue seems very different from the Zong Yue we investigated before?"
"Oh?"
"After observing him for a period, I found that he is not lustful, not at all. The ten beautiful maids are still virgins to this day, and he spends all day practicing martial arts, almost like a martial arts fanatic."
Aunt Mei, who was originally listening attentively with a gloomy expression, was first taken aback upon hearing this. Then she broke into laughter. "Young lady, you don’t understand this."
"He indeed hasn’t touched those ten maids, but as I know, he has often flirted with them. According to the maids, his reaction is very strong. He’s obviously restricting himself. As for his obsession with training, if he didn’t do this, how could he appear so formidable?"
"Then why would he restrain himself?"
Yun Chuoxi frowned.
Aunt Mei shook her head and chuckled. "Of course, it’s to leave a good impression on a certain someone. Young lady, with your beauty, there are only a few men in the world who can resist."
Upon hearing this, Yun Chuoxi turned her head.
If this was indeed the case, she had underestimated Zong Yue. However, his deep calculations were destined to end in disappointment.
The conversation between the two of them was suppressed within the carriage by Aunt Mei’s Vigorous Air, so it didn’t leak out.
Shi Xiaole was oblivious to the fact that he had just narrowly avoided a crisis. Luckily, he had been careful, deliberately leaving a lascivious impression on the ten maids.
The rendezvous for the Ghost Lethal Assembly this time was set deep in the mountains of the Huangming Domain in Tian State.
The people of the Left Sect divided up into several groups. After travelling day and night, they finally arrived as expected, a month later.
As soon as he entered the mountain range, Shi Xiaole sensed countless terrifying auras. Each one of them was capable of easily killing him.
The Grand Elder led the group to a stone wall on the mountainside. A few people immediately came forward to greet them. After meandering through multiple layers of stone walls, they beheld a massive platform before them.
The platform had over a dozen levels, each one extraordinarily spacious. At the moment, two distinct groups of people stood on each level. Even though they were a hundred feet apart, their gazes conveyed an intense tension.
Upon seeing Shi Xiaole and his group, the crowd on the right immediately gave them hostile looks.
"Right Sect?"
Without a doubt, Shi Xiaole knew that these people must have been the experts from the Right Sect. The higher the stairs went, the stronger the aura of the crowd became.
The cultivators standing on the eighth to the fifth steps ranged from the third tier to the sixth tier of the Divine Barrier Realm.
The ones on the fourth to the second steps were between the seventh and ninth tiers of the Divine Barrier Realm, and the air around them was so condensed, it was as potent as a mountain, suffocating Shi Xiaole.
As for the first step, Shi Xiaole couldn’t see anyone because it was enveloped in a thick fog of Qi. When his spiritual power came within fifty feet of it, an intense palpitation overwhelmed him.
It was as if an ant was trying to observe a tiger, which would inevitably result in insurmountable consequences.
In front of this overwhelming Qi fog, even the experts on the second step seemed insignificant and merely served as a backdrop.
Void Origin Realm expert!
Unexpectedly, these words emerged in Shi Xiaole’s mind. Only experts of the Void Origin Realm, creating an aura intense enough to force even peak Earth Immortals to look up, could possess such a potent Qi field.
Even though Shi Xiaole had already known that the Ghost Lethal Gathering was the most critical event of both the Left and Right Sect, the deployment of Void Origin Realm experts still left him dumbfounded.
All in all, this was his first real encounter with such high-level experts.
Those who were eligible to participate in the Ghost Lethal Gathering were the elites of both the Left and Right Sect, their cultivation at the very minimum was at the Fifth Tier of the Dragon Gate Realm.
Yun Chuoxi had recently absorbed some of the inheritance of the Thousand-Handed Poison King, successfully breaking through to the second tier of the Divine Barrier Realm. Hence, Shi Xiaole and the others were standing on the ninth step.
Within a hundred feet of the same step, reactions varied among the right sect’s experts at the arrival of the new people. Some sneered, some uninterested, while others’ eyes were focused on Yun Chuoxi.
A superlative beauty is always a superlative beauty; even though Yun Chuoxi was veiled, her sexy figure and out-of-this-world charisma could not be concealed.
"I heard the Young Master will attend this Ghost Lethal Gathering personally. Is that true?"
"It’s true, but we laymen, I’m afraid, won’t have the privilege of seeing the Young Master."
"Hehe, the Young Master is blessed, said to be as talented as the Five Demons of the Righteous Path. Although he hasn’t made it onto the list of Earth Immortals, it’s only because even the Divine Strategy Academy can’t gauge his strength. His attendance at the gathering might be an announcement of his official entry into the Martial World."
Standing around on the ninth step were only a handful of experts of the second tier of the Divine Barrier Realm. With both sects not able to make a full show of force, there were only a few people present. As Shi Xiaole leaned in to listen, he instantly picked up the conversation between a few young experts of the Right Sect.
They were discussing the mysterious Young Master, their words implying admiration and reverence.
"Miss, do you know anything about that Young Master?"
Remembering the Destroying Saint Pendant that humiliated the Holy Monarch, Shi Xiaole instinctively asked Yun Chuoxi.
Yun Chuoxi looked at him and said, "His information has been well protected, even with our Left Sect’s years of investigation, we’ve only obtained bits and pieces of information."
Her expression getting serious, she added, "But from this little we know, we can infer that he is terrifyingly strong. He might have even reached an inhuman level among his peers!"
A few Ghost Guards couldn’t help but glance sideways. Even the usually aloof Xiao Yujian was drawn in by her remarks. She had never spoken so highly of anyone of her age before.
"Nobody knows his real strength. I’ve only heard that when he broke through the Divine Barrier Realm, he even alarmed the Void Origin Realm expert of the Right Sect!"
Without any records of his warfare or direct descriptions, just this statement alone was enough to send tremors through these Ghost Guards’ hearts that they struggled to control.
If Earth Immortals of the Divine Barrier Realm are the pillars of the Martial World, then the Void Origin Realm experts are truly the cream of the crop. They have been the pride of their generations and lived for hundreds of years, seen everything. What haven’t they come across?
The ability to shock the Void Origin Realm experts was beyond imagination. What on earth happened when this Young Master of the Right Sect broke through?
"Do you know what that man’s name is?"
At that moment, Yun Chuoxi said in a low voice.
"What is it?"
Mo Wan eagerly asked.
"Yao Mie Sheng. Ever since he was seven, he swore to the heavens that he would unite the Ghost Lethal Sect and obliterate the Holy Monarch’s influences. In his eyes, the Holy Monarch almost ruined the Ghost Lethal Sect and was a historical criminal. He wishes to destroy the Saint, hence his name is Yao Mie Sheng!"
