Chapter 595: Changed World
One day after leaving the Archipelago, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue sat at a restaurant.
"This is so nostalgic." Jiang Yue said.
When they first arrived in the Cangxing world, they often went to restaurants to listen to gossip.
Thousands of years later, the two were still doing the same thing.
"Everything changes but in essence, nothing changes." Yu Nianzhen stated with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
"Mmmh." Jiang Yue agreed, also with a thoughtful expression.
"I heard the third granddaughter of Formation City is marrying the fourth grandson of Alchemy City." A female cultivator whispered in a low voice.
"Is your news true?" Her companion didn’t believe it.
"I heard it from my junior sister who just returned from Formation City."
"Then the news is likely true but..." The companion frowned and several tablemates nodded in understanding.
"Wasn’t the fourth grandson of Alchemy City courting the second granddaughter of Formation City? Why did it become the third granddaughter?"
"I heard the fourth grandson and third granddaughter were accidentally poisoned when they were out training. In the end..."
"Poisoned? Do you mean...?"
"It’s that kind of poison. Anyway, the second granddaughter can only give way to her younger sister."
"What a messy situation."
Listening to the conversation, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen were shocked.
Alchemy City?
Formation City?
Where were these places?
"As expected, XiaoLan is not reliable." Jiang Yue complained with an annoyed expression.
"Mmmmh." Yu Nianzhen had to agree.
"We walked around after we returned from the Reincarnation World but our focus was on the natural phenomena caused by the world upgrade. Later, we stayed in the sea to look for immortal stone veins and didn’t bother with the mainland. It seems we missed a lot." Jiang Yue said.
"Azhen, should we find an information broker?"
"We may have to." Yu Nianzhen nodded but they didn’t immediately leave.
Instead, they stayed behind and listened to more gossip.
However, when they finally left, the two were not less but more confused.
"Let’s find an information broker."
"Fortunately, the border guard faction is still here." Jiang Yue said as the two walked to the border guard arena.
Soon after, the two sat before the faction’s information broker.
"What kind of information do you want?" The masked broker asked.
"We want information on all significant things that have happened in the past ten thousand years."
When he heard this, the information broker was shocked.
He didn’t expect to receive such a big but strange request.
Fortunately, the border guard faction had the deepest foundation in the Cangxing world.
Although the request was too general, the information could still be found.
After negotiating terms, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue left.
At the same time, the information broker realised he couldn’t remember the faces of the cultivators who issued the strange request.
However, for some reason, he wasn’t bothered.
’How strange.’ He thought.
On the other side, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue found an inn and booked a room.
"If I remember correctly, this place used to be called Jinhai town. It’s now called Tianhai City." Jiang Yue sighed.
"A lot has changed."
"I wonder how Master and the others will react to this changed world."
"It’s going to be chaotic." Yu Nianzhen frowned.
Although he and Jiang Yue didn’t recognise the current world, the Cangxing world seemed orderly.
However, when the first batch of immortal realm masters returned, chaos would surely ensue.
After all, they would find the world had long moved on without them.
At that point, they would be faced with two choices.
The first choice was establishing a new place in the world like the two did with the Zhenyue Archipelago.
Alternatively, they could grab one of the existing places.
When that happened, the current masters of the Cangxing world would be forced to either surrender or face a fatal disaster.
"I don’t know if anyone will eye our Zhenyue Archipelago." Jiang Yue said, his expression revealing he was looking forward to that.
"Who knows." Yu Nianzhen rubbed the person’s hair.
However, he wasn’t worried.
Unless an immortal emperor came to grab their place, Yu Nianzhen was confident of keeping their Zhenyue Archipelago.
After all, they had two immortal realm masters, one level seven demonic beast and a level eight demonic beast.
Three days later, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen received the information they bought.
However, after reading it, the two didn’t speak for a long time.
"The world has really changed." Jiang Yue finally said.
From the information, the Canxing world was no longer the world of sixteen factions.
Instead, it was the world of three orthodox sects, two evil sects, the border guard faction, and five major families.
"Cangxing sect, Sword sect, and the One Hundred Flowers sect are the three orthodox sects. Among the three, we only know the sword sect." Jiang Yue started and quickly continued.
"The Poison Valley has become the Five Poisons sect and all other evil sects have merged into the Black Tripod sect."
"The five families are Fang, Xu, Li, Jin, and Qi. The Fang family is in charge of Alchemy City, the Xu family is lord of Formation City, Li has the Talisman City, Jin rules the Inscription City and the Qi family has the weapon refining city."
"Objectively speaking, the current arrangement isn’t bad." Yu Nianzhen said with a thoughtful expression.
"I agree but..."
"We will know the true situation after we walk around."
"Where do you want to start?" Jiang Yue asked.
"I will let you decide."
"Tianhai City is the territory of the Cangxing sect. Why don’t we check out the Cangxing sect first?"
"Mmmm." Yu Nianzhen agreed.
Among the sects and big families, the Cangxing sect was the closest to the Zhenyue Archipelago.
Considering this, it was highly likely that many future generations of the Zhenyue Archipelago would join the Cangxing sect.
Since that was the case, the two felt it was necessary to understand the situation. Otherwise, the Zhenyue family may encounter problems that could have easily been avoided.
"How do you want to do this? Pretend to be a disciple and join the sect? Directly break into the sect? Disguise as a sect elder?"
Hearing the suggestions, Yu Nianzhen smiled with a doting expression.
"Why go to so much trouble? We are immortal realm masters. If we want to secretly look around, can anyone stop us?"
