Chapter 2: Hehuan Sect Became a Righteous Immortal Sect?
Zhang Yunlu, a third-year student at Xuanjian City Third Middle School, was influenced by her deceased parents and therefore enjoyed studying the history of the ancient cultivation world.
She had also represented the school in related competitions.
With a cultivation of Qi Refining stage level eight, she was considered a small prodigy and thus quite well-known in school.
It was a rare Friday, and she planned to relax for a while, even though she had extra classes tomorrow.
She walked into a beverage shop outside the school.
"One cup of Dragon Scale Fruit juice, less sugar, less ice."
Dragon Scale Fruit, which sounded quite impressive by name, was actually just a common fruit.
Aside from tasting a bit better, it didn't contain even a trace of spiritual energy.
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【According to statistics, Hehuan Sect has ranked first in the number of applicants for six consecutive years. Does this signify a change in the cultivation world's trend?】
【The third phase of the City Protection Array maintenance is complete. The Mayor stated: "We will do our utmost to ensure the personal safety of all citizens."】
While waiting, the Profound Light Mirror hanging above broadcast several news items and advertisements. Just as she took the juice and found a seat.
The communicator in her pocket buzzed.
She took it out and looked.
Big Brother.
She walked to the table, sat down, inserted the straw, took a sip, and then slowly connected the call.
"Hello, Big Brother."
Because her parents died exploring a Mystic Realm, this Big Brother, who was nearly thirty years her senior, was her real guardian.
"Xiao Lu, are you still at school?"
"I just got out of school, what's wrong?"
Zhang Yunlu bit the straw, her voice slightly muffled.
"Go back to school immediately and don't come out. A great Cultivator in the Returning Void Realm or above has emerged nearby. We're not sure yet if he's a demonic Cultivator."
Returning Void Realm... a great Cultivator?!
His serious tone made her heart clench.
A great Cultivator emerging from seclusion was no laughing matter.
Three years ago, the demonic great Cultivator 'Cang Jiezhi' in the Returning Void Realm emerged from seclusion and entered the world.
Using just one demonic array, he directly slaughtered half the population of the neighboring Hengjian City to sacrifice for his sword refinement technique. Although he was eventually killed by the righteous great Cultivators who arrived, the people who died were truly dead.
Those ancient demonic great Cultivators wouldn't abide by the rules of the new era.
Knowing the seriousness of the situation, she didn't care about the juice she had only taken one sip of. After hanging up the call, she got up and ran outside. However, just as she got out.
Buzz~
Spiritual energy surged, vast spiritual energy churned.
Zhang Yunlu was startled. She looked up and saw streaks of crimson array patterns lighting up in the sky, enveloping the entire city.
The City Protection Array was activated!
Big Brother was telling the truth!
"Announcement!"
"A great Cultivator in the Returning Void Realm or above from before the Great Transformation Era has emerged from seclusion. It is currently uncertain if they are a demonic great Cultivator."
"To ensure the safety of all citizens, please immediately head to the nearest school or Immortal Sect outpost. Do not leave the range of the City Protection Array!"
"The Ancient Cultivator Response Department has dispatched the Returning Void Realm Cultivator Xiao Ning Zhenren, twelve Celestial Transformation Stage Cultivators, and seventy-two Nascent Soul Cultivators."
A familiar voice spread throughout the city, amplified by an artifact produced by Lingyin Workshop.
It was the Principal of Xuanjian City Third Middle School!
The person with the highest cultivation in Xuanjian City.
In an instant, everyone understood what had happened.
Some residents who had moved from Hengjian City felt an uncontrollable panic. As people who had experienced that event, they understood better than others how cruel the methods of demonic great Cultivators were.
Zhang Yunlu ran desperately towards the school, her figure leaving streaks of afterimages.
In the sky, under the great array, dense spiritual lights streaked across the horizon.
Among them was the owner of the beverage shop from earlier, who didn't even have time to close the shop door. With an ice-blue longsword under his feet, he instantly surpassed her.
Besides that, there were also middle-aged women holding cleavers and wearing aprons, people carrying brooms, sanitation workers in orange-yellow work uniforms, and even someone flying on a sword while putting on clothes, who knows what he was doing just now.
Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and even Nascent Soul Cultivators were present. Everyone quickly rushed towards the schools and the civilian outposts of the major Sects.
Just as Zhang Yunlu was about to reach the school, she saw a person standing in the middle of the road, looking up at the sky.
Without thinking much, she directly shouted, "Hey! Hurry back to school!"
The person turned around. He looked very young, seeming only a few years older than her.
"Okay."
He nodded and directly followed her.
At the school gate, the crowd was surging, mostly students in the Qi Training stage.
Zhang Yunlu squeezed through the crowd and successfully entered the school, finally letting out a sigh of relief.
"Hoo~"
The teachers' cultivations were not low. The three vice principals were Celestial Transformation Stage Cultivators, and the Principal was only one step away from becoming a Returning Void Realm Cultivator.
With the power of the City Protection Array, even if a Returning Void Realm old demon truly attacked, they could be blocked for a moment.
Oh right, there was also the person who just came in with her.
"I'm a student here. If you're not familiar with the place, I can..."
She turned her head.
Huh?
Where did he go?
......
At Xuanjian City Third Middle School, below a teaching building, Xu Xing walked and stopped, occasionally looking up at the sky.
Not a single person noticed him. Even if someone's gaze swept over him, it would pass right by, as if they couldn't see him at all.
"The commotion caused by emerging from seclusion this time is quite significant indeed."
When he heard the broadcast outside just now, he understood. The reason for such a grand display here was entirely because he had emerged from seclusion.
As for the specific reasons, he had roughly understood them through the scattered words he heard.
Speaking of which, how did this world become so... modernized?
Playgrounds, teaching buildings, students wearing uniform school uniforms, and teachers in suits and ties.
Heh, just by looking, you could tell there was a leader coming for an inspection.
Everything, both familiar and unfamiliar, seemed to overlap with distant memories. If it were just one instance, it would be fine, but so many familiar traces made Xu Xing suspect this was the work of a fellow Old friend who had transmigrated.
After all, there were already precedents, so a few more seemed plausible.
In any case, he should first go check out the library.
Passing through the playground, under the cover of his divine sense, he already knew the location of the library.
At the entrance of the library, a hunched, wrinkled, scrawny old man with only a few strands of hair lay on a lounge chair, looking relaxed and completely unaffected by the commotion outside.
Beneath his scrawny body was blood essence as scorching as the great sun. If fully released, its range would be enough to cover the entire Xuanjian City, and Cultivators in the Golden Core realm would be burned alive.
What a pity.
Xu Xing glanced at him and paid no further attention, walking directly inside.
There weren't many people inside. The first floor had rows of bookshelves filled with various miscellaneous books. Any student from here could enter.
The second floor was different; it required permission to enter. Inside, thousands of Jade Slips were neatly arranged, recording some basic Cultivation Techniques and Qi Training Spells.
The third floor contained Foundation Establishment level techniques and secret arts, numbering several hundred types.
The fourth floor only had a few dozen Jade Slips, which contained cultivation methods and divine abilities related to the Golden Core Stage.
As for the fifth and final floor, it contained only seven resplendent Jade Slips, surrounded by Dao charm. Engraved within them were the divine abilities of the Seven Great Immortal Sects, uncultivable by those below the Nascent Soul stage!
Seeing this, Xu Xing finally felt a bit surprised.
Leaving aside the fact that these non-transmitted divine abilities appeared in a school library.
"Seven Great Immortal Sects?"
Since ancient times, there had only been six great Immortal Sects. How did one suddenly appear?
Aside from the divine abilities of the six great Immortal Sects, the extra Divine Ability was named—"Hehuan Qi Gathering Yin-Yang Marvelous Technique"!
It was a Divine Ability of Hehuan Sect.
...
Hehuan Sect became a righteous Immortal Sect?!!!