Chapter 997
Chapter 997 I’m Not Discussing with You
Half an hour later.
“It turns out that so many things have happened.” Fang Tianyi calmed down a bit after hearing the middle-aged intellectual’s explanation.
When the Heaven-Splitting Swordsmanship Sect invaded the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect, he left by chance. He didn’t know about the many things that happened later. Originally, he worried that the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect would be in danger of being annihilated by the Heaven-Splitting Swordsmanship Sect. He didn’t expect that the situation would be reversed like that.
“Senior Brother Ding indeed deserves his name and reputation!
“He wiped out the Heaven-Splitting Swordsmanship Sect at one go and moved the entire Swordsmanship-seeking Sect to the Immortal Land.”
Fang Tianyi’s lips curled into a faint smile. He remembered those simple but happy days when he practiced martial arts together with his junior and senior brothers, who were now nowhere to be found. He wondered where the legendary Immortal Land was.
He wanted to find Ding Hao and others, but for a moment, he didn’t know how to do that.
“No matter what will happen, I just can’t let the gate of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect go to waste like this. When Senior Brother Ding and the others left here, they said that they would surely come back someday. I’d better stay and wait for them right here.” An idea came to Fang Tianyi’s mind. Back then, the River Palace and other major sects joined forces and drove the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect into a corner. He decided to never let them get away with it.
“The people of the River Palace have been on guard at the gate of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect. I don’t think they’ve given up their scheme. Do they really think there is no one left in the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect?”
At the thought of that, Fang Tianyi unleashed his divine senses, which spread out like tidal waves.
All areas behind the gate of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect were covered by his divine senses.
He slowly turned around and walked toward the core area of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect’s base.
The middle-aged intellectual with a gloomy face didn’t dare to move at all. He watched Fang Tianyi disappear in the distance. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. “I have to report what’s happened here as soon as I can so that the masters of the River Palace will come to solve the problem. This young man asked about the whereabouts of Ding Hao and others. That means he doesn’t know where they are. I didn’t expect that the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect would have such a formidable master of martial arts. He’s a headache for us, so we have to get ready beforehand.”
At the thought of that, he leaped up and soared into the sky like a stream of light.
Right at that moment...
Swoosh!
A beam of bright sword light suddenly came from the distance.
The middle-aged intellectual was shocked. He had no time to dodge. The beam of sword light hit him and blew him up into wisps of blood mist.
Fang Tianyi came to the core area of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect’s base.
He looked at the tattered buildings and the corners with cobwebs. Under the control of his mind, the power of his Qi whistled like a gale, blowing away all the yellow leaves and dust on the ground and all the cobwebs in corners. Droplets of rain fell from the sky, washing away the dust covering the entire base of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect...
“Everyone, listen up. Get out of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect’s base within ten breaths’ time.”
Fang Tianyi gave an ultimatum.
His voice was not very loud, but it sounded like rumbling thunder, spreading in all directions and echoing across the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect’s base. It reached some people’s ears and hit their eardrums like the hammering sound of a big bell, shaking their souls and making them dizzy.
“Who is it?”
“This kind of power...”
“Have Ding Hao and others come back?”
The people in secluded cultivation inside some buildings at the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect’s base were shocked. They felt the terrifying force that swept across the entire base, and none of them dared to neglect it.
They were all masters from across the Land of Infinity. They had come to the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect’s base to practice martial arts in seclusion because the mountain behind the base was constantly overflowing with purple Dragon Qi and Spiritual Qi. As a matter of fact, they occupied a place that did not belong to them. They believed that since the people of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect had abandoned this base, it was just an empty place.
As time went by, many people made this place their own.
Therefore, Fang Tianyi’s sudden appearance shocked them.
Soon, several hundred figures appeared in the sky above the base and looked in the direction of the voice in shock.
“Who are you?” someone asked in a loud voice.
Fang Tianyi looked up at those people in the sky. In the past, he needed to worship powerful masters like them, and he was not able to contend against them at all. Any one of them was a formidable enemy powerful enough to pose a big threat to the whole Swordsmanship-seeking Sect.
Now, however...
“This is not the place for you to cultivate. Leave the place as soon as possible.” Fang Tianyi didn’t have much hostility toward those people. He said, “I am a disciple of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect. From now on, only disciples of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect will be allowed to enter this base.”
“A disciple of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect?”
Many people were a little suspicious and confused. “Is Ding Hao back?”
“This young man doesn’t seem to be Ding Hao. Although he is also wearing a teal robe, his face looks different. Back then, Ding Hao was highly reputable in the Northern Region. Many people have seen Ding Hao and know what he looks like. When he promoted martial arts across the world, many middle and lower-level forces and martial arts practitioners worshiped him. He was completely different from the young man in front of me.”
“We are just practicing martial arts here, and we haven’t destroyed any building of this base,” a hook-nosed old man in a black robe said. “We would certainly leave this place if all the people of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect had come back here, but you’re the only one that has returned. How can you occupy such a big place alone? Why do you have to drive us away?”
“That’s right. You’ve just said you are a disciple of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect. Show us the evidence,” a middle-aged man with a long beard said suspiciously.
Fang Tianyi looked up at the sky.
Two beams of light shot out of his eyes and ripped through the air.
The two people, who spoke to him just now, suddenly felt two indescribable strong bursts of sword Qi coming at them, and the looks on their faces changed drastically. Before they could react, they were seriously injured and sent flying by the two beams of light. Blood spurted out of their mouths.
The others gasped in shock.
“Good heavens! He’s so terrifyingly powerful! In the twinkling of an eye, he’s made two masters in the Sage Realm get seriously injured and spit out blood ... He’s really... terrifying.”
“It seems that you haven’t figured out what’s going on here. I am not discussing it with you! I’m giving you an order,” Fang Tianyi said lightly. “Should you refuse to leave, you’re going to die.”
“Let’s get out of here!” The hook-nosed old man immediately turned around to leave. His face was ashen.
He was scared to the bone. “This young man is probably in the God Realm already. He can crush me as easily as killing an ant if he wants. I can’t stay here to die.”
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
In an instant, the masters from various sects hovering in the sky all left.
They did not come here to die. They just came here to practice martial arts. In the face of the young man in a high realm, they had to leave as soon as possible. Many people had a vague feeling that the base of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect, which had been peaceful for several years, would become a troubled place and stir up a massive vortex in the entire Snow Province and even the Northern Region.
Fang Tianyi stood there, quietly watching those people leave.
In an instant, the large base became empty. There was nobody but him.
For a moment, he didn’t know what to do next.
He had gone through so many hardships on his way back here. At first, he thought he would finally reunite with his relatives and old friends, but it turned out that all of them had left this place. He felt like he was all alone in the world.
After standing there quietly for half a day, he came to the living area for nominal disciples.
He finally returned to the small courtyard where he used to practice as a trainee of the Eastern Academy of green shirts, and the small house and stone bed that felt so familiar to him. He lay down on the bed and closed his eyes to get some sleep.
Given his current cultivation level, even if he didn’t sleep in a year, it still wouldn’t do any harm to him.
Somehow, he soon fell asleep.
While he was asleep, his knitted brows finally smoothed out, and a happy smile crept over his face.
This was the soundest sleep he had ever had over the years.
When he opened his eyes, it was already the morning of the next day.
As he usually did in the past, he stepped into the courtyard, lifted a bucket of cold water from the well, washed like a nominal disciple, came to the former martial arts practice field, and started practicing in the morning sun.
After finishing his daily routines, he began to repair the inscription tactical deployment on the gate.
He was not a top inscriptionist, but with his current power and realm, it was not difficult for him to repair the tactical deployment on the gate. He started repairing from the edge of the gate, adjusted the climate and temperature around the gate, and strengthened some defensive measures...
After getting these jobs done, he began to trim trees and remove weeds.
When doing those chores, he didn’t use his power as a master in the God Realm. Instead, he did these jobs bit by bit as an ordinary person did. He had to find something to do while waiting for Ding Hao and others to come back here. Otherwise, he had no idea whether he would have already gone crazy when they came back from the Immortal Land.
At the same time...
A piece of news was wildly spreading across the Snow Province–
Someone of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect had come back from the Immortal Land.
The Swordsmanship-seeking Sect had returned to the Snow Province.
The news was spread by those masters who had fled out of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect’s base in panic. It caused an uproar in the Snow Province, which had been quiet for several years. After that, it spread wildly like a plague to other regions around the Snow Province.
There used to be nine major sects dominating the Snow Province, but the situation changed a long time ago.
Many forces had gathered around the Mirror Lake.
The Snow Province was originally the most remote and isolated place in the Northern Region, but it had become very prosperous because of the chaos stirred up by the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect and the activation of purple concentrated ore and Dragon Qi. Numerous sects and forces with considerable reputations in the Northern Region had set up branches in the Snow Province.
They were shocked to hear the news.
“Ha-ha, the people of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect have finally shown up. Those bastards can’t hide anymore, can they?” An elder of the River Palace sneered, but he felt uneasy at the same time.
“The mystery is about to be revealed. Have the people of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect really gone to the Immortal Land?”
“It’s going to be quite a scene.” Dao Qingcheng, the Sect Master of Chopping Sun City, was excited.
“I’ve waited for so many years. This day is finally coming. Is the greatest power in the Snow Province staging a comeback?”
The local powers in the Snow Province had been greatly suppressed these years, and the former nine major sects had basically failed to live up to their names. Under the pressure of foreign powers, they could barely survive. The alliance of the Swordsmanship-seeking Sect, which once had a high reputation, had been annihilated for a long time. If it hadn’t been for the fact that foreign powers didn’t dare to go too far under the pressure from the Holy Palace of Mysterious Frost in the Northern Region, sects like Chopping Sun City, Bright Mind Sect, and Zero Thought Sect would probably have been eliminated.