Chapter 732: Chapter 697: The Immortal Alliance’s Concealed Intentions
Huang Fusong tightly clung to the Mirror of Celestial Measurement, looking like he saw a ghost, his eyes filled with disbelief.
And the usually cheerful Dong Fangyao, after his spirit consciousness connected to the Mirror of Celestial Measurement, saw the over thirty thousand hard-earned Qingxuan Points that they risked their lives for instantly reduced to zero, and his eyes turned red.
“Huangfu! Is your thing reliable? How did it swallow all our merits?” His neck veins bulged, and his face twisted with anger.
Compared to them, Li Fan was much calmer.
After checking, during the time when the Mirror of Celestial Measurement was disconnected from the Mystic Sky Realm, the numerous Qingxuan Points they had earned from exploring the Life and Death Mysterious Area had indeed turned to nothing.
“It happened after we exited the Mysterious Area and connected to the Tianxuan Mirror…” Li Fan mused and conjured the PuXian True Vessel, bringing Huangfu and Dong Fang, who were exposed to the Element Devouring White Fog, into the cabin.
“Calm down, brothers. It’s a blessing that we survived. If we lost the Qingxuan Points, we can earn them back.” Standing at the bow of the PuXian True Vessel, Li Fan comforted the two people while gazing into the white mist not too far away.
There, within the thick white color, somewhere out of sight, seemed to be subtly transforming.
“No, we can’t let it go . Either the Tianxuan Mirror made some mistake, or our merits were swallowed by someone. I must get an explanation!” Huang Fusong gritted his teeth.
“Damn it, if anyone dares to mess with me, whoever stole our Qingxuan Points…” Flames of rage burned in Dong Fangyao’s eyes. His chest heaved with anger, clearly furious to the extreme.
Seeing this, Li Fan stopped trying to console them.
After this incident, none of them had the mood to continue exploring. Also, given that a considerable amount of their provisions had already been consumed, it was not wise to launch another exploration. They hurried back to Tianyu City.
“Wait for my news, brothers. I’ll go see the headmaster immediately.” Right after they returned to the city, Huang Fusong hurriedly left to find Ji Hongdao.
Dong Fangyao struggled to suppress his anger. Even when he was in the Debating Tower Private Room, he didn’t sit down. Instead, he paced back and forth, stretching his body amidst a cacophony of bone pops.
Li Fan didn’t say much. He ordered a cup of Spirit Tea and closed his eyes to wait after drinking it.
Half a day later, Huang Fusong walked in, looking like a lost soul.
He dropped onto the floor, his eyes lifeless.
“Huangfu, what’s the explanation?” Dong Fangyao noticed something wrong, but he couldn’t help asking.
“It’s… it’s gone…” Huang Fusong muttered under his breath.
“What’s gone! Speak clearly! This is really frustrating!” Dong Fangyao shouted.
“Headmaster Ji said… the Life and Death Mysterious Area we reported…” Dong Fangyao’s shout seemed to restore some sense into Huang Fusong, who stuttered, “there’s no such place.”
Dong Fangyao was initially startled but then flew into a rage: “This is broad daylight! How dare they talk nonsense? We experienced it ourselves, and we also have that broken mirror to prove it…”
“That’s what I told Headmaster Ji too. But…” Huang Fusong turned very pale.
“He took me for another trip to the Life and Death Mysterious Area. But once we got there, according to my memory, the Life and Death Mysterious Area was gone.”
“What?” Dong Fangyao was stunned.
“Only element-devouring white fog, and the Reversal of Life and Death Array, Death Silence, Sea of Vitality… seemed like illusions we experienced…” Huang Fusong spoke with a trace of confusion in his eyes.
“Did we really experience everything? Or were we affected by a mysterious entity in the white fog and duped into an illusion?” He seemed unable to distinguish it.
Dong Fangyao opened his mouth, wanting to say a lot. But eventually, he sank down next to Huang Fusong, grabbed a cup of Spirit Tea, and gulped it down with a gloomy expression.
“Illusion? Hmph…” The Huadao Stone in Li Fan’s spirit consciousness emitted a radiant blue light, creating an image of the Reversal of Life and Death Array.
“What kind of illusion can create such an Array?”
Li Fan was very sure that the experience he and his companions had in the Life and Death Mysterious Area was entirely real.
However, the officials of Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance denied the existence of such a place for some reason.
Li Fan realized that the higher-ups of the Immortal Alliance, or perhaps the Tianxuan Mirror, knew the real identity of the Reversal of Life and Death Master. And it seemed to have a significant connection to the great being. Since it didn’t wish to manifest to the world, the Immortal Alliance chose to cover its tracks.
When they left the Life and Death Mysterious Area, and the Mirror of Celestial Measurement connected to the Tianxuan Mirror, he felt subtle fluctuations emanating from where the Mysterious Area was.
That should be the moment when the Mysterious Area was shifted elsewhere.
Although they lost over thirty thousand Qingxuan points, Li fan didn’t look dispirited like Huangfu and Dongfang.
“If I am not mistaken, the compensation from the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance is on its way.”
“After all, they would want to downplay the matter. Otherwise, if Huangfu and Dongfang cannot hold back their anger and start discussing it with others, things could get difficult to control.”
After understanding the situation, Li Fan contentedly took a sip of his Spirit Tea, calmly waiting for someone to arrive.
Sure enough, after half a day, there was a knock at the door of the room.
“Who is it?” Huangfu and Dongfang’s eyes flashed with caution.
Before they could react, the door had already opened. A black-clothed cultivator with indiscernible features stood in front of the three.
“Yo…” Dong Fangyao suddenly changed in color, his muscles tensed as he prepared for battle.
But he was struck with a sudden realization and was forced to stop.
Because Dong Fangyao saw the Mirror of Celestial Measurement automatically fly out from Huangfu’s embrace to the black-clothed cultivator.
The black-clothed cultivator pointed at the Mirror of Celestial Measurement and coldly said, “The map of the areas already explored within the White Mist Barrier is in here.”
“If you want to explore more efficiently, you can go to the blank areas.”
“Remember, don’t talk about things you shouldn’t. Otherwise, no one can protect you.”
He snapped his fingers, and a ball of light flew to Huangfu’s side.
Then, the black-clothed cultivator gradually began to distort and slowly disappeared into the air.
Huangfu and Dongfang looked at the light ball in front of them. After a long while, they seemed to understand something.
A cold sweat dripped from their foreheads, and their bodies were trembling.
It took them a long while to recover their senses.
The two looked at each other, tacitly refraining from mentioning the matter.
Huangfu checked the light ball with his spirit consciousness, and a trace of joy appeared on his pale face: “[Talisman of Exemption and Relief]!”
He said, and took out three seven-colored talismans from it.