Chapter 29: Misunderstandings and Miscommunications

  A dense and vast forest, endless in all directions, with a river flowing through it like a jade belt.

  Xia Qishun went with the flow, and along the way, there were no more twists and turns. After three or four days, he finally saw a city, where monks gathered in large numbers, bustling with activity.

  This city was built in the midst of a continuous mountain range, and because there is a good spiritual vein under this mountain range, the spiritual energy is more concentrated than ordinary places, so many scattered cultivators gathered.

  It's precisely because of the gathering of scattered cultivators that this city has become prosperous, and in this region, it is considered a sacred place for cultivation among scattered cultivators. Of course, the power of scattered cultivators is weak, far inferior to that of sects, so the area occupied by scattered cultivators in this mountain range is only a small territory, while most areas are occupied by some sects.

  These sects are not as powerful as the three major sects and cannot monopolize a mountain range with rich spiritual energy, so many sects divide up a mountain range, and individual cultivators can also make a living.

  At this moment, Xia Qi is wandering around Linshui City and has come to the Xiu Xian realm for the first time. He is truly in contact with so many Xiu Xian practitioners, and his heart is full of curiosity.

  The city walls are high and grand, the streets are wide and spacious. Moreover, on both sides of the street, just like a terrestrial vegetable market, there are also monks setting up stalls, all of which are materials for refining instruments from the bodies of demonic beasts, as well as some spiritual herbs that have been picked, or some low-level cultivation techniques and treasures.

  All the way here, dazzling, it can be said that everything is available!

  Of course, a large city by the water is not all cultivators. On the contrary, most of them are ordinary people who are seeking to cultivate immortality and want to find a master, but they don't have good spiritual roots. There are also some descendants of low-ranking cultivators who do not have the talent for cultivation living here.

  Although he inherited the memories of his predecessor, and was not unfamiliar with all this, Xia Qi was still enthusiastic and tirelessly wandering around Linshui City.

  Of course, Xia Qi was not completely wandering around blindly, but rather listening to the conversations of some monks beside him.

  It's been a month since escaping from Flame Mountain. In this one month, the fake treasure site below Flame Mountain should have already yielded results and spread out. Xia Qi wanted to inquire about the outcome.

  After all, the San Xiao Sword Sect is extremely powerful and one of the three major sects in Qin State. If Jian Wuxie wants to send someone to capture him, Xia Qi will likely be in great danger in Qin State.

  In some trading places, Xia Qi heard many rumors about the treasure of Huoyan Mountain.

  Huoyan Mountain war, Jian Wuxie's line of people finally broke out, but also paid a heavy price, three yuan infant elders died, including the old woman who broke the array, and the remaining elders all returned with serious injuries!

  Of course, Huo Mo Palace also paid a certain price, twenty or thirty Jindan stage cultivators were killed, and a Yuanying stage elder was beheaded by Jian Wu Xie in his rage, the price was not low either.

  Moreover, with the breakthrough of San Xiao Jian Zong's group, Huo Yan Shan's Hong Mang burst into the sky, shocking all directions and attracting many sects. Although they didn't dare to get close, they still made some guesses, which were about 80 or 90% accurate.

  In this situation, Huo Mo Palace and San Xiao Sword Sect formed an alliance half a month later, jointly opening the treasure trove. Since Qing Dan Men, one of the three major sects in Qin State, did not appear, no one dared to provoke the alliance between Huo Mo Palace and San Xiao Sword Sect. The treasure land under Flame Mountain was finally opened by Huo Mo Palace and San Xiao Sword Sect together!

  On the day of the treasure's opening, many sects from the Flame Mountain Range came to watch, after all, it might be the treasure left behind by the Heavenly Dao Sect. Even if they couldn't get a share, just witnessing it would be good enough.

  However, many monks guessed the beginning but did not guess the end.

  Among the many cultivators' expectant faces, the Blazing Fire Array was broken through, but instead of the expected piles of spirit stones, omnipotent magical artifacts, and elixirs of immortality, what awaited the Fire Demon Palace and the Three Xuan Sword Sect was a palace filled with murderous intent!

  This underground palace, after causing countless deaths and injuries to foundation-building disciples of the Fire Demon Palace and the Three Clear Sword Sect, as well as severely injuring several Nascent Soul cultivators, was finally fully explored. To everyone's surprise, there was nothing valuable inside this palace!

  Such an ending, many sects naturally secretly called it a relief. The Huo Magic Palace and the San Xiao Sword Sect reportedly had a falling out afterwards, the alliance was dissolved, and the San Xiao Sword Sect left with a flick of its sleeve!

  A treasure hunt like a farce has come to an end.

  However, Xia Qi heard many rumors and was somewhat perplexed. On the day he escaped from Huoyan Mountain, he thought that Huomoyuan and Sansheng Sword Sect would not be able to confirm whether he was dead or not, but after all this time, Sansheng Sword Sect did not show any signs of pursuing him, which was really puzzling!

  To know that the master of the Three Swords Sect, Jian Wu Xie, is very clear in his heart, Xia Qi knows where the true treasure of the Tian Dao Sect is hidden, how can he easily let himself go?

  Just find an excuse to put a warrant out for yourself, who would have thought that no one would suspect and countless people would be willing to help capture Xia Qi. How could the Three Swords Sect possibly let Xia Qi go so easily?

  In fact, Xia Qixin was very puzzled about this matter, but for Jian Wuxie, it was a very obvious thing.

  At the beginning, when he was in San Xiao Jian Zong, Jian Wu Xie took Xia Qi as his apprentice and gave him a token that proved his identity. On this token, Jian Wu Xie had applied a secret technique, which allowed him to clearly sense Xia Qi's life or death and location even from tens of thousands of miles away!

  When he broke out of the Flame Mountain, Jian Wuxie still felt Xia Qi's breath in the distant mountains, but when he wanted to go find him, he found that Xia Qi's breath had disappeared. So Jian Wuxie was certain that Xia Qi was dead, and naturally there was no need for any manhunt or anything like that.

  Jian Wu Xie was very confident in himself, thinking that he had personally displayed his secret technique. Not to mention Xia Qi, who was originally just a fifth-level cultivator in the Qi Refining stage, even if it were another Yuan Ying stage cultivator, if they were to break through and sever their connection with Xia Qi, Jian Wu Xie would definitely discover it. Therefore, after Xia Qi's aura disappeared, Jian Wu Xie was certain that Xia Qi had died!

  In fact, the aura connecting Jian Wuxie and Xia Qi disappeared not because of Xia Qi's death, but because when Xia Qi first entered the internal space of the pearl in his dantian, he simply placed that token in the mysterious space!

  The pearl in the dantian was mysteriously abnormal, and when the token was put inside, it actually cut off the sword's evil aura from Xia Qi, which was why Xia Qi managed to escape this disaster. Otherwise, Xia Qi would have had to face countless pursuers by now.

  The beginning might be a bit dull, please bear with me for a little while longer, I'll try to speed up the plot progression later... and, by the way, would you mind giving me a collect and a flower?