Chapter 30: The Crisis at Xuanqing Palace (Part Two)

“Envoy Zhong, what brings you here?”
The chieftain of the mountain stronghold, startled upon recognizing the visitor’s face, instinctively voiced his question.
Standing before him, cloaked in shadows tinged with red, was none other than Envoy Zhong of the Blood Fiend Sect—the same middle-aged cultivator who, not long ago, had demanded the stronghold offer up three hundred cultivators.
“Why, am I not allowed to come?”
Envoy Zhong snorted coldly, his tone laced with displeasure. “If I hadn’t come, you worthless lot would still be struggling to breach this sect’s defensive formation.”
The several leaders of the stronghold exchanged awkward glances, their expressions betraying their embarrassment.
They were suffering in silence.
Ordinarily, they should have broken through the formation of the Xuanqing Palace long ago.
Who could have guessed that this sect, guarded by only a single cultivator at the Golden Core stage, would possess such an astonishing reserve of spirit stones? The barrier had withstood their assault throughout the night, never faltering.
“There are cultivators crossing the sea—such a significant matter, why didn’t you report it to our sect?”
“Why only inform the Immortal Alliance?”
Envoy Zhong’s face grew colder as he spoke.
“If I hadn’t planted spies in the Blood Fiend Sect, I would never have learned of this!”
Indeed, the rumor of Xuanqing Palace’s cultivators arriving by sea had been spread by the stronghold’s own people.
At the time, the third leader of the stronghold had proposed telling the Immortal Alliance, reasoning that it would draw their envoys, who would then force Xuanqing Palace’s Golden Core cultivator to serve as a patrol envoy.
Once the sect’s strongest cultivator was sent away, they could seize the opportunity to launch a surprise attack and abduct those within Xuanqing Palace.

Chapter Thirty of “Cultivation World in the Box”: The Crisis of Xuanqing Palace (Part II)
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