#121 - Are you jealous that we are more handsome than you?
They traveled south, venturing a thousand miles.
“Keqing, have you noticed anything unusual about our journey so far?”
Jun Wuxie took a deep breath, the air here was exceptionally unique.
In fact, this phenomenon had been present ever since they left the mountain with the runic towers.
“Are you referring to the fire element?” Qin Keqing said, “Throughout our journey, we seem to sense a residual fire-element-like aura in the air…”
“Indeed, similar to the fire element, but not purely the fire element…” Jun Wuxie pondered for a moment, his eyes gradually becoming fervent, and said, “Could it be the Fiery Sun Flower?”
“Are you suggesting that the Fiery Sun Flower fled south and our route almost perfectly coincides with its path?”
“Yes.” Jun Wuxie nodded, saying, “Let’s continue deeper; perhaps we might actually see the Fiery Sun Flower. However, I wonder if the Fiery Sun Flower has already fallen into Senior Ziyi’s hands by then. If she obtains it, that would save us some trouble.”
“What if we encounter Xiao Tianming again?” Qin Keqing asked with some worry, “You no longer have the Qi Burst Pill. If you meet Xiao Tianming, it will be difficult to contend with him!”
“This secret realm isn't just limited to me and Xiao Tianming. Senior Ziyi is also a threat to him. Xiao Tianming doesn't know if I still have the Qi Burst Pill. He suffered a loss before and won't easily take the risk. After all, his purpose in coming to this Southern Mountain Secret Realm isn't to have a life-or-death battle with me.”
Qin Keqing heard this, thought about it carefully, and indeed, it was so.
They continued forward.
The next day, the mysterious woman sensed a more precise location of the Phoenix Divine Gold.
Jun Wuxie adjusted their direction and continued forward for another half-day.
Arriving here, it seemed they were about to reach the deepest part of the southern region of this secret realm.
The spiritual energy here was extremely abundant, much denser than other places.
They saw several runic towers, but the barriers around the runic towers had dissipated.
Clearly, the items inside had already been taken.
The deeper they went, the more frequently the runic towers appeared.
Crossing the plains, a continuous mountain range appeared at the end of their vision.
Before reaching the mountain range, at the entrance, they saw signs of fire.
Among the dense vegetation, there was an ash-like trail extending into the interior of the mountain range.
“This could be left behind by the Fiery Sun Flower!”
He and Qin Keqing exchanged glances, both having the same speculation.
The entrance to the mountain range was a long canyon.
At the end of the canyon, the view suddenly widened.
The scenery inside was beautiful, with strange peaks and ridges, extremely steep, the mountain peaks standing like war spears, reaching down to the misty abyss and up to the vast sea of clouds.
Inside, they were surrounded by tall mountains on all sides.
In the middle was a bottomless abyss, filled with clouds and mist.
At the very center of the abyss was a massive palace.
The palace was built on a mountain peak that had been sheared off.
The mountain rose from the bottom of the abyss.
In front of the palace, people were standing everywhere, young martial artists, middle-aged martial artists, and old martial artists.
Everyone's energy was particularly full, their eyes sharp.
At a glance, it was clear that they were all experts.
“How can there be so many people?”
Jun Wuxie roughly counted, and there were actually two to three hundred martial artists gathered in front of the palace.
Most of these people were those he had never seen before.
He didn't see some of the young martial artists when he was in the border area of the secret realm, not to mention the middle-aged and elderly martial artists.
Qin Keqing said, “They must have entered after us. Clearly, they have more information about this secret realm and came straight here after entering.”
“It seems that this is the secret realm owner’s palace. He must have lived here before.” Jun Wuxie thought slightly, and said, “But along the way, we clearly saw the traces left by the Fiery Sun Flower, but here it suddenly disappeared. Could it be that the Fiery Sun Flower entered that palace?”
His heart was now filled with doubts.
If the Fiery Sun Flower really entered that palace, then where are Xiao Tianming and the woman in purple who were pursuing the Fiery Sun Flower?
Could it be that they followed it into the palace?
But if that's the case, it means that the palace should be in an open state. Why are so many people gathered in front of the palace, seemingly waiting for the palace to open?
Thinking of this, he observed the surroundings carefully.
Confirming that there was no trace of the Fiery Sun Flower appearing around.
“It seems that the most likely place for the Fiery Sun Flower to be is that palace!”
He combined all the clues and information and came to this conclusion.
There were no signs of fighting here, so it ruled out the possibility that the woman in purple or Xiao Tianming had already obtained the Fiery Sun Flower.
“Let’s go, let’s go over there too.”
Jun Wuxie didn't think much more and immediately crossed the abyss, flying through the air towards the severed mountain where the palace was located.
Sensing someone approaching, the people gathered in front of the palace immediately turned around.
“Jun Wuxie!”
Several young martial artists' pupils suddenly constricted, their expressions solemn.
“He is Jun Wuxie?”
Everyone seemed to have heard this name before, and their eyes flashed with coldness upon hearing it.
In an instant.
Jun Wuxie felt that he and Qin Keqing had become the adversarial targets of everyone here!
“What are you looking at? Haven’t you seen such a divinely handsome young man like me?”
Jun Wuxie made a very high-profile entrance, looking down upon everyone.
“Get out of the way, don’t block the road.”
Several martial artists were standing in the middle of the road, and he directly reached out and pushed them aside.
The muscles on everyone's faces twitched, with an urge to go up and slap him.
But no one acted, just looked at him coldly.
“What do you mean?” Jun Wuxie walked to the front of the palace, looked at the tightly closed door, turned around and faced the crowd staring at him, and said, “Are you jealous that I’m better looking than you?”
Qin Keqing chuckled.
Too funny.
She didn't expect that Jun Wuxie, who usually looked calm and collected, would have such a mischievous side.
Everyone's eyes were on him.
He noticed that the people present seemed to be divided into more than a dozen groups, each group having between ten and twenty people.
These groups included the Great River Sword Sect, the Wind and Cloud Sect, and other sects he didn't know.
Among them, what caught his attention the most was the leading elder in each group, and a certain young martial artist with particularly sharp eyes next to him.
Obviously, the elders were the higher-ups of these sects, and the young martial artists next to the elders should be outstanding true disciples sent by them, who must be genius-level disciples ranked in the top three among the true disciples, or even quasi-king level!
Among these groups, there was one group that was the most special.
They stood in the central position of the crowd, giving people the impression that the other sect groups were acting as foils for their group.
This group happened to have only ten people.
The leader was a man in his sixties, with two middle-aged men standing beside him, and a young martial artist with a deep gaze and arrogance between his eyebrows.
They wore the same clothing, with a sword holding up a mountain embroidered on the sleeves.
The Mountain-Uplifting Sword Sect?
Jun Wuxie's pupils constricted slightly.
If he guessed correctly, they should be people from the Mountain-Uplifting Sword Sect, a high-level force to which the Great River Sword Sect had pledged allegiance!
“You are Jun Wuxie?”
From the Mountain-Uplifting Sword Sect, a young martial artist walked out from beside that arrogant youth.
He sized up Jun Wuxie slightly and said lightly, “Speaking of which, your Sect Master Academy was once a subordinate sect of my Mountain-Uplifting Sword Sect, but it later declined and was removed from the subordinate list by my Mountain-Uplifting Sword Sect, but my Mountain-Uplifting Sword Sect still has jurisdiction over your Sect Master Academy.”
Jun Wuxie heard this, the corners of his mouth slightly raised in an arc, and said, “So, what do you want to say?”
The young martial artist's face sank, and he said, “What I want to say is that no matter what kind of grievances your Sect Master Academy has with the Great River Sword Sect, you should not be opposed to each other in this secret realm. Well, only you from your Sect Master Academy have come here, and it will be difficult to achieve anything in this secret realm. From now on, you must cooperate with the people from the Great River Sword Sect, and all actions must absolutely obey the command and arrangements of the Great River Sword Sect disciples!”
Jun Wuxie almost laughed out loud.
This guy, a Mountain-Uplifting Sword Sect disciple, wanted him to obey the Great River Sword Sect disciples as soon as he opened his mouth. Did his head get caught in a door?
At this time, the people present were all looking at Jun Wuxie with schadenfreude.
They had already heard about Jun Wuxie's battle with Xiao Tianming and were particularly wary of him.
Now that someone from the Mountain-Uplifting Sword Sect had come out to suppress him, it was naturally a good thing.
The higher-ups, true disciples, and core disciples of the Great River Sword Sect all had cold smiles on their faces, acting superior.
The Mountain-Uplifting Sword Sect had spoken, dare Jun Wuxie not listen?
Did the Sect Master Academy dare to offend the Mountain-Uplifting Sword Sect?
Boy, let's see how we deal with you!
The true disciples of the Great River Sword Sect sneered inwardly.
