Chapter 623: Blood Stained Stars
Inside Cloudy Sky City, Zhan Tu called out from a high point, gathering responses.
Below the stage, every cultivator's eyes burned with the flames of desire, as if the entire Chengtian World would soon be theirs.
"These guys are so heartless!"
"If we hadn't broken through Bright Clan's Sacred Mountain formation and defeated Bright Clan, would they have the right to shout here?"
"The dean had to close himself off in Gengtian World to recover after defeating Bright Clan's Divine Son, yet he ended up saving such a group of ingrates! It's outrageous! I really want to teach that new Holy Son of Beast Clan a lesson!"
In a tea house in Cloudy Sky City, Lin Ye, wearing a monkey mask, transmitted a message to Xiao Yan, his voice filled with anger.
He had stayed in Cloudy Sky City for three days and saw the Anti-Heaven League performing this scene every day.
If it weren't for the unclear situation, in his previous fiery temper, he would have long since been unable to suppress the rage of the Fire Spirit Body and gone up to beat up those spreading rumors.
"Don't be impulsive!"
"Right now, the situation in Six Realms is uncertain, and the dean doesn't know when he will emerge from seclusion. We're here in Cloudy Sky City to gather intelligence, so it's best not to stir up trouble."
Beside him, Xiao Yan, wearing a monk's mask, smiled charmingly, his eyes like stars, appearing more composed and unfathomable.
After the battle with Bright Clan, Xiao Yan's cultivation had reached the sixth grade of Imperial Realm, second only to Ye Fan among the younger generation of Lanyan Royal School, and tied with Chen Fan for second place.
This was merely his surface cultivation level.
Xiao Yan himself wasn't entirely sure how strong his actual combat power was.
However, he had once withstood a strike from a Divine Realm expert with all his might in a battle without being injured.
Such a feat was enough to show that he was already among the elite in the Imperial Realm.
Of course, Lin Ye, who was accompanying Xiao Yan on this mission, was also strong, having reached the fifth grade of Imperial Realm.
Combined with the Fire Spirit Body, his actual combat power could rival that of the peak of Imperial Realm, although the consumption of the Fire Spirit Body was too great to sustain for long.
Xiao Yan could complement this to some extent.
Lanyan Royal School sent Xiao Yan and Lin Ye to Cloudy Sky City also because both followed the path of flames, allowing them to support each other.
Most importantly, they got along quite well.
"Sigh!"
"If it weren't for Royal School wanting to understand what happened within Beast Clan, I really wouldn't want to deal with this annoyance!"
"These ingrates are more hypocritical and shameless than Bright Clan!"
Lin Ye raised his teacup, drank it in one go, then slammed it down heavily, startling the waiter who was about to refill the tea.
The waiter patted his chest, carefully refilled the tea, then quickly ran away.
The patrons in this tea house were not ordinary people, and he was just a waiter not worthy of provoking them.
Especially those wearing Journey to the West character masks, each had a strange temperament and were quite hard to deal with.
"I wonder what's going on lately; why are there so many people wearing Journey to the West masks in Cloudy Sky City? Could it be that these people have all watched Journey to the West?"
"Has our dean's Journey to the West become so widespread?"
Lin Ye looked around the tea house and noticed many others wearing the same Monkey King mask he had chosen after much deliberation, feeling somewhat awkward about the coincidence.
This mask had taken him a long time to select from Gu's Merchant House, and he hadn't expected to encounter so many similar masks in the Anti-Heaven League's stronghold.
Aren't these guys supposed to hate Lanyan Royal School and Jing Nation? Why do they still like to use things that come from Jing Nation?
Thinking this, Lin Ye poured himself another cup of tea and drank it like wine.
Xiao Yan looked at him and saw a reflection of his younger self, so he didn't say anything but instead observed the attire of those around him, lost in thought.
Now, various factions in Six Realms were devising different reasons to fight over the cake of benefits, secretly competing and stirring up hidden currents.
Yet the teachers in the academy chose to avoid confrontation, and Jing Nation's Great Chancellor Sima Qin directly sealed off the Earthly Realm's teleportation pathways, but he did not block trade with Star Picking Pavilion.
This seemed to be the dean's intention, and Xiao Yan hadn't understood the deeper meaning before.
Now, seeing items related to Jing Nation appearing in Cloudy Sky City, he seemed to grasp a bit of it.
Jing Nation was subtly influencing Six Realms, with products from Jing Nation's merchant houses, stories from Journey to the West, and grains produced by Gu's Grain Store... these things, once popular in the mortal realm, seemed to have appeared in the Immortal Realm's nine heavens, and were also very well-received.
This change wasn't very obvious among cultivators, but it was apparent among ordinary mortal kingdoms.
Especially the grains produced by Gu's Grain Store had circulated among many kingdoms in Six Realms, solving the problem of hunger for countless beings.
Even if Lanyan Royal School appeared to be on the verge of becoming the next Bright Clan in the eyes of cultivators, in the eyes of ordinary mortals, Jing Nation's prestige was on the rise day by day.
These changes made Xiao Yan deeply understand that the dean's past teachings in Royal School were never just empty words.
"Reduce Lanyan Royal School!"
A group of Anti-Heaven League cultivators passed by below the tea house, each one continuously shouting, and some even used secret techniques to spread their voices further.
Lin Ye saw this scene and was so angry that the Fire Spirit Body almost activated.
"These people are starting again!"
"Don't they need to cultivate?"
Seeing someone even unfurling a banner to smear Lanyan Royal School, Lin Ye truly wanted to take action.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Xiao Yan stopped him.
"Don't pay attention to these clowns."
"What Royal School is doing is benefiting the common people of Six Realms; it's not something their few words can erase."
"Right and wrong are in the hearts of the people; they can't last long."
Xiao Yan gazed out at the sunset, speaking quietly.
In the sunset, a tattered Lanyan Royal School flag still fluttered atop the walls of Cloudy Sky City.
...
Six Realms stirred with hidden currents, and the outside world was equally unsettled.
After Divine Son Arthur fled Six Realms, he immediately found the remnants of Bright Clan and the extraterritorial evil clan, bringing them to a gathering place of extraterritorial clans on a star.
Then, the slaughter began.
Arthur, leading the remnants of Bright Clan and the extraterritorial evil clan, unleashed ruthless killings on all extraterritorial clans on that star.
Stars stained with blood, resentment soared to the heavens!
Arthur absorbed the power of Destiny from the entire star, and refined a batch of Bloody Spirit Pills, restoring his divine body and regaining some strength.
His eyes flickered with a bloody light; to restore his strength, he had already begun taking Bloody Spirit Pills.
Since occupying the Xieyi evil body, Arthur had begun to study the secret techniques of the extraterritorial evil clan.
He could comprehend the dark rules so quickly because he practiced the secret techniques of the extraterritorial evil clan.
However, practicing the secret techniques of the extraterritorial evil clan was not without cost.