Chapter 315: Chapter 19: Nightfall Conspiracy

“Alright, then each of you go and pick a wooden building to settle down for now,” the middle-aged cultivator instructed.

The group nodded and immediately dispersed, each looking for a room.

Creak.

The wooden door was gradually pushed open, a sliver of sunlight spread through the crack, casting a thin line of light on the floor.

Then, a shadow elongated and shortened unevenly as it too walked in, drawn by the sunlight.

Lu Qingshan’s gaze swept across the spacious pavilion, which also had a small Spirit Gathering Array engraved inside, making the spiritual energy within extremely dense; it was clearly a small cultivation paradise.

King West Mouse had already blissfully groaned, springing out from Lu Qingshan’s sleeve.

It liked this place!

Such small cultivation paradises would number in the hundreds of thousands within Debate Dao City!

This was the handiwork of the Seven Taoist Sects and Great Xia.

….

Night, with Mingyue hanging high, the pallid moonlight poured down from the sky, enveloping the vast Debate Dao City in Yue Hua.

Within the wooden building, Lu Qingshan sat cross-legged at the center of the Spirit Gathering Array, his hands forming a Taoist Treasury cultivation seal, strands of spiritual energy visible to the naked eye drifted from all around, incessantly entering his body…

Next to him sat a grey, odd demon mouse, its legs crossed, its chest rhythmically rising and falling gently.

Streams of spiritual power, much denser than what Lu Qingshan was receiving, continuously flowed into its body.

Its small body, like a bottomless pit, swallowed that dense spiritual energy without showing the slightest reaction.

The cultivation lasted for about half an hour, and Lu Qingshan’s eyes, which had been tightly closed, slightly opened.

“I’ve recovered to my best state,” Lu Qingshan muttered softly, his dark eyes shimmering with a soft, warm jade-like luster, quite attractive.

All around, the continuous wooden buildings, unknown how many cultivators were within, but at this moment, it was completely silent as though everyone was seizing the last night before the retest.

And under the night sky, quietness was the main melody, but conspiracy and the intent to kill were also major themes.

Within an odd high tower, a shadow quickly walked out.

After leaving the high tower, the shadow first looked around, ensuring no one else was present, then quickly picked a direction and vanished.

Moments later, in front of the seemingly empty high tower, two faint shadows gradually became clearer, emerging.

“Pavilion Master, as you predicted, stirring up the Human Race, the grand Seven Domains Debate Dao competition has indeed alarmed the vermin from the Netherworld,” a cultivator in a black robe muttered.

“The Seven Domains Debate Dao is a grand event for our Human Race, Millennium, but for the Netherworld and the Demon Race, it is a disaster, they must be planning to sabotage this Debate Dao,” the cultivator known as Pavilion Master said softly, “But, the Soul Locking Tower is a supremely important place, that he managed to participate and walk out unnoticed, his skills are indeed clever…”

Moonlight shone on his face, revealing the face of the new Pavilion Master of the Taoist Sect’s Heavenly Secrets Pavilion!

The black-robed cultivator nodded, his tone chilling, “He secretly changed the Illusion Arrays of the ninth and nineteenth levels to Killing Arrays, intending to use them to kill the cultivators participating in the Seven Domains Debate Dao.

If he succeeds, not only will numerous talented cultivators die, but this mishap will also make it difficult for us to continue organizing the Seven Domains Debate Dao.

A grand event meant to select the Human Race’s talents would turn into a farce, Great Xia and the Seven Taoist Sects would lose face from this, and their morale could greatly increase!

One stone hits three birds, the Netherworld, truly a pinpoint move indeed!”

“The tactics of the Underworld Cultivators have always been so ruthlessly cunning, which is not surprising.” The Pavilion Master was very composed as he assessed the situation.

“I hope that this time, with the Pavilion Master and I taking action personally, we may be able to uncover some of the people behind him,” the black-robed cultivator said in a deep voice. “However, why is this Underworld Cultivator so familiar with the Soul Locking Tower?

He actually knows all the monitoring mechanisms and secret passages of the Soul Locking Tower and could silently alter the formation without alerting anyone?”

“King Qing Mei, do you not know, or do you not wish to believe?” The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master quietly gazed at the black-robed cultivator with his profound eyes.

After a long silence, the black-robed cultivator called King Qing Mei finally spoke slowly, his voice hoarse, “But… why? As pillars of the Human Race, why would they betray their own kind?”

Only the seven great Taoist Sects and the top echelons of Great Xia, the so-called mighty cultivators, pillars of the Human Race, had access to the Soul Locking Tower.

The only reason the Underworld Cultivator could master such a secret place as the Soul Locking Tower was obvious.

Among this group of people, there had to be someone from the Netherworld!

Similarly, the fact that the Netherworld could infiltrate the Human Race for twenty thousand years and continually grow stronger implied that there must be a significant Human Race force behind them, providing cover and support.

This was a consensus in their eyes.

Yet, they had always been unable to identify exactly who the traitor was.

Now, capitalizing on the occasion of the Seven Domains Debate Dao, they knew the Netherworld would not remain indifferent. The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master and King Qing Mei of Great Xia decided to take matter into their own hands, to lie in wait.

After finding the Underworld Cultivator who tampered with the mechanism, they would then use this to trace the clues of the Human Race traitor, determined to expose even a slight trace of this deeply hidden traitor.

To ensure the utmost secrecy of their operation and prevent the plan from leaking to the Netherworld.

They did not disclose this matter to a third party, and even the other six Taoist Sects were completely unaware of it!

“I’ve already branded him with the Xuantian Spiritual Record; he can’t escape,” the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Master stated, looking at the disappearing shadow, “Now, let’s deal with the matter of those two killing formations.”

“Understood,” King Qing Mei responded.

This time, the Seven Domains Debate Dao was held in high regard by the Supreme, and no mistakes were allowed!

….

Dang! Dang! Dang!

As the sound of the bell rang out, reverberating throughout Debate Dao City, all the cultivators opened their eyes and flew out from the wooden buildings.

They saw bursts of multicolored lights suddenly appearing in the sky above Debate Dao City.

This rich radiance spread in all directions, almost enveloping the entire sky, and within the light, a towering spire came into view.

By then, cultivators from Great Xia were already waiting outside.

“Cultivators from Qing State, follow me,” a cultivator wearing a black uniform emblazoned with a five-claw insignia shouted as he hovered in front of Lu Qingshan and the others, then turned into a streak of Radiance, leading everyone to the secondary examination site.

Debate Dao City was vast, and although the secondary examination site was still within the city, it took them an hour to get there.

When the leading cultivator slowed down, all the competing cultivators immediately turned their attention to the secondary examination site ahead, and many of them hesitated slightly at the sight.

A light curtain separated two worlds.

Outside was the bustling Debate Dao City, but within the light curtain, the sky was a gloomy gray with seven vast and majestic mountains, and at the center of the seven mountains, there stood a bronze tower shimmering with multicolored precious light!

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