Chapter 613: Immortal Realm City Management

Under the impulse, many people would do things without careful thinking.

Ao Shuang was such a person. He thought this could kill Shui Miao, but he had miscalculated the situation.

Ao Shuang had just entered the Immortal Realm not long ago when he encountered an elder of the Three Purity Sect named Xingjue.

Elder Xingjue possessed profound magical powers and was known for his treachery and cunning schemes, being the most sophisticated strategist within the Three Purity Sect.

Since the second largest sect, Kunlun Sect, was bombed, Kunlun Sect’s strength had greatly declined, leading to a drastic downfall and leaving the Three Purity Sect as the dominant power. Now, the Three Purity Sect had colluded with the Immortal Emperor Kunpeng. They actively recruited elites, expanded their sect’s influence, and were almost completely controlling all sects in the Ninth Heaven.

Elder Xingjue blocked Ao Shuang’s path, while sensing the aura on Ao Shuang, he fiercely said, “Young man, the Ninth Heaven is now under the Three Purity Sect’s control. How dare you spread rumors and cause trouble here? What is your true intention? Are you trying to disrupt the stability of the Ninth Heaven? Do you want to die?”

“Senior, you misunderstood me. What I said is all true, not a single lie! Shui Miao stole the Nuwa Stone from our Dragon Clan and now wants to exterminate us. I risked my life to expose the truth to the world! If you don’t believe me, I can prove it to you. My blood contains the aura of the Nuwa Stone.” Ao Shuang could also tell that this old man seemed very powerful.

“So it’s the Nuwa Stone’s aura…”

Elder Xingjue’s heart suddenly trembled, his eyes darting around as he quickly said, “Young man, we, the Three Purity Sect, can avenge this for you, but first you must come with us to capture people. Such information must not be allowed to spread. Right now, you must come with me to capture all the immortals who just learned this information from you.”

Elder Xingjue wanted to suppress the news and monopolize the information for the Three Purity Sect.

But Ao Shuang’s goal was to let all the immortals in the world know, to make everyone oppose Shui Miao.

“This… Senior, this matter seems a bit difficult. I’ve already told many people this information, and they’ve scattered everywhere. I don’t know where they’ve gone…”

Ao Shuang deliberately delayed, stalling for time.

“Stop talking nonsense. I’ll protect you first.”

Suddenly, Xingjue took out a green spherical object and directly sealed Ao Shuang inside.

Xingjue had no good intentions at all. Saying he would protect Ao Shuang was actually a way to imprison him.

After entering the artifact, Ao Shuang saw that it was actually a prison inside, and immediately panicked and shouted, “Senior, what are you doing? I don’t need your protection. You should go deal with that Shui Miao first!”

“Hehe, you stinky kid, just stay quietly inside. Don’t worry about dealing with Shui Miao. This information is very important, how could I let other sects know? Let me first capture all those who learned the news first,” Xingjue coldly replied, then took out a star mirror, reversed the flow of time, and began chasing those who had learned the news.

Ao Shuang gradually calmed down, extremely frightened, not expecting things to turn out this way.

He concocted many more lies, saying he wanted to help Xingjue capture people.

The more earnest and anxious he sounded, the less Xingjue believed him, seeing right through Ao Shuang’s real intention to escape.

Annoyed by Ao Shuang’s pleas, Xingjue impatiently responded, “Kid, just behave yourself. Even if we don’t go after Shui Miao, capturing you is more than enough. The Nuwa Stone aura on you is a treasure, don’t you know that yourself? Hehe, since you’ve walked right into my trap, just accept your fate and behave yourself. If you keep whining like this, don’t blame me for killing you with one palm strike!”

“…”

Upon hearing this, Ao Shuang was stunned and fell into despair.

Only now did he realize that he himself was also prey, foolishly asking the hunter to capture other prey. Wasn’t that just being a complete idiot?

Before long, Xingjue successively found all the immortals who had learned the information and captured them, locking them up together with Ao Shuang.

Because these immortals knew that Ao Shuang’s words had caused their predicament, they were furious. One by one, they beat Ao Shuang mercilessly inside the artifact, attacking him until he looked pitiful, like a homeless dog.

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Tianji Sect

Shui Miao returned from the Netherworld to his Tianji Sect.

Shui Miao released his family and friends from the artistic planet, introduced them to Lian’er, and asked Lian’er to take everyone around to tour the place.

However, Lian’er looked troubled as she said, “Brother, during the time you were away, many things happened in the Ninth Heaven. Now the Three Purity Sect has grown powerful, managing all the sects in the Ninth Heaven on behalf of the Immortal Emperor Kunpeng. If any sect resists, they will summon heavenly soldiers and generals to destroy them. This morning, an elder from the Three Purity Sect came, demanding that our Tianji Sect hand over a million spirit stones and ten thousand dan of medicinal herbs, or else they would annex us.”

“Such a thing!?”

Shui Miao was startled, frowning, but suddenly smiled lightly and said, “Lian’er, you don’t need to worry about this matter. I’ll handle it properly. The Three Purity Sect is just a dog, I haven’t even placed them in my eyes. You take everyone to tour around. I need to modify the formation and enhance our mountain’s defense.”

“Okay!”

Upon hearing this, Lian’er immediately felt relieved.

Shui Miao’s family and friends all knew that Shui Miao was very busy now, carrying a heavy burden on his shoulders. The Immortal Realm was also in chaos. He had to ensure everyone’s safety while dealing with the powerful immortals, handling many complicated matters. Therefore, everyone consciously avoided disturbing Shui Miao, trying not to add to his troubles.

Now, this immortal mountain was everyone’s home.

Everyone was excited, seeing the beautiful scenery of the immortal mountain, breathing in the strong immortal energy, feeling as if they were living in a dream. It was unbelievable, all of this too incredible to imagine. No one could have thought that Shui Miao would have such good fortune, creating such an incredible brilliance in the Immortal Realm in such a short time.

Shui Miao entered the core of the immortal mountain’s formation, paused the formation defense, activated the furnace fire for forging artifacts, burned materials, and began improving and adding to the formation, applying all the formation principles he had comprehended to this immortal mountain formation.

Gradually, the immortal mountain formation changed color.

After more than an hour, the Tianji Sect’s formation was reactivated. From the outside, the giant circular formation shield suddenly transformed into a massive Taijitu pattern. The white part was filled with abundant immortal energy, appearing holy and pure, bright and vibrant, making people feel comfortable at a glance. The black part, however, was eerie and sinister, like a bottomless abyss, causing fear and making people dare not look for long.

This formation had already reached the pinnacle of its level. Shui Miao had also assimilated the mysterious formation techniques from the two underworld treasures of the Black and White Impermanence.

“Hehe, finally got it done.”

Shui Miao let out a long sigh of relief.

The Tianji Sect’s immortal mountain formation was now impervious to any attack unless a supreme expert wielding a Sovereign Treasure came. Even the Immortal Emperor Kunpeng himself would struggle to break through it barehanded.

Just as one concern was resolved, another arose.

He wondered what was happening with Saint Mother Shuitianyi…

Shui Miao’s mind stirred, and he immediately moved Honglian out from the artistic realm. After Honglian emerged, seeing the sect’s grand hall, she quickly asked, “Jueqing, where is this place? The place I was just in seemed like a real world. Was that one of your artifacts?”

As a female immortal official in the Forging Bureau, Honglian was familiar with various artifacts, but she couldn’t determine whether the place she had been in was the real world or a massive spatial artifact.

“This is one of my bases. What you saw should count as an artifact,” Shui Miao answered ambiguously, not wanting Honglian to know too much. Changing the subject, he said, “Sister Honglian, something might have happened to Saint Mother Shuitianyi. You should hurry back and check. If I wanted to escape, I would have done so long ago instead of waiting until now. So you don’t need to worry about me. I’ll wait here for you to return.”

Shui Miao didn’t want to talk much with Honglian since she was Saint Mother Shuitianyi’s person. Letting her know too much was not a good thing.

“…”

Seeing Shui Miao’s firm tone, Honglian hesitated, paused, then reluctantly nodded and said, “That’s true. Then I’ll go back and check now. Jueqing, take good care of yourself.”

“Okay, sister, safe travels.”

Shui Miao’s mind stirred, immediately deactivating the immortal mountain formation, personally sending Honglian out.

As he watched Honglian leave, just as Shui Miao was about to turn back, he suddenly saw many people flying out from the distant clouds, among whom surprisingly half were heavenly soldiers and generals.

Could these people be the ones sent by the Three Purity Sect to demand spirit stones and medicinal herbs?

Never would he have thought that the Immortal Realm also had a city patrol force. Shui Miao quickly flew back and activated the immortal mountain formation.

“Is Master Shui Miao of the Tianji Sect present? Elder Xingjue of the Three Purity Sect has come for a visit. There is an urgent matter that must be discussed with Brother Shui Miao.”

The visitor was indeed Elder Xingjue of the Three Purity Sect.

Xingjue had already learned a great deal of information about Shui Miao from Ao Shuang, including the fact that this Tianji Sect was Shui Miao’s.

Behind Xingjue were three thousand disciples of the Three Purity Sect and two thousand heavenly soldiers and generals from the Ninth Heaven.