Chapter 429

Chapter 429: The Reasons

In the Human Race’s cultivation world, that’s the name of this cultivation realm—there are no additional titles.

For example, the cultivation world where Li Xiaojun first appeared was called the Saint Goya Cultivation Alliance.

Here, the cultivation world is simply called the cultivation world.

After performing a soul search on a Great Ascension stage cultivator in a group of interstellar teleportation arrays, Li Xiaojun gained a basic understanding of this cultivation realm.

This cultivation world was not unified and was divided into dozens of major powers.

The reason everyone united now is largely due to the significant threats posed by two major beast tribes, which forced everyone to band together.

In the memories of that Great Ascension stage cultivator, Li Xiaojun discovered information about the Qingyun Sect.

According to the Great Ascension stage cultivator’s recollection, the Qingyun Sect was merely a second-rate Immortal Sect, which surprised Li Xiaojun greatly.

Wen Qinglan had said that the Qingyun Sect should be among the top ten sects in the entire cultivation world, controlling numerous resource planets in the starry sky.

Moreover, the Qingyun Sect even had its own life planet.

Yet from this Great Ascension stage cultivator’s memories, the Qingyun Sect was a second-rate Immortal Sect without even a life planet.

Could it be that in five hundred thousand years, the Qingyun Sect had fallen from a top-tier Immortal Sect to a second-rate one?

It greatly seemed possible.

The sea of time had changed everything; Wen Qinglan was at the Qingyun Sect five hundred thousand years ago.

With the passage of half a million years, it was not strange for the Qingyun Sect to have declined from a top-tier Immortal Sect to a second-rate one.

It was even understandable if the Qingyun Sect had disappeared entirely from this world.

Fearing that the memory of a Great Ascension stage cultivator might be unreliable, Li Xiaojun decided to search the soul of a Late Tribulation stage great emperor.

Even though he was injured by a Da Luo Golden Immortal and reduced to just a head, performing a soul search on a Tribulation stage cultivator was still quite simple.

Moreover, Li Xiaojun could accomplish this without anyone knowing— even the person whose soul he searched remained unaware.

With Li Xiaojun’s cultivation level, he wouldn’t inflict any harm on the person being searched.

From the memories of the Tribulation stage cultivator, Li Xiaojun learned many secrets of the cultivation world.

For example, the reason the two beast tribes jointly attacked the Human Race was that a weapon smith from the Human Race had crafted a Semi-Immortal Tool Weapon with immortal energy characteristics.

After the news leaked, the two large beast tribes near the Human Race feared that the Humans would grow stronger, prompting them to declare war and demand the surrender of that weapon smith.

The Human Race was not unwilling to hand over the smith to ease tensions, but mainly because that smith was a Late Tribulation stage cultivator. In his attempt to escape, no one could capture him.

In the vast starry sky, as long as he randomly changed his appearance and concealed his identity, no one could find a Late Tribulation stage powerhouse.

Therefore, under the Human Race’s "unwillingness" to surrender that weapon smith, the two beast tribes simultaneously launched a genocide war against the Humans.

They aimed to exterminate the Humans before any more Semi-Immortal Tools could be produced.

In this way, even if that weapon smith crafted more Semi-Immortal Tools, it would be futile.

This was the context behind the war that Li Xiaojun gleaned from the memory of the Late Tribulation stage great emperor cultivator.

Of course, Li Xiaojun learned some memories about the Qingyun Sect from the recollections of the Tribulation stage cultivator.

The Qingyun Sect was merely a second-rate Immortal Sect, and it didn’t even have any Tribulation stage cultivators within its ranks, so his memories about the Qingyun Sect were limited.

However, Li Xiaojun still discovered some specific situations regarding the Qingyun Sect.

For instance, most cultivators of the Qingyun Sect had been dispatched to the battlefield to confront the beast tribes.

In a time of life and death for the Human Race, no Immortal Sect could stand by idly.

If any Immortal Sect wished to avoid involvement, the inevitable outcome would be their extermination.

The Qingyun Sect naturally could not evade the war; if they dared to do so, a Tribulation stage powerhouse would soon come and forcefully destroy the entire Qingyun Sect.

Thus, when Li Xiaojun arrived on the planet where the Qingyun Sect was situated a month later, only the Sect Master of the Early Great Ascension stage and a large group of disciples below the Nascent Soul stage remained.

Those at a higher cultivation level, such as Transformation stage and above, had all been sent to the front lines.

The Qingyun Sect’s territory was on a planet resembling Mars in the solar system.

Numerous formations had been set up there, supporting nearly one hundred million ordinary people.

With Li Xiaojun’s divine sense perception, he easily penetrated countless formations and observed the situation inside.

Within those formations was, of course, where ordinary people lived.

Only inside the formations could ordinary people survive on a planet like Mars.

However, maintaining these formations likely consumed substantial resources, so the vast Qingyun Sect managed to sustain just under one hundred million people.

Seeing this, Li Xiaojun immediately informed Li Yufei to relay the information to Wen Qinglan.

“Dad, my teacher is very upset to hear that the Qingyun Sect has fallen to this state; she wants you to help her investigate. See if this Qingyun Sect is the same one that existed five hundred thousand years ago,” Li Yufei said to Li Xiaojun.

“How do we find out?”

“My teacher said you should search the soul of the Qingyun Sect’s Sect Master; you should find out that way.”

Upon hearing this, Li Xiaojun felt it was indeed a straightforward approach, yet effective.

Soon, Li Xiaojun located the Sect Master of the Qingyun Sect.

He then proceeded to perform a soul search on him.

Moments later, a look of surprise appeared on Li Xiaojun’s face.

Quickly, he spoke to Li Yufei, “The real Qingyun Sect must have been destroyed long ago; this Qingyun Sect was founded one million years ago by a man named Shi Lei, who obtained the legacy of the Qingyun Sect by chance.”

“So this Qingyun Sect should not be the same one that your teacher belonged to,” Li Xiaojun said to Li Yufei.

After a moment of silence, Li Yufei replied, “My teacher said that since Shi Lei obtained the legacy of the Qingyun Sect, he is one of them, and this Qingyun Sect is indeed a legacy sect of her Qingyun Sect.”

“My teacher has gathered some resources; he asked me to send them to you and to kindly request you to pass them on to the Sect Master of the Qingyun Sect,” Li Yufei said to Li Xiaojun.

After saying this, she directly traded a big pile of resources with Li Xiaojun.

Looking at these resources, Li Xiaojun noted that apart from a large pile of cultivation resources, the most were tools for storing immortal essence, as well as immortal level talismans, formations, and some immortal tools that cultivators could use.

Of course, to activate these talismans and immortal tools, the most important thing was still having immortal essence, so storing tools for immortal essence was crucial.

Only by possessing enough immortal essence could these immortal level talismans and formations be activated.

…

In the grand hall of the Qingyun Sect, a middle-aged man, who appeared as a Great Ascension stage cultivator, frowned, seemingly lost in thought.

In the next moment, a figure suddenly appeared before him, startling him.