"Master, could it be that my 'Fengxue Sect' was also a famous sect in the past?" Bao Wuxin interrupted and asked. He was very curious about this matter.
"Haha, Wuxin, you're overthinking it. The 'Wind and Snow Sect' is not some famous sect. It's actually a small sect founded by the founder three thousand years ago. It's exactly the same as what you see in the sect's general outline."
Master Ding Yushan waved his hand, then his face straightened and he returned to the previous topic.
"Just now I mentioned that the seal of the crack in Yinmo Cliff has loosened. I heard from my old friend that it has been particularly severe in the past two years. Even the Yuanying cultivators from the four major sects have gone to check it out."
As soon as he said this, Ding Yushan and his fellow apprentice opened their mouths wider and wider. In their minds, a Nascent Soul cultivator is a terrestrial immortal who can travel through the sky and into the earth and is omnipotent. He is like a dragon that can be seen but not tailed.
It is not an exaggeration to say that they are gods. Even Master has never seen them with his own eyes.
But what they didn't know was that their master had concealed another piece of news, which was that the cracks in the Yinmo Cliff might have alarmed even the Ancestor Huashen.
But he didn't dare to say it out loud, and he didn't even dare to mention the word "transformation of the spirit". The supernatural powers of these seniors who had reached great heights in cultivation were not something he could guess. Powerful cultivators hated it most when someone talked about them behind their backs.
If something goes wrong, not to mention a small "Fengxue Sect", even a first-rate sect would be reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye.
Looking at the stunned expressions of the two disciples, their master waved his hand.
"Okay, you just need to know about this matter, and you must keep it to yourself. If it weren't for explaining the seriousness of this matter, I shouldn't tell you this.
What happens next is related to us. The recent unexplained disappearances of some sects are related to these monsters.
My old friend is not very clear about the specific situation. Perhaps some of the disappeared sects were already occupied by monsters.
There are also some possibilities that these sects were directly destroyed by these monsters;
The last possibility is that these sects may have been coerced and lured by the monsters to become their vassals, but these are just speculations, and only these three situations are the most likely.
The reason why this situation didn't happen before is that the Yinmo Cliff Crack was relatively stable before. Now there may be a big problem. There will be disaster in this world."
After saying this, Master Ding Yushan let out a long sigh.
"You two are the most promising of all the disciples, but you may not have much time to grow.
So I plan to use the power of our sect to send the two of you to the North Ming Demon Suppression Tower, hoping that you can get your own opportunities.
If there are major changes in the world of immortal cultivation in the future, it would be good to have more power to protect ourselves. My 'Fengxue Sect' is already sparsely populated, so if there is a chance to leave more bloodlines, we will leave more.
After all, our foundation is too shallow, far behind those of the big sects, or even the old second-rate sects, so our defense methods are too weak. "
After listening to the news, Ding Yushan and Bao Wuxin were unable to digest it for a while. The master's words were like a heavy hammer continuously hitting their hearts, making them feel depressed and afraid.
What they heard today was too unbelievable. If the person in front of them was not their master, they would think that the person in front of them was insane and talking nonsense, and they would not believe it at all.
Things like "monsters" and "the war between the two realms" and the entire sect being possessed and controlled by monsters, etc., these were all too far-fetched and absurd, just some historical dust recorded in ancient books. Unexpectedly, they suddenly appeared around them, leaving the two of them in a fog.
Seeing that the two were in a daze, Master Ding Yushan knew that they could not accept so much information at once, so he waved his hand and spoke tiredly.
"You two should go back for now and have a good rest. Remember, don't tell anyone else about this. Remember, remember! Otherwise, I will kill you first."
He kept saying "remember" several times, and by the end, his voice had become stern. If this matter were to be made public, it would cause a great chaos. If the four major sects knew about it, his "Fengxue Sect" might become the source of the rumor, and that good friend would also be implicated.
Ding Yushan and the other two were struck by lightning and were terrified. They had never seen their master so stern. They even saw the undisguised murderous intent in his eyes as he stared at them.
When the two men realized the seriousness of the matter, they immediately prostrated themselves on the ground and repeatedly said yes, and then they retreated in fear and fantasy.
Long after the two of them left, the hall was still dead silent, with only the soft light from the night pearl on the ceiling of the hall remaining.
Finally, Master Ding Yushan's wife's voice, as sharp as a yellow oriole, broke the silence, "You really had murderous intent just now!"
She could feel the murderous intent in her husband. If those two disciples really showed any hesitation or doubt, her husband would definitely kill them immediately after knowing it.
“This matter concerns the future of the sect. If it goes wrong, it will ruin the entire sect. If this matter is caused by me, how can I face the ancestors and my master in the afterlife
Similarly, if I don't tell the other two about this, I'm not sure whether I'll have time to tell them in the future.
You and I must be ready to go to the cracks of Yinmo Cliff and perform other tasks at any time. Maybe we can't avoid it this time. " Seeing her husband's worried face, Master Ding Yushan gently stretched out her delicate hand and slowly held her husband's hand.
"You love them after all. Yushan knows that words can cause trouble. This decision is the biggest one we have ever made for the 'Fengxue Sect'. From now on, wherever you go, I will go there, whether it is in heaven... or underground..."
More than half a year later, when Ding Yushan and Bao Wuxin returned to the sect excitedly, they told their master and mistress about the benefits they had gained in the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower.
The two gained a lot from their experience in the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower, but they also escaped death.
Ding Yushan was unable to break through in the Hongfengtan Palace, so he broke up with Bao Wuxin, and Bao Wuxin continued to stay in the Hongfengtan Palace to gain experience.
Ding Yushan went to another dangerous place on the second level, the "Pond and Forest", where he finally broke through to the great perfection of foundation building, but he almost died there. In the end, he relied on an "Ice Heart Talisman" condensed for him by his master at the cost of his blood and energy, and he escaped.
Bao Wuxin's cultivation was also improving in the constant fighting. Although he failed to break through the realm, he became more and more stable in the late stage of foundation building. He only needed to retreat for about two more years to successfully break through to the great perfection of foundation building.
And inside the tower, he fought and searched for treasures everywhere, and unexpectedly he got a fragment of an ancient magic, which contained a magical technique with enormous power.
The power of this magical technique will increase as his realm increases, and it is enough to support Bao Wuxin to use it until he reaches the middle stage of the Golden Core without any worries.
However, he also lost an arm because of suppressing this technique, and it was with the help of a life-saving "Ice Heart Talisman" given by his master that he was able to finally walk out of the palace under the Red Maple Pond.
However, these two "Ice Heart Talismans" were the greatest gift his master had ever given him.
When the two of them reunited through the contact information they had left behind in advance and returned to the sect again, they were poured a bucket of cold water over their heads.
The third junior sister in the sect has temporarily taken over the power to handle sect affairs. The third junior sister handed a jade slip to Ding Yushan. After reading it, Ding Yushan felt a chill in his heart.
The jade slip contained the information left by his master and his mistress. The seal on it could only be opened by those who had reached the great perfection of foundation building. It was obvious that his master was sure that Ding Yushan would be able to advance successfully.
Otherwise, Ding Yushan might have stayed in the Beiming Demon Suppression Tower forever, and the future of the "Fengxue Sect" would have been left to fate.
The jade slip told Ding Yushan that he and his wife had received a transfer order from the Pure Land Sect and would soon be going on a mission of uncertain duration and unknown duration.
If Ding Yushan could see this jade slip, he would take over the power from his third junior sister and take full charge of the "Fengxue Sect".
He also reiterated what he had said a few days ago, that they should not mention it to anyone, and even the whereabouts of the couple should not be told to other disciples.
After reading this, Ding Yushan had no choice but to accept this fact silently. In the end, he didn't even tell Bao Wuxin where his master and mistress had gone.
Ding Yushan only told him that his master was still worried about what he had said some time ago in the jade slip and he must not speak carelessly.
After hearing this, although Bao Wuxin had some doubts in his heart, he did not dare to ask for the jade slip to see it.
From then on, the disciples of the "Fengxue Sect" all thought that the sect master and his wife had gone out to travel. Anyway, Ding Yushan had always handled the sect's trivial matters, so they didn't feel anything unusual at all.
Ding Yushan originally thought that things would just pass like this. Apart from worrying about his master and his mistress, he just had to do his best to do what his master had arranged. But only three months later, they received a call from the Pure Land Sect.
He ordered that all the foundation-building monks from the sects that received the summons must go to a first-rate sect at a designated location and await orders. Third-rate sects must send at least one foundation-building monk, and second-rate sects must send three foundation-building monks.
For second- and third-rate sects, this is already mobilizing their most core or top-level forces. The strongest cultivators in a third-rate sect are often no more than two or three foundation-building cultivators. Sending out one foundation-building cultivator actually shakes the foundation, but since the sect above has issued the order, no one dares to disobey.
Ding Yushan held the call for action in silence for a long while, and finally could only let out a long sigh. He had a premonition that the things his master had mentioned might have started to get worse, as they had actually started to recruit Foundation Establishment cultivators.
But how could he dare to disobey the order? After some thought, he left Bao Wuxin to take charge of the affairs of the sect. Although Bao Wuxin lacked the ability to handle affairs, he was the person with the highest cultivation level in the "Fengxue Sect" besides himself.
Not knowing whether this trip would be a blessing or a curse, Bao Wuxin had to stay, so he took two other junior brothers and sisters with him to the first-rate sect "Lingtian Sect".
When Ding Yushan arrived, there were already more than 300 foundation-building monks from other sects like them gathered there. And this was just a gathering point for a first-rate sect, which shows how vast the territory under the jurisdiction of the Pure Land Sect is.
In addition to sending out fifty foundation-building monks, "Lingtianmen" also had five Jindan elders, each of whom was in charge of seventy to eighty foundation-building monks.
These foundation-building monks were divided into several groups. Ding Yushan's group of ten people was composed of three sects.