Five Immortals Gate

Regarding the matter of plotting against the Wraith Sect within the Ghost Domain, only the top cultivators of the Yin-Yang Chaos Gate were aware of this plan when it was initially conceived.

And these few insiders were all incredibly powerful, possessing extensive knowledge of the Netherworld.

The more they understood the Netherworld and the Asura Hell, the less they would imagine that anyone could escape the Netherworld alive.

Later, even when reports came in about the Wraith Sect's movements, including the involvement of the Extinction Sect, those people saw it as a natural course of action for the two sects.

After all, over a hundred cultivators from the two sects had disappeared. Of course, they would join forces to investigate. It would be abnormal if there was no reaction at all.

That aura was actually quite faint, and it only flashed for a moment, but Zheng Youlin, who happened to be walking nearby, caught it.

He immediately sensed that the aura was too pure and became vigilant. As cultivators who studied the Great Dao of Yin and Yang, they were even more sensitive to this kind of aura.

This kind of aura could only be cultivated by Saint Spirit Root cultivators or cultivators from the Five Immortals Sect. Based on his most sensitive reaction, he immediately identified the other party as a cultivator from the Five Immortals Sect.

Then, he immediately transmitted his voice to his junior brother, and the two became excited. They hadn't expected that they would encounter such a great opportunity while simply collecting information about the Wraith Sect.

They hoped that the female cultivator was not a Saint Spirit Root. The other party's cultivation seemed to be at the Transformation God realm, but Zheng Youlin roughly judged from the aura fluctuations that the woman might also be a Refinement Void realm cultivator.

Moreover, based on their understanding of the Five Immortals Sect, very few of their cultivators below the Refinement Void realm would travel in the world.

They immediately put aside other matters and quietly followed her. The female cultivator was going in and out of the shops in the market. Zheng Youlin and his companion were experienced and knowledgeable, and they quickly confirmed some things.

That female cultivator was definitely not an old monster disguised. Her words and actions in the market, as well as her vigilance towards the outside world, showed that she lacked experience.

Of course, this was only relative to them. As for whether this was a trap, Zheng Youlin and his junior brother discussed it and affirmed their judgment, believing it was an accidental encounter.

After following her in the crowd for half an hour, they basically confirmed that the woman's behavior was more like wandering around the world for training.

In this case, he and his junior brother were even happier. There was no need to send a message to summon the elders of the sect. They themselves might get a great reward.

Otherwise, once those elders arrived, most of the credit would be taken away, and they would only be considered as providing information.

In that case, even if they captured the woman and obtained more benefits from her, the rewards they would receive would definitely be pitifully small, and the subsequent events would have nothing to do with them.

However, Zheng Youlin and his companion could not act in the market at that time, so they planned to attack after the female cultivator left the market, capture her alive, and obtain more information from her in order to gain greater benefits.

However, soon after, the two had another unexpected surprise, because the female cultivator went to an inn and found a male cultivator, calling him "Senior Brother."

This made the two even more pleasantly surprised at the time. Although the other party had increased their help, they were not afraid of the Five Immortals Sect's cultivators of the same level. The so-called power of the Five Immortals Sect could only scare those inferior sects.

As far as they were concerned, the more people from the Five Immortals Sect, the better!

However, what they never expected was that after waiting outside the inn for three days, they never saw the two people leave the room again.

The two immediately felt that something was wrong. This was not their own cultivation room, and they had entered the inn to investigate. The rooms the two had rented were just ordinary rooms.

Even if they wanted to rent a room for temporary cultivation, the spiritual energy in such a room was only average and not suitable for cultivators of that level.

They should either rent a courtyard in the inn, or if they wanted better conditions, they could rent a cave in some immortal cultivation cities.

Just living in the market for a day was a painful expense, and even the two of them felt it was a bit expensive.

However, this was not absolute. Perhaps they were researching newly purchased raw materials or treasures in the room, which could also keep them closed for a few days.

But Zheng Youlin and the others were watching people. Once they suspected something, they naturally couldn't continue waiting in secret. So, the two entered the inn again to inquire.

And the news they got later was that the man and woman had not checked out. After thinking about it, Zheng Youlin added some spirit stones to the shop assistant, asking him to try knocking on the door for other reasons.

But the result was that there was no response from either room. The shop assistant didn't care at the time, as this kind of situation often happened.

As long as it wasn't time to collect the room fee, they wouldn't dare to urge the guests, and there was still one night left before the two rooms expired.

In that situation, the shop assistant would never dare to force open the door, no matter how many spirit stones Zheng Youlin paid.

But Zheng Youlin and the others already felt that something was wrong. The shop assistant wouldn't always stare at the guests, but they had been staring for several days and were sure that the man and woman had not gone out.

So, after leaving one person behind, the other quickly searched everywhere in the market...

Until the next day, it was confirmed that the two had left the inn without their knowledge and had long since disappeared!

This made Zheng Youlin and the others look extremely ugly. They didn't know when they had revealed their tracks, alarming the other party.

But according to their speculation, the problem should be with the male cultivator. That person should also be an experienced person in the cultivation world.

In addition, the two judged that the female cultivator might be here for training, so the male cultivator might have been secretly following behind the female cultivator all the time.

At the beginning, the two of them only discovered the female cultivator, so their tracking fell into the eyes of the other party.

The more they thought about it, the more likely this was. This was a common protection method used by many sect veterans when taking novices for training.

It not only allows novices to handle some things independently, but also allows them to be fully protected without their knowledge.

This also shows that the male cultivator's tracking skills are stronger than theirs, which is why they didn't think about this when they later discovered the male cultivator in the inn.

However, this was a clue that they had finally found. After Zheng Youlin and his junior brother discussed it briefly, they decided to continue searching.

This was more important than collecting information about the Wraith Sect, and collecting information about a sect cannot be rushed, they would rather directly find news about the Five Immortals Sect.

Because the two of them were obviously like one person was training, so as long as the other party was not sure of their identity, they were likely to continue to appear in some cities and markets to continue training.

Experience, by its very nature, involves encountering various situations, resolving them independently, and accumulating genuine wisdom through the process.

This includes being targeted by others. The female cultivator was purchasing items within the city, so even if the male cultivator discovered their actions,

the pair might suspect they were being watched by unscrupulous individuals from the city, believing they had targeted a lucrative mark.

Furthermore, Zheng Youlin and his companion were already traversing tens of thousands of miles around the periphery while gathering information about the Wraith Sect. For more distant locations, they would travel millions of miles, using the Wraith Sect as a central point.

Therefore, their direction of travel was not fixed. They were essentially drawing a circle, expanding outward layer by layer, then shrinking inward, systematically searching.

Conversely, this erratic search pattern meant that if their targets suspected Zheng Youlin and his companion might be tracking them, they would try to devise a proper escape route.

However, Zheng Youlin's unpredictable movements might actually increase the chances of encountering them. In fact, the outcome proved Zheng Youlin's guess to be correct, as their luck returned once again.

They unexpectedly spotted the male and female cultivators on the road to a certain city. At the time, the pair was engaged in killing six cultivators.

Among the six, only one was a Void Refinement Realm cultivator; the rest were all Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators. It was also at that moment that Zheng Youlin and his companion truly witnessed the male and female cultivators in action.

Their hearts leaped with excitement. The pair were indeed Void Refinement Realm experts. However, the male had reached the late stage of the Void Refinement Realm, while the female was only at the early stage.

The six were no match for the pair, as the difference in strength was simply too great.

What excited Zheng Youlin and his companion the most was seeing the pair's techniques, which were filled with the characteristics of the Five Immortals Sect's cultivation methods. This undoubtedly confirmed the pair's identities.

Therefore, Zheng Youlin and his junior brother quickly communicated and decided to immediately ambush the two Five Immortals Sect cultivators. Their overall strength was higher than that of the pair.

Zheng Youlin's realm was the same as the male cultivator's, while his junior brother was stronger than the female cultivator. If they could also launch a surprise attack, they had a high chance of success.

However, their situation at the time was not as Zheng Youlin had described to "Yuan Zhen." They not only had no intention of saving the six;

they were even considering how to use the six's lives to set a trap for the two from the Five Immortals Sect. This way, the six could both distract the opponents and serve as temporary assistance.

However, although the six were sword cultivators, the difference in their realms and strength was too great. The five sword cultivators were all killed by the female cultivator just as Zheng Youlin and his companion had decided on their plan.

Zheng Youlin immediately realized the situation was bad. Their divine senses swept over the area, detecting the fluctuations of techniques, and quickly retracted them in a very short time.

The distance between them was not too close, and they had to hurry. The two only hoped that the Void Refinement Realm sword cultivator would hold on for a little longer, as it would only take them about two breaths to sneak over.

Unfortunately, the sword cultivator was not up to the task. Amidst a surge of the five elements of heaven and earth, the cultivator's flying sword instantly lost control, leaving the cultivator wide open.

With only a shrill cry from the remaining male cultivator, the male and female cultivators instantly joined forces and turned the sword cultivator into a hornet's nest in an instant. The six died extremely quickly.

Upon seeing this, Zheng Youlin and his companion immediately rushed over, regardless of the consequences, but they were met with a trap set by the opponents.

Only then did Zheng Youlin realize that the clash between these two groups was not an encounter battle but an ambush assassination.

The two Five Immortals Sect cultivators were too cunning. Even though their strength far exceeded that of the six sword cultivators, the pair still did not resort to direct annihilation.

Instead, they must have followed the opponents early on and then set up traps in advance along their route.

However, because the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, the traps they set ultimately became backup plans.

At the same time, they were fighting in the wilderness, and it was difficult to guarantee that other cultivators would not appear. These traps could also prevent other cultivators from suddenly attacking, such as Zheng Youlin and his companion.

It must be said that the pair considered everything very comprehensively and did not want to give the enemy any chance to escape or others any opportunity to take advantage.

As for Zheng Youlin and his companion, they encountered the opponents in a hurry. In fact, even if they had immediately participated in the fight as soon as they saw the opponents, they would still have fallen into the trap first, and it was highly likely that they would not have succeeded.

The moment Zheng Youlin fell into the trap set by the opponents, he knew that this opportunity would be lost again, but at that time, he could only busy himself with dealing with the trap's attacks.

The male and female cultivators only glanced at them before casually collecting all the corpses, clearly not wanting to leave any traces.

Afterward, the female cultivator even wanted to use the trap to attack Zheng Youlin and his companion again, but she was scolded by the male cultivator, and then she quickly fled away with the male cultivator.

When Zheng Youlin saw that the female cultivator wanted to attack him, he was overjoyed. Although the two of them were temporarily trapped,

as long as the opponent attacked them, they would have a way to keep the opponent. However, the male cultivator was too vigilant and did not make any contact with their techniques, and they did not even get close to each other.

The opponent should have quickly judged from their attacks that with their strength, they would not be able to capture the two of them and might even be counter-killed. The male cultivator decisively made the decision to flee.

This was another missed opportunity for Zheng Youlin and his companion, and the two were extremely angry at the time…

And the events that followed were as Zheng Youlin had told "Yuan Zhen." They speculated that the reason why the Five Immortals Sect cultivators had to kill the six was because they had obtained information about the Five Immortals Sect.

And these two were indeed cultivators of the Yin Yang Chaos Gate. As long as there was a trace of the Five Immortals Sect, they would stick to it like a plaster.

Through years of investigation, they finally found the identities of the killed cultivators. Li Yan once again felt the difficulty of dealing with the Yin Yang Chaos Gate from this incident.

This time, Zheng Youlin came to obtain the information about the Five Immortals Sect from "Luo Gucheng," while the other person was waiting in an inn in this city.

As for the so-called information transaction, that was Zheng Youlin's deception of "Yuan Zhen." The two had already lost track of their target. At most, they would record the appearance of the male and female cultivators and give it to the other party.

However, the faces revealed by the male and female cultivators were not real, and Zheng Youlin and his companion had also guessed this.

In order to satisfy "Luo Gucheng," they would give "Yuan Zhen" some more information about the two, as well as false information about where they might appear.

In the end, they would let "Luo Gucheng" investigate all the way, and it would be their own problem if they couldn't find anything, which had nothing to do with them.

After "Yuan Zhen" obtained this information, thoughts constantly arose, disappeared, arose again, and disappeared again in his mind…

He also saw from the other party's memory the scene where Zheng Youlin witnessed the male and female cultivators casting spells. The male and female cultivators did indeed conceal their appearances, and he did not recognize them at all.

However, he had basically guessed who the other party was, but Li Yan was also unable to figure it out.

"Strange, what are these two doing near the Wraith Sect? The distance between the two sects is so far. Even if they are going out for experience, there is no need to go so far as the Wraith Sect.

Could it be that the sect has something to do with me? But why did they attack the 'Luo Gucheng' cultivator…"

As he quickly pondered, he had some vague guesses in his mind, which made him feel that he owed the sect once again, but now was not the time for him to think too much.

Now that they have already taken action, of course, he can no longer hide here, not to mention that there is another Yin Yang Chaos Gate cultivator!