They did not encounter any danger along the way. After a while, Pei Yun and his party arrived at a small mountain village where mortals lived...

"Look!" Qin Yun pointed at the mortals who were gathered on the top of the mountain and kneeling in front of a stone tablet.

"Let's go down and take a look..." Pei Yun and others flew down directly from mid-air.

"Look! It's an immortal?!"

"Could it be that someone from the Zhang family came to my village to select in advance?"

"Kneel down now!"

Seeing the people from the Yunshan Sect suddenly descending from the sky in front of them, these mortals were stunned and kowtowed to them in fear.

"Please stand up, everyone. No need to be polite." The crowd helped up the mortals who were kneeling in front of them in fear.

"...We are traveling from outside and got lost passing by here. We don't know where this place is?"

Pei Yun knew that her excuse was lame, but in order to find out where this island was as quickly as possible, the best way was to ask directly.

An old man who looked respectable stood up. He bowed his hands stiffly and said, "I am the village chief of Xiaolin Village. Are you Taoist priests from Shangjing City?"

"Shangjing City?" The people of Yunshan Sect looked at each other, and Luo Rufeng stepped forward and said, "We are people who have been secluded from the world to practice Taoism. This time we set foot in the mortal world for training. May I ask where Shangjing City is, old man?"

Village Chief Lin did not expect that this group of people did not even know Shangjing City. He began to doubt their identities. However, seeing that these people were dressed elegantly and had extraordinary temperaments, he did not dare not answer: "...Shangjing City is the capital of my Nanling Country. I heard that all the Taoist masters gathered there..."

"Nanling Kingdom?!" The people of Yunshan Sect finally heard the information related to Nanling Sword King.

"Old man, where is Shangjing City?"

"In the south. I heard that you can get there as long as you keep walking south..." Village Chief Lin has lived in Xiaolin Village all his life and naturally has never been to Shangjing City.

Pei Yun thought for a moment and said, "Old man, it's getting late now. I wonder if we can stay here for one night?"

"Of course you can, of course you can." Village chief Lin and the group of villagers who came to kneel down the mountain with the people from the Yunshan Sect.

Fu Lingchen glanced back at the stone tablet that the group of mortals had just knelt before, and asked curiously: "Village Chief Lin, why did you kneel before this stone tablet? It's just an empty stone tablet..."

Not only Fu Lingchen noticed it, but other people from the Yunshan Sect also noticed that there was neither an inscription nor any totem on the stone tablet, it was completely blank.

Village Chief Lin and the villagers couldn't help showing proud expressions when they heard this. Village Chief Lin said with a bit of boasting:

"My fellow Taoist priests, you may not know that the mountain behind our Xiaolin Village was once called Sword God Mountain. Legend has it that the Sword King once transcended the calamity and ascended to heaven here! And this stone tablet was left behind by him..."

When these words were spoken, everyone in the Yunshan Sect was shocked!

"Wait a moment." Pei Yun and others immediately returned to the top of the mountain, came to the blank stone tablet and began to look at it carefully.

In fact, they had observed it before, but the result they concluded was that the stone tablet was just an ordinary object. After hearing what Village Chief Lin said, they immediately thought of the Nanling Sword King.

"...There are no traces of formations." Elder Yu from the Formation Hall affirmed.

"Whether it's the spiritual power detection or the divine consciousness detection, there is no response. It should be an ordinary object..."

The Yunshan Sect members walked around the stone tablet several times and checked it inside and out, but found nothing unusual.

A group of people could only follow Village Chief Lin back to the village at the foot of the mountain. At night, everyone from the Yunshan Sect sat together in a small, dim room. After activating the soundproofing array, everyone shared the information they had gathered in the village.

"I asked a villager who used to work outside. It seems that there is only one Nanling Country on this island. Nanling Country also has cultivators. According to them, there are many cultivators in the capital..."

"...the reason why they are kneeling and worshipping the stone tablet today is because tomorrow the Zhang family in Luzhou will send a Taoist priest to their village to select children with spiritual roots. As long as they have spiritual roots, they can become apprentices of the Zhang family, and the parents of the children will also be given a sum of money. So these villagers are kneeling and worshipping the stone tablet on the mountain today, hoping that their sword god can bless their children to be selected..."

"We'll wait until someone from the Zhang family comes tomorrow and ask again..."

"I think the island we came to should have a lot to do with Nanling Sword King. After all, there is a Nanling Kingdom here. Maybe... we may turn a disaster into a blessing and be directly teleported to the secret realm of the ancient tomb by the vortex storm..."

"But why were we the only ones teleported here? No other forces saw us..."

This was also what most people in Yunshan Sect were confused about. It wasn't just Yunshan Sect that encountered the vortex storm. Other forces also encountered the same experience as them. Those big forces might be able to withstand the storm easily, but those small forces would always be swept into the storm! But none of them could come here like them.

Of course Luo Rufeng and Pei Yun knew the reason. Before being teleported here by the vortex storm, they had to first resist the risk of having their bodies torn apart by the storm. Because of Pei Yun's space, the people of Yunshan Sect could be safe.

Those small forces could not withstand the storm and died in it, so naturally they could not be teleported here.

Pei Yun and Luo Rufeng looked at each other tacitly without saying anything.

"Do you think the legend of the Sword God circulating in this village is true or false?" Wang Xueer asked curiously, "Could it be that the treasure of the Nanling Sword King is here?"

"Venerable Lingxi said that this secret realm is the location of the ancient tomb of Nanling Sword King. This proves that Nanling Sword King is dead. And those villagers said that Nanling Sword King passed away here and ascended to heaven. It can be seen that rumors cannot be trusted..."

……

The Yunshan Sect stayed here for one night, and at noon the next day, they finally met the people from the Zhang Family Sect that the villagers had mentioned.

The three people sent by the Zhang family are all young men. Two are in the Qi Refining stage, and the leader is in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

In order not to implicate the people of Xiaolin Village, Pei Yun and others did not show up directly. None of the young children in Xiaolin Village had spiritual roots, so none of them were selected.

After the three of them left Xiaolin Village, Pei Yun and his group directly blocked them -

"My fellow Taoists, what's the matter..." The three were startled, and the pressure from the group of people in front of them made them tremble in their hearts.

"My three fellow Taoists, we are people who practice Taoism in seclusion. We came to Nanling Country to gain experience. I heard that many cultivators have gathered in Shangjing City of your Nanling Country..."

"You are right, fellow Daoist. There are countless cultivators in Shangjing City. The Emperor of Nanling Country and the ancestors of several major families are all top-notch masters. They are all in Shangjing City. If fellow Daoists want to travel, you can go there..."

"Where is Nanling Sword King? I heard that Nanling Sword King's swordsmanship is superb. We would like to ask Senior Sword King for some guidance..."

The three of them looked strange. They glanced at Pei Yun who was speaking and slowly said, "...Nanling Sword King was a great man thousands of years ago. He is no longer in this world..."

"Oh? Did the Nanling Sword King ascend to heaven?"

"... This, Nanling Sword King is the most powerful swordsman in the history of my Nanling country. He has lived for thousands of years. There are rumors that he has ascended to heaven, and there are rumors that he has passed away. People like us don't know the details..."

Pei Yun and the others realized that they could not get any useful information, so they stopped asking. After asking about the location of Shangjing City, they simply rode away on the Suzaku puppet.

The three of them finally breathed a sigh of relief. The young man in the lead frowned and said, "...When did such a powerful cultivator appear in Luzhou? His pressure is much stronger than that of the patriarch. We must quickly return to the Zhang family to report this to the patriarch..."

……

On this side, some forces landed on the secret island without any danger——

Chen Lingxi's face looked particularly ugly. There was clearly no whirlpool storm when they came here last time. They did not expect to encounter such an extreme sea storm this time. Although their big forces did not suffer any losses, the small forces that followed them suffered heavy casualties.

Although he warned those forces in advance and asked them to carefully decide whether to go to the secret realm, Chen Lingxi still felt a little guilty after such an incident.

In the Lingyao faction's team, Duanmu Xu and Ling Ziyan also looked worried. Duanmu Xu asked, "I wonder how Pei Yun and the others are doing?"

In fact, the two of them wanted to go and help, but the storm came too suddenly and was too powerful, so their master did not agree.

In Xianlan Sect, Zhen Yao was filled with anxiety: "Master, will Fu Lingchen be okay?"

As soon as she arrived on the island, she looked around, but she didn't see anyone from the Yunshan Sect. Her heart sank little by little.

"Zhen Yao, this is his fate. If he had been willing to follow me back to Xianlan Sect that day, nothing would have happened. These people from Yunshan Sect were all talented disciples. Now... it's a pity..."

The major forces that successfully landed on the island did not explore the secret realm immediately, but rested there for a day. During the whole day, the storm on the sea had stopped and everything was calm. Everyone believed that the forces that had not yet landed at this time were most likely killed in the storm...

In the Extreme Sword Sect, Qin Gu and several elders sat in a circle. Qin Gu closed his eyes, as if he was recuperating and regulating his breathing. His face was as calm as ever, showing no emotion...

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