He had arrived at Kongtong Mountain and found the members of the Kongtong Sect.

Ever since the Sect Leader had faced calamity years ago, the Kongtong Sect had never recovered. Later, the Chief Elder gathered everyone to jointly practice an extremely evil Array in an attempt to rejuvenate the Immortal Sect. Unfortunately, they had the bad luck of provoking Jile Perfected Li Jingxu. They thought that with the sect's top experts deploying the most powerful Array of the Kongtong Sect, they would definitely be able to refine Li Jingxu. Instead, Li Jingxu shattered the Array with a single Qiantian Taiyin Divine Thunder and killed or severely injured more than a dozen people. After that, the Kongtong Sect declined further, coming close to extinction.

Over the years, after recuperating and regenerating, they finally managed to regain some scale. Several top experts in the sect not only mastered the sect's secret techniques but also found and borrowed others. They used these to supplement their strengths and increase their Effort, gradually supporting the sect again. However, they couldn't agree on a leader among themselves and remained leaderless, usually cultivating separately in their own caves in the mountain.

Yuan Da, having cultivated for many years within the Western Demon Cult, knew many experts from the Kongtong Sect. This time, he went up the mountain seeking his old acquaintances to discuss the matters of Xi'an City.

As mentioned before, he was nicknamed "Evil Mute". In reality, the mute was a disguise; he was not completely unable to speak. He clearly communicated everything Chen Yufeng had taught him, indeed stirring the interest of the Kongtong Sect members. Firstly, aside from Sect Leader Ling Hun, the Snow Mountain Sect also had the White-haired Dragon Girl Cui Wugu as the matron, and they had gathered quite a few female disciples with immortal roots, which greatly attracted these Kongtong fellows.

He also talked about the many treasures they had bought from the Mingyu Immortal Market, and finally told them that the current world was vastly different from the past, the situation had changed, and advised them to establish a Daoist Temple in Xi'an, to open the Mountain Gate widely and recruit more disciples, as Xi'an had many promising candidates. Within ten years, they could greatly expand their sect.

That aside, since these people had never heard of the Snow Mountain Sect before, when they learned it was a new sect founded by Ling Hun, they all slapped the table and decided to come out of the mountains. Several of them held grudges against Ling Hun and saw this as an opportunity to kill all his male disciples, sparing the female ones for their own enjoyment, and seize the Daoist Temple, then wait there to duel Ling Hun and avenge past grievances!

The Kongtong Sect mobilized eight Sword Immortals in total, each bringing several disciples, over twenty people in all, who departed from Kongtong Mountain and advanced toward Xi'an City!

Unlike the solitary nature of the previous Elder Ape, these Kongtong folks, accustomed to deception and scheming, were all worried about being set up. Each was more cunning than the next and insisted that Yuan Da accompany them to attack the Snow Mountain Sect, otherwise it would mean that Yuan Da was deceitful and had ill-intentions. With no other option, Yuan Da had to follow them.

Upon reaching the Snow Mountain Daoist Temple, this group unleashed the Nine Heavens Seal Great Technique, sealing off the surrounding skies and ground, prepared to kill anyone who came out - of course, only killing the males and sparing the females.

Once they deployed the Nine Heavens Seal Great Technique, dark clouds immediately enveloped the area, filled with a murderous aura. A massive amount of yin evil emerged from the soil, converging above the Daoist Temple from all directions, forming a black cauldron-lid shape. On it, numerous thin black lightning bolts slithered like black snakes, and numerous black Talismans flickered in and out of sight.

The disciples of the Snow Mountain Sect inside the Daoist Temple all turned pale, but no one rushed out or moved around in panic; everyone stood still at their posts.

In front of the main hall's steps stood six Sword Immortals, all fairly young, having entered the sect only a few years ago. They looked up at the black evil, their excitement evident as they constantly turned to look back inside the hall.

The hall doors were tightly shut, inside sat two people, a man and a woman, the man tall and dignified, the woman with white hair flowing - none other than Ling Hun and Cui Wugu.

This couple sat across a table from each other, facing the southern door, both with furrowed brows.

Ling Hun spoke with a mix of anger and disdain, "These people, claiming to be from the Buddhist righteous path! To think they could concoct such schemes!"

Cui Wugu quietly sighed beside him, not responding.

Ling Hun continued, "They also disrupted Heaven's Secret and muddled Yin and Yang, preventing us and our friend Jiang from seeing their actions. Had Shi Daoist not used the Nine Heavens Yuan Yang Great Technique from afar to notify us with his divine presence, we would still believe everything here was fine!"

Cui Wugu sighed again, explaining softly, "Perhaps they just wanted to use these children to lure out Shi Daoist, sure that Shi Daoist would intervene, and that these children would face no life-threatening danger."

"They're despicable!" Ling Hun slammed his hand on the table, truly angered, "Even if I had a conflict with Bai Guyi and Xue Hong had already reincarnated, leaving us no interaction, there was still some past friendship, if not friendship, then some decency! And they do this? They're just the same as that old dog Bai!"

Last time at Taishan, he had stopped Bai Guyi, preventing him from going to Star Constellations Sea to help stop Shi Feiyang's Sword Refining. The two had progressed from arguing to fighting, and ultimately unleashed True Fire, battling for two days and nights with no victor.

Since the second swordfight, all three old immortals had made significant progress. After Zhu Mei reincarnated, she obtained the "Langhuan Secret Manual," Bai Guyi had also encountered a unique opportunity overseas, improving tremendously. He thought he could easily defeat Ling Hun, but unexpectedly, Ling Hun had obtained three volumes of "Guang Chengzi's Heavenly Book" and exchanged insights with Shi Feiyang, advancing even further. When they fought, Bai Guyi gradually found himself outmatched.

Ling Hun hadn't intended to kill, just to teach Bai Guyi a lesson. However, Bai Guyi resorted to deceit, almost crushing him under Taishan. Although he quickly escaped through his Mysterious Skill, he ended up quite embarrassed, and from then on, he referred to Bai Guyi as Old Dog Bai.

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