Half an hour later, a certain spiritual lamp located in a forbidden area of the Star Palace flickered suddenly, followed by a crisp cracking sound.
This frightened the Star Palace disciples who were responsible for guarding this area, and they reported the unexpected incident to their superiors.
The interior of the Star Palace suddenly fell into chaos, just after a short meal.
Several Star Palace elders broke into the cave of the old man Ximen and forcibly opened a secret room in it.
After this strange incident occurred, every member of the upper-level leaders of Xing Palace immediately and decisively judged that it must be closely related to Yan Yun.
They still have fresh memories of that experience not long ago.
Anyone can clearly see that there seems to be a deep hatred between the great monk and the old man Ximen.
However, despite their doubts about this, the elders of these star palaces only secretly speculated in their hearts.
But no one dared to stand up and publicly accuse Yan Yun. They all chose to remain silent, as if they didn't see or hear anything.
The reason for this situation was that Yan Yun was a powerful monk and no one wanted to cause trouble.
More importantly, they couldn't find any conclusive evidence to prove that Yan Yun was responsible for this incident.
On the contrary, Yan Yun had good reasons to deny it.
Because during the time when Old Ximen died, Yan Yun was with Elder Zhao, having a so-called exchange of experiences, and the two were always inseparable.
Of course, anyone with a little bit of savvy would be able to tell that this obvious cover-up was actually done intentionally by Yan Yun to silence everyone.
Even though they have clearly understood the truth of the matter, Yan Yun does not need to take action personally.
He could easily make a Nascent Soul Stage monk completely disappear from this world, which made all the Star Palace elders feel horrified.
If they are facing ordinary monks, they will naturally not care about the evidence. They only need to capture the opponent and then use the soul search technique to know everything.
However, Yan Yun is a late-stage great monk. Who dares to take such a risk and provoke such a strong man?
Even the elders who were once close to Old Man Ximen chose to remain silent at this time.
What's more, in the near future, the entire Star Palace will need to rely on Yan Yun's power, and there must be no conflict with it now.
Therefore, no matter high-level officials like Ling Yuling or ordinary Star Palace elders, they can only choose to endure it temporarily and pretend not to know anything.
After Yan Yun exchanged his experiences with the old man named Zhao for half a day, he returned to the secret room and began to practice in seclusion.
After Elder Zhao learned the news of the death of the old man Ximen, he froze in place for half an hour. In the end, he could only helplessly smile bitterly, his face full of regret.
Afterwards, he no longer stayed at Yanyun's retreat, but directly summoned two disciples in the Dan Formation stage, and then left the place alone.
Since the other party can use magical powers to kill the Nascent Soul cultivator in another place while getting along with him, then it is just a waste of time for him to continue to monitor him.
He knew that it was too risky to be an enemy of this kind of person, so he might as well choose to stay away as soon as possible. In order to avoid being regarded as an enemy by the other party and being killed.
This creates a puzzling picture.
Star Palace obviously lost an important elder, but after a simple handling, no one from the top management of Star Palace mentioned the matter again.
Even the name of Old Man Ximen became a taboo topic in a short period of time. Everyone is gearing up and putting their energy into the upcoming war.
Five days later, Yan Yun walked out of the secret room and came to the sacred palace again.
At this time, in addition to the elders of the Star Palace, there were also more than 30 monks in the alchemy stage gathered in the hall.
Most of these monks are in the late stage of pill formation and are obviously the mainstay of the Star Palace besides the elders.
When Yan Yun entered the hall with steady steps, the immortal cultivators present all focused their attention on him.
Most of the monks showed deep admiration and fear, while a small number of monks showed surprise and suspicion.
However, no matter where Yan Yun looked, the monks in that direction would immediately lower their heads respectfully, not daring to slack off at all.
Yan Yun can easily defeat an opponent in the early stage of Nascent Soul with just his own strength.
For him now, this was just a commonplace and trivial matter, but this approach shocked many core members of the Star Palace.
Although everyone in the Star Palace had previously determined Yan Yun's status as a great monk, he had never shown his magical powers.
Everyone was still full of doubts and uneasiness in their hearts as to whether he could truly withstand Wan Tianming's attack.
Because in the past few decades, Wan Tianming had successfully killed many elders of Xing Gong in his struggle with Xing Gong, and his reputation was unparalleled in the entire Xinghai.
However, now Yan Yun has shown a mysterious and unpredictable power in the Star Palace to kill the Nascent Soul, which makes the members of these Star Palaces have more trust and expectations in him.
This was a situation that neither Ling Yuling nor Yan Yun expected.
However, Ling Yuling was naturally happy to see the morale of other monks improve as a result, but Yan Yun didn't care at all.
"Fellow Daoist Yan, please take a seat first. After I get ready, I will begin to make arrangements for the attack on the Counter Star Alliance."
After seeing Yan Yun appear, Ling Yuling said in an extremely humble tone.
Yan Yun just nodded slightly and sat down on a stone chair below her.
Then he waved his sleeves lightly, and a pale white jade slip appeared in his hand.
He lowered his head and read alone, as if nothing around him could attract his attention.
Ling Yuling smiled slightly, but when she turned her eyes to the other monks in the temple, her expression quickly became serious again, and she began to convey a series of commands.
Most of Yan Yun's attention was focused on the jade slips, but he was not completely aloof from the world. He still had a part of his consciousness that paid attention to Ling Yuling's various arrangements.
Star Palace's plan is actually quite simple and clear. Although there are 108 wind and fire pillars in the Fenghuo Tianjue Formation, they only plan to attack the 36 wind and fire pillars distributed around Tianxing City.
According to the estimates of several masters who are proficient in formations in Star Palace, these thirty-six wind and fire pillars are the most critical part of the entire formation. As long as most of them are destroyed, the formation will collapse on its own.
Of course, the prerequisite for achieving this goal is that the formation guarded by Wan Tianming himself must first be occupied.
So, under Ling Yuling's stern instructions, one after another the Yuan Ying stage elders and the Dan Jie stage disciples stood up one after another and accepted the order, and everyone's faces turned livid. A tense atmosphere suddenly filled the originally spacious hall.
In the blink of an eye, each Wind and Fire Pillar was assigned dedicated personnel to attack, but the number of high-level monks responsible for each area varied.
In some places, two or three Nascent Soul Stage monks jointly lead the team, while in other places there is not even one Nascent Soul Stage monk, and only a few Pill Formation Stage monks are dispatched.
Hearing this, Yan Yun couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
However, he soon realized the problem.
It is very likely that there are senior undercover agents from Star Palace within the Counter Star Alliance. They have a clear understanding of the defensive power of these wind and fire pillars, so they have made such fine adjustments.
Although Yan Yun remained silent, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Ling Yuling's deployment speed was extremely fast. After just one meal, except for a few monks, most people had been assigned specific tasks.
Finally, Ling Yuling's voice sounded again. She suddenly turned her head to look at Yan Yun, smiled and said:
"Fellow Daoist Yan, are you willing to lead the team with us, including Elders Ma and Elder Zhao, to the center of the attack formation? That is where Wan Tianming himself is defending.
"I have no objection, but when the incident occurs, I will only be responsible for the life of Wan Tianming. As for the other monks, if they do not pose a threat to me, I will not intervene in the dispute."
Yan Yun held his head high, met the woman's gaze, and replied in a calm and calm tone.
Seeing Yan Yun acting so relaxed and at ease, a look of astonishment appeared in Ling Yuling's eyes, and she couldn't help but have doubts in her heart, but she still agreed.
Although she knew something about Yan Yun through the Twin Saints of Heaven and Star, she still knew nothing about Yan Yun's true strength, and was afraid that Yan Yun would be negligent due to overconfidence.
So he detailed to Yan Yun Wan Tianming's various stunts after his later achievements as well as some newly obtained extraordinary treasures, and advised Yan Yun to understand the situation as much as possible in order to formulate corresponding strategies.
However, after Yan Yun heard these words, his face showed an expression of disbelief and did not make any response.
Seeing this situation, Ling Yuling sighed helplessly, and it was inconvenient to ask Yan Yun what his chances of winning were.
After all, after this battle, if Star Palace cannot win, it will lose the right to survive.
"Everyone, take action!"
After the woman issued a cold and stern order, all the monks in the hall stood up and walked quickly outside the hall.
Those low-level Foundation Establishment Stage disciples have been waiting in front of the city gates around Tianxing City for a long time. They only need to meet up with the leading Dan Yuanying monk to launch an attack immediately.
Yan Yun looked around at the jade slip in his hand, overlapped his hands, and the jade slip disappeared without a trace in an instant.
The secret of Yuanci's divine light recorded in this jade slip was extremely complicated. He spent several days studying hard before he had some clues.
However, what is that magical place about Yuanci Mountain that can actually help the practice of this technique?
Yan Yun thought absentmindedly and followed Ling Yuling and several other elders out of the stone hall.
What surprised Yan Yun was that a large beast carriage ten feet long was parked outside the hall.
The entire carriage is made of an emerald-green material whose name no one knows, and its surface is covered with various runes. You can tell at a glance that it is a carefully crafted treasure.
However, what is even more eye-catching is that in front of the beast cart, there are four green monsters with almost the same color and several feet in length, crawling on the ground.
Yan Yun was shocked for the first time in his life since arriving at Tianxing City.
Although these four green monsters seem to be only at level five or six, they are indeed four-headed dragons.
As far as he knew, the Jiaolong clan had always been extremely defensive. Even though Xingong once had great power, how could he dare to control a real dragon as a driving tool.
Aren't you afraid of angering this powerful spiritual beast race and causing endless trouble to the Star Palace?
"Fellow Daoist Yan, are you also so surprised by these low-level monsters?"
Seeing Yan Yun's rare look of astonishment, Ling Yuling raised the corners of her mouth slightly, revealing a faint smile.
"That's not the case. Although the bodies of these monster beasts undoubtedly belong to the dragon clan, the spirits contained in them seem to be slightly abnormal."
Yan Yun narrowed his eyes slightly, and after the blue light flashed in his pupils, he suddenly burst out with such a sentence.
"Brother Yan really has a unique vision! In fact, the essences in these dragons are not the essence of the dragons themselves."
"They are several low-level green dragon corpses that my father won after a huge bet with the Golden Dragon King when he was traveling overseas in his early years."
"Then it was refined using mysterious magic, and the soul of the deep-sea spirit python was injected into it, finally forming the current chariot-driving monster."
Ling Yuling showed admiration and explained in detail.
"I see. Then why did Fellow Daoist Ling place this carriage here? Is it to be used for this attack plan?"
Yan Yun frowned slightly, but there was still a lot of confusion in his heart.
"Aha, Brother Yan, this is the question. When you get on this carriage, you will find something wonderful."
"This carriage was made by my father himself. In addition to the magical ability of the monster driving it, the carriage itself also contains unique mysteries, which has a significant effect on defeating the enemy."
"If this battle hadn't affected the survival of the entire Star Palace, I might not have been able to bear to use this treasure."
Ling Yuling raised her eyebrows slightly, revealing a mysterious smile.
After hearing what Ling Yuling said, Yan Yun used his spiritual consciousness to explore the beast cart again, then nodded gently and said nothing.
At this time, the four people below had boarded the beast cart, and the one driving the beast cart was a two-foot-tall bald giant.
Although his cultivation was only at the foundation-building stage, his upper body was naked, and the muscles on his arms were like fine steel, exuding a terrifying evil aura.
The strong man held a long white whip and swung it into the air, instantly letting out a sharp neighing sound that shot straight into the sky.
The green dragons that had been lying lazily in front of the stone hall immediately turned over and jumped up alertly.
Wagging its tail, the beast cart let out a roar, turned into a ball of dazzling white light, and soared into the sky at a speed even comparable to that of a monk in the early stages of the Nascent Soul. (End of chapter)