A Mortal's Journey: Starting as the Young Master of Demonic Cultivation

Chapter 11 Reunion with Han Li

After Zhou Yuan and her daughter saw Wen Tianren off and returned to the bamboo garden.

Zi Ling couldn't help but whisper to her mother, "Mother, this Elder Xiao has a large number of spiritual herbs and materials."

Instead of selling them in Tianxing City where they could fetch a high price, they're cooperating with us to sell them on other islands in the Inner Star Sea or even the Outer Star Sea. There's probably something wrong with these goods.

Zhou Yuan shook her head and said, "No, Ning'er, I'm afraid it's not that there's a problem with this batch of spiritual materials, but rather that he has too many resources. Once he sells them off on a large scale in Tianxing City, it will immediately attract the covetous eyes of all parties. A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime."

Having served as the sect leader for many years, Zhou Yuan was insightful and realized the reason for Wen Tianren's cooperation with the Miaoyin Sect: "A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime."

With so many cultivation resources, and given that the Miaoyin Sect is currently weak and needs Wen Tianren's help, it has become the safest partner for Wen Tianren, which is why Wen Tianren approached the Miaoyin Sect.

"Mother, you mean...?"

"That's right, Ning'er. I think Elder Xiao must have found some ancient sect ruins to have so many spiritual herbs and materials."

"Our Miaoyin Sect is currently weak and needs the addition of a Core Formation cultivator like him. He's not worried that we'll betray him." Zhou Yuan explained her speculation to her daughter.

She paused, then looked at her daughter with gentle eyes: "But who hasn't had some fortuitous encounters and secrets to reach this level of cultivation? We just need to do what he asks and help him out. We must never try to uncover his secrets."

Although he has taken a youth-preserving pill and his age is unknown, I feel he is not very old. With his mid-stage Core Formation cultivation, he likely has the potential to reach the Nascent Soul stage in the future. We must not antagonize him; we should try to win him over.

Zhou Yuan gave Zi Ling a warning, explaining the pros and cons involved.

"A Nascent Soul cultivator? Mother, you're exaggerating. Does this person really have such potential?" Zi Ling was slightly taken aback.

"I'm just speculating, but if we can firmly bind Elder Xiao to my Miaoyin Sect, my Miaoyin Sect will definitely be far superior to what it was before," Zhou Yuan said with a smile and a shake of her head.

As she spoke, a fleeting, almost imperceptible thought crossed her eyes, before she turned to look at Zi Ling.

In recent years, since her husband Wang Heng died, she has been supporting Miaoyin Sect on her own, which has been exhausting. Fortunately, her daughter is well-behaved and sensible, and can handle things on her own, helping her solve many sect affairs.

However, both of them are women and their cultivation levels are not high. If they want to develop the Miaoyin Sect in the Chaotic Star Sea, who knows how many difficulties await them in the future.

Thinking this way, seeing her daughter's intelligence and beauty, and considering Wen Tianren's character, cultivation, and potential, an immature idea quietly sprouted in her heart.

Back in his cave at the Holy Mountain, Wen Tianren began preparing his methods to deal with the extreme Yin in ten days.

The Extreme Yin Old Monster used his Possession Technique on Wu Chou, and his strength was only at the late Core Formation stage! Apart from the Heavenly Capital Corpse Fire and the Heavenly Capital Demon Corpse, he didn't have any other methods.

However, Wen Tianren considered that there were countless methods for achieving Nascent Soul status among mortals.

Just in case, Wen Tianren brought along several powerful formations that he had refined over the years.

With the help of the Four Demons Fupin, who was skilled in formations among the Six Extremes True Demon Techniques, Wen Tianren found it much easier to comprehend formations than before.

Aside from cultivation and trading resources, Wen Tianren devoted the rest of his time to the four arts of cultivation: weapon crafting, formation making, alchemy, and talisman making.

Time flies, and ten days pass in the blink of an eye.

"call out!"

With a sharp whooshing sound, a sound transmission talisman suddenly appeared in front of him.

The voice that came from within was that of Zi Ling, who had been by Zhou Yuan's side that day.

Wen Tianren reinforced the array within the cave, then his figure flickered, transforming into a streak of rainbow light and disappearing from the spot.

When Wen Tianren arrived at a certain city gate of Tianxing City, Zi Ling, dressed in purple, was waiting for him there.

Before long, a golden phantom appeared beside him.

"Elder Xiao, you've arrived!"

Upon seeing Wen Tianren's sudden appearance, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes, and he slowly said, "My mother asked me to take you to the island where everyone is gathered. We'll go together once everyone is there!"

Wen Tianren nodded upon hearing this, and with a flick of his sleeve, a flying boat appeared beneath their feet.

Zi Ling guided Wen Tianren towards the Tongtian Mist Sea.

A few quarters of an hour later, the two landed on a deserted mountain on an unnamed island.

On the mountaintop, which was dozens of feet high, there were a dozen or so people of varying heights, some sitting cross-legged and meditating, others standing and whispering. When they saw Zi Ling and Wen Tianren arrive, they all whispered something to each other.

Among these people, six have reached the Core Formation stage, but they are all only early-stage Core Formation cultivators. Wen Tianren is the one with the highest cultivation level among them.

The others were all late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators. It took the Miaoyin Sect quite a bit of effort to gather these people.

Wen Tianren's gaze swept over the crowd, and he was quickly drawn to a male cultivator in the early stage of Core Formation with an ordinary appearance.

He stood outside the group of cultivators, looking at everyone present with a blank expression. Beside him was only one other cultivator, who was also expressionless, but more robust.

"Han Li has indeed arrived."

Wen Tianren had been waiting for Han Li in the Holy Mountain Cave for a long time, and since Han Li hadn't used any magic to change his appearance, he naturally recognized him.

"It is truly a great honor for our sect that Senior Xiao has become an elder of the Miaoyin Sect. It is a pity that I was not in the sect the other day because I had business with Elder Zhao. Otherwise, the credit for this recommendation would not have gone to Right Envoy Zhuo."

As soon as they leaped down, a woman with skin as white as snow, jet-black hair piled high, and bright, clear eyes that were both alluring, led Han Li and the others over with graceful steps.

This person is Fan Jingmei, the Left Envoy, one of the two envoys of the Miaoyin Sect.

"Elder Xiao, Junior Sister! Let me introduce you to a few people!" the woman said, her eyes sparkling.

After speaking, he introduced Han Li, Elder Zhao, and the others to Wen Tianren.

On the other side, Zhuo Ruting led another Elder Fu from the Miaoyin Sect and a cultivator surnamed Ye over, introducing them to Wen Tianren.

He watched as Elders Zhao and Fu chatted with him with smiles, saying that as fellow elders of the Miaoyin Sect, they should keep in touch more often in the future.

Wen Tianren responded to the two men with the same amicable manner, but inwardly he sneered.

"Heh, if I hadn't known that you two had secretly colluded with Jiyin Island to wipe out all of us and those people from the Yinsha Sect, I might have actually been fooled by you."

These two had long been bribed by Wu Chou and become lackeys of Ji Yin Island. However, what puzzled Wen Tianren was why the two of them did not join forces to kill Zhou Yuan that day, but instead allowed her to escape by using talismans, formations, and wooden dragon tablets.

However, Wen Tianren wronged the two men. They had indeed received Wu Chou's order that day to kill all the Miaoyin Sect members present.

However, they were still putting on a show of fighting with the Core Formation cultivators from Jiyin Island, preparing to slowly approach Zhou Yuan, their opponent, hoping to launch a sneak attack.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yuan suddenly unleashed a Thunder Talisman that blocked all of Wu Chou and the others' attacks. She also set up a trapping array to imprison them. Then, she used her blood essence to activate the Wooden Dragon Token and fled, abandoning them.

Everything happened so fast that the two of them didn't have time to react. In the end, they had to discuss it with Wu Chou and the others again. The two of them lied and said that they had used a secret technique to reduce their cultivation level in order to escape.

Zhou Yuan didn't suspect anything; the two of them were indeed resisting the cultivators from Jiyin Island at the time.

Furthermore, she herself felt somewhat guilty, having abandoned the two elders and then fled alone. She had originally thought that the two elders had perished at the hands of those people, but unexpectedly, the two of them had also escaped.

Therefore, Zhou Yuan had no suspicions and instead asked Elder Zhao to investigate the whereabouts of those people.