409: Stirring up the winds and clouds, undercurrents are surging.

Inside the main discussion hall, Daoist Xinghe and Myriad Laws Daoist received their orders and turned to leave.

It wasn't until they stepped out of the hall doors and were brushed by the spiritual breeze outside.

That the two of them seemed to wake from a great dream, glancing at each other, both seeing the irrepressible waves of shock in the other's eyes.

"Junior Martial Uncle... a hundred percent certainty... this..." Myriad Laws Daoist's Adam's apple bobbed, his voice dry.

He had lived for thousands of years and had never heard such wild words, nor had he ever seen someone who could remain so calm after speaking them.

Daoist Xinghe let out a long breath of turbid air, which condensed into a patch of fine starlight in the air before slowly dissipating.

The look in his eyes had completely transformed from initial shock into a kind of almost blind fanaticism.

"Pass down my decree!"

Daoist Xinghe did not answer Myriad Laws Daoist's question, but his voice suddenly became incomparably majestic.

"Wanfa Immortal Sect, the three divisions of Tianshu, Tianxuan, and Tianji, are to be fully activated immediately!"

"All hidden agents are to abandon their cover, regardless of the cost, and execute the highest directive!"

Myriad Laws Daoist felt a chill in his heart upon hearing this.

Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji!

These were the three most core and secret forces passed down through the hundreds of thousands of years of the Wanfa Immortal Sect's Legacy!

They were like three giant beasts lurking beneath the ocean of the Eastern Region; each force was enough to stir up monstrous waves in the outside world!

Normally, let alone all three divisions moving at once, even using a single hidden agent from one of them would require both the Sect Master and the Grand Elder to jointly issue a decree.

And now, Daoist Xinghe actually wanted to awaken them all!

"Junior Martial Uncle, is this too..."

"Execute it!" Daoist Xinghe interrupted him sharply, his gaze suddenly piercing.

"This is a massive gamble! We are betting the Luck of our Wanfa Immortal Sect for the next ten thousand years!"

"Since Elder Shen has already made his move, we shall flip this chessboard entirely!"

"Yes!" Myriad Laws Daoist no longer hesitated, his expression turning solemn.

He immediately turned into a streak of light, personally going to deliver this command that was enough to shake the entire Eastern Region.

A silent war against the Eastern Region's overlord, the Taiyi Sword Sect, officially began at this moment... Taiyi Sword Sect, Sword God Mountain.

Inner Sect Elder Ming Chong was pacing irritably in his Immortal Cave.

He and Sect Master Jian Wuya had never seen eye to eye.

Jian Wuya was headstrong and practiced nepotism, which had long caused many Elders of the older generation within the Sect to harbor dissatisfaction.

However, due to his status as Sect Master and the support of several Grand Elders behind him, everyone dared to be angry but not speak out.

"Hmph, Senior Brother Sword Profound One died inexplicably in the Zixiao Divine Treasury, and Junior Martial Uncle Jian Wuchen didn't even have his Divine Soul escape back!"

"That Jian Wuya doesn't think about how to wipe out the Sect's humiliation; instead, he takes this opportunity to wantonly purge dissidents and install his cronies! It's utterly shameless!"

Elder Ming Chong grew angrier the more he thought about it, striking the stone table with his palm, causing cracks to spread across the table made of ten-thousand-year-old profound crystal.

Just then, an imperceptible streak of light silently penetrated the Restrictions of his Immortal Cave and hovered before him.

"Who is it?!" Elder Ming Chong was startled, his Divine Sense instantly sweeping out.

But that light seemed to have no physical form, allowing his Divine Sense to pass through without leaving a trace.

He reached out uncertainly and touched the light.

The light dissipated, turning into an ordinary-looking black Jade Slip that fell into his palm.

Elder Ming Chong's Divine Sense probed into it, and in the next moment, his expression changed drastically.

"This... how is this possible?!"

Within the Jade Slip, it detailed how Jian Wuya, over the past thousand years...

...had used his authority as Sect Master to privately intercept at least thirty percent of the Sect's supplies to nurture Disciples of his own lineage.

It even included several records of resource transfers involving huge amounts and unknown destinations.

Every single one pointed toward several cultivation families closely related to Jian Wuya.

The evidence was solid, the logic clear, and even the time, location, and handler for every resource handover were clearly marked.

"Scoundrel! How dare he!" Elder Ming Chong trembled with rage.

This was no longer simple selfishness; this was digging out the Foundation of the entire Taiyi Sword Sect.

Holding the Jade Slip, a battle raged in his mind.

This thing had arrived too strangely; someone was clearly pulling the strings from behind.

But the content on it was something he couldn't ignore.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and quietly left his Immortal Cave, flying toward the cave of another Elder he was on good terms with.

He didn't know that after he left, in the shadows of a corner of his Immortal Cave...

...a blurry figure quietly dissipated, as if it had never appeared.

Similar scenes were constantly playing out in various parts of Sword God Mountain.

Those Elders who were already dissatisfied with Jian Wuya, to some extent...

...had all obtained "evidence" that made them seethe with rage through various unexpected channels.

Once the seed of suspicion is planted, it will grow wildly.

Meanwhile, in the border regions of the Taiyi Sword Sect's vast territory.

In the southern part of the Eastern Region, at the Myriad Snake Cave where the Black Water Profound Serpent clan resided.

The Clan Chief of the snakes, a giant profound serpent comparable to the Early Stage Void Return, was flicking its tongue excitedly at the mountain of Spirit Stones and Magic Treasures before it.

"I'm rich! I'm rich! A windfall from the heavens!"

Just three days ago, a mysterious person had found him and left these resources.

They only made one request: cause trouble for the Taiyi Sword Sect, and the bigger the commotion, the better.

The Black Water Profound Serpent clan had a blood feud with the Taiyi Sword Sect; a hundred years ago, one of their Elders had been slain by a Sword Cultivator from the Taiyi Sword Sect, and they had been enduring it until now.

Now with this windfall, their courage had instantly grown a hundredfold.

"My children!" The Black Water Profound Serpent Clan Chief let out a sky-shaking roar.

"Follow me to war! Charge toward Cloud Marsh City! Reclaim our land! Wash away the humiliation of a hundred years ago with blood!"

"Roar!"

Inside the Myriad Snake Cave, snakes danced wildly, and Demonic Qi surged to the heavens.

In the West, at the Blood Saber Sect.

The Sect Leader looked at the boxes of top-grade Medicinal Pills before him, enough to make any second-rate Sect green with envy, and his breathing became heavy.

"Pass down the order! All Disciples, assemble immediately! Those bastards from the Taiyi Sword Sect have occupied our Blood Crystal Vein for three hundred years."

"It's time to make them spit it back with interest!"

... "Report—!"

"Sect Master! Disaster has struck! The Black Water Profound Serpent clan has suddenly attacked, and our Sect's Deacon Lin, who was guarding Cloud Marsh City, has fallen in battle!"

"Most of the peripheral outposts of Cloud Marsh City have been lost!"

"Report—!"

"Sect Master! The Blood Saber Sect in the west has gathered its main forces and launched a surprise attack on our Sect's Blood Crystal Vein! The guarding Disciples have suffered heavy casualties, and the vein is about to be lost!"

Inside the main discussion hall of the Taiyi Sword Sect.

Hearing the successive emergency reports, Jian Wuya's face turned ashen with rage, and he smashed the jade table before him to pieces with one palm.

"A bunch of trash! A mere snake clan, a low-tier Blood Saber Sect, dares to stir up trouble on my Taiyi Sword Sect's head?! They've rebelled! They've all rebelled!"

Just as he was about to mobilize troops to suppress them.

Another even more urgent message talisman flew in, burning with haste.

"Sect Master! Deacon Lei, his mission failed!"

Jian Wuya's heart sank. Deacon Lei was a trusted aide he had personally promoted, with a cultivation of the Late Void Returning Stage.

This time, he had gone to execute a top-secret mission to intercept and kill a Demon Path Colossus hostile to the Sect.

"What happened?!"

"Deacon Lei... for some reason, Deacon Lei's whereabouts were exposed, and he was besieged by three Demonic Lords of the Heavenly Demon Sect in the Black Wind Region!"

"Although he escaped with his life, he is gravely injured, and the mission has completely failed!"

Jian Wuya felt a surge of wicked fire rush straight to his crown!

He stood up abruptly, surveying the Elders in the hall who were as quiet as cicadas in winter, his eyes filled with suspicion and violence.

"Speak! Who was it?! Who leaked the news?! Deacon Lei's whereabouts were only known to those of you present!"

The hall was deathly silent; no one answered.

Jian Wuya looked at those Elders' eyes—some dodging, some indifferent—and the anger and unease in his heart reached a peak.

He felt as if he had fallen into an invisible giant web.

Enemies were everywhere, yet he couldn't even see his opponent's shadow.

This feeling was driving him mad!

... Wanfa Immortal Sect, Sky City.

Inside the quiet room where Shen Yuanmo was, Qing Xuzi stood with a bow.

His expression was full of awe as he reported the latest developments from across the Eastern Region.

"Elder Shen, you are truly divine! The Taiyi Sword Sect is now in a total mess, with internal suspicion and external enemies."

"That old scoundrel Jian Wuya is said to have publicly punished three Elders in the Sect's main hall! Now their entire Sect is in a state of panic!"

Qing Xuzi grew more excited as he spoke, looking at Shen Yuanmo.

He was no longer looking at a person, but looking up at a god who controlled the wind and clouds, gazing down upon all living beings.

"Farsighted planning, throwing the powerful enemy into chaos without wasting a single soldier! Having lived for so many years, I only today learned what divine methods truly are!"

Facing Qing Xuzi's flattery, Shen Yuanmo merely sipped his tea calmly, his face showing no ripples of emotion.

He set down his teacup and spoke indifferently, "These are but some small, underhanded tricks, useful only for disturbing their peace of mind."

He slowly stood up and walked to a giant map of the Eastern Region, his gaze falling on two locations marked with red circles.

Deep within those calm eyes, a bone-chilling coldness flashed.

"The first step was just to give them a headache. Since they are already in chaos, next..."

"It's time to make their hearts ache."