165: Choices of both parties

Once a Sect is established and one becomes a Sect Master, everything changes for a Loose Cultivator.

Your Brothers below will help you, gather resources for you, and support your Cultivation Breakthrough.

At a critical moment, if you are needed to step up, can you really say no?

Heh, you actually can say no.

For the native experts of the Cultivation World, the lower-level Cultivators are not worthy of emotional consideration; after achieving Golden Core, one can almost do as he pleases.

Only the lower-level Cultivators fear you; there is no reason for you to fear the lower-level Cultivators.

Even if a Sect is annihilated, a single person leaving means a Legacy, and he can start anew at any time.

An Imperial Dynasty might still be concerned about its national destiny, but the Sect Masters and Old Ancestors of Sects truly have no concerns whatsoever.

There are even Sect Geniuses who enjoy the best resources, Breakthrough to Immortal Foundation and Golden Core, then leave the Sect in style, calling it 'traveling abroad.' The Disciples who supported him cannot say a single word of objection; they must respectfully preserve resources for him.

However, for players like Midnight Gao Sou, the situation is a bit different.

He cares about his reputation.

So, when they spent over an hour finding "Jiang Yezi" and learned that the Magic Treasure had been taken by other players, Midnight Gao Sou was silent for a moment before saying:

"Chase."

Watermelon Prince looked at him and whispered, "Gao Sou, Jiang Yezi said that person ran straight out of the Immortal Cave. If we chase him, we'll be going in the opposite direction, and our exploration progress won't keep up with other players."

Midnight Gao Sou looked at Jiang Yezi, whose Mortal Foundation player's face was filled with anger. He had finally found a precious Magic Treasure, only to have it snatched away; he couldn't swallow this insult.

Old Potato was also helpless. He didn't really want to stick up for Jiang Yezi, but since Midnight Gao Sou had spoken, he found it difficult to object.

Thus, everyone had no choice but to release their spiritual sense and rush towards the outer reaches of the Immortal Cave, attempting to find the player who had left with the treasure... On the other side.

Ye Chun led his people into the Spirit Peak and saw a pavilion with upturned eaves, carved arches, and shimmering glazed tiles.

He searched very carefully, not only finding some scattered spiritual resources but also discovering a jade tablet through Cultivation Technique resonance, which appeared to be a pass for a certain Sect building.

After finding the jade tablet, Ye Chun led his people deeper, searching very cautiously along the way.

Mingshui Heaven is too vast. Even knowing that the core should be within the inner Formation, finding a Cultivation Technique Legacy is still like searching for a needle in a haystack. Therefore, the most reasonable approach is to look for texts left by predecessors in various buildings, infer the functions and distribution of different buildings, and finally constantly pinpoint the location to find buildings like the Scripture Pavilion.

Just as Ye Chun finished searching another pavilion, a Mortal Foundation player suddenly spoke:

"Great God Ye Chun, one of our small teams has clashed with people from the Great Love Sect. Both sides have Mortal Foundation Cultivators, and the fight is very intense."

Ye Chun continued walking, analyzing clues to determine that this area was where Cultivators resided. Going further up the mountain path should be the peak for daily Qi absorption. Different Legacies use peaks with different characteristics for Qi absorption, and he could use this to further delineate areas and ultimately locate the Legacy he was looking for.

Upon hearing the new intelligence, Ye Chun simply asked calmly:

"What's the reason?"

The player confirmed and replied, "They said they found a Golden Core Method in an Immortal Cave, recorded on some kind of spiritual paper, with a Seal applied for secrecy, which requires some time to break. While he was casting the spell to break the Seal, he was targeted by a Great Love Sect Elder, and that's how the fight started."

After speaking, the player added, "Great God, it's said that Immortal Cave doesn't just have a Golden Core Method, but also some other spiritual resources. Should we go over? It's not far, calculated to be about twenty minutes away."

Ye Chun shook his head: "Send him a message. If they can avoid it, then avoid it. Now is not the time to go to war with the Great Love Sect. Our primary mission is to find the Nascent Soul Method."

Many people thought that the Heshui Prefecture guild players led by Ye Chun would go to war with the Great Love Sect, but Ye Chun knew very well that the most important mission in coming to the Immortal Cave this time was to find the Nascent Soul Method.

Even if he really had to engage in an all-out battle with Midnight Gao Sou and others, he would have to wait until he found the Legacy and successfully Breakthrough to Immortal Foundation; only then would he have a chance of winning.

"Alright, Great God, I'll emphasize that to everyone right away."

The player, not angered by the rebuttal, smiled and sent the message.

This is the difference between Ye Chun and Midnight Gao Sou. As a former professional Great God, he has a group of loyal fans who trust his strategic vision and tactical operations immensely, and are willing to follow his commands.

Midnight Gao Sou's fans, however, are mostly thrill-seekers, and the Great Love Sect's players are even more diverse, making it difficult to establish personal prestige.

Ye Chun looked up at the peak, sensing the surrounding spiritual energy, constantly organizing the various clues he had gathered in his mind, and couldn't help but feel emotional.

It turns out that Mingshui Heaven indeed belongs to the Kongming Lineage, but it contains more than one Legacy. Each complete Legacy corresponds to a peak, and each peak has at least one Golden Core Cultivator guarding it. There are a total of seventeen such peaks.

In other words, during the peak of the Kongming Lineage, Mingshui Heaven alone, as an Immortal Cave, had at least seventeen Golden Core Experts.

Ye Chun looked around. The area he was in belonged to "White Bird Peak." The main peak was still far away, with countless secondary peaks, all shrouded in white mist, looking like a fairyland.

It was this fleeting glimpse that made Ye Chun have even greater expectations for the Xuanhuan World.

'No wonder everyone says that the Four Kingdoms are just a Newbie Village now. The vastness of the Xuanhuan World and the might of its experts are probably beyond anyone's imagination...'

At this moment, Ye Chun suddenly stopped, his brows slightly furrowed.

He suddenly remembered that after the Golden Core Tomb opened, the Golden Core Cultivator's last breath of Clarity Qi caused a phenomenon, and many players even died because of it. He also joined Heshui Prefecture at that time.

So, in this Mingshui Heaven, which possesses a Nascent Soul Inheritance, is there something similar?

It might even be something left not by a Golden Core, but by something even more terrifying, a Nascent Soul… 'Perhaps the Three Great Sects didn't come not just because they were wary of the Empress…'

Ye Chun kept thinking. He said to his teammates:

"Search thoroughly, and it's best to also scan posts on the forum to gather all the Immortal Cave intelligence. The amount of intelligence is a matter of life and death."

...Midnight Gao Sou, being an Immortal Foundation Cultivator, was very fast, and with a bunch of Great Love Sect players providing clues, he finally caught up with the player who had snatched the Magic Treasure.

Working together with Old Potato, Watermelon Prince, and others, they successfully killed the opponent outside the Immortal Cave and retrieved the Magic Treasure.

It was a crystal-clear, square jade stone, engraved with mysterious patterns and shimmering with spiritual light, looking extremely extraordinary.

Although Midnight Gao Sou hesitated, he still handed it over to "Jiang Yezi."

After this matter was resolved, nearly six hours had passed since they received the news. If considering the time to return to the Immortal Cave, it would be even longer.

Jiang Yezi bid farewell to everyone, saying he was going back to refine the Magic Treasure.

Midnight Gao Sou saw him off, then looked at Old Potato and the others again, smiling wryly:

"Let's go, let's continue back to Mingshui Heaven. We shouldn't be too far behind."