Chapter 500 – Against the Stars Alliance
”What’s the big deal? I just came out of seclusion the other day, tell me about it!” Han Li had an indifferent look on his face.
”If senior wants to ask, of course the late generation and the others will tell the truth. However, can I ask senior’s honorable name?” The old man asked carefully with his hands hanging down.
Hearing such a question, Han Li was a bit surprised, but after tilting his head in thought, he said with a smile on his face, “It seems like you’re quite careful. I am a guest elder of the Myriad Sound Sect, surnamed Han. I wonder if you’ve heard of me?”
”So it’s Elder Han of the Myriad Sound Sect, that’s not an outsider. Our sect’s Fairy Snow Flute and your sect master, Fairy Violet Spirit, are close friends! Our two sects have always been friends.” The old man let out a long sigh of relief after hearing Han Li declare his identity, then said with a smile on his face.
Seeing the other party reveal this expression of everyone being one of their own, Han Li was dumbfounded before laughing.
With this smile, he made the old man in front of him look stagnant and somewhat uneasy with his speculations. “Could it be that he said something wrong?” The old man thought with some suspicion.
”I have always not cared about the matters in the door, and I also don’t care if what you say is true or false, as long as you answer my questions properly, you will not be made difficult for no reason. Now put things into words, what great things have happened recently?” Han Li said with a convergence of smiles.
”How could I deceive senior, everything I said earlier was true …… The matter is like this.” The old man accompanied a smiling face, almost swearing an oath. But under Han Li’s chilling gaze, he immediately began to recount again.
”Some time ago, a rumor suddenly spread in the Sea of Chaotic Stars that the Heavenly Star Twin Saints’ Yuan Magnetism Divine Light had come to a great completion and were about to break out of the gate. And the Star Palace intends to use this opportunity to start removing some forces that are disobedient or uncontrollable. Originally, most people thought that this was just another rumor, but I didn’t expect that just a few days after this rumor was spread, the Star Palace actually sent out a Heavenly Star Order to all the big and small forces, ordering all sect leaders and island lords to go to the Heavenly Star City to see the Heavenly Star Twin Saints once when they received the Heavenly Star Order, or else they would be annihilated in the name of being disrespectful to the Star Palace.” This old man spoke in detail.
”Allowing the forces to have an audience with the Heavenly Star Twin Saints? Can’t be mistaken! The Star Palace would issue such an order that clearly invites a backlash?” Han Li narrowed his eyes and said with some disbelief.
”Yes, once this Heavenly Star Order was sent out to all the forces, most of them were confused! If it was when the Star Palace forces were at their peak, issuing this kind of order would have been nothing, but now that the forces of the Righteous and Devilish paths are not under it, doing so is baffling.” The old man also revealed a bitter smile as he spoke.
”Then the cultivators I’ve met along the way are all going to have an audience with the Heavenly Star Twin Saints?” Han Li asked with a frown as he re-examined the group for a few moments.
”That’s hard to say!” The old man revealed a hesitant look and said somewhat vaguely.
”It’s not easy to say? What do you mean!” Han Li’s face flashed with a strange color and asked somewhat strangely.
”Senior, there are still some things that I haven’t finished saying. It wasn’t long after the Star Palace issued the Heavenly Star Order that the Righteous Dao and the Devil Dao suddenly announced that they were joining forces to form an organization called the ‘Against the Stars Alliance’, claiming that they wanted to break the Star Palace’s hegemony over the Sea of Disordered Stars and end the Star Palace’s rule once and for all. The Chief Protector of the Manifestation Sect of the Righteous Dao, Wan Sangu, and the current No. 1 person of the Devil Dao, the ‘Six Paths Extreme Sage’, served as the two leaders of the Reverse Star Alliance at the same time. As soon as the Reverse Star Alliance was established, numerous sects and organizations belonging to the righteous and devilish paths had joined it. Many other forces have also responded, and there are dozens of YuanYing stage cultivators who have also joined and taken up the position of elders. And this Reverse Star Alliance even learned from the Star Palace, and similarly issued a ghost card called the Reverse Star Order to other forces. Claiming that any force that responds to the Heavenly Star Twin Saints’ audience will automatically become an enemy of the Reverse Star Alliance and will not be spared. Furthermore, they claimed that they will be attacking Star City in the near future, and that other forces are free to go forward and watch to show their stance.” The old man revealed a helpless look.
When he heard this, Han Li remained unmoving on the surface and froze up for a moment in his heart. It was too unexpected that something of this magnitude had occurred within the short period of time that he had been trapped in the Void Sky Hall!
For a time, Han Li’s mind was somewhat confused.
Suddenly Han Li’s heart stirred as he looked at the old man and calmly asked, “What kind of ghost token is that Reverse Star Order, do you have this token on you?”
”Although this clan received a piece of this order, it is on the Patriarch’s body. However, I did copy the look of the token within a jade slip, does senior want to take a look?” The old man froze for a moment, but then said curtly.
”En! Take a look!” Han Li nodded with an indifferent expression.
As soon as the old man heard this, he immediately flipped his own storage bag and fished out a yellow jade slip from it, not daring to be slow in holding it out to Han Li with both hands.
Han Li did not politely receive it and quickly probed his divine sense in to scan it, his face changing slightly!
Sure enough, it was exactly the same as the ghostly face pattern that the Sixth Lian Temple Elder had shown to Wu Chou that day. Although there were some changes in appearance, it was definitely from the same source. It seems that the two paths of righteousness and devilry have long been secretly colluding, and have carefully infiltrated undercover agents to other forces many years ago.
Han Li was surprised in his heart, but on the surface, he returned the jade slip to the old man with an expressionless face.
”In that case, you are going to the vicinity of Heavenly Star City to see the upcoming war between the Star Palace and the Reverse Star Alliance before deciding on a trade-off.” Han Li asked casually.
Hearing Han Li’s words, the old man revealed a point of embarrassment.
”Yes, senior. A few of us were indeed ordered by the Patriarch to go ahead and take a look at the situation. After all, our Three Immortals Sect is not a large sect, so we can only improvise. However, within this period of time the Reverse Star Alliance had already launched an attack on the outer star islands of Heavenly Star City and had the upper hand. There are even a few islands that have directly declared their defection to the Reverse Star Alliance. It was estimated that it would be the turn of the inner star islands to be seized below. And some people with bad intentions also took the opportunity to come out and make waves. Quite a few scattered small sects and clans have had accidents, either throwing their corpses into the wilderness or being exterminated by all of them.” The old man again pointed out with some worry why the cultivators who were rushing on the road all looked cautious.
”So that’s how it is. Well, since the matter has been made clear, you may leave.”
Satisfied with the old man’s answer, Han Li gently waved his hand and said blandly.
”Then the late generation will take their leave first.” The old man’s heart was overjoyed at hearing Han Li’s words, and he hurriedly saluted as he took his leave.
Although he didn’t see Han Li as a poor and evil-looking man, being with an unfamiliar JieDan stage cultivator still made him a bit frightened, and without much delay, he led the others to fly away from this place in a hurry.
Han Li, on the other hand, stood still and pondered.
The fact that a great war had finally erupted between the Star Palace and the two sides of the Righteous Devil was mixed news for him. On the good side, the great war would definitely involve most of those old monsters’ energies. All of them were affiliated with both the Orthodox and Demonic sides, and it was impossible for them not to be involved in this matter. As such, they wouldn’t be able to devote their full attention to tracking down the Void Sky Cauldron and him, which made him much safer.
On the bad side, the great war together would bring a lot of trouble to his current return to Heavenly Star City. At the very least, the inspection of cultivators entering the city would definitely be much stricter, especially for JieDan stage cultivators like them. Moreover, if the great war had broken out before he rushed back to Heavenly Star City, then the matter of him entering the city would probably be completely lost. It was unlikely that the Star Palace would still allow other cultivators to casually enter the city at such a moment.
Thinking of this, Han Li secretly sighed.
In the following days, he intercepted a few more waves of low-ranked cultivators, asking for more or less the same words.
Now Han Li was floating on a sea surface, staring blankly into the distance with a hesitant look on his face.
As soon as he raised his head to look at the azure sky, he suddenly flipped his palm and a small green bottle appeared in his hand. It was the very bottle that contained the ten thousand year old spirit milk.
Looking at the vial, Han Li’s face revealed a hint of helplessness. To use up this item so quickly, it was really a bit tyrannical! But if not, I’m afraid that before he arrives at Heavenly Star City, the Reverse Star Alliance will have already launched an offensive, so he won’t be able to enter Heavenly Star City again, much less escape to the outer star sea through that transmission array.
After pondering for a good half a day, Han Li finally opened the lid of the bottle with a clench of his teeth, carefully pouring out a few drops of transparent, viscous liquid from the bottle and dropping it into his mouth.
Then he re-stowed the vial and draped the blood-colored cloak over it, instantly transforming into a ball of blood light that shot out and disappeared without a trace from its original location. Later, within half a month, once Han Li waited for his body’s mana to be almost depleted, he directly dripped in some spirit milk and then continued to use the Scarlet Cloak Ancient Treasure to catch up without stopping. In this way, Han Li naturally greatly shortened the original distance, almost as fast as an ordinary YuanYing stage cultivator flying away.
As a result of the road, also really let some occasional encounter JieDan stage cultivators, mistakenly blood light in the Han Li as which YuanYing stage of the senior senior, have to avoid three feet no one dares to block for a moment.
More no cultivator dares to this “YuanYing stage senior”, have any ill-intentioned ideas.