Chapter 621 – Du Dong and an Audience
Han Li stroked his chin, and under the sweep of his divine sense, the muttering voices and conversational words of many people poured into his ears.
”Who is this person?”
”What an unfamiliar face, is he a new disciple?”
”How come Master Mu came with this person?”
”This person is related to Uncle Mu, right? Uncle Mu who never traveled with male cultivators, how could he come with this person!”
The series of questions and envious words were all heard by Han Li.
Han Li’s face looked as normal, but he secretly sighed in his heart. He then took a few steps away from the front of the temple door and plunged into the crowd. Even so, Han Li could still feel quite a few gazes sizing himself up.
”Senior Brother Han, I didn’t expect to meet again until now after parting that day.” Right at this moment, a seemingly bold voice suddenly came from behind him.
Han Li was stunned and glanced back, only to see that a few feet away behind him, there was a big man standing, precisely the big man called “Du Dong”.
At the moment, he was greeting Han Li with a smile on his face.
After a trace of oddness flashed in Han Li’s eyes, a smile appeared on his face and he politely cupped his fists and said, “So it’s Senior Brother Du, I wonder how Senior Brother is doing at Senior Uncle Jiang’s place!”
The Uncle Jiang in Han Li’s mouth was none other than the white-haired old man who had taken the other party away that day.
”Good, very good.” The big man hemmed and hawed, looking naive.
Han Li sneered a few times in his heart, but on the surface, he chatted with the other party about some of the respective experiences of the breakup.
Listening to what the other party said, it seemed that the white-haired old man thought that this person had a talent for talisman making, and had the intention of cultivating him heavily. When he said this, Du Dong had a joyful look on his face, as if he was extremely excited.
Han Li heard, but in his heart, he had some sympathy for the white-haired old man. This person focuses on cultivating who can not, have to cultivate this ill-intentioned guy, in the future will most likely be implicated by it is not light.
Thinking this way, Han Li naturally did not have the intention of reminding that Master Jiang, and still spoke to the big man without a word.
But at this moment, the big man suddenly had a mysterious look on his face as he rushed Han Li and said: ”Master Han, do you know? Uncle Mu, who is specifically responsible for instructing you, is our Tianquan Peak’s number one beauty, and can be ranked among the top three in the entire Falling Cloud Sect. Now that you and Uncle Mu have arrived together, I’m afraid that it has caused quite a commotion.”
”It’s not that I’m afraid, but already!”
Han Li let out a bitter smile and swept a glance around. Helplessly, he said.
”However, Senior Brother and Uncle Mu came together with their imperial weapons. Did Senior Uncle say anything to you related to this gathering.”
Du Dong’s tone changed. It appeared to be a careless and casual question.
”Oh! This ah. No ah! Could it be that Senior Brother Du has heard something? Why don’t you tell it to senior brother to hear it!”
Han Li’s expression on his face remained unchanged, but his eyes changed to an expression that seemed like a smile. And glanced at the other party with great meaning.
The big man’s original naive smile, under Han Li’s look, his heart suddenly jumped, and he suddenly had the feeling that he had been penetrated by the other party, and his heart was suddenly appalled.
But then Han Li turned his head, looked in other directions, this feeling immediately disappeared without a trace, as if it was an illusion, and let this person secretly suspicious. But as a result, the big man also vaguely dare not stay with Han Li again, forced a smile and Han Li said a few words, then excused himself towards another familiar Tianquan Peak cultivator went.
Han Li looked at his departing figure, and a sneer flashed across his face. Right at this moment, Yin Yue’s voice came to mind, “Brother Han, did you deliberately startle the other party back, aren’t you afraid that this person will become suspicious of you in the future, and thus be unfavorable to you?”
”This person’s identity is unknown, but mixing into the Falling Clouds Sect is definitely nothing good, I’m unwilling to have more contact with him, it’s better to let him take the initiative to alienate himself from me. In case something big really happens, it will save me from being implicated. As for some suspicion, that has nothing to do with, he himself is also harboring evil intentions, and can put me how, at most, I am more careful one or two just. Even if he wants to secretly attack me, do you think he can succeed? And I have no intention of stopping the other party, I just don’t want to have any more interactions with him.” Han Li slowly replied back with his divine thoughts.
Upon hearing Han Li’s words, Silvermoon fell silent, clearly recognizing that Han Li’s words had some truth to them. After all, if this Du Dong really wanted to do some unseemly scheming in the Falling Cloud Sect, in the event that things came to light later on, the senior brothers and sisters who were too close to him would definitely be subject to the attention and suspicion of the sect’s higher-ups.
This was not something Han Li was happy to see.
Thus, in the time below, Han Li was alone in sizing up the crowd of low-rank disciples here.
These people are old and young, male and female, the older not necessarily high cultivation, the younger there are also to the twelve or thirteen layer of the Qi refining stage.
Among them, there are also some good-looking young women, quite eye-catching in the crowd. However, next to every female cultivator of the right age, almost certainly followed by several male cultivators of similar age. It seems that this Fallen Cloud Sect and other sects, young and beautiful female cultivators are very sought after ah.
Just as Han Li was pondering, the door to the hall finally opened. Then a dignified voice came out from inside, causing people to stand in awe.
”Tianquan Peak disciples, all enter the hall!”
This faint man’s voice was none other than the Peak Master of Tianquan Peak, the intermediate JieDan cultivator surnamed Xin who had met him once that day.
As soon as the disciples outside the door heard this voice, they all bent down and respectfully said, “I respectfully obey the order of the master!” Then the crowd immediately filed in two by two. Han Li, because he was the latest to enter, naturally and consciously lined up with Du Dong at the end to enter the Heart Washing Hall.
This hall is extremely wide, three to four hundred feet wide, in addition to dozens of tall columns, only the most forward center position, placed two a positive side of the chair. The rest of the place is empty, the columns are inlaid with a piece of moonstone polished into prismatic shape, radiating a faint soft white light.
On the two chairs were already two cultivators, one was a white man with a refined face, and the other was a gray-clothed old man with a head full of messy hair and a somewhat hideous face.
In the two chairs slightly in front of the position, there are more than ten Foundation Establishment stage cultivators standing side by side, standing in two columns.
That cold and colorful woman with the surname Mu and the youth with the surname Yu who led Han Li to enter the door, both stood within the same column, while that day with the heart charm test them with the youth with the surname Miao, stood on the opposite side of the column at the head of the position, the face was still full of sickly looks, as if weak.
As soon as the crowd of disciples entered the main hall, they immediately saluted the two men seated on the chairs, once again in unison.
”Greetings to Senior Ancestor Xin and Senior Ancestor Yu, the two Senior Ancestors!”
”That’s all, get up!”
The middle-aged man sitting in the center said with a smile, then waved his hand, causing all the disciples to rise and stand.
The lower-ranked disciples below were respectfully divided into two rows and stood on both sides of the hall, with Han Li and that Du Dong standing close to the hall door.
Han Li used his divine sense to slightly scan the fierce-looking old man, and it turned out that the other party was only an early JieDan cultivator. This is the deputy peak master, “Uncle Yu”, who has long been known, but has never been seen.
Han Li only looked at two eyes, no longer put in mind to withdraw the divine sense.
At this time, the peak master, cultivator Xin, had slowly opened his mouth.
”This time, I’ve summoned everyone. I’m sure some disciples have already guessed a few points. It’s not bad, yesterday this sect just officially received the circular letter from the Ancient Sword Sect down here. This time, the Sword Trial Conference will be held in half a year’s time. Because the last time it happened to have been held in this Sect, so this time the location of the conference will be held in the Hundred Qiao Courtyard of the same breath, and we and the disciples from the Ancient Sword Sect who are participating in the competition are going to go to the Western Vein of the Cloud Dream to participate in the conference. However, because according to the previous practice, this Sword Trial Assembly can only have thirty people from each of the three sects participating in the competition, and only at the end will the top ten be taken and given heavy prizes, so all of us from the Falling Cloud Sect will have to select internally before we can decide on the candidates to participate in the competition.”
The middle-aged man calmly said here, his voice slightly paused, and then continued, “Of course there are six of these slots, which are designated by each of our six Peak Masters to have one person who does not need to take part in the competition, and can directly participate. The rest of the twenty-four places, by the peaks eligible disciples to focus on a test, and then the winning disciple, and then by the door of the elders with the remaining time to be personally to point out one or two. Yesterday, several of our peak masters have already discussed with the Sect Leader, and the clan competition will be held in a month’s time. But before that, let me give a warning to disciples who don’t know much about the Sword Trial Conference, any disciple who is over thirty years old or whose cultivation hasn’t even passed the tenth level of the Qi Refining Stage is forbidden to participate. There are no other restrictions. Now give everyone a incense time to consider, all self-confessed conditions qualified, but also willing to participate in the competition disciples, can stand out on their own, I have some other words to explain. By the way, for the disciples who don’t need to participate in the competition this time, your Master Yu and I have jointly appointed your Uncle Mu. Alright, Jun’er! Let’s start lighting the incense below.”
”As you wish, Master.”
The youth surnamed Yu immediately stepped forward and nimbly pulled out a bronze tripod from his storage pouch and placed it in the middle of the hall. He then inserted a sandalwood incense on it, and with a flash of fire in his hand, he lit it.
A green smoke that curled up into the air.