Chaotic World Book

"And talking to me about this is pointless," Zhao Changhe thought swiftly, his face expressionless as he said, "Since Ye Wuzong is injured and Xiang Simeng's strength is mediocre, with no strong fighters in the entire Spirit Clan, they're not worth mentioning. You've been infiltrating and buying them off for so long; why is there still no progress?"

The man was sweating profusely, "Because the Spirit Clan has inexplicably recovered their ancient Spirit Manipulation Technique and unearthed some beast eggs left from Ancient Times. In this past half year, Exotic Beasts have risen and demon gu have hatched, with several as powerful as those on the Earth List and Human List. If we count the Secret Technique of beast possession, Xiang Simeng's strength has become unfathomable, and stealing the axe through infiltration and bribery is no longer feasible."

Zhao Changhe was stunned for a moment.

So the Spirit Clan is this formidable now... I thought Sisi's side was weak, and the serenity around here was strange because of that. If they're not weak, then there's nothing strange about it. No one dares to easily provoke a bunch of Exotic Beasts from the Earth List and Human List, and a group of Spirit Clan fighters capable of spirit possession, plus a 'unfathomable' Holy Daughter.

Right, the Spirit Clan has always been different; they control beasts and refine gu. As long as these external elements succeed, they grow stronger. I took the Spirit Manipulation Technique from Xue Wu and gave it to Sisi, so naturally, the Spirit Clan rose.

Although Sisi once thought relying on external items was unscientific, and focusing on self-improvement through Martial Arts was the correct approach, thus she went on to learn the Han people's Martial Arts... but to rapidly increase one's power in the short term, their traditional methods are indeed more impressive. Just a youngling Blood Turtle, growing for two months, could trample an army of ten thousand...

Snow Eagle must have fallen into the same thinking trap as I did, considering Sisi's side very weak, sending a few strong hands along with various bribes and infiltrations should be enough—considering the last encounter in Miao Region, the influence of Listening Snow Tower and Ba Mountain Sword House in Miao Region seems deep-rooted. There are Sword House disciples in other clans, and that could not have been uprooted simply due to Wuding's demise. In fact, they seem to have quite an extensive arrangement here, which should be sufficient to handle the situation.

Now it looks like I've kicked an iron board.

But thinking about it, something doesn't add up.

Why had Listening Snow Tower and Ba Mountain Sword House laid out so many schemes in Miao Region, just for Wuding to find the Spirit Clan Secret Realm?

The Spirit Clan people don't practice swordsmanship, so they wouldn't value it highly; it shouldn't have been the choice Wuding, so full of swords in his heart, was so eager for. The reason he aimlessly sought this Secret Realm is more likely due to the influence of the Sword Slave, drawn by some mysterious force. So, it wasn't Wuding who wanted to find it, but Snow Eagle.

And at that time, there was no Divine Axe in the Spirit Clan, so what was Snow Eagle's aim? It seems the Divine Axe was just an added benefit, and there was something else originally.

Zhao Changhe thought for a while, then coldly bluffed a sentence, "I'm not here just for the Divine Axe."

Whether the "Lord" had other considerations, the subordinate couldn't possibly know, bluffing away. At most, it meant this group was just for the Divine Axe, and others were in charge of other tasks.

The man, wiping his sweat, said, "We don't know about God Yin Kui's progress... Our mission is the Divine Axe, not the same target as theirs... We only know that He has just finished matters outside, and whether He has entered the Spirit Clan Secret Realm at this time, He wouldn't inform us..."

Zhao Changhe's heart skipped a beat. As expected, another Demon God, "just finished outside matters"—I don't know what that signifies, but since it's "finished," now there's a high likelihood that He has already entered the Spirit Clan Secret Realm.

These strict guards outside, effective against mortals, are useless against the powers of Gods and Demons. Even if I wanted to go in, using disguising and Soul Capturing to infiltrate would be very easy, let alone these unknown Demon Gods.

He took a deep breath, "Since this is the case, I also need to enter now and collaborate with Yin Kui. Let your people take me in stealthily; don't tell me you don't have one."

"Of course, we do. Lord, follow me." The man quickly threw down a silver to settle the bill, turned into the back of the tavern, guided Zhao Changhe for a bit, and arrived at a side gate of the Spirit Clan village.

A fully armed group of village guards blocked the way, but seeing the man leading Zhao Changhe over, they had no reaction.

The commanding officer frowned, "Don't be so blatant, we're not without supervision."

The man laughed, "It should be the last time."

The officer looked at Zhao Changhe in surprise, nodded and said, "Quickly, and don't make a sound."

Zhao Changhe followed him expressionlessly into a cavern outside a stone wall; the officer exchanged glances with the cave guard, "By the protector's order, return to our clan to report on a matter."

Without checking, the cave guard waved them through the passage.

Zhao Changhe thus entered the entrance to Taoyuan Town and the Spirit Clan Secret Realm so blatantly, it was as easy as if he were in his own living room. His heart turned very gloomy, for the leading officer was a Han and the cave guards were of the Spirit Clan; it could be said the infiltration was so thorough, it didn't matter the clan, every place was bought, and the iron barrel-like defense was actually as full of holes as a sieve.

The Spirit Clan had just risen for half a year, and it was already like this. Not only because Sisi was managing both internal and external maps and couldn't cover every aspect, but also because Listening Snow Tower had been laying out their plans in Miao Region for a long time, plus this targeted infiltration, few powers could help being hollowed out.

The man said "It should be the last time," indicating that many had infiltrated before, and who knows how many are there by now...

Thinking of these things, the space changed in the next moment, and he had entered the Spirit Clan Secret Realm.

The entrance here was not the same as the one I used to enter from Snow Mountain, leading directly into a depression in the Holy Mountain of the Spirit Clan. Zhao Changhe's first reaction was coldness, an unexpected coldness.

From what I knew before, the Spirit Clan should not experience seasons, this is a fake Heavenly Vault... But now it's as cold as the Northern regions.

Zhao Changhe looked up at the sky, a sea of dark clouds overhead, looking as if a heavy snow was about to fall, not yet coming down. This weather... is likely problematic.

The guard post at the valley entrance indeed had internal guards, but once you reached the open area of the valley, the guards became almost non-existent. Zhao Changhe couldn't bother with pretense and disappeared into the mountains in a flash, heading straight for the rear of the Holy Temple, where Sisi lived.

Just as he arrived at the Holy Temple, before he could circle around to the back, he happened to see the temple doors opening.

From inside came the familiar Blood Qi of the Jun Heaven Blood Jade, along with another power that was unfamiliar yet recognized: as fierce as sky-slaying thunder, wild and violent, with the occasional roar of thunder tearing through the heavenly vault and the sizzling sound of electricity.

Longevity Heaven God Axe!

It seemed it had already been enshrined in the Spirit Clan's Holy Temple. It looked like the Spirit Clan truly believed they were fated to possess this object.

And as the doors opened, Sisi, dressed in lavish Alien Clan attire, with a pearl crown on her head and a short skirt with bare feet, slowly walked out from the temple. The guards on both sides bowed and saluted, "Holy Daughter."

Sisi waved her hand, looking up at the sky, "This sky, it actually looks like it's about to snow..."

The guards all said, "Could it be the anomaly of the Divine Axe?"

Sisi nodded, "Possibly, after all, it tears through the thunder and influences the weather, it's not surprising..."

Her voice was soft, with a tinge of melancholy, leaving the guards somewhat bewildered; they looked at each other for a while before saying, "If that's the case, Holy Daughter, you should return to rest early. You just recovered from a serious illness a few days ago; it's best not to catch a cold..."

Zhao Changhe was astonished.

Just recovered from a serious illness?

How could that be? It's very hard to get sick in the late stage of the Mystical Gate, unless like Wanzhuang, there was a mishap during cultivation, or an injury occurred. By all logic, Sisi should at least possess the First Layer Secret Treasure and, if she used the Spirit Manipulation Secret Technique, she might even have the level of the Heavenly List—indeed unfathomable. Could someone at that level get sick? Catch a cold?

Yet Sisi smiled faintly, "I am not sick..."

A young guard girl stomped her foot, "Still saying you're not, but out of nowhere you were in so much pain you were sweating profusely, curled up and convulsing... and it happens every few days, with no one knowing when the illness will strike."

Sisi glared sharply, "Be quiet, my condition is confidential, can you just blabber about it?"

The young girl was startled, grumbling discontentedly, "But we're all family here."

"That only proves how he repeatedly falls into danger and accumulates injuries..." Sisi murmured to herself with a faint smile, "It's good, this way he and I... feel very close."

The young girls were dumbfounded, What are you talking about?

Zhao Changhe watched Sisi's lovely face, his thoughts freezing there.

Finally, small snowflakes began to drift down from the sky. Sisi, somewhat surprised and delighted, reached out to catch the snowflakes, the tiny flakes landing in her palm and quickly melting.

The young girls around her were also quite happy; other than outside on the snow mountain, they had never seen snow inside and couldn't help but laugh and jump for joy, "So beautiful!"

Sisi stared somewhat distractedly at the growing snowflakes, her mouth unconsciously curving into a smile, "He is in the Capital, at this time in the twelfth month, the Palace must be covered with flying snow. I didn't expect to be able to feel what he's experiencing here."

Zhao Changhe: "..."

When we were young, we recited couplets like 'the Crouching Dragon and the Young Phoenix'. How have you become so literary after some time apart?

The young girls were also baffled, "Holy Daughter, you say you're not sick, but we think this is serious illness, and you're not lightly ill."

"What can I do about it?" Sisi smiled faintly, "He's so busy with his affairs, he won't spare a glance for this remote Miao Region. Between us is a world apart, with no set date for reunion. Other than finding some connection myself, what else can I do?"

She opened her hands, basking in the larger snowflakes, and said with a smile, "I've been studying poetry these days, and I saw this line: 'Two hearts think of each other as the snow falls; in this life, they also share the silver hair.' Do you all think it's fitting or not?"

The young girls tilted their heads in thought, then said, "But that only counts if there's mutual longing. What's the point of one-sided love? Does he think of you? Just a heartbreaker!"

Sisi: "..."

The girls all sighed, "The traditions passed down by our elders are indeed correct, we should have bewitched him with Gu, too bad you're too smitten to do it, you're just being foolish!"

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