Chapter 267_3
"Is someone there?"
Everyone, hearing the voice, was taken aback. They turned around, one after another, their gazes pierce through the white fog.
Upon this examination, they immediately spotted a figure charging towards them at an incredibly fast speed within the mist.
In just the blink of an eye, the figure had emerged from the range of the white fog and landed on the shore.
Immediately, their attention was drawn to the Golden Core of the stranger.
"Nine Abnormal Phenomenon Golden Pills?"
"Hasn't completed Pill Fusion yet?"
"It's normal not to have completed Pill Fusion. After all, possessing nine Golden Pills, all of them exhibiting abnormal phenomena, definitely identifies one as a transcendent talent. Such a talent is inevitably aiming for the Ten Different Phenomena of Golden Elixir Great Perfection. It's certain that with nine pills, there will be no fusion."
"I find it abnormal. A genius of this caliber should be preserved for a breakthrough attempt. Why would they send someone like this over? After all, they don't know what we're planning. If we intended to harm them, wouldn't they be risking the loss of a talent highly likely to achieve Ten Different Phenomena Golden Elixir Great Perfection?"
"I can't figure it out either."
"Let's just ask when the time comes. They should have more people arriving; they wouldn't just dispatch a person with Nine Abnormal Phenomenon Golden Pills."
The group's gaze continued to focus on the direction of the fog, but the mist returned to its previous calm, revealing nothing else, no matter how hard they looked.
Cao Zhen flew out from the white fog and immediately noticed the crowds standing on the shore, their Golden Cores already manifesting behind them.
Without exception, all these individuals were at the Golden Core Stage.
As expected, the opposition had been waiting here.
Cao Zhen raised his hands in greeting and said, "Eastern Wasteland, Hundred Peaks Sect, Peak Master of Four Treasures Peak, Cao Zhen, greets all the Dao Companions here. May I know where this place is?"
While speaking, he retracted the Nine Abnormal Phenomenon Golden Pills from behind him, which in the Cultivation world, if one pulls back their Golden Pills, is also a sign of no malice.
On the shore, the Golden Core Stage cultivators turned their heads, looking towards the stone platform.
Atop the stone platform, people were momentarily stunned. If there were others coming, this person with Nine Abnormal Phenomenon Golden Pills should have waited for their arrival before speaking, and the one to speak first would certainly be the leader.
But now, this person spoke, suggesting that they really sent just one person?
How bold must the cultivators from that region be to dispatch a single individual? And yet to send someone with Nine Abnormal Phenomenon Golden Pills, potentially likely to reach Ten Different Phenomena Golden Elixir Great Perfection?
Just one person? Were they sure they weren't sending someone to their death?
For a moment, everyone harbored the same guess.
This person with Nine Abnormal Phenomenon Golden Pills must have been ostracized within their Sect or had offended the Sect Leader, hence being sent here.
Or perhaps, their Immortal Sect was in decline, with only this person remaining. And for some reasons, they couldn't kill him directly; yet considering his extraordinary talent, he might become a threat in the future. With the mysterious fog appearing, he was therefore dispatched.
Among them, a man clad in a green robe thought for a moment before opening his mouth to speak. It was expected that their side would respond to the arrival with Sister Song Nianzhu in charge.
However, the visitor only possessed Nine Abnormal Phenomenon Golden Pills and hadn't completed Pill Fusion, whereas Song Nianzhu had achieved Perfect Completion Golden Core with Ten Different Phenomena, ranking among the top five in the entire Eastern Border.
Their statuses surely weren't equal. Having Sister Song speak would be too great an honor for the visitor.
So, it was better for him to speak instead.
Just as the man was about to speak, Sister Song Nianzhu's voice was already resonating beside him.
"Greetings to this Dao Companion from the Eastern Wasteland. This place is the Eastern Border."
"Eastern Border?" Cao Zhen, hearing this name, was momentarily dumbfounded, his face revealing an odd expression.
Song Nianzhu observed the change in his expression. Without any visible movement, her form soared, landing next to Cao Zhen in an instant. Her feet touched the ground without a sound. She looked at Cao Zhen and inquired, "Dao Companion, have you encountered someone from the Eastern Border before, or heard of our affairs? Why do you seem surprised?"
"I'm actually visiting the Eastern Border for the first time, and I should be the first person from the Eastern Wasteland to do so. We from the Eastern Wasteland have not encountered anyone from the Eastern Border before. However..." recalling the people from East Breeze he had previously met, Cao Zhen forced a wry smile and said, "it seems both your Eastern Border and our Eastern Wasteland have experienced white fog emerging at two different borders. At one border, the fog is impenetrable, while the other allows entrance to different territories, correct?"
Song Nianzhu, her neck graceful as a swan's, nodded slightly and said softly, "Indeed, that's the case."
Cao Zhen continued, "At the other white fog location, which I will refer to as the entrance, some people once invaded the Eastern Wasteland and even launched an attack on an Immortal Sect of ours. At that time, they claimed to be from the Eastern Border. After we captured them, we learned that they were actually from East Breeze."
In the rear, everyone on the stone platform, watching Song Nianzhu land, also descended one after another. One particularly ruddy-faced man with a bushy beard, upon hearing this, immediately burst out in exclamation, "Dammit! Those people from East Breeze dared to impersonate us from the Eastern Border!"