Eternal Life: My Talents Can Refresh

Chapter 399 - 198: Top Level Spell, Wind and Fire Scorched Earth

If circumstances permit, Chu Ning still wants to return to his cave mansion in Yanfeng on Feihong Island once.

Although the Chen family who once pursued him knows the location of his cave mansion.

Chu Ning suspects that his cave mansion might have also been searched by them.

But Chu Ning still wants to take a look to see if it might have escaped damage.

After all, he is quite reluctant to part with the many spirit medicines in the medicinal garden and that alchemy furnace.

Especially the Iron Soul Flower and the Flame Wood Twin Fruit, which he brought out from the Spirit Realm and can’t be easily found outside.

Flying forward for a long distance, Chu Ning didn’t encounter a single person.

Finally arriving at Fengya Island, where he had been several times before, Chu Ning headed straight for the place in his memory where loose cultivators gathered.

What surprised Chu Ning slightly was.

Although it couldn’t reach the bustling level of a market, it was also quite lively.

But this time when he came, he found there were only a few scattered people.

Casually picking out a few ordinary items, Chu Ning approached a cultivator as if he was going to set up a stall.

Then he proactively asked about the situation in the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands.

"How many months have you been in secluded cultivation? Let me tell you, big things have happened these past few months..."

With Chu Ning’s intentional probing, he immediately gathered a lot of information from the cultivator.

After listening, Chu Ning remained silent for a long time.

In a mere three months, the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands had turned upside down.

First of all, from this person’s mouth, Chu Ning learned that there’s no longer any mention of the Thousand Islands Alliance in the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands anymore.

According to the cultivator, all Foundation Establishment cultivators in the area disappeared after the so-called Thousand Island Competition Gathering.

In the first few days, everyone speculated it was related to the Yin Demon Sect. It was said that someone from the Cen Family recognized the strange phenomenon that occurred on Thousand Illusion Island as the Blood Evil Yin Demon Array.

Moreover, someone had recognized the Black Fire Vulture-winged Crow.

What happened thereafter confirmed the speculations of many cultivators.

Two days later, the Chen family, which had truly held the power of the Thousand Islands Alliance in recent years, was exterminated with not a single surviving member.

And those who did it were none other than the Yin Demon Sect cultivators.

Meanwhile, these Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Yin Demon Sect announced that the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands were officially under the control of the Yin Demon Sect.

Of the original six great clans of the Thousand Islands Alliance, the Song and Chen families were exterminated one after another. The remaining Cen, Liu, Huo, and Bai families had all their Foundation Establishment cultivators captured.

The cultivators of these four families surprisingly all defected to the Yin Demon Sect and helped manage the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands.

Upon hearing this, Chu Ning couldn’t help but feel greatly surprised.

After all, he distinctly remembered that the Chen family used to work for the Yin Demon Sect, yet they too ended up being exterminated.

Chen Chengzong, the old ancestor of the Chen family, was also nowhere to be seen.

"Could it be that the Yin Demon Sect elder, after failing to catch me, vented his frustration on the Chen family?"

Chu Ning had some faint speculations.

He didn’t intend to delve deeply into the specifics but did feel slightly troubled by the information he got from that cultivator afterward.

"Because many cultivators sensed something amiss and left the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands, the Yin Demon Sect restricted free flying by the cultivators.

The entire Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands became a no-fly zone, with patrols arranged to attack anyone found flying."

Chu Ning frowned slightly. Besides Core Formation cultivators, he wasn’t particularly worried about being attacked by patrol teams.

Moreover, not all flying would necessarily be detected given the vast area of the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands.

For instance, he had just flown to the island without any interception.

But Chu Ning wasn’t sure if the Yin Demon Sect still had any Core Formation cultivators lingering in the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands.

If he happened to run into a patrol team and expose his whereabouts, it wasn’t something he wished for.

Furthermore, from what that cultivator said, the Yin Demon Sect had significantly increased the costs of the teleportation arrays to restrict the movement of cultivators.

And several islands from which one could leave the Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands were no longer accessible by teleportation arrays.

After staying there for a while and seeing other cultivators leaving, Chu Ning also got up and left.

Then he went to the location of the teleportation array, where, as the cultivator mentioned, the cost of teleportation had been directly increased to one hundred pieces of Lower Grade Spirit Stones each time.

Chu Ning didn’t have that many spirit stones left, and even if he took them all out, he still felt a twinge of pain.

"Feihong Island?"

The person in charge of the teleportation was a cultivator at the seventh layer of Qi Refining, who seemed to be someone from the former Thousand Islands Alliance.

Upon hearing that Chu Ning wanted to teleport to Feihong Island, a peculiar look appeared on his face.

Chu Ning noticed the look on his face and, feeling a bit uneasy, curiously asked:

"Fellow Daoist, I haven’t been out for a while, is there something wrong with Feihong Island?"

"No, it’s nothing. It’s just that Feihong Island isn’t particularly special, and yet you’re willing to spend a hundred spirit stones to teleport there..."

The cultivator shook his head, seemingly not very understanding.

Hearing this, Chu Ning sighed slightly and said:

"Isn’t that the case? My family went to Feihong Island before, and I’m going there this time to settle down with them."

After hearing Chu Ning’s explanation, the cultivator didn’t say much.

He directly activated the teleportation array.

After a few months, arriving once again at Feihong Island, Chu Ning didn’t go directly to the location of his cave mansion.

Instead, he wandered around for a bit and found that there were also significantly fewer cultivators on Feihong Island than before.

However, there were no other anomalies besides that.

Only then did Chu Ning head towards Yanfeng.

He was extremely familiar with this place where he had lived for years, and from afar he saw that Yanfeng looked exactly the same as when he left.

The array restrictions on it were intact, and even the surroundings showed no signs of damage.

As for the interior of the cave mansion, due to the array restrictions, even though Chu Ning’s divine sense was quite powerful, he couldn’t directly probe inside.

"Could it be that this place really wasn’t searched or discovered?"

Chu Ning couldn’t help but feel a bit pleasantly surprised.

However, recalling that the Chen family was exterminated soon after he left, it didn’t seem impossible.

After all, only Chen Chengzong and a few of the Chen family’s core members knew of his escape.

If those few met with disaster, his cave mansion might indeed have escaped unscathed.

So, Chu Ning then concealed his aura and arrived outside Yanfeng.

Using the restriction jade token, he entered the cave mansion without any hindrance.