Cultivation: the Rise of a Live-In Son-In-Law-Chapter 411 - 409: Sang Xiyao Arrives from the Celestial Palace, Secret Realm About to Open... Celestial Curtain Prefecture Reappears! Is Lu Ye in Danger?
"Hehe, Brother Quan, the fellow Daoists Fairy Qingyin and I brought, we are not at odds. There is no enmity between us." Upon hearing this, Qu Kai said with a smile.
"Fellow Daoist Qu is magnanimous!" Beside him, a cultivator at the Martial Arts Grandmaster Realm said, trying to curry favor with Qu Kai.
If Qu Kai’s strength could be connected to the Martial Arts Grandmaster forces, it would be a great help.
Soon after, several Martial Arts Grandmasters who wanted to establish relationships with Qu Kai also offered their words of admiration.
Hearing these words, the smile on Qu Kai’s face grew even wider.
What is forbearance, and what is taking others by surprise?
Qu Kai felt that his current demeanor perfectly embodied the meaning of these words.
Just as Qu Kai was secretly pleased, from afar, at the horizon... there came a faint commotion.
Vague, ethereal celestial music seemed to emerge from the clouds, delighting the mind and spirit.
Suddenly, the expression of many people in the valley became solemn.
People from the Celestial Palace... have arrived.
Indeed, moments later, the figures of a group from the Lingyao Celestial Palace appeared on the horizon, swiftly approaching this place.
Lu Ye looked at the skyward squad, focusing on a woman in silver attire who was the most prominent among them.
She was unexpectedly the same Silver Envoy Sang Xiyao he had encountered previously in the Eastern Territory and the Celestial Palace Floating Island.
Unexpectedly, it was still her leading the team this time.
"Greetings to the Celestial Palace Envoy!"
"Greetings to the Silver Envoy..."
Immediately, greetings echoed in the valley, with Lu Ye also joining the crowd in cupping his hands in respect towards Sang Xiyao.
Sang Xiyao gracefully arrived, hovering above the Celestial Realm, her beautiful eyes scanning downward...
At this time, Lu Ye, because he was participating in the Yunyao Secret Realm, appeared as the image under the name Chen Beixuan from his mask.
And this appearance was one Sang Xiyao recognized from when he had previously traveled with her to the Lingyao Celestial Palace.
Thus, as her gaze swept over, she spotted Lu Ye standing somewhere, and Sang Xiyao nodded slightly in response.
After all, Lu Ye had previously received a personal invitation from the Palace Master.
If he had agreed back then, he would have already become a member of the Celestial Palace by now.
Qu Kai was not too far from Lu Ye’s position.
When Qu Kai saw the Silver Envoy from Lingyao Celestial Palace nodding slightly in his direction, he followed the Celestial Palace Envoy’s gaze, feeling a sudden tightening in his heart.
Why does it feel like...
This envoy seems to be greeting Xiao Qingyin’s side?!
Could they actually know the Silver Envoy from the Celestial Palace?!
Thinking of this possibility, Qu Kai’s heart immediately spawned a sense of foreboding.
If this were true, then their plan in the Secret Realm to design an ambush on Xiao Qingyin and the others might face danger?
At this moment, high above, when Sang Xiyao discovered the strange gazes from the valley below as she nodded in greeting, she pondered.
To prevent any further assumptions, the Silver Envoy from the Celestial Palace simply nodded slightly in all four directions.
In essence, she offered a general greeting to all the cultivators participating in the Secret Realm.
Seeing this, Qu Kai, who had been apprehensive and suspicious moments ago, finally felt reassured.
"I told you, with their strength alone, how could they possibly be associated with the Celestial Palace?"
Qu Kai sneered inwardly; in that case, once they enter the Secret Realm, no one will come to their rescue no matter how much they shout and cry!
"Fellow Daoists, welcome to the Yunyao Secret Realm. You are all elite talents of Xuanzhou. Although the opportunities in the Secret Realm require competition, the Celestial Palace hopes that you will prioritize harmony and avoid unnecessary conflicts."
After a brief and conventional opening statement, Sang Xiyao immediately led the hundreds of powerful cultivators in the valley to another location.
Half an hour later...
Sang Xiyao glanced up at the sky, closed her eyes to sense for a moment, then spoke.
"Fellow Daoists, the time is not quite ripe yet. Please be patient and wait a while longer."
At this moment, a commotion was heard once again from afar.
Two figures, moving at astonishing speed, seemed to shuttle through the sky.
In the blink of an eye, they descended upon this place.
When Lu Ye in the crowd saw these two individuals, his expression subtly changed.
These two were exactly the ones from Celestial Curtain Prefecture he had encountered the night he topped the East Cang Stele List!
Two Mortal Realm Grandmaster Ninth Layer!
Unexpectedly, these two would also arrive here before the Secret Realm opened.
After the two from Celestial Curtain Prefecture arrived, they immediately began surveying the place, among the nearly a hundred cultivators standing there.
Moments later, when they spotted Lu Ye standing among the crowd, a fierce look appeared in their eyes.
That night, Lu Ye had escaped; this time... he wouldn’t be so lucky.
Upon seeing these two arrivals, Sang Xiyao, standing at the forefront, slightly frowned and said in a clear voice, "Why have you people from Celestial Curtain Prefecture come here?"
Recalling that night when she came to receive Lu Ye, these Celestial Curtain Prefecture people seemed to be targeting Lu Ye...
Sang Xiyao immediately frowned; a terrifying aura as deep as the ocean emanated from her, pressing directly towards the two Mortal Realm Grandmasters from Celestial Curtain Prefecture! 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
"Everyone here was invited by our Celestial Palace to participate in the Yunyao Secret Realm. Anyone daring to take action against them now... would be opposing our Celestial Palace!"
Being suppressed by a Silver Envoy who was a late-stage Earth Realm Grandmaster,
The two Mortal Realm Grandmaster Ninth Layer from Celestial Curtain Prefecture instantly turned pale, somewhat unable to withstand it.
The two exchanged glances and quickly drew a delicate and exquisite token each.
"Envoy, please don’t misunderstand. We harbor no malice; we also came to participate in this Secret Realm!"
Seeing the tokens they produced, Sang Xiyao furrowed her brows.
For the matter of the Yunyao Secret Realm, Lingyao Celestial Palace hadn’t distributed any tokens to the Hidden Spirit Land powers.
Therefore, it could be inferred that the tokens in their hands were definitely not obtained through legitimate channels.
But...
At the time of the token distribution by the Lingyao Celestial Palace, it hadn’t been specified that only the intended recipients must come.
In principle, as long as someone held the token and was qualified in terms of strength, they could enter the Secret Realm.
This unwritten rule had been in place for decades.
So, upon seeing the two Mortal Realm Grandmasters from Celestial Curtain Prefecture produce the tokens, Sang Xiyao could only nod with slight resignation.
"Since you hold the tokens, wait below... remember, you are all the backbone of Xuanzhou, and you must not easily engage in mutual destruction."
The next moment, the two Mortal Realm Grandmasters from Celestial Curtain Prefecture put away their tokens and descended into the waiting crowd of cultivators below.
At this moment, Sang Xiyao’s gaze unconsciously swept over the area where Lu Ye stood once more.
Subsequently, she slightly moved her eyes and cast a meaningful look at Lu Ye.
The general meaning was that within the rules, she could not target the two who came from Celestial Curtain Prefecture.
If possible, Lu Ye had better... give up on the matter of the Yunyao Secret Realm this time.
