Post-Mythical Era: I don't want to die in the third reincarnation-Chapter 1078 - 1071: Hypocrite
This female cultivator Ding Huan knew, having been captured not long ago, and she was almost recovered under the Chaos Rule Essence.
"Recover well, and I'll take you with me when we leave Tongti Star Land."
"Yes." Su Xi gratefully bowed again.
She had an instinctive perception of human kindness and malice; she was captured because the gap between her cultivation and her opponent's was simply too great.
Feeling Ding Huan's goodwill, she was no longer worried and focused on healing herself and recovering.
Ding Huan saw Zhu Sun hadn't awakened yet, so he simply set up a barrier and returned to his Tao World to check Qu Yi's Great Dao Foundation recovery.
Then continued refining the Inquiry Stele, perfecting his Great Dao.
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Sword Origin Blood Peak.
Tongti Star Land's highest Dao peak.
The name Blood Peak is well-deserved; blood oozes from the summit all year round. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
Yet this blood carries a peculiar fragrance, infused with the Primordial Aura of the Universe.
In Tongti Star Land, the blood oozing from Sword Origin Blood Peak is immensely valuable; many seek a drop but cannot obtain it.
Sword Origin Blood Peak is almost entirely stained with blood.
Cultivating at Sword Origin Blood Peak is far more effective than anywhere else.
Not only is the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi abundant, but the Great Dao insights gained here are several levels higher than elsewhere.
The top experts of Tongti Star Land, such as Dao Alliance Hierarch Su Qianshan, First Protector Qing Lang, and First Elder Yan Yu.
All hail from Sword Origin Blood Peak.
Thus, the Dao Alliance of Tongti Star Land is not in any Tao City but is situated at Sword Origin Blood Peak.
At this moment, within the Tao Alliance Hall at the summit of Sword Origin Blood Peak, nearly all Dao Alliance experts were gathered here.
Alliance Hierarch Su Qianshan was seated at the highest position, with First Protector Qing Lang on his left and First Elder Yan Yu on his right.
The rest were all experts of the Seventh Step and Eighth Step of Great Dao.
However, today, besides the Dao Alliance experts, there was also a young man in a golden shirt.
He was naturally Fu, who lost the Inquiry Tower.
Previously, he also attended the Dao Alliance's conference.
In the past, every conference, he was seated beside Dao Alliance Hierarch Su Qianshan.
Today, he could only sit among a group of Eighth Step cultivators.
The haughty Su Qianshan from before, today sat lower and didn't utter a single complaint.
He even had to wait for Su Qianshan to finish handling Dao Alliance matters.
Because today, it's not the Dao Alliance that sought him out, but he who came to beg the Dao Alliance.
"Friend Fu, you've confronted that outsider cultivator. Can you discern the origin of his Great Dao?"
Su Qianshan finally finished dealing with Dao Alliance matters and looked at Fu.
Fu felt incredibly suffocated.
If Su Qianshan dared to treat him so disrespectfully, he would have left long ago; how could he sit here like a submissive grandson now?
"Hierarch, that person's strength likely isn't inferior to yours or mine. As for which Cosmic Plane he hails from, I'm still uncertain; I've truly never encountered his Great Dao Rhythm..."
Fu cautiously answered Su Qianshan's question, while still pondering.
Just as he was about to continue, he suddenly spewed a blood arrow, and his energy significantly waned.
He muttered to himself, "How is this possible? How can this be?"
Seeing Fu vomiting blood and muttering incessantly in disbelief, Su Qianshan's expression turned ominous.
He had already guessed something.
"Friend Fu, don't worry. This person isn't a cultivator of our Tongti Star Land. We won't let him off." Yan Yu proactively reassured Fu.
He was rather tactful, despite disliking Fu; the Dao Alliance acting against Ding Huan wouldn't be solely because of Fu.
But such free goodwill was just a casual remark.
"Escort Friend Fu to rest." Su Qianshan spoke coldly.
Fu knew there was no point in staying here any longer.
He couldn't understand why the Inquiry Tower had been refined so quickly.
With his understanding of Chaos Treasures, refining the Inquiry Tower should take several years at the fastest; how could it be refined in just one or two months?
The Inquiry Tower was his; he was aware of the methods he left on the Inquiry Tower.
Could it be his methods were useless?
Even if the Inquiry Tower was snatched, he probably couldn't retrieve it.
The Dao Alliance definitely wouldn't return the Inquiry Tower to him.
Su Qianshan had coveted the Inquiry Tower for a long time.
Why would he stay here any longer?
Now the only way for him was to find the person who took his Inquiry Tower, then, through some means, scheme against them and recover the Inquiry Tower.
He couldn't rely on anyone else anymore.
"Hierarch, Fu's Inquiry Tower seems to have been refined by someone; who could refine the Inquiry Tower so quickly?"
After Fu left, Yan Yu immediately spoke.
Su Qianshan's expression grew grimmer; his thoughts remained unknown to others.
Just like his cultivation level.
Until now, not just the Dao Alliance, but the entire Tongti Star Land — including Fu who just left — do not know Su Qianshan's true level of strength.
Fu always believed Su Qianshan was being secretive because his cultivation was inferior, thus deliberately concealing his Dao cultivation.
Only Su Qianshan knew he wasn't hiding his cultivation.
Merely that Fu couldn't discern his true prowess.
Fu believed that Su Qianshan representing the Dao Alliance pleaded with him to embed the Inquiry Tower within Tongti Star Land, which was seen as begging him.
No one is sure what his purpose is for placing the Dao Tower on Tongti Star Land.
After all, the effect of the Dao Tower on Tongti Star Land is visible to all.
Without the Dao Tower, how could Tongti Star Land produce so many powerful figures?
Contrary to Fu's thoughts.
Su Qianshan has long known that the Dao Tower absorbs the fortune of a realm and can collect the laws of Heaven and Earth and the Source Principles of a star land.
As for perfecting Cosmic Dao Skill, that's just one of the most ordinary abilities of the Dao Tower.
If the Dao Tower weren't so heaven-defying, why would he borrow the Dao Tower?
Fu wants to collect the Heaven and Earth Fortune and Source Rules of Tongti Star Land; he needs these as well.
He spent great effort to borrow the Dao Tower for all cultivators on Tongti Star Land to comprehend the Great Dao.
This is an acknowledged fact in Tongti Star Land.
And because of this, his status on Tongti Star Land is unparalleled.
To say he is universally revered is not wrong.
Initially, he planned to wait until the Dao Tower absorbed most of the realm's fortune of Tongti Star Land before taking the Dao Tower away.
Taking the Dao Tower is one of his primary purposes.
Collecting the Heaven and Earth Fortune of Tongti Star Land is his secondary purpose.
He wants both the Dao Tower and the realm's fortune of Tongti Star Land.
Whether Tongti Star Land is destroyed is of no concern to him.
In the future, when he takes away the Dao Tower, it will mean eliminating Fu from Tongti Star Land.
In this way, he will still be the universally revered Alliance Hierarch of the Dao Alliance on Tongti Star Land, having rid Tongti Star Land of Fu and obtained the Dao Tower.
Unfortunately, Fu is too incompetent, a Ninth Step of Great Dao figure no less.
Not only possessing the Dao Tower but also the Heavenly Seeking Net.
Yet Fu couldn't even capture a mere outsider cultivator and lost the Dao Tower, which is simply a disgrace to the Ninth Step of Great Dao.
Everyone looked towards him.
Su Qianshan slowly opened his mouth and said, "The loss of the Dao Tower is a huge calamity for many cultivators on Tongti Star Land.
Not only that, there are countless extraordinarily talented comrades inside the Dao Tower, so the Dao Tower must be found and retrieved.
As long as I, Su Qianshan, am here, Tongti Star Land must not lose a single cultivator.
We must also capture that Exotic Cultivator."
Catching Ding Huan is what Su Qianshan desires most.
He doesn't care if Tongti Star Land is annihilated, why would he care about losing a few tens of thousands of cultivators?
...
Seeing Qu Yi surrounded by a layer of Dao Cocoon, Ding Huan then left his own world at ease.
Perfecting the Tao Foundation is not a matter of one or two days for Qu Yi; now, in his world, he has no worries.
Outside, everyone awakened.
Zhu Sun and Wen Kesu hurriedly came over to bow and thank Ding Huan as soon as they saw him come out.
The other two also hurried over to express their gratitude.
These two were named Shan Xing and Xu.
To Ding Huan's surprise, these two are actually from Tongti Star Land, not from another Cosmic Plane.
Though their cultivation is not strong, both have top-notch Dao Bodies.
Shan Xing possesses a Heavenly Dao Root, while Xu is a Daoist Affinity Body.
"You are cultivators from Tongti Star Land, and Fu wouldn't spare you? Ding Huan asked in confusion.
Shan Xing clenched his fist: "We were not captured by Fu; we were captured by Su Qianshan, who then sent us to Fu.
Su Qianshan captured at least hundreds of Dao Body cultivators like me and Xu, though most of them have already died inside the Dao Tower."
"Who is Su Qianshan?"
"He's the Alliance Hierarch of the Dao Alliance."
Ding Huan grew even more perplexed: "Isn't the Dao Alliance the strongest Great Dao force in Tongti Star Land? Aren't they striving to protect the Dao Tower and elevate the Great Dao of Tongti Star Land's cultivators?
Why would they capture all the talented ones from Tongti Star Land and give them to Fu?"
Indignation could no longer be concealed in Shan Xing's eyes: "Because he's a hypocrite. He pretended to borrow Fu's Dao Tower at a great cost in front of all Tongti Star Land's cultivators.
Then placed the Dao Tower on Wendaota 广场, allowing numerous cultivators to enter freely to comprehend the Great Dao.
Everyone thanked him, unaware of how many talented cultivators he secretly captured and sent into the Dao Tower to strip their Dao Body rules."
Ding Huan nodded; it was indeed as he thought.
He had wondered, with such commotion from Fu and even collecting the realm's fortune.
Even Jie Ti knew, why wouldn't so many powerful figures from Tongti Star Land know?
It seems Yan Yu might also know but just chooses not to speak.
As for Su Qianshan, his motives are quite suspicious.
This guy captured so many talented cultivators to help Fu perfect the Dao Tower.
Either he and Fu are overly chummy, or this guy covets the Dao Tower.
In Ding Huan's view, Su Qianshan seems to covet the Dao Tower.
"Ding Sect Master, is Qu Yi alright?" Wen Kesu stepped forward to ask.
She had come here with Qu Yi, and not seeing her here made her a little concerned.
"She's alright..."
"Ding Huan, I feel like I'm on the verge of stepping into the Eighth Step, but I'm missing some opportunities, especially the Universe Origin Principles, and also..."
Hou Yucheng's voice came, but he abruptly stopped halfway, then he noticed Su Xi standing not far from Ding Huan.
He then rubbed his eyes.
After several breaths of time, he finally said in a trembling voice, "Su Su..."
