The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 653 - 371: The Truth of Hidden Stream
Hidden Stream remained eerily quiet, so much so that even Ning Xiaoxian couldn’t help but admire this Demon Sect’s orderly conduct and the high quality of the demon crowd, who, up until now, had not let out a single cry of alarm. However, anyone could feel the stirring in the dense forest as if an undercurrent was slowly undulating, overflowing with demon energy. The palace in the forest suddenly lit up, clearly the two earthquakes had alarmed the core layer of Hidden Stream and spiritual birds kept passing messages back and forth between the dense forest and the great hall.
Unaware of the commands issued from the palace, Ning Xiaoxian observed coldly, her lips curving into a barely noticeable smile. Due to the severe shaking, she had already fallen to the ground along with the Immortal Bandits. This earthquake also only lasted a few moments before it stopped, followed by a long silence. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
However, the residence of Hidden Stream got busy until it was nearly midnight, and the number of demons entering and leaving the palace in the woods finally decreased. During this period, Qingluan had not forgotten to allocate staff to accompany them, nominally to take care of the guests but, in reality, to keep them under surveillance, fearing that they might run off. By now, the Immortal Bandits had been arranged to stay in another place, with houses built on the ground, which was convenient for her.
Ning Xiaoxian paid no attention to the chaos outside, quietly regulating her breathing. After about an hour, the valley slowly calmed down and the jungle regained its tranquility.
She continued her preparations until Changtian called out to her: "It’s time." By then, most members of Hidden Stream had probably started to absorb and emit the moon’s radiance again.
She occupied a room by herself again. With prior experience, she pressed the scales into the ground again and imbued them with Divine Power...
The earthquake started again!
The intensity this time was at least comparable to the last, stirring up chaos throughout the Ba Snake Mountain Range.
Even the slowest of individuals now realized something was amiss. Hidden Stream operated again like a finely tuned machine, but she still noticed sharp gazes tightly focused on her group from within the woods.
It seems the magnitude of the disturbance was still not enough. After the earthquake ended, she returned to her room, ostensibly continuing her breathing regulation but actually chatted with Changtian and Qiongqi.
An hour later, another quake struck...
Then near the end of Chou Hour, and the beginning of the 3 a.m to 5 a.m period...
This one night saw no less than six earthquakes! The entire Ba Snake Mountain Range was boiling.
The most exaggerated was the last earthquake; Ba Snake probably turned too harshly as she heard several sounds of the ground being torn apart from various directions, the loudness of which reminded her of the cracking ground she had witnessed on the Reincarnation Platform. Surely, several large fissures had ripped open nearby, forming deep chasms. Her sensitive hearing also caught the sounds of a large number of trees breaking and collapsing. If there was added flowing magma and meteor showers, it would be the perfect scene of an apocalypse.
In such circumstances, it was not suitable for people to stand on the ground, so the Immortal Bandits flew in on their tame tools, but out of respect for Hidden Stream, they only flew about seven to eight meters above the ground.
The disaster was severe this time. Finally, after a command was issued from the palace in the woods, many sentries in the dense forest were massively redeployed, leaving only two or three people to hold their positions firmly. Having been tormented five or six times, even the demons with profound cultivation were somewhat overwhelmed. Ning Xiaoxian quietly waited for a while, finally seeing Qingluan arrive.
She looked tired. Both leaders were not present, and the highest-ranking officials currently in the Hidden Stream residence were two adjutants. She had been busy all night with everyone, and she also appeared tired now. She only briefly showed her face in front of the Immortal Bandits, comforted them a few words, and then hurriedly left.
However, Ning Xiaoxian was aware that Qingluan suspected her group might be linked to the earthquakes in the Ba Snake Mountain Range and had come to check on them. Otherwise, why would the earthquakes not occur earlier or later but only after the arrival of the Immortal Bandits? Yet she naturally found nothing; no matter how rich her imagination, she couldn’t guess that all this was orchestrated by Ba Snake himself.
The scale used for her mischief was, of course, provided by Changtian. It was the scale over Ba Snake’s heart, the hardest and most "intimate" one; she used the mantra taught by Changtian, infusing her Divine Power into it, thereby transferring Changtian’s aura to where Ba Snake lay dormant.
Originally, this task could only be done by Changtian himself. But well, who let her body be infused with Divine Power that also originated from Changtian?
