Chapter 26: A Spark Sets Off (Third Update)

  As the morning sun in the east just illuminated the earth, a figure was seen running quickly towards this side from afar. The person was Ye Chen, who had been running for a night and had now arrived at the foot of Lianyun Sect Mountain.

  It has to be said that Ye Chen's speed was indeed astonishing. The journey, which would normally take a day and a night, was shortened by a whole day thanks to Ye Chen.

  Looking at the Lianyun Mountain where the Lianyun Sect was located, Ye Chen revealed a hint of cold smile and muttered to himself: "Want me to die? Not that easy!" Then, he transformed into a residual shadow and rushed towards the top of Lianyun Mountain.

  "Halt! Who goes there?"

  Two young men dressed in the attire of the Liuyun Sect disciples looked at a person rushing over from afar, hastily standing in the middle of the road to block his path, and shouted loudly with vigilance.

  At these words, Ye Chen's footsteps came to a halt, and he looked up at the two young men in front of him, a faint smile on his face.

  The two young men in front of him, Ye Chen was familiar with them. They were both outer door disciples and brothers, one named Zhao Tianhong and the other named Zhao Tianyue. Moreover, when he himself was still one of the top ten masters of the outer door, they had given him some help.

  Zhao Tianhong took a look and saw that it was Ye Chen, his face lit up with joy, and he hastily walked forward: "Brother Chen, is that you!"

  Zhao Tianyue also hurriedly walked up and nodded slightly at Ye Chen, as a greeting.

  Ye Chen smiled slightly and looked at the two people in front of him, who were relatively familiar to him. He said softly, "En, how are you? It's been a long time since we last met. Are you two brothers doing well?"

  "It's okay!" Zhao Tianhong smiled slightly, then suddenly remembered something and asked Ye Chen in a hurry: "Chen Ge, we all thought you were dead! What happened?"

  "Am I dead?" Ye Chen furrowed his brow and asked in confusion: "Who said that?"

  "Can we still trust people? Last time, you and Qiang went on a mission alone, and he came back the day before yesterday. At that time, everyone saw that they were all injured, and since you didn't come back with him, everyone suspected that something had happened to you during the mission and that you might have been in danger. Everyone was worried about you."

  Zhao Tianyue hastily replied.

  Upon hearing this, Ye Chen smiled slightly: "There were some unexpected things that happened, but nothing major. I'm back now, aren't I?"

  "Ah! Just come back!"

  Zhao Tianxu and Zhao Tianyue exchanged a glance with each other, then smiled at Ye Chen and said.

  "Right!" At this time, Zhao Tianxu slapped his forehead and hastily said to Ye Chen: "Brother Chen, you'd better hurry back. I heard that Mo Tian and Shen Xiang are going to find Dan Sheng today, they're probably going to fight. You should go take a look!"

  "Xin Shen, Mo Tian?"

  Ye Chen was shocked and didn't even greet the two, he hastily rushed towards the residence of the outer disciples of Lianyun Sect on the mountain. He knew the rules of Lianyun Sect, private fights within the sect were strictly prohibited, if because of himself, Mo Tian and Shen Xiang would be expelled from the sect, then he would become a sinner for eternity. Of course, last time Xu Feng made a move on Ye Chen, it didn't fall under this jurisdiction, who let Xu Feng be the hope of Lianyun Sect?

  Zhao Tianyue watched as Ye Chen disappeared into the distance, let out a sigh, and muttered to herself with a mix of emotions: "If only the old Ye Chen would come back, that would be great!"

  Zhao Tianxu listened to Zhao Tianyue's voice, smiled slightly, and a firm gaze was emitted from his eyes as he looked at Ye Chen's departing back and said firmly: "The old Chen will definitely come back, I feel that the time is not far away!"

  At this time, the residence of Lianyun Sect's outer disciple Shan Qiang, three people were standing outside the door, Mo Tian, Shen Xiang and Zhuge Wu Xin who had only met Ye Chen once.

  Mo Tian looked at Zhuge Wu Xin standing beside him and smiled slightly: "I didn't think you'd come too."

  At this, Zhuge Dan smiled lightly and said, "How can I not come?"

  "No, I can come!" Mo Tian smiled kindly at Zhuge Wu Xin.

  Actually, when Mo Tian and Shen Xiang were going to find Dan Qiang to reason with him in the morning, Zhuge Wu Xin suddenly found Shen Xiang to consult about Ye Chen's situation. Seeing that the two of them were going to find Dan Qiang to reason with him, Zhuge Wu Xin also came along.

  However, Zhuge was not in the mood, but he himself understood that what seemed to be a theory was actually a fight, yet he still came without hesitation, and even he himself did not understand why he had come.

  Shen Xian smiled kindly at Zhuge Wu Xin, after all, he was willing to come and that meant he considered Ye Chen a friend.

  Suddenly, Shen Xiang's face was filled with murderous intent as she stared at the house where Shan Qiang lived, and she shouted angrily: "Shan Qiang, come out for me!"

  "What's all the commotion about so early in the morning?!"

  Hearing the cry outside the door, Shan Qiang walked out of the house with a look of annoyance and said discontentedly.

  Mo Tian sneered and said with a strange tone: "What's wrong? You were called out, yet you still have an attitude?"

  Shan Jiang's expression changed slightly as he heard Mo Tian's voice, his fatigue instantly gone. After all, Mo Tian was one of the top ten masters of the outer sect, and his cultivation had already reached the ninth level of Body Fragmentation, surpassing Ye Chen's by a notch. How could Shan Jiang not be intimidated?

  Shan Ding had a determined look on his face and gazed at Mo Tian with some trepidation, asking: "Mo Tian, what brings you to find me?"

  Before Mo Tian could speak, Shen Xiang hastily took a step forward and pointed at Shan Qiang, accusingly asking: "Where did Ye Chen go? Didn't he leave with you? Where did he go?"

  Listening to Shen Xian's question, Shan Qiang still frowned, looking at the three people in front of him, his heart was bitter and couldn't help but sigh.

  As for these three, none of them are people who can be easily offended. Not to mention Mo Tian's extremely strong cultivation, let alone Shen Xian and Zhuge Wu Xin. Shen Xian is someone Xu Feng has taken a liking to, even Xu Feng's younger brother has taken a liking to her, she's not someone you can afford to offend. As for Zhuge Wu Xin, he's an inner disciple by default, although his cultivation is low, but now as an outer disciple, no one dares to easily offend him, fearing that in the future Zhuge Wu Xin will use the power of being an inner disciple to make things difficult for them.

  Shan Qiang smiled wryly and said with a hint of respect to Shen Xian: "Ye Chen was taken away, I don't know anything else!"

  "Don't you know?" Shen Xian anxiously asked: "How could you possibly not know, the person went out with you and now they haven't come back, yet you say you don't know?"

  Mo Tian, who was standing beside them, also became impatient upon hearing Shan Qiang's response and angrily exclaimed: "Did you guys kill Ye Chen outside?!"

  Listening to Mo Tian's words, Shan Qiang suddenly became anxious and hastily replied: "How is that possible? Ye Chen and I are fellow disciples, how could I harm him?"

  As the noise grew louder and louder, it wasn't long before a crowd of people gathered around, all staring with wide eyes at Shen Xiang and others standing in the middle.

  After a moment, the crowd also heard some discord from the conversation of several people, and immediately some people subtly stood to both sides, forming an opposing force.

  Standing behind Shan Qiang's back are generally Xu Feng's henchmen from the outer sect and some of Shan Qiang's good friends, with an extremely large number of people.

  However, the crowd standing behind Shen Xiang were all Mo Tian's good friends, and many of them had also received favors from Ye Chen in the past.

  Shen Xiang didn't care about these people's stance at this time, her mind was filled with Ye Chen's figure, a surge of killing intent rushed to her face, and she roared at Shan Qiang: "Shan Qiang, I'm telling you, you'd better honestly tell me what happened to Ye Chen. Don't think that just because Xu Feng is behind you, I'll let you off. If anything happens to Ye Chen, no one can save you!"

  Mo Tian also took a step forward, and a killing aura suddenly emerged. He glared at Shan Qiang with anger: "Shan Qiang, do you believe that I will ignore the danger of being expelled and directly kill you here? Whether you believe it or not, I believe it!"

  Listening to Mo Tian's words full of murderous intent, Shan Qiang was afraid, he really was afraid. He now deeply regretted why he had accepted Xu Feng's mission to kill Ye Chen in the first place. If he had succeeded, Xu Feng might have still come forward to protect him, but instead, he failed, and not only that, he almost really died outside.

  Just as the two sides were arguing incessantly, the three elders of the outer gate also rushed over, looking at Mo Tian with furrowed brows.

  An elderly man wearing a grey long gown hastily walked up to Mo Tian's side and said in a low voice, "Mo Tian, what are you doing?!"

  The other two elders did not go to Single Strong's side, but instead walked directly to his side and started asking some questions with their heads down.

  Mo Tian looked at the elder who was talking to himself and frowned: "Hong Lao, don't ask about this matter, at worst I'll be expelled from the sect!"

  This elder, known as Hong Changlao, was the leader of the three great elders of the outer sect. His name was Hong Zhan and he had a cultivation base of Gathering Qi Second Layer. He was also a fair person and the only one among the three great elders who wasn't from the Xu family.

  "You...! As for Ye Chen, it's still unclear whether he's dead or alive, what exactly do you want to do?!" Hong Zhan continued to persuade Mo Tian.

  Mo Tian didn't go to Li Hui's side during the battle, but instead walked to Shen Xiang's side and glared at Shan Qiang.

  Originally standing behind him, Zhuge Wu Xin, who had not spoken from the beginning, slowly walked to the front and stood shoulder to shoulder with the two of them, directly showing his stance.

  Mo Tian looked at Zhuge Wu Xin with a faint smile: "Brother Wu Xin, think carefully, what does it mean for you to stand on this side?"

  "Cut it out!" Zhuge said with a dismissive glance at Mo Tian, his voice low. "You're trying to scare me!"

  Xin looked at the two people standing on either side of her and smiled slightly: "I'll thank you for me, Brother Chen!"

  As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Xian directly burst out all his cultivation of Shu Ti Si Zhong, glaring at Shan Qiang.

  Mo Tian also smiled slightly, and his cultivation of nine layers of fragmentation burst out, causing dust to fly everywhere.

  Two elderly men standing beside the single strong man, one middle-aged elder with a red face, stepped forward, glaring at Mo Tian in anger and shouted: "How dare you, are you going to rebel?!" Immediately, his cultivation that had been accumulated for a long time also burst out with full force, and for a moment, dust and sand flew everywhere, directly suppressing Mo Tian's momentum.

  Hong Zhan furrowed his brow, shook his head slightly and let out a light sigh, then walked up to him. Looking at the middle-aged man's appearance, he sighed and said: "Liu Li brother, as for the children's affairs, it's better if we don't intervene. Let's wait until things are over, and then we'll handle it according to the rules!"

  Mo Tian knew that Hong Zhan was biased towards himself, and immediately didn't care whether Hong Zhan looked at him or not, and respectfully bowed to him.

  Listening to Hong Zhan's words, another elder who was originally standing behind Liu Li also walked to the front of Liu Li, and the two of them stared at Hong Zhan together, with a tendency to fight immediately if they didn't see eye to eye.

  At this moment, Shan Liang didn't care about the background of the three people either. He had made preparations for battle. After all, at a critical juncture between life and death, who would still care about other things? Who would consider what to do next? They could only try to save their own lives first.

  The atmosphere is getting more and more oppressive!

  The war will break out at any moment!

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