Chapter 1466 - A Massive Plan
Without Liu Wuxie's interference, their plan would have remained flawless, and they could have destroyed all of the Nine Dragon Palace's herbal fields in a month.
"Still being so stubborn even when you're at death's door. Please hurry up and stop wasting our time. Why did you betray the Nine Dragon Palace?!" Elder Xue roared, his temper flaring as he grabbed Elder Yu by the collar.
"We were never members of the Nine Dragon Palace, to begin with. So how could we even talk about betrayal?" Elder Yu laughed, his chilling laughter sending cold shivers down everyone's spine and shocking the crowd. They had already abolished his cultivation, leaving him so powerless that he couldn't even take his own life.
"Search his soul," Liu Wuxie said as he and the palace lord moved together, their powerful divine senses burrowing into the elders' minds to scour their memories.
Except for the four elders controlled by Serpent Insects, the pupils of the other five elders gradually lost focus as they triggered some secret technique that took their own lives.
Because Liu Wuxie's divine sense already rivaled cultivators at the first-level Earth Immortal Realm, he easily pierced into their primordial spirits. With the Heavenly Dao Book's assistance, he began sifting through the mass of fragmented memories.
The entire process took only two breaths before the five elders exhaled their final breath, and their soul seas withered as their memories vanished. As for the four elders bound by Serpent Insects, they were no different from Chang Wu, whom Elder Yu had controlled through the witchcraft insect. They simply followed Elder Yu's commands and knew nothing beyond that.
"Palace Lord, did you find any clues?" Elder Xue asked, stepping forward.
"The Profound Azure Gate!" Liu Wuxie said, having pieced together scattered fragments from Elder Yu and the others' memories. All five elders had initially come from the Profound Azure Gate.
"So, it's really the Profound Azure Gate. They had already been laying out their plan seven thousand years ago and sent Elder Yu to infiltrate the Nine Dragon Palace, climbing his way up from an ordinary elder," some elders commented with wry smiles. With that, everything made sense if the Profound Azure Gate had been behind it.
The relationship between the Profound Azure Gate and the Nine Dragon Palace was like that between the Heavenly Dragon Sect and the Grand Unity Sect. At the time of the Nine Dragon Palace’s founding, the Profound Azure Gate had launched a midnight assault, almost annihilating them.
Elder Yu had joined the Nine Dragon Palace seven thousand years ago, yet his loyalty had never changed. All this time, he had been searching for ways to undermine the Nine Dragon Palace from within.