Chapter 2609 The Truth Inside the Bronze Box
A few days later, Lin Xun arrived at a city. On the streets, in teahouses, restaurants...everywhere he went, people were talking about the Origin Sect Ancestral Court’s plan to recruit disciples.
This surprised Lin Xun somewhat. It didn’t take long before he gathered the full picture and even picked up some shocking rumors about the Four Great Ancestral Courts. Such transcendent powers were really rooted in the Seventh Heaven Domain?
Even the Ten Immortal Giants in the Eighth Heaven Domain reportedly showed them deference and respect. One could imagine the terrifying foundation those ancestral courts possessed.
Despite that, Lin Xun wasn’t particularly interested. As he did in previous years, he quietly began gathering intelligence and news about the Fifth Heaven Domain in the city, preparing for his next move.
It wasn’t until evening that he left the city. By then, he had already acquired detailed information about the major forces operating in the Fifth Heaven Domain.
Unlike the first four Heaven Domains, the fifth was home to numerous Immortal Imperial Clans, and these forces were true overlords of the domain. While they maintained ties with the Immortal Imperial Clans of the Sixth Heaven Domain, they were not subordinate vassals, nor were they like the cultivators who served under those the Sixth Heaven Domain’s Immortal Imperial Clans.
After careful investigation, Lin Xun found that among the many forces in the Fifth Heaven Domain, only one had a direct connection to his enemies: Fengyan Academy. It was an institution that selected and cultivated talents for the Immortal Imperial Clans of the Sixth Heaven Domain. However, its background was rather complicated.
Many descendants of the Immortal Imperial Clans in the Fifth Heaven Domain also trained at Fengyan Academy, turning it into a place teeming with mixed factions, like a true den of dragons and tigers.
The high-ranking figures in Fengyan Academy maintained close ties with Immortal Imperial Clans from both the Fifth and Sixth Heaven Domains, making it nearly impossible to determine where their true loyalties lay. After much deliberation, Lin Xun decided to wait and observe a little longer.
It wouldn’t be too late to make a decision after he had acquired more valuable information. For the next period of time, he traveled like a hurried wanderer, trekking across mountains and rivers, visiting city after city.
In a flash, a month passed. The intelligence he had gathered increasingly confirmed that Fengyan Academy had become a deadly trap. It seemed the enemy forces had long foreseen that he would choose the academy as his next target. They had laid their plans well in advance, mobilizing all available forces to lie in ambush around it.
It was said that even several immortal figures had joined the operation. It was said that to ensure his death this time, an inescapable net had been laid up around Fengyan Academy, and not even Immortals would be able to escape it alive.