Chapter 1255: Invisible Hands
"That's right. Fellow Daoist Chi Meng and I spotted these Reincarnation Palace cultivators infiltrating the Nine Origins Temple earlier, and we knew they were up to no good, so followed them all the way here to try and uncover their objectives," Huo Yuan chimed in in support of Chi Meng.
Daoist Master Chun Jun naturally didn't believe them at all, but he didn't expose them.
Both Chi Meng and Huo Yuan were all but untouchable. Not only was Chi Meng a very important figure in the Heavenly Court herself, she also had Dao Ancestor Chi Rong as a backer, so even if she had admitted that she was also up to no good herself, Daoist Master Chun Jun wouldn't have dared to do anything to her anyway.
As for Huo Yuan, he was the master of the Hundred Creations Mountain, which may not have had a Dao Ancestor at the helm, but it had very close ties with the Heavenly Court. Over the years, anyone that had dared to make a move against the Hundred Creations Mountain had suffered very tragic fates, and at this point, it was common knowledge that the Hundred Creations Mountain was a subsidiary power to the Heavenly Court.
Given how delicate the situation was, Daoist Master Chun Jun knew that he had to proceed with caution. If he were to back these two into a corner and force them to join forces with the Reincarnation Palace, then the situation would take a drastic turn for the worse.
With that in mind, Daoist Master Chun Jun said, "Alright, in that case, please stand by and wait for now, and we'll let you go as soon as we've eradicated these Reincarnation Palace scoundrels."
Chi Meng and Huo Yuan were quite relieved to hear this, and they drifted over to a corner of the palace.
For all their status, they were still in the Nine Origins Temple at the moment, so if Daoist Master Chun Jun decided to take them down irrespective of consequences, then they would still be at his mercy.
"Mountain Master Huo Yuan, is that vial the item that was refined by the previous mountain master?" Chi Meng asked through voice transmission.
Now that the battle had temporarily died down, the animosity between them had also faded away.
"What our previous mountain master had refined was indeed a vial, but in the wake of the further refinement carried out by the Nine Origins Temple, it looks completely different from what it once did, so I was barely able to identify it," Huo Yuan replied.