My Master Disconnected Yet Again (Part 4)

Chapter 663: Natural Enemies

In the night.

Lonemoon told the master and disciple duo everything he heard from the system earlier that day.

"A fiendish cultivator who can make use of dark fires... He knows Tian Ji?" Yi Qing paused.

"I fear it's worse than that." Lonemoon shook his head and continued, "From what the invader was saying, I think they already made a deal with each other. Tian Ji looks very wounded as well. Given the demonic Qi we saw in his body earlier, I think he won't be able to break off this connection with the fiendish cultivator."

"So he's come this time to take revenge on Tian Ji?" Chef frowned. "If that's the case, why doesn't he just come to Gui Yi Sect directly? Why did he remain in this little city for so long and even kill a Nascent Soul elder?" Wasn't he afraid that he would attract a lot of attention with the vengeance that he had? Or did this fiendish cultivator really think that nobody in the world would be his match?

"Maybe he's not here for revenge?" Shen Ying asked.

The two of them stared blankly at her. What did she mean?

"If he's not here for revenge, then what is he here for?" Lonemoon asked. "He came all the way to the immortal city of Gui Yi Sect. Could he be escaping..."

He trailed off mid-sentence and suddenly started, eyes widening. "You mean to say that he's not coming to Gui Yi Sect to seek trouble, but is trying to escape the sect?"

"Mm." Shen Ying took another bite off her fruit. "Isn't it obvious?"

"Holy shit!" How was that obvious?

On second thought, he realized that this was possible given what he had heard from the system. Shu Yi seemed to know from the beginning that the dark fire existed. What's more, she wanted to collect the flames for her own use. Tian Ji even gave her a dharmic weapon specially for her to deal with the fiendish cultivator. They were so prepared. What other reason could there be apart from the fact that they were very familiar with this fiendish cultivator? He had initially thought that this was because Tian Ji had dealt with the other party before. But now, it did not seem likely. Shu Yi was so confident. It was obvious that she did not think the fiendish cultivator was a threat.

A Golden Core cultivator could not even be bothered about a fiendish cultivator who was at least a Nascent Soul. This proved that he had absolute confidence that the other party would not be able to hurt her. Perhaps this was not just because she had the system. In other words, the biggest possibility was that the other party was gravely injured. This wound was obviously caused by Tian Ji. Yet, even though the three of them had remained at Gui Yi Sect for a long time, they had never even sensed a fiendish cultivator invading the sect. Much less did they sense a fight. It was impossible that a fight between a Soul Formation and Nascent Soul cultivator was that quiet.

Neither did Tian Ji leave Gui Yi Sect in so long. Where exactly did they fight?

If it was not recent, this meant that it happened before they entered Gui Yi Sect. That was interesting. They had been in Gui Yi Sect for several years now. How could Zhong Yi not get better even after so much time has passed? What's more, he was still so weak that even a Golden Core cultivator was unafraid of him? That was impossible. Unless... Someone here was keeping an eye on him and making sure that he did not get better!

Other than Tian Ji, there could be no other person!

In other words, Zhong Yi had been in Gui Yi Sect from the beginning. When he appeared in Yuan Yang City, he was not trying to enter Gui Yi Sect to cause trouble. He was escaping from Gui Yi Sect!

"Why would Tian Ji keep a fiendish cultivator in the sect for no good reason? Lonemoon could not understand this. "Fiendish cultivators and Dao cultivators are completely unrelated. What's more, he's a Soul Formation cultivator. How would a Nascent Soul cultivator benefit him..." He trailed off mid-sentence once again, his eyes widening. "It's the dark fire!" He had nearly forgotten that Tian Ji was a pill cultivator. Of course the dark fire would be useful to him!