Mortal: Fengling Linggen, married Chen Qiaoqian

Half an hour later, a spirit lamp located in a forbidden area somewhere in the Star Palace suddenly flickered, followed by a crisp cracking sound.

This caused great panic among the Xinggong disciples who were responsible for guarding this area, and they reported this sudden incident to their higher-ups.

The Star Palace suddenly fell into chaos after just a short meal.

Several Star Palace elders broke into the cave of the old man Ximen and forcibly opened a secret room inside.

After this strange incident happened, every member of Xinggong's top leadership immediately and decisively concluded that it must be closely related to Yan Yun.

They still remember the experience they had not long ago.

Anyone could clearly see that there seemed to be a deep hatred between the great monk and old man Simon.

However, although they had their doubts about this, the elders of the Star Palace could only speculate secretly in their hearts.

But no one dared to stand up and publicly accuse Yan Yun. They all chose to remain silent, as if they had seen and heard nothing.

The reason for this situation is that Yan Yun is a powerful monk and no one is willing to take the initiative to cause trouble.

More importantly, they couldn't find any conclusive evidence to prove that Yan Yun was responsible.

On the contrary, Yan Yun had good reasons to deny it.

Because during the period when Elder Ximen passed away, Yan Yun was with Elder Zhao, having the so-called exchange of experiences, and the two were always inseparable.

Of course, anyone with a little common sense could see that this was an obvious cover-up and was actually done intentionally by Yan Yun to shut everyone up.

Even though they already knew the truth of the matter, Yan Yun didn't need to take action personally.

It would be easy to make a Nascent Soul cultivator disappear completely from this world, which made all the Star Palace elders feel horrified.

If they were facing ordinary cultivators, they naturally would not care about evidence or not. They just needed to capture the other party and then use soul-searching techniques to find out everything.

However, Yan Yun is a late-stage great cultivator. Who would dare to take the risk and provoke such a powerful person?

Even those elders who once had a close relationship with Elder Ximen chose to remain silent at this time.

What's more, in the near future, the entire Xing Palace will need to rely on Yan Yun's strength, and it is absolutely impossible to have a conflict with him now.

Therefore, whether it is a high-level official like Ling Yulin or an ordinary Star Palace elder, they can only choose to endure temporarily and pretend that they know nothing.

After exchanging ideas with the old man surnamed Zhao for half a day, Yan Yun returned to the secret room and began to practice in seclusion.

After hearing the news of old man Ximen's death, Elder Zhao stood there in a daze for half an hour. In the end, he could only smile bitterly, his face full of regret.

Afterwards, he no longer stayed where Yan Yun was in retreat, but directly summoned two Jindan stage disciples and then left the place alone.

Since the other party could use his magical powers to kill a Nascent Soul cultivator in another place while being with him, it would be a waste of time for him to continue monitoring him.

He knew that it was too risky to be enemies with such people, so he would rather stay away from them as soon as possible, so as to avoid being regarded as an enemy and being killed.

This creates a puzzling picture.

The Xing Palace had clearly lost an important elder, but after a simple handling of the matter, no one from the Xing Palace's upper echelons mentioned the matter again.

Even the name of the old man Ximen became a taboo topic in a short period of time. Everyone was eager to fight and put their energy into the upcoming war.

Five days later, Yan Yun walked out of the secret room and came to the sacred palace again.

At this time, in addition to a group of Star Palace elders, more than thirty Jindan stage cultivators gathered in the hall.

Most of these cultivators are in the late Jindan stage and are obviously the backbone of the Star Palace besides the elders.

When Yan Yun walked into the hall with steady steps, the immortal cultivators present all focused their attention on him.

Most of the monks showed deep admiration and fear, while a small number of monks expressed surprise and suspicion.

However, no matter where Yan Yun's gaze was directed, the cultivators in that direction would immediately bow their heads respectfully, not daring to slack off at all.

Yan Yun can easily defeat an opponent in the early Nascent Soul stage with his own strength alone.

To him now, this was just a common and insignificant matter, but this action shocked and stunned many core members of the Star Palace.

Although everyone in the Star Palace had already confirmed Yan Yun's status as a great cultivator, he had never demonstrated his magical powers.

Everyone was still filled with doubts and anxieties in their hearts as to whether he could truly withstand Wan Tianming's attack.

Because in the past few decades, Wan Tianming has successfully killed many elders of the Star Palace in the struggle with the Star Palace, and his reputation is unmatched in the entire star sea.

However, Yan Yun has now demonstrated a mysterious ability in the Star Palace to use his clone to kill Nascent Souls, which has made the members of the Star Palace have more trust and expectations in him.

This was a situation that neither Ling Yuling nor Yan Yun had expected.

However, while Ling Yuling was naturally happy to see the morale of the other cultivators boosted by this, Yan Yun didn't care at all.

"Fellow Daoist Yan, please take a seat first. Once I have made some preparations, I will begin to deploy the relevant matters for attacking the Anti-Star Alliance."

When Ling Yuling saw Yan Yun appear, she spoke in a very humble tone.

Yan Yun just nodded slightly and sat down on a stone chair below her.

Then he waved his sleeves lightly, and a pale white jade slip appeared in his hand.

He lowered his head and read alone, as if nothing around him could attract his attention.

Ling Yuling smiled slightly, but when her gaze turned to the other monks in the hall, her expression quickly became serious and she began to convey a series of orders.

Most of Yan Yun's attention was focused on the jade slip, but he was not completely aloof from the world. He still retained a part of his consciousness to pay attention to Ling Yulin's various arrangements.

Xinggong's plan was actually quite simple and clear. Although there were a total of 108 wind and fire pillars in the Fenghuo Tianjue Formation, they only planned to attack the 36 wind and fire pillars distributed around Tianxing City.

According to the estimates of several masters in the Star Palace who are proficient in formations, these thirty-six wind and fire pillars are the most critical part of the entire formation. As long as most of them are destroyed, the formation will collapse on its own.

Of course, the prerequisite for achieving this goal is to first occupy the center of the formation guarded by Wan Tianming himself.

So, under Ling Yuling's stern command, the Yuanying-stage elders and Jindan-stage disciples stood up one after another to accept the order, and everyone's faces turned livid. The originally spacious hall was suddenly filled with a tense atmosphere.

In the blink of an eye, each wind and fire pillar was assigned a dedicated person to attack, but the number of high-level monks responsible for each area varied.

In some places, the team was led by two or three Nascent Soul cultivators, while in some places there was not even a single Nascent Soul cultivator and only a handful of Core Forming Core cultivators were sent.

Hearing this, Yan Yun couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

However, he soon realized the problem.

It is very likely that there are high-level undercover agents from the Star Palace within the Anti-Star Alliance. They have already understood the defensive power of these wind and fire pillars very clearly, so they can make such detailed adjustments.

Although Yan Yun remained silent, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Ling Yulin's deployment was extremely fast. After just one meal, except for a few monks, most people had been assigned specific tasks.

Finally, Ling Yuling's voice sounded again. She suddenly turned to look at Yan Yun and said with a smile:
"Fellow Daoist Yan, are you willing to lead the team with us, including Elder Ma and Elder Zhao, to attack the center of the formation? That is where Wan Tianming himself is defending.

"I have no objection, but when the incident occurs, I will only be responsible for Wan Tianming's life. As for the other cultivators, if they do not pose a threat to me, I am unwilling to intervene in the dispute."

Yan Yun held his head high, met the woman's gaze, and replied in a calm and composed tone.

Seeing Yan Yun acting so relaxed, Ling Yuling's eyes showed a hint of astonishment, and she couldn't help but feel full of doubts, but she still agreed.

Although she knew something about Yan Yun through the Twin Saints of Heavenly Stars, she still knew nothing about Yan Yun's true strength and was afraid that Yan Yun would be careless due to overconfidence.

So he described in detail to Yan Yun the various unique skills that Wan Tianming had acquired after he had achieved great success in the later period, as well as some newly acquired powerful treasures, and advised Yan Yun to understand the situation as much as possible so as to formulate corresponding strategies.

However, after hearing these words, Yan Yun showed an expression of half-belief on his face and did not respond.

Seeing this situation, Ling Yuling sighed helplessly and did not ask Yan Yun any more about his chances of winning.

After all, if Xinggong fails to win after the battle, it will lose the right to survive.

"Everyone, take action!"

After the woman gave a cold and harsh order, all the monks in the hall stood up and walked quickly outside the hall.

Those low-level Foundation Establishment disciples had already been waiting in front of the city gates around Tianxing City for a long time. They only needed to meet up with the leading Jindan Yuanying cultivator to launch an attack immediately.

Yan Yun looked around at the jade slip in his hand and clasped his hands together. The jade slip disappeared without a trace in an instant.

The secret of the Yuanci Divine Light recorded in this jade slip was extremely complicated. He spent several days studying it hard before he finally got a clue.

However, what kind of magical place is Yuanci Mountain that can actually help in the practice of this technique?

Yan Yun was thinking absentmindedly, following Ling Yuling and several other elders out of the stone hall.

What surprised Yan Yun was that there was a large animal cart ten meters long parked outside the hall.

The entire carriage is made of an emerald green material whose name no one knows, and its surface is covered with various runes. It is obvious at first glance that it is a treasure that has been carefully crafted.

However, what was even more eye-catching was that in front of the beast cart, there were four green monsters of almost the same color and several meters long crawling on the ground.

For the first time in his life, Yan Yun felt shocked since arriving in Tianxing City.

Although these four green monsters seem to have only level five or six cultivation, they are indeed four real dragons.

As far as he knew, the Jiaolong clan had always been extremely protective of their own people. Even though Xinggong once possessed great power, how could they dare to control a real Jiaolong as a vehicle?

Aren't you afraid of angering this powerful race of spirit beasts, thus bringing endless trouble to the Star Palace?

"Friend Yan, are you also so surprised by these low-level monsters?"

Seeing Yan Yun showing a rare look of surprise, Ling Yuling's mouth corners slightly raised, revealing a faint smile.

"That's not the case. Although the bodies of these monsters are undoubtedly those of the Jiaolong clan, the spirits contained in them seem to be slightly abnormal."

Yan Yun narrowed his eyes slightly, with blue light flashing in his pupils, and suddenly these words burst out.

"Brother Yan really has a unique vision! In fact, the spirits in these dragons are not the spirits of the dragons themselves."

"Instead, my father won several low-level green dragon corpses from a gamble with the Golden Dragon King when he was traveling overseas in his early years."

"Then I used mysterious magic to refine it and injected the spirit of the deep sea python into it, and finally formed the chariot-driving monster beast we have today."

Ling Yuling showed admiration on her face and explained in detail.

"I see. Then why did Fellow Daoist Ling place this carriage here? Is it for the purpose of this attack plan?"

Yan Yun frowned slightly, still having many confusions in his mind.

"Ahaha, Brother Yan, as for this question, you will find the wonders when you sit in this carriage."

"This carriage was made by my father himself. In addition to the magical powers of the monster driving it, the carriage itself also contains unique mysteries that have a significant effect on defeating the enemy."

"If this battle was not related to the survival of the entire Xing Palace, I would probably be reluctant to use this treasure."

Ling Yuling raised her eyebrows slightly and revealed a mysterious smile.

After hearing what Ling Yulin said, Yan Yun used his spiritual sense to investigate the beast cart again. He then nodded slightly and said no more.

At this time, the four people below had already boarded the beast cart, and the one driving the beast cart was a bald giant who was two meters tall.

Although his cultivation was only at the foundation-building stage, his upper body was naked, and the muscles on his arms were like cast steel, emitting a terrifying murderous aura.

The sturdy man held a long white whip in his hand and swung it into the air. In an instant, a sharp hissing sound came out and soared straight into the sky.

Those green dragons that were originally lying lazily in front of the stone hall immediately turned over and jumped up alertly.

The beast cart shook its tail, roared, and turned into a dazzling white light, rising high into the sky, its speed even comparable to that of a cultivator in the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage. (End of this chapter)