Second Junior Brother The Old Way

Before a monumental event that could affect everyone truly descends, it might just be a casual topic of conversation for people to relieve their boredom.

The news about allowing the Demon Race to survive after the Great Tribulation was not completely sealed off by the Eighteen Immortal Sects; instead, it was gradually disseminated to the outside world.

A matter that could determine whether the world would be overturned or not could not be blindly hidden.

Sufficient time and information had to be given so that people could accept and prepare for it.

When this major event first started as a rumor, not many people paid attention to it, and many even thought it was just fake news.

Time cannot erase memories, but it can smooth out the emotions of those who were not involved.

It wasn't until the Three Great Sects and the Buddhists personally stepped in and had a falling out in Xiniu Hezhou that the masses began to speculate on the authenticity of the news about the Heavenly Demons.

Then came the alliance of various sects, and this world became incredibly lively once again.

Disciples of the Eighteen Immortal Sects, who usually would be nowhere to be seen, began to show themselves and appear all over the world.

Until the Buddhists swallowed their grievances against the Three Great Sects.

Until Bai Xuanling ascended to become an immortal.

Until rumors spread that Chu Xingchen had accepted the Mandate of Heaven.

Until the Eighteen Immortal Sects tacitly acknowledged all the speculations about this.

Only then did the crowd have a more definite feeling: the Great Tribulation really seemed to be coming.

However, this feeling still failed to attract everyone's full attention, as the Great Tribulation did not have an exact starting point.

Until Nanzhan Buzhou, Dongsheng Shenzhou, and Beiju Luzhou.

The monster races of these three great continents began to riot, and everything that shouldn't have happened began to occur.

From deep mountains and old forests to dead silent deserts, pillars of crimson light shot up into the sky.

Evil cultivators shouted that the Heavenly Dao was about to change, wanting to drag everything in this world into a state where the strong prey on the weak.

Before the great chaos, all sorts of monsters, demons, and ghosts began trying to get a piece of the pie, popping their heads out one after another.

For a time, there was no longer any pure land left except for Xiniu Hezhou.

But the reason why Xiniu Hezhou remained stable was truly enough to make its people shed tears upon hearing it, and the reason was extremely simple: its spirit veins were severed and shattered, making its utilization value extremely limited.

It was so terrible that there wasn't even the thought of recycling waste.

Among the Eighteen Immortal Sects, there were those that lay dormant and unmoving, and naturally, there were also sects that responded and prepared early on.

Regardless of whether their preparations were sufficient or not, all humans and demons would head together into this final slaughter and gamble.

Nanzhan Buzhou, Great Jing Kingdom.

Li Yingling looked calmly at the red pillar of light shooting straight into the firmament from among the mountains.

Behind her, Li Xingtian and a group of Tianyan Sect cultivators were also looking at that crimson light pillar.

Looking at the crimson pillar, Li Yingling asked in a relatively relaxed tone, Second Junior Brother, what do you think we will unbox this time?

Li Xingtian furrowed his brows slightly and did not rush to answer.

The reason was extremely simple. These pillars of light were extinguished every day, but they would also rise again in completely different places every day.

For the time being, there was no way to distinguish which of these soaring crimson pillars were just illusions making up the numbers, and which ones were truly useful.

However, there was always a random chance that a peak Tribulation Crossing Realm Heavenly Demon would spawn from these light pillars.

After all, a squad had actually encountered one, and as a result, their entire team was wiped out.

Naturally, this probability wasn't particularly high, but the chances of spawning strange creatures and demons at the Body Integration Realm or Mahayana Realm were still quite high.

However, as long as they didn't spawn a Heavenly Demon, the squad currently led by Li Yingling could truly handle it.

After all, this ten-person team included two Tribulation Crossing cultivators from the Xuanqing Heavenly Sect, one Tribulation Crossing cultivator from the Tianyan Sect, and two Mahayana Realm cultivators.

Their combat power was enough to flatten most sects outside the Eighteen Immortal Sects.

Li Xingtian replied in a cautious tone, It is best to be careful.

Nowadays, their master was presiding over the overall situation and was so busy that he could barely be contacted. At most, he could only send a jade token to offer a few words of comfort.

Eldest Senior Sister had not been assigned any specific tasks by their master. She was only told one sentence by him: Do whatever you want to do, and Master will support you. All intelligence will be fully open to you. Whatever Master knows, you will know.

This also made Li Yingling, who had originally wanted to go to her master's side to figure out the situation first, dispel that thought.

This sentence seemed like leaving her to her own devices, but in fact, Eldest Senior Sister understood that this was their master's heaviest expectation of her.

You are no longer the Eldest Senior Sister who follows behind my back to handle matters.

You will be a brand new leader.

Eldest Senior Sister organized intelligence in the Tianyan Sect for a full half month, sorting and reading day and night without a moment's rest, before finally making a decision: mobilize the mighty array and ritual cultivators of the Tribulation Crossing Realm to investigate these crimson light pillars.

The beginning of everything related to the Demon Race was bound to be connected to these light pillars.

If they could figure it out in advance, or understand it thoroughly, they might be able to eradicate the risk from its very roots.

Eldest Senior Sister's meaning was also very obvious: she knew this was very difficult, perhaps even completely impossible, but if they were going to do something, they should do the biggest thing possible!

Because if it were just a small matter, missing one Li Yingling wouldn't make a difference, but if it were a major event, Eldest Senior Sister could mobilize forces from all sides.

If they could investigate other directions from the light pillars, they could also shift their targets when the time came.

In short, when Eldest Senior Sister reported this plan, which seemed a bit hastily put together in Li Xingtian's eyes, to their master, their master approved it with the fastest speed.

Lin Luoyu had also withdrawn from the Xuanwu Kingdom and returned, only to be called away by Chen Baiqing to handle the affairs of Dongsheng Shenzhou with her.

As for Yun Li, she was disliked by Eldest Senior Sister for being a bit clumsy and foolish, so she was dumped at the Tianyan Sect to be guided and trained by the people there first.

Without a doubt, Li Xingtian was grabbed by Eldest Senior Sister to do the hard labor.

However, Li Xingtian was still willing to share the burdens of his master and Eldest Senior Sister.

Li Yingling kept her eyes on the crimson light pillar ahead:

Naturally, it is best to be careful. We still need to gather as much information as possible before making a move. So, Second Junior Brother... shall we use the old method?

Hearing this, Li Xingtian's face stiffened, and he spoke in a low voice:

Regarding gathering information, don't we have the intelligence access granted by Master? I don't absolutely have to be the one to go, do I?

Li Yingling raised her eyebrows and said in an extremely serious tone:

Intelligence still requires people to gather it. How do you know those intelligence personnel are reliable? If even one is unreliable and leaks our tracks, allowing the Heavenly Demons to find our location and capture us alive to threaten Master, at that time, so as not to put Master in a difficult position, will you kill me, or will I kill you?

Li Xingtian really wanted to stubbornly retort: If worse comes to worst, can't we just end ourselves?

But he ultimately wasn't the type to speak out of spite.

Moreover, purely from a logical standpoint, what Li Yingling said actually made quite a bit of sense.

They couldn't expect everyone to be reliable. After all, the Heavenly Demons would also judge whether the people asking for information were Li Yingling, Li Xingtian, and their group based on their route.

Although Li Xingtian's face showed some reluctance, he eventually nodded in agreement and said:

Alright... then we will use the old method.

Watching this scene, the Tribulation Crossing cultivator from the Xuanqing Heavenly Sect behind the two couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth into a smile.

Sometimes he truly felt that the two people in front of him were absolute comedians.

The so-called old method was to have this junior brother, who cultivated blood qi, infiltrate the evil cultivators as a spy to gather intelligence.

Although this approach was highly unorthodox, its effectiveness was undeniable.

After all, no one would ever suspect that a blood qi cultivator, radiating a bloody aura like a Blood Demon descending upon the world...

could actually be a cultivator of the righteous path.