After the mind-reading cripple junior sister, the entire sect rose to prominence.

Chapter 93 Thief
Liu Wuhan, who was usually calm and smiling, had a gloomy face on the way to the Nine Nether Springs and ignored the disciples who bowed to him along the way.

Some disciples, unaware of the situation, were secretly alarmed, wondering if they had somehow offended the sect leader. Others, having already heard rumors from the Nine Nether Springs, were even more terrified upon seeing the sect leader's state.

Could it be that their Qingyue Sect has encountered some kind of calamity?
Chen Lan witnessed firsthand how much Qingyue Sect valued the Nine Nether Spring—

As soon as the fog began to thin, all the disciples who were cultivating here were summoned together by the guards, and an old man whose cultivation level could not be discerned but was clearly a master was put in charge of watching over them.

"Did you notice anything unusual while you were cultivating? If the clues you provide are useful, you will be rewarded by the sect." The old man looked around, his authoritative gaze sweeping over them one by one. "But if you know something and don't report it, don't blame me for being impolite if we find out ourselves!"

Apart from Chen Lan and the female disciple named Fu Hong from Echo Valley, everyone else here is a disciple of Qingyue Sect, and they are all core elite disciples.

They were highly valued in the Qingyue Sect and felt a strong sense of belonging to the sect. Now that they learned of the strange occurrences at the Nine Nether Spring, they were all very anxious.

They were hoping to come here to cultivate regularly. If something went wrong here, wouldn't they be unable to come anymore?

Everyone is anxious because it concerns their own interests.

"Elder Lu, I have been cultivating, but suddenly I found that the spiritual energy around me has become thinner. When I opened my eyes, I found that the fog had also thinned. I don't know what happened in between."

"Me too. I've been cultivating, and I was hoping to break through to the next level today with the help of spiritual energy, but before I could even break through, the spiritual energy faded away," someone lamented.

"We're in the fog, we can't see anything. Even if we did, we wouldn't be able to find any clues!"

"Yes, Elder Lu, what exactly happened? Why has the spiritual energy in the Nine Nether Spring suddenly decreased?"

"Has the formation here been damaged, or is there some thief causing trouble?"

Everyone started asking questions all at once.

Upon hearing the word "thief," Chen Lan felt a pang of guilt.

Sigh, there really are thieves... They even stole someone's spring spirit, so of course they're thieves!
Honestly, they've never done anything like this before, but who knew that their first time would be such a big one.

Elder Lu listened attentively to their words, but found no useful clues, and his brows furrowed in dismay.

Meanwhile, inside the Qiankun Immortal Abode.

"What do you mean by this? You knew all along that I was a spring spirit, so you deliberately broke through the barrier and went to great lengths to trick me into leaving, didn't you!"

The tiny ice flower seemed to have gone mad, shouting and screaming ever since it entered the immortal abode.

Liu Feng's ears were hurting. He was glad that they were in the Immortal Abode and not outside. Otherwise, with such a commotion, they would have been captured by the Qingyue Sect long ago.

"Don't be alarmed, how can this be called a scam?"

Liu Feng chuckled and said, "Did I say anything false to coax you to leave? No, right? Look, I said I had a celestial abode, and now you've seen it, so it's clear I wasn't lying. Besides, you were the one who voluntarily changed your form to leave with me. Did I ever say I would take you with me?"

He did conceal the fact that he knew it was a spring spirit, and that his purpose was to take it away, but everything else was done willingly by the spring spirit itself!

I may have concealed some things, but I have never lied about a single word!

Quanling was speechless for a moment. Actually, after witnessing that the Immortal Abode truly existed, it felt somewhat at ease. This at least indicated that the person did indeed possess treasures and had the means to take it away.

However, the fact that the other party had come specifically for her and then pretended not to recognize her after seeing her made Quanling somewhat annoyed.

I was completely fooled by this human with a hundred tricks up his sleeve!
"Although you didn't say it, you were trying to seduce me. From the very beginning, you wanted to trick me into leaving with you!" Quanling sneered.

Liu Feng chuckled, “Oh, the process isn’t important, the result is what matters most. Look, I risked my life to break into the restriction and now I’m hiding you in the Immortal Abode. Next, I have to risk being discovered and killed by the Qingyue Sect to get you out of here. There can’t be any mistakes… Of course, if you don’t want to, I can find a chance to let you go.”

It's impossible not to want to. Even if I really didn't want to, I can only accept it now and keep my head down and move forward.

My departure will inevitably expose the fact that it has become a "spirit," and Qingyue Sect will certainly spare no effort to find it after learning about it.

If it walks right into the trap, given its past record, it will be kept under strict surveillance from now on and will never be able to leave.

So, there's only one thing we can do now—

Trust them and accept your fate by leaving with them.

[Hurry up and state your conditions, or you'll miss your chance.]

[The spirit considers itself superior and looks down on cultivators like us with lower cultivation levels; it wouldn't stoop to lying to us.]

Therefore, once it agrees to the conditions, it will definitely not go back on its word!

Because they didn't know what had happened between Liu Feng and Quan Ling, the members of the Xianlai Sect only dared to watch from the sidelines, not daring to speak, for fear of saying the wrong thing and angering Quan Ling.

A spirit capable of developing intelligence is far more powerful than these minor cultivators. If it were to become enraged and seek revenge without regard for the consequences, they would all perish here.

“Ahem, well, Uncle-Master,” Hu Jiu spoke up, “Since Senior Quanling doesn’t agree, let it leave on its own. That way, we won’t have to take any risks.”

“That’s right. Qingyue Sect has always disliked us and is definitely looking for something to do with us. Now that Senior Sister Chen is probably being questioned outside, why should we take that risk?” Meng Ling said.

“Yeah, we risked so much danger to save it, but we didn’t get any benefit from it. It’s even resenting us… What’s the point!” Ji Qingqing muttered.

As she spoke, she was secretly watching the ice flowers, afraid that they might suddenly burst out and hurt someone.

Sigh, although I can't see its expression...

“That’s right. If this is a transaction, then we’re completely losing money. What benefit would we get from helping them?!” Yi Xingyun said.

Quanling was initially somewhat unwilling, feeling that she had been tricked and extremely frustrated.

But now that it sees these people all wanting to drive it away, it panics.

"What do you mean? You wanted to bring me out, but now you want to kick me out? Don't even think about it! I'm not leaving!" it said, becoming unruly.

(End of this chapter)