Where is the righteous fairy we were promised?

In an environment rife with deceit and treachery, it's truly rare to find someone like Cao Wukui.

Many more people are typical examples of "if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too".

The Five Great Immortal Sects represent a traditional model of elite rule.

The principle of respecting strength in the cultivation world has extended the reign of the five major immortal sects.

Taking the Xundao Sect as an example, only those with exceptional talent in cultivation can enjoy extraordinary treatment among the various peaks, halls, and sects.

Disciples and followers of average talent only have the most basic human rights within the sect.

Annual salary was withheld, and the perpetrators were frequently beaten and verbally abused, subjected to sarcasm and unreasonable demands...

Similar incidents are commonplace among the five major immortal sects.

Even so, few among the five major immortal sects openly rebelled.

It's all because, as the saying goes, in the world of cultivation, strength reigns supreme!

When mortals rebel against their masters, it may require the army to suppress them.

When cultivators rebel against their sects, a Dao-Merging Immortal Venerable can kill a large number of them with a single flick of his finger.

Therefore, the disciples and followers who suffered oppression within the sect gradually began to seek a sense of existence from the outside world.

The brave warrior, enraged, draws his blade against the stronger.

The coward, enraged, draws his sword against the weaker.

If it weren't for the fact that many members of the five major immortal sects frequently bullied the weaker cultivators.

It's unlikely that the Eastern Continent would have seen such widespread discontent over the five major immortal sects' monopoly on advancement in just over two thousand years.

The same scene unfolded as the five major immortal sects displayed their power to the outside world.

Large numbers of law enforcement teams began searching for so-called spies in Canglan Immortal City.

In reality, it is during this process that people wantonly vent their accumulated negative emotions on the weaker.

High-level rogue cultivators are not necessarily someone the law enforcement team can afford to offend.

However, low-level rogue cultivators are the main force that dominates large immortal cities.

The law enforcement team, which has always enjoyed using the power of others to their advantage, now has a "righteous" reason to hunt down spies.

They became even more unscrupulous in their actions within the Great Immortal City, which was controlled by the five major immortal sects.

Demanding bribes, forcing women into prostitution, settling personal scores...

Various tragedies began to occur in the Immortal City of Canglan.

Many cultivators, unable to bear the humiliation, angrily attacked the enforcement team.

Anyone who dares to resist will be labeled a spy sent by the five major demonic sects and executed on the spot!

Many cultivators, however, dared not speak out against their anger.

After being harassed by the law enforcement team, a large number of cultivators began to flee.

The law enforcement team did not stop these people from leaving Canglan Immortal City.

They even lifted the restrictions on large teleportation arrays within the city.

Numerous cultivators were allowed to use the large teleportation array to travel to other immortal cities.

The reason for this is that all those who fled were "proven" to have lived in the city within the past year.

As for going to other great immortal cities, that doesn't matter at all.

Anyway, all the major immortal cities are the same, except that Canglan Immortal City conducts "searches" more frequently.

If you're unlucky, even if you go to other great immortal cities, you might still be "searched" a second time.

Therefore, the enforcement team not only did not stop them, but also gleefully lifted the restrictions, allowing the various immortal cities to teleport to each other.

Even Jiang Ning and Lin Wanqing should have been searched.

It was only because this place was under the personal jurisdiction of Cao Wukui, and Xu Jing could personally testify to it.

This prevented other law enforcement teams from coming and causing trouble in Qinyuan Mountain.

This also provided fertile ground for Wang Qi and other angry young men to plot against the five major immortal sects.

After planning everything that night, Wang Qi and his team immediately began their operation.

The enforcement team allowed the use of the city's teleportation array, which enabled everyone to travel to various immortal cities and begin spreading rumors.

Furthermore, the five major immortal sects are quite unpopular among the lower classes.

Wang Qi and his team's plan is progressing extremely smoothly.

It spread almost instantly, reaching the entire Immortal City.

Countless cultivators who suffered undeserved calamities almost retaliated by vehemently criticizing the five major immortal sects.

So much so that just listening to those rumors, people thought the five great immortal sects were about to be wiped out after losing those hundred or so outstanding talents.

The reality, of course, is not like that.

Although the five major immortal sects lost a new generation of immortal prodigies, it was equivalent to losing a group of future pillars of strength.

But this is nothing to the five great immortal sects with their profound foundations.

Sixty years later, another batch of immortal prodigies will arrive.

Therefore, the near annihilation of the five immortal sects' prodigies has had no real effect other than causing them to lose face.

However, this did not stop the rampant talk of the five major immortal sects from being doomed.

As a result, such slanderous remarks against the five major immortal sects began to be relayed back to the five major immortal sects through the enforcement team.

How quickly do rumors spread among cultivators?

With just one transmission talisman, messages can be easily transmitted over hundreds of miles without any loss of accuracy.

Although it is not as convenient and fast as online communication in the information age.

But they really aren't that different.

As long as the topic is interesting enough to cultivators.

No matter when, the speed of transmission is ridiculously fast!

In addition, the majority of the disciples in the five major immortal sects are ordinary disciples who are oppressed on a daily basis.

As a result, the rumors from the various immortal cities quickly spread within the five major immortal sects.

Even more coincidentally, the five major immortal sects did not issue a gag order at the time.

This has led to the name "Xiao Fan" no longer being a secret among the five major immortal sects!

The rumor and reality coincided in a clever way, and Xiao Fan's name spread widely.

Suddenly, what should have been absurd rumors became quite credible.

However, the price of the rampant spread of rumors was the fury of the higher-ups of the five major immortal sects!

The leaders of the five major immortal sects were enraged, and countless lower-level disciples suffered misfortune.

A large number of disciples and followers who had spread defamatory remarks about the five major immortal sects began to be retaliated against by the elders.

This led to another very interesting phenomenon.

Because a considerable number of disciples and followers were reprimanded.

Those disciples who suffered as a result dared not say anything to the elders.

However, there are quite a few people who resent Xiao Fan for this.

If this person hadn't slaughtered the geniuses of the immortal sects, how could they have been punished by the elders?

As for spreading rumors, if "Xiao Fan" dares to do it, why can't they say it?

No one thought it was their fault.

Instead, they believe that Xiao Fan is the biggest culprit!

Gradually, Xiao Fan began to be increasingly hated by the disciples and members of the five major immortal sects.

Although no one said it aloud, they all felt that Xiao Fan had dragged them down.

It can be said that, apart from the higher-ups of the five major immortal sects who knew of Xiao Fan's extraordinary fortune...

The vast majority of ordinary disciples from the five major immortal sects did not have a good impression of Xiao Fan.

And those elite disciples who grow up, needless to say.

After all, they were the prodigies of the previous generations of immortal sects!

Now that people have heard that the immortal sect's prodigies have been almost completely wiped out, the news that "the immortal sect's prodigies are nothing special" is spreading everywhere.

The indignation in the hearts of these elite disciples can be imagined!

Under such circumstances, Xiao Fan did not even get captured and brought back to the Five Great Immortal Sects, but inexplicably provoked a large number of enemies.

Especially among the five major immortal sects, there are many who wish Xiao Fan would die quickly.

With the tacit approval of the higher-ups of the five major immortal sects.

Within just one month...

Xiao Fan quickly became a thorn in the side of the five major immortal sects!

Chapter 168 - Warm-hearted and Kind-hearted (Bonus Chapter)

January 18th, 2026 (Southern Wilderness Calendar).

The weather will change from sunny to cloudy, then to light rain.

Suitable activities: getting married, traveling, breaking ground, burial, consecration, and tracking down the source of rumors.

Taboos: Praying for blessings, setting up a bed, taking in livestock, logging, putting on mourning clothes, and escaping from law enforcement.

The last two points are, of course, the opinions of a very small minority.

Those "very few people" were, of course, the law enforcement team that found the source of the rumors, and Wang Qi and others who failed to escape the law enforcement team's pursuit!