destiny eternal calamity

Chapter 152 White Lotus Sect

In early February, there was no trace of snow in the southern country.

The situation is different in the North.

In a small town within the territory of the Seven Sages County of the Wei Kingdom, as evening approached, a snowstorm raged, and few pedestrians were seen on the streets, with passersby hurrying by.

Amidst the wind and snow, a man in a straw hat led a woman dressed in a snow fox fur coat into the city.

It was Li Wei and Shang Xueyan.

That day, when Li Wei left the capital of Li Kingdom, he used the technique of "Invisible and Formless" and activated the mirage energy to completely conceal his figure and shake off his pursuers.

Then, following the route he had agreed upon with Senior Sister Yan, he headed north and caught up with her a day later at the border of Luoyu County in Li Kingdom.

According to Yan Xueshang, she had already met with Elder Yaoyue, who told Li Wei not to worry about her.

When Yan Xueshang relayed these words, Li Wei could sense that her gaze carried a sense of inquiry.

It was as if he was being asked what his relationship was with Elder Yaoyue, and why Yaoyue would say such intimate things to him.

Li Wei couldn't help but wonder if he had really guessed wrong.

If the other party is truly Shang Xueyan, it's impossible that she wouldn't know about the relationship between Yaoyue and herself.

After all, Yaoyue sacrificed herself in place of Shang Xueyan because Shang Xueyan was unwilling to become a Daoist couple with Li Wei.

Li Wei was completely confused about the situation, so he could only pretend for the time being that he was still completely unaware of the truth.

Ever since he obtained the mirage energy from Xie Youshan, even Aunt Yaoyue couldn't see through his cultivation level. She only realized he had broken through to the Dharma Aspect realm during their dual cultivation.

Yaoyue is his Daoist partner, and it's obvious that they are already connected at heart, so he naturally doesn't care if she knows his true cultivation level.

As for Senior Sister Yan, although he felt that the two had a good relationship, he was really unsure whether he or the sect was more important to her.

Therefore, he did not tell the other party that he had already advanced to the Dharma Aspect stage.

After all, he is only nineteen years old on the surface.

The fact that he is a Dharma Avatar at less than twenty years old cannot be explained by innate talent alone. If this were to get out by accident, he might actually be captured and dissected by the Eternal Tribulation cultivators.

So the two people, who were originally capable of flying, pretended to be cultivators of the Divine Treasury and traveled through mountains and rivers until today.

During this time, Yaoyue came to see him once, hypnotized Senior Sister Yan, and cultivated with her once.

This made Li Wei even more uncertain.

After all, no matter how high Yaoyue's mastery of sound-based techniques is, it's impossible for her to hypnotize a Void Realm cultivator.

If Senior Sister Yan is really Shang Xueyan, even if Yaoyue had ten times the courage, she wouldn't dare to do such a thing, and Shang Xueyan would never tolerate it.

Unless both Shang Xueyan and Yaoyue are psychopaths —

With Li Wei's still rather superficial understanding of martial arts, he certainly couldn't have imagined that Shang Xueyan had only just broken through to the late stage of the Void Realm and had already comprehended the second divine ability, the clone.

This is one of the most powerful divine abilities of the Transformation Path, capable of creating a puppet clone that is completely under one's control.

The drawback of this clone is that it cannot be too far from the main body, otherwise it will dissipate into the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

There are many advantages. First, it has no independent consciousness and will not betray you.

Secondly, he possesses extraordinary strength, equivalent to 70% of his original body's combat power, and is even able to use the original body's supernatural abilities.

That day, Shang Xueyan used a clone to impersonate Yan Xueshang while she herself transformed into Yaoyue, which completely confused Li Wei.

In fact, she had also noticed that Li Wei had some doubts about Yan Xueshang's identity, which is why she took these actions.

It's definitely not because she thinks it's exciting.

After carefully reviewing the situation, she felt there were two oversights.

First, the name. This is easy to explain. Just say that Master Shang Xueyan pronounced her own name backwards.

Secondly, she told Li Wei that Yun Mingyu was her senior uncle, which doesn't match their ages.

It's not difficult to patch up this loophole: later in the conversation, try to steer the topic toward this, and then say that she had concealed part of the truth about the prison break incident, and that Yun Mingyu was actually her grand-uncle.

Li Wei led Shang Xueyan into the small town. The two found an inn, booked a room, and ordered a pot of warm wine.

"Senior Sister Yan, with our speed, we are still two days away from Kongsang Sect."

Li Wei took out a map from his pocket and gestured with it.

"Okay, we'll rest for four hours and then set off."

Shang Xueyan calculated the true energy consumption and recovery speed of a normal Divine Realm cultivator and said.

Li Wei nodded slightly, then looked out the window, poured himself a drink, and said nothing more.

Shang Xueyan sat cross-legged on the bed, pretending to be fully focused on recovering her inner energy.

About three hours later.

Li Wei suddenly noticed some unusual noises outside.

Seeing that Shang Xueyan was still meditating quietly, he did not disturb her, but instead extended his divine sense.

His spiritual sense was extraordinary; while ordinary cultivators at the Dharma Aspect Realm could only extend their spiritual sense a hundred meters, he could extend it a full three thousand meters.

In the vision of divine consciousness, every living thing has its own spiritual field. Divine consciousness cannot directly perceive the spiritual field, but can only sense its various characteristics.

High-level cultivators can see through low-level cultivators precisely because of these spiritual field characteristics, rather than by directly seeing the condition inside the other person's body.

In reality, even clothing cannot penetrate the divine sense, because as long as clothing is worn by a living being, it will be encompassed by the spiritual field.

To probe into someone else's body with one's divine sense, one must make close physical contact with them, just as Aunt Ying and Zhong Kui Yao Hua did back then.

In addition, spiritual sense has very poor penetration through metals, especially heavy metals such as gold.

Li Wei's divine sense pierced through the night and probed towards the street.

He sensed a group of mortals wandering the streets, numbering more than thirty.

Among the group were four burly men carrying a sedan chair; all four were martial artists who had reached the Qi Refining stage.

The people inside the sedan chair kept scattering paper money outwards, as if they were offering a sacrifice.

In the dead of night, the scene was extremely eerie.

Li Wei was unsure of the cultivation level of the person inside the sedan chair, so he did not probe into it with his divine sense.

If the other party has a cultivation level above the Spirit Bridge realm, they will inevitably detect his probe, which will then lead to conflict.

Although he felt that the other party's cultivation level was not too high, he didn't need to deliberately provoke trouble.

"Senior Sister Yan, what's going on with that group of people outside?"

Li Wei relayed the strange situation he had just discovered to Yan Xueshang via telepathy.

Yan Xueshang opened her eyes, but there was nothing unusual about her expression.

"That's the White Lotus Sect, which is very common in the Wei Kingdom."

She replied telepathically.

"The White Lotus Sect?"

"Hmm, it seems to be a branch of Buddhism, worshipping Maitreya and the Eternal Mother. They claim to have been established by the will of the Eternal Mother, with the aim of saving people, and to proclaim that all disciples, regardless of gender or age, are equal, call each other brothers and sisters, and that after death they will be reborn in the Land of Emptiness and the Western Paradise."

Upon hearing this, Li Wei pondered for a moment and sensed that the subtext of this statement was that the people needed to be saved.

That's true. Whether in Wei or Li, the lower classes did indeed live a miserable life, as if in purgatory.

But the imperial court was not happy to hear this.

So how come the White Lotus Sect wasn't designated as a heretical sect and eradicated by the Wei Kingdom? How come it dared to openly appear in the city and hold ceremonies?