Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu continued their leisurely life after Dongfang Jing and Chen Yi left.

They ate, drank wine, and played card games.

However, this kind of life was bound to end.

On the last day of the competition, the two went around their plots, collecting the puppets and dismantling the formations.

At the same time, they handed over the plots and received their share of the harvest.

[You have provokes a lot of trouble.] A voice suddenly entered the two people’s minds.

[Does elder Luo plan to help us out?] Shen Xu asked in a subtle but mocking voice.

However,he didn’t receive an answer.

Instead, Luo Jianfeng shook his head and looked at the two with a complicated expression before walking away.

[Take care of yourselves.] A voice floated behind him.

Hearing this, Shen Xu sneered and turned to Zhen Yuan.

[These old men are too hypocritical.] He said and Zhen Yuan smiled.

[Are...] He started but suddenly stopped.

Simultaneously, he looked at the sky and frowned with a thoughtful expression.

[What’s wrong?] Shen Xu asked.

[Someone is hiding above us.] Zhen Yuan said and the double raised an eyebrow in surprise.

[I don’t sense anything.] He said

[Be careful.] Zhen Yuan reminded and the double nodded. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

[I know.] He said and waved his hand to remove their ship from the Chaos Flame Space.

Since they were in a difficult situation, Shen Xu directly took out the Mayfly.

After all, the Mayfly was currently a level nine ship and could withstand an immortal blow, let alone a tribulation transcending realm cultivator.

[I wonder who will come first.] Shen Xu muttered as he and Zhen Yuan boarded the ship.

[It doesn’t matter...] Zhen Yuan started but a loud bang suddenly interrupted his words.

Looking up, the two saw that a large palm had collided with their ship’s protective formation and was attempting to break through it.

Unfortunately, the Mayfly was an incredibly sturdy ship and the palm attack could not bend the arrays, let alone break them.

[Let’s send a puppet.] Shen Xu suggested and Zhen Yuan nodded.

Soon after, the double took out a level nine puppet and sent it to counter the opponent.

After all, although the ship was sturdy, maintaining the formations required a lot of spirit stones and Shen Xu didn’t want to waste resources if he could avoid it.

A moment later, the palm attack dispersed but another bang was heard, indicating that the puppet had began fighting the opponent.

"These little brats are hiding deeply." Luo Jianfeng observed, his eyes narrowed into slits.

"They have a level nine ship and a tribulation transcending realm guardian." Xuanyuan Feng said but frowned.

"I always feel that there is something strange about this guardian." He continued.

"I can’t sense the guardian’s qi fluctuations." Su Bingbing said and the surrounding people fell silent.

Thirty breaths later, Zhao Yufeng looked at his fellow grand elders with a confused face.

"Is his cultivation so much higher than ours?" He asked.

After all, they were all tribulation transcending realm cultivators and should normally have been able to sense the guardian’s qi fluctuations.

"Loose immortals rarely dare to take action in our Tianxuan continent." Chu Huan said and quickly continued.

"Also,... loose immortals aren’t so far above us that we wouldn’t sense their qi when they take action." He said.

"Could it be a concealing technique?" Someone asked.

"I have never heard of a concealment technique that stays intact when someone attacks." Another argued.

Similar to the Tianxuan sect grand elders, other tribulation transcending realm cultivators were also confused and couldn’t figure out what was going on with the two people’s guardian.

"Has that fellow Daoist always been protecting disciple Zhen and disciple Shen? Did anyone sense his presence?" Someone asked.

"I didn’t know he was there until he showed himself." A female cultivator said.

Hearing this , everyone stopped talking and fell into deep thought.

’A sharp blade hidden in the dark.’ They thought, shuddering at the idea of encountering such an opponent.

.....

On another ship, an old man looked at Wang Haiwen.

"You didn’t know that they have a peak-stage tribulation transcending realm protector?" He asked and Wang Haiwen narrowed his eyes before shaking his head.

"I didn’t sense the protector." He said and looked at his fellow elders to confirm the situation.

"I also didn’t sense him." Another grand elder said.

"He seems to have come out of nowhere."

"How could..." The old man started, gasped and hastily stood.

"Supreme elder Kuang, did you think of something?" Wang Haiwen asked, looking at the old man.

"Mmh." Supreme elder Kuang hummed with a distracted expression.

The Ten Evils sect was a big faction with branches in the cultivation world, the immortal realm, and the God realm.

Because of this, immortal realm evil cultivators often descended to the cultivation world to recruit disciples or practice some techniques that were unacceptable in the immortal realm.

Kuang Song was such a visitor.

He was originally an immortal king.

Unfortunately, he encountered an enemy and his cultivation was beaten to the peak of the tribulation transcending realm.

Most importantly, his talent was damaged and he couldn’t progress no matter how much he practiced.

In the end, Kuang Song chose to descend to the cultivation world and find an opportunity to steal someones fate in the Xuanwu secret realm.

However, while waiting for the Xuanwu secret realm, he occasionally helped the Ten Evils sect deal with some problems and they repaid him with other conveniences.

This time, the sect master asked him to eliminate Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan but he didn’t expect that the two were not ordinary people.

"That protector is a level nine puppet." He said and the others couldn’t help but be shocked.

"A level nine puppet..., how is this possible?" Someone asked.

After all, level nine materials were rare and most importantly, there was no level nine puppet master in the Tianxuan continent.

"Could Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan be from the immortal realm?" Wang Haiwen speculated.