Who Brought Him into the Cultivation World?-Chapter 333 - 275: Lending a Hand

"Goodbye!"

With a dark expression, Han Yu continued to turn around and step forward.

He shouldn’t have expected too much from this Beast Spirit. It’s absurd to trade friendship. What a big face.

"Oh, oh..."

From behind, the Wood Spirit called out, and Qing Wan also spoke up.

"If you help this time, I can also help you once in the future."

Only then did Han Yu stop in his tracks. It would have been so much simpler if they said this from the start. Expecting someone to do something for the sake of friendship, that’s just absurd and only exists in stories. He really didn’t believe that helping someone would bring about this thing called friendship.

Better to keep things straightforward. I help you once, you help me once.

"If there’s a way, you should help. When your Wood Divine Power breaks into the Fourth Tier Domain in the future, it will come in handy!"

The Artifact Spirit also chimed in appropriately. Helping out with a minor task could earn the assistance of the Wood Spirit, which was indeed a great deal.

Han Yu was inclined to earn this favor, but the Wood Spirit’s demands were too stringent. It desired solitude and proximity to mountains and seas, which were inherently contradictory.

All truly isolated places are barren.

What’s more, it wasn’t just about how the huge wooden body of the Wood Spirit could move; its mere presence would be visible to anyone unless they were blind.

As Han Yu was fretting over this, two swooshes echoed from above.

Chicken Feather Gall arrived, accompanied by Witty Ghost.

His face bore a sweet smile, as if he had consumed honey, especially when he came down and praised Han Yu excessively.

"I knew Mr. Han’s actions were extraordinary."

This time, he didn’t come alone. He dragged everyone from the Government Office who could be of use. A group of people were startled as they flew along the Sea Domain.

Last time they came, there were clearly mountains here, but now not even a small hill remained.

Chicken Feather Gall was relieved, secretly grateful for his earlier decision to set sail. If Sea Stone City had ended up like this, it would have been devastated.

Beyond the beach was a shocking sight—a cultivator, whose fate was uncertain, was scattered across the area. The surroundings were filled with craters, large and small. Near their entry point, six old cultivators were tied together like dumplings.

He felt fortunate to have arrived early.

The remaining six old monsters of Celestial City Peak were all here, and the cultivators outside were mostly from Celestial City Peak as well. This many people meant they had practically captured everything from Celestial City Peak.

The credit would not be small. Coming early allowed him to show some face in front of Shangguan from the Fifth Tower, surely earning some favor.

Sure enough, the group he brought was now outside helping to gather the fallen cultivators.

Soon, a Palace Guard arrived, greeted with a fist salute, and then reported.

They gathered eighty-seven cultivators, with thirty seriously injured and fifty-seven dead.

Hearing this number, Chicken Feather Gall was still tongue-tied. Wow, just one person incapacitated six Transcendent Realm Cultivators and casually killed so many people.

Actually, the true number exceeded that, Han Yu thought to himself, realizing some of them might have been thrown into the sea by him at the time.

"By the way, Mr. Han, what is that?"

Chicken Feather Gall finally cautiously asked. He had already noticed this towering tree before descending.

It was hard not to notice. The largest tree he had ever seen was less than one percent of this one’s size.

Besides, was this really something from his jurisdiction?

He had been here for many years but was sure he had no knowledge of such a gigantic tree’s existence.

The group of people under the tree were also not from his Sea Stone City.

Thus, he couldn’t hold back his curiosity and spoke quietly.

As Chicken Feather Gall spoke, Han Yu seemed to have thought of a plan. He looked at this Guardian with brightened eyes and said with a mischievous smile.

"Have you notified the Inspectorate to come and take custody?"

"Yes, yes."

Chicken Feather Gall quickly replied. Han Yu had mentioned such a big deal in his letter, which Sea Stone City couldn’t handle alone. Plus, the six remaining old monsters of Celestial City Peak had significant value, so the Inspectorate would certainly not hesitate to come personally.

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"So you sent Old Ghost Ling?"

At the Inspectorate, Gao Feng spoke to Quan Xiaotong with a mixture of amusement and helplessness.

Ling Wuce, as Vice Tower Master of Spirit Realm Tower and Vice Dean of the Cultivator Institute, was always being sent out by Quan Xiaotong and had complained to him several times.

Unexpectedly, Quan Xiaotong had sent him on an errand again.

Quan Xiaotong spoke with a faint smile, "The people from Celestial City Peak are coveted only by Spirit Realm Tower and Light-shaking Tower. It’s best for Tower Master Ling to go. Then Hundred Herbs Bureau can go to Spirit Realm Tower if they want anyone."

Spirit Realm Tower was responsible for compiling and recording Cultivation Techniques and would surely be interested in the techniques of these eight elder monsters.

Light-shaking Tower’s Hundred Herbs Bureau was surely eyeing the pill formulas in these eight elder monsters’ minds.

If the Inspectorate seized them, they would be pestered non-stop by these two groups. It was better to let Ling Wuce handle it so that Hundred Herbs Bureau could deal with him, allowing themselves some peace.

Speaking of Hundred Herbs Bureau, Gao Feng remembered his primary purpose for coming.

"There’s some news about the Dragon Blood Stone..."

This piqued Quan Xiaotong’s curiosity, and he patiently waited for more.

"Those old folks insist it can’t be Dragon Blood, and there’s an eighty percent chance it’s artificially created."

Artificially...

That would be worse than if it was created by Dragon Blood.

If it were Dragon Blood, there’d be a limited amount. Once used up, it would be gone. But if it was artificial, that would be a completely different matter. It happened that in Quan Xiaotong’s suspicions, the Qingzhou incident had connections with the Corpse Refining Lineage.

If it were artificial, wouldn’t that mean the opponent could artificially elevate a Great Perfection Cultivator to a Transcendent Cultivator?

Frightening!

At this thought, Quan Xiaotong looked displeased.

"Do you think these stones have significant limitations, preventing the opponent from nurturing Transcendent Realm Cultivators en masse, or that there are inherent flaws in this method?"

Gao Feng had considered what Quan Xiaotong thought about as well, but he was slightly more optimistic. If it were that easy, Bai Bufen wouldn’t remain merely at the Great Perfection Realm.

Nor would there exist the Puppet Sect, Zuyou Sect.

"Perhaps both possibilities hold some truth."

Quan Xiaotong could only hope so.

"But it’s not all bad news. Ever since Yellow Springs Mansion was gone, the Corpse Refining Lineage has been utterly quiet during this period."

Gao Feng cited reports from dark scouts across various provinces. Ever since the White Emperor City incident, the Corpse Refining Lineage seemed to disappear, which counted as positive news.

Quan Xiaotong shook his head. A colossal entity that had lain low for hundreds of years wouldn’t halt just because a small force under them had perished.

Even Yama Hall didn’t know the details of its underling organizations. Their operations would only get more concealed, and their strength would only grow.

"Perhaps we must rely on Han Yu to help us uncover these individuals."

Gao Feng raised an eyebrow and asked, "Do you think Yama Hall will come for Han Yu?"

Quan Xiaotong chuckled, "That’s beyond doubt. Plenty have stumbled at his hands, and Yama Hall should already be aware of someone like him."

If it weren’t for Han Yu, the Corpse Refining Lineage might not have been exposed in such a manner.