Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
MTI 156 - Assumptions and Predictions

If the Sky Mountain Sect had some special elders called Mountain Elders, then the Poison Heart Valley had Valley Elders. Although the names were different, their standing within the stewardship structure of the sect was the same.

The position of the Mountain Elder or the Valley Elder was only one level below the Great Elder and both led a faction within their respective sects. Under certain conditions, the combination of them could replace the position of the Patriarch or Grand Elder in making an important decision.

In the Valley of the Poison Heart, there was a special faction whose members were all equipped with knowledge, techniques, or science useful in gathering information related to the world of cultivators. The same faction was actually also present in the big sects, especially the ten-star great sects.

This faction is often referred to as the Tracking Faction. Of this faction, too, Xu Lao asked most of his members to leave the sect in search of information about Xu Gang's two children who somehow escaped from surveillance and fled the sect and were asked to take them home. At the same time, they were also asked to look for Yao Han's whereabouts.

After Xu Yang and Xu Yin returned, as well as hearing all the stories that ended in the relief of the high ranking Poison Heart Valley's heart, Xu Lao intended to have the Valley Elders of the Tracking Faction pull back the members of the sect that were already scattered.

Xu Lao was planning to meet the Tracer Faction Valley Elder named Hui Jin after Xiao Ni left the Poison Heart Valley, but first Hui Jin entered the room with a serious look and gave a shocking news.

"Cultivator wars? Hui Jin, did I not hear wrong?" Xu Lao asked ascertainingly, representing the people in the room.

"Senior Xu, you didn't mishear. I got accurate information from one of my subordinates that there will soon be a great world war of cultivators after more than twenty years. The cause was the conflict that occurred in the Jade Treasure City."

Except for Xu Yang and Xu Yin, everyone there frowned upon hearing the name Jade Treasure City.

"It was not new that there was a conflict in the Jade Treasure City, but with the Jade Treasure Tower as the guard and manager of the largest cultivator city in the Green Forest Country, the conflict should not have grown until it triggered a cultivator war, right?"

Hui Jin confirmed She Liu's response, but he gave another opinion. This one conflict was different because it involved the entire ten-star sect of the white and neutral stream with one of the ten-star sects of the black stream.

"What kind of black flow sect is that?"

"The Moon Cloud Sect."

Hui Jin's reply made the top of the Poison Heart Valley in the room look at each other in silence. What a surprise the Moon Cloud Sect that was currently considered the strongest black flow sect replacing the Poison Heart Valley could deal with many sects at once.

It was not surprising to deal with one or two ten-star sects from the white stream, as was the Valley of the Poison Heart twenty years ago. Yet this time it was much more, even a neutral ten-star sect was also involved.

"Wait a moment, why are there members of all the white and neutral ten-star sects gathered in Jade Treasure City? What are they doing there?"

"The young generation that escorted Soul Realm cultivators.. could it be related to the Young Cultivator Gathering that became the tradition of the largest sect of the white stream?"

"There's a possibility that's true, Senior Xu. Some of my subordinates said, they saw that among the younger generation gathered were the son of the Fire Star Palace Patriarch, a pair of youths from the White Lotus Sect, and the Ice King's eldest daughter."

Xu Lao frowned, "They are all Heir Sect Disciples, future Patriarch and Matriarch candidates. Moreover, the Young Cultivator Meeting was a tradition of the white sect, then why was there also a representative of the Northern Ice Fort that was a neutral sect sect there?"

Xu Lao was astonished because it was quite natural that there was a representative of the Star Fire Palace in the Young Cultivator Meeting because the sect became part of the white sect after the end of the great war twenty years ago.

"Senior, we can leave aside whether the news of the conflict that occurred related to the tradition of the meeting or not. More importantly, if all the white and neutral ten-star sects were involved, this would be a huge problem for the black stream. It was not impossible for all the sects to form an alliance to annihilate the Moon Cloud Sect which resulted in the loss of the balance of the cultivator's world."

Indeed, the great world war of cultivators that had occurred all along involved two or three great sects. In certain cases, there was a war involving all the sects of the white and black sects like the war twenty years ago.

"Either what triggers the conflict there, but the Moon Cloud Sect will not be as easily intimidated by the white-neutral alliance that might form as you say..."

Xu Lao said it was because of his belief in the Moon Cloud Sect that had wide connections. They could have formed a counter alliance by inviting his subordinate sect or cooperating with another big sect.

Xu Lao added of the Yutian warning that several times had been conveyed to the higher-ups of the Poison Heart Valley, namely that the Moon Cloud Sect was actually much stronger than everyone thought, in fact, even at the moment the Poison Heart Valley became the number one sect in the black stream by having Yutian as the Poison Gate.

"The real fact that cannot be denied is that after the last great war, no ten-star sect could truly keep up with the full strength of the Moon Cloud Sect. In addition, the two ten-star sects of the white stream cooperated with each other or the Sky Mountain Sect that still had the Fire Sword Goddess."

The atmosphere became quiet for quite a while, until it was later solved due to a laugh from Xiao Ni. All of the gazes led to him, they were quite distracted by the sound of Xiao Ni laughing which sounded extremely mocking. They had even almost forgotten about his existence which turned out to still be there because it was focused on the information Hui Jin had brought along.

"Great war of the world of cultivators, huh?" Xiao Ni stroked his chin while directing a slightly upward gaze, "Interesting..." Xiao Ni laughed again as if something was amusing with his words.

"When a cultivator's war occurred, the Green Forest Country was almost always the battleground of fools who relied on muscles first rather than their brains. If there really is no longer a war going on and it's in the Green Forest Country region, I wonder..Will Senior Feng do the same thing as during the war twenty years ago?"

Xiao Ni grinned widely, not long after he finished his remark, the temperature of the room suddenly felt terrifyingly cold.

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