Chapter 3783: A Speck of Dust

With a gentle ripple of space, Jian Chen, Jing Feng, and Jing Mumu all vanished.

With Jian Chen’s departure, the gentleness on Immortal Exalt Tan Yu’s face immediately vanished. He stared at the people before him frostily and said, “Take what happened today as a warning. We can’t allow anything like this to happen ever again in any part of the Immortal Rising City. If you encountered one of those strange-mannered old freaks with violent tempers instead of someone as agreeable as Yang Yutian who refuses to stoop down to your level, your Xishan clan would definitely face destruction. Even I would not be able to save you.”

“City lord, a-actually we did investigate them. How could we know that the two people from the Jing family of Falling Cloud City would actually have such a great expert behind them…” Xishan Yanlie was filled with great regret. He never expected this to lead to the ancestor facing such severe punishment.

“Are you saying that you can freely harass those from smaller clans and organisations?” Immortal Exalt Tan Yu stared coldly at Xishan Yanlie.

“Isn’t that exactly how the world works?” Xishan Yanlie muttered inside, but he would never have the courage to say this aloud in front of Immortal Exalt Tan Yu. He only stood there obediently, accepting his lesson.

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From that moment onwards, one of the two Immortal Emperor ancestors of the Xishan clan completely vanished. Some of their Immortal Monarch elders seemed to evaporate into thin air as well. There were no signs of them for a very long time into the future.

The eight organisations of the Immortal Rising City were of the same breath and branch. The founding ancestors were all friends of life and death who had gone through thick and thin together. The seven other organisations were obviously particularly concerned with what had happened to the Xishan clan, so the Immortal Emperor ancestors of the other organisations all visited the Xishan clan to investigate.

But before long, all of them left the Xishan clan with heavy hearts. Many of them shook their heads with a sigh. They were filled with helplessness.

The head commander of the city guards had been replaced, taken over by a Ninth Heavenly Layer Immortal Monarch great elder dispatched from the eight organisations. Under the personal investigations of vice city lord Qiu Wanqian, it was discovered that the original head commander had severely infringed on the rules of the Immortal Rising City multiple times. He was captured on the spot by Qiu Wanqian. After his cultivation was sealed away, he was imprisoned in the Prison of Frost.

Basically all of his subordinates that held various roles among the city guards were carefully investigated. In the end, some of them were dismissed, some of them were expelled from the city, and some of them were imprisoned.

As a matter of fact, some of them had even been executed on the spot!

The first young master of the Xishan clan, Xishan Yue, was formally expelled from the Xishan clan. Having lost his cultivation, he ended up on the streets with very little possessions, disheveled like a beggar.

His father, Xishan Tu, was dismissed from the position of patriarch.

After all this, the branch that Xishan Yue belonged to suffered a heavy blow both above and below. Their status in the clan plummeted.

The Immortal Rising City locked down the spread of any information regarding what had happened at the appraisal fair. As a result, many people who were not familiar with the details only knew that the string of changes in the Immortal Rising City had started with the appraisal fair.

A mere appraisal fair had actually led to such a great impact across almost the entire hierarchy of the Immortal Rising City, which led to quite an uproar in the Immortal Rising City. Many of the medium-sized or smaller organisations felt chills. They began reining in their disciples and descendants in a hurry.

As the cause of all this, Jian Chen was completely unconcerned with what was going on around him. He remained in a serene courtyard, studying the tip of the broken sword that Jing Mumu had bought from the appraisal fair in interest.

“Master, what kind of treasure is this? Is it very precious?” Jing Mumu stood by Jian Chen’s side and stared at the tip of the sword in his hand. Her delicate face was filled with excitement and anticipation.

Jian Chen gripped the tip of the sword and studied it for a while. He said in thought, “This item is indeed a low quality god artifact on the surface but what makes it precious is that something unique has been added to its core.”

As he said that, Jian Chen closed his hand gently. With a crack, the fragment of the low quality god artifact in his hand was shattered with ease. Afterwards, as he rubbed his fingers, the fragment turned into grains of fine sand that gradually fell between his fingers.

In the blink of an eye, Jian Chen had ground the tough tip of a sword into powder. When he opened his hand again, only a speck of dust, almost indiscernible to the naked eye, rested in the centre of his palm.

Let alone the naked eye, it was almost invisible to even the senses of the soul.

That was because as the speck of dust rested in Jian Chen’s hand, its colour became identical to his palm. Even its presence was the same as his hand. Without close examination, it was very difficult to discover its existence.

Shortly afterwards, Jian Chen grabbed a clump of soil from the garden and mixed it with the speck of dust in his hand.

When they made contact, the speck of dust immediately changed. It became identical to the soil in Jian Chen’s hand in terms of both colour and presence.

It was as if the speck of dust had already become a part of the soil.

Afterwards, Jian Chen took out some immortal crystals from his Space Ring. When the immortal crystals made contact with the speck of dust, the dust immediately turned into part of an immortal crystal.

The speck of dust had even managed to replicate the lustre and presence of five-coloured immortal crystals perfectly.

It seemed like it could disguise itself as anything that it made contact with.

Of course, the only thing that changed was its appearance and presence. In reality, the speck of dust was extremely tough. Even with Jian Chen’s current strength, he felt like it was indestructible.

“Mumu, how did you discover this broken sword?” Jian Chen asked.

When she heard that, Jing Mumu was confused. “I don’t really know myself. Anyway, when I first saw the sword, I felt a strange feeling. I can’t describe it. Anyway, the only thought that filled my head was to obtain it.”

Jian Chen sank into his thoughts. Shortly afterwards, he handed the speck of dust over to Jing Mumu. “Mumu, drip your blood onto it.”

“Okay!” Jing Mumu answered and immediately bit open her finger.

When her blood dripped onto the speck of dust, the ordinary dust erupted with blinding light. Powerful sword intent instantly enveloped the entire courtyard.

If it were not for the fact that Jian Chen had already set up a spatial barrier in the courtyard, the sword intent would have leaked out and alarmed many cultivators in the Immortal Rising City.

“This sword intent…” Jian Chen was fazed. From the sword intent that was not particularly powerful, he could sense an immense presence that resembled the might of the world, as well as an ancient aura of age.

In terms of strength, perhaps the sword intent had already declined with the passage of time, no longer as powerful as before.

However, in terms of its level, the heights that the sword intent touched on left Jian Chen startled.

“The sword intent rejects the senses of my soul. Mumu, try releasing the senses of your soul and see if it can approach it,” Jian Chen abruptly said.