Chapter 3657: Three Divine Mountains
Several dozen core disciples of the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens assembled the Constellation formation beneath the Energy-gathering Divine Mountain, drawing it out from the space where it was hiding.
Jian Chen planted both hands firmly on the Energy-gathering Divine Mountain as he steadily channelled his Chaotic Force into it.
He was not refining the Energy-gathering Divine Mountain. He was also aware that given the current circumstances, he could not take it away with him even if he refined it. As a result, all he wanted to do was leave an imprint.
With the imprint, he could sense the Energy-gathering Divine Mountain’s situation if he was within a certain range. Once someone tried to make an attempt on the Energy-gathering Divine Mountain, he would immediately know.
However, soon after Jian Chen channelled in his Chaotic Force, his mind suddenly shuddered. At that moment, his consciousness seemed to resonate with the Energy-gathering Divine Mountain. Through it, he developed a blurry feeling.
The feeling was like seeing a speck of light within a dark night, finding a direction on a lost journey.
That immediately left Jian Chen temporarily stunned, but he soon understood what was going on. He immediately beamed with joy inside and thought, “That should be where the other Energy-gathering Divine Mountains are located. I didn’t expect these Energy-gathering Divine Mountains to actually be able to sense one another.”
After understanding that, Jian Chen immediately concentrated and began sensing around carefully.
However, as he sensed deeper, he gradually became excited. Through the Energy-gathering Divine Mountain in the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens, he actually sensed the rough location of three other Energy-gathering Divine Mountains.
The three other Energy-gathering Divine Mountains were all gathered in the same place.
“That seems to be the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants…” Jian Chen worked out their precise location very quickly as he compared it with the map of the Reverent Observance Heaven in his mind.
Several seconds later, Jian Chen slowly drew back his hands. Suddenly, he opened his eyes and stared off in the direction of the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants. His eyes shone with a strange light.
“There are actually three Energy-gathering Divine Mountains in the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants!” Jian Chen’s heart thumped as his eyes shone.
It was an unexpected surprise for him to learn the precise location of three Energy-gathering Divine Mountains.
“Sect master, do we still continue?” Seeing how Jian Chen had already stopped refining the Energy-gathering Divine Mountain, one of the core disciples maintaining the Constellation formation raised his head and asked.
Jian Chen waved his hand and said, “Stop the formation. Everyone, enter the Divine Hall of Violet Heavens.”
“Yes, sect master!” The disciples maintaining the Constellation formation heard that and stopped the formation, entering the Divine Hall of Violet Heavens.
“Elder Nong, elder Chen, you should come in as well.” Jian Chen turned towards the only two Immortal Monarchs of the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens.
After Nong Fugui and Chen Shifang had both entered the divine hall, Jian Chen immediately waved his hand. The Divine Hall of Violet Heavens rapidly shrank, landing in his hand in the end as the size of a fist.
Looking at the tiny divine hall in his hand, Jian Chen’s eyes shone with mixed feelings, as it was the entire Sword Sect of Violet Heavens.
“We may be forced to leave the ancestral grounds of the sect today, but there will be a day when we return!” Jian Chen said softly before taking out the Primeval Divine Hall and placing the Divine Hall of Violet Heavens inside.
The Primeval Divine Hall was a sovereign god artifact. Its shielding powers were extremely powerful. Even when supreme experts made use of their great abilities to peer into the heavenly secrets, they would not be able to find a single disciple of the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens.
As a result, without any exaggeration, the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens had vanished from the Immortals’ World at that moment.
In the next moment, Jian Chen vanished. He had already departed from the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens elusively.
With his departure, the place where the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens stood finally fell silent. It had lost all of its liveliness.
A gentle breeze blew past. Within the rustling of the tree leaves, a few leaves fell down. As the fallen leaves accumulated, they covered up the rocks on the ground and the marks left behind by the bricks and times. Gradually, it covered what the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens once looked like.
This ancient, mountainous forest that possessed a lengthy history was gradually sealed away by the passage of time, becoming filled with desolation.
A few days later, the figures of a few immortals gradually appeared outside the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens. None of these people were particularly powerful. They were all beneath Immortal Monarch.
They wandered around outside the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens. Their faces were filled with uncertainty as if they were trying to verify something.
“Has the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens really moved their sect? Why’d they just move away on a whim, without any reason at all?”
“Could there be something wrong with the information? Perhaps the auxiliaries who departed from the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens are spreading fake news and twisting the truth?”
“In my opinion, it’s probably fake news that the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens has moved away. Even the sect formation is still operating.”
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Some of these immortals discussed outside the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens. Many of them considered investigating the truth behind the news, except the formation that protected the sect was still around, obscuring the interior. As a result, they could not tell what was going on inside.
“We better return first and report this to the sect master.”
“Regardless of whether the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens has moved or not, I should report this to the clan leader.”
“If the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens has abandoned this place, wouldn’t this place be ownerless?”
Most of the immortals gathered around the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens were the scouts of various organisations, responsible for gathering information. Many of them left after idling around the location of the Sword Sect of Violet Heavens.
However, Jian Chen no longer cared about everything that happened afterwards. By now, he had already changed his appearance through the mask of the Illusionary Daemon race, disguising himself as a First Heavenly Layer Immortal Monarch as he wandered through an ancient mountain range.
The ancient mountain range was shrouded in mist all year round. Many powerful immortal beasts lurked there. Even Immortal Monarchs did not dare to venture too deeply.
However, the deeper it was, the more abundant the spiritual Qi was as well.
That was because the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants stood in its very centre.
Jian Chen wandered through the depths of the ancient mountain range carefully and cautiously, sometimes erasing his presence and sometimes concealing himself with the Divine Armour of Heavenflight. Along the way, he did not leave behind a single trace.
“The Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants has closed off their sect. It seems like the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants holed up themselves a thousand years ago when they lost a large number of their experts to the Immortal Devouring Orchid. Even until now, they have not opened up.”
“Don’t tell me the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants has grown fearful after losing all those experts back then?”
Jian Chen wandered around where the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants stood. He was perplexed.
“It’s been an entire millennia, and the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants still hasn’t tried to exact revenge. They don’t even seem like they’ve investigated the murderer. That doesn’t align with their usual behaviour.”
“After all, even if the ancestors of the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants aren’t present, it should be very easy for them to recruit some Immortal Exalts to their side, yet they haven’t done that. Don’t tell me that even seeking external help can’t settle their problem?”
“The three Energy-gathering Divine Mountains are all inside the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants, but they’ve sealed off their sect.”
Jian Chen stood on the canopy of a tall tree and stared into the mist several dozen kilometres away. He could clearly see an extremely powerful formation hidden inside, enveloping the entire Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants.
The formation was so powerful that even late Immortal Exalts could not breach it in a short time. Faced with such a powerful formation, even he was out of options.
He could pass through some formations with the Divine Armour of Heavenflight, but before such a high quality formation, even his armour was useless.
“None of the Immortal Exalt ancestors of the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants are present. There’s only a group of Immortal Emperors in the sect. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me to reclaim the three Energy-gathering Divine Mountains. Otherwise, once their ancestors return, it’ll be a very long time before I can take them back.”
“With the three Energy-gathering Divine Mountains, the Primeval Divine Hall will be able to recover even more quickly.”
“As a result, I have to do everything that I can to take back the three Energy-gathering Divine Mountains. I can’t delay it for too long either.”
Jian Chen stood in the canopy and tried to come up with ideas. Right now, the only method he could think of to breach the formation was to fuse the two swords.
And it would not just be fusing the swords as medium quality god artifacts, but embedding the twin sword with the saint cores from the Spiritsages so that they reached high quality god artifacts.
Jian Chen was completely confident that a fusion on that level could breach the Immortal Sect of Colossal Elephants’ protective formation.