No hope for eternal life

Chapter 412: Branches Appear

Mu Changsheng was stunned when he heard this. In his understanding, to investigate spies, one only needed to ask everyone to swear an oath to prove themselves. It should be very simple.

Seeing Mu Changsheng puzzled, Mo Lianyue explained: "Finding spies is not as simple as you think. For example, some methods can erase a person's memory, so that the other party does not know that he is a spy until he is activated. The other party's memory will not be awakened until he is activated. For example, some people voluntarily let their inner demons dominate themselves. Such inner demon oaths are completely useless to them. Such similar methods are very difficult to find. And our two major sects are open to recruiting disciples, so it is destined that there will be spies sneaking in from the beginning."

"So that's how it is." Mu Changsheng suddenly realized that after all, his knowledge was not as good as that of the ninth-level cultivators like Mo Lianyue. He thought things were too simple. It was not that the sect did not pay attention to spies, but that investigating spies was extremely difficult.

"Okay, you all must be more careful in your future actions, especially me. Even if I go out, don't let anyone know that you are me." Shangguan Qiong taught everyone. She was referring more specifically to Lin Yu in her words. If Lin Yu hadn't told Xiaoyun about his true self, perhaps there wouldn't be a disaster today.

In response, Lin Yu was speechless and remained silent. What happened today was destined to be an unforgettable lesson for her.

Afterwards, Shangguan Qiong and Mo Lianyue left. Mu Changsheng and Lin Yu decided to let their real bodies follow them back to the sect, leaving only their clones to continue searching for opportunities and treasures here.

The matter has been settled. After this defeat, it is almost impossible for the Changsheng Emperor to stir up trouble again in a short period of time.

"Although Junior Sister Xiaoyun is dead, she did not carry any treasure with her." Lin Yu suddenly said.

Mu Changsheng and the others were silent. Xiao Yun might have felt guilty for a long time, as every time she got a treasure, she would voluntarily hand it over to Mo Xingkui for safekeeping. So Xiao Yun's death not only did not take away any treasure, but Mu Changsheng's group of six was reduced to five people. The treasures that were originally worth millions of top-grade spirit stones, each person could get a lot more.

"Junior Sister Xiaoyun did nothing wrong. The ones who were wrong were Emperor Changsheng and his people who forced her to do these things." Mu Changsheng comforted Lin Yu.

Lin Yu looked at Mu Changsheng with some gratitude. What Mu Changsheng said was exactly what she was thinking.

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The treasure hunt is still going on, but the frequency of opportunities is far less than at the beginning.

On the second day, the harvest of Mu Changsheng and his four companions had dropped sharply from one million to two hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones. On the third day, it was even worse, with less than one hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones left.

Even so, they could earn tens of thousands of top-grade spirit stones a day, and the temptation was still great enough, so Mu Changsheng and the other four continued to search for opportunities and treasures.

On the fourth day, Mu Changsheng and his group suddenly learned from a fellow student a piece of good news that made everyone extremely excited: "The branch of the spiritual vein of the Heavenly Spirit Realm has appeared in the world!"

"It appeared in the world so soon!" Mu Changsheng was extremely surprised. In addition to seizing treasures and earning top-grade spirit stones, what he most desired was for that branch to appear in the world.

The branches of spiritual veins are far less important than the main vein, but the branches have an unparalleled magical use, which is branch cleansing. With the help of the branches' massive and extremely pure spiritual power, they can help all cultivators below the peak of tribulation to quickly break through.

You have to know that there is no thing like the Divine Fruit in the Tribulation Realm that can help people break through quickly. The only way to break through is to practice hard. It was only last time that Feng Rui San Dao helped Mu Changsheng break through to the middle stage of Tribulation Realm quickly.

However, it was destined that it would be a rare opportunity for a ninth-level cultivator to break through, so if Mu Changsheng wanted to break through quickly, he could only rely on the cleansing power of the branch meridian.

Mu Xun, Lin Yu, Ruan Xiong and others all had similar ideas that the appearance of the branch should not be missed.

Mo Xingkui understood everyone's thoughts and said immediately: "Let's go, we have to have a share of this pie today."

Although the branch cleansing is useless to Mo Xingkui, the reason why Mo Xingkui joined this team was actually because he was instructed by Mo Lianyue to protect Mu Xun and Mu Changsheng, so he would naturally consider the interests of Mu Changsheng and Mu Xun.

When Mu Changsheng and his party arrived at the place where the branch appeared, hundreds of cultivators had already gathered near the branch. Like Mu Changsheng, most of these people had cultivation levels below the peak of tribulation, and they obviously also wanted to obtain the qualification for branch cleansing.

However, according to past experience, one branch can only accommodate ten tribulation-crossing monks for cleansing, so there are bound to be too many monks and too little porridge.

Everyone was restraining each other, and the atmosphere on the scene was extremely weird. No one dared to be the first to stand out, nor did anyone want to let others take advantage of them.

Mu Changsheng and the other four did not dare to act rashly and could only wait for the opportunity.

Soon, another team joined in. This team, like Mu Changsheng and others, was also composed of disciples from the two major sects, so they went straight to Mu Changsheng and his companions as soon as they arrived.

"Senior Brother Mo, Junior Brother Ruan..." The man in white who was leading the group took the initiative to greet them.

"Senior Brother Liu." Mu Changsheng and the others also clasped their fists and greeted him. The man in white was named Liu Zhicheng. Like Mo Xingkui, he was at the peak of the tribulation realm, but his ranking was two places lower than Mo Xingkui.

Liu Zhicheng brought with him seven sect disciples who were in the middle and late stages of the Tribulation Realm. Because they had to compete with the Divine Sea Realm cultivators for opportunities, the Tribulation Realm cultivators almost all spontaneously formed teams to seize the treasure.

Liu Zhicheng used some tricks to create an invisible sound barrier that separated the people in the sect from outsiders, so that outsiders could not hear the conversation of these sect disciples.

Liu Zhicheng faced the crowd and suggested: "I have a suggestion. Our sect disciples can unite with the cultivators of the You Clan, the Mo Clan, and the Ji Clan to jointly expel these outsiders, occupy this branch first, and then discuss the distribution. How do you think?"

"No, such a domineering behavior will only destroy the reputation of our sect." Lin Yu strongly objected.

"Junior Sister Lin, what you said is wrong." Liu Zhicheng defended, "We must know that people are greedy and will never stop wanting. If the sect only shows kindness to the world, we will not only fail to gain the respect of the people, but will be considered weak and vulnerable, which will cause endless troubles. Only by showing kindness and power at the same time can we achieve the kingly way. We have opened up the Tianling Realm to allow these people to come in and seize the opportunity. This is already quite benevolent. Now is the time to show the dignity of the sect."

Although Liu Zhicheng's words did not directly convince Lin Yu, they successfully convinced many people present, including Mu Changsheng.

"Brother Liu is right. Blindly showing favors may turn into arrogance. However, expelling them directly may be too harsh. It may not be appropriate. It is better to find a compromise." Mu Changsheng advised, both to Lin Yu and Liu Zhicheng.

"A compromise." People from both sects began to think about the compromise proposed by Mu Changsheng.

But at this moment, a man suddenly stood up from the crowd outside, and Mu Changsheng happened to know this man. It was Du Ruchang who had had a conflict with them before.

"My fellow practitioners, we have gathered here today just for the cleansing of this branch of the meridian. However, there are only ten people who can obtain the cleansing of this branch of the meridian. In order to avoid conflict, I suggest that everyone should not take action and resolve this matter peacefully." Du Ruchang said loudly.

"Okay." "Master Du is right." Many people responded to Du Rufeng's proposal. They originally didn't have much hope of obtaining the qualification for the cleansing of this vein. Du Ruchang's words were obviously more beneficial to them, so they would naturally choose to support him.