The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

While Shen Yifei was busy with his work, the Golden Crow Sect also began to send out invitations widely, preparing for the demon-slaying conference a month later.

Golden Crow Sect, Main Affairs Hall.

Lu Ya sat on the black jade chair, looking at the disciples below the stage.

Standing in the hall were Elder Zhu, Elder Bai, and six disciples who led the way in delivering the message. Each of the six held a jade slip in their hands. The names of various sects were engraved on the jade slips.

"Have they all been sent out?" Lu Ya asked.

Elder Zhu bowed and said, "Reporting to the Sect Master, as you instructed, invitations were sent to every sect with a bit of reputation within a radius of three thousand miles. A total of one hundred and eighty-seven invitations were sent, not one was missing."

"Did nothing go wrong on the way?"

"No. The disciples split up and went their separate ways, the furthest of whom traveled more than two thousand miles to personally deliver the goods to the respective sects."

Lu Ya nodded, leaning back in his chair. "Is there any sect that said they wouldn't come?"

Elder Zhu hesitated for a moment, opened his mouth, and then closed it again.

"explain."

"Reporting to the Sect Master, the disciple who went to the Hehuan Sect said that the sect's mountain gate is empty. There's not a single person there, the gate is wide open, and it looks like it's been robbed; not even a single spiritual herb is left."

Lu Ya straightened up. "Empty?"

"Yes! The messenger disciple waited outside the mountain gate for half a day, but didn't see a single person. He even probed inside with his divine sense, but there wasn't a single living creature in the entire Hehuan Sect."

Lu Ya then looked at Elder Bai.

Elder Bai quickly stepped forward, "Reporting to the Sect Master, the same is true for the Qingyun Sect. When the messenger arrived at the Qingyun Sect's mountain gate, the situation was the same as the Hehuan Sect's! The mountain gate was wide open, and there was not a single person there. The messenger went inside and looked around, and found that everything in the main hall had been moved out cleanly, not even a single chair was left."

"It's the Qingyun Sect again!" Lu Ya suddenly had a feeling that there must be something wrong with the Qingyun Sect.

Chen Yunhe disappeared because he went to the Qingyun Sect once. The new sect leader, Shen Yifei, was from the Hehuan Sect!

"Elder Zhu!"

"Your subordinate is here." Elder Zhu quickly stepped forward.

"Find out the whereabouts of the Hehuan Sect and Qingyun Sect in two days. Also, find out more about this Shen Yifei!"

Elder Zhu accepted the order and left.

Two days later, the news came back.

The Golden Crow Sect's spies were not to be trifled with. The relocation of over eight hundred people was a massive undertaking that could not be concealed.

Elder Zhu stood in the center of the main hall, holding a jade slip in his hand, and read it aloud to Lu Ya.

"Reporting to the Sect Master, we've investigated. The Hehuan Sect and the Qingyun Sect have moved to Cangwu Mountain. Not only those two, but also a heretical sect called the Blood Soul Sect has moved there. The three have merged into one place, and they publicly claim to be called..."

Elder Zhu paused for a moment.

"What's your name?"

"Tianyan Sect".

The teacup in Lu Ya's hand stopped in mid-air.

Tianyan Sect!

I haven't heard anyone mention this name for over a decade.

"Who's taking the lead?" Lu Ya put down his teacup.

"The former sect leader of Qingyun Sect, Shen Yifei. This guy was originally from Hehuan Sect, but later married into Qingyun Sect and married Xie Liaochen's daughter, Luo Qinghe. Xie Liaochen passed the position of sect leader to him, and this guy then gave the position to Xie Liaochen's daughter, Luo Qinghe. Now he is mainly in charge of this merger."

"Shen Yifei?" Lu Ya repeated the name. "What's his cultivation level?"

"Reporting to the sect master, according to the scouts, this young man's cultivation has progressed extremely rapidly. Half a year ago, he was only at the late Golden Core stage, but now he is already at the late Nascent Soul stage."

Upon hearing this, Lu Ya gasped.

He went from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage in just over half a year. He had never seen such speed before.

"What else?"

"Furthermore... this child has a close relationship with two demon kings from the Ten Thousand Mountains. It is said that those two demon kings, one a snake demon and the other a fox demon, are both at the mid-stage of the Mahayana realm!"

"Two demon kings? Hmph, it seems these people are going to be enemies of my Golden Crow Sect!"

He knew that the Wu Xingyun brothers had suffered a great loss in the Ten Thousand Mountains.

The two brothers were too proud to tell anyone. They said that a young man had injured them at a crucial moment.

It seems this young man is Shen Yifei!

This kid is no ordinary person.

"What about the Tianji Pavilion on Mount Cangwu?" Lu Ya asked.

Elder Zhu's Adam's apple bobbed. "Reporting to the Sect Master, the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion... is still there."

"Still there?"

"It's still there, but it's different from before. Our spies have found out that the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion has moved to the back of Cangwu Mountain, and the front of the mountain has been given to the Heavenly Evolution Sect. Moreover... and the Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, Gu Yunyan, is the Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Evolution Sect."

The more Elder Zhu spoke, the more Lu Ya felt something was amiss.

One reason was that he discovered the sect leaders of these sects were all women. The second reason was that this kid's surname was Shen, and he wanted to rebuild the Tianyan Sect. Could it be that he had some relationship with Shen Changtian, or was he just using Shen Changtian's name to recruit people?

Lu Ya snorted. "Elder Zhu, you personally go to Cangwu Mountain and deliver an invitation to the Tianyan Sect. Listen carefully, write 'Tianyan Sect' on it!"

After receiving Lu Ya's orders, Elder Zhu set off immediately.

When he left the Golden Crow Sect's mountain gate, he specially changed into a new Taoist robe and tied his hair up again, looking quite respectable.

He brought along a disciple named Zhou Heng, who was at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and he was specifically tasked with running errands and delivering messages for him.

The flying boat was specially made by the sect, twice as fast as ordinary flying boats. Elder Zhu sat in the cabin, closing his eyes to rest, thinking about how to deal with the people from the Tianyan Sect.

He had been to Cangwu Mountain.

More than a decade ago, on the night the Tianyan Sect was wiped out, he stood at the foot of the mountain and watched as people from the Golden Crow Sect, the Ten Thousand Swords Manor, and the Xuanbing Palace charged forward.

Flames soared into the sky, and screams echoed everywhere. By the next morning, all two thousand members of the Tianyan Sect had perished.

Now the sign for the Tianyan Sect is up again, in the same place.

Elder Zhu opened his eyes and his lips curled down slightly.

"Overestimating one's abilities."

After flying for two days and one night, on the morning of the third day, Mount Cangwu came into view.

Looking into the distance, the entire mountain was shrouded in a layer of white mist. Elder Zhu frowned. This mist was strange; it wasn't ordinary mist, but a restriction.

The airship stopped outside the fog.

Elder Zhu stood at the bow of the ship, his divine sense reaching out, only to be repelled the moment it touched the mist. His expression changed; the strength of this restriction was higher than he had anticipated, at least set up by someone at the Tribulation Transcending stage.

"Listen up, people of the Tianyan Sect! Elder Zhu Fugui of the Jinwu Sect has come to deliver a message on the orders of the Sect Master!" Elder Zhu shouted, his voice echoing outside the mist.

There was no response from within the fog.

Elder Zhu waited for a while and called out again, but there was still no response.

Zhou Heng leaned closer. "Elder, could they be missing?"

"The person isn't here, but the restrictions are, which means someone is here. Wait."

After waiting for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, a voice came from the mist.

"What are the people from the Golden Crow Sect doing here?"

The voice belonged to a woman, and she sounded quite young.

"By order of the sect leader, I am delivering the invitation."

A few moments of silence followed in the mist.

"What invitation?"

"Invitation to the Demon Extermination Alliance Conference. It will be held at the Golden Crow Sect in one month, where sects from all over the world will gather to discuss the grand plan for exterminating demons. The Sect Master of the Heavenly Evolution Sect is requested to attend."

After waiting for a long time, a voice drifted out from the mist, "Wait, I'll go report."

Elder Zhu stood on the flying boat for a full hour, his legs going numb, before a single word finally rang out from the mist: "Enter."

The fog in front of us parted slightly, just enough for the airship to pass through.

Elder Zhu held his breath and steered the flying boat inside.