A week later, Mao Daling still hadn't returned to Yushan Sect. Mao Yifu was worried and sent several communication talismans to Mao Daling, but Mao Daling didn't respond at all.
Mao Daling has always kept her word, never saying something and then not doing it. Did something happen to her on the way home? Mao Yifu muttered to himself.
Mao Yi Fu sent a message to her sister Mao Xiaoling, and after confirming that Mao Daliang did not go to Xianxiamen to find her, she couldn't help but panic.
Mao Yifu quickly sent a message to the Maoshan disciples outside, asking them to keep an eye out for Mao Daling. He also issued a bounty: any cultivator who could provide information about Mao Daling, regardless of their sect, would be rewarded with ten low-grade spirit stones.
Spiritual Stone! In today's world of cultivation, the spiritual stone mines have always been controlled by the Yushan Sect. Cultivators from other sects rarely have the opportunity to see spiritual stones, let alone own them.
The bounty order for Mao Yifu had been issued, sparking a frenzy of activity in the cultivation world to find Mao Daling. Unfortunately, after more than ten days, there was still no news of Mao Daling.
Mao Yifu was now even more anxious. While his Maoshan Sect's status wasn't as high as the Yushan Sect's, with a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator like the Maoshan Patriarch standing behind him, few in the world of cultivation dared to touch Mao Daling. If Mao Daling's soul lamp hadn't been still lit in the Maoshan Sect, Mao Yifu would have suspected she was no longer alive.
During those days, Xie Hanmei wanted to say something but stopped herself several times.
Although Xie Hanmei had defected from the Yushan Sect, she hadn't disclosed the fact that "Liu Jingyu" had used his wife, Wu Xiuyun, as a cauldron for her cultivation, due to her sworn inner demon oath. When Mao Daling disappeared after visiting the Yushan Sect, Xie Hanmei suspected "Liu Jingyu" of her involvement. However, Xie Hanmei had no evidence, and due to the power of her inner demon oath, she was unsure how to alert Mao Yifu.
Seeing that Mao Yifu was anxious and restless every day, Xie Hanmei couldn't bear it. After a long sigh, she reminded Mao Yifu to send someone to Yushan Sect to inquire about Mao Daling's whereabouts.
Mao Yifu's eldest disciple Zhou Ming is a vigilant person. Mao Yifu sent him to Yushan Sect to question Yao Meiyu.
Yao Meiyu's face paled and her body trembled for a moment at Zhou Ming's questioning. After a few seconds, she came to her senses and swore to heaven, insisting that Mao Daling had left Yushan Sect two weeks ago.
Zhou Ming found Yao Meiyu's attitude odd. He'd only come to inquire about the exact date Mao Daling left the Yushan Sect, so why was she acting as if she was afraid he wouldn't believe her? She even went so far as to swear an oath to the heavens? After all, a cultivator's oath wasn't taken lightly; with the Heavenly Dao watching over them, it could easily be broken. Yao Meiyu's actions made it seem like she had something to hide.
After Zhou Ming had doubts in his mind, he left Caixia Peak openly, but secretly used the invisibility talisman to sneak back.
When Zhou Ming returned, he saw Yao Meiyu, her face pale, saying to a paper crane: "The Maoshan Sect is here, take care of yourself."
The paper crane carrying the message flew straight towards Xiaoyao Peak. In order to find out who Yao Meiyu was sending the message to, Zhou Ming followed it all the way. When he saw the paper crane flew into the main hall of the peak, Zhou Ming did not dare to follow it as he saw that the hall was heavily guarded. With full of questions, he returned to Maoshan Sect and reported the matter to Mao Yifu.
After hearing Zhou Ming's report, Mao Yifu was baffled by Yao Meiyu's words. Who was the "you" Yao Meiyu was referring to? Could it be that his eldest sister was hiding in Xiaoyao Peak because she didn't want to return to the sect? Or was it that Xiaoyao Peak's Sect Master Liu had imprisoned his eldest sister?
Before Mao Yifu could figure out what was going on, early yesterday morning, Mao Xiaoling received a distress message from Mao Daliang. It contained only seven words: Liu Jingyu is harming me, help me.
Mao Xiaoling was shocked and, regardless of her pregnancy and inability to move, she called her husband Fang Jinchao and rushed back to Maoshan Sect immediately.
Fortunately, Xianxia Sect and Maoshan Sect were only a hundred miles apart. Fang Jinchao used magic weapons to travel quickly, but it only took him more than ten minutes.
When Mao Yi Fu heard the news from Mao Xiaoling, he became very anxious and hurried to find the ancestor of Maoshan to ask for advice.
As the head of the Maoshan Sect, Mao Yifu wanted to attack the Yushan Sect for his elder sister. However, the Maoshan Sect's strength was no match for the Yushan Sect. Unless the Maoshan Patriarch was willing to intervene, the two sects would have no chance of a fight.
However, most cultivators who reach the Nascent Soul stage focus solely on cultivation, striving to reach the Divine Transformation stage, and are unwilling to commit further acts of killing. This is also true for the Maoshan Patriarch. You should know that the Divine Transformation stage's heavenly tribulation is ten times more difficult to resist than that of the Nascent Soul stage. Cultivators who commit many acts of killing will basically be reduced to ash by the heavenly tribulation.
The Maoshan Patriarch was already over 800 years old this year. A Nascent Soul cultivator's lifespan was no more than a thousand years. If the Maoshan Patriarch couldn't break through to the Spiritual Transformation stage, he would only have less than 200 years left to live.
Who among cultivators and those destined to immortality doesn't have lofty ambitions? Although the Maoshan Patriarch had only reached the middle stage of the Nascent Soul stage, he had never slacked off over the years, striving to achieve a breakthrough to the Divine Transformation stage in the remaining hundred years.
When Mao Daling disappeared, Mao Yifu had not reported it to the Maoshan Patriarch in order not to affect his cultivation. Now there was evidence that Mao Daling was indeed murdered by the Yushan Sect. If the Maoshan Sect did not stand up for Mao Daling, they would never be able to recruit any more cultivators in the future.
After listening to Mao Yifu's report, the Maoshan Patriarch frowned and pondered for a long moment. The Yushan Sect was powerful, and a clash between the two would likely result in mutual destruction. The Maoshan Patriarch didn't want to fight the Yushan Sect unless absolutely necessary.
It's not that the Maoshan Patriarch didn't want to stand up for Mao Daling, but his cultivation was at a critical juncture. The Maoshan Patriarch felt that the opportunity for him to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage was right in front of him. In order not to delay his own advancement, the Maoshan Patriarch thought that he should let Mao Yi Fu find evidence that Mao Daling was indeed in the Yushan Sect first, and it would not be too late for him to take action later.
As the matter concerned his most beloved disciple, the ancestor of Maoshan personally refined a tracking talisman and dripped a drop of blood that Mao Daliang left in the sect on it.
The talismans of the Maoshan Sect are well-known throughout the world of cultivation. With this tracking talisman, we can definitely find Mao Daling's whereabouts.
Mao Yifu selected four foundation-building cultivators from his sect, along with his brother-in-law Fang Jinchao, and quietly infiltrated the Yushan Sect. Once inside, Mao Yifu released a tracking talisman. Sure enough, it flew toward Xiaoyao Peak.
The Maoshan Sect's expertise in talismans was unparalleled in the entire cultivation world. With the help of the invisibility talisman, several cultivators followed the tracking talisman to the summit of Xiaoyao Peak without being detected by the Yushan Sect's cultivators.
The tracking talisman led Mao Yifu and the others all the way to the outside of the Yushan Sect's main hall, until they encountered a forbidden area. The tracking talisman could not break through the forbidden area, so it had to keep hitting the forbidden area.
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