Immortal Father
Chapter 412 - 412 149 Difficult Times

412: Chapter 149: Difficult Times 412: Chapter 149: Difficult Times After the Jade Talisman in Li Dazhi’s sleeve shattered, he arrived at the Yuan Sect in just a moment’s time.

It wasn’t that the two sects had a teleportation formation, but rather Li Dazhi had requested assistance from his own Golden Immortal master; with a sweep of Daoist Kongming’s large sleeve, he took the father and son pair along with Qing Su and Wen Rou, rushing towards the Yuan Sect.

A Golden Immortal ancestor from other sects, if it wasn’t for a major sect catastrophe, would usually never step out of their gates;

Yet, the Golden Immortals of the Yuan Sect and the Wanyun Sect…

had become the hardworking models of the East Continent’s sect ancestors.

As they neared the Mountain Protection Array of the Yuan Sect, Li Dazhi’s brows were already tightly furrowed.

The eight thousand Immortal Soldiers stationed near the Yuan Sect had completely surrounded it, with their spear tips facing inward, as if bracing for a formidable enemy.

Once the five of them entered the Mountain Protection Array, they immediately saw a dense crowd gathered above the mountain peak at the northwest corner of the sect.

That was the location of the first division of the Castcloud Hall.

The large Cloud Boat that had entered the Yuan Sect’s mountain gate earlier was hovering in the southeast corner, and the immortals on the Cloud Boat, as well as the surrounding Immortal Soldiers, were also looking towards the northwest direction.

“What happened!”

Li Dazhi roared, charging straight into the crowd.

“Uncle Dazhi has arrived!”

“Brother Dazhi!

The division hall has caught fire!”

“Who knows which damn fool actually released a vat of True Fire of Returning to the Origin!”

Li Dazhi pushed through the crowd, his figure paused in mid-air, staring with bulging eyes and furrowed brows at the…

ruins ahead of him.

The dozen or so connected halls that once stood here now only had one-third of the area still erect, while the left and right had turned into two even piles of char, emitting faint white smoke.

Li Dazhi’s form shuddered, suddenly turning as pale as gold leaf, and he bent his head and “wah” spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

“Dazhi!”

“Dad!”

Before Li Ping’an could rush over, Daoist Kongming and Xu Sheng appeared simultaneously, supporting Li Dazhi from both sides.

Li Dazhi’s body seemed on the verge of collapse as he said with a trembling voice, “How could this happen!

Isn’t anyone putting out the fire!

Isn’t anyone trying to put it out!”

Xu Sheng’s face showed shame as he spoke softly, “The arsonist used the True Fire of Returning to the Origin, which can injure even a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

The fire started in just a few moments, and by the time I reacted, I could only protect the main hall in the middle.”

“That side is the treasure vault, that side is the workshop!

Either side, you should have protected at least one of them!”

Li Dazhi cried out tremblingly, shrugging off the support of the two Golden Immortals, and slowly crouched down on the cloud, staring at the ashen remains in front of him.

Li Ping’an walked to his father’s side, calmly looking at those ashes.

Li Ping’an asked, “Senior, is the casualty count high?”

“Alas,” Xu Sheng sighed, “one hundred and twenty-three of our disciples perished.

The fire was too abrupt; there wasn’t any time to retreat…

I’ve already ordered them to rush the construction of new artifact production lines.

I’ll be staying inside later, sealing it all up…”

Daoist Kongming spoke sternly, “This poor Daoist will go find the Forge-Heaven Gate!”

“Kongming!” Xu Sheng frowned, “What will you do there?

Engage in Magical Combat?

We can’t be sure they’re the culprits yet!”

“Dad,” Li Ping’an spoke softly, “you should rest.

I’m here, I will look into the cause of the fire, and see if we can find the arsonist.”

Li Dazhi stared at the two piles of ashes, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins.

“Dad!”

Li Ping’an suddenly let out a soft shout, his fingertip releasing a strand of immortal light that hit Li Dazhi at the back of his neck.

Li Dazhi suddenly took in a breath and slowly stood up.

Now, the immortals of both sects were watching him, and he had to suppress his emotions and stabilize the situation.

“Senior Xu Sheng, set up the new production lines as fast as possible.

The supply of artifacts to the Eastern Alliance cannot be affected.

“With things as they are, we can’t take a single step back, otherwise with this disaster, both of our sects’ treasures will be finished.

“Ping’an…

go ask Senior Tianli to think of a way…

Although Senior Tianli might also be helpless…

We will be short of a large quantity of Treasured Materials for refining these artifacts.

They might cut off our channels for acquiring Treasured Materials or deliberately inflate prices.

“Notify Xiaoyue that all Wanyun Sect artifact stores will sell their stock at low prices, all Spirit Stones to purchase Treasured Materials sent to Yuan Sect.”

Li Dazhi, not particularly tall, once again seemed somewhat more imposing.

“Castcloud Hall will take care of the relatives of the deceased.

We must investigate today’s incident thoroughly to see who set the fire, who killed our people, and who reduced the hard work of our two sects to ashes!

“This really is reducing it to ashes indeed!”

With a long sigh, he turned and descended toward the remaining buildings of the first division hall.

Many immortals followed behind him.

Xu Sheng and Kongming went to the skies above the two ruins, carefully checking for any residual flames.

Qing Su and Wen Rou hurried to Li Ping’an’s side.

Qing Su asked, “Is the loss significant?”

“Yes,” Li Ping’an nodded slightly, “this fire has resulted in the death and injury of over a hundred Artifact Refiners in the Yuan Sect.

Our line of quality artifacts has been destroyed, reconstruction will take at least a month, and what’s more critical is that all the Treasured Materials were stored here in the vault for easy management, stored inside Storage Treasures.

Now probably only a tiny portion remains.”

Wen Rou frowned deeply, “They are too despicable to use such means.”

Li Ping’an calmly watched the area of ashes in front of him and said, “There’s no way to prove it was done by Forge-Heaven Gate.”

He spoke quickly:

“I suspect that even if we investigate thoroughly, the final result will only be that the arsonist perished in the fire.”

Qing Su spoke softly, “True Fire of Returning to the Origin can injure Taiyi, such true fire can’t be possessed by ordinary sects, and the places that required such fire are those used to refine top-grade Immortal Treasures.

Can we use this to go after Forge-Heaven Gate?”

“The Yuan Sect should also have the True Fire of Returning to the Origin, this can’t serve as evidence.”

Li Ping’an suddenly sighed:

“I thought that with my father repelling the enemy at the gate, we had already won a round against Forge-Heaven Gate.