Ding Huan?
Meng Zhongqi was startled; it was Lu Hai from his Baihe Immortal Path who had blocked the thief immortal insect with the meritorious array formation.
In addition to Lu Hai, numerous array formation masters from the Baihe Immortal Path, including Bi Qingjian, worked together to come up with an outside-the-array killing method, which finally solved the ravaging of the Thief Immortal Insect.
What's the relationship with Ding Huan?
Who is Ding Huan again? Just as Meng Zhongqi was not yet able to react, a steward rushed over in a panic: "Master, it's bad! The Thief Immortal Insect has broken through the protective formation and is spreading within the Immortal Gate.…"
"What?"
Hearing this, Meng Zhongqi dare not ask anything else and rushed over first. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "All disciples and elders in our sect should kill the Thief Immortal Insect that has rushed into the Immortal Gate.
Master Yi, you must immediately lead people to seal all the Immortal Springs of our sect. Elder Guo, you must quickly pile up spirit items outside the protective formation and arrange for a Gathering Spirit Immortal Formation to attract the Thief Immortal Insects away from the Immortal Gate. ... It's obvious that this is not the first time Master Meng Zhongqi has encountered such a thing, and he handles it extremely quickly.
This is usually the way it is handled whenever the protective formation of our Immortal Gate is damaged by Thief Immortal Insects.
However, this method has a major disadvantage. The eyes of the Immortal Springs are spiritual in nature. Each time they are sealed and then unsealed, the essence of the Immortal Springs will regress by one level.
Some Immortal Springs, due to the frequent sealing, eventually dry up gradually.
Actually, everyone knows that this is not because the Immortal Spring Eye has become dry, but rather that the Immortal Spring Eye has transferred to another place.
This is the first point, and the second is that it requires a large amount of spirit items to lure all the Thief Immortal Insects out of our Immortal Gate.
As for completely annihilating all the Thief Immortal Insects that have entered the Immortal Gate, that is essentially impossible.
Once the first Thief Immortal Insect reaches a certain level, it is virtually impossible to kill it.
This is not the most important thing. The most important point is that Thief Immortal Insects are very strange. When cultivators kill Thief Immortal Insects, they can also absorb the essence of the cultivator's own immortal spiritual power.
This is not just about excessive consumption of immortal spiritual energy. It will be okay once it recovers. The essence of the immortal spiritual energy that is consumed by the Thief Immortal Insects is permanently lost, and it needs to be recreated through cultivation.
Therefore, if too many Thief Immortal Insects are killed, it is quite normal for one's own cultivation base to regress.
It is precisely because of this that very few people dare to break out of the protective formation to hunt and kill Thief Immortal Insects. The Thief Immortal Insects that have entered the Immortal Gate can only be killed with great determination when there is no other choice.
The elders and summit masters of the Immortal Gate who had come to visit and inspect were all looking at each other in surprise.
That's a bit too humorous, isn't it? They had come to see how the Baihe Immortal Path was dealing with the Thief Immortal Insects, and the result was just this method of handling it?
This method of handling it, they would also know.
"Ah, I guess I'll also do that." One elder couldn't help but mutter.
Thankfully, no one said 'I am the same' at this moment.
Some of the sect master and peak masters turned around and left, thinking it was a joke. It's better to kill more Thief Immortal Insects in their own sect than to consume their own immortal spiritual energy to help wipe out the invaders.
Only some of the elders who cannot ignore their face stayed behind to help eliminate these Thief Immortal Insects.
Once all the Thief Immortal Insects had been lured into the encirclement formation outside, the Baihe Immortal Path was in ruins.
The elders who had helped with the fight against the Thief Immortal Insects were all leaving one after another, as everyone knew that it was not appropriate to stay here any longer.
Master Meng Zhongqi sat on the throne of the sect master in the main hall of the sect with a face as iron as the metal. In this expulsion of Thief Immortal Insects, our sect has suffered losses of nearly ten million immortal spiritual crystals, and all the eyes of our immortal springs have been sealed.
The loss from the sealing of the Immortal Spring eyes is incalculable.
"This is what you've managed to control all the Thief Immortal Insects?" Meng Zhongqi slapped the tea table in front of him. If his gaze could kill, he would have killed Lu Hai tens of thousands of times. He had just received news that the Baihe Immortal Path had disappeared from the rankings of the cultivation world, falling to over a thousand places again. This was simply an incredible joke.
The Baihe Immortal Path first discovered theImmortal Springs eyes, and then made outstanding achievements in blocking the Thief Immortal Insects. Its total ranking in theImmortal Gate had climbed to around 400th place.
Only to find that the position was not even warm, and within less than half a year, the Baihe Immortal Path had once again disappeared from the ranking screen.
Even if you want to enter the fifth immortal domain, this is simply irony.
Lu Hai's face was pale, and he couldn't utter a single word.
Not only Lu Hai, but also the ten or so array formation masters who had been at the defense array hearts, were trembling like chaff.
Array formation masters in the sect are the most respected and highest-earning group of people. However, once something goes wrong, they are also the group who faces the most severe punishment.
High returns are equal to high risks.
"Speak! What reason caused the perfectly functioning protective formation to collapse all at once?" Meng Zhongqi softened his tone a bit, but the overwhelming anger was even more intense.
Bi Qingjian hesitated for a moment before standing up and saying: "Master Meng, I know the reason why the protective formation collapsed."
He was well aware that even if he didn't say it now, it would eventually be discovered through investigation.
It's all good when there are no problems, and everyone is happy. But once there's a problem, it's definitely my fault. And if it's my fault, then no one can expect to be happy.
The array formation masters who saw Bi Qingjian standing up started to regret it.
They should have known that the first one to stand up and say something out loud would have a chance of reducing their responsibility.
"Speak," Meng Zhongqi said coldly.
"Yes," Bi Qingjian answered loudly, carefully organizing his words before trembling to say: "Our sect hired an array formation master over here. He has strong cultivation. At that time, Lu Hai saw that his protective formation could not protect him from being eaten by the Thief Immortal Insects, so he wanted to hand over the array heart to the new array formation master and shift the responsibility onto him. I saw Lu Hai recording a crystal image ball as evidence, which he probably intended to use as a scapegoat..."
In times like these, one is more likely to choose to betray a friend than sacrifice themselves. Bi Qingjian had no intention of covering for Lu Hai. Moreover, Lu Hai did not offer him any benefits either.
Moreover, if it wasn't for Lu Hai that scoundrel expelling Ding Huan, how could they have ended up in today's situation?
Lu Hai's face turned even paler than paper after hearing this.
"What happened next?" Meng Zhongqi's tone had completely calmed down.
Everyone who knows Master Meng Zhongqi knows that this is a sign of preparing to take someone's life.
Bi Qingjian's heart shook, and he was even more afraid to cover up. "Lu Hai never expected that the new array formation master was so powerful. He just used a few array flags and managed to control the Thief Immortal Insects. Moreover, he set up a killing array outside the protective formation with space array patterns specifically to kill the Thief Immortal Insects. Lu Hai saw how powerful this new array formation master was and wanted to patch things up with him. This new array formation master had a big attitude, and he directly told Lu Hai to leave. I saw him as a talent and also wanted to get along with him. I invited him over to help me set up a killing array in my array heart, but I couldn't keep him because his posting place was under Lu Hai's command, and I didn't have any reason to keep him. Later, other array formation masters asked him for help in setting up pattern kill arrays to kill the Thief Immortal Insects outside the protective formation from that day on, our sect's Thief Immortal Insects no longer posed a threat..." "What is his name? Where is he? Bring him here immediately." Master Meng Zhongqi said coldly.
Bi Qingjian quickly explained, "His name is Ding Huan. Lu Hai was so afraid of his power that he kicked him out of the sect…" "Bang!" Meng Zhongqi slapped the tea table in front of him into pieces and stood up abruptly: "Fine, Lu Hai, no matter how many pieces I chop you into, it will not relieve my heart's pain.” Meng Zhongqi was truly furious to the point of bursting. Such a formidable array formation master that even other sects cannot persuade to join their ranks. Lu Hai dared to kick him out of the sect? He deserves to die for it, but Meng Zhongqi's fury had reached its peak, and he couldn't control himself anymore. At this moment, Meng Zhongqi suddenly remembered what Xin Zhuo had said earlier and immediately said: “Is Xin Zhuo available?" "Yes, Master Meng." Xin Zhuo approached and bowed.
To be honest, Xin Zhuo was also disappointed. He had instructed Kong Elder to give Ding Huan a major role before leaving, but these idiots had chased away such a powerful array formation master. "You told me before that you went to great lengths to bring Ding Huan into the sect, right?" Meng Zhongqi asked.
Xin Zhuo said: "Master Meng, it's him. I hired him back and ran into Kong Elder just outside the sect. Kong Elder asked me to represent the sect at the Immortal Gate Conference. Ah, that's the subsidiary conference before the main conference at the Immortal Gate Conference..."
"It's been more than half a year since this happened, right? Why has Ding Huan only been sent to the Baihe Immortal Path defense array palace recently?" Meng Zhongqi asked.
Xin Zhuo shook his head: "I'm not sure about that. When I brought Ding Huan back to the sect, I went out immediately. I even specially instructed Kong Elder that Ding Huan was a talent and needed to be properly settled."
"Kong Elder," Meng Zhongqi looked at Kong Zhangji sitting on the side.
Kong Zhangji stood up and bowed and said: "Yes, there was indeed such an event. At that time, Xin Zhuo went to participate in the auxiliary conference of the Immortal Gate Conference. I asked Gu Yuan to take Ding Huan to do something. As for where Gu Yuan took him, I'm not very clear."
Kong Zhangji's heart was somewhat helpless. He had clearly instructed Gu Yuan to bring Ding Huan to the location where the immortal spring eyes were sought.
However, he couldn't admit it. He had to blame Gu Yuan for the mistake, or he would face punishment himself.
"Bring Gu Yuan here." Meng Zhongqi was so angry that his hands were almost pale.
Now, the major immortal gates are the most in need of talent. One may think that there are many talents among the immortal gates, but...
However, in the immortal gate, talents need to be nurtured and are rarely sent to repair formations, smelt ores, or search for immortal spring eyes, as these activities consume lives. Who would want to let a genius waste away?
Gu Yuan was brought quickly, and he knew that there was a major problem in the sect.
However, that has nothing to do with him. Why bring him here?
"Gu Yuan, I told you to take Ding Huan to the defense array palace, but where did you take him? Why didn't Ding Huan appear at the defense array palace until three months ago?" Before the sect master could speak, Kong Zhangji loudly asked.
Gu Yuan was taken aback. This was something that happened half a year ago. How could the sect being attacked by Thief Immortal Insects and the incident involving Ding Huan half a year ago be related?
Where is the connection?
Moreover, at that time, Kong Elder did not ask him to take Ding Huan to the defense array palace. He was told to take him to find the immortal spring eyes. However, after spending so much time in the immortal gate, he immediately understood what Kong Elder meant. Kong Zhangji wanted him to take the blame for it. For Gu Yuan, it was quite enlightened that this was not a big deal. He just brought Ding Huan to the wrong place and took the blame for it. At most, he would be punished with some immortality crystals, and Kong Elder would definitely compensate him for them.
