Several thousand miles away, in Maplewood City.
The few hundred thousand cultivators in the city didn’t get to rejoice over surviving the calamity, and they all looked in fear in a certain direction.
Intense energy ripples and deafening explosion sounds were reverberating from there.
Duan Yuan Shan, the Drunkard, Qin Zhao Yang, as well as various great families’ Dao Source Realm Old Ancestors were all standing atop the city wall. Those people’s gazes penetrated the void, seemingly trying to see and get some clues about this affair.
“City Lord, who is fighting over there?” The Liang Family’s Old Ancestor Liang Peng Le asked in surprise.
Duan Yuan Shan mulled it over for a moment and said, “On the way back, I ran into the Heavenly Martial Holy Land’s Senior Chen and another two seniors, and they are likely behind this disturbance.”
“Is it Senior Chen, Chen Wen Hao, who had once visited our City?” The pupils of the Xin family’s Old Ancestor Xin Gao Jie contracted.
“It’s precisely him!”
“Then who is their enemy?” An astonished look was apparent on Xin Gao Jie’s face.
Chen Wen Hao and his two companions were all Emperor Realm Masters, and they had even joined hands, yet they still ended up fighting so intensely against that said enemy and couldn’t take victory in a short time.
The enemy’s great power could be discerned through this!
“I have no idea,” Duan Yuan Shan shook his head.
But at this moment, Yang Kai’s image suddenly ran across his mind.
At that time, seven Great Dao Source Realm Masters brought Qin Yu with them to repair the seal, yet they slipped up. Zhuang Pan had escaped before the battle, while the Black Tortoise Seven Sections Array collapsed by itself, Du Li Shen suffered a miserable death on the spot and Qin Zhao Yang sustained heavy injuries and lost consciousness.
When Yang Kai had been corrupted by Demon Qi, he stood in his place motionless, and it looked like he was on the verge of turning into a demon…
If Yang Kai had lost his mind, then he could really become a demon.
But, even if he became a demon, could someone at his level contend against three Emperor Realm Masters?
Duan Yuan Shan shook his head and threw this ridiculous thought to the back of his mind.
Moreover, the strange Ancient Demon Qi had already disappeared, and the demonic beings, who had been corrupted and lost their minds, had also recovered, so Yang Kai had obviously also recovered.
Rumble!
A loud thunderclap reverberated in the sky, and it was shortly followed by an unusual phenomenon. The world’s Yuan Qi was attracted by something and it converged toward a certain direction.
“What happened?” Xin Gao Jie responded ahead of others and looked in surprise at a certain place in Maplewood City.
Duan Yuan Shan turned his head around and observed that said location for a while, then said out of delight, “Someone in the city is advancing into the Dao Source Realm, whose family’s disciple is it?”
The various Old Ancestors looked at each other in dismay, then shook their heads. They all expressed that it wasn’t their families’ disciple.
“Let’s go over there and have a look, our Maplewood City has just gone through a great calamity, and this is a good omen,” Duan Yuan Shan shouted loudly and he conveyed his voice with the help of his Source Qi, and it was so loud that all cultivators in the city could hear him clearly.
He was the City Lord and he obviously had to pacify people, and the breakthrough’s phenomenon gave him more assets to use.
It didn’t matter who was advancing, as he had managed to prompt the world’s Yuan Qi’s change, and this was good news for Maplewood City’s cultivators who had just gotten a new lease of life.
After a short while, the crowd landed in front of a top-notch cave mansion.
An elderly woman, a pretty middle-aged woman, and a young girl were standing in front of the cave mansion, guarding it.
“Miss Xiao Qi?” Duan Yuan Shan cast a glance at the young girl with a surprised look plastered on his face.
It wasn’t so strange for him to recognize Mo Xiao Qi. After all, they had fought together against the demonic beings and Demon Qi who enveloped the city, and even though Mo Xiao Qi was only a Third-Order Origin King, he didn’t belittle her or look down upon her.
After all, Duan Yuan Shan had discovered through his short contact with the young girl that her origins were quite mysterious and all techniques studied and employed by her were all so profound.
The crux was that Mo Xiao Qi was seemingly only sixteen or seventeen years old.
A sixteen or seventeen years old Third-Order Origin King, even a Great Force like the Heavenly Martial Holy Land couldn’t raise such outstanding talent, and it was a feat possible only by the Star Soul Palace.
Duan Yuan Shan had even taken Mo Xiao Qi for a secret disciple of the Star Soul Palace for a moment.
He didn’t dare to belittle her!
“City Lord Duan, seniors!” Mo Xiao Qi revealed a smile and greeted them.
“Miss Xiao Qi, the person making a breakthrough is…” Duan Yuan Shan didn’t beat around the bush and got right to the point. He questioned her directly!
“It’s the Spirit Pill Plaza’s Shopkeeper Kang.” Mo Xiao Qi didn’t plan to hide anything from him.
“Kang Si Ran?” Duan Yuan Shan revealed a surprised look and the various families’ Old Ancestors had also widened their eyes in shock, as if they had just heard some implausible news.
The Spirit Pill Plaza was an industry of the Violet Source Chamber of Commerce, and Maplewood City’s masters obviously knew it, and they also knew Kang Si Ran, yet they were confused mainly because they knew him.
How could Kang Si Ran make a breakthrough to the Dao Source Realm?
His martial path had already reached its end, and his aptitude wouldn’t allow him to go farther than the Third-Order Origin King Realm. They didn’t dare to claim that he would never reach the Dao Source Realm, but that said the probability wouldn’t be any higher than one in ten thousand.
Yet, they had just heard a disturbance made by Kang Si Ran’s breakthrough into the Dao Source Realm, and they were all astounded.
A peculiar light flashed past Duan Yuan Shan’s eyes and he said with a smile, “Turns out it’s Shopkeeper Kang. We must congratulate him.”
His disappointment was apparent through his words.
Even though Kang Si Ran resided in Maplewood City, he didn’t belong to it due to his origin and status. Furthermore, his advancement wouldn’t be of any help to Maplewood City. That’s why Duan Yuan Shan’s feelings about this affair changed so drastically.
“Shopkeeper Kang probably had some outstanding fortuitous encounter.” Xin Gao Jie wore a pensive look.
If he didn’t get a fortuitous encounter, then Kang Si Ran wouldn’t be able to advance to the Dao Source Realm just through his efforts due to his poor aptitude, and timewise, it looked like he had gone into seclusion when the city got enveloped by Demon Qi.
Since he dared to go into seclusion and make a breakthrough at this critical juncture, then he was obviously fully confident in his success.