Old Five is a Goose.
Chapter 545 Mo Wuji's Disappointment
Mo Wuji's eyes turned cold as he looked at Fu Zhensong and said, "I'll give you half an incense stick's time to bring the other two here, unharmed."
"Yes..." If Mo Wuji had said this when he first arrived, Fu Zhensong would have only seen it as a joke. But now, he had no intention of joking at all. In his eyes, every word Mo Wuji spoke was more valuable than real gold.
He immediately took out his communication bead and sent a message, then stood aside with a smile on his face. He couldn't help but be afraid. Even if Mo Wuji wasn't an honorary elder of the Pill Dao Immortal Alliance, his identity as a Rank 4 Venerable Pill King would allow him to join any top-tier sect. It wouldn't be impossible for a top-tier sect to destroy Mirror Space Immortal Dao for a Rank 4 Venerable Pill King.
"Elder Mo, I really asked the right person this time." Only now did Du Ju come forward and greet Mo Wuji with a cupped fist and a beaming smile.
"Brother Du, I was a little negligent just now due to some minor matters. May I ask what brings you here?" Mo Wuji softened his expression and greeted him.
Du Ju said somewhat embarrassedly, "A friend of mine is currently stuck at the Profound Immortal Perfection stage. He only lacks a Grand Yi True Pill. I was hoping you could refine a batch of Grand Yi True Pills for him."
After speaking, Du Ju took out a ring and handed it to Mo Wuji. "Inside are the immortal spirit herbs for refining the pills."
Mo Wuji took the ring and found that in addition to the immortal spirit herbs for a batch of Grand Yi True Pills, there were also 200,000 high-grade immortal crystals, plus a dozen or so pieces of high-grade forging materials. Clearly, the extra items were Du Ju's reward to him.
Mo Wuji put away the ring and laughed heartily, "Brother Du, your timing is perfect. I just happen to have a few Grand Yi True Pills here."
As he spoke, Mo Wuji also took out a jade bottle and handed it to Du Ju.
Du Ju's divine sense swept over it, and he revealed a look of surprise. "This is too much. I only need half."
The jade bottle Mo Wuji gave him actually contained six Grand Yi True Pills. This was indeed too much. Generally, when a pill refiner refines pills, giving the customer 40% of the pills is considered good. And the full batch of Grand Yi True Pills is twelve, and Mo Wuji gave six, which was equal to half.
But this wasn't the most surprising and shocking thing for Du Ju. The most shocking thing was that all six Grand Yi True Pills were of the Special Grade. These six Special Grade Grand Yi True Pills were worth much more than a bottle of Superior Grade Grand Yi True Pills.
Generally, being able to hire a Pill King to refine Grand Yi True Pills for you is considered an extremely great opportunity and luck. Not to mention refining Special Grade Grand Yi True Pills. Most of the Grand Yi True Pills on the market are Middle Grade and Low Grade, with occasional Superior Grade pills circulating. As for Special Grade Grand Yi True Pills, those can only be auctioned off.
Based on the six Special Grade Grand Yi True Pills that Mo Wuji gave him, the reward he gave was simply not worth mentioning.
Mo Wuji patted Du Ju. "I'll be going out for a while recently. Please help me take care of my shop."
Du Ju knew that Mo Wuji was being polite. Mo Wuji was an elder of the Pill Dao Immortal Alliance, so how could his shop need his care? He still said gratefully, "Brother Mo, rest assured, I will definitely come over and take a look often."
After speaking, his gaze swept towards Fu Zhensong on the side. He thought that the care Mo Wuji was talking about was to prevent a blind fellow like Fu Zhensong from causing trouble.
Fu Zhensong on the side was even more shocked. A Pill King's confidence was indeed sufficient. If he wasn't a Pill King, even an Immortal King wouldn't be able to casually take out a bottle of Grand Yi True Pills.
The two chatted for a while, and a middle-aged man hurried over with a man and a woman.
Mo Wuji didn't pay attention to the middle-aged man. He knew that this guy was definitely also from Mirror Space Immortal Dao. His gaze fell on the man and woman.
The man looked very young, and his aura was chaotic, clearly from a serious injury that hadn't healed. The woman looked delicate and pretty, and appeared much more mature than Yi Lan. Her injuries didn't seem light either, but her eyes were very calm, without any anxiety or unease.
"Sister Rou, Senior Brother Huiyu..." Seeing the people who came, Yi Lan forgot her fear and rushed out, helping the two of them up.
"Yi Lan, what happened?" The woman asked calmly. She saw that the knife-faced man and the fat man standing outside had injuries on their faces, and Yi Lan seemed to have joy in her eyes, so she asked.
Yi Lan quickly said, "It was Elder Mo who saved me..."
She didn't continue speaking. At this moment, Fu Zhensong was standing respectfully in front of Mo Wuji, with a somewhat nervous expression.
"Elder Mo, I've brought the people." Fu Zhensong's tone was full of unease.
Mo Wuji's expression was a little ugly, and he didn't speak. It wasn't that he didn't want to speak, but he was also very helpless, because his cultivation was too low to teach these Mirror Space Immortal Dao guys a lesson.
The Celestial Secrets Sect was truly a tragedy. Back in the cultivation world, it was also destroyed by someone. As a result, a few survivors found him, and he eventually became the sect leader of the Celestial Secrets Sect. Logically speaking, after ascending to the Immortal World, he could use the Celestial Secrets Sect as a big tree to enjoy the shade, but unfortunately, he still had to be a nanny.
Seeing that Mo Wuji didn't speak, Fu Zhensong quickly took out three rings and handed them to Yi Lan and the others, saying, "These are your rings, and the extra things inside are my compensation."
Bian Huiyu and Su Rou'er accepted the rings without hesitation. Although many extra things had been added to the rings, the rings originally belonged to them. Yi Lan's ring hadn't been taken away, and seeing that her senior brothers and sisters had accepted the rings, she also accepted the ring.
Seeing the three of them accept the rings, Fu Zhensong breathed a slight sigh of relief and looked at Mo Wuji again.
"Get lost." Mo Wuji said in a deep voice.
Even if he felt aggrieved, Fu Zhensong could only cup his fist and bow, then hurriedly leave with the two Golden Immortal cultivators. He needed to urgently tell the sect master about Mo Wuji's matter. If the Celestial Secrets Sect had a backer like Mo Wuji, then Mirror Space Immortal Dao wouldn't be able to move them casually.
Moreover, the one who destroyed the Celestial Secrets Sect couldn't be considered the Great Sword Dao, but merely an elder of the Great Sword Dao. This matter obviously hadn't completely ended. Their Mirror Space Immortal Dao hadn't formed too deep of a grudge with the Celestial Secrets Sect yet, so it was best to withdraw as soon as possible.
"I'll take my leave too. If you need my, Du Ju's, help in the future, Brother Mo, feel free to ask." Du Ju also saw the opportunity to bid farewell. He had gained a lot from coming here today. Not only did he learn Mo Wuji's true identity, but he also obtained six Special Grade Grand Yi True Pills.
After Mo Wuji saw Du Ju off and took back the two identity plaques from Dou Hualong, he said to Ling Gu, "Wait for me downstairs for a while. I'll be down in a moment, and then we'll leave Spiked Horn Immortal Ruins."
After speaking, he said to Yi Lan and the others, "The three of you, follow me upstairs."
Their lives had been saved by Mo Wuji, and this pill pavilion was also the Celestial Secrets Pill Pavilion. Even if Mo Wuji didn't call them, they would want to figure out the situation.
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"Celestial Secrets Sect's Bian Huiyu, Su Rou'er, and Yi Lan thank you, Senior, for your life-saving grace." As soon as they reached the second floor, Su Rou'er took the lead in bowing to Mo Wuji to thank him for saving their lives.
Mo Wuji waved his hand. "These things aren't important. Can someone tell me when the Celestial Secrets Sect was destroyed? And who destroyed it?"
Su Rou'er explained, "The sect leader's disciple, Yu Ao, offended a top genius of the Great Sword Dao and killed a disciple of the Great Sword Dao's Elder Sa Jian. As a result, Sa Jian, in a fit of anger, led people to the Celestial Secrets Sect and directly leveled the entire Celestial Secrets Sect."
"When did this happen? And why did he offend the Great Sword Dao?" Mo Wuji had some doubts in his heart.
Su Rou'er replied, "The incident happened more than six hundred years ago. At that time, Yu Ao was in love with a female disciple of a Great Sword Dao elder. As a result, the female disciple didn't like him. He forced himself on that female disciple, then killed her. Because of this, he angered the Great Sword Dao's Elder, causing the Great Sword Dao's elder to kill his way to the Celestial Secrets Sect and destroy the Celestial Secrets Sect."
Mo Wuji's expression was very ugly. If it was for this reason, not to mention that the other party was a Great Elder of a large sect, even he would have killed his way to the Celestial Secrets Sect.
"What about that Yu Ao? Did the sect leader of the Celestial Secrets Sect hand Yu Ao over? And that Great Sword Dao elder didn't care?" Mo Wuji's voice turned cold.
Su Rou'er could naturally feel the change in Mo Wuji's tone. She sighed secretly in her heart and replied, "Because Yu Ao was the number one genius of our Celestial Secrets Sect, and also the sect leader's disciple. He reached the Grand Yi Immortal stage before he was even a hundred years old. It wouldn't be impossible for him to prove the Immortal Emperor Dao in the future. Therefore, the sect leader and several elders didn't want to hand Yu Ao over, and the Great Sword Dao elder clearly stated that he would destroy the Celestial Secrets Sect, regardless of whether they handed over Yu Ao or not.
My master argued strongly, saying that regardless of whether the Celestial Secrets Sect was destroyed or not, they had to hand over Yu Ao. Not to save their lives, but because my master believed that a person like Yu Ao, even if he was a genius, deserved to die."
Mo Wuji's expression softened a little. "What happened later?"
Su Rou'er's tone became gloomy. "Later, my master was killed by the sect leader and several elders, who said that she was kneeling down to save her life without any dignity and was not worthy of being a member of the Celestial Secrets Sect. The few of us escaped from the Celestial Secrets Sect. Although I didn't want to stay in the Celestial Secrets Sect, the Great Sword Dao had already regarded us as remnants of the Celestial Secrets Sect. For hundreds of years, they've been chasing after us. Junior Sister Yi Lan was only accepted as a disciple by me on behalf of my master decades ago. She can't even be considered a member of the Celestial Secrets Sect."
"The rest of the Celestial Secrets Sect were all killed?" Mo Wuji suddenly felt a little disappointed in his heart. The reason why he liked the Celestial Secrets Sect was actually not only because he was the sect leader of the Celestial Secrets Sect in the Lost Continent, but also because of the Celestial Secrets Sect's principles.
If the Celestial Secrets Sect only had principles, and even if the disciples of the sect committed heinous crimes, as long as the disciple had good aptitude, they could still ignore it, then the destruction of this sect was correct.
"I heard that there are still some remaining. Several elders of the Celestial Secrets Sect and Yu Ao all escaped. However, the few of us have long decided to leave the Celestial Secrets Sect. Whether they escaped or not has nothing to do with us," Su Rou'er said firmly.
Mo Wuji nodded and didn't ask anything else. He simply said, "If you don't have a place to go, then stay in my shop. I'll be going out for a few years before I can come back. Of course, if you don't want to stay here, you're free to leave."
If it were before, Mo Wuji would definitely ask a few people to stay here and wait for him to come back to establish the Celestial Secrets Sect. Now he realized that even if he wanted to establish a sect, he didn't necessarily have to establish the Celestial Secrets Sect.
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