I Have a Compass for Opportunity

Whoosh!

The autumn wind, tinged with a hint of chill, blew through the mountains.

Surrounding the Spirit Ascension Platform, the ginkgo forests were stretching lavishly, their golden leaves rustling in the autumn breeze.

Liou Yuan followed Yan Yingsi, the two transforming into a stream of blue and red light, stopping one after the other beside the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Many fallen ginkgo leaves swept along by Liou Yuan landed on his shoulder.

He gently brushed away the withered leaves and gazed upon the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Three elders sat high atop the platform, each exuding an intense aura. The positions where the three Foundation Establishments stood seemed to chill the air.

Liou Yuan recognized one of the elders as Ya Kuan, one of the five elders of the Disciplinary Hall.

"Being seated with Mr. Ya, those two must also be among the five elders."

"Just a Chaotic Scene, does it warrant drawing three elders from the Disciplinary Hall? Such a grand display!"

Liou Yuan’s gaze discreetly swept over the other two individuals.

One, dressed in a gray robe, possessed silver hair like snow and eyebrows like frost. His eyebrows drooped below his cheekbones, lightly trembling with his breath.

At this moment, his wrinkled eyelids drooped, as if in a false slumber.

When Liou Yuan’s gaze lingered upon him, he responded by opening his eyelids, revealing a pair of cloudy pupils, with eyes that did not match his fierce nature, resembling ravens lurking in shadows, waiting to peck at others’ souls.

Liou Yuan’s heart skipped a beat, quickly averting his gaze to the third elder.

This elder donned a purple robe with wide sleeves, a tall and robust figure slightly hunched on the platform’s stone chair, giving a lazy yet dangerous impression.

His purple hair was casually tied up, a few strands falling on his chiseled face, with dense, curly black beard interlaced with strands of silver.

A string of prayer beads made of demon beast finger bones hung from his waist, each bone inscribed with glyphs, emitting a faint buzzing sound with his movements.

This elder held half a jar of turbid wine in his left hand, and a crystalline jade ruler in his right, its surface inscribed with thunder patterns emitting green light.

Unlike Elder Bai Mei, his demeanor changed upon catching Liou Yuan’s gaze, revealing a cheerful smile, even nodding amicably at Liou Yuan.

Liou Yuan respectfully returned the gesture, withdrawing his gaze, secretly murmuring, "None of these three elders from the Disciplinary Hall are easy to deal with!"

Each of them, alone, would be a renowned figure outside.

It’s no wonder the Disciplinary Hall is the power hub of Five Extremes Mountain, encompassing nearly half of the mountain’s powerful figures.

Liou Yuan was evidently the first to arrive.

Besides the three elders on the Spirit Ascension Platform, no one else was present; even his brother Liou Zhen was still unknown.

Yan Yingsi, with idle curiosity, engaged Liou Yuan in casual conversation, softly introducing the three elders on the high platform.

"You know Elder Ya Kuan, the iron-faced judge of our Five Extremes Mountain."

"That Elder Bai Mei is the great-grandfather of Bi Wan, the Outer Sect Five-Star Wood Acupoint, named Bi Yunxiang."

"The one drinking is Zhao Feiyue’s uncle, Zhao Leisheng."

Fearing Liou Yuan might be unfamiliar with the elders’ backgrounds, Yan Yingsi kindly mentioned their respective powers in passing.

"Two out of the three elders belong to the upper family."

"Moreover, none of them have any connection to Xiang Mountain the Liou Family, clearly, the Disciplinary Hall is careful to avoid suspicion."

Liou Yuan nodded silently, musing, "Regardless, the Disciplinary Hall’s fair enforcement of the law is unquestionable."

What made Liou Yuan most relieved was that the Hall Master and Sect Leader Xuanyi’s Artifact Spirit had not arrived.

The Artifact Spirit had drunk too much of the demon cultivator’s blood, giving Liou Yuan a feeling even more demonic than the demon cultivators themselves, and its presence would be eerie.

Liou Yuan did not have to wait long.

Soon, the portal to the Inner Sect began to ripple like water waves.

Liou Yuan immediately turned his gaze.

A team of Inner Sect Disciplinary Hall Foundation Establishment experts appeared on the Spirit Ascension Platform, escorting the previously imprisoned members of the Liou Family, Liou Le Yao and the other two.

A one-year imprisonment means little for a Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator with nearly three hundred years of lifespan.

Liou Xie and Liou Hongjun, the two Foundation Establishments showed no change compared to a year ago before their imprisonment.

What caused Liou Yuan’s eyes to narrow in shock was Liou Le Yao’s transformation.

From her black robe seeped threads of inky black demonic qi, resembling numerous tiny tentacles writhing in the air.

Her previously smooth hair had transformed completely into an eerie dark purple, interspersed with strands engulfed in ghostly blue flames, occasionally crumbling into ashes with her movements, only to regrow instantly.​

Her face twisted almost grotesquely, the left half covered in a spider-web of black veins extending from the corner of her eye to her neck, with faint blood-red flashes emanating between the veins as if countless resentful spirits roamed beneath her skin.

Her right eye had vanished, replaced by a bottomless hollow from which viscous black liquid oozed, dripping onto the Spirit Ascension Platform’s tiles, corroding deep pits with sizzling sounds.

The intact right eye, however, displayed an eerie vertical pupil, bloodshot whites revealing bloodthirsty madness.

"How did she become such a ghastly apparition!" Liou Le Yao’s image was already gloomy, now even more shockingly terrifying, rattling Liou Yuan’s heart with a sense of foreboding.

If he recalled correctly, the Hall Master had once mentioned that the cultivation technique she practiced was the one he personally imparted, the Demon Sorrow Asura Skill.

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