Chapter 64: Heartless? Negotiation?

  The small rain knocked playfully on the window glass, and then rolled down to the ground, merging with its brothers and sisters. A few naughty water droplets stuck to the glass, gazing at a man sitting cross-legged in the room, surrounded by layers of colorful light, looking hazy and mysterious.

  This man is me who is searching for the traces of Meng Xing Er.

  Since I agreed to Dongfang Xue's request, I have spared no effort in starting my search work. According to Dongfang Xue's report, Meng Xing'er's master last sensed her presence within this city, so I also set the search scope to the entire city.

  To search more quickly and accurately, I asked Little Jin for advice. Little Jin taught me a trick called "Search God's Secret". This dangerous technique can divide the caster's spiritual consciousness into thousands or even tens of millions of parts, depending on the caster's skill level. The divided spiritual consciousness is equivalent to a separate entity of the caster. With these tens of thousands or even tens of millions of non-corporeal entities, finding anyone becomes an easy task.

  But since my divine consciousness was divided into tens of millions of parts, I had no choice but to hide in my own villa and add dozens of layers of defensive cover to myself.

  Because I'm now just an empty shell without any thoughts, my divine sense has split into countless clones wandering outside. If I don't maintain a defensive barrier, even a petty thief or bandit can easily sneak in and kill me with one stab. This is the reason why the Search for the Divine Method is so dangerous.

  It feels wonderful to use the Search God Technique. At this moment, I feel as if I have split into countless parts and can see different people and things in different places at the same time.

  These intangible spirits went through walls and into the ground, omnipresent. After searching for three days, they saw a lot of miscellaneous things, such as corrupt officials taking bribes, other people's bank deposit slips, couples being intimate, etc., but still didn't see any sign of Meng Xing'er.

  I turned this city upside down, and only after I was certain that there was no sign of Meng Xing'er in the city did I slowly withdraw my countless clones and recombine them into a complete self.

  Getting up from the ground, exercising my limbs a bit, I feel quite exhausted. The amount of yuanqi required to activate the Search for Spirit Technique is enormous. Even with my current cultivation at the Tianxian stage, searching for several days still leaves me feeling somewhat drained.

  Although I didn't find Dream Star, I gained a lot of other things. First of all, I got to know every single person in this city, and as long as I wanted to, I could grab anyone on the street and tell them their birth date and how many moles they had on their body.

  Secondly, I found that the number of cultivators in this city has increased significantly, and among them, there are even several cultivators who have exceeded the Yuanying stage. However, thinking that they might be sent by the Cultivation Union to find Meng Xing'er, I didn't think much about it, and my divine sense only made brief contact with them before retreating back, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings.

  I took a bottle of purified water from the refrigerator, just about to see if there was anything else to eat, when I suddenly felt a movement in my heart, and then I heard a loud crash, the door was kicked open, and Dongfang Xue rushed in, panting heavily.

  "Big sister, what's so urgent that you had to break my door?" I said helplessly, looking at the battered door. At the same time, I was also wondering how Dongfang Xue knew I was here?

  "Never mind, come on, let's go!" Dongfang Xue urged hastily, without even catching her breath.

  "What's going on?"

  "I just got the news that the Xiu Zhen Alliance is going to negotiate with the representatives of the mortal world, I'm afraid they will turn against us and take action!" Dongfang Xue said anxiously to me.

  The secular government is not an opponent of the Cultivation Union at all, and it's not afraid of being taken advantage of by the Cultivation Union. However, once a fight breaks out with the mortal government, the country's government will inevitably be unfair, which means that if things get serious, cultivators will have to go to war with humans, and this consequence is unbearable for both sides.

  All along, the cultivators have had an advantage in terms of their robust vitality, far exceeding human lifespan and possessing great power. However, humans have an advantage in numbers, with tens of thousands or even millions more than the demons, as well as various weapons, and there are still many innate masters hidden in human society who are unknown to the cultivators. If there were a few more people like me with terrifying abilities, then if the cultivators and humans went to war, although humans would suffer heavy losses, the cultivators would not be much better off either.

  I was shocked by Dongfang Xue's words. The God of War had come to the mortal realm to learn, how could something like this happen now?

  "Where are they?" I hastily asked, grabbing Dongfang Xue's arm.

  "There is a villa five miles east of here, which is the property of the Cultivation Alliance." Dongfang Xue furrowed her brow, apparently my grip was painful for her, but she didn't say anything.

  After hearing this, I didn't say any more nonsense. I directly pulled Dongfang Xue's arm and instantly activated the Wuwei Heart Method, immediately adding a stealth seal to myself and Dongfang Xue, and we disappeared in an instant.

  Before I left, I also set up a Phantom Defense Formation at the door of my villa, making it look as if there was really an iron gate. Otherwise, when he comes back, what will greet him is probably just an empty room.

  After arriving outside the villa, he stretched out his hand and pulled out Dongfang Xue who was still dizzy, then flew high into the air to look around, hoping to find the villa that Dongfang Xue had mentioned.

  This teleportation technique can instantly move you to where you want to go, but the downside is that you need to know the location in advance. Otherwise, how would you move?

  At this time, Dongfang Xue also flew up and stopped beside me. I looked at her and asked, "Is the villa in that direction?" I stretched out my hand to point forward, because I sensed a very strong aura fluctuation over there.

  Dongfang Xue carefully observed the surrounding scenery and said with certainty: "It should be there, the scenery around here is very familiar, it should be not far from the villa."

  Hearing Dongfang Xue's affirmative words, I didn't say anything else and pulled her to accelerate and fly away.

  "Did you just use Instant Movement?" Dongfang Xue asked hesitantly. Since both of us had defensive shields on our bodies, the strong gust of wind coming towards us was not enough to affect our conversation.

  "That's right, it's teleportation." I looked at her for a moment, unsure why she had suddenly asked this, but still answered her question.

  Dongfang Xue didn't say anything else, and what I didn't know was that although her face was calm, she was extremely shocked in her heart.

  My strength is terrifying, Dongfang Xue knows that, but she didn't think it would be terrifying to this extent. Instant movement isn't something anyone can use, according to the cultivation of a cultivator, at least you need to reach the late stage of Dou Zhuan to use instant movement, and the speed of instant movement is directly proportional to the practitioner's own power.

  From my house to here is about five miles away, but the Eastern Snow feels like it just disappeared from the edge and immediately appears on this side, as if there was no distance in between. The only reasonable explanation is that my skills are simply too profound, so I can make the speed of instant movement become so terrifying.

  "Could it be that his cultivation is above the Dou Zhuan period?" Dongfang Xue shuddered at the thought and didn't dare to think further, as in her opinion, humans who had cultivated to the Dou Zhuan period simply did not exist. However, she didn't know that her thoughts were already quite close to the truth, nor did she know how she would react if she heard that I had achieved Tian Xian period cultivation.

  Although her face was calm, Dongfang Xue's mind was filled with countless thoughts, unsure whether bringing me along would bring fortune or disaster. Her intention was to use my abilities to shock the hot-headed cultivators in the conference hall, preventing them from acting rashly and causing trouble between humans and cultivators, which would be a huge headache.

  But Dongfang Xue didn't dare to confirm whether I would definitely remain neutral, because earlier I told him that I was human. What if when the time comes and I engage in a fight with the Xiuzhen Alliance's people? Who knows who else could withstand him? Wouldn't it be equivalent to bringing an unstoppable death god along?

  Dongfang Xue was lost in thought, and I suddenly stopped beside her. Unprepared Dongfang Xue flew far away all at once, only to react afterwards and fly back to my side.

  "Is it here?" I pointed to a solitary villa not far below and asked. The two guards at the entrance of the villa raised their heads vigilantly and looked over, apparently unaffected by the stealth technique.

  "That's right, it's here. Please suppress your cultivation a bit, or the guards might not let you in. Time is pressing, and explaining would be too troublesome." Dongfang Xue said to me with a calm expression.

  "Good." I readily agreed, and after a moment of contemplation, I slowly suppressed my own cultivation to the same level as Dongfang Xue's. Of course, that was only on the surface; in essence, my cultivation hadn't changed.

  "Then let's go down!" Dongfang Xue was the first to disperse her hidden technique and descended, while I closely followed behind her and fell towards the two guards.

  "Ah, yes, Snow Beauty, what brings you here?" The guard on the right seemed to be familiar with Dongfang Xue and greeted her with a smile and a wave.

  "Ugh! I told you not to call me that. I'm not pretty anyway." Dongfang Xue said with a smile.

  "Pointing to me beside him, he said: 'This is my friend, I'd like to take him in for a look.'"

  The guard looked me up and down, revealing a knowing expression. "New face, you're a newcomer to human society, huh?" He exchanged a glance with his companion, then burst out laughing strangely: "I didn't expect our Snow Beauty would finally be captured by someone too, haha!"

  "Go die, believe it or not, I'll strike you with lightning!" Dongfang Xue cursed with a smile, her hands swirling with aura, threads of electric light gathering in her palms, ready to be thrown out.

  "Alright, alright, I won't say anything else!" The two guards didn't dare tease her anymore and stepped aside to clear a path. "You can go in now, be careful, they're negotiating with the government inside."

  "Thanks." Dongfang Xue dissipated the yuan energy in her hand, smiled and thanked me, then turned around to signal me to follow up. I and she just pushed open the door and walked in, those two guards were still laughing slyly behind us.

  "Why did they call her Snow Beauty?" I caught up with a few steps and asked curiously.

  Zi Wu Hui's face turned red, and she gave me a white eye, somewhat embarrassed to explain: "In the past when I was in the mortal world, I loved to dress up. So..."

  I let out an "oh" and for a moment didn't know what to say, suddenly both of us felt very awkward.

  The villa occupies a large area, and when I pushed open the door, a hall of about 500 square meters appeared before my eyes. The interior of the hall is not too luxurious, mainly with potted plants, and most of the furniture is made of wood, giving people a refreshing feeling of returning to nature.

  Dongfang Xue pulled me directly through the hall, to a wooden door on the left side, and pushed it open. It was a 20-meter-long corridor, with the doors of the rooms on both sides tightly closed.

  At the end of the passage was another large gate, with countless flower patterns carved on it. I took a look from afar, and those patterns should be some kind of spell array, but I don't know what its purpose is.

  Dongfang Xue arrived at the wooden gate and gently knocked on it in a rhythm of three longs and two shorts, then pressed something on the side wall.

  A moment later, the gate was pulled open from inside, revealing an old man's face full of wrinkles. The old man expressionlessly sized me up, then shifted his gaze to Dongfang Xue, and a hint of a smile finally appeared on his face as he stepped aside, saying: "Come in."

  "This is an elder in the Cultivation Alliance, and his seniority is quite high." Dongfang Xue warmly leaned in close to me and whispered, "However, you mustn't provoke him into anger, he had a very violent temper when he was young, now that he's older it's gotten better, but he still has a fiery personality."

  "Snow beauty, as soon as you come back, you speak ill of me, be careful I'll spank your butt!" The old man obviously heard what Dongfang Xue said to me and turned around, laughing and scolding.

  Dongfang Xue stuck out her tongue, hastily went forward and grasped the old man's arm, coquettishly teasing him until he couldn't close his mouth.

  The old man closed the large gate, indicating that we should enter through the wooden door on the left, while he sat down in a wooden chair beside it, apparently his duty was to guard this intricately carved gate.

  Dongfang Xue and the old man bid farewell, pulling me along as he pushed open the wooden door on the left and walked in.

  Inside the gate is a nearly hundred-square-meter conference room. A long table over ten meters long is placed in the center of the room, with five people sitting on either side of the table.

  "Boss, how did you get here?" One of the five people on the left side of the table stood up and exclaimed in surprise. It was Wu Qing.

  I nodded to him and indicated that he should sit down first. Whatever it was, we could talk about it later. After all, I was also a guest here, so it wasn't good for me to take over as the host.

  Dongfang Xue pulled me aside, indicating that I could sit on the sofa next to us, then walked towards the group of people sitting opposite us.

  Taking advantage of this time, I took a look at the people in the room.

  In terms of strength, the Xiu Zhen Alliance far surpasses the human side. Wu Qing's side only has him with a cultivation base that has broken through, while the other humans have no cultivation to speak of and are clearly just ordinary humans.

  Looking at the Xiu Zhen Alliance, among the five cultivators, three have reached the Separation Period, and one has reached the Dou Zhuan Period. What surprised me most was that the white-haired old man, even when I didn't release my cultivation, couldn't be seen through. However, judging from this, he must have at least Dou Zhuan Period or higher cultivation. In other words, if a conflict breaks out and I don't take action, this white-haired old man alone would be enough to sweep the entire scene.

  After sizing up the crowd, I sat down on the sofa by myself, while Dongfang Xue walked over to the white-haired old man and leaned against his shoulder, chattering away about who-knows-what. The old man kept casting surprised glances this way, clearly Dongfang Xue was introducing herself to him.

  After a long time, Dongfang Xue finished saying what she wanted to say and nodded to the people present before coming over to sit down beside me.

  That white-haired old man nodded to me as a greeting, then turned his head and continued: "Everyone, let's open the window and speak clearly. Our Xiu Zhen Alliance and your government have always had a good relationship. We help you capture those bloodthirsty monsters and dark magic tribes, and you are responsible for the safety of our people in human society. But now, with Dream Star's disappearance, don't you think you owe us an explanation?"

  A few people on the ruthless side bowed their heads and discussed for a moment. A fat man replied: "This..."

  The disappearance of Meng Xing'er is our fault. I will go back and investigate thoroughly, and arrange people to search for her. What do you think about this?

  Dongfang Xue was inwardly cursing his bad luck. The people of the Cultivation Union were straightforward in their actions, they either did something or they didn't, and they didn't like to beat around the bush. This fatty's words might be effective in human society, but in front of the Cultivation Union, it seemed insincere.

  As expected, the old man's face sank immediately, and he coldly snorted: "Is this how you humans always try to deceive us? If your sincerity is only this much, then I think we need to reconsider our cooperation with the government. Perhaps it would be better for us to send someone to conduct the search."

  That fatty's forehead suddenly sweated fine beads of sweat, and his shiny bald head looked like it was covered in oil.

  If these powerful cultivators were really allowed to search for people in the city, it would cause a huge commotion. Once the general public found out that there was still a group of cultivators existing, it would lead to social unrest, and he himself would not be able to keep his official position.

  Seeing that the situation was not going in his favor, he hastily stood up and smiled: "Everyone, don't get angry, let's talk things over slowly, we shouldn't let a temporary friction cause conflict between us."

  This time, Wuqing received the order from the vice president to coordinate with the local government to negotiate with the people of the Xiu Zhen Alliance. Before this, he had already roughly understood the cause and effect of things. When Wuqing stood up and spoke, the white-haired old man's face slightly relaxed, after all, Wuqing also had a certain level of cultivation, and he forced out a smile, saying: "I'm not being aggressive, Meng Xing'er is the beloved disciple of Tianxingzi, the leader of the Tianxing Sect. Tianxingzi is highly respected in our Xiu Zhen Alliance and even the entire Xiu Zhen world. His precious disciple has gone missing here, and to this day, her life or death is still unknown. Can you say I'm not anxious?"

  Hearing his words, even the ruthless one secretly felt a pang of sorrow.

  Ever since I came to Longteng College with you, I've been abused by that perverted vice principal every day. Finally having a rest today, the vice principal notified him to come and negotiate with government officials.

  After hearing the old man's words, Tianxingzi also knew a thing or two about his status in the Xiu Zhen Alliance. Although he didn't ask about the Xiu Zhen Alliance, he had a great influence within it, let alone being the beloved disciple of one of the six major sects' leaders? No wonder these cultivators in front of him were so excited - how could they not be when someone was lost on their own turf?

  The ruthless companions were all bewildered, staring at the fat man who had just spoken. They knew that today's matter could not be passed off, and if they couldn't give the Xiu Zhen Alliance a clear explanation, these cultivators would really take matters into their own hands to find someone. They didn't care if it would scare others or not; in short, it would definitely cause social panic.

  Looking at his colleagues seeking help, while the superior who should be responsible for this matter - that fat guy actually lowered his head directly, with a look of not daring to make any decisions, presumably afraid of taking responsibility in the future.

  Seeing the fat man's weak appearance, Wu Qing was also unable to hold back his contemptuous expression. Suddenly, a surge of heroic spirit arose in his chest. He resolutely lifted his head and said to the white-haired old man: "Give me a week's time, within a week I will definitely find her whereabouts. If I can't find it, I'll accept whatever punishment."

  "Good, that was satisfying!" The white-haired old man applauded and praised, his face full of admiration. Wu Qing finally let out a breath of relief, thinking to himself that he hadn't disgraced humanity after all.

  But before he knew it, he began to worry again. He had boasted earlier in a fit of passion, but now that his passion had subsided, he was left with a headache about how to find the elusive Dream Star in the vast sea of people.

  Although I knew it was a difficult task, since the words have already been spoken, I can only see it through now.

  Fortunately, my timely glance reminded him that there was still a powerful old man here who could turn the tide with one hand. Seeing my smile, his ruthless and confident demeanor changed in an instant, and he thought to himself that it wouldn't be a big deal to let me handle it.

  I just don't know what expression he would have if he knew I had been using Sou Shen Jue for several days and still couldn't find anyone.

  Things got easier after that, as someone had already taken the lead, other government representatives and cultivators all breathed a sigh of relief. After discussing how to strengthen cooperation and find Dream Star as soon as possible, Wu Qing and others bid farewell.

  I was originally quite interested in this Cultivation Alliance and wanted to stay and exchange blows with the white-haired old man in front of me, who seemed to have a deep cultivation base. However, Wu Qing sent over a pleading gaze, reminding me of his boastful promise earlier, so I could only reluctantly bid farewell together with him.