The battleship was large, dividing the disciples of the Wanxiang Sect evenly among five ships, and there was still plenty of spare space.
The visitors from the Divine Sword Sect this time were just a few hundred people, and the battleship Lin Qian was on could completely accommodate them.
While settling these disciples of the Divine Sword Sect, Lin Qian clarified the rules to them seriously.
The disciples of the Divine Sword Sect guaranteed they had no objections, and after seeing their earnest agreement, Lin Qian also clarified the conditions provided on the ship.
After hearing Lin Qian’s description, the disciples of the Divine Sword Sect were all surprisingly enlightened, understanding why the disciples on the battleship from the Wanxiang Sect seemed relaxed and cheerful, showing none of the sadness of their sect having been destroyed.
As for how they knew about the situation of the Wanxiang Sect, naturally, it was the result of previous discussions.
And Lin Qian also understood why the disciples of the Divine Sword Sect came looking for the Wanxiang Sect.
Fu Yanli, the great elder of the Divine Sword Sect, allied with Shengtian Sect and secretly launched a severe attack on Mei Yuexia, led by a figure shrouded in a black robe who commanded seven of Shengtian Sect’s great elders.
The person in the black robe possessed the Body Realm within the Life and Death Realm, forcing Wei Qingqing to leave the Divine Sword Sect with some disciples from her lineage.
After all, the talent of Wei Qingqing, the female Sword Saint, was not on par with her brother Wei Wushuang, who only had Life and Death Realm’s Body Realm.
On their side, only Wei Qingqing and Mei Yuexia were capable of fighting, with the latter having been injured in a surprise attack, and not leaving the Divine Sword Sect would only lead to their inevitable defeat.
In the end, they had no choice but to seek the Wanxiang Sect.
Upon learning of the tribulations the Wanxiang Sect had faced, they also deeply empathized. Everyone also speculated that the person in the black robe might be an ally of the Black Blood Clan.
According to Wei Wushuang, the Black Blood Clan could only refine Blood Nourishing Corpses of a realm lower than their own. Since Gao Yuefei of the Life and Death Realm’s Body Realm could be turned into a corpse, it signaled that the cultivator of the Black Blood Clan had a realm that was at least above the Power Realm of the Life and Death Realm.
After the disciples of the Divine Sword Sect left, Mei Yuexia looked guiltily at Lin Qian, "The storage ring you gave me, Young Emperor, was taken away by Fu Yanli."
After revealing the situation to Lin Qian, Mei Yuexia even found it hard to meet his gaze, although he was considered her senior.
After all, she was very aware of the immense value of the items within that storage ring.
And now, a gift that Lin Qian had given to the Divine Sword Sect, considering Ye Xin’s face, ended up in the enemy’s hands.
It was known to Lin Qian that Fu Yanli intended to use Ye Xin as a furnace for her grandson, to refine and absorb her essence.
And Lin Qian, using the guise of a walking corpse, had killed Fu Heng, making them sworn enemies.
The leakage of those items to the enemy, all because of her, was the reason for Mei Yuexia’s guilt.
"This way, the items inside will instead augment the enemy’s strength," said Wei Wushuang, who had also learned about the storage ring from Qin Wushuang.
The storage ring that Lin Qian gifted Mei Yuexia and Hai Xiaoyun contained treasures from the treasury of the Dangyuan Sect, whether they were Primordial Weapons, Soul Devices, Pills, or scriptures—falling into enemy hands was never good.
"Although the storage ring was taken, it has my imprint. It will take some effort to break it. It could take as little as half a month, or as much as a month, to successfully break my imprint and retrieve the items inside," Mei Yuexia said regretfully. "I really didn’t expect Senior Sister Fu to be so ruthless."
"She is no longer your senior sister," Wei Qingqing also coldly chimed in.
At that moment, Lin Qian snapped his fingers crisply out of nowhere, drawing everyone’s gaze.
A Tactical Mirror floated in front of them, displaying a scene.
Meanwhile, far within the Divine Sword Sect’s mountain gate, in the Divine Sword Sect’s Artifact Refining Hall, numerous Artifact Refiners were bustling around an exquisite ring. Beside them, a beautiful woman stared intently, her eyes filled with greed.
She had learned from her Junior Sister about the immense wealth contained within the storage ring.
This matter, Fu Yanli had secretly kept to herself, not informing the reinforcements sent by the Shengtian Sect.
Because she believed that with the wealth in the storage ring, the Divine Sword Sect would surpass the Shengtian Sect, and she would become the most outstanding Sect Master in the history of the Divine Sword Sect, and the future queen of the Coastal State.
As Fu Yanli fantasized about her glorious future, the storage ring in the Array before the Artifact Refiners suddenly burst into dazzling light.
Eventually, under Fu Yanli’s horrified gaze, it exploded, revealing a series of distorted images.
In the center of the Array, the exploded storage ring formed a spatial image where Fu Yanli and the Artifact Refiners clearly saw Primordial Weapons and Soul Devices, numerous jade bottles, and a multitude of books appear.
However, the twisting forces tore the Primordial Weapons and Soul Devices into scrap metal, shattered the jade bottles, and the Pills and books were mixed together, ground into dust.
The wealth that emerged left Fu Yanli and the Artifact Refiners breathless, yet they could only watch powerlessly as everything was destroyed in an instant.
The spatial distortion returned to normal, and the Array used to decrypt the storage ring had also collapsed, leaving only the sparkling fragments of the storage ring floating in mid-air.
As for the astonishing wealth that Fu Yanli had so eagerly anticipated, it was completely devastated, drifting away in the spatial interlayer like trash.
"No, nooooo!!!" A piercing scream echoed through the Artifact Refining Hall, and Fu Yanli’s overwhelming Soul Power at the Sky Crossing Stage oscillated throughout the hall, even affecting the group of Divine Sword Sect’s Artifact Refiners.
Two weaker Artifact Refiners were even torn into pieces by Fu Yanli’s frenzied Soul Power.
She failed to notice, however, that the sparkling glow from the shattered storage ring was also gradually fading.
Meanwhile, far away on a warship, the scene on Lin Qian’s Tactical Mirror also faded along with the dimming glow.
After putting away the Tactical Mirror, Lin Qian said to Mei Yuexia, "Sect Master Mei, I hope you don’t mind that I tampered with the storage ring. It’s always good to be cautious. Since we haven’t interacted much, in case you decided not to honor our agreement, I needed some leverage."
"Ha ha ha, why would I blame you?" Mei Yuexia laughed heartily, the pained expression of Fu Yanli in the previous scene having instantly relieved a pent-up frustration in her heart.
"Your Majesty, I have a matter to report!" At that moment, a scholar’s voice rang out in the spacious, luxurious room.
"We just observed that an anomaly has occurred at the original mountain gate of the Wanxiang Sect, the ground has split open, revealing an entrance to a Small World."
"What?" Not just Lin Qian, everyone exclaimed in surprise upon hearing this news.