"I've said before, I'm just an ordinary warrior. If you want to continue beating me, I'll accompany you, but I think you don't have much spiritual power left?" Xiao Canghai said lightly.
Li Qiye said helplessly: "I understand, I'll just talk to you."
After a while, the group of people arrived at Yingzhou, the largest island here.
Just on such an island, the number of monks is almost the same as that of Qingyun Sect, which shows the Penglai Immortal Sect's heritage.
Xiao Feng, on behalf of the Long Kingdom official, reiterated the conditions he had previously told the Qingyun Sect.
After listening to this, Li Qiye frowned.
"Sect Master Mo, if you have any opinions, just say it."
Xiao Feng said lightly.
Li Qiye was silent for a while before he said: "The other conditions are nothing, but the staffing needs to be reported, which we cannot accept."
"Oh? Why is this?" Xiao Feng was a little confused: "We just want to know how many of you there are and what realm each of you is."
"This is what we cannot accept."
Li Qiye said in a deep voice.
"If that doesn't work, why don't you just make up numbers casually? We can't keep track of them, can we?"
Li Li snorted coldly, but Xiao Feng could see that he was not convinced by him.
Xiao Feng thought to himself: This is strange. He said he could make it up, so why did the other party still refuse to agree?
Xiao Canghai suddenly chuckled and said, "I do know the reason."
"Oh? Grandmaster Xiao, please speak."
Xiao Feng immediately urged,
Mo Li frowned slightly, as if he didn't believe Xiao Canghai could think of it.
Xiao Canghai said lightly: "It's very simple. Have you ever thought about why the concentration of spiritual energy here is much higher than that of Qingyun Gate, but there is only one Nascent Soul stage?"
Hearing this, Mo Li's face immediately stiffened, which showed that Xiao Canghai's question was indeed pertinent.
Xiao Feng had indeed thought about this issue. At first, he thought that the leader of the Penglai Immortal Sect must be at least in the Divine Transformation Stage, but he did not expect that he was only in the Nascent Soul Stage.
Xiao Feng thought for a while and said: "Could it be that Penglai Immortal Sect still has hidden masters? But just like this, it's not enough for them to refuse to report the staffing level, right? After all, they can completely hide it... Ah, no!"
He suddenly realized something: "If we just rely on spiritual energy to guess, we and other sects also have a rough estimate of the number of strong men Penglai Immortal Sect should have."
"Even if you make it up, we will be able to detect it soon, but I still don't understand, even if you tell the truth, what can I do?"
Xiao Canghai smiled slightly: "This question might as well be left to Sect Master Mo to answer. Sect Master Mo, what do you think?"
Li Li gritted his teeth and said: "Penglai Immortal Sect does have hidden masters, but they are all currently sleeping."
"If you want to say why, it's because their cultivation level is too high. If they don't fall asleep, the spiritual energy of Penglai Immortal Sect will be exhausted in a short time."
"But even though they are in deep sleep, they consume a huge amount of spiritual energy, so there is no extra spiritual energy to supply more powerful people. Do you understand?"
Xiao Feng said thoughtfully: "I see, in this case, you have several options."
"If the number of strong men who falsely report is less than what it should be, everyone knows it's impossible."
"If the number of falsely reported strong men is equal to what should be, other sects will soon feel that something is wrong. Why is it that the only strong man on the surface is Mo Li, who is only at the Nascent Soul stage?"
"But if we report it truthfully, other sects will know about Penglai Immortal Sect's plight, and I'm afraid they will immediately lose their respect for the Immortal Sect."
"So the best thing is not to report it and keep it secret, right?"
Li Qiye nodded slightly: "That's about it."
"But I still don't understand. Even if other sects know that your strong man is sleeping, what can they do? Your strong man is just too high in cultivation. He can wake up if he wants to, right?"
Xiao Feng originally just wanted to ask, but as soon as he asked the question, he already thought of the answer.
"I see, can't you wake up?"
Li Qiye nodded again: "At the beginning, they can still rely on their own will to awaken, but after sleeping for so long, I am afraid that they will only wake up when the spiritual energy concentration returns to a certain level, just like a barrier."
Xiao Feng narrowed his eyes slightly: "Then let me ask again, are they really unable to wake up? For example, what if they are attacked now? Will they be forced to wake up, or will they die from their deep sleep?"
"No comment."
Mo Li said coldly.
Xiao Feng nodded: "I understand, no matter what, these sleeping strong men are a burden to Penglai Immortal Sect."
"But as long as the concentration of spiritual energy is enough, they will become your biggest reliance, so it is impossible to abandon them. It is really a dilemma."
Li Qiye remained silent.
"I understand, you don't have to report the staffing establishment, but if we treat everyone equally, other sects don't need to report the staffing establishment either. This is quite tricky for the officials who want to control the power of the spiritual world."
Xiao Feng said with a faint smile.
After hearing this, Li Qiye breathed a sigh of relief.
"By the way, Sect Leader Mo, have you ever heard of the People from Beyond the World?" Xiao Feng suddenly remembered his other reason for coming.
"People from outside the world?" Mo Li was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "There are indeed relevant records in the sect's classics. Among the sleeping strong men, there seem to be those who witnessed the war that year."
Xiao Feng's eyes flashed slightly when he heard this: "Can you let me see those classics?"
Mo Li frowned slightly, then relaxed his brows: "I can only allow you to read the part about people outside the world."
"That's enough."
Xiao Feng said without hesitation.
A moment later, Mo Li took Xiao Feng to the Penglai Immortal Sect's scripture collection building. The scriptures inside could only be described as vast.
In addition to the jade slips that can only be viewed by monks, there are also some paper books and even jade slips.
Xiao Feng couldn't help but think that if you take any of the things here out, they are probably cultural relics with a long history.
The Scripture Library has a built-in artificial intelligence-like spirit, which can ask the other party to send all the relevant classics to them just by saying someone from outside the world.
Of course, considering Xiao Feng's status as an outsider, Lou Ling eliminated some of the classics that prohibited external transmission, but this was enough.
The contents recorded in these classics are almost the same as what Xiao Feng knew from the Qingyun Sect, but there are many more details.
Only then did Xiao Feng understand that after being frustrated for a time, the original Outlander was determined to completely destroy the planet.
However, the performance of the immortal cultivators was too exaggerated, so they forced the other party to give up the idea.
