"Mountain Lord? Then this is the Mountain Lord's Seal? But why Qin Si?" Xia Xilou murmured.
He didn't understand. Qin Si was just a vice dean who didn't care about worldly affairs. Why did he receive the acknowledgment of the spiritual essence of the mountains of the Divine启 Academy and why could he become the Mountain Lord!
One had to know that the so-called Mountain Lord meant that in this mountain range, he was blessed and favored by all the spiritual beings in the mountains, and he had truly stepped onto the threshold of the rules of heaven and earth!
Even on the outer continent, there were only three Mountain Lords at present!
Qin Si was so young, how could he be worthy?
If Xia Xilou was consumed by mad jealousy, then Song Sheng, Qian Ying, Dao Ming, and the others were wide-eyed with shock.
Especially Mountain Lord Hua Ling, as someone who had already become a Mountain Lord, he understood even better what this meant.
It meant that within ten years, Qin Si would definitely break through to the Mahayana stage, with a smooth path ahead. It meant that Qin Si was definitely a favorite of the Heavenly Dao...
"Congratulations, young friend Qin." Mountain Lord Hua Ling looked at the young man standing in the center of the grand hall with an extremely complex expression. Even in front of Xia Xilou and Song Sheng, he did not appear inferior.
Chan Master Ku Le uttered "Amitabha" and said with a kind smile, "From now on, the one sect, two pavilions, and three mountains should be changed to four mountains."
This was also a tacit endorsement; today, the Buddhist Sect was Qin Si's backing.
Dao Ming said, "Chan Master is absolutely right. Dean Qin is now the legitimate person in charge of the Divine启 Academy."
These words were no different from a slap to the faces of Xia Xilou and Song Sheng, as if everything they had done just moments ago was a colossal joke.
Song Sheng realized that by not killing Qin Si earlier, he had missed the best opportunity. Now, even if he made a move, he would definitely be stopped by the other three.
He took a deep look at Qin Si, "Junior, this venerable one remembers you!"
"He wants to escape!"
Qian Ying quickly reminded Qin Si.
But it was too late.
No one knew when Song Sheng had prepared. As soon as Qian Ying finished speaking, Qin Si's sword tip pierced through space and attacked.
But Song Sheng pushed Xia Xilou in front of Qin Si's sword. The sword tip was blocked by Xia Xilou, and when it reached where Song Sheng was standing, it only touched a void.
Great Venerable Song Sheng actually fled!
This realization caused the faces of those who had previously sided with Xia Xilou to turn ashen, and their legs went weak. Xia Xilou himself knelt on the ground clutching his wound.
It wasn't that he hadn't wanted to escape, but he wasn't as swift as Song Sheng. Qin Si had directly sealed off the surrounding space, leaving him nowhere to run.
"Junior brother, senior brother was just temporarily confused. Look at us being from the same sect..." Before he could finish speaking, he could no longer make a sound.
Qin Si directly sealed Xia Xilou's mouth, crippled his dantian, tied him up, and had no desire to listen to his hypocritical excuses.
His series of actions were swift and ruthless. In the blink of an eye, he tied Xia Xilou into a ball and threw him in the direction of Ling Yue.
"Lock him up and deal with him after Senior Uncle returns."
After speaking, Qin Si's gaze turned to Yun Kai, Ying Sheng Chong, and others.
"The heads of the Artifact Refining Peak Ying Sheng Chong, Sword Peak Xia Xun, and Ying Yun Peak Ying Yun are all dismissed. These three will be tried for betraying the academy and endangering all living beings. Their spiritual roots will be confiscated, their dantians crippled, they will be punished with thirty spiritual whips, and expelled from the academy. The positions of elders Tang Ming, Li Yun... Sun Longzi, Lou Changyuan, and others are dismissed, they will be punished with fifty spiritual whips, and imprisoned in the Cliff of Reflection for thirty years..."
Qin Si now had the highest cultivation and the most prestige. He issued his orders decisively. Many people hadn't even reacted when they saw familiar faces being dragged away. Immediately, new peak masters took their posts, and the people in charge of many areas were replaced by new faces...
Everything was developing in a good direction.
Chui Ming took the Academy's Human Array's Obsidian Jun Stone and handed it to Qin Si. "This stone is indeed a bit strange. I felt a trace of spatial fluctuation, but when I probed further, there was nothing."
"Legend has it that the Obsidian Jun Stone is the tears of the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao. No one knows why it was born, and no one knows how it should be destroyed," Chan Master Ku Le gently said, fiddling with his prayer beads.
Chui Ming slammed the table. "Then it's not true that Zifeng said it could be destroyed with the Starfall Imperial Realm?"
"Not necessarily," Mountain Lord Hua Ling said. "This is the first time we've seen this thing. Li Tingyun has been studying the Nine Revolutions Fortune Stealing Array for so many years, perhaps he has found a way to restrain it."
"Amitabha, indeed. All things are born in mutual opposition. Since it exists, it can definitely be destroyed," Chan Master Ku Le sighed softly. "Sect Leader Li, you have gone astray."
When the Supreme Sect joined forces with other sects to separate the abandoned continent from the Divine启 world, the entire Divine启 world was in turmoil. Mahayana cultivators died one after another and could not ascend, demonic cultivators and beast cultivators provoked constantly, the Buddhist Sect's secret treasure was lost, Yue Qing Mountain and Dong Yang Mountain both had incidents and successively closed their gates to avoid worldly affairs.
By the time the Buddhist Sect and others reacted, everything had become a foregone conclusion.
In the past few years, the Buddhist Sect and Hua Ling Mountain had been trying to find ways to return the abandoned continent to the Divine启 world, so the moment they received Qin Si's letter, the two of them rushed over.
"Let's not talk about this. Dean Qin, now that your academy's internal and external troubles have been resolved, and the Starfall Imperial Realm is in your hands, resolving the Fortune Stealing Array is only a matter of time. Let's talk about the divine artifact."
As soon as Dao Ming spoke, the atmosphere in the grand hall froze for a moment.
Granted, they had come to help Qin Si, but they all had their own purpose – the divine artifact.
Why did the Supreme Sect become a first-rate sect? It was all because Li Tingyun had obtained a divine artifact at the cost of the lives of more than nine hundred disciples of the sect back then.
And as everyone knows, so far, there have only been five divine artifacts that have appeared on the entire Divine启 Continent: the Flying Cloud Seal of the Supreme Sect, the Prosperity and Decay Brush of Yue Qing Mountain, the Heavenly Machine Sword of the Xuan Tian Sect, the Bodhi Flower of the Buddhist Sect, and the Heavenly Star Chessboard.
Among them, the Heavenly Machine Sword served as the formation eye of the abandoned continent, while the Prosperity and Decay Brush and the Heavenly Star Chessboard had long been missing.
One could imagine how excited these people were when the aura of a divine artifact appeared again on the abandoned continent!
"This time, my Buddhist Sect sensed the aura of the secret treasure when the divine artifact appeared," Chan Master Ku Le said slowly. "Does young friend Qin know where the divine artifact's auspicious omen occurred that day?"
Before Qin Si could answer, Dao Ming was displeased.
"Chan Master Ku Le, you can't say that. Divine artifacts are ownerless; they don't belong to your Buddhist Sect." He said with a chuckle, but his words were very calculating.
No one wanted to miss this opportunity.
Mountain Lord Hua Ling also chimed in, "Speaking of which, before coming here, I visited the current Xuanjizi of the Xuan Tian Sect."
Everyone looked at her.
Qin Si also frowned slightly. Had Xuanjizi calculated something? Or had he already calculated Sheng Yi?
He began to ponder how to divert everyone's attention from Bai Sheng Yi.
"Xuanjizi said," Mountain Lord Hua Ling paused, her voice slightly heavy, "that he could not calculate it."
Qin Si breathed a sigh of relief.
Dao Ming and Chan Master Ku Le both had solemn expressions.
"Why couldn't he calculate it?"
Mountain Lord Hua Ling shook her head.
No one knew why.