Cao Defang had ascended to the Ascension List a day and a night ago.
Eternal Night Palace had gone through various discussions and finally made up its mind.
Master Jin, one of the guardians of Sleepless City and the most adamant about taking action against Cao Defang, cautiously observed Cao Defang's cave mansion, preparing for scenarios including the appearance of Hua Miaochai and others, even including a group of a dozen or so Golden Core cultivators—the thought wasn't that he lacked imagination, but who would hoard a few hundred Golden Core cultivators in a single cave mansion instead of going after Nascent Souls or even Divinity Transformations?
Five Golden Core cultivators, in cooperation with thousands of disciples, could contest a Nascent Soul.
Ten Golden Core cultivators could challenge a Nascent Soul, and several hundred Golden Core cultivators... with such combat power, you could be king and dominate, so why waste it like that?
Of course, a more likely scenario was that Cao Defang was not ng Yu, and there was only one Golden Core cultivator inside the cave mansion.
Regarding the conflict with ng Yu, the Eternal Night Palace had long co to regret their decision bitterly; all of it had been an unwarranted disaster.
The other side had been reasonable and moderate, while they themselves were oppressively aggressive. The demands were very simple, just the lives of a few involved parties. However, the Eternal Night Palace, for the sake of face, refused and subsequently lost so many Golden Core cultivators as well as a vast Cultivator Legion.
It's sowhat amusing to ntion, but now, the mainstream opinion in Eternal Night Palace was that Cao Defang was not ng Yu.
So ti ago, ng Yu had used the Void Shifting to return to the Moon-Watching Sect and had a reunion with Hu Qingquan, Bu Shixian, and others, happily relaxing for several days.
During those days, he made no attempt to hide his whereabouts, on the contrary, he summoned people from all levels of the Moon-Watching Sect for etings, announcing, "I took a trip to the northwest and fought with the Eternal Night Palace, they're tough as bones, almost shattered my teeth, but luckily, I'm not one to be trifiled with, I killed a bunch of them."
As the foremost power in Western Wastes, other sects naturally had various permanent envoys. Hearing that the Sect Master had returned, they ca over one by one, flatteringly. Everyone listened to ng Yu boasting about the perilous battles and various spoils of war, extrely shocked and admiring of him.
ng Yu happily drank with everyone and even demonstrated the Four Great Void for others to see, showing them how powerful his combat ability had beco. He also sparred with experts from other sects, showing everyone what it ans for Foundation Establishnt to triumph over Golden Core!
After the solid bouts, the Golden Core Masters from other sects acknowledged that ng Yu's swordsmanship was divine and profoundly insightful.
Unbeknownst to ng Yu, the Eternal Night Palace had always harbored ambitions for the Western Wastes, wanting to interfere in its affairs, and had enough spies that, even before the Ascension List event began, when a Nascent Soul from Eternal Night Palace received an invitation, a Golden Core Master was sent to the Western Wastes to change identity and gather information, facilitating the quickest relay of news.
This was also one of the reasons why the Eternal Night Palace acted upon learning that ng Yu appeared in Sleepless City.
A Golden Core Master in the Western Wastes closely observed ng Yu's performance, and while playing with the spoils of war that ng Yu presented, recognized at a glance an item that belonged to a disciple!
The news was quickly and details transmitted through the Ascension List.
ng Yu was confird to have returned to the Western Wastes!
Then, unexpectedly to all, ng Yu was in Sleepless City in the morning, and by afternoon he had used Void Shifting to return to Sleepless City, strolling around the city, even including having a face-to-face encounter with a certain Golden Core Master, confirming his identity to the other party.
The more intricate arrangent in between was that after ng Yu left the Moon-Watching Sect, they arranged a fake ng Yu to continue operating, and when ng Yu was not in Sleepless City, a skilled illusionist Golden Core cultivator, disguised as Cao Defang, moved about.
The key strategy was a seamless connection!
The key strategy was that Four Great Void could not possibly be imitated by anyone.
Afterward, when the Eternal Night Palace conducted their review, they were surprised to find that ng Yu and Cao Defang shouldn't be the sa person!
Hence, many in the Eternal Night Palace believed it was just a coincidence, but Master Jin and his group were insistent on taking down Cao Defang!
They didn't care about the death of a few disciples, but everyone had seen the prowess of the Blood Transmutation Divine Saber, especially such an orthodox cultivation technique with no side effects; capturing it would beco the foundation of the Eternal Night Palace!
So, even if he wasn't ng Yu, they were determined to label him as ng Yu and then capture him!
Poor Cao Defang had no idea that the number of Golden Core cultivators in Sleepless City was not five or ten, but twenty-seven (when the second Nascent Soul from the Eternal Night Palace ca over, he brought a substantial number of Golden Core cultivators)!
In light of this, the Eternal Night Palace had invested a massive effort, preparing to deal with all sorts of dangers, any contingency in the city could be suppressed, plus the close and vassal Golden Core cultivators, thirty-eight people in total, capable of facing any challenge!
Nascent Souls were assertive outside, and inside there were enough Golden Core cultivators, the advantage was ours!
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Sleepless City.
A Golden Core cultivator from the Red Water Sect boredly sat in the cave mansion, overseeing the Array.
Sleepless City's City-Protecting Great Array, nad Black Sun Hexagram, where each of the six points represented strength and support. On normal days, each Eye of Array was garrisoned by three Foundation Building cultivators, capable of withstanding even a Golden Core assault.
The Formation was profoundly mysterious, capable of a variety of techniques, while also having a short-range Teleportation Array connecting six key points, always ready for reinforcent.
At the sa ti, the defense strength had been maximized; now each Eye of Array was overseen by a Golden Core Master, along with six Foundation Building cultivators, this force, combined with the Array, could even hold against ten tis the enemy forces.
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