The Teleportation Formation transported Yu Qingtan to a vast and boundless desert city—Loulan Immortal City.
In the entire Northwest Region, if it wasn't desert, it was the Gobi. However, there were still countless oases, dotting the area and forming the unique desert cultivation civilization of the Northwest Region.
Loulan Immortal City was located on top of a huge oasis, with the air filled with a faint scent of sand and the distinct freshness of the oasis. These two scents intertwined to create a unique atmosphere.
As Yu Qingtan stepped onto this land, she felt an ambiance different from other domains.
Yu Qingtan wore a skirt in the local style to avoid trouble and directly revealed her cultivation level at the Nascent Soul Late Stage. She hired a local guide, following the usual practice of buying a house and sightseeing.
Yu Qingtan had just exited a shop that sold various types of clothing and spiritual artifacts when she witnessed an interesting scene.
"Master Helian, let go of my daughter!" an old man pleaded on the ground.
A young man dressed lavishly and of average appearance looked down on the old man with disdain as his two henchn dragged a young girl, whose face showed numbness and whose eyes held no life.
"You old fool, her elder sister borrowed a thousand dium Grade Spirit Stones from . Now she's dead because of ddling in affairs that were none of her business, and since you have no Spirit Stones to repay , she'll have to pay off the debt," the young man said arrogantly.
Yu Qingtan frowned slightly and asked the guide beside her. She then learned that this young man was Helian Sheng, a Golden Core Cultivator at the early stage, and a genius disciple of the Loulan Sect.
The Loulan Sect was the dominant power in Loulan Immortal City and throughout the oasis, with the Helian family being a powerful faction within it.
The old man was surnad Yao and ca from a local minor family.
His elder daughter, Yao Xixue, was an exceptional talent with a Single Spiritual Root and had reached the Late Stage of the Golden Core at a young age, wildly famous within the Loulan Sect.
The younger daughter was nad Yao Xiyue, of average talent, and did not manage to be accepted into the Loulan Sect. However, both sisters were known as beauties in Loulan Immortal City.
A while back, a bandit gang that specialized in abducting mortals road within thousands of miles around Loulan Immortal City. Although the Loulan Sect issued a mission to eradicate them, only Yao Xixue took up this thankless task.
Then, Yao Xixue never returned, and her Soul Lamp dimd and extinguished after several days.
"Alas, it's a sha Yao Xixue had such an exceptional talent but was afflicted with a 'Mother Teresa Complex.' Those bandits didn't attack our Loulan Immortal City, yet she felt the need to show off," soone comnted.
"I really can't stand this sort of sanctimonious act. There are so many seniors and powerful figures in our sect, why didn't anyone take action? Isn't it because those bandits have backing and there's little reward in dealing with them?" another person voiced out.
"It's a pity that Yao Xiyue will fall into Master Helian's hands, tsk tsk, those long legs," a bystander remarked.
So people around were indignant about the situation, but others were just there for the entertainnt and discussed in low voices.
Yu Qingtan listened to these comnts with disgust and was about to intervene when a loud voice echoed through the Immortal City.
"The Yellow Sand Bandit Gang raided the mortal settlent area to the east of the Immortal City last night, abducting more than a billion mortals. Now, calling on cultivators of the city to exterminate the Yellow Sand Bandit Gang..."
The Yellow Sand Bandit Gang, the very gang that caused Yao Xixue's demise, was nad for their yellow attire. The bandits abducted mortals; those with a Spirit Root would be sold to other Human Race settlents, while those without would generally be sold to the Demon Race as food.
"What, how is that possible, how dare the Yellow Sand Bandit Gang make a move on Loulan Immortal City?"
"What are the defending cultivators of the Loulan Sect doing, letting bandits run rampant in Loulan Immortal City?"
"Ah, my family is in the eastern gathering area of the Immortal City. No, I have to join in the campaign against the Yellow Sand Bandit Gang and rescue my relatives!"
The area where Yu Qingtan was situated was precisely the eastern region of Loulan Immortal City. Loulan Immortal City lay at the center of an oasis, surrounded by commoner gathering areas divided into eight sectors, each guarded by Nascent Soul Stage cultivators.
According to the information, the Yellow Sand Bandit Gang didn't have any Nascent Soul cultivators.
Yu Qingtan saw those who had cursed Yao Xixue as a saint before, but were now extrely anxious because their relatives were in trouble, and couldn't help but find it a bit funny.
At that mont, Helian Sheng heard the news, and was shocked for a second, then, disregarding Old Man Yao, he took Yao Xiyue with his entourage towards the Loulan Sect in the center of the Immortal City.
Yu Qingtan sent away her guide and followed them. When they passed through a less crowded alley, Yu Qingtan made her move.
Spirit Fixation Spell, then knocked them unconscious and threw them into the System Space, returned to the house she had purchased, laid out a formation, took out the people, and woke Helian Sheng up first.
Previously, when Old Man Yao had pleaded, wanting to cling to Helian Sheng's thighs, Helian Sheng had dodged, but he didn't kick Old Man Yao away like Yu Qingtan had thought, so she didn't take any overly aggressive actions.
When Helian Sheng woke up, he found himself in an unfamiliar environnt, with a beautiful female cultivator he had never seen before sitting in front of him. He was startled and imdiately tried to stand and resist, but then he realized that his cultivation was sealed.
"Helian Sheng, coercing a female cultivator to pay off debts, quite imposing indeed!" Yu Qingtan's voice ca over, calm and dignified, with the pressure of a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator.
Helian Sheng, a Golden Core cultivator, was imdiately pressured into kneeling down. He was filled with fear, the trace of astonishnt he felt at first completely gone, and he quickly said, "Senior, this is all a misunderstanding, I was rescuing her, her father wanted to marry her off to that scoundrel, Hua Xiaokun"
"Oh? Interesting, I'll give you a chance to explain." Yu Qingtan raised an eyebrow.
"I am Xixue's friend, I've advised her again and again not to provoke the Yellow Sand Bandit Gang, but she was headstrong and ended up losing her life. That Old Man Yao is lazy and indulgent, spending all his days in brothels and gambling dens, constantly asking Xixue for Spirit Stones.
If it wasn't for the Spirit Stones I lent to Xixue, she wouldn't have been able to maintain her own cultivation. After Xixue's death, Old Man Yao wanted to marry Xiyue off to the playboy, Hua Xiaokun, because he offered a dowry of eight hundred dium Grade Spirit Stones.
I was acting this way only to rescue Xiyue from the pit of fire." Helian Sheng said, clearly still grieving for Yao Xixue.
While Helian Sheng's words were earnest, Yu Qingtan could tell he was not lying. However, she sneered and said, "Yao Xixue's friend, I think you're more of an admirer. Saving Yao Xiyue was also in hopes of winning the beauty for yourself, wasn't it?"
Helian Sheng, having his thoughts read by Yu Qingtan, appeared sowhat unsettled but still said, "Senior, I did pursue Xixue, but I just wanted to save Xiyue, I..."
"Enough, I understand." Yu Qingtan didn't want to hear any more of his nonsense. With a flick of her finger, she knocked him unconscious and took him away, then brought out Yao Xiyue and woke her up.
"I can avenge your sister for you!" Yu Qingtan stated directly. Then, Yao Xiyue's numb eyes gained so life as she looked at Yu Qingtan but still did not speak.
The loss of her sister and her father's coercion must have been too much for her to bear.
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