"Excuse me, may I ask, where is this place?" Joe Di clasped his fists and asked.
The male cultivator quickly came to his senses and bowed respectfully. "Senior, this is the Imperial Forbidden Glacier. For millions of miles around, it is impossible to survive. We come here to try our luck at the edges because there are some Polar Ice Gold deposits nearby."
Joe Di frowned slightly and asked again, "Which Immortal Realm is this?"
Upon hearing this, the male cultivator instinctively shuddered. He had reached the Great Yi Immortal stage and was no fool; from Joe Di's words, he immediately realized Joe Di was not from the Wymu Immortal Realm.
A cultivator not from the Wymu Immortal Realm had come here, entered the Imperial Forbidden Glacier, and emerged unscathed—clearly, this was a peerless expert.
He became even more respectful and said, "Senior, this is the Wymu Immortal Realm."
Wymu Immortal Realm? Joe Di immediately thought of Zane Wu. Zane Wu was from the Wymu Immortal Realm, and not just him—Nora Xiu had also ascended from here.
Joe Di asked again, "I'm looking for two people. One is called Nora Xiu. Do you know her?"
Upon hearing the name Nora Xiu, the male cultivator's expression immediately changed, and his tone became hesitant and faltering.
Joe Di's face darkened, and a wave of pressure descended upon the male cultivator. He instantly felt an intense danger and hurriedly said, "Senior, please spare me! In all these years in the Wymu Immortal Continent, Senior Nora was the greatest genius. It's said she ascended in just over three hundred years."
Joe Di said calmly, "Why can't you speak of it? Go ahead, which sect was Nora Xiu from?"
The male cultivator dared not hide anything. "Senior, Senior Nora was from the Fairpool Sect."
"Where is the Fairpool Sect?" Joe Di continued to ask. Since this wasn't one of the Four Great Immortal Continents, he was ready to leave. But before that, he wanted to find out if he and Nora Xiu's two children were here as well.
The male cultivator replied in panic, "Senior, you mustn't think of going to the Fairpool Sect. If you go there, if you go..."
The male cultivator seemed to remember that Joe Di had come out of the Imperial Forbidden Glacier. Maybe it wouldn't be a problem for him to go to the Fairpool Sect after all.
Joe Di frowned. "Why?"
The male cultivator gritted his teeth and said, "Back then, Senior Nora ascended to the upper realm in a very short time. After her, the Fairpool Sect produced many Immortal Emperors and became the strongest force in the entire Wymu Immortal Realm. It's rumored the Fairpool Sect possesses the Extreme Immortal Vein. Because of this vein, top experts kept emerging from Fairpool Sect."
"Extreme Immortal Vein? What is that?" Joe Di asked. He was, after all, a late Hunyuan stage expert who had crossed many star domains to get here, yet he had never heard of such a thing.
The male cultivator quickly explained, "It's said the Extreme Immortal Vein is a treasure surpassing even the Supreme Immortal Vein. Cultivating beside it allows for rapid advancement. The Fairpool Sect produced many Immortal Emperors precisely because of this vein."
Joe Di sneered inwardly. That was nonsense. The Extreme Immortal Vein definitely didn't exist. Even if it did, it would be something like a low-grade divine spirit vein. The reason so many Immortal Emperors appeared in Fairpool Sect after Nora Xiu was not because of the vein, but because of Nora Xiu's cultivation method.
Nora Xiu cultivated in the Fairpool Sect for three hundred years, practicing the Dao of Laws. During her cultivation, the sect's heavenly laws were exceptionally clear, making it the ideal place to train. As Nora Xiu progressed rapidly, so did the cultivators around her. It was much like when Dean Carter practiced alongside Joe Di.
"Where is the Fairpool Sect located?" Joe Di asked.
The male cultivator shuddered and replied cautiously, "Nowadays, anyone who goes to the Fairpool Sect will be detained and interrogated..."
"Why?" Joe Di suddenly thought of the Extreme Immortal Vein. If the rumor about Fairpool Sect possessing such a vein was true, it could have led to their tragic fate.
The male cultivator lowered his voice even further. "Senior, after the news of the Extreme Immortal Vein spread, the Fairpool Sect flourished. But a thousand years ago, after several Immortal Emperors ascended again, the sect's strength waned, and eventually, it was destroyed by the alliance of the Three Great Sects..."
Joe Di's expression turned cold. He said calmly, "Why do you dare to speak of these things now? Weren't you afraid to mention them before?"
The male cultivator hurriedly took out a jade slip, engraved a location, and handed it to Joe Di. "Senior, this is the location of the Fairpool Sect. Earlier, I didn't dare speak because, in the eyes of the Three Great Sects, I am nothing but an ant. Now that I've said so much, a little more won't matter. Besides, anyone who can emerge from the Imperial Forbidden Glacier must be extraordinary. Senior, I've also marked the Three Great Sects in the jade slip: Swordmaster Sect, Silent River Sect, and Starflame Sect. These three are now the largest sects in the Wymu Immortal Realm after Fairpool Sect's demise."
Joe Di accepted the jade slip, took out two jade vials, and handed them to the male cultivator. "Thank you. These are for you."
With those words, Joe Di's figure flickered and vanished without a trace.
Seeing Joe Di disappear, the male cultivator breathed a sigh of relief. The female cultivator did the same, nervously saying, "That senior is truly formidable. I thought he might silence us, but he spared our lives. Brother Syu Xun, let's get out of here quickly."
The male cultivator nodded. "Yes, I thought we'd be silenced too. But I suspect that senior is incredibly powerful. There's going to be a spectacle in the Wymu Immortal Continent this time."
As he spoke, he casually opened one of the jade vials in his hand and said, "That senior must be an Immortal Emperor. Whatever he gave us won't be ordinary... ah..."
"What is it?" the female cultivator asked urgently.
The male cultivator, trembling, opened the other jade vial and stammered, "Sister Yi, let's go quickly. Look at this..."
The male cultivator handed a jade vial to the female cultivator. When she saw what was inside, she too cried out in surprise. The next moment, both of them reacted and quickly fled in another direction.
......
At this moment, Joe Di was already standing at the entrance of the Fairpool Sect. The sect's protective barriers had long been shattered. Not only that, the immortal peaks within the sect had been broken and leveled, presenting a scene of utter destruction.
Deep within the sect, all sorts of weeds had already grown wild. Joe Di sighed, feeling a trace of guilt in his heart. Although he wasn't directly responsible for this, he did have some indirect involvement. Nora Xiu's cultivation method had led many people astray.
A figure rushed over from the distance, but Joe Di didn't move at all.
The figure charged up to Joe Di and shouted sternly, "Who are you? Are you another remnant of the Fairpool Sect?"
This was a late-stage Great Luo Immortal male cultivator, his hair sparse, clearly the result of practicing a peculiar cultivation method.
Joe Di said calmly, "I came here to see Nora Xiu's former residence."
"So you are another remnant of the Fairpool Sect!" The Great Luo Immortal raised his hand to grab Joe Di.
Joe Di still didn't move, not even extending his domain. His divine sense had already detected that within the ruins of the Fairpool Sect, a hidden immortal array concealed another Great Luo Immortal.
Sure enough, just as the sparse-haired cultivator reached for Joe Di, the Great Luo Immortal hiding in the array sprang out and threw a punch at the sparse-haired man.
Caught off guard by the ambush, the sparse-haired man didn't dodge right away, but instead sent out a flying sword for help.
Perhaps he believed he could evade the punch, but after releasing the flying sword, he instantly felt the surrounding space completely lock down his movements.
Bang! The Great Luo Immortal who had rushed out of the array punched the sparse-haired man's back. With a muffled groan, the man was smashed into a bloody pulp, his primordial spirit unable to escape, dissolving within the flesh.
The cultivator who ambushed the sparse-haired man subconsciously looked at his own fist, completely baffled by his newfound strength.
Fortunately, he quickly snapped out of it and urgently said to Joe Di, "That man was from the Silent River Sect. They'll be here soon—let's go!"