CHAPTER 1911: CHAPTER 1911: TAOIST RHYME

Although the Green Bamboo Sect is one of the most powerful super sects in the Three Thousand Great Worlds, it also faces fierce competition from other super sects.

In order to compete for the limited top cultivation resources of the Three Thousand Great Worlds, conflicts often occur among the major super sects, and the intensity of these conflicts is far beyond the imagination of other small sects and factions.

However, at the level of super sects, these conflicts are extremely secretive, and other small sects and factions have no way of knowing.

The super sects often send spies into each other’s ranks to gather confidential information about their opponent’s sect.

Decades ago, the Green Bamboo Sect suffered a severe loss due to a spy incident, where several genius disciples were ambushed and killed by rivals, and a newly discovered spirit stone vein was also preemptively taken by the opponent.

Since that incident, the Green Bamboo Sect has been extremely vigilant against espionage, with a zero-tolerance policy of extermination once a spy is discovered.

Therefore, upon hearing that Fang Bai might be a spy, the disciples of the Green Bamboo Sect present immediately thought of that past incident and became angry.

"Wait... wait..."

Fang Bai felt the fury of the surrounding Green Bamboo Sect disciples and really didn’t want to fight with them, so he quickly said, "I have urgent matters, take me to see your Sect Master quickly!"

"Want to see our Sect Master? No way!"

Junior Sister Yun, being in love with Senior Brother Liao and seeing her lover injured, was naturally furious and pointed at Fang Bai, saying hatefully, "He severely injured Senior Brother Liao, quickly kill him!"

Fang Bai laughed with a "hey," and said irritably, "What severe injury? It’s just a scratch, his internal organs weren’t even harmed. Look for yourself carefully."

Junior Sister Yun was stunned upon hearing this, and immediately bent down to check, and indeed found that Senior Brother Liao’s abdomen was only scratched, without any damage to his internal organs.

She breathed a sigh of relief but then, seeing Senior Brother Liao still rolling on the ground and screaming, she was both angry and amused. She kicked him, saying, "You guy, are you pretending on purpose? Get up, stop howling like a ghost!"

Senior Brother Liao rolled over and jumped up, scratching his head with a laugh, "Hehe, Junior Sister Yun, don’t be angry! I just wanted to see if you would be sad for me or get angry... it turns out, you do love me!"

Junior Sister Yun blushed and spat, "Pah! Who... who loves you! Don’t flatter yourself!"

Not wanting to continue on this topic, she turned to Fang Bai and said, "Even if you didn’t severely injure Senior Brother Liao, you still have the suspicion of being a spy and must die! Unless you can prove your innocence, or... you are truly a descendant of our Green Bamboo Sect’s acquaintance!"

Fang Bai said, "Fang Bai, who had significant ties with your sect’s predecessors thousands of years ago, is my ancestor. I easily broke through your Green Bamboo Sect’s concealment formation and walked straight here, doesn’t that prove anything?"

In his previous life, Fang Bai also treated Green Bamboo Sect’s concealment formation as if it didn’t exist, barging in and getting to know the sect’s disciples through a battle.

The current Fang Bai has done the same, and he believes this should suffice as proof.

After all, Green Bamboo Sect’s concealment formation is exceedingly intricate, and very few could break it with ease.

Senior Brother Liao, after swallowing a spirit pill for healing and stopping bleeding, said, "Fang, this doesn’t count. There are many experts in formations in this world; perhaps you just got lucky?"

He then pointed to the "Green Bamboo Sect" inscription on a stone tablet not far away, saying, "You claim to be a descendant of Senior Fang from thousands of years ago? Very well, go check those three ’Green Bamboo Sect’ characters; if you can discern something from them, I’ll believe you!"

Fang Bai chuckled with a silent smile, turned without looking back, and said, "No need to look. Those three characters were left by my ancestor, Fang Bai. Each stroke contains Taoist rhyme. Whoever comprehends even a bit has the hope of ascending to the Immortal Realm. If I’m not mistaken, your sect’s predecessor who befriended my ancestor, Fang Bai, should have ascended to the Immortal Realm, right?"

With Fang Bai’s words, the over a hundred Green Bamboo Sect disciples present were all astonished.

These people, although they couldn’t discern the Taoist rhyme contained in those three characters, had heard from the sect’s higher-ups that the three characters left by Senior Fang in the past contained extremely profound cultivation insights. However, over the thousands of years, only a handful of Green Bamboo Sect disciples were able to comprehend the heavenly Dao within.

Thousands of years ago, their ancestor who befriended Senior Fang ultimately ascended to the Immortal Realm due to comprehending the Taoist rhyme within those characters, which is the best proof.

The fact that this Fang Bai could even mention the words "Taoist rhyme" was simply remarkable.

"If you still don’t believe... come, come, follow me! None of you seem to be able to comprehend the Taoist rhyme within these three characters, right? I will now explain it to you. If you can comprehend even a fraction, it would be a great opportunity!"

As Fang Bai spoke, he strode back to the stone tablet.

Senior Brother Liao, Junior Sister Yun, and other Green Bamboo Sect disciples all had their eyes lit up with excitement, completely forgetting about the suspicion of Fang Bai being a spy, and with a "whoosh," they all followed Fang Bai to the stone tablet, looking at him with anticipation.

The disciples of the Green Bamboo Sect had always held a sense of reverence for the three characters "Green Bamboo Sect" on the stone tablet. Some disciples would come here every day to comprehend something, hoping to gain some insight, but always left empty-handed.

To them, those three characters were just words, and they couldn’t see any Taoist rhyme in them.

Just as Fang Bai was about to explain the so-called Taoist rhyme to those disciples, in a bamboo building several miles away, a few high-level members of the Green Bamboo Sect were sitting cross-legged, their divine sense already covering this area.

"That young man seems to have some skill, could he really be a descendant of Senior Fang?"

A thin, white-haired and white-bearded Thunder Tribulation expert, one of the Green Bamboo Sect’s elders and an absolute high-ranking member, spoke excitedly.

Another tall and burly elder of the Green Bamboo Sect, stroking his long beard, said, "Whether he is or not, I think we should observe a bit more."

"I agree with observing more as well."

"Caution is best in all things."

The other two elders also said.

Sitting cross-legged among the four elders was a short and skinny old man.

That old man, emaciated and ordinary in appearance, with sunken eyes and cloudy eyes, looked like just an ordinary old man without any strength to even truss a chicken.

Yet this old man leads the Green Bamboo Sect, a super sect with tens of thousands of Thunder Tribulation experts, and in the entire Three Thousand Great Worlds, there is absolutely no one who dares to underestimate him.

He is Zhongli Tian, the current Sect Master of the Green Bamboo Sect, with a Half-Immortal Rank cultivation level.

"For thousands of years, only Senior Fang and the ancestor who ascended from our sect could understand the Taoist rhyme contained in those three characters on the stone tablet. If that young man truly can speak of it, it shows he is indeed a descendant of Senior Fang. At that time, we can welcome him without delay."

Zhongli Tian spoke slowly, with sharp brilliance flashing through his murky eyes.