Chapter 1970

Chen Shanming left Gu Chen's residence with a face full of disappointment.

He didn't expect Gu Chen to pour a bucket of cold water on his head when they were still having a good discussion a few days ago, thinking that the matter was in the bag and he had even started to make preparations.

The Great Prophet didn't agree!

A simple message with no explanation as to why the Great Prophet didn't agree had killed the Chen Clan's ambition to rise again. He could only sullenly give up such a great opportunity!

However, he couldn't get angry. Although the Chen Clan and the Luo Sect were allies, they obviously needed the Luo Sect more. He could only put on a bitter face and think about how to explain to the elders later.

The Chen Clan elders who had nothing to do were all in the Elder's Hall. They were very concerned about the first battle of the Chen Clan's return to the world.

They had no choice. The Chen Clan was so poor that they could barely make ends meet. All these years, the elders had been struggling to make ends meet. They had long been looking forward to the opportunity to become rich.

Chen Shanming's figure appeared on the mountain path and walked toward the Elder's Hall. The elders' eyes lit up when they saw him, and they immediately surrounded him.

"Great Elder, how was it? Did the Great Prophet agree? "the Second Elder asked expectantly.

Chen Shanming looked at the elders and finally forced a smile on his face. "The Great Prophet said that now is not the right time."

Many of the elders were disappointed and even somewhat astonished. As far as they were concerned, the timing couldn't be more suitable!

"Now is not the right time. When is the right time?" the Second Elder asked anxiously.

"The Great Prophet didn't say much about this. He only asked us to wait."

Chen Shanming answered, but he felt bitter in his heart.

In fact, the Great Prophet didn't say that at all. He just directly rejected them through Yunfei.

However, he couldn't say that. The elders had been looking forward to this for a long time. Now that the plan had failed before it even started, it was easy to cause unnecessary trouble if they couldn't get over it.

"How did the Great Prophet answer? Did Yunfei discuss it with him and tell him what this means to the Chen Clan? "

Seeing Chen Shanming say that the Great Prophet asked them to wait, but his answer was ambiguous, many elders started asking questions. Their words were more or less dissatisfied with Gu Chen.

"Yunfei … he should have done his best."

Chen Shanming recalled the scene when he saw Gu Chen, as well as his calm tone. He wanted to speak up for him, but he couldn't bring himself to do so.

He had clearly told the other party about the significance of this matter to the Chen Clan, but for some reason, he felt that the other party was somewhat unconcerned.

Hearing Chen Shanming's tone, many of the elders were immediately convinced that Gu Chen had not done his best on this matter. For a moment, their disappointment and dissatisfaction exploded.

"Yunfei has been by Great Prophet Luo's side for so long. Has he forgotten that he's from the Chen Clan?"

"As the teacher of Emperor Pei, that kid naturally doesn't lack cultivation resources. He won't be like us, racking our brains over how to provide elixirs for the juniors of our clan every day!"

The elders spoke one after another, and their favorable impression of the youngest elder in the clan dropped to the lowest.

"Don't think like that, everyone. Yunfei has been away for a long time, so his feelings for us might have faded a little, but he still cares for us. The Great Prophet has foresight and foresight. He must have his reasons for asking us to wait, "Chen Shanming comforted the crowd.

They couldn't allow the dissatisfaction to spread like this, or it would be detrimental to the alliance in the future.

"What other intentions could the Great Prophet have? Now that the Pei Dynasty has been established, what it needs is time to recuperate. He wouldn't be willing to offend the Jade Clan and the two Sacred Lands for our Chen Clan! "

"If we can't obtain the Changxi Prefecture's mineral veins, only our Chen Clan will be affected. What does it have to do with him?"

Fourth Elder Chen Qinghe couldn't help but say something that everyone wanted to say but didn't dare to, causing many of the elders to feel distressed.

"Be careful with your words! This is detrimental to the alliance between the two sides! "

Chen Shanming immediately retorted. If these words fell into the ears of the Luo Sect's Saint, the consequences would not be good.

"What alliance? Great Elder, don't you find it strange? "

Fourth Elder didn't intend to stop there. Instead, he continued, "To put it bluntly, the alliance between our Chen Clan and the Luo Sect came very suddenly. It was the Clan Leader's idea, and he didn't discuss it with the Elders Guild beforehand!"

Chen Shanming fell silent. He was indeed a little dissatisfied with the Clan Leader's decision to act first and report later. In terms of status in the clan, he wasn't inferior to the Clan Leader, but he was completely kept in the dark about this matter beforehand.

"Moreover, what kind of alliance is this? The Luo Sect obtained the entire Dacheng Dynasty in one go, but they didn't give us any benefits. Instead, they made us the center of attention, causing the major forces of the Jade Dynasty to be vigilant again. "

"Alliances should help each other. Even if the Great Prophet doesn't want us to interfere with the Changxi Prefecture's mineral veins, he should at least be more generous and cede some of the Pei Dynasty's benefits to us, right?"

"That kid Yunfei is also ridiculous. In my opinion, he has long forgotten that he's a member of the Chen Clan. His loyalty is questionable!"

Fourth Elder's words were very provocative, accurately hitting the true thoughts of many of the elders. For a moment, everyone fell silent, and their eyes flickered non-stop.

"Even if what you said makes some sense, so what? Don't forget that the situation is stronger than the person. We can't afford to offend the Great Prophet! "

Chen Shanming warned sternly. He was worried that the elders would continue to speak irresponsibly or even do something foolish.

"If we had known this would happen, we might as well not form an alliance," Fourth Elder muttered.

He knew that if he continued to speak, the Great Elder would get angry, so he stopped when the time was right.

"Alright, now that things have come to this, we can only do as the Great Prophet says."

"Restrain the disciples of the clan. The Old Man in Changxi Prefecture will also give instructions. If the Jade Clan and the two Holy Lands want to snatch the mineral veins, let them. The Chen Clan won't participate!"

Chen Shanming reminded them seriously, and at the same time, he sighed in his heart.

Although the Chen Clan was poor and reclusive, they were still very united internally.

Now that they had yet to recover, there were already internal conflicts. The elders who could understand each other had begun to suspect each other because of the mineral veins.

As the Great Elder, he had the obligation to maintain the unity of the clan. The current situation was not good.

Since they couldn't get the support of the Great Prophet, there was nothing to discuss in the Elder's meeting. The elders quickly dispersed.

Fourth Elder Chen Qinghe left the Elder's Hall and quickly returned to his residence. Not long after, he left Fixed Sky Mountain and entered the city at the foot of the mountain.

He disguised himself and stayed in a farmhouse in the city for about half an incense stick of time before quietly leaving.

Not long after he left, someone also hurriedly left the farmhouse in the direction of the Chen Clan's seclusion...

On Fixed Sky Mountain, ever since he refused the Great Elder, it was a bit awkward to walk around the Chen Clan. Gu Chen simply stayed in his residence most of the time to cultivate the Xingyi Weaving Secret Technique.

As the liaison between the Chen Clan and the Luo Sect, he could have chosen to return to the Pei Dynasty. That was his base camp, and he would be more at ease there.

However, the Pei Dynasty was thriving under the governance of Liu Yan and Tang Xuance, and with the Limitless Tyrant Dragon King presiding over it, there was not much use for him to stay there.

On the other hand, the Yu Dynasty had a lot of room for him to use, especially after he grasped the flaws of the Divine Ascension Realm.

Although he stayed on Fixed Sky Mountain all day long, he could learn many unknown secrets by sneaking into the Jade Clan, Eight Branches Holy Land, and Azure Willow Holy Land's Divine Ascension Realm, and he could even keep track of their movements at any time.

At the same time, this was also a kind of cultivation for the Xingyi Weaving Secret Technique. Every time he returned from exploring the Divine Ascension Realm, his Secret Technique's energy would be almost exhausted, but after accumulating energy again, his Secret Technique would improve significantly.

During this process, Gu Chen also discovered that his Heaven Coiling Silk seemed to have come to life.

That's right, it had come to life. The Heaven Coiling Silk, which should have had no consciousness, was slowly beginning to gain some spirituality.

This was an extremely incredible thing. The Heaven Coiling Silk was refined from energy, not a physical substance, nor was it alive, so how could it have such a change?

Gu Chen wasn't sure whether this change was due to cultivating the Xingyi Weaving Secret Technique itself, or because he had stayed in the Divine Ascension Realm for too long.

The Divine Ascension Realm was a spiritual world, and Gu Chen could vaguely feel that every time the Heaven Coiling Silk crossed the barrier of the Divine Ascension Realm, it would absorb something.

The 88 Layered Heavens Secret Technique was becoming more and more difficult for Gu Chen to understand. It wasn't that he had encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, but rather that he was confused about the path he was pursuing.

The Heavenly Stars Secret Technique had a total of five scrolls, the Stardust Scroll, Star Core Scroll, and Black Hole Scroll. No matter how difficult the Secret Technique was to cultivate, Yang Kai was always able to glimpse the path it contained.

But from the beginning of the Domain Scroll, or to be more precise, from the moment the Secret Technique's energy appeared, Yang Kai could no longer figure out where this path ended.

At the very beginning, the Secret Technique's energy could be transformed into any type of energy, and the Heaven Coiling Silk refined from it could even attack the Dao Spirits of Dao Techniques.

After that, Yang Kai found that after destroying the Dao Spirit, the cultivation speed of the Secret Technique would increase inexplicably, and the extent of the increase was closely related to the strength of the Dao Spirit.

Then, not long ago, he discovered that the Heaven Coiling Silk could actually break through the Divine Ascension Realm's barrier.

Finally, the Heaven Coiling Silk suddenly gained spirituality.

All of this was inconceivable. The evolution of the Heaven Coiling Silk seemed to be untraceable, but there seemed to be some kind of hidden rule.

Gu Chen was puzzled. He really didn't know what the end of this path was.

The future was unpredictable, but the unknown was exciting. All he could do now was try his best to get as close to the truth as possible!

While Gu Chen's mind wandered about the universe, the Chen Clan Elders on Fixed Space Mountain couldn't restrain themselves from cultivating and paying attention to the development of the situation in Changxi County thousands of kilometres away.

The three great forces were competing for the Geng Gold Vein, fighting both openly and covertly, and gradually, they were starting to get angry.

Realizing that this stalemate would only increase the losses of the three parties, the three parties finally decided to sit down and talk things over.