480: Heavenly Oracle Shire

Heavenly Oracle Shire

0With Mo Xie settling the establishment of his '1st gate' squad, he set forth to his next objective.

"About the missing people from the kingdom." He asked.

Zhang Yun nodded his head: "Master, it's quite troublesome as we've witnessed everything that happened."

"They just seemed to have lost their mind and started walking in a certain direction."

"Lost their mind? Like sleepwalking or something?" Mo Xie asked.

Zhang Yun nodded his head: "Yes, we tried to help them at first, but they just wouldn't wake no matter what."

"How about taking or imprisoning them?"  Mo Xie asked again.

Zhang Yun shook his head: "We've tried it as well, we trapped and imprison the king of that demon race's territory and his retainers, but after a few days, all of them vanished without any traces."

"I also had my villagers follow them, but the same thing happened, all of them exuding some strange fog around them before vanishing completely."

"Even you couldn't figure it out?" Mo Xie asked with a frown on his face.

Zhang Yun nodded "Master, I've never seen anything like that since the time I was born."

Mo Xie nodded his head: "Well, probably some other race's art or a really strong expert."

Zhang Yun nodded his head.

After all of that, he made Zhang Yun and the people of the village recount all of the events. Soon, Mo Xie arranged his next plan.

"Brat, have all of your citizens and half of your experts escort them back to Imperial Sky Sect at the empire, I have my own courtyard there, and let them bring my token."

Zhang Yun couldn't help but puke blood internally: 'My master... really is vengeful...'

He had called Mo Xie a brat multiple times before, thinking about it, he couldn't help but sigh at how fast the wind changes. 'I guess I have to get used to it.'

He nodded his head: "As you wish, master."

Mo Xie's next step was supposed to scout the area further more, but when he's about to step out some more, Ha Qiqi spoke.

"Mo Xie, we've received a message from the sect's head." Ha Qiqi spoke holding a scroll on her hand.

"From Bu Ten?" Mo Xie frowned, he took the scroll and read the contents inside it.

As he read the message, his frown slowly turned into a smile: "Oh, well, I guess there's a change of plan on our part." 

Ha Qiqi nodded her head: "Yes, it seemed to be opening much more earlier than expected."

Mo Xie nodded "Is there any requirements?"

Ha Qiqi shook her head: "I didn't hear any news about any requirements, I guess we can only know more if we arrive there."

Mo Xie pondered for a bit before speaking some more: "All factions will be arriving there, at the bare minimum, we should only go with at least Immortal Paragon rank and above experts."

Hearing this, Ha Qiqi frowned: "Then, almost all of us will go back?"

Mo Xie nodded his head: "I can at most bring you, but for the rest, I can't promise to protect them."

Hearing this, the other elders frowned, but truth be told, throughout this journey, they were nothing but dead weight and couldn't really participate or help in anything.

Mo Xie smiled: "I don't mind the elders actually participating, but don't expect me to protect you all the second time."

"I'll give you a tea's time to ponder it, all of the disciples, be ready to go back together with my followers." He ordered.

The disciples of course were only here for the experience, they were just glad to have safely escaped death and heaved a sigh of relief: "Yes, Grand guest elder Mo!"

Mo Xie sat down on the previous chief's seat and couldn't help but smile satisfied: 'I wonder why I couldn't get any followers from my previous life, it feels so nice to have others do things for you.'

But as he sat calmly, a disciple, Ammon Jiro looked at him before preparing to depart with the others.

Meanwhile, as Mo Xie pondered about the 'hard' life he's having, the elders got back to talk to him.

"What is it Qiqi?" Mo Xie asked.

Ha Qiqi immediately spoke: "We've already spoke amongst ourselves, Wu Zeqing and I will both go while the rest of the rest will go back."

Mo Xie nodded: "Okay, we..." He looked at the group of people going back home and chuckled: "I guess this group will be safe."

It's almost one of the strongest escorts possible for normal disciples.

After a while, the group finally separated into two.

Mo Xie made his way further northeast while the other group went back down south.

It's quite a long journey, two months easily passed.

They arrived at a place giving a rather mystifying aura, Mo Xie couldn't help but ask: "This place is?" 

It's a place with a different kind of architecture, white houses and highrise buildings completely detached from nature even though it's surrounded by mountains and forest, hiding it from plain sight.

In Mo Xie's thought, it should be a place with a formation that completely hides it from mortal eyes, and maybe, for this special event, they decreased its formation's efficiency for the bare minimum.

Zhang Yun answered his question: "Master, this place is called the Heavenly Oracle Shire, it's completely neutral towards all forces, they are willing to help any faction that seeks their help, but at a rather costly price.

Mo Xie looked at him and asked: "How costly?"

Zhang Yun chuckled: "Master, it's so costly that the empire and the church could only seek their help once every few hundred years."

"Well, if it's an individual, they wouldn't cost much."

"There's about five levels of help they could ask from, the first level is from apprentices, the second is from disciples, next is from the elder, and following that is the grand elder."

"Lastly, the most costly one is the Shire Priestess, or also a person called the owner of the shire."

Mo Xie frowned; 'I could probably earn more if I also provide some help' As he thought of it, he asked once more: "How do they help these factions then?"

Zhang Yun immediately replied: "It's asking about the future events such as disasters and prosperity of one's own empire."

Mo Xie hearing this immediately know the general idea about it, he nodded his head.

"We only arrived here due to the shire especially inviting everyone to hold their gathering in this place." Ha Qiqi spoke this time.

Wu Zeqing continued: "Since they are oracles, they divined that everyone will be gathering for the opening of the ruins."

Mo Xie nodded his head: 'Nobody asked though...'

Ha Qiqi added: "Well, mostly, it's just for their people to earn more."

Mo Xie nodded his head once more: "Well yeah, of course, people will naturally look for opportunities themselves, and if they could at least know if they'll be lucky or not, would already be a blessing."

If that's the case, the people of the shire will earn profit, while the visitors will at least get the gist of their chances in the future, probably...

He then looked forward: "Let's go in."

Everyone nodded and followed him.

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