Half a month later, another clone of Xiao Fei, under the alias Jia Ren, joined the Jade Void Palace with a token, becoming an ordinary disciple.
A year later, Jia Ren passed the assessment and was accepted into the Morality Peak, becoming a disciple there.
Upon joining the Morality Peak, the first thing Jia Ren did was beat up a fellow disciple.
With his Heavenly Immortal cultivation, now concealed to the True Immortal realm, it was naturally easy for him to beat up a True Immortal disciple.
The beaten disciple, unable to retaliate, could only report to the Peak Master of Morality Peak.
"Peak Master! Jia Ren hit me!"
"Jia Ren! Why did you strike someone?"
Jia Ren, questioned by the Peak Master, was unfazed. How could he be flustered when he was questioning himself?
"He embezzled the assets of Morality Peak, refused to aid impoverished fellow disciples, and turned a blind eye to the weak being oppressed, thus violating the spirit of righteousness. He deserved to be beaten!"
There was a group of people on Morality Peak who constantly engaged in moral blackmail against Zhang Yi, and Xiao Fei had long wanted to beat them up.
However, his identity prevented him from acting. Now, with Jia Ren's arrival, he was using their own methods against them.
First, he subjected them to moral blackmail, then without further ado, gave them a thorough beating, to the point where their own parents wouldn't recognize them.
This beaten disciple usually employed the same tactic, singing a high-pitched tune and using moral blackmail to his advantage.
Now, being dealt with in the same manner by Jia Ren and receiving a beating, he stammered for a long time, unable to come up with a rebuttal.
As the Peak Master, Zhang Yi held high prestige among the lower-tier disciples. He naturally had to punish Jia Ren for his violent behavior.
First, he reprimanded the disciple for violating moral principles, then ordered Jia Ren to compensate with a sum of immortal stones, and the matter was settled.
However, Jia Ren was not so obedient afterward; he wouldn't pay a single immortal stone.
In the following period, he caused trouble daily, and over a dozen disciples were beaten by him.
He accumulated quite a few punishments, yet he was like a stubborn mule, unafraid of boiling water, and unbothered by his mounting debts or the proliferation of lice.
Jia Ren had now become the primary troublemaker on Morality Peak, and other disciples avoided him when they saw him.
A group of disciples petitioned Peak Master Zhang Yi, hoping to expel Jia Ren from the sect.
But Zhang Yi's good-natured personality resurfaced. He believed Jia Ren's nature was not inherently bad and intended to reform him through moral guidance.
From then on, on Morality Peak, Zhang Yi played the role of a moral exemplar, the good person!
Meanwhile, Jia Ren took on the role of a scoundrel, exclusively doing bad deeds.
With the cooperation of the two clones, they finally brought a large group of lower-tier disciples in the Jade Void Palace under their control.
Time passed, and another 100 years went by.
One day, Zhang Yi received a mysterious jade slip.
Upon reading it, he broke out in a cold sweat.
This jade slip was sent by the Heavenly Demon Palace.
The real Zhang Yi had been adopted by the demon race since childhood and was later sent to the Jade Void Palace as a mole.
It was just that he had accidentally slipped up last time and died at Xiao Fei's hands, now becoming a clone-alias for Xiao Fei.
Since taking over Zhang Yi's identity, his greatest desire was to avoid any connection with the Heavenly Demon Palace.
Although there was a certain tacit understanding among the four major powers of the Jun Tian Realm regarding the exchange of moles, and they wouldn't seek out the opposing force for a deadly confrontation if discovered,
moles who were caught would receive no mercy whatsoever. A swift death was the best possible outcome.
But what was to come had arrived, and he could not refuse.
It was as if the Heavenly Demon Palace still held his leverage; if he refused, they could expose his mole identity.
Fortunately, the task assigned to him by the Heavenly Demon Palace this time was not too difficult.
The Heavenly Demon Palace suspected that Xiao Fei was hiding within the Jade Void Palace and instructed him to investigate covertly. As soon as any clues were found, he was to immediately transmit the information to the Heavenly Demon Palace.
Xiao Fei did not know how the aftermath of his escape last time between Dao Venerable Xuan Tian, Demon Venerable Lei Peng, and Demon Lord San Yang had concluded.
However, based on the situation at the time, Demon Venerable Lei Peng and Demon Lord San Yang should have joined forces against Dao Venerable Xuan Tian.
If the three of them represented the human, demon, and devil factions respectively, the outcome would be detrimental to the Jade Void Palace and the entire human race.
Furthermore, from his previous soul-searching of Zhang Yi, he discovered that the demons who had cooperated with Zhang Yi did not know Zhang Yi personally.
Instead, they were temporary actors hired by the Heavenly Demon Palace.
This implied a murky relationship between the Heavenly Demon Palace and the demon race.
It was highly probable that the two sides had already joined forces.
However, he could not report this matter to the Jade Void Palace at this time, as it would completely expose his identity.
Moreover, Dao Venerable Xuan Tian likely already had an inkling of this.
Facing the demands of the Heavenly Demon Palace, Zhang Yi could only feign compliance.
In the following period, Zhang Yi occasionally found opportunities to inquire about Xiao Fei's whereabouts.
After all, he was not the only mole lurking in the Jade Void Palace for the Heavenly Demon Palace; he had to put on a show for his peers.
After nearly a year of secret investigations within the Jade Void Palace, he found no trace of Xiao Fei.
Zhang Yi could only submit this investigation result.
As for betraying himself, that was absolutely out of the question.
One day, he fabricated an excuse to leave the Jade Void Palace and went to the marketplace in Jun Tian City.
In a secluded spot, he put on a human skin mask and, following the agreed-upon contact method, found a corner and set up a street stall.
By the time he packed up his stall that evening, he had successfully sold the jade slip containing the intelligence to a demon cultivator.
After closing his stall, Zhang Yi returned directly to the Jade Void Palace.
However, the intelligence department managed by Huang Feifei had already been fully mobilized.
The intelligence organization aimed to follow the clues and find the entire intelligence system of the Heavenly Demon Palace.
Previously, the moles of the Heavenly Demon Palace were in a dormant state, making them impossible to track. Now that they were activated, they were bound to leave some traces.
The Heavenly Demon Palace was naturally dissatisfied with the investigation results Zhang Yi submitted this time and demanded that he continue his investigation.
For the next several decades, the Heavenly Demon Palace repeatedly requested further investigations.
Zhang Yi investigated diligently each time, but apart from not investigating himself, he genuinely found nothing.
In a cultivation room on the mountainside of Morality Peak, a short, stout disciple took out a blank jade slip and began recording information into it.
"After repeated investigations, it is suspected that Xiao Fei may very well be hiding on Morality Peak..."
After recording the information, the short, stout disciple placed a concealment formation on the jade slip.
On the surface of the concealment formation, he inscribed some superficial alchemy techniques.
Then, he carved the four large characters "Alchemy True Essentials" onto one side of the jade slip.
Anyone seeing this jade slip would absolutely not suspect that it contained hidden secrets.
The short, stout disciple took leave from Morality Peak and, under the guise of a pretext, went to Jun Tian City and entered a shop specializing in alchemy to purchase immortal pills.
However, due to insufficient immortal stones this time, he had to reluctantly mortgage his ancestral copy of "Alchemy True Essentials."