Recently, the disciples on Moral Peak have felt considerably more at ease.
Every breath of immortal energy they inhaled felt sweet, imbued with a sense of freedom.
This was because the great demon of Moral Peak, Jia Ren, had taken leave and descended the mountain, and several months had passed without any sign of his return.
They truly hoped Jia Ren would never come back.
The disciples of Jade Void Palace had suffered under Jia Ren for a long time!
Jia Ren had recently reverted to his true identity, Xiao Fei, and was spending his days with Huang Feifei in Jun Tian City.
Following Huang Feifei's plan, Xiao Fei first altered the aura of the short, stout disciple from Moral Peak and modified the contents of a jade slip.
The original message left by the stout disciple indicated that Xiao Fei was on Moral Peak.
However, Xiao Fei changed the content to state that the Palace Master of Jade Void Palace had deliberately hidden him within Purple Phoenix Palace, which was also located in Jun Tian Realm, to conceal him.
As a result, after obtaining the intelligence from this jade slip, the Heavenly Demon Palace cursed the Palace Master of Jade Void Palace countless times behind his back.
They felt this old man was too cunning and had nearly fallen for his trick.
Upon confirming the intelligence, the Heavenly Demon Palace initiated an investigation into Purple Phoenix Palace, searching for Xiao Fei's hiding place.
Thus, Huang Feifei had successfully diverted the attention of the Heavenly Demon Palace from Jade Void Palace to Purple Phoenix Palace.
However, this was only a part of her plan.
She was now actively preparing for the subsequent steps of her operation.
"Young Master, based on the analysis of various intelligence reports, in recent years, the immortal realm's demon race and human race have gradually drifted apart, while their relationship with the demon race has been deepening.
If this trend continues, the original alliance between the human race and the demon race to suppress the demon race might evolve into the demon race and the demon race joining forces against the human race."
The immortal realm was inhabited by numerous races, but the human race, the demon race, and the demon race were the most powerful.
Among these three races, the demon race was the strongest.
Therefore, it had always been the human race and the demon race forming an alliance to jointly suppress the demon race, preventing them from becoming arrogant.
If the demon race and the demon race were to form an alliance, the human race would face immense pressure, and it was uncertain if they could even withstand it.
When one race weakens, all its individuals are affected; when the nest is overturned, how can any eggs remain intact!
Therefore, after reaching this conclusion, Huang Feifei had already designated the demon race as a hypothetical enemy.
Under her leadership, the intelligence organization had been continuously infiltrating the demon race and making preparations in advance.
Huang Feifei had already developed informants or spies within every demon race faction.
Now, to draw the Heavenly Demon Palace's attention to Purple Phoenix Palace, she needed to continue increasing her investment in Purple Phoenix Palace.
Those who could be bought were bought, those who could be threatened were threatened, and those who could be coerced were coerced; in short, no means were spared.
The resources consumed, such as immortal stones and immortal pills, flowed out like water.
However, Xiao Fei was now wealthy and did not lack such resources.
The Drunken God Flowers planted in his spatial artifact had already cultivated over ten acres, possessing enough pollen to mask the aura of the Creation Jade Disk.
As long as these auras could be concealed, he possessed many treasures within his spatial artifact.
Many spiritual wines brewed with spiritual herbs from a long time ago remained in his spatial artifact, some having aged for decades.
Although these spiritual wines were useless for immortals to improve their cultivation, their taste was exceptionally mellow.
They could satisfy the palate of many people, and many immortals were fond of such pleasures.
In recent years, the spiritual wines from his spatial artifact had been continuously sold, earning a considerable amount of immortal stones.
In addition, the various immortal herbs, immortal pills, and immortal fruits produced in his spatial artifact were all hard currency.
Using these treasures to bribe disciples of various factions was often more effective than immortal stones.
Last time, a single Earth Dragon Immortal Root, which could assist a True Immortal in breaking through to Heavenly Immortal, was used to easily bribe a disciple of Purple Phoenix Palace.
Now that this disciple of Purple Phoenix Palace had successfully advanced to the Heavenly Immortal realm, he had become a capable assistant to Huang Feifei.
Although this person wished to shed his identity as an informant after his advancement, Huang Feifei held leverage over him for betraying Purple Phoenix Palace, leaving him no choice but to obediently submit.
A while ago, Huang Feifei took out a worn-out sock that Xiao Fei had once worn and asked him to throw it away in an inconspicuous place within Purple Phoenix Palace.
In reality, Purple Phoenix Palace had also been searching for Xiao Fei's whereabouts, and now with the informants from the Heavenly Demon Palace also shifting their focus to Purple Phoenix Palace.
Even if Xiao Fei casually dropped a crooked hair, these informants would find it, carefully sense the residual aura, and hand it over to their superiors as a treasure.
Now, Xiao Fei presenting a worn-out sock demonstrated great respect for the work of the informant personnel.
After Xiao Fei threw out the worn-out sock, he paid no further attention and continued with his own business.
As expected, this worn-out sock indeed triggered covert conflicts between the Heavenly Demon Palace and Purple Phoenix Palace, with undercurrents surging beneath the seemingly harmonious relationship between the two major factions.
The two major factions engaged in covert conflict for a long time, and eventually, the worn-out sock was divided into two parts, with each major faction holding one half.
Although they only held half a worn-out sock, it was enough to confirm that Xiao Fei was highly likely to be hiding within Purple Phoenix Palace.
This greatly narrowed the search scope and reduced the difficulty of the task.
However, finding Xiao Fei with just half a worn-out sock still presented significant challenges, and they intended to continue searching without letting go of any clue.
"Feifei, what are your plans next?"
In a secret chamber, with only Xiao Fei and Huang Feifei present, Xiao Fei asked, holding Huang Feifei's small hand.
"Now that the demon race's targets have shifted to Purple Phoenix Palace, the next step is to sow discord between the two factions, making them suspect each other and lose trust."
Just as Huang Feifei and Xiao Fei were conversing in the secret chamber, a small conflict was unfolding within Purple Phoenix Palace.
Two cultivators from Purple Phoenix Palace began fighting over an item.
Then, one of the Purple Phoenix Palace disciples killed his fellow disciple and then took a servant hostage, escaping Purple Phoenix Palace and disappearing without a trace.
While internal disputes among disciples were not permitted in any faction, they were certainly not uncommon.
However, the fact that this disciple killed his fellow disciple and then took an unrelated servant with him felt very strange.
Purple Phoenix Palace immediately launched an investigation into this disciple and the servant.
Soon, another worn-out sock was found in the room where the servant resided.
This worn-out sock still retained Xiao Fei's aura.
This proved that even if the servant was not Xiao Fei himself, he was definitely closely related to Xiao Fei.
And now, he had been taken away!
This filled the immortals of Purple Phoenix Palace with anger and indignation; their well-cooked duck had been snatched away.
This was an insult to their entire Purple Phoenix Palace.
"Find him! Even if you have to dig three feet into the ground, find the person for me!"
Even the Palace Master of Purple Phoenix Palace, who was in seclusion, could not help but emerge and issue an order.
The entire strength of Purple Phoenix Palace was mobilized, and soon, from various clues, it was deduced that the escaping disciple was likely an informant from the Heavenly Demon Palace.