Tianhai Fairy Journey

Chapter 1401 Old friends meet
In the azure sea.

A colossal peak, towering ten thousand feet high, stands majestically against the sky.

The giant peak was surrounded by flames, like a terrifying, raging inferno.

The intense heat of the flames shot straight into the sky, turning the entire sky crimson, and even the surrounding sea surface was covered with flowing flames.

Centered on the Blazing Flame Mountain, five spirit islands of varying sizes are scattered on the surrounding sea.

Even today, the waters around Five Flame Island remain the most prosperous place in this world.

On each island, a blue pillar of cloud soars into the sky, supporting a deep blue world that stands in distant view of the towering, blazing sun-kissed peak in the central region.

Beneath this towering, blazing mountain.

A crimson phantom rapidly passed through layers of restrictive formations, continuously approaching the endless earth fire veins beneath the sea.

The ever-surging torrents of crimson flames converged beneath the sea to form a true ocean of crimson flames, but the crimson phantom still rushed into the depths of the ocean of crimson flames as if it were nothing.

at the same time.

On the sea surrounding Five Flame Island.

Two streaks of light had already drifted down.

Upon reaching his destination, Li Minghua finally snapped out of his previous complicated thoughts.

Before he left, the third elder line of the Li family on Qinghu Island had already been wiped out.

Just as he suspected, there was a traitor in the family.

Ultimately, it was the Third Elder who betrayed him and secretly contacted the Li family's enemies to plot against him.

As for why the other party harbored resentment towards him, it was quite simple.

The eldest son of the Third Elder died at his hands.

"We were too soft-hearted towards our family members, which ultimately led to this disaster!"

Li Minghua sighed softly to himself.

Although he was ruthless and cruel to outsiders, he was always gentle and even accommodating to his own family members.

The reason he targeted the Third Elder's son was because the son had secretly colluded with external forces to steal the family's vital spiritual mine, which is why he decided to kill him.

However, in order to save face for the Third Elder, he never made that matter public.

Unexpectedly, the Third Elder still discovered his secret plot by accident, which is why he has always harbored resentment towards him and even went so far as to collude with foreign enemies to scheme against him.

As if he had thought of something, a sense of calm emerged in Li Minghua's heart.

"Just as my senior pointed out, obsession isn't always all bad!"

It was precisely because of his affection for his family that he always adhered to his principles and never devoured any of his family members' cultivation.

Looking at the young figure in green robes beside him, Li Minghua bowed deeply and said, "Senior, that area is now controlled by the sea race. Anyone who wants to enter must first purchase a token from the Blue Horn Sea Race tribe before they can enter."

Li Minghua bowed deeply in respect.

"Alright!"

Li Qing nodded slightly, and the surrounding aura rapidly changed, instantly transforming into the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

The opportunity of the Void Spirit Heavenly Flame was so significant, yet the Fire Melting True Monarch did not take it, which shows that the difficulty involved was extraordinary.

If they force their way in and are discovered by the sea creatures, and fail to obtain the Void Spirit Heavenly Flame, they will only attract the attention of the sea creatures' powerful members.

His current strength is not enough to disregard the entire sea race.

After all, the sea race was a force that could fight against the five top powers, including Fuling Island, all by itself, and its members were full of powerful individuals.

The two simultaneously descended towards the largest spirit island in the center of the sea.

Li Qing was naturally familiar with this spirit island.

This place used to be the residence of the Wang family, the leader of the Five Flames Island Alliance, but now it has changed hands.

The next moment, Li Qing couldn't help but look towards a spirit island in the distance.

That island had a close relationship with him; it was once the Qin family's residence, and his other identity in the Taiyuan Realm was that of an elder of the Qin family.

"I wonder if the Qin family is still in the Linnan Sea area!"

That young woman from the Qin family back then is now the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Demon Sect, an ancient and mysterious sect. With her status and position, protecting the Qin family is more than enough for her.

After a while.

Led by Li Minghua, the two passed through the bustling market and arrived at a magnificent blue palace.

"Reporting to Your Excellency, we two wish to travel to the Earth Fire Vein to collect spiritual items!"

Facing the Blue Horn Sea Clan members who were only at the mid-stage of the second tier, Li Minghua stepped forward with a 'respectful' expression and bowed, holding a storage bag full of spirit stones in his hand.

Within the endless fiery veins beneath the sea, a large number of fire-type spiritual creatures are often born.

This attracted many Foundation Establishment cultivators to its interior in search of treasures.

Of course, the sea race would not easily relinquish that treasure land to allow human cultivators to benefit. Every cultivator who enters needs to exchange a large amount of spirit stones for an entry qualification token.

"not enough!"

A haughty glint appeared in the eyes of the massive, mid-stage second-tier sea creature: 'The price for entry has increased; it now requires 15,000 low-grade spirit stones per stone!'

Upon hearing this, Li Minghua frowned immediately.

The price of these treasure-hunting qualification tokens has risen from several thousand low-grade spirit stones to a staggering 15,000 low-grade spirit stones per token.

It should be understood that even 10,000 low-grade spirit stones would be an enormous price to a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

"It must have been this sea creature that secretly extorted the cultivators to enter!"

Li Minghua forced a smile: "Sir, could you please make an exception? These 20,000 low-grade spirit stones are the limit we can offer!"

"Get out if you don't have spirit stones!"

Gao Dahai sneered, a hint of disdain in his eyes.

"What a waste! He doesn't even have a few spirit stones!"

Faced with such a contemptuous tone and expression, Li Minghua couldn't help but feel a surge of ferocity again.

"If I have the chance, I will definitely slaughter you beasts."

Considering his current situation, Li Minghua forcibly suppressed his anger.

It wasn't that he was reluctant to part with the spirit stones, but rather that he didn't have them.

The two tokens cost a whopping 30,000 low-grade spirit stones, a fortune that was enormous even for him, especially considering he had come in a hurry and hadn't made any prior preparations.

At this moment.

Standing behind, Li Qing waved his hand gently, and a high-grade spirit stone slowly flew out.

"High-quality spiritual stone!"

The enormous sea creature's eyes lit up, and it quickly put away the high-grade spirit stone, nodding in satisfaction: "This is a token!"

Two blue and red tokens fell simultaneously.

Inside the main hall, watching the two departing figures, a greedy glint appeared in the eyes of the large sea creature: "These two are probably quite wealthy, as they can easily produce a high-grade spirit stone."

"This is a good opportunity for those people to make their move."
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"Senior, many ruthless treasure hunters are lurking beneath these waters!"

As they sped along, Li Minghua cautiously said, "That high-grade spirit stone is very likely to attract the greed of that sea creature. They are in cahoots with those treasure hunters down there!"

He wasn't worried about danger, but rather about how this small matter might affect his senior's grand plan.

"I didn't expect these sea creatures to be so agile!"

Li Qing smiled gently.

With his current strength, spirit stones are almost meaningless to him; that high-grade spirit stone is the smallest unit of spirit stones he has.

"It's alright, let's continue."

And what happened next was exactly as Li Minghua had predicted.

The two had barely entered the endless fire vein below when several streaks of light surrounded them.

Under Li Minghua's cold, mocking gaze.

Before those streaks of light could even get close, their spiritual light suddenly dissipated, and they plunged straight into the sea of ​​fire, vanishing into nothingness.

"Please follow me, senior!"

After bowing, Li Minghua led Li Qingluo towards another corner of the raging ocean, passing through layers of fiery torrents.

Several giant peaks hidden deep within the sea of ​​fire emerged.

After the two landed on the ground of the giant fiery peak, Li Minghua took out the Five Flames Token from his body.

But then a beam of light flew out from the token and rushed down below.

call!call!
The once flowing torrent of flames instantly turned into a crimson mirror as if frozen in time, and a huge crack immediately appeared.

"It seems that this grand formation must have been created by that Fire Melting True Monarch!"

Li Qing's eyes flickered slightly.

Even he didn't immediately notice the hidden formation below, which shows how high the formation's level was.

"Senior please!"

After the two fell into the rift in the great formation, they instantly arrived in another crimson world.

As far as the eye could see, endless crimson radiance was like the Dao patterns of heaven and earth inlaid in every corner.

"Senior, my task is merely to patrol the outer perimeter and use the Five Flames Token to sense if there are any anomalies in the great formation. As for the situation inside the great formation, I know nothing at all."

Li Qing nodded.

"You can simply continue to wait outside this great formation!"

In an instant, strands of vast and mysterious blue light shone forth.

A look of horror flashed in Li Minghua's eyes.

Only at this moment did he truly realize just how terrifying this senior before him was.

Even though he was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, he had learned about the legendary Great Dao of Heaven and Earth from various ancient books.

At this moment, the blue light that kept flashing before him was like the legendary, eternal, and indestructible power of the Great Dao.

Each ray of light seemed to nurture the most mysterious power in the world.

At this moment.

The unimaginable blue light suddenly dimmed, becoming lifeless, as if it had never existed.

But when Li Minghua looked at that area, he felt as if he had fallen into an abyss from which he could not escape.

As the blue light slid deeper into the great formation, Li Minghua finally came to his senses.

"This senior, just what level of power does this senior possess?"

the other side.

The blue light silently transformed into a pool of water, continuously flowing through the array of restrictions interwoven with streaks of crimson light.

As Li Qing ventured deeper into the formation, he began to clearly sense its extraordinary nature.

The closer he got to the depths of the great formation, the more solidified the space inside became, and even he felt some resistance.

Passing through the entire formation silently would probably be quite difficult.

"Are we going to have to resort to force?"

He could directly break through the formation's restrictions head-on, but that would not only completely expose the area hiding the Void Spirit Heavenly Flame, but would also allow the Fire Melting True Monarch to sense it.

At this moment.

Li Qing suddenly looked in another direction.

But then they saw a crimson figure rapidly approaching.

"Fellow Daoist Wang Yan?"

"Who are you!"

The crimson phantom suddenly stopped, the light dissipated, revealing a young, handsome face with red hair and red eyebrows, bearing a slightly weathered air.

Wang Yan stared ahead in horror.

Within this grand formation personally set up by their master, the blue light seemed to have entered the core area of ​​the formation as if it were uninhabited.

"A powerful sea creature?"

Looking at the power that clearly belonged to the water element, Wang Yan subconsciously thought.

"How is that possible? The strongest sea creatures in this world are only ordinary fourth-tier sea creatures. Where did this late-stage fourth-tier sea creature powerhouse come from? And how did he discover this place?"

Wang Yan forcibly suppressed the horror in his heart, and a large array token radiating a vast and ancient pressure flew out from his body.

Just as he was about to subconsciously activate the great formation.

A familiar voice sounded in his ears.

"Brother Wang!"

Wang Yan's eyes widened instantly.

"That voice, that voice sounds so familiar!"

at the same time.

Under his gaze, the blue light gradually dissipated, and a young figure dressed in a simple Taoist robe slowly emerged.

"True Lord Qingxuan?"

"It's that Fellow Daoist Qingxuan, it really is him."

Gazing at the young face that was now fully revealed, memories from the depths of Wang Yan's mind surged forth instantly.

Even though he had witnessed firsthand the figure from the depths of his memory completely merge with the young man in the green robe in front of him, he still couldn't believe his eyes.

"How can this be?"

Wang Yan instinctively contradicted her own eyes.

"Fellow Daoist Qingxuan, are you a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator?"

"A late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator!!!"

The unimaginable shock left Wang Yan momentarily stunned.

"Brother Wang, it's been a long time!"

Li Qing smiled gently.

This encounter was also somewhat unexpected for him.

Although he knew that Li Minghua had a way to contact Wang Yan, he did not originally intend to meet with him immediately. After all, Wang Yan was definitely in charge of protecting the Void Spirit Heavenly Flame. If he met with him first and then tried to seize the Void Spirit Heavenly Flame, it would put Wang Yan in a difficult position.

But unexpectedly, we ended up meeting here again.

"Is it really Fellow Daoist Qingxuan?"

Wang Yan slowly came back to her senses, her eyes still filled with disbelief.

The last time the two met was when the Demonfall Space last opened, less than two hundred years ago.

When they first met, he was only at the peak of the late Golden Core stage.

One hundred and eighty years!

"Advanced from the peak of the late Golden Core stage to a late Nascent Soul stage expert in one hundred and eighty years?"

Such a thing, which almost defied the rules of heaven and earth, was something that even Wang Yan, who had already entered the Nascent Soul realm, could not accept for a while.

This is truly unbelievable.

the other side.

Seeing that Wang Yan was still in shock and unable to extricate himself, Li Qing took the initiative to speak and said with a smile, "Could it be that Brother Wang has forgotten me?"

"It was in this very place that we joined forces to slay the Spirit of Earth Fire."

As Li Qing's voice continued to fall.

Wang Yan finally regained some of her senses.

Although his heart was still in turmoil, this was an undeniable fact.

His old friend, with whom he grew up, has now become a powerful late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, high above all beings.

"Greetings, Qingxuan. Ancestor Qingxuan."

(End of this chapter)