Tianhai Fairy Journey

Chapter 1566 Return, Emerging from Seclusion

Luoyun Sea Area.

The sea area of ​​the Yansha volcano group.

Between the gray sea and the heavens and earth, filled with the vast and endless fiery and scorching power.

Vast islands dot the landscape, almost every one of which is filled with majestic volcanoes. Every moment, ancient volcanoes reawaken, sending torrents of scorching lava soaring into the sky, causing a deafening roar.

At the same time that the upheaval in the Southern Region was rapidly sweeping across the entire Southern Moon Sea.

The vast red ocean deep within the Yansha volcano group suddenly erupted violently.

The once relatively calm surface of the Endless Fiery Current began to be churned with towering waves.

call!call!
A continuous stream of crimson flames shot into the sky, enveloping the surrounding islands, while in the depths of the sea below, it seemed as if an invisible hand was stirring up the entire world.

Deep within a fissure beneath the sea, endless silver cracks are etched into the mottled red rock.

At this moment, the broken spatial silver patterns began to shine brightly, the surrounding space began to distort violently, and a vast spatial power poured out from the unknown void. The imprinted spatial silver patterns seemed to revive, and the silver patterns at the broken points began to grow automatically.

On the crimson rock, large sections of broken silver patterns were repaired under the nurturing power of the vast space, revealing the shape of a silver nest.

At this moment, the entire silver nest began to erupt in full force, with even more vast spatial power continuously pouring into it. Countless tiny silver feather spatial imprints condensed and wove together, completely transforming the original pattern into a true silver feather spatial nest. The ancient and boundless spatial power surged even more intensely.

laugh!laugh!
The next moment, a thick black claw tore out from the depths of the Silver Feather Space Nest, and the entire space was annihilated. An even more vast spatial power poured out from the depths of the crack.

"I have said it before, I will return one day!"

Accompanied by a loud, arrogant laugh, a crimson phantom over a hundred feet tall forcibly burst out of the shattered space.

A vast and ancient oppressive force swept across the heavens and earth.

It was a colossal crimson avian demon king, with countless fine crimson feathers interwoven on its massive wings, resembling the most solid armor in the world.

A pair of even larger, black claws were particularly striking, with ancient silver patterns etched into them, causing the surrounding space to distort.
"It has been nearly three hundred years since I 'voluntarily' left back then. I wonder if that damned human cultivator is still alive!"

Thinking back to the disheveled state he was in when he left, Lie Jiutian sneered inwardly: "Back then, I had only recently awakened, and even the bloodline within me had not been fully refined, which gave that person an opportunity to take advantage of me!"

"And now, in less than three hundred years, I have reached the late stage of the fourth tier, becoming a supreme and esteemed power."

Even so, the image of that young man in the green robe from back then still couldn't help but surface in its mind.

"That damned human cultivator's skills are quite impressive. Although he can't compare to me, whose bloodline is noble, he should still be alive. This time, I will severely injure and imprison him, making him a slave to me for life, cleaning my cave."

"In such a short time, I wonder if that damned human cultivator has reached the peak of the mid-Nascent Soul stage. Once he sees me in person, he'll probably beg for mercy on his knees."

Thinking of this, Lie Jiutian couldn't help but let out another arrogant laugh.

Upon its return, it is determined to wash away the shame of that year.

But when its gaze fell upon the desolate cracks in the ground around it, it couldn't help but curse again.

"Damn human cultivators!"

"This is where I was born, and my entire stronghold is gone."

In an instant, Lie Jiutian spread its wings and soared into the sky, arriving in the gray, fiery sea outside.

"Compared to that desolate sea, this place is much more suitable for my cultivation!"

Sensing the vast and violent fiery energy emanating from the heavens and earth, Lie Jiutian grinned, his demonic eyes revealing a hint of arrogance and confidence: "From now on, this entire world belongs to me."

"With my current strength, even the ancient sects within the human race cannot do anything to me!"

As a descendant of the pure sacred beast, the Sky-Splitting Sparrow, it naturally has ample confidence. With its noble bloodline talent, how could those demon kings and human cultivators of the same realm outside compare to it?

Back in another desolate sea, it easily killed a powerful demon king who had been chasing it before it had even advanced in rank, thanks to its strong bloodline talent.

"Moreover, I am proficient in the Dao of Space. What can those late-stage Nascent Soul stage experts of the human race do to me!"

After a while.

Lie Jiutian quickly made new arrangements.

"Don't forget your roots when you're causing trouble. You should rebuild your lair in the very place where I was born!"

"Rebuild the Sky-Splitting Demon Palace to serve me. As for merely inquiring about that human cultivator from back then, it's naturally unnecessary for me to personally intervene."
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Deep within the forbidden area of ​​the Thousand Waters Spirit Sect.

Standing tall and majestic, the summit of Lingfeng Mountain exudes grandeur and vastness.

A young figure in a green robe sat quietly cross-legged.

An endless, deep blue light emanated from it, illuminating the heavens and earth, like a floating deep ocean radiating a vast and profound pressure.

I don't know how much time passed.

The calm, seemingly still, deep blue ocean of light began to gradually ripple.

In the central region, endless blue light rapidly condensed, resembling a deep, dark abyss, its depths unknown and unfathomable. Its interior seemed capable of containing the entire world, with endless blue patterns interwoven within. The perfect Dao of Water slowly emerged from the outer corner, where wisps of pure, milky-white light rippled. Instantly, the entire area transformed into a divine lake, radiating a holy aura that purified all things in heaven and earth. The Dao of Water Purification revealed a golden radiance, and another area transformed into a noble, ruling golden ocean. The Dao of Water Control—a pale blue spiritual domain brimming with boundless vitality—also rapidly took shape.

Looking down from above.

The original deep blue color has transformed into a vast ocean, and its aura has changed drastically.

Centered on the perfect Dao of the Abyss of Water, six vast oceans of spiritual power, each possessing immense pressure, guard the four directions, like a supreme treasure of the water system forged by heaven and earth, each radiating the power and energy of a different water system Dao.

The next moment, the seven branches of the water system's power within the entire blue ocean erupted simultaneously, each transforming into a beam of light that shot into the sky.

Whoosh!Whoosh!
The ever-surging, turbulent spiritual light of the Water Dao corroded everything, like a deadly poison to heaven and earth. Among them, a milky-white, holy spiritual light was the largest, shooting straight up as if to pierce through heaven and earth.

Just then, the final, perfected radiance of the Water Abyss Dao erupted, distorting the space in the area it passed through, and the world suddenly darkened, even swallowing up all the bright light in the surrounding world.

The seven beams of light, each exuding immense pressure, seemed poised to burst open the entire world, unleashing an unprecedented and overwhelming force.

The strength of each ray of light reflected Li Qing's current level of understanding of the seven branches of the Water Element Great Dao. Apart from the already perfected Water Abyss Dao, the milky-white spiritual light representing the Water Purification Dao was the most dazzling.

With the blessing of that drop of innate spiritual water from the Pure Spirit Holy Water, even though Li Qing did not focus on comprehending the Dao of Water Purification, his mastery of it far surpassed that of the other branches of the Water-based Great Dao.

At the summit of Lingfeng, the young figure in a green robe, who was sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes.

call!call!
A gentle breeze swept across the heavens and earth, and the seven rays of light that had been suppressing the heavens and earth automatically dissipated. All the power transformed back into torrents that flew back and returned to Li Qing's body.

"Finally, I've hit the bottleneck for promotion!"

Li Qing slowly rose to his feet, stood atop the peak of the spirit mountain, and looked down, taking in the vast expanse of natural scenery.

During his more than forty years of seclusion, he devoted himself to comprehending the Dao of Water, which was nearing perfection. Now, his hard work has finally paid off, and he has pushed the Dao of Water to its infinite perfection.

Once he senses a suitable opportunity for advancement, he can directly choose to break through, thereby completely perfecting his cultivation and reaching the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage.

It has taken him more than two hundred years since he entered the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

To be honest, the speed at which his cultivation improved was beyond his expectations.

On the surface, the breakthrough from the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm to the peak of the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm appears to be just a small breakthrough, but in reality, it is not. The prerequisite for entering the peak of the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm is to cultivate another branch of the Great Dao to perfection, and the difficulties and obstacles involved are beyond imagination.

After entering the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, all living beings in the world become stronger due to the suppression of the rules of heaven and earth. Any slight improvement is extremely difficult. Even with various opportunities in heaven and earth and extraordinary talent for cultivation, it normally takes a long time to achieve this.

This is also one of the fundamental reasons why the vast majority of Nascent Soul stage experts are trapped.

An individual's lifespan will eventually come to an end.

Most late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators have already spent countless years perfecting a branch of the Great Dao, leaving them with insufficient lifespan to even glimpse the peak of the late-stage Nascent Soul realm.

This is the cruelty of time.

Looking across the vast ocean world, powerful beings at the late Nascent Soul stage are already high above, ruling over their respective sea areas. Powerful beings at the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage are even rarer. In fact, many top forces with powerful cultivators at the Great Master level do not have any powerful beings at the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage.

This demonstrates the difficulty of reaching the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage.

"If I didn't possess the Zhenhai Pearl, which allows me to receive the blessings that come from its evolution, it would probably take me much longer to reach the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage!"

This is also the source of Li Qing's greatest confidence.

The Zhenhai Pearl brought him not only a simple boost in combat power, but more importantly, a faster pace of cultivation.

For example, when he had just advanced to the late Nascent Soul stage, while powerful cultivators outside were still consolidating their foundations, Li Qing had already rapidly deepened his understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth by relying on the feedback from the Zhenhai Pearl.

"They've come at just the right time!"

An amusement flickered in Li Qing's eyes.

If not for the sudden summons, he intended to continue his seclusion until he fully entered the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage.

“Fellow Daoist Baili Luo comes from a sacred clan of array formations in the Xuan Yi Realm, and is highly regarded by the entire family. Normally, it would be impossible for him to summon me to solve a problem.”

"It's highly likely related to the talks from back then."

When he bid farewell to Baili Luo, he left him with several special blood seals. If he encountered trouble or discovered a great opportunity in the water system, he could break one of them and summon him to go there.

Not long ago, that fellow Daoist Baili Luo had already voluntarily shattered one of the blood seals.

"Although Fellow Daoist Baili himself lives in a remote corner, cultivating in the Yuanhuang Domain, the family behind him is the most terrifying ancient family in the entire Xuannan Continent. They can easily grasp the situation of the entire Xuannan Continent. It seems that he has discovered a remarkable opportunity in the Dao of Water!"

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Li Qing's lips.

He seems to have reached a critical juncture for promotion, but the opportunity for promotion is not fixed. It may appear at any moment, or it may appear decades later. Continuing to seclude himself is no longer of much significance.

This is a perfect opportunity to travel to the Xuan Nan Continent and complete the final advancement.

Furthermore, for him, whether he gets promoted or not will not affect his participation in the upcoming competition for opportunities.

Looking across this world, before a great cultivator emerges, there are very few who can pose a threat to him.

The next moment, a token quickly appeared in his hand.

In an instant, news of various changes in the world during the decades he had been in seclusion quickly surfaced in his mind.

"It seems the unsealing of heaven and earth is about to be accelerated!"

Upon reading the detailed record of the tremendous changes in the cultivation world of the Southern Region, which was overseen by the Duanyang Sect of the Southern Moon Sea, a strange light flashed in Li Qing's eyes.

The sudden collapse of heaven and earth in the southern region is not unusual; as the world continues to unseal itself, such strange phenomena will gradually become the norm.

What truly surprised him was Duan Yangzong's actions.

"To actually seal off the drastically changed Zi Fu Sect's base so firmly, expending such great effort, could it be that the Duan Yang Sect has discovered some kind of opportunity?"

Li Qing immediately made new arrangements.

The Daoyuan Chamber of Commerce was instructed to establish a permanent base near that sea area to continue observing the actions of the Duanyang Sect.

"The alien race from beyond the boundary has reappeared in the Inner Star Sea. The sect that was stationed in the Su Yuan Sea area has been slaughtered by a mysterious powerful figure."

The Daoyuan Chamber of Commerce, which has expanded into the Inner Star Sea, also constantly transmits news and changes in the Inner Star Sea.

After sorting through all the information, Li Qing's expression returned to calm.

With his current strength, ordinary opportunities are no longer of interest to him.

Of course, he couldn't personally handle everything and investigate whether there were hidden opportunities behind the news of the great changes in various places; he only needed to keep a firm grasp on the general trend of the world.

For example, even though he knew that Duanyang Sect might discover new opportunities, he didn't care about Duanyang Sect's actions.

If Duan Yangzong could secretly digest that opportunity on his own, it meant that the opportunity wasn't worth his personal visit.

"Yang'er does have a long-term vision; she actually wants to arrange for the half-demon clan to make contact with the Golden Demon Kingdom, while the cultivators integrate into the cultivation world of the Eastern Sea, thus benefiting from both sides."