I am a late bloomer in the world of cultivating immortals

A moist, turbid breath, subtly carrying the fragrance of orchids, wafted towards me.

As he gazed at the stunningly beautiful face that drew ever closer, Wei Tu's heart stirred slightly. He reached out and brushed aside the long, flowing black hair that hung before him, and instinctively lifted Su Xin Shangren's delicate, boneless yet rather voluptuous body into his arms.

The two were moved by each other.

After a long while, their lips parted, and Wei Tu, his expression unchanged, looked at the blushing Su Xin Shangren and advised:

“Master, your virginity is not yet broken, can you still regret it... You know how cold-blooded I am.”

"I will protect the Qingling Sect. But there's more I can't give you. Nor can I give the Qingling Sect."

They gather because of profit, and they part because of profit.

At this moment, although the reasons for Su Xin Shangren's sacrifice and Xue Qiongyu's sacrifice for him were the same... his support for Su Xin Shangren was destined to be inferior to that for Xue Qiongyu.

— Xue Qiongyu's kindness to him may not be greater than that of Su Xin Shangren, but this woman is someone he can completely control 'one of his own'.

In essence, raising this girl is no different from raising a spirit pet like the 'Bloodwing Mo'.

As for Master Suxin, the first benefactor he encountered after his ascension, out of 'respect', it was impossible for him to restrict his freedom.

It is because of this 'respect' that he will not easily accept the woman's offer of herself.

"I have already given the answer to Your Majesty. Why should Your Majesty ask any more questions now?"

Master Suxin took a few deep breaths and replied gently.

The implication.

It means... only for the sake of a beautiful woman, without any official status.

"Besides... my primordial yin as a female cultivator at the Void Refinement stage is not as precious as Elder Wei thinks."

She sighed quietly.

However, after she finished speaking, she suddenly realized that even now, Wei Tu was still calling her "Shigu" (a term of endearment for a female disciple), instead of the more intimate term she had imagined.

"Is it because of a night of pleasure that you are unwilling to change this old name, or is it..." Su Xin Shangren's heart stirred slightly, and she couldn't help but think more.

However, before she could think about it more deeply, Wei Tu's response came down on her like a sudden storm.

A moment later, the lights in the bedchamber went out abruptly, and the restrictions within rose high in that instant, blocking the burgeoning spring light inside.

……

"The two of them...did they get together?"

Inside Qingyang Valley, Master Rongjing gazed at the distant palace, his expression a mixture of joy and regret.

Although Master Suxin didn't say it, with his sharp eyes as an old cultivator, how could he not see that the two of them were merely nominally Daoist partners, but in reality, they were not.

Even their relationship wasn't as close as they appeared to be.

However, seeing all this, he couldn't stop it.

The fate of the entire Qingling Sect rests on the shoulders of Venerable Suxin.

"In these chaotic times, it is always better to have a strong protector than to be preyed upon and die a violent death."

He sighed softly and shook his head secretly.

however--

Compared to Master Rongjing's sigh of regret, Lady Hai, who was resting in a guest room in Qingyang Valley, felt a little jealous and resentful upon seeing this scene.

You should know that when she was in Nanming Market, she tried to become Wei Tu's concubine but failed!
Conversely, Su Xin Shangren, a minor cultivator at the Refinement stage whose cultivation level was lower than hers, easily managed to latch onto Wei Tu's coattails at this moment.

"That's Wei Tu!"

"The greatest prodigy of the modern human race, a true master of the Fusion Realm!"

She twisted her dress, biting her lip as she spoke.

……

Wei Tu, inside the bedchamber, was unaware of the thoughts of Lady Hai, Venerable Rongjing, and others.

a few days later.

Having enjoyed a night of pleasure, he did not linger in the embrace of his lover. After using an array to re-imprison Lady Hai and the Fire-Haired Daoist, he vanished in a flash, leaving Qingyang Valley and returning to the Divine Fire Immortal Realm.

Following his old memories, he once again arrived in Qingzhou, a region under the jurisdiction of the Divine Fire Immortal Realm.

However, although he had returned to the old place, it was still quite a difficult task for him to survey and accurately locate the spatial node that connected to the 'human world'.

"Fortunately, I obtained this rare treasure when I was in the human realm." Wei Tu flipped his palm, and a round bead, like a star stone, instantly appeared in his palm.

This treasure is none other than the Nine-Element Flying Star Pearl, a rare treasure he obtained by chance when he was in the human realm.

Although this treasure is not of a high grade, it has the effect of penetrating the void and locking onto secret realms.

Naturally, it also has certain ingenious uses in finding 'spatial nodes'.

"go with!"

The next moment, urged by Wei Tu, the Nine Yuan Flying Star Pearl suddenly flew out from his palm, spewing out rosy light and shining on the void in front of him.

In an instant, countless spatial nodes, each the size of a mustard seed, appeared meticulously before Wei Tu.

Some of these spatial nodes connect to a certain place in the Spirit Realm, while others connect to auxiliary interfaces of the Spirit Realm similar to the Human Realm... and still others connect to higher planes of the same level as the Spirit Realm, such as the Zichen Realm and the Shimoyuan Realm.

This is why there is a saying in space teleportation: "A slight difference can lead to a huge error."

If you choose the wrong spatial node and get lost in a different place on the same screen, you're lucky. More often than not, you'll be killed by the 'spatial storm' that comes after the spatial node.

Therefore, in the spirit realm, only those at the Integration Realm or above dare to tear through space and teleport.

Even so, some unlucky souls, after enduring the "spatial storm" with their "rule domain," still meet their demise at the wrong teleportation point.

Several years ago, Wei Tu was teleported from the Zi Chen Realm to the Spirit Realm and almost faced a similar 'death calamity'... If he hadn't already mastered Lin Tianqi's soul memories, he would have had a hard time getting past the Zi Chen Realm survivors alone.

"Fortunately, the spatial node connecting to the human realm was the path I took to ascend. Otherwise, faced with so many spatial nodes, I wouldn't have had a choice..."

Wei Tu closed his eyes slightly, using his divine sense to carefully sense the billions of spatial nodes in front of him, searching for the one he was most familiar with.

One day.

Two days...

Time passes slowly.

Until the thirteenth day.

Wei Tu finally found the 'spatial node' that connected the human and spiritual realms when he ascended to the spirit realm a thousand years ago.

However, not long after he flew in.

Half an hour later, he withdrew from it with a grim expression.

same moment.

The several storage bags hanging from his waist shattered instantly with a series of teeth-grinding 'crack' sounds.

A large pile of colorful spiritual objects suddenly appeared from the void as the storage bags shattered, falling to the ground one by one and piling up into a small mountain.

"Unexpectedly, it's not just that it's difficult to carry spatial artifacts when ascending from the human realm to the spirit realm, but even when traveling from the spirit realm to the human realm... it's difficult to carry any spatial artifacts."

Wei Tu frowned and glanced at the other storage artifacts besides these few storage bags.

These storage artifacts also suffered varying degrees of damage due to the spatial pressure of the 'space passage' between the two realms.

It's just that it wasn't damaged as badly as these storage bags, which completely collapsed.

"Indeed, if the passage between these two realms were truly so easy to cross, and if people from the upper realm could so easily cross over... the ascension of the entire Nanhua Sect would not have become such a rare and extraordinary event in the human world."

“Back then, when Jiang Lingzi faced Pei Hong, he wasn’t so ‘struggling.’ Not only did he lack spiritual treasures, but he also needed the help of a Nascent Soul cultivator from the human realm.”

After a moment's thought, Wei Tu's expression gradually softened.

Clearly, this 'predicament' is not unique to him; even the Spirit Realm humans who rule the human world do not have the ability to easily travel to the human world with spatial artifacts.

He still remembered that the spiritual item that Jiang Lingzi gave him and the Golden Silkworm Snow Maiden to help them break through their cultivation levels was the meat of a fifth-order demon beast that he had hunted in the human realm in his early years, rather than the spiritual pill that he carried with him when he descended from the spirit realm.

"Besides spatial artifacts, it's not so easy for cultivators from the upper realms to travel to the human realm. Otherwise, the Human Ancestor Palace wouldn't have only sent Jiang Lingzi back to the human realm back then..."

"Or rather—the human realm is the least resistant to native cultivators who ascend to immortality."

Wei Tu looked thoughtful as he meticulously examined the details of when Jiang Lingzi descended to the mortal realm.

"In that case..."

Thinking of this, Wei Tu stroked his chin and subconsciously glanced at the Qiankun bag at his waist.

Without hesitation, he flicked his sleeves to collect the spiritual object in front of him and instantly arrived at a nearby desolate valley.

A moment later, in the newly opened cave in the valley, Wei Tu weighed the Qiankun bag tied to his waist again, a hint of hesitation on his face.

"Although this woman and I are allies, facing the bounty on our heads together... if I leave for too long, who knows if she might develop ulterior motives..."

"It is not advisable to take risks in this matter."

Wei Tu narrowed his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and then put down the Qiankun bag instead of opening it directly.

After hesitating and thinking for a while...

Wei Tu seemed to have thought of something, and patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, releasing the Sky-Splitting Eagle.

"Screech." The Sky-Splitting Eagle spread its wings and flew out of the spirit beast pouch. It circled in the air for a moment before affectionately landing on Wei Tu's shoulder, nuzzling him with its head.

"You are still the most loyal to me."

Seeing this, Wei Tu smiled slightly and touched the head of the Sky-Splitting Eagle.

This eagle has been with him ever since he killed the Blood Demon when he was in the Qi Refining Realm.

Although he betrayed him once in the 'Cloud Marsh Secret Realm', that was shortly after he captured the eagle, and it was not yet familiar with him... After more than two thousand years of getting along, both he and the Sky-Splitting Eagle are the most trusted partners.

Back then, this was also largely due to the fact that the Sky-Splitting Eagle followed a beast-like path and had "low intelligence".

If it were as intelligent as the Bloodwinged Demon, even if it accompanied him throughout his growth, he would not easily trust it.

Loyalty, intelligence, and high strength—in the cultivation world, this is an impossible triangle.

"You stay here and watch over my possessions... If any enemies discover this place, wake up the Bloodwinged Demon and the beautiful female cultivator inside the Qiankun Bag in time..."

Wei Tu removed the spatial magical artifacts from his waist, such as the Qiankun Bag, the Spirit Beast Bag, and the Corpse-Nourishing Bag, and placed them one by one in front of the Rift Sky Eagle, then earnestly gave them instructions.

He had set up a sixth-grade high-level formation to conceal this place, making it extremely difficult for any Nascent Soul cultivator to discover this 'secret location' unless they intentionally sought it out.

Within the Divine Fire Immortal Realm, even within the Divine Fire Temple, there are very few Nascent Soul cultivators...

This means that as long as nothing major happens in the Divine Fire Immortal Realm, and he doesn't suffer any extreme misfortune, this place will never be discovered by anyone.

Even if, as he feared, foreign races invaded the Divine Fire Immortal Realm because of the Iron-Headed Monk's 'death,' this place would not be able to detect it in a short period of time.

In addition, with the addition of Bloodwing Mo and Xue Qiongyu, two experts at the peak of the Void Refinement stage, as long as the Integration stage powerhouses do not appear, this place is safe and sound.

Of course, what changes might occur after the Sky-Splitting Eagle awakens the man and his pet at that time is beyond his knowledge.

However, thanks to his consistent caution, with Bloodwing Mo and Snow Feather as his only pets, even if they 'betrayed' him, the impact on this powerful being at the Fusion Realm would be negligible.

At least, neither the person nor the pet will know that he has a new identity within the Feathered Dragon Clan of the Spirit Realm.

"Screech." The Sky-Splitting Eagle nodded its head and, without the slightest hesitation, opened its beak and swallowed the storage artifacts in front of it one by one.

Then, just as Wei Tu had instructed, it flapped its wings and flew to the core of the cave's hidden array, stood on the array flag, and pretended to doze off with a slightly wary expression.

At this moment, Wei Tu was not in a hurry to leave the cave. He looked at the few spiritual treasures left in front of him after careful selection, and began to seal the two spiritual treasures in front of him into his own body according to the blood refining and sealing method.

These two magical treasures.

These are none other than the [Demon Dragon Scissors] obtained after slaying the Golden Cloud Demon Lord, and the Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure—the [Longevity Immortal Lamp]—obtained from the Dinghai Immortal Ruins.

It is also the most precious treasure he possesses besides the Five Elements Demon-Slaying Ring.

And the [Five Elements Demon-Slaying Ring]...

His return to the human realm and his deliberate detour were precisely to guard against Fairy Xuanling. How could he possibly possess this 'relic' given to him by this woman?

Admittedly, he did not see any hidden tricks within the [Five Elements Demon-Slaying Ring].

But... the methods of immortals are different from those of mortals, and who knows if they will exceed his imagination.

The two realms of Integration and Mahayana seem to differ by only one realm. However, the latter is revered as an immortal.

Even if he is greedy for treasure, he knows what is more important and what can be discarded.

a few days later.

The two magical treasures were then sealed on Wei Tu's arms, becoming like tattoos, tightly integrated with Wei Tu's physical body.

The remaining [Boundary Stone], the talisman formed from the Mahayana power of the Purple Dragon Lord...

He no longer sealed it into his physical body, but instead put it directly into his sleeve and carried it with him.

Because the latter two are, respectively, spatial treasures within the cultivation world and condensed Mahayana magical power... even if the laws of the human world have an impact on them, it won't be too significant.

After doing all this.

Next, Wei Tu wasted no more time. He immediately soared into the air and arrived near the 'space node' leading to the human world, where he flew directly inside.

"Indeed! The will of heaven and earth in the human realm will repel cultivators from other realms... This power is at least at the peak of the Integration stage..."

Several days later, Wei Tu, inside the spatial passage, immediately sensed a powerful repulsive force the moment he came into contact with the spatial barrier of the human realm.

"Fortunately, this danger was detected in time. Otherwise, even if Xue Qiongyu could enter the human realm, she would have had a hard time getting out."

Protecting himself with the laws of the Five Elements, Wei Tu gradually entered the human realm, and he secretly rejoiced.

It was at this moment that he suddenly understood why the cultivators from the upper realm chose the lower realm, the human realm, to seal the innate ancient demon.

There's no other reason than that, for cultivators from the outside world, a lower realm like the human realm is naturally a huge 'forbidden array' or 'trapping array'.

It constantly uses the power of heaven and earth to suppress and wear down the magical power and rule power of the cultivators in the upper realm.

Before entering, it exerts a tremendous repulsive force on cultivators from the outside world. Once inside, this repulsive force instantly transforms into a binding force, strictly prohibiting cultivators from escaping.

In other words, the prison that confined that innate ancient demon was not only the four medicine gardens left behind by the Nanhua Sect, but also the entire human realm!

As a native cultivator of the human realm, his resistance and binding power in this regard has been weakened considerably.

"Furthermore, the talisman given to me by Lord Zichi is also helping me, to some extent, resist the power of heaven and earth from the human realm, preventing me from being completely bound by it..."

Wei Tu stroked the pale gold token in his hand, pondering to himself. (End of Chapter)