Immortal weapon refiner

Chapter 1130 Farewell
Hearing this "senior brother," Li Qing couldn't help but feel deeply moved. The things they had experienced together in the lower realm back then surged into his mind like a wave of memories.

As past scenes flashed before his eyes, Li Qing couldn't help but sigh softly, "Junior Sister, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting all these years."

At this moment, a wisp of Li Qing's divine sense probed into Shen Ningbing's sea of ​​consciousness, and he was able to see her blurry yet delicate light blue primordial spirit form.

Sensing all this, Shen Ningbing could no longer suppress her longing and embraced a wisp of Li Qing's divine consciousness within her sea of ​​consciousness.
"Senior brother, I knew you would come to the Upper Realm."

"The path to ascension is incredibly long. Even with the guidance of the Yin-Yang Spirit Seal, it still requires magical power to activate. Although I was lucky enough not to encounter any void turbulence, I still exhausted all my magical power and spirit stones in the void before I was even halfway there. Even the spiritual herbs and pills on my body were all used up."

"Without any other choice, I had to use a forbidden secret technique from my cultivation method, sacrificing my body to turn into ice crystals in exchange for more mana recovery."

“I thought I would be lost in the boundless void and never see you again, but just as my physical body turned into seventy percent of ice crystals, I finally descended into the spirit world.”

"But it was too late. The trend of my physical body transforming into an ice crystal body was completely irreversible. Even the elders of the Yin-Yang Sect were helpless. Later, I was brought here by the elders of the Ice Spirit Clan and have been sleeping here ever since."

Having personally experienced the path to ascension, Li Qing naturally understood just how desperate Shen Ningbing's journey had been. If it were an ordinary cultivator, their mind would probably have collapsed long ago. After finally crossing the long path to ascension and reaching the Spirit Realm, she ultimately ended up being turned into an ice sculpture.

At this point, Shen Ningbing's gentle primordial spirit trembled, and she sobbed, "My primordial spirit did not perish along with it, so I can still use the secret method to become an Ice Spirit Clan member and save my life, but my master will never come back."

Her master, Ancestor Bingyun, had been completely turned into an ice sculpture when she descended to the mortal realm. Over the years, her soul had long since withered away, and even the Great Ascension Ancestor of the Ice Spirit Clan could not save her.

Now, the ice sculpture that the Ice Ancestor has transformed into is buried in this cold abyss. Perhaps in the long future, this ice sculpture will also transform into the Ice Spirit Clan, but it will have no connection with the former Ice Ancestor.

Li Qing gently soothed Shen Ningbing's spirit with his divine sense, and said gently, "Everything will be alright. You don't need to be too sad. I think Senior Bingyun wouldn't want to see you so sad for her."

"Yes, senior brother, a thousand years from now I will be completely transformed into an Ice Spirit in the Cold Abyss. When that time comes, will you take me with you?" Shen Ningbing said hopefully.

Li Qing readily agreed, saying, "Don't worry, a thousand years from now I will personally protect you and take you away from this place."

"As for the Ice Spirit Clan's form, you don't need to worry too much. We'll always find a way to solve it."

And so, their spirits nestled together and chatted for a long time. Shen Ningbing listened attentively to Li Qing's experiences over the years. Whenever she heard that Li Qing was in danger, her fragile spirit would tremble uncontrollably, feeling worried for Li Qing.

She knew that Li Qing was always cautious and acted very prudently, yet he had still gone through so many dangers. It must have been incredibly difficult for him to get to this point.

After a long time, Shen Ningbing's primordial spirit began to tremble slightly, which was a sign of instability. If she did not go into a deep sleep to nurture it, it might disintegrate.

Li Qing immediately saw through the situation and said softly, "I should go now, Junior Sister. I will come back to take you away a thousand years from now."

"Senior brother." Shen Ningbing was somewhat reluctant to part, but she gradually let go of his hand, allowing Li Qing's divine sense to leave her sea of ​​consciousness.

"Sleep peacefully. A thousand years won't be too long. When you wake up, I promise the first person you'll see will be me," Li Qing said confidently.

"Okay, I'll wait for your senior brother!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Ningbing's soul fell into a deep sleep again. She still needed to adapt to this body that was gradually evolving into an Ice Spirit Clan member. If she woke up frequently, it might affect her future foundation.

Before long, a wisp of Li Qing's divine sense returned to his body. He slowly opened his eyes and nodded at the delicate and graceful ice sculpture in front of him.

Afterwards, he walked to another area of ​​the Cold Abyss, where there were many strange piles of broken ice. In a corner, a similar human-shaped ice sculpture leaned against the ice wall and remained still.

Li Qing bowed respectfully to the ice sculpture formed by the Ice Ancestor, saying, "Senior Ice Ancestor, Junior Sister Shen is doing well. Please rest assured, I will take good care of her."

After doing all this, he left the Cold Abyss with the Ice Flower Ancestor.

He did not linger in the Ice Spirit Clan's icy wonderland. After a brief farewell, he left the Ice Spirit Clan's territory directly.

Meanwhile, the Ice Flower Ancestor returned to her secluded glacier where she was in deep meditation. The other Ice Spirit Clan ancestors all sent divine thoughts: "Ice Flower, this human Mahayana cultivator hasn't done anything else improper, has he?"

"You've followed him all the way; what do you think of him?"

After pondering for a moment, the Ice Flower Ancestor said, "There was no overstepping of boundaries. This newly promoted Mahayana cultivator seems to value relationships very much. He had a deep friendship with the successor chosen by Brother Han Ye."

Upon hearing this, Han Songzi said, "In that case, we can use this relationship to win him over. This Wuji Heavenly Venerable is very powerful. He has such combat strength even though he has just entered the Mahayana stage. If nothing unexpected happens in the future, I'm afraid there will be few beings in the entire Spirit Realm who can match him."

The Cold Stone Ancestor also spoke with lingering fear: "It is indeed best not to offend such a person if possible. A human race Heavenly Venerable who is about to become invincible in this era, the human race is about to rise."

In response, the Ice Flower Ancestor nodded in agreement, saying, "That's right. Anyway, that human woman is about to become a member of my clan, so she won't refuse my brother's inheritance. With this relationship, it's a good way to get closer to her."

And so, the ancestors of the Ice Spirit Clan once again sealed themselves within the snow-capped mountains and glaciers, falling into a deep slumber.

After leaving the Ice Spirit Clan, Li Qing looked up at the distant sky. His gaze seemed to be able to see through all the secrets of the world. At this moment, the illusory secrets of heaven appeared in his pupils.

Beings in the Mahayana stage can try to understand the secrets of heaven, be able to foresee some possible changes in the future, or directly deduce the way of heaven and perceive the changes in the heavenly order.

This time, he directly used supreme methods to deduce the Dao, and the entire Dao of the Spirit Realm swept across his eyes like a stream of light.

After a long while, the light of the Great Dao in Li Qing's pupils gradually faded, but his brows furrowed.

Having found his long-lost junior sister Shen, Li Qing naturally planned to find other old acquaintances from the Lingyun Sect in the lower realm.

He was just trying to deduce the fate of the Lingyun Sect members. If they had ascended to the Spirit Realm, Li Qing would have noticed the change in destiny. But he hadn't been able to deduce anything; he gained nothing!
This made Li Qing feel vaguely uneasy, since he had left opportunities for the others in the Lingyun Sect to ascend to immortality.

"It seems I need to find some time to break through the barrier of the interface and try to return to the lower realm in my Dao body. However, the Spirit Realm and the Demon Realm are now connected, and the interface barrier is extremely thick, making it extremely difficult to break through a passage."

"We can only try it when this war between the two worlds is over."

Li Qing sighed, then his figure transformed into a silver streak of light and began to travel throughout the entire Tianyuan Continent.

Afterwards, he visited several tribes, including the Barbarian Bone Tribe, the Golden Crow Tribe, the Beast Tribe, and the Tooth Tribe, and received extremely high honors and hospitality.

Finally, he visited the territory of the Fire Spirit Clan. He vaguely sensed a familiar aura within the flame space, but it quickly disappeared. If he hadn't been so perceptive, he would have thought it was an illusion.

"It has some of the aura of the spirit fire of heaven and earth, but that's normal. It would be strange if there were no spirit fire of heaven and earth in the territory of the Fire Spirit Clan." After leaving, Li Qing did not delve into it further and left with several Mahayana ancestors of the Fire Spirit Clan personally seeing him off.

Thus, the name of the Human Race's Limitless Celestial Venerable was completely imprinted in the hearts of the Mahayana stage experts of all races, making them aware of this extremely powerful Human Race Mahayana cultivator.

As for the remaining Zerg and Three-Eyed Saints, Li Qing had no intention of paying them any visits. He merely glanced at the approximate locations of these two races before returning to the human territory to take charge.

Upon returning to the Dao Palace, the first thing Li Qing did was issue a secret mission, asking the cultivators in the Dao Palace to help him find his old acquaintances from the Lingyun Sect in the lower realm.

However, he didn't have high hopes, since even he himself hadn't been able to deduce their secrets, so they were probably no longer in the spirit world.

As for the human cultivation world today, it has entered a long-awaited period of post-war peace. All the demons within its territory have been eliminated, and the demonic flame trees that polluted the earth have been uprooted and sent back to the passage connecting the two worlds.

Perhaps because Li Qing crossed over to the Demon Realm some time ago and severely injured the Cangyuan Saint Ancestor, the passage between the two realms in the human territory has become completely calm during this period, and no more demons have crossed over.

This is naturally the best thing ever. After experiencing such a brutal war, everyone understands the preciousness of peace.

However, the battlefield between the two realms still exists, and every human cultivator deeply understands that whether the war can be completely ended depends on the outcome of that battlefield.

The reason they were able to enjoy this hard-won period of peace ahead of time was because the Supreme Celestial Venerable was stationed in the Dao Palace, and even the creatures of the Demon Realm dared not invade again.

After returning to the human race, Li Qing did not rush to begin seclusion and cultivation. Instead, he took out a high-level spiritual vein from the treasure cave and moved it to the territory of the former Refining Heaven Pavilion.

With this high-level spiritual vein plundered from the Ghost Horn Clan, the Refining Heaven Pavilion once again had a foundation for reconstruction, and these tasks fell to the Dao Palace cultivators and Refining Heaven Pavilion disciples.

After doing all this, Li Qing returned to the Wuji Cave Heaven. He took out another high-level spiritual vein and transferred it to the cave, making the spiritual energy of the Wuji Cave Heaven much richer.

Li Qing left the last two spiritual veins, which he had plundered from the Ghost Horn Clan, untouched. Instead, he placed them inside his portable cave world, which, with these two spiritual veins, could become an excellent place for cultivation in the future.

Over the years, the treasure of the cave has developed into more and more like a complete world, lacking only some common laws of heaven and earth.

However, Li Qing was not in a hurry to perfect his cave world. He slowly took off the dark purple jade cauldron hanging from his ear and chuckled, "Fellow Daoist Yu Ji, now that I have advanced to the Mahayana stage, I can help you break through the spirit body and reshape your human body!"

Is there anything else you need to prepare?

Soon, the jade cauldron spun once and returned to its normal size. The spirit of the cauldron, Yu Ji, stood barefoot on its edge, looking at Li Qing and smiling as she said:

"First of all, congratulations on advancing to the Mahayana stage! It's really not easy for you. I thought you wouldn't make it through this stage."

"As for breaking the spirit body, that's not urgent. Let me prepare some more."

Li Qing wasn't too surprised. He chuckled self-deprecatingly and said, "It seems Fellow Daoist Yu Ji trusts that one more."

The one mentioned here is naturally the Demon Lord's will that suddenly awakened once before. After advancing to the Mahayana stage, Li Qing discovered that the fragments of the Demon Lord's memories in his sea of ​​consciousness began to actively combine with him.

Even if he doesn't actively look through them, he knows all these memories related to the Demon Lord quite well.

He inevitably saw the new memories left behind after the Demon Lord's sudden and brief resurgence.

The illusory figure of Jade Spirit Lord shook its head and said, "You misunderstand. I trust both you and him to help me break through the spirit body of the artifact. It's just that I don't want to leave any karma behind. Wait until you and that person have a complete settlement before you come to do my thing."

"Kid, good luck."

After saying this, the illusory image of Jade Spirit Venerable disappeared into the jade cauldron again, and soon returned to the hair by Li Qing's ear, falling silent once more.

"The successor of the Demon Lord," Li Qing murmured, a sense of unease still lingering in his heart.

He knew that this feeling of unease came from the sleeping will of the Demon Lord in his sea of ​​consciousness.

He originally thought that after he advanced to the Mahayana stage, the Demon Lord's will would immediately resurface, take over his body, and become the dominant force in his consciousness.

But in the end, this did not happen, but his unease grew stronger over time.

Now, within his sea of ​​consciousness, even though he seems to resist, he has gained many memory fragments that do not belong to him, all of which come from that Demon Lord.

He understood that this time bomb had now truly entered its countdown to explosion!
(End of this chapter)