Lingxiao Immortal Clan.

Immediately afterwards, he left Maple Leaf Valley and went to find the Grand Elder, Ice Marrow Daoist.

In addition, many core members and high-ranking members of the Yan Siyi family had already infiltrated the Qingxia Realm long ago.

Moreover, Ling Pengyun is not far from them now.

He intended to first find Yan Siyi and the others, and then return to his family afterwards.

Therefore, he pretended to tell the Grand Elder, the Ice Marrow Daoist, that he had recently encountered a bottleneck in his mental state and planned to travel around the Qingxia Realm to seek an opportunity for a breakthrough.

"Have you hit a mental plateau? That's troublesome and needs to be taken seriously."

"Moreover, since you came to my Ice Profound lineage from the Cold Spirit Minor Realm, you have been in seclusion and have not gone out to see other places in my Clear Cloud Realm, which is a shortcoming."

"It's good that you'd like to travel, young friend."

Upon learning this, the old Daoist Bing Sui's face immediately became more solemn. After thinking for a while, he agreed.

Reaching a mental bottleneck is neither particularly difficult nor easy; once it is touched, it can significantly impact cultivation and even slow down the cultivation speed.

Moreover, when encountering a bottleneck, it can easily increase the difficulty of breaking through.

Therefore, the Ice Marrow Old Daoist Lord attached great importance to this.

However, this mental bottleneck was just an excuse for Ling Pengyun.

He has a firm mind and his soul is protected by the Primordial Scripture, giving him a profound state of mind. He has hardly encountered any mental bottlenecks in his cultivation so far.

In addition, although the Ice Marrow Old Daoist knew that Ling Pengyun had not submitted to the Ice Profound lineage.

However, Ling Pengyun had signed a high-level Yuan Soul Contract with Bingxuan Tianjun ten years ago.

Moreover, a wisp of Ling Pengyun's soul remained in that Yuanhun Contract.

In addition, the Yuan Soul Contract has an extremely strong tracking ability.

He was no longer afraid that Ling Pengyun would take this opportunity to escape.

Furthermore, Ling Pengyun has earned a considerable amount of spirit crystals for the Bingxuan lineage in recent years thanks to his expertise in spiritual plants and weapon crafting.

Even if it escapes, it won't actually be a significant loss for the Bingxuan lineage.

However, the Ice Marrow Old Daoist had a particular concern.

"By the way, Elder Ling, my Qingxia Realm has many powerful individuals, and we often encounter Void Refinement cultivators. In addition, the conflicts of interest among the major branches of my Frost Immortal Sect are intensifying, and the cultivators under the command of these major branches are often fighting in secret."

"Therefore, I hope that Guest Minister Ling will be careful during his travels."

"Ice Marrow Old Daoist reminded me."

In addition, he also intended to use this incident to hone Ling Pengyun's ruthlessness.

Although Ling Pengyun is quite skilled in various arts, as a cultivator, he cannot only be skilled in various arts.

Furthermore, Ling Pengyun was, after all, just one of the core guest elders under the Bingxuan lineage.

Even if Ling Pengyun were to encounter an accident during this training, the Bingxuan lineage would not suffer any losses.

Conversely, if Ling Pengyun can improve through this experience, the Bingxuan lineage can gain some special benefits by relying on the Yuanhun contract signed with him in the early years. It is a sure-fire way to make money by risking their lives.

Of course, if Ling Pengyun were a core talent of the Bingxuan lineage, he would not easily agree to let him go out for training.

"Thank you for the reminder, Elder. I will be extra careful on this trip."

Ling Pengyun had learned about the situation in the Qingxia Realm long ago through Yan Siyi and others, as well as through forces such as the Chaoyue Immortal Sect. He had anticipated this, and his thoughts remained unchanged.

"That's good. Then I will wait for your safe return, Elder Ling, at the sect."

"Also, Ling Keqing, you can rest assured that I will do my best to cover up your trip."

Seeing that Ling Pengyun knew it was dangerous to go out, the old Daoist Bing Sui was not surprised. On the contrary, he appreciated him even more. Then he said...

"It's troublesome."

After expressing his gratitude, Ling Pengyun immediately concealed his aura and left the Bingxuan lineage.

In addition, although the territory of the Hunyuan lineage where Yan Siyi and others are located is quite special, the Hunyuan Immortal City, which the Hunyuan lineage established with the help of its base Hunyuan Mountain, is a well-known market for rogue cultivators in the entire Qingxia Realm.

Furthermore, the Bingxuan lineage also opened some shops there, traded with Hunyuan Immortal City, and established a good relationship with it early on.

Furthermore, the teleportation arrays of the two can communicate with each other.

However, Ling Pengyun considered that this matter could easily expose his relationship with Yan Siyi and others, thus causing unnecessary trouble.

He deliberately avoided using the sect's teleportation array to travel to the territory of the Hunyuan lineage.

Instead, he deliberately used the top-grade fifth-tier superior natal flying boat he had forged in his early years to travel.

Moreover, he would change his direction of travel from time to time during his journey.

In this way, even if Ice Profound Heavenly Venerable were to use the primordial soul contract he had authenticated with in his early years, he would only be able to know the location for a while, but would not be able to guess where Ling Pengyun was going.

In addition, Ling Pengyun's flying boat was, after all, a special natal spiritual treasure that he had refined in his early years based on his own inherent nature.

Indirectly, as he continuously mobilized his spiritual power to propel the flying boat, its speed increased.

The flying boat was even comparable to the travel speed of a veteran Nascent Soul cultivator at the peak of their cultivation, using escape techniques.

Moreover, it is more energy-efficient.

Therefore, his current travel speed is quite good.

Even if the Hunyuan lineage is far from the Frost Immortal Sect, it would probably take him less than half a year to reach the Hunyuan lineage.

Secondly, activating the flying boat doesn't require much mental effort.

Ling Pengyun then used the rest of his mind to sit cross-legged on the flying boat and cultivate his Dao.

However, he has a considerable amount of resources at his disposal.

For the time being, there was no difference between cultivating on the flying boat and cultivating with the Ice Profound lineage.

His cultivation level continued to increase rapidly.

……

at the same time.

Deep within the Frost Forest, the stronghold of the Frost Immortal Sect, lies the territory of the Ice Soul lineage, one of the four main lineages.

Inside a certain cave.

'Has the newly invited core disciple of the Ice Profound lineage left the sect?'

'This is indeed a good opportunity.'

The Ice Soul Heavenly Lord, who was cultivating here, sensed something, slowly opened his eyes, and looked in the direction Ling Pengyun had left with a sinister expression, muttering to himself.

Ice Soul Heavenly Lord is the master of the Ice Soul lineage. He entered the Void Refinement Realm eight or nine thousand years ago. His cultivation is extremely profound, and he is not far from the peak of the early stage of Void Refinement. His abilities are extremely powerful.

However, the lifespan of most people in the Refinement Void Realm is only around ten thousand years.

As time goes by, even if he takes some substances that extend his lifespan...

He gradually grew white hair and his back became hunched, making him look extremely old, and even exuding an aura of death, clearly indicating that his lifespan was nearing its end. In addition, the Ice Soul lineage to which he belonged was slightly different from the Ice Profound lineage, one of the newly promoted main lineages of Void Refinement.

The Ice Soul lineage has been established for tens of thousands of years, and in the last dozen or so generations, it has produced cultivators at the Void Refinement stage, thus accumulating a considerable foundation.

The Ice Soul lineage had already cultivated a sixth-grade low-level spiritual vein, as well as many ordinary fifth-grade spiritual veins, and its foundation had reached the level of an ordinary Void Refining main lineage.

Moreover, the lineage of this lineage is quite strong.

This lineage excels in the art of spiritual consciousness, possessing some special methods for tempering spiritual consciousness. Moreover, the lineage's meridian-suppressing technique, "Ice Soul Profound Art," is also beneficial in this regard.

Indirectly, most of the direct descendants of this lineage have relatively strong spiritual senses.

This lineage even possesses a special technique called "Ice Soul Frost Blade," which contains extreme freezing power and can also target the soul.

Once unleashed, ordinary cultivators are utterly unable to defend against it, and their souls are easily shattered by this move.

This type of vein is considered to have a rather ominous reputation.

However, the inheritance of spiritual consciousness is extremely complex, and not every cultivator can comprehend it; it requires special talent.

As a result, the direct descendants of the Ice Soul lineage have been few throughout the generations, sometimes only one-tenth of those of the main lineage of the Frost Immortal Sect.

Moreover, due to a lack of talented successors, the Ice Soul lineage has not produced any particularly strong Void Refinement cultivators in the present day.

Furthermore, with Ice Soul Heavenly Lord nearing the end of his lifespan, the Ice Soul lineage, a long-established main branch of the Frost Immortal Sect, is beginning to falter.

It even seemed to be suppressed by the newly emerging main lineage, the Bingxuan lineage, and other main lineages.

Moreover, in recent years, the Ice Profound Main Clan has developed rapidly, and most of the large amount of extra benefits it has received from the Frost Immortal Sect came from the Ice Soul Clan.

The other branches of the Frost Immortal Sect also received some benefits from it to varying degrees.

This incident has made the Ice Soul lineage increasingly vulnerable.

Even the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord has begun to worry about the lineage of his Ice Soul lineage. If things continue like this, the Ice Soul lineage will have little hope of using resources to forcibly cultivate a new Void Refinement successor.

In this way, after the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord passes away, the Ice Soul lineage will likely be completely exposed to the eyes of wolves like the Ice Profound lineage.

It's even possible that the sixth-grade low-level spiritual vein, which countless ancestors of the Ice Soul lineage have cultivated with tremendous effort, will be divided up by the other main lineages.

For this reason, the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord has been extremely hostile to the other main branches in recent years.

Of the other main branches, the newly emerged Ice Profound Branch is the easiest to deal with.

He had been intentionally trying to hinder the development of the Bingxuan lineage, and even attempted to kill the potential Void Refinement cultivators under its command, so as to prevent it from cultivating additional new Void Refinement cultivators.

Although this move goes against the overall development of the Frost Immortal Sect, it can at least give the Ice Soul lineage some breathing room, so the Ice Soul Old Heavenly Lord doesn't care too much about that.

It is precisely for this reason that, in the last thousand years, the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord has paid particular attention to the movements of those Void Refining talents of the Ice Profound lineage.

In addition, he was skilled in the Dao of Divine Sense and had a strong Divine Sense. Even though there were high-level formations to cover the Ice Profound lineage's base in the Ice Profound Mountains, they could not escape his detection.

He thus knew everything about the potential cultivators of the Ice Profound lineage.

He even knew that Ling Pengyun was a promising core guest elder whom the Ice Profound lineage had recently invited from the Cold Spirit Minor Realm.

He then harbored murderous intent towards him.

However, Ling Pengyun and the other promising talents of the Bingxuan lineage had spent most of their time in the sect.

Furthermore, given the large number of powerful figures in the sect, it was difficult for him to take action.

But things are different now that Ling Pengyun has left the sect and gone to the outside world.

Moreover, during this time, he sensed that the Ice Marrow Elder, the Great Elder of the Ice Profound lineage, was using special means to cover up the matter.

However, the Ice Marrow Old Daoist was only a Nascent Soul cultivator at the peak of his cultivation, and his methods could hardly compare to those of a Void Refinement expert like the Ice Soul Old Heavenly Lord.

The Ice Soul Heavenly Lord then witnessed Ling Pengyun's departure in detail.

Moreover, he could have carried out the assassination without anyone noticing, framing the Qingxia Realm's Intercepting Cultivators or Demonic Cultivators, etc.

Even if the sect intends to investigate, it's unlikely they can pin the blame on him.

However, he also understood that because he had done this before, the Ice Profound Heavenly Lord of the Ice Profound lineage was somewhat wary of this matter.

I've been paying close attention to his whereabouts lately.

If he were to personally take action, he would likely be stopped before even leaving the sect.

Therefore, after he discovered Ling Pengyun's movements, he immediately took out a communication treasure and contacted "Po Huan Daojun," a senior disciple who was stationed outside the city year-round to oversee the Ice Soul lineage's business.

This person has deeply inherited the true teachings of the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord, and his cultivation has long since reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

Moreover, he also used some special methods to cultivate his divine sense to the level of one or two tenths of the Void Refinement stage, making his divine sense extremely powerful.

In addition, he possesses some special divine sense techniques, making his abilities extremely extraordinary.

In the past, he had even forcefully killed one or two Nascent Soul cultivators at the peak of their Nascent Soul stage; ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators at the peak of their Nascent Soul stage were no match for him.

Most importantly, he was raised by the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord from a young age, and therefore he was extremely loyal to the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord and always regarded him as his master.

In fact, he had done a lot of dirty work for the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord in the past.

The Ice Soul Heavenly Lord trusted him quite a bit. In fact, if it weren't for his slightly inferior aptitude and the fact that he was five or six thousand years old and his lifespan was also nearing its end, the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord would have been willing to help him break through to the Void Refinement stage.

"Master, is there something you need from me?"

The face of the old Daoist Po Huan gradually appeared on the communication treasure mirror of the old Heavenly Lord Bing Po, and the old Daoist Po Huan asked with some doubt.

Ice Soul Heavenly Lord kept his story short and immediately revealed that Ling Pengyun, the newly promoted core guest elder of the Ice Profound lineage, had just left the sect, and intended to ask him to help intercept and kill Ling Pengyun.

"After this is done, I will give you credit. Also, I recently obtained three top-grade fifth-tier life-extending spiritual items, the White Yuan Spirit Peach. I have already consumed such a thing, and my body has developed a resistance to it. Even if I continue to consume it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to increase my lifespan."

"But as far as I know, you should not have taken such a thing. If you can accomplish this, the three spirit peaches will be yours."

Ice Soul Celestial Lord took out three white and tender spirit peaches and handed them to the phantom of Soul Illusion Celestial Lord, and briefly explained the reward system.

Although he was extremely ruthless, this was mainly due to conflicts of interest. In private, he was quite good to his own family members and would not let them do things for him for nothing.

The White Yuan Spirit Peach is of a high grade, which indirectly increases lifespan significantly. Each peach can even extend the lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator like Po Huan by nearly three hundred years.

Moreover, the maximum number that can be swallowed is three.

If you calculate carefully, you can expect a lifespan of nine hundred years.

This was extremely attractive to the old Daoist Po Huan, whose lifespan was nearing its end.

In addition, he was already very obedient to the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord and was extremely grateful for the support he had received in his cultivation over the years.

Moreover, according to the description of the Ice Soul Heavenly Lord, Ling Pengyun is, after all, a newly promoted Nascent Soul cultivator from a small place like the Cold Spirit Realm. He has only been at the Nascent Soul stage for a few hundred years, and his strongest abilities are in spiritual plants and weapon crafting. He is still a novice and is probably easier to deal with.

Furthermore, he is quite wealthy, and killing him would be an extra way to make money, making it a highly profitable business.

He immediately agreed to the matter.

"Master, please rest assured, even without those three spirit peaches, I will definitely do whatever you ask."

The old Daoist Po Huan's expression hardened, his eyes turned extremely cold, and a murderous intent emanated from him. He immediately made a guarantee. (End of this chapter)