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Lieyang's visit to Jupiter this time was not as high-profile as in the past. He first came to the edge of Jupiter's orbit through a public transfer array, and then was led by a nearby puppet into the Ascension Platform outside Jupiter.

Wang Ping was waiting for him on the Dengxian Terrace, but Lieyang did not chat with him this time, nor did he even plan to come to Jiuxuan Mountain to drink a cup of tea. He landed on the Dengxian Terrace and stretched out his hand to set up an isolation array, and asked Wang Ping: "What exactly are you planning to do in the outer constellation?"

Wang Ping looked up at the fiery red rune lines, then pretended to be puzzled and said, "Does this matter? I have given up my original plan."

Lieyang frowned slightly, then took two steps to the side, exhaled, looked at Jupiter and said: "We should trust each other more. Even if we don't trust each other, we should inform each other before doing anything."

Wang Ping thought for a moment and said, "I have already told you and fellow Taoist Tiangong about my original plan. I really want to use the 'Heaven Stealing Talisman' to define the high-level star gods of the outer world, so as to deduce the subsequent exercises of the 'Tai Yan Talisman'. If the outer world thing is not feasible, I can also try it slowly."

He was half-truthful.

Lieyang turned to look at Wang Ping, met his gaze and asked, "You can continue with your plan. If what you said is true, I will stand on your side."

There was a second part to this sentence, but he didn't say it.

Lieyang didn't plan to continue pestering her because he found that Wang Ping was too cautious to tell him the whole truth. He was already satisfied with the answer.

Wang Ping cupped his hands and asked, "What do you mean, fellow Taoist?"

Lieyang said: "The demon tribe is our important ally. Protecting their interests is also protecting our interests. Since things cannot be stopped, we have to control it. Do you understand?"

Wang Ping did not play dumb this time and gave a clear response: "I will go to the Monster Star Station immediately."

Lieyang shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I have to go to the front line and talk to Bai Xin and Hou Ji in person. They always think things are too simple sometimes."

After he finished speaking, he seemed to add, "Daoyou Tiangong won't support us, but he won't object either, so we have one less person to deal with the rebels from the outer space. But it's harmless. He has always been like this, always so cautious, afraid that his consciousness will be polluted."

Wang Ping nodded to show that he understood.

Lieyang then removed the isolation magic circle and said, "This is what happened. I will go to the front line first. You wait for my news and we will talk about it later. The only thing you need to do now is to control the disciples of Taiyan Sect and prevent them from following the demon cultivators and causing trouble."

After he finished speaking, he flew towards the nearest public transfer array.

After Lieyang left, Yu Lian said to Wang Ping, "This guy has suddenly become so cautious that he even uses the transfer array we set up to travel quickly."

Wang Ping responded: "He has always been cautious, as can be seen from the burning of Zhongzhou that year, and he doesn't trust many people."

After he finished speaking, he took Yu Lian back to the Jiuxuan Mountain Dojo. After adjusting his thoughts, he sat cross-legged under the spiritual tree outside the courtyard and opened his "Heavenly Eye" to deduce the secrets of heaven.

Xinghai appeared shortly after he entered into meditation, gazing at the magic runes slowly floating in the sky of Jupiter. Yulian, who was guarding Wang Ping, teased the calico cat with her tail while looking at Xinghai and said, "Did you sense anything?"

"The chaotic aura from the outer region is beating, but it only lasts for a moment. The rules of this starry sky are very powerful. They should not be able to escape the constraints of the rules and can only integrate into the rules."

After answering, Xinghai disappeared from the spot.

Yu Lian looked at Wang Ping and saw a golden light flash in his "Heavenly Eyes". She felt the change in his mood and knew that Wang Ping heard these words and turned around to continue playing with the calico cat.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. Wang Ping woke up from his meditation. Yu Lian asked habitually, "How is it?"

Wang Ping said with a hint of regret: "I can only deduce myself. Most of the scenes I saw were successful, but a small part was a failure. The failure was due to the intervention of the Dragon Lord. There are too many related characters in other timelines. It will take decades to sort them out, but we don't have time now."

"Will the Dragon King intervene?" Yu Lian asked.

"It's a low probability event, and as long as Lieyang and Bai Yan are not stupid, they will most likely communicate with Dragon King in advance and make certain promises." Wang Ping responded.

As he spoke, he drew a chessboard in front of him, and then started playing chess by himself.

Soon, Yu Lian and the calico cat both lay beside the chessboard and watched. Yu Lian was observing the chessboard because of Wang Ping's thoughts, while the calico cat had developed a habit of many years. When Zuo Xuan took her with him in the past, she also liked to play chess alone. At that time, she also lay beside and stared like she was doing now.

"Why is this game of chess so messed up?" Yu Lian couldn't help but ask.

"He is like our layout on the outer planet. I originally thought that my opponent would be simple, but in fact, it is a mess."

The game could not continue in the middle because it was too chaotic.

As for Wang Ping's real chess game, he had to keep going no matter what. He stared at the chaotic chessboard, thinking for a long time before placing a move. Then he saw the chessboard slowly become neat.

But when the game was about to be decided, Wang Ping flicked his sleeves to separate the black and white pieces, and began to deduce the next game. Yu Lian soon closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep, while the calico cat became more and more energetic, leaning against Wang Ping's side and concentrating on the movement of the chessboard.

Wang Ping stopped in the middle of the third game. He sensed energy fluctuations coming from a communication token. He reached out his hand to touch the calico cat's head, but she dodged him. So he smiled and took out the communication token to check, and found that it was a communication token from within the Taiyan Sect.

It’s a message from Ziluan.

The content of the message surprised Wang Ping.

It was Taoist Huai Mo who used the codeword he had used to communicate with Zi Luan in the past to pass on a message to Zi Luan, announcing that True Lord Xuan Qing wanted to invite Wang Ping to a gathering on Yu Qing Star.

After Wang Ping finished reading, he laughed heartily for a long time, waking up the sleeping Yu Lian. She stared at Wang Ping for a while, and when Wang Ping stopped laughing, she asked, "What's so happy?"

"Xuan Qing suddenly invited me to his dojo for a small gathering. What do you think he has planned?" "I don't know. I don't have a deep impression of him."

"That's the point. I can't imagine what he's going to do."

"Go check it out? Is there any danger?"

"It's not dangerous."

Wang Ping suddenly wanted to know what Xuan Qing wanted to say to him. He slowly stood up, glanced at the calico cat next to him who was envious of the chessboard, and did not put away the chessboard. After calling Yu Lian, he moved to the Dengxiantai in outer space.

With the activation of the transfer space, a familiar feeling of weightlessness came over him. In an instant, he passed through the endless starry sky according to the rules set up by the wood spirit and arrived at the public transfer array outside Yuqing Star.

Without Wang Ping releasing his aura, the monitoring array set up by Xuan Qing detected his arrival immediately. Then the starry sky in Wang Ping's sight changed rapidly, and Xuan Qing's voice rang in his ears: "Don't worry, fellow Daoist."

Even so, a 'Jia Fu' still appeared in Wang Ping's hand, and his eyes were fixed on the rapidly changing starry sky.

I saw that the starry sky seemed to be stirred by an invisible hand. The outer space that was originally shrouded in black and white light gradually became colorful, and then turned into a hazy glow.

Then, I saw a stretch of green mountains with undulating hills and clouds lingering in between, like a painting outlined in light ink. At the foot of the mountain, a winding jade belt gradually became clear, reflecting the colorful clouds flowing in the sky.

The void beneath Wang Ping's feet also began to change. The hard metal of the Ascension Platform silently turned into soft cloud soil. Verdant spiritual grass broke through the soil and spread into a velvet carpet in the blink of an eye. It was dotted with star-like white flowers that trembled in the wind.

The sky overhead gradually grew warmer, and the pale stars turned into soft golden light, sprinkling across this fairyland and coating everything in a light warm color. Occasionally, the shadows of spiritual birds flew across the clouds, leaving behind a string of clear cries that echoed between the mountains and rivers.

This is the Jade Purity Sect's Golden Elixir rule, which pulled Wang Ping directly from outer space into the fairyland constructed inside the Jade Purity Star. When Wang Ping finished beating the scenery in front of him, the shadow of part of Xuanqing's soul also fell in front of Wang Ping.

"I hope you are well, fellow Daoist." Xuanqing's spirit shadow bowed politely.

"Fellow Daoist Xuanqing." Wang Ping greeted him more politely and quietly dispersed the 'Armor Talisman' in his hand.

"Please come this way, fellow Daoist. I have had nothing to do in the past hundred years, so I have cultivated many tea trees. I just picked a batch of new tea some time ago. Fellow Daoist, please evaluate it carefully." Xuan Qing made the invitation.

Since Wang Ping had already come here, he would definitely not refuse. He rode the auspicious cloud and followed Xuanqing's soul to the top of the highest peak of the mountains, landed in front of the palace on the top of the mountain, and followed Xuanqing into the palace. The interior of the palace was still very empty, with only a coffee table in the middle and a futon on each side of the coffee table.

Xuanqing was sitting on one side of the coffee table. The part of his soul that led the way returned to Xuanqing's body after entering the hall. Then Xuanqing stood up and pointed to the seat opposite him and invited him, "Fellow Daoist, please sit here."

Wang Ping bowed politely, walked up quickly and sat down. Yu Lian, who was wrapped around his arm, climbed onto his shoulder and lay down, looking around the empty hall.

"Tea please."

Xuan Qing first poured Wang Ping a cup of tea that had been brewed in advance, and immediately a refreshing fragrance came to his face.

Wang Ping picked up the teacup and took a sip, praising it: "Good tea, with a light fragrance but an endless aftertaste."

Yu Lian stretched her neck and asked, "What kind of aftertaste is it?"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Qing immediately took out another teacup and said with a smile while making tea, "Fellow Daoist Yu Lian, please forgive me, I didn't notice you."

Yu Lian happily flew to the side.

Half a cup of tea passed in a flash. Wang Ping and Xuan Qing were chatting during this time, and the topic focused on some trivial matters on the front line.

Perhaps it was Xuanqing's intentional guidance, and somehow, the topic of their conversation turned to the affairs of the demon clan, and Xuanqing's tone gradually became formal.

"According to my deep memory, the main responsibility of the Yuqing Sect and the Taiyin Sect is to monitor the demon race. A long time ago, both of our sects were committed to weakening the power of the demon race and keeping them in a controllable state to the greatest extent possible."

Xuanqing stared at the palace gate and spoke slowly, his tone as if he was telling a myth, causing Yulian beside him to unconsciously concentrate.

"Later, the universe was suddenly destroyed. After a brief battle with the demon race, we decided to work together. Not long after, the first person in this starry sky who reached the fifth realm was born. He was the ancestor of my Yuqing Sect. His memory was passed down from generation to generation and eventually fell into my hands."

When Wang Ping heard this, he had an urge to use his "Heavenly Eye" to shine a light on Xuan Qing, but it was just an urge, and he forcibly suppressed it as soon as it came out.

Xuan Qing continued, "I remember clearly that the civilization we built at that time extended to the border of the starry sky, and the flying boat could reach every corner of the starry sky at any time. Then, after a long discussion and preparation with the demon tribe, we decided to go out of this starry sky and see what happened in the universe outside."

"Hundreds of fourth-level demon cultivators used their own flesh and blood as the foundation, gathered the five elements of yin and yang in this starry sky, and finally created a small passage on the surface of the starry sky barrier. The first batch of cultivators who were selected couldn't wait to enter the passage. We agreed to open the passage again in the same place in five hundred years..."

"However, what we waited for five hundred years later was a surge of extraterritorial monsters and a powerful extraterritorial consciousness. At that time, there were no five True Lords of Xuanmen, let alone Xuanmen cultivators. The spirituality of this starry sky was very unstable. In just a moment, most of the cultivators near the starry sky barrier were polluted and their spirituality was disturbed."

"This pollution lasted for a very long time, and soon spread to the civilized world we built. In the end, we did not defeat the pollution. It was the rules of the starry sky that slowly assimilated it, and we could only hide in the barrier of Zhongzhou Star to survive."

"As time goes by, those who come after us will always forget the lessons of the past. We cannot say that those who come after us will always be unwilling to give in, or they will just do it to find something to do. Therefore, history has been repeating itself over billions of years, and the short period of time during which humanity has risen seems insignificant in the long history of this starry sky."

"As time went by, the demon race finally gave birth to the fifth realm. However, as recorded in the Yuqing Sect's archives, very few of them cultivated their minds. As a result, many of them lost themselves in the long river of history due to the erosion of time. We had to continue to monitor them, but at that time, we were powerless to do so."

"Later, we had no choice but to train a large number of humane monks and send them to the border of the starry sky to clean up the wandering monsters from outside the region. At the same time, we supported them in waging war against the demon tribe to maintain the internal division of the demon tribe. This was the only way to barely maintain a balance."

"Everything was fine, but suddenly a demon king appeared. He was just like you. He stood beside us before we noticed him. Fortunately, he was very wise and listened to the opinions of the majority. We thought the future would change, but the foggy sea appeared without any warning..." (End of this chapter)