There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

After hearing this, Yu Lian glanced at Wang Ping and asked in a low voice: "Are you saying that the appearance of the Misty Sea is related to Yao Xi? Is this possible? If he had such a level of cultivation, you would never have been able to defeat him in the first place."

Xuan Qing seemed to be stumped by this question, and seemed to be lost in thought. After more than ten breaths, he continued the topic and said, "Back then, I was ordered to do a lot of investigations, and the Taiyin Sect did the same. Later, we also speculated whether this matter might be related to Yao Xi, so we investigated along this line, and finally found that we were overthinking."

When he said this, he seemed to be hesitant to speak. Then he put down the teacup, looked at Wang Ping and said, "It seems that the rules of this starry sky made their own choice."

Wang Ping raised his eyebrows slightly. His "Sky Eye" really wanted to shine a light on Xuan Qing at this moment. Then he asked, "Are you saying that the rules of the starry sky have consciousness?"

"No, that's impossible!"

Xuan Qing responded affirmatively, and then said: "However, the rules themselves have cause and effect. Just like when space collapses, He will appear to repair it, and when we are promoted, the thunder method will be triggered, and so on. Attracting the fog sea to approach is also one of the rules, in order to supplement the spiritual rules of this world."

Wang Ping seemed to be thinking about it, and responded: "There is some truth to that."

He agreed, but remained skeptical.

Xuan Qing added: "This is just one of our guesses. As for the other guesses, I can't say more because it may affect your future judgment. You have to investigate it yourself."

Wang Ping nodded again, then picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. He couldn't help but wonder what Xuanqing's purpose was in looking for him at this time and telling him all this history.

Xuan Qing also picked up the teacup and drank the tea. After a brief silence, he continued, "Fellow Daoist, you should already know what happened later. Xuanmen rose because of this, and the spirituality of the starry sky became stable. High-level cultivators will no longer be polluted by the instability of their spirituality."

"Then, we besieged Yao Xi. The reason we found was that he used magic soldiers and divine arts to mobilize all the spirituality of the starry sky to drive the magic array he set up, in order to peek into the future and seek a solution to the predicament of this starry sky. As we all know, we succeeded..."

"The fact is that we jointly decided on the method by which Yao Xi could spy on the future. However, at the most critical moment, the five people from Xuanmen suddenly changed their minds and attacked Yao Xi with the excuse they just gave."

Yu Lian's eyes sparkled with intelligence, and she subconsciously replied, "They want Yao Xi to peek into the future!"

Xuan Qing remained silent and did not directly respond to Yu Lian's conjecture. After more than ten breaths of silence, he continued the previous topic: "Yao Xi may have already glimpsed his own demise and calmly fought with us, but because of the problem of deducing the future backlash Yuan Shen, he was defeated by our joint efforts."

"Later, his brother, Yu Xiao, the founder of your Qianmu Temple, used this answer to the future to instigate others, and he almost split Xuanmen. You should have known about this a long time ago, so I won't say more."

From Xuan Qing's tone at this moment, it can be heard that he is very reluctant to remember this past.

Wang Ping put down the teacup and lowered his head to adjust his sleeves to hide the slight change in his expression, while Xuanqing stared at the palace gate. Xuanqing's figure was imprinted in the vertical pupils of Yu Lian, with a look of a curious baby.

After a short silence, Xuan Qing continued, "At the beginning, only Bai Yan, Hou Ji, Bai Xin and Quan Wei were not involved in this matter. Moreover, Bai Yan and Yao Xi were good friends and could talk about anything. They had common topics, or in other words, Bai Yan firmly believed that Yao Xi could lead them out of this starry sky."

"As for the other three fellow Taoists, they are Yao Xi's loyal followers..."

Xuan Qing sighed, "After we besieged Yao Xi, Bai Yan withdrew from the Tianmen alliance and has not been involved in worldly affairs since then, but I know that he is secretly investigating all the five realms cultivators in this starry sky, focusing on the five from Xuanmen."

Seeing Xuan Qing stop narrating, Yu Lian couldn't help but ask, "Since you said Yao Xi saw his own destruction, didn't you take any measures?"

Xuan Qing met Yu Lian's eyes, "Perhaps he saw that only his death would give him a real future. If that's the case, I can't imagine what his state of mind was at the time."

Yu Lian was startled, and said seriously: "In your subconscious, is Yao Xi so magnanimous? He would rather die than risk a future for this starry sky?"

Xuan Qing was stunned by this question. He looked dazed for a moment, as if he was stuck in a dead loop of thought. When he recovered, he sighed heavily, "Although Senior Lingshan did this, the consequences will eventually fall on me." He did not avoid the mistakes he made back then, and then said, "Greed is indeed the biggest demon in the world!"

After that, he sighed again. After sighing, Xuan Qing looked at Wang Ping and said, "I am discussing this history with you because I want to tell you Bai Yan's purpose. He has always suspected that there are extraterritorial life forms among those who have been promoted to the fifth realm in Xuanmen. This is related to the legacy of the demon race. Daoist friend, you should have heard about it, right?"

Wang Ping nodded.

After Wang Ping nodded, Xuan Qing continued, "Bai Yan wants to use the extraterritorial life forms summoned by the rebels to deduce the problematic person in Xuanmen. To this end, he has been secretly setting up magic arrays in this starry sky for thousands of years."

He paused, then changed the subject and said, "This is just one possibility. Another possibility is that Yao Xi had already met with Bai Yan before being besieged, and everything Bai Yan is doing now is just to make reality conform to the future trend."

Wang Ping frowned slightly at Xuan Qing's final conclusion. Many thoughts suddenly emerged in his mind, but he suppressed them. When he looked at Xuan Qing, Xuan Qing was looking at him seriously. Then he heard Xuan Qing say, "I tell you this so that you can think more clearly when making a choice. As for what you choose, I have no right to interfere."

Xuanqing's way of handling things is much more comfortable than Tiangong's, at least it won't make people feel disgusted, but their purposes are the same.

Yu Lian sensed Wang Ping's thoughts, and Teng Yun landed on Wang Ping's shoulder and asked Xuan Qing: "What is your purpose? Is it just to be a good person?"

"Haha~"

Xuan Qing smiled when he heard this. "I haven't heard the word 'good person' for a long time. It seems that I haven't heard it since I started practicing." He said this in a joking tone, and then met Wang Ping's eyes waiting for an answer, and replied: "My goal is to eliminate the rebels as soon as possible while maintaining stability, so as to free up time to help me clean up the pollution in my body."

"To be more specific, I just want you to pay attention to Bai Yan's condition and stop him from doing anything wrong at the critical moment. Hatred can sometimes make a person extremely paranoid."

Wang Ping said without giving it much thought: "I will observe carefully before making a decision." He did not make any promises, and then asked in a low voice: "What if Fellow Daoist Bai Yan really finds that person?"

Xuan Qing smiled and said, "This starry sky needs him. We have no choice, unless you want to see how chaotic the starry sky becomes when spiritual asymmetry occurs."

The meeting ended here, and the next step was to chat and drink tea. Yu Lian took the opportunity to ask about some secret past events, such as where Yao Xi first practiced, who his master was, etc.

Every time Xuan Qing answered, Yu Lian took out a jade slip and recorded it carefully. She seemed to be very serious. She was probably preparing materials for her story.

After a cup of tea, Xuan Qing took out the chessboard to play chess again. Whenever Wang Ping played against him, the chess game would always be disrupted by a force, and the results of three games were all draws.

...

When Wang Ping left Yuqing Star, the Dengxiantai that had just landed could no longer feel the sun's rays. When returning to Jupiter's orbit, Yu Lian leaned on Wang Ping's shoulder and said, "Does Xuanqing also disagree with your layout on Jiewai Star? Is he in cahoots with Tiangong?"

Wang Ping responded with a smile: "He doesn't care about my layout on the outer planet. What he cares about is not letting the spirituality of the starry sky become chaotic. This will not be helpful for cleaning up the pollution in his body later."

Yu Lian tilted her head and thought for a while, then said, "In the past tens of thousands of years of history of this starry sky, no matter what happened, it was impossible to avoid Yao Xi's existence. If he hadn't fallen, what would this starry sky be like now?"

Wang Ping did not respond to Yu Lian's fantasy. It was meaningless, and with his current level of cultivation, it was not appropriate for him to think about these "ifs" that would never happen. After Yu Lian asked this question, he took Yu Lian back to the Jiuxuan Mountain Dojo.

When Yu Lian returned to Jiuxuan Mountain, she called the calico cat to her side, took out the jade slips that had been recorded previously, and slowly sorted them out.

Wang Ping returned to the stone bench in the courtyard and sat down, recalling the layout of the alien planet. Soon a bitter smile appeared on his face. Now he thought that Bai Yan had been following his layout at the beginning. Now that the game has come to this point, even if he gave up, Bai Yan would probably continue to move forward.

A quarter of an hour later.

Wang Ping stood up and walked to the spirit tree outside the courtyard and sat cross-legged. He carefully deduced again, and then the starry sky suddenly darkened, causing many people in the ecological zone to look up at the sky.

This is Wang Ping using the 'borrowed luck talisman'. He tried to use the luck of the starry sky to spy on the existence of other True Lords, but still failed.

"My cultivation is still not enough. However, as long as there are no problems in my future, I can put other things aside for the time being." Wang Ping muttered to himself to provide a convincing reason for his choice.

After saying that, he looked towards Yu Lian, who was using her spiritual energy to engrave something on a jade slip. A calico cat was lying beside her, staring intently at the contents of the jade slip, occasionally stretching out its paws to gesture.

A smile appeared on Wang Ping's face, and then he took out the communication token, and used his spiritual consciousness to close the communication device under Jiuxuan Mountain, formally responding to Bai Yan's previous proposal.

He agreed.

On the one hand, he wanted to continue trying to "steal the heavenly talisman" on the front line, and on the other hand, he wanted to see what choices the True Lords, the rebels, and the demon clan would make in this chaotic situation.

Bai Yan replied less than ten breaths after Wang Ping replied to the message, and he just replied with the word "OK".

Wang Ping did not reply. He first unsealed the communication device on Jiuxuan Mountain, then took out a jade slip and used the wood spirit energy to engrave some instructions for Ziluan and Que Cai on it.

Two battles will have to be fought on the front line, and the disciples of Taiyan Sect and Diku Sect must make some preparations in advance to avoid severe losses that would damage the foundation of the two sects' inheritance.

Half a month later.

Lieyang called another meeting.

All six True Lords of the Demon Clan were present at this meeting, but Tiangong and Bai Yan did not show up. After a brief discussion, the meeting reached a consensus to clean up the rebels from the outer planet.

Through this incident, Wang Ping also witnessed Tian Gong's stubbornness and old-fashionedness. Whether he nodded or not on the matter of the extraterrestrial world would not harm his interests, but he just disagreed. If Wang Ping was in Tian Gong's position, he would be very happy to do everyone a favor.

But none of this matters, as the meeting eventually reached a resolution.

Wang Ping continued his duties on the front line. The day after the meeting, he brought Yu Lian to the demon clan's Moon Base. This time he did not hide in the dark and watch, but personally sat in the base's high tower, inquiring about every detail concerning the front line, even down to the supply issues of each combat camp.

But it is just an inquiry and will not change the resolutions already reached in various war zones.

In the blink of an eye, it was spring in the 258th year of the Daogong calendar. On the morning of the first day of February, Wang Ping took over the battle reports from the front line in the past month from Zhu Wu and Zang Yi as he did every month. After reading them, he took out two battle reports that were worth recording and sent them back to the second seat file using a transfer array.

Zhu Wu saw Wang Ping put down the battle report in his hand, and quickly took out a jade slip, bowed to Wang Ping and said: "Everything on the front line is ready, plus the logistics support line we have established, we have the premise to fight a tough battle. Daoist Bai Xin has been inspecting various battle zones on the front line since the beginning of this year, and has formulated an offensive plan based on what he saw and heard. Please review it, Changqing Zhenjun."

These words were so fake that Zang Yi on the opposite side couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Wang Ping took the so-called attack plan, glanced at it casually with his soul and put it aside. The attack plan was not important. What was important was that Bai Xin was requesting to go into battle.

"This time, the siege of the outer planet is not about quantity, but about elite troops. My opinion is to leave the cultivators below the third realm in the war zone station and let them monitor the defense array constructed by the encirclement. Small and medium-sized flying boats don't need to join in the fun."

Wang Ping behaved very traditionally at this moment, doing things in a methodical manner and there was nothing to fault with him. This was also the real reason why the True Lords asked him to come to the front line.

Zhu Wu never opposed Wang Ping's ideas. When he was about to respond, the magic array engraved on the walls of the hall suddenly flashed a dazzling white light. This was because it detected strong energy fluctuations in the starry sky.

This command hall was renovated after Wang Ping moved in. First, there was a magic array that monitored energy fluctuations in various places on the front line, which was connected to the dense monitoring magic arrays in the starry sky; then there was an independent communication device on each side of the hall, one for receiving and the other for sending.

"What's the matter?"

Zhu Wu asked coldly.

A rat demon who was monitoring the core position of the magic circle stood up and responded, "It's the front line's 'Left 01' battle zone. Traces of energy impact were found, and there are a lot of them!"

Zhu Wu immediately explained to Wang Ping: "It is the battle zone between Linshui Prefecture and Taiyin Sect."

As he finished speaking, a Taiyan Second Realm cultivator in front of the communication device that received the message said loudly with a jade slip in his hand: "The message from the 'Left 01' war zone said that they have detected a loophole in the rebels' defense line. The two brigade commanders of the war zone have led the main force to try to attack."

Zhu Wu immediately scolded: "What nonsense? Do we need a main fleet to attempt an attack?"

First, he was worried that Wang Ping had some misunderstanding. Second, he had not received any intelligence in this regard in advance, which reminded him of the last time the Taiyan Sect's battle zone suddenly advanced. (End of this chapter)