Qinghe Immortal Clan.

Despite the somewhat surprised looks on her face, Bai Yuxian remained remarkably calm, seemingly unconcerned.

Such a performance was somewhat unexpected for Song Qingming, and he couldn't help but fall silent.

After a moment of thought, a smile slowly appeared on his face.

".

"Ziyang Heavenly Palace" is a place of inheritance.

With a flash of inspiration, two figures appeared in the hall.

"Is this the place of inheritance left behind by the senior who created the Heavenly Palace, as Sister Bai mentioned?"

After glancing around, Long Ziyun couldn't help but cautiously ask a question.

Song Qingming nodded slightly, then raised his hand and took out several high-grade spirit stones from his body.

The spirit stones flew towards several stone platforms around the hall, and a high-level spirit-gathering array immediately appeared in the center of the hall, causing the surrounding spiritual energy to flow rapidly.

After activating the magic array, Song Qingming turned to look at Long Ziyun beside him.

"This magic array was left behind by Senior Ziyang, and it has a certain auxiliary effect on cultivators who practice the Ziyang Divine Light Technique."

"Go inside and try circulating your magic power to sense the primordial energy of heaven and earth. I'll help you gather your own primordial energy."

Having said that, Song Qingming pointed to the center of the array in front of him, then turned around and sat down cross-legged on the other side.

Seeing this, Long Ziyun also turned around and entered the spirit gathering array, then looked up at Song Qingming, who was meditating with his eyes closed in the distance.

"Senior Song, is this alright?"

"Calm your mind and carefully contemplate the meaning!"

"The primordial energy of heaven and earth is born from the origin of heaven and earth, and flows with the vitality of all things..."

As Song Qingming uttered words in the distance, Long Ziyun seemed to have many insights into cultivation, which quickly calmed her mind and allowed her to carefully experience the changes in the surrounding spiritual energy.

".

Time flies, and thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, a figure suddenly appeared out of thin air in front of a main hall of the "Ziyang Heavenly Palace".

The person took out a talisman from their person and cast a spell to send it away.

Not long after, a spiritual light flickered in the main hall, and an ordinary-looking man in a green robe walked out.

"Huh! Seventh Brother, why are you alone? Has Fellow Daoist Long already gone back?"

"She has already grasped the essence of heaven and earth, so naturally she doesn't need to stay here. Why are you suddenly asking this? Did you come looking for her?"

"Oh! I thought you really kept her."

Although Long Ziyun cultivated the "Purple Sun Divine Light Technique," her cultivation level was far inferior to that of Bai Yuxian back then.

Even with the magic array of the Heavenly Palace's inheritance site and the personal guidance and assistance of Song Qingming, the Nascent Soul Ancestor, it still took nearly twenty years for him to successfully comprehend the "Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi".

Although it took her quite a while, she still managed to get through this hurdle, and Long Ziyun was very happy when she left "Ziyang Heavenly Palace".

After seeing Long Ziyun off, Song Qingming was just about to adjust his state and prepare for seclusion when Song Qingyu suddenly came to his door again.

At this moment, Song Qingming's cultivation train of thought had been interrupted several times by the people beside him, and his face showed slight displeasure.

"Stop with the nonsense. Instead of focusing on your cultivation, what brings you here? Speak up!"

"Seventh Brother! You've wronged me. It wasn't me who came to see you this time, but Sister Xia who wants to discuss something with you."

She's just a little unwell right now, that's why she asked me to run this errand!

"Fellow Daoist Xia, what did she want to discuss with me? Didn't she tell you?"

Upon hearing that it was Xia Mo who sent Song Qingyu to find him, Song Qingming's expression immediately turned serious, and he asked her another question.

Seeing this, Song Qingyu quickly shook her head and said, "Sister Xia didn't tell me, she just told me to come here to find you."

However, she also instructed that we shouldn't let Senior Sister Li and the others know yet. "I suspect it might be related to your cultivation techniques!"

After finishing her sentence, Song Qingyu glanced meaningfully at Song Qingming beside her, only to see a cold glint flash in his eyes.

"If you don't know, just say you don't know. Why are you making wild guesses?"

"I was clearly trying to give you a reasonable analysis, how did that become random guessing!"

"Hey, Seventh Brother, wait a minute!"

Before Song Qingyu could finish speaking, Song Qingming had already vanished from the spot in a flash of light.

Compared to Song Qingming, who could already move freely in the gale, Song Qingyu's cultivation was only at the half-step Nascent Soul realm, and her speed was simply no match for her opponent.

By the time she chased after him out of the Heavenly Palace, his figure had already vanished into the vast void.

".

Outside the Tower of Babel, a streak of azure light quickly stopped, revealing the figures inside.

"Fellow Daoist Song, it's you! Come in quickly!"

Before Song Qingming could make a move, the voice of "Xuantian" appeared at the entrance ahead, leading him into the tower.

Under the guidance of "Xuantian", Song Qingming soon met Xia Mo, who was in seclusion in her cave.

The two had only been apart for a few decades, but upon seeing each other again, Song Qingming's brows suddenly furrowed with a hint of seriousness.

"Fellow Daoist Xia, what happened? What exactly happened to you?"

Xia Mo, standing before him, not only had her breathing become somewhat disordered, but her face was also pale, as if she had already damaged her own vital energy.

Xia Mo, as a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, was already at the pinnacle of the cultivation world.

With her supernatural powers, there are very few people in the entire cultivation world who can surpass her, so how could she be easily injured?

Over the years, he and she had both been in seclusion in the heavens, and Song Qingming had not heard her mention any formidable opponents she had encountered.

At this moment, looking at Xia Mo in front of him, he couldn't figure out what had happened to her.

"Fellow Daoist Song, you misunderstand. My injury is not caused by anyone else; I caused it myself!"

Seemingly having already anticipated Song Qingming's expression, Xia Mo forced a smile before offering an explanation.

"You caused this yourself. Could it be that there's a problem with the Heavenly Myriad Spirits Technique you're cultivating?"

"It's not the Heavenly Myriad Spirits Technique, but the Heavenly Secrets Technique that I cultivate."

Not long ago, I was moved and tried to deduce some heavenly secrets, but I did not expect to be devoured by the Heavenly Dao during the deduction process, which damaged my own vital energy.

Don't worry, my injury is nothing serious; I'll recover after some rest.

"The art of celestial secrets!"

Xia Mo's "Heavenly Secrets Technique" is an extremely profound and unfathomable method in the world of cultivation.

If this secret technique is frequently deduced, or if it involves encountering cultivators of a higher realm than oneself, it is very easy to suffer a backlash from the Heavenly Dao.

Song Qingming already knew that she cultivated the "Art of Heavenly Secrets" in her early years, and had even asked Xia Mo to help her with her cultivation path for her Daoist partner Huang Siyuan.

However, with his current cultivation level at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, the other party should be able to easily deduce many affairs in the cultivation world.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be so easy to suffer a backlash that damages one's own vital energy.

That's why Song Qingming didn't immediately think in that direction when he first saw Xia Mo.

Upon hearing Xia Mo's explanation, Song Qingming's expression became even more puzzled.

"Fellow Daoist Xia, I wonder what you have deduced that caused you to be suddenly attacked by the Heavenly Dao? Could this matter be related to the Huayang Realm?"

"As you probably guessed, what I've deduced isn't anything good!"

Xia Mo sighed softly before continuing:
"A few days ago, on a whim, I suddenly sensed a powerful demonic aura emanating from something I left behind in the Huayang Realm."

This also foreshadows that in the near future, a demon will bring a calamity to the Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent.

Sensing that this calamity might affect the entire Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent, I activated the Heavenly Secrets Technique to try and deduce it.

However, it turned out that this demon's strength was not as simple as I had imagined.

Not only did they fail to deduce any useful information, but they were also attacked and their strength was damaged.

"If that's the case, this demon's strength might even surpass yours, fellow Daoist. There shouldn't be any demons this powerful in the Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent right now."

Could it be that you came from somewhere else?

The demonic path in "Donghuang Immortal Continent" has never been prosperous.

In the last few thousand years, only two demonic cultivators, "White Bone Demon" and Yang Baixuan, have reached the Nascent Soul stage.

In the battle of "Yuxuan Island" a thousand years ago, these two demons were ambushed by Ling Xuzi and Chen Qingxuan, and both suffered severe injuries and disappeared for a long time.

Later, in order to compete for the Xuan Tian Demon Artifact, the "White Bone Demon" had his physical body destroyed again by the True Demon of the Upper Realm and was forced to possess his disciple.

From then on, the "White Bone Demon's" luck ran out. Before he could recover his cultivation, his whereabouts were unfortunately exposed, and he was hunted down by many righteous sects of the Eastern Phoenix Kingdom.

Ultimately, he fell to the hands of Mingyue Zhenren, the Grand Elder of the "Dangmo Palace," who wielded the Zhutian Zhenmo Sword.

Another demon, Yang Baixuan, disappeared completely in "Donghuang Immortal Continent" after his great battle with the True Demon in the outer heavens.

It's unknown whether they perished at the hands of their opponent or fled far away to other cultivation worlds to hide.

In recent centuries, peace has been achieved through negotiations with the demon tribes of the northern frontier.

With the pressure from the north gone, many righteous sects have freed up their resources to launch multiple campaigns against the demonic forces within their borders.

Whether in the cultivation world of "Donghuang Kingdom" or in many other places such as "Fuyun Mountain Range" and the East Sea, the demonic forces have suffered severe blows.

Upon hearing that Xia Mo's "divine technique" had deduced that the demon was a Nascent Soul level demon, Song Qingming pondered for a moment and quickly deduced that the demon's origin should not be in the Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent.

After all, most of these local demonic cultivators are already like rats in the street, and dare not easily reveal their whereabouts in public.

The "White Bone Demon" has long since perished, and Yang Baixuan's fate is unknown.

Nowadays, those who dare to show their faces are basically demons at the Golden Core or Nascent Soul levels, and these people are definitely not going to cause any big trouble.

If anyone could threaten the entire "Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent," it could only be other demons outside.

Upon hearing this, Xia Mo shook her head helplessly.

"I cannot deduce the detailed origins of the other party, nor can I confirm the location of this demon. However, one thing is certain: this calamity is not far off, and it is estimated to happen within a hundred years at most."

"Fellow Daoist Song, this is all I know for now. The rest will likely require more time to investigate."

"If that's the case, then that's the only way!"
"I never expected that Senior Chen would encounter such trouble so soon after leaving. We've really had some bad luck."

Chen Qingxuan had just left the "Huayang Realm," and only a few decades had passed, yet Xia Mo had already deduced such a massive disaster.

Upon hearing this news, Song Qingming couldn't help but sigh.

If he had known about this earlier, he might have been able to find a way to keep Chen Qingxuan, the number one expert of "Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent," to help him.

Now, they can only face this disaster on their own.

Seeing that Song Qingming looked somewhat disappointed, Xia Mo smiled slightly at him.

"Fellow Daoist Song, the so-called art of heavenly secrets is all the result of deduction under fixed circumstances."

If you knew in advance, the results of the deduction would be different, and these are things that cannot be forcibly intervened.

What's meant to happen will happen eventually; it's just a matter of sooner or later.

"So, this calamity is destined to befall me; there's no escaping it."

"This matter concerns the entire Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent, and it's certainly not just your business. I won't stand idly by if needed!"

"Yes! You're right. Then I, Song, will thank you in advance."

After Chen Qingxuan left, the human race of "Donghuang Immortal Continent" was left with only Song Qingming, a Nascent Soul cultivator.

However, Xia Mo was born in the Hundred Flowers Palace and was naturally a member of the "Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent". Faced with this calamity, she stepped forward without hesitation.

In addition, the demon race from the "Northern Frontier" can also be of help at that time.

When Xia Mo took the initiative to remind him, Song Qingming nodded slightly, his expression softening a bit. He then took out several bottles of pills from his person and handed them to her.

"This is a healing pill made by Siyuan. It should be of some use in your recovery."

I'll keep an eye on things in Donghuang Immortal Continent for now. I'll contact you once I've investigated this matter.

".

Just as Song Qingming came out of Xia Mo Cave, he saw that Song Qingyu had also arrived.

"Seventh Brother, what did Sister Xia want to talk to you about? Why did she finish talking so quickly?"

"I really needed to talk to you about this. Come with me!"

Seeing Song Qingyu looking at him with curiosity, Song Qingming took her back to the "Ziyang Heavenly Palace" and summoned Li Xuanyi.

Since Huang Siyuan was in seclusion attempting to break through to a higher realm, Song Qingming didn't disturb her and allowed her to remain in the Heavenly Palace for seclusion.

Before long, the three of them took a teleportation array and returned to Huayang Realm from outer space.

Upon returning to Qingyun Mountain, Song Qingming immediately summoned representatives from various sects and issued orders to them to exterminate the demonic cultivators.

Although it is impossible to confirm where the demon that Xia Mo deduced came from.

However, we cannot rule out the potential dangers within the "Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent" itself, and we must take preventative measures now.

Under the personal arrangement of Song Qingming, the Nascent Soul Ancestor, many sects throughout the "Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent" quickly mobilized and dispatched cultivators to search for traces of demonic cultivators.

Song Qingming himself sat on "Qingyun Mountain".

Whenever he hears news of a demon at the Nascent Soul stage or above, or encounters some difficult troubles, he will personally take action to resolve them.

The demonic forces of "Donghuang Immortal Continent" had already declined several hundred years ago.

The rest are all people who are well hidden.

Despite the powerful encirclement and suppression by the righteous sects, many demonic cultivators hidden in the shadows have still been unearthed.

In less than ten years, the major sects of "Donghuang Immortal Continent" have killed more than thirty demons above the Nascent Soul stage, and hundreds or thousands of demon cultivators below the Golden Core stage.

Among them, some are remnants left behind by the major demonic sects of yesteryear, while many others have migrated to the Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent from other cultivation worlds in the last few hundred years.

Even within the "Floating Cloud Mountain Range," the major sects, led by the Free and Unfettered Sect, have found three Nascent Soul level demons.

One of them was Mo Yunting, whom Song Qingming had dealt with back then.

This demon was a demon of the same generation as the Blood Demon Ancestor and Gu Daoyun, and had even gone to the "Tower of Babel" to compete with the righteous sects for spiritual treasures.

Later, in the great war between the righteous and demonic factions in the Floating Cloud Mountains, "Blood Demon Ancestor" and Gu Daoyun fell one after another, and most of Mo Yunting's disciples were also wiped out by the righteous sects.

Alone, he fled to the Falling Star Sea and hid there.

Two hundred years ago, Mo Yunting, who could not find any cultivation resources in the outer sea, returned to the Floating Cloud Mountain Range with a bit of luck.

In order to avoid attracting attention, Mo Yunting has been hiding in an ordinary cultivation family in the Song Kingdom, pretending to be a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

He thought he had been careful enough, but he underestimated the intensity of the righteous sects' search for demonic cultivators.

Several years ago, when Mo Yunting's identity was discovered, he tried to escape again but was blocked at the door by a group of Nascent Soul cultivators led by Bai Yuxian.

Facing a half-step Nascent Soul expert, he, whose cultivation was only at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, was directly killed after only a few rounds of fighting.

Even the primordial spirit could not escape.

Besides the "Floating Cloud Mountains" region, the cultivation worlds of Donghuang Kingdom, East Sea, and Qiyun have all taken action.

This time, everyone was not just concerned with their own territory.

The "Broken Cloud Mountain" to the east of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range and the "Illusory Sea Desert" to the west, these sparsely populated areas at the border of the two regions, are the places where demonic cultivators like to hide.

This time, the major sects joined forces and swept through all these places.

Not only did they capture many demonic cultivators hiding inside, but they also uncovered some bandit cultivators wanted by various markets.

This continued for more than ten years before the cultivation world in various regions gradually quieted down.

Sitting on "Qingyun Mountain," Song Qingming saw the abundant battle reports coming from all directions, but his expression remained somewhat solemn.

After spending so many years, although he wiped out a lot of demonic cultivators, they were basically small fry whom he looked down on.

The highest level of cultivation among them was only at the late Nascent Soul stage; they hadn't even captured a single half-step Nascent Soul demon who had the potential to reach the Divine Transformation stage.

As for the other bandit cultivators, and those who practiced evil arts to harm people, he also found nothing of interest among them.

In addition to the human territory in the south, Song Qingming also relayed the news to Huo Feng and several other demon saints in the "Northern Frontier".

Please ask them to assist in investigating places within the territory where demonic cultivators might be hiding.

However, compared to the human race, the demon race in the "Northern Frontier" is much less capable of identifying and tracking demonic cultivators.

Although many traces of demonic cultivators have been discovered in the ten major demon clan territories of the Northern Frontier over the years, most of them escaped first, and the number of kills was not much.

The only somewhat comforting thing is that no demons at the Nascent Soul level have been found within the territory so far.

After several years of this, the demon saints stopped paying attention to the matter.

The demon cultivators were not proficient in the "art of divination," and the results that Song Qingming supposedly deduced might not actually happen in their eyes.

Seeing that no results were found within the local area, Song Qingming had no choice but to temporarily put the investigation on hold.

The focus was placed on prevention, and all major sects were instructed to strengthen their vigilance.

Once the traces of a high-level demonic cultivator above the Nascent Soul stage are discovered, a message must be sent to report to him!

Time flies, and another twenty years have passed.

Just as Song Qingming was keeping a close eye on the demonic cultivators throughout the "Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent" and investigating the impending demonic calamity,

A message about a demonic calamity was suddenly delivered to him.

To his surprise, the demonic calamity did not break out in Donghuang Immortal Continent, but in the Kunyu Mountains, which are located at the intersection of Xihua Continent and Donghuang Immortal Continent.

Back when he first went to "Xihua Continent", Song Qingming had already encountered the demonic scourge there.

Unexpectedly, less than a thousand years later, the demonic calamity has resurfaced and reappeared.

The Western Continent has four Nascent Soul cultivators among its human race alone, which is better than the Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent.

In Song Qingming's view, the demonic calamity over there should be the same as before, and it would be quelled before it lasted too long.

But to his surprise, not long after the outbreak of this demonic disaster, "Xihuazhou" suddenly sent them a letter of aid.

Song Qingming was also surprised when he received the request for help.

It turned out that at the same time as the demonic calamity broke out, the northern part of Xihua Continent was suddenly attacked by a large number of demonic cultivators from "Beiming Immortal Continent".

It seems that the demonic cultivators had planned this all along, with all the major demonic sects of the "Northern Underworld Immortal Continent" coming out in full force, including several demons at the Nascent Soul level.

Xihua Continent, already overwhelmed by the demonic calamity, was thrown into disarray by the invasion of such a powerful force.

Currently, Xihuazhou is besieged on both sides, and the situation is becoming increasingly critical.

Even the Golden Luo Ancestor, who had helped Song Qingming, was severely injured in the battle against the demonic cultivators and could no longer easily fight.

In desperation, Xihua Continent sought help from the neighboring Donghuang Immortal Continent and the Leiyuan Sea cultivation world.

We want them to send some high-level cultivators over to help stabilize the situation.

The human cultivators from the three regions have always looked out for and helped each other.

When the Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent was plagued by demonic calamity, cultivators from the Western Hua Continent and the Thunder Origin Sea lent a helping hand, assisting them in sealing the passage between the two worlds.

When faced with the other party's request for help, Song Qingming naturally did not refuse.

Upon learning this news, he immediately sent a message to all the major sects of "Eastern Phoenix Immortal Continent," gathering more than three hundred Nascent Soul cultivators.

Subsequently, Song Qingming personally led this army of cultivators to Xihua Immortal Continent via a teleportation array.

The cultivation world of "Lei Yuanhai" also sent reinforcements to the aid of others soon after, and with the support of many parties, the situation in Xihua Continent was finally stabilized temporarily.

Just as Song Qingming was leading his men to aid Xihuazhou, a figure suddenly descended from the sky onto a stone platform in a valley bordering Donghuang Kingdom and Beijiang.

The newcomer looked up at the south, and a strange smile slowly appeared on his lips.

"After all these years, I'm finally back!"

"..." (End of Chapter)