Qinghe Immortal Clan.

Half a year later, in the "Nebula Sea".

The Nebula Sea is located in the southwest corner of the "Donghuang Kingdom" and is also a huge ocean with a range no less than the "Thunder Yuan Sea".

However, compared to the "Thunder Yuan Sea" jointly controlled by humans and demons, the "Nebula Sea" has fewer land islands and is accompanied by many undercurrents and hurricanes. The living environment is very harsh, and there are few traces of human monks and mortals.

The ones who control this huge ocean are the powerful sea monsters. Almost the entire "Nebula Sea" cultivation world is within their territory, and no one dares to offend them easily.

Thousands of feet above the sea, countless white clouds are slowly moving eastward under the influence of the sea breeze.

Among these white clouds, there was a large cloud that looked a little strange. It not only moved westward against the wind, but also moved much faster than the other white clouds next to it.

A group of birds passing by saw this strange scene, and a few of them approached the cloud with curiosity.

But what they didn't expect was that just as they flew near the cloud, a barrier formed by a strange force suddenly appeared in front of them, isolating them outside the cloud.

After trying for a while and failing to get close, the birds seemed to lose interest. They spread their wings, circled nearby for a few times, and then quickly flew away to catch up with their own flock.

In the clouds that the birds could not see, a huge flying boat several dozen feet long was moving forward rapidly, carrying the clouds.

At the bow of the flying boat, several disciples of the "Tian Dao Sect" in uniform were using a round magic weapon on the boat to carefully observe the situation around the sea below.

Not far away, five or six disciples were taking turns operating several round wooden barrels.

As they worked together to cast the spell, white cloud-like things kept flying out of the wooden barrel, and then gathered around it, firmly covering the entire flying boat's tracks.

In a private room in the middle of the second floor of the flying boat, Song Qingming sat cross-legged with a small "Spirit Gathering Array" arranged beside him. At this moment, he was quickly refining the mid-grade spirit stones stored in it.

After the spirit stone was refined, the spiritual energy nearby would flow directly into Song Qingming's body through the "Spirit Gathering Array", and then be absorbed directly into his body through the acupoints throughout his body.

After a moment, as all the spiritual energy around his body was absorbed by himself, Song Qingming slowly opened his eyes and stood up.

After putting away the "Spirit Gathering Array" and tidying up his clothes, he walked directly to the wooden table beside him and opened the wooden window that had been closed for a long time.

As the surrounding light shone through the clouds, the cabin, which had not seen the sun for a long time, finally had a hint of life, and a smile appeared on his face.

After sitting down at the table, Song Qingming picked up the "Formation Book" placed aside and read it carefully.

Just as the flying boat continued to move forward with the clouds rolling around it, a burst of bird calls suddenly came from the distant sky. A group of seabirds that had just flown away suddenly turned around and came back.

Compared to when they just left, this group of seabirds now seemed a little panicked, and they were running away desperately as if they had seen some danger.

Soon, behind this group of seabirds, a large group of giant blue birds suddenly flew over.

These giant blue birds were huge in size. When they gathered together, there were thousands of them, covering the sky and blocking out the sun. Their speed was more than twice as fast as those seabirds just now.

Following a burst of screams, the group of seabirds were quickly swallowed up by these giant blue birds and disappeared without a trace.

After the giant blue bird devoured these seabirds, it continued to chase forward without slowing down, and the direction of its target happened to be right next to the flying boat.

"Oh no! The sea eagles are coming. We definitely can't hide from them in such large numbers. Quickly activate the flying boat defense formation and notify Elder Liu and the others!"

At this time, the cultivator from the "Tian Dao Sect" who was at the bow of the flying boat also saw the giant green birds gathering in the distance from the bronze mirror in front of him. His face suddenly changed color and he let out a cry of surprise.

The next moment, the many monks on the flying boat who received the order quickly became busy.

As a "white light shield" appeared, the clouds around the flying boat soon became much thinner, and several figures walked out of the cabin of the flying boat.

The leader saw the many monsters that were about to catch up with the flying boat, and his face suddenly changed slightly and frowned, and he warned the people behind him:
"With so many sea kites, there will probably be quite a few level 3 monsters mixed in. Everyone needs to be careful!"

"Brother Liu, rest assured. We know what to do. Since they are here to die, we will not be polite."

Several monks stood in mid-air, staring at the flock of birds in front of them. With solemn expressions, they quickly took out their magic weapons.

Soon, the green bird caught up with the flying boat and began to attack. A fierce battle immediately broke out between the two sides.

The large flying boat used by the "Tian Dao Sect" was specially modified and equipped with many "Spiritual Light Cannons" to deal with flying birds and monsters.

When the other party approached, fierce rays of light immediately shot out from the flying boat into the flock of birds. Soon, countless giant green birds fell directly from the sky without even having time to scream.

At the same time, seven or eight Jindan cultivators holding magic weapons, along with dozens of foundation-building cultivators, transformed into beams of light and came to the outside of the flying boat, and began to use magic weapons to hunt down the monsters that dared to approach.

Although there were many of these monsters named Haiqingyuan, most of them were low-level monsters of the first or second level. Faced with the slaughter of these Jindan monks, many of them soon died in their hands.

When everyone was fighting happily, several strange cries suddenly rang out from the group of monsters, and then more than a dozen huge sea blue kites surrounded them from all directions and quickly entangled these human Jindan monks.

Without the help of these high-level monks, the flying boat soon faced siege from numerous monsters and its speed slowly slowed down. Even the large formation outside couldn't stop shaking.

Just when everyone was looking a little grim, several powerful beams of light flew out from the cabin of the flying boat and directly killed into the group of monsters.

The cultivators who came out this time all had the aura of the Golden Core stage or above. Wherever they went, numerous monsters and deep pits were repelled, and the protective formation of the flying boat behind them was stabilized in an instant.

A woman in red stood in front of the crowd, controlling the sword light to fly quickly past many monsters. A moment later, hundreds of monsters died in her hands.

This scene instantly frightened the giant blue birds, and they retreated away in fear.

Seeing the situation reversed in an instant, everyone's faces suddenly showed joy, and they chased forward, trying to drive away all the "Sea Kites".

At this moment, a roar was heard again in the distance behind the group of monsters, and then two powerful green lights suddenly flew towards the woman in red.

"Hey! Yuanying Demon Emperor, everyone, quickly retreat."

Seeing two figures transformed from green light approaching her, the red-clothed woman's face changed slightly. She shouted to remind everyone, and then activated her magic weapon to transform into a white light barrier to block the opponent's attack.

"Boom!" After a loud noise, the white light barrier was instantly repelled by the green light.

The woman in red retreated dozens of feet before stopping in mid-air, looking at the two giant green birds in front of her with a look of surprise. The birds were dozens of feet wide.

"Humph! It turned out to be a hateful human cultivator. How bold of you to dare to enter our territory."

The aura of these two "Sea Green Kites" in the Nascent Soul stage was no weaker than that of the woman in red. Seeing that the other party seemed to be somewhat no match for them, they shouted triumphantly and launched an attack again.

The woman in red was alone, and faced with two Nascent Soul Demon Kings whose cultivation was not weaker than hers, she was suddenly overwhelmed during the fight and was forced to retreat again and again.

However, although she was at a disadvantage, the woman in red did not show the slightest sign of panic on her face. She still gritted her teeth and stopped the two demon kings in front of her.

After fighting for about twenty or thirty rounds, two beams of light suddenly shot out from the flying boat in the rear and headed straight for the battlefield.

"Don't panic, Friend Yu, we are here to help you!"

As soon as the voice fell, the escaping light joined the battlefield and came to the side of the woman in red.

One of these two people is a young-looking man in a green robe, and the other is a middle-aged Taoist priest in a black and white Taoist robe. Both of them are Nascent Soul cultivators whose cultivation is no less than that of the woman in red.

With these two people joining the battlefield, the other two Nascent Soul stage "Hai Qing Yuan" were afraid of losing their battlefield advantage and becoming the besieged party.

Especially the man in green robe, whose cultivation had reached the middle stage of Nascent Soul. He alone dealt with the "Sea Green Kite" whose cultivation was only at the third level of Nascent Soul, and soon put considerable pressure on the opponent.

Although the other "Sea Green Kite" had a higher level of cultivation and had reached the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, it was still unable to gain any advantage against the red-clothed woman and the middle-aged Taoist priest.

After fighting for dozens of rounds in mid-air, seeing that the magic weapon in the green-robed man's hand was getting closer and closer, the "Hai Qing Yuan" at the third level of the Nascent Soul suddenly spit out a silver light from its mouth, which then turned into a sword light and shot straight at the opponent.

Faced with this attack, the man in green robe thought that the opponent might have used his own innate demon pill. He did not dare to delay and quickly urged the white jade ring magic weapon in his hand to defend himself, and instantly trapped the silver light shot by the opponent.

After the silver light disappeared, the man in green robe realized that this was not a magic pill, but just a relatively hard silver iron magic weapon.

Just as he was about to turn around and cast a spell to continue his attack, he didn't expect that in just a split second, his opponent's "Sea Green Kite" suddenly turned around, transformed into a streak of light, and escaped from the battlefield into the distance.

Seeing that the other party didn't even use the magic weapon he had just thrown out and just ran away, the man in green robe was somewhat surprised by his decisiveness.

He could only sigh softly and picked up the silver iron block beside him.

Seeing that his companions had escaped, another "Hai Qing Yuan" in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul who received the message also did not want to fight. He found an opportunity and used his magical powers to get rid of the two women in red, and escaped directly from the battlefield.

"Where are you going?"

After seeing the "Hai Qing Yuan" in front of him retreat, the middle-aged Taoist wanted to chase after it, but was stopped by the woman in red beside him.

"Fellow Daoist Qingping, wait a minute. We are already deep in the Nebula Sea. Most of the nearby Demon Kings have backers. We just need to fight them off. Don't kill them easily here.

Otherwise, if we anger them and provoke the other demon kings behind them to chase us, it will be more trouble than it is worth." "What Daoist Yu said is right. The speed of these two sea blue kites is not even as fast as mine. Even if we catch up with them, we can't stop them.

Don't chase after a desperate enemy. We should hurry on and don't waste time."

"Haha! What you two fellow Taoists said is true. I just feel it's a pity. Let's go back!"

Seeing that the two people beside him disagreed with the pursuit, the middle-aged Taoist looked at the distance with some reluctance, and without saying much, he nodded slightly in response.

The three of them quickly turned around and returned to the flying boat. The woman in red bowed and greeted the middle-aged Taoist priest, then came to the man in green robe.

"Thanks to Fellow Daoist Song for helping me just now. I heard that Fellow Daoist had been practicing in seclusion. I didn't expect that Fellow Daoist would come so timely."

Facing Yu Ning's grateful expression, Song Qingming quickly waved his hand and said:
“Fellow Daoist Yu, you are too polite. I just came out of retreat not long ago. I heard some noise outside and came out to take a look. That’s when I happened to encounter these monsters causing trouble.

Since we are already on the same boat, these are all things that Song has no choice but to do. I hope that Daoist Yu will not be so polite in the future."

"Oh! I see. Since Fellow Daoist Song has come out of retreat, I will visit him another day and ask him about the art of formations."

"If you are interested, I will welcome you."

After nodding slightly in response, Song Qingming bowed and said goodbye, then turned back to his cabin.

Seeing that there was still no movement in the secret room where Huang Siyuan was in seclusion, Song Qingming brewed a pot of spiritual tea in the hall and brought it to the room where he was practicing.

Then he picked up the classic book beside him and studied it carefully while sipping tea.

After leaving the "Tian Dao Sect", the flying boat that Song Qingming and others were riding on soon entered the "Nebula Sea" in the southwest of Donghuang Country. It has been traveling in the vast ocean for several months.

During this half year, the group's journey was relatively smooth in the first few months. Thanks to the clouds above the flying boat, they encountered almost no obstacles in the sea.

However, as the flying boat went deeper into the "Nebula Sea", the number of high-level monsters in the surrounding area also increased, and from time to time a monster would inadvertently break through their outer defenses.

In just a few months, the flying boat that Song Qingming and others were riding on was besieged and attacked by high-level monsters many times.

The "Nebula Sea" is indeed the most dangerous sea area around the "Donghuang Xianzhou" continent. Not only does it contain significantly more high-level monsters than the "Thunder Yuan Sea".

In addition, the most terrifying and dangerous things are the powerful hurricanes and tsunamis in the sea.

When Song Qingming was on a ship heading to the "Leiyuan Sea", he once witnessed a hurricane in the sea halfway.

But this time, they had only been in the "Nebula Sea" for a few months, and they had already witnessed several hurricanes and tsunamis that were no less powerful than those of that year.

Faced with this powerful natural force that far exceeded the comprehension of ordinary cultivators, even Song Qingming, a Nascent Soul cultivator, had a look of horror on his face for a moment.

Fortunately, the monks from the Tiandao Sect who controlled the flying boat were indeed very experienced in technology. They discovered the approaching path of the hurricane several times in advance and avoided the opponent's powerful attacks from afar.

This allowed everyone on the boat to reach here safely.

In addition to the hurricane and tsunami, Song Qingming and others have also encountered many attacks from high-level monsters in the past few months, including some Nascent Soul Monster Kings above level four like the one just shown.

Fortunately, the "Tian Dao Sect" was also well prepared for this smuggling across the "Nebula Sea". They brought along many high-level monks and worked together to repel the siege of the monsters.

In addition to Song Qingming, there were six other Nascent Soul cultivators on the flying boat heading to Xihuazhou this time: Wang Tiangu, Yang Lingkong, Yu Ning, Ma Boyun, Taoist Qingping, and Li Jinyue.

Among them, Wang Tiangu, Yang Lingkong, Yu Ning and Ma Boyun are all Nascent Soul elders in the Tiandao Sect.

The remaining Taoist Qingping and Li Jinyue, like Song Qingming, were also invited by them to go to "Xihuazhou" to help repair the intercontinental teleportation array that was crucial to the "Tiandao Sect".

There were a total of seven Nascent Soul cultivators in the group, as well as more than twenty Golden Core cultivators including Huang Siyuan, and more than a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Although this force seems to have few people, but if it is placed in a place like the "Floating Cloud Mountains" immortal cultivation world, its strength is enough to surpass any immortal cultivation sect.

However, even so, the flying boat on which Song Qingming and others were traveling in the "Nebula Sea" still had to act cautiously and did not dare to show their heads at will.

Just as Yu Ning said just now, many high-level monsters in the waters near this place have powerful backers.

If you are not careful, you might provoke those powerful Demon Kings in the late Nascent Soul stage, and then it will not be as easy to deal with them as just now.

The days on the flying boat were rather boring. Apart from daily practice, when Song Qingming was bored he could only concentrate on studying the formation diagram he had just obtained not long ago.

Previously, when I was in the "Tian Dao Sect", I not only read a lot of high-level "Formation Classics".

Song Qingming also used several high-level formation diagrams in his hands to exchange for a fourth-level formation diagram with powerful attack capabilities from the "Tian Dao Sect" Good Deeds Pavilion.

It is the "Seven Star Sword Formation" that he is currently studying.

This formation is a rare powerful attack formation among the fourth-level lower-grade formations. It is much more powerful than other fourth-level formations Song Qingming has seen in recent years. If properly arranged, it can even threaten a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

After Song Qingming exchanged for the "Seven Star Sword Formation", after studying it for more than half a year, he had a different understanding of this formation in his heart.

After sitting in the room and looking at the formation diagram in his hand for a while, Song Qingming waved his hand and summoned several low-level "puppet beasts" on his body. He quickly controlled them to gather into the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Formation."

With the insights he had gained over the past few days, Song Qingming took out seven more formation flags and placed them on the many puppets.

Then the seal in his hand changed slightly, and the seven low-level "puppet beasts" in front of him immediately shot out a white light, and gathered into a magic circle in the air again.

The next moment, as Song Qingming cast a spell quickly, seven sword lights suddenly shot out from the white magic circle and headed straight for Song Qingming's location.

"boom."

As soon as the sword light flew in front of Song Qingming, it was easily blocked by the shield in front of him, and a series of collision sounds were heard.

The next moment, when Song Qingming saw this scene, a smile immediately appeared on his face.

"Haha. As expected, puppets can be used to form a formation. It seems that this formation can also be integrated into it."

Just now, Song Qingming controlled the puppets in his hand to form a formation. He used his insights from the past six months to try to integrate the "Seven Star Sword Formation" into his own puppet formation.

After some confirmation, Song Qingming really successfully used the "puppet beast" to unleash part of the power of the magic circle, and at this moment he couldn't help but show joy on his face.

The "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array" in Song Qingming's hand was an improvement on the puppet array he found in the cave of "Tianshi Taoist" back then. Over the years, it has become one of his most important trump cards.

This magic circle, which is driven by the power of "puppets", can help him improve his own strength and fight against enemies who are much more powerful than him.

However, apart from being able to temporarily improve one's cultivation and magic power, as well as provide some defensive measures, the shortcomings of the "Ten Thousand Spirits Puppet Array" are also very obvious.

The biggest flaw is that the attack capability displayed by the formation against the enemy is not that strong, and it is difficult to retain enemies of the same level with similar cultivation as him.

Therefore, every time he fought with the enemy over the years, Song Qingming still relied more on his own powerful magic weapons as a means of attack, and the "Puppet Array" was more of an aid in improving his magic power.

This time, Song Qingming, who exchanged for the "Seven Star Sword Formation" in the "Tian Dao Sect", after successfully setting up the formation, suddenly had the idea of ​​integrating this attack formation into his own "Puppet Formation".

If he can use this to strengthen the attacking capability of the trump card in his hand, Song Qingming's fighting ability will be able to reach a higher level in the future.

Just now, in order to reduce the difficulty of setting up the formation, Song Qingming arranged the "Seven-Star Sword Formation", although he only used the ordinary second-level "Puppet Beast" on his body.

However, the sword light emitted after being blessed by the "Puppet Array" is far more powerful than the second-level level and can already threaten ordinary Jindan cultivators.

If it were replaced with other Nascent Soul "puppets" on his body, the power would probably be no less than that of a fourth-grade top-grade magic weapon.

However, Song Qingming is only trying to integrate the low-level "puppet formation" now, and is far from being able to truly unleash the power of the formation.

To achieve this, it will take a lot of time to try and adjust them slowly before the two formations can be truly integrated.

However, since the target has been confirmed, Song Qingming naturally has more confidence in his heart. It’s just a matter of spending more time.

Moreover, for him who has the incomplete map to help him recover his magic power, trying to integrate the magic circle will not delay his daily practice time, nor will it have much impact.

Just as Song Qingming was concentrating on studying the magic circle on his body, on an island thousands of miles away from the flying boat.

The two Nascent Soul Demon Kings who had just escaped from the disaster also returned to their caves at this moment, both with angry looks on their faces.

"What, you actually lost that thing?"

"This, that guy is really too powerful. I had no choice but to escape like this. Otherwise, I might not be able to come back today."

Hearing the blaming tone of his companions, the "Sea Blue Kite" that had successfully escaped from Song Qingming's hands not long ago could only reveal a look of grievance. (End of this chapter)