Qinghe Immortal Clan.

Chapter 998: Xihua Immortal Continent, Half-Step into Divination

When it faced Song Qingming in the previous battle, it thought that there was only one level of difference in cultivation between itself and the other party, and the gap should not be too big.

Unexpectedly, after the two fought, it was discovered that Song Qingming possessed several powerful magic weapons, and his fighting strength was much stronger than it expected.

After just a few dozen rounds, it was beaten back step by step and unable to escape.

Finally, it was forced into a desperate situation and had to use a secret treasure on its body to divert the opponent's attention, and then it took the opportunity to escape from the battlefield.

However, although the two of them managed to escape, they also lost this precious item and lost many of their monsters. How could they not be so angry?

“We spent so much time and effort to find this thing from the deep sea.

I originally wanted to present it to Ancestor Yunlu, so that I could exchange it for an Ice Dew White Pearl for you to break through the realm in the future. But now, all our decades of work have been in vain.

It's all these damned human monks' fault. I didn't expect them to be so bold and dare to appear so blatantly in the Nebula Sea. We must not let them go like this."

Seeing the indignant Haiqingyuan next to him, the other Haiqingyuan thought for a moment and said:

"Humph! Don't worry, my husband. Since they are heading west, they must be trying to sneak across the Nebula Sea. They won't be too far away for a while.

After all, the Nebula Sea is the territory of our demon race. How can we allow the human cultivators to be so presumptuous?

We just need to send out a message and invite a few Taoist friends nearby to help search to the west. It won’t take long before we can find them.”

"Well, you're right, let's do it this way."

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Song Qingming, who was on the flying boat, was still immersed in concentrating on integrating the magic circle and had no idea that they would soon be in trouble.

After traveling for less than half a month, the cultivators from the Tiandao Sect who were controlling the flying boat suddenly discovered that many monsters appeared around them and were searching for their whereabouts.

These monsters were different from the ones they had encountered before. They were obviously organized and were lurking in the direction they were heading, searching around.

Not long after, the flying boat they were on revealed its whereabouts again, attracting a large wave of high-level monsters nearby to encircle and attack it.

This time, not only the two "Sea Green Kites" encountered before came, but also three demon kings from the nearby sea area also appeared on the battlefield at the same time.

Suddenly, five Nascent Soul Demon Kings arrived, and countless low-level monsters besieged them. This immediately alarmed the many Nascent Soul cultivators who were practicing in seclusion on the ship.

Fortunately, Song Qingming and others were stronger than their opponents in Nascent Soul combat power. After a fierce battle, they successfully repelled their opponents and escaped the pursuit of nearby monsters.

But not long after they finally escaped from the pursuit, the army of monsters soon returned again. This time they not only brought more monsters, but also eight Nascent Soul Demon Kings.

Seeing this situation, the "Tian Dao Sect" and others who felt something was wrong were forced to activate a high-level space teleportation array hidden on the flying boat, which allowed them to temporarily avoid the other party's pursuit.

This space teleportation formation was left behind by the ancestor of the "Tian Dao Sect" who had achieved divine enlightenment thousands of years ago. It can use the power of space to help a flying boat teleport to a location hundreds of miles away in a short period of time.

However, this secret method that can help everyone teleport and escape cannot be used continuously, and the location after teleportation can only appear randomly within a thousand miles nearby, and cannot be accurately controlled, and the flaws are also very large.

If, after teleporting, their location happened to be discovered by other demons nearby, with the Nascent Soul Demon King's speed of escape, they would be caught up by the other party again in no time.

Fortunately, luck was on their side this time, and they were teleported to a sea area where there were few monsters, so their whereabouts were not revealed.

Later, under the leadership of several people from the "Tian Dao Sect", they set up a high-level concealment formation on the seabed and hid themselves there.

After hiding in the sea for several months, he successfully avoided the search of nearby monsters and temporarily got rid of the crisis.

Then they chose to take a detour through the sea, and it took them several more months to successfully leave that sea area before returning to the original route and continuing on their way.

The journey ahead was full of twists and turns, and they also encountered many attacks from monsters.

But with everyone working together to overcome the difficulties, the flying boat successfully crossed the "Nebula Sea" a year later and arrived at their destination, "Xihua Fairyland".

The area of ​​the "Xihuazhou" continent is slightly smaller than that of the "Donghuangxianzhou".

However, the demon clan in this state is not as powerful as the demon clan in the "Northern Frontier". It only occupies less than one-third of the entire continent. The rest of the territory is controlled by human cultivators.

If we only consider the number of cultivators, "Xihua Continent" would be better than "Donghuang Xianzhou".

Because the demon clan in "Xihuazhou" is relatively weak and there are no powerful enemies around the human race, their internal competition is quite fierce. In order to compete for cultivation resources, large-scale fights often occur among the major immortal cultivation sects.

In contrast, in the "Donghuang Xianzhou" world of immortal cultivation, due to the powerful threat from the northern demon tribe, although there are occasional fights among the human cultivators, they are generally relatively united.

Just after passing through the "Nebula Sea" and arriving at the edge of the Xihua Continent, the flying boat that Song Qingming and others were on soon collided head-on with a team of Foundation Establishment cultivators who were patrolling on the coast.

What is somewhat surprising is that the reason these cultivators are often present nearby is not to guard against sea monsters, but because they are afraid that nearby hostile sects will send cultivators to infiltrate their territory.

However, except for Song Qingming and his companions who came to "Xihuazhou" for the first time, the "Tiandao Sect" cultivators on the ship had already become accustomed to this and hurriedly took out tokens to prove their identity.

Seeing that there were many high-level cultivators on the flying boat and they had tokens to prove their identities, those foundation-building cultivators did not dare to deliberately make things difficult for them. They hurriedly bowed and let the flying boat enter their own territory.

The rest of the journey was relatively smooth. Apart from occasionally passing by a few battlefields where monks were fighting and avoiding them as far as possible, they did not encounter anyone blocking their way.

It took more than a month to finally arrive at a great country of immortal cultivation where the "Xuanqing Temple" was located.

Although the war between "Xuanqing Temple" and "Qingyuan Sect" had ended more than ten years ago, there are still many places in the surrounding area where traces of the war remain.

Seeing the huge pits formed by the battle between high-level monks in the mountains, and the somewhat chaotic spiritual energy nearby, Song Qingming and others could still feel how fierce the battle was.

When the flying boat arrived not far in front of the mountain gate, the "Xuanqing Temple", which had already received the news, also sent a Nascent Soul elder to personally greet them and lead them into the "Mountain Protection Formation".

Under the guidance of the monks from "Xuanqing Temple", the flying boat soon stopped on a beautiful mountain. At this time, there were already many monks waiting nearby.

Just as Yang Lingkong and the others stepped off the flying boat, several figures appeared in the hall in the distance and walked quickly towards them.

The person walking in front wore a white crown, a jade belt around his waist, and a rather gorgeous white gown. He looked at everyone with a smile on his face.

"Junior Brother Yang, Junior Sister Yu, you have worked hard along the way, and I am finally looking forward to seeing you!"

"Meet the Great Elder!"

Seeing the man in white speaking in front of them, Yang Lingkong, Yu Ning and many other disciples of the "Tian Dao Sect" hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to him, their faces full of respect.

Song Qingming and "Taoist Qingping" and others standing nearby looked at each other and bowed and greeted them, with a look of respect on their faces.

The man in white who was called the Grand Elder by Yang Lingkong and others was none other than Lin Tianrong, one of the only two great cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage in the Tiandao Sect, whose cultivation had reached the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage.

As the most accomplished cultivator in the "Tian Dao Sect", Lin Tianrong had already cultivated to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul three hundred years ago, and had successfully reached the Spirit Transformation realm once.

Although Lin Tianrong ultimately failed to reach his next realm, he did not succeed in advancing to become a Divine Transformation cultivator.

However, for a Nascent Soul ninth-level cultivator like him who can successfully trigger strange phenomena in heaven and earth during the breakthrough process, even if he fails to break through the realm, his own magic power will be much purer and he can control part of the heaven and earth's vitality.

In this way, they will be slightly stronger in fighting than ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators. Many people in the world of immortal cultivation call this kind of cultivators half-step into the Godhood realm.

As early as decades ago when he participated in the "Donghuang Sword Conference", Song Qingming had already seen Lin Tianrong on the ring.

He also witnessed with his own eyes that he defeated many Nascent Soul masters, including the Grand Elder Zhao Wuling of the Wanling Sect, and helped the Tiandao Sect firmly secure its position as one of the top ten sects in Donghuangzhou.

Seeing such a great cultivator who was half a step away from becoming a god standing so close to him, Song Qingming couldn't help but reveal a bit of respect in his eyes.

After bowing and greeting Lin Tianrong, Yang Lingkong turned around and led him to Song Qingming and others, pointing at them and introducing them one by one.

In addition to many cultivators from the "Tian Dao Sect", Song Qingming was also accompanied by two Nascent Soul cultivators.

One is the "Taoist Qingping" who was born as a casual cultivator. This old Taoist has a cultivation level similar to Song Qingming, and is also a cultivator in the middle Nascent Soul stage.

However, his "formation level" is much higher than Song Qingming's, and he is already a very rare fourth-level intermediate-grade formation master.

As a casual cultivator, "Taoist Qingping" naturally lives a more difficult life than Nascent Soul cultivators like Song Qingming who come from sects.

Along the way, he was not only talkative, but also seemed a bit stingy in front of everyone and was not very likable.

Not only did he haggle with the cultivators of the "Tian Dao Sect" over the corpses of a few low-level monsters, he even lowered his face to ask Song Qingming to borrow several third-level talismans, and has not returned them until now.

Every time he met Song Qingming, the old guy would take the initiative to claim to be poor and make excuses to delay the matter, which made Song Qingming feel embarrassed to ask him directly for such a small thing.

After so many years of cultivation to the Nascent Soul stage, this was the first time that Song Qingming had seen such an unmannerly high-level cultivator like him.

Seeing Lin Tianrong, a half-step god-transforming cultivator, coming over, "Taoist Qingping" immediately showed his thick-skinned advantage and walked ahead of Song Qingming and the others. "I am Qingping, and I have heard of the great name of Daoist Lin for a long time.

I never thought that when I came to help, I would have the honor to meet a great monk. This is really a great honor."

Seeing the "Taoist Qingping" in front of them talking nonstop, as if he had become very familiar with the other party in just a few words, Song Qingming and Li Jinyue, who were standing aside, couldn't help but show a bit of helplessness when they saw this scene.

Compared with "Qingping Taoist", Li Jinyue did not seem to be talkative along the way, nor did he do anything annoying.

Li Jinyue is a cultivator who was born in Yunzhou. In his early years, because of his humble background, he married into a Jindan-level cultivation family. Later, he broke away from the family and became a self-employed cultivator.

Like Song Qingming, Li Jinyue was also a Nascent Soul cultivator who came from a lowly background and worked his way up. Most of the opportunities and spiritual objects were obtained by himself, and now he has become a Nascent Soul third-level cultivator.

Because he had some relationship with Yang Lingkong, the Yuanying elder of the "Tian Dao Sect", and was also a fourth-level lower-grade "Formation Master", he was specially invited to "Xihuazhou" to help repair the teleportation array.

The group encountered danger several times along the way, and Li Jinyue also contributed a lot. Song Qingming and others had a much better impression of him than that of the old sly "Qingping Taoist".

".."

“Great Elder, this fellow Daoist Song Qingming is a sect cultivator from the Immortal Cultivation World of the Floating Cloud Mountains. A few years ago, I happened to meet him and he also wanted to go to Xihuazhou, so Junior Sister Yu and I invited him over together.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that Fellow Daoist Song is young, he is also a fourth-level lower-grade formation master, and his attainments in formations are probably even higher than that of Junior Sister Yu.”

When it was Song Qingming's turn, he heard Yang Lingkong flattering him in front of Lin Tianrong. Song Qingming showed a slight embarrassment on his face, and then stepped forward and bowed.

"Song has met the Great Elder!"

"Oh! Fellow Daoist Song is actually from the Immortal Cultivation World of the Floating Cloud Mountains. This is quite rare. I wonder which sect you came from to have such a high level of attainment in formations?"

Facing Lin Tianrong's question, Song Qingming quickly waved his hand and said:
“Great Elder, your words are too kind. I am from the Xiaoyao Sect of Weiguo, and I have only studied the art of battle formations. How dare I talk about my attainments in front of you fellow Taoists?

I am here to help out because I am eager to learn. I hope the elder and you will not despise me."

"Oh! So you are from Xiaoyao Sect!"

When Lin Tianrong heard Song Qingming's answer, a hint of surprise flashed across his face, and then he continued slowly as if recalling something:
“Back when I was still a child, I had the honor of meeting your sect’s Taoist Master Daoxuan along with the elders of the sect. Now when I think about it, it seems like it was eight hundred years ago.

Taoist Master Daoxuan is also a senior who has profound attainments in formations. Since you are from Xiaoyao Sect, your formation level must not be much different. There is no need to be so modest. "

"It turns out that the Great Elder is actually acquainted with our sect's founder. I am a little rude, but I hope you won't blame me!"

Upon hearing that Lin Tianrong had actually met the previous Nascent Soul ancestor of the "Xiaoyao Sect", Song Qingming was also surprised and hurriedly bowed again.

Seeing this, Lin Tianrong immediately smiled and waved his hand gently, saying: "Alas! Back then, I was just a junior, and I was fortunate enough to stand aside and listen to the seniors' discussion. How can I say that we are acquainted?

Fellow Daoist Song, please don't be so polite. Since we are cultivators of the same level, we can just address each other as fellow Daoist from now on."

After hearing Lin Tianrong's explanation, Song Qingming did not insist too much and nodded in agreement.

After getting to know Lin Tianrong, with his help in introducing him, Song Qingming also greeted several Nascent Soul cultivators from the "Xuanqing Temple" who came to greet him.

As a Nascent Soul sect that also controls the intercontinental "teleportation array", the strength of the Xuanqing Temple is much weaker than that of the Tiandao Sect.

There are currently eight Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect, and only one great elder, "Master Xuan Ku", has broken through to the late Nascent Soul stage.

Given the current situation of "Xuanqing Temple", facing the many enemies outside who are eyeing it covetously, it seems that it lacks the strength to enjoy the huge benefits brought by this inter-continental "teleportation array" alone.

In order to protect the lifeline of this sect, "Xuanqing Temple" not only made friends with "Tiandao Sect" and supported each other, but also gave up part of the benefits of the inter-continental "teleportation array" to win over several surrounding Nascent Soul forces.

Even so, the "Xuanqing Temple" was still not peaceful enough in these years, so much so that the "Qingyuan Sect" broke through the mountain gate and damaged the inter-continental "teleportation array".

Fortunately, the "Tian Dao Sect" has sent a lot of high-level materials across the sea to repair the formation, and has also invited formation masters such as Song Qingming to help, finally giving them hope of repairing the inter-continental "teleportation formation".

After getting to know everyone here one by one, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan quickly settled down under the arrangement of the monks of "Xuanqing Temple".

During this period, in addition to cooperating with Lin Tianrong and others to demonstrate the repair of the inter-continental "teleportation array", Song Qingming also asked the monks of "Xuanqing Temple" about the news about the "Tianjian Pavilion" in Xihua Continent.

The "Tianjian Pavilion", which is famous for its sword cultivation, is also a very powerful Nascent Soul sect in Xihuazhou.

The number of Nascent Soul cultivators in their sect is no less than that in "Xuanqing Temple", and their strength is even stronger than theirs.

Although both are Nascent Soul sects in Xihuazhou, there is no interaction between the "Xuanqing Temple" and the "Tianjian Pavilion", and the understanding of them is also very limited.

The "Xuanqing Temple" where Song Qingming is located is located in the southern immortal cultivation world of Xihuazhou. It is separated from the northern immortal cultivation world where the "Tianjian Pavilion" is located by a huge "Kunyun Mountains", and the geographical location is hundreds of thousands of miles away.

This is like the immortal world of the "Floating Cloud Mountains" where Song Qingming is located, and the immortal world of the "Eastern Phoenix Country" in the west of the continent.

Because there is a "Fantasy Sea Desert" in between, it is difficult for monks from the two places to travel. Even if they are on the same continent, the understanding between the two sides is not that close.

However, although he did not learn much about the "Tianjian Pavilion", Song Qingming successfully obtained a relatively detailed map of "Xihuazhou" from the monks of "Xuanqing Temple".

With this map, all he had to do next was to fulfill the agreement with the "Tian Dao Sect" and he and Huang Siyuan could set off directly to the "Tian Jian Pavilion".

Since the two of them went out for training five years ago, Song Qingming and Huang Siyuan first crossed the "Fantasy Sea Desert" and stayed in the immortal cultivation world of Donghuang Kingdom for nearly three years.

After that, he spent another two years smuggling across the "Nebula Sea" with the monks of the "Tian Dao Sect", and after going through many dangers, he finally arrived at the "Xihua Fairyland".

Thinking that they would soon see Song Qingyu, whom they had not seen for a long time, Song Qingming and the others felt a little more happy.

In this way, they lived in the "Xuanqing Temple" for half a year. With the cooperation of Song Qingming and others, the "Xuanqing Temple" and the "Tiandao Sect" joined forces and finally succeeded in repairing most of the inter-continental "teleportation array".

All that’s left is to draw the last array diagram before we can try to successfully activate the intercontinental “teleportation array”.

In a huge cave in the back mountain of "Xuanqing Temple".

Lin Tianrong was sitting in the middle, while Song Qingming, Yu Ning and ten other level four "Formation Masters" were surrounding him, concentrating on casting spells in front of them, and slowly drawing a formation diagram on the "teleportation platform".

They had been taking turns casting spells for nearly two months, and everyone's faces looked obviously haggard, but not too ugly.

Unexpectedly, just when they were about to complete the task, there was a sudden violent vibration outside the mountain, causing the cave they were in to shake slightly, almost interrupting everyone's spellcasting.

When Song Qingming and others saw this scene, their faces changed instantly, and they all showed a look of surprise.

"What happened!"

"What's going on? Did something happen outside?"

".."

Seeing everyone's confused gazes, Lin Tianrong, who was sitting in the middle position, changed his expression slightly. He immediately stopped casting the spell and flashed into the air.

"Don't panic, everyone. I will go out and see what's going on. You guys wait here and don't touch the formation diagram below."

Here, Lin Tianrong shouted to everyone, then quickly flashed away and flew out of the cave.

Song Qingming and the others who stayed behind, under the instructions of Yu Ning and the other two "Xuanqing Temple" formation masters, cast spells to maintain the existing formation diagram to prevent the collapse of spiritual power and the failure of their efforts.

No matter what happened outside, after all, they had been busy for more than two months and only needed to finish it.

If they gave up at this time, not only would they waste a lot of high-level materials for drawing the formation diagram, but it would also cause their two months of time to be wasted, which was naturally not what they wanted to see.

Among the ten people sitting there, except for two Jindan cultivators, the other eight are at the Yuanying stage, so they are able to maintain the spiritual power of the formation for a short period of time.

Just as everyone was waiting patiently, they didn't expect that the person who came was not Lin Tianrong, but a Jindan cultivator from the "Xuanqing Temple" with a panicked look on his face.

"Uncle Chen, it's bad. The people from Qingyuan Sect outside have broken through the mountain protection formation and come in. The head uncle asked you to activate the formation quickly. Don't let them break the teleportation formation."

"What did you say? Another person from Qingyuan Sect?"

"How is this possible? Senior Brother Xuan Ku and his men were in charge of the mountain protection formation, so how could it be breached so quickly? Are you telling the truth?"

Upon hearing the news, the two elders of "Xuanqing Temple" who were casting spells suddenly changed their expressions, each showing a look of disbelief.

Not only them, but also Yu Ning, Song Qingming and others who were sitting beside them, could not believe what they said.

"Uncle Master, this is absolutely true. I dare not speak nonsense. I hope you two can understand it!"

(End of this chapter)