I conquer the immortal with my strength.

Chapter 566 Collecting Spirits
"The Chixiao Sect's foundation in Nanzhen Jishan is only so-so. This person doesn't have any powerful backers in Nanzhen Jishan. Killing him this time and making some arrangements should prevent any future troubles."

However, a hundred years ago, a celestial being descended upon Jishan in Nanzhen, and even the supervising celestial envoy had to receive him with trepidation. This matter is worth considering.

That person was able to descend to the mortal realm, and was received with such utmost deference by the supervising celestial envoy; he was clearly a very important figure. What was such a prominent person doing in the Xuanhuan Realm? It couldn't possibly be just for sightseeing; he must be here to seek some great opportunity.

It seems that although the Xuanhuan Realm is a lower realm, it still has many good things left behind that even the great figures of the immortal realm would covet.

Unfortunately, the Xuanhuan Realm is too vast. Even knowing that many valuable things remain in this realm, finding them requires immense luck.

As Xia Daoming pondered this, he probed the storage ring left behind by the short, stocky man with his divine sense and began to examine it.

A cultivator who has undergone the fourth tribulation and has reached the Nascent Soul stage naturally carries many valuable items with them.

However, having annihilated a Nascent Soul cultivator who had undergone Five Tribulations of Disintegration and obtained the treasures of the Dragon Clan's palace, Xia Daoming's vision had already become very broad.

Therefore, top-grade spirit stones, elixirs, and dozens of immortal stones no longer caught his eye.

His divine sense merely swept over it briefly, too lazy to count the exact number.

However, when his divine sense swept over an ancient scroll, he paused slightly.

Then, Xia Daoming flipped his hand over.

A tattered ancient scroll appeared in his palm.

Looking at the ancient map in his hand, Xia Daoming briefly recalled the information he had just searched and knew its origin.

This ancient map was passed down from an ancestor of the Crimson Cloud Sect, and it is said to have been obtained from a dragon cultivator.

However, the place depicted in the ancient map has not been found in Nanzhenhai by the Chixiao Sect over the long years.

It later fell into the hands of a short, stocky man.

The short, stocky man was confident that he would soon offer up a portion of his true spirit to serve in the celestial realm, and that his return was intended to settle his affairs after his death.

This picture was originally intended to be passed down through generations.

However, he encountered Xia Daoming and suffered a fatal calamity, and the map fell into his hands.

The incomplete ancient map was slowly unfolded.

As the ancient map unfolded, Xia Daoming stared blankly at the familiar scene before him.

"This, this is actually the Nightmare Sea!"

"Could that dragon cultivator be from the Demon Nightmare Sea?!"

"Could this be yet another dragon palace?"

Xia Daoming felt a surge of excitement.

"Excellent, excellent! Whatever is hidden in this fragment of the map, it's a great find for this trip!" Xia Daoming's face lit up with joy as he carefully put away the fragment of the ancient scroll.

For him, all the other collections of the short, stocky man, and all the savings of the Crimson Cloud Sect, were far less valuable than this unknown opportunity.

After carefully putting away the tattered ancient scrolls, Xia Daoming looked up at the battlefield.

The fighting was now drawing to a close.

Lanxi truly lives up to her reputation as a Nascent Soul cultivator who has survived two Heavenly Tribulations in her physical body and possesses the bloodline of the Sea Dragon King.

He fought against two Nascent Soul cultivators at the second tribulation stage, one of whom had already passed the Nascent Soul stage with his physical body, and the other a Nascent Soul cultivator at the first tribulation stage, and still maintained an overwhelming advantage.

On the contrary, the eight Nascent Soul stage elders, including Yuanji, joined forces to fight against a Nascent Soul stage cultivator who had just undergone a tribulation and was about to disintegrate, and they had a very difficult time.

Xia Daoming was not surprised at all by this result.

There is an insurmountable gap between Nascent Soul cultivators and Transformation cultivators. Fighting a cultivator of a higher level is even more difficult than a second-stage Transformation cultivator fighting a third-stage one. Only a very few exceptionally talented individuals or those with powerful bloodlines, such as Zuo Dongge and Xiao Jin, can fight a cultivator of a higher level when they are at the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage.

Soon, Lanxi killed the Blazing Fire True Man and the first-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and used the Dragon Binding Rope to bind the second-stage Nascent Soul female cultivator who had come in with the short, stocky man. She then came to Xia Daoming's side to watch the battle together.

The cultivator was alarmed to see that Lanxi had killed two people and captured one of them while fighting against three others. As a result, Yuanji seized the opportunity to break into the flame domain with his three-pointed water-splitting fork.

Upon seeing this, Xingyi and the others immediately launched a fierce attack, actually breaking through the cultivator's flame domain and causing him to be caught off guard and overwhelmed.

"Alright!" Xia Daoming shouted when he saw this.

"I will obey Lord Xia's decree!"

Upon receiving the order, Yuanji and the others retrieved their magical weapons, retreated behind Xia Daoming and Lanxi, stood tall, and their demeanor underwent a subtle change.

By defeating Nascent Soul cultivators who had transformed into Divine Transformation cultivators, their inner strength was enhanced.

Although this change is not a direct improvement in strength, it has unimaginable benefits for their future cultivation.

"Now I'll give you two a way out, which is to offer a bit of your true spirit into this magic weapon of mine, and then obey my orders. In return, I'll spare your lives this time."

"Even if they perform exceptionally well and make amends for their mistakes, they can still exchange their merits for the opportunity to transcend tribulations if they achieve great merit in the future." Xia Daoming looked at the two of them and said in a deep voice.

Upon hearing that there was a way out, the two were overjoyed at first, but then their faces showed pain when they heard that they had to offer up a bit of true spirit. When they heard the last sentence, they looked at each other and then knelt down without hesitation and said, "We are willing to submit to the immortal and offer up a bit of true spirit."

Having just witnessed Xia Daoming's terrifying ability to suppress their ancestor with a mere flick of his wrist, the two were now completely convinced that he possessed the power to help them overcome their tribulation.

If that's the case, then from another perspective, this is both their calamity and their opportunity.

As for the deaths of the patriarch and Liehuo, although they were saddened, they did not hold a grudge against Xia Daoming.

The cultivation world is inherently a dog-eat-dog world, where the strong are respected.

Xia Daoming's strength far surpassed theirs, making him seem like a supervising immortal envoy stationed at Mount Ji in the South Town.

These people had been bullying, robbing, and selling his beloved wife's clansmen for a long time, and they even dared to lay a hand on her right in front of him. The deaths of Liehuo and the others were, in a sense, their own fault.

Of course, for such powerful figures to seek revenge would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, leading only to their demise.

Both of them were shrewd and pragmatic old men who knew how to prioritize and make choices.

"it is good!"

Xia Daoming nodded, clapped his hands at his waist, and the Ten Thousand Ghosts Banner flew out.

Then Netherworld Flame Lord also came out. He reached out and grabbed the Ten Thousand Ghost Banner, stood in mid-air, and looked down at the two of them.

In the celestial realm, there is the Myriad Spirit Banner, which can collect a trace of the true spirit of cultivators and immortals who have undergone physical transformation.

Xia Daoming certainly didn't have a heaven-defying immortal artifact like the Myriad Spirits Banner, but he did have the Myriad Ghosts Banner, which had been tempered by thunder and fire, and the Netherworld Ghost Fire, which was specifically designed to suppress souls. With the combination of the two, Xia Daoming, at his current cultivation level, could still collect a bit of the true spirit from a Nascent Soul cultivator of the first or second tribulation.

"Netherworld Ghost Fire!"

Upon seeing the Netherworld Flame Lord, the two cultivators trembled involuntarily, a hint of fear appearing in their eyes.

Soon, a ray of pure soul power flew out from between their brows.

The Netherworld Flame Lord waved the Ten Thousand Ghosts Banner, and the banner unfurled, brushing against two points of rosy light.

When the banner was taken down, the two points of rosy light had vanished without a trace.

　That concludes today's update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)