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Chapter 915 The Opportunity for Fusion
Inside Cuixu Garden.

Qin Ming's expression turned strange after hearing Lü Lu's words.

The person undergoing the tribulation is himself; how could he not know?
However, he remained calm and didn't respond to the other person's words, pretending to know nothing at all.

"Oh? Really? There's actually a powerful being undergoing tribulation?"

"Luckily, Li left quickly, otherwise he might not have been able to come back if he had been caught in the crossfire."

Lu Lu sighed, "Indeed, Junior Brother Li is quite lucky. I heard from Master that even Dugu Tian and his group from the Taiyi Sect accidentally entered the tribulation area and almost perished on the spot. It was truly terrifying."

"What? Does that mean a new Grandmaster of the Fusion Realm has been born? After all, Senior Dugu is known as the number one person below the Fusion Realm." Qin Ming deliberately showed a surprised expression.

Zhao Xuan gently shook her head and said, "The secrets of such important figures are impossible to know. After all, it is said that the celestial phenomena of this tribulation are truly astonishing, far exceeding those of the Void Refinement stage. It may even be a demon beast undergoing tribulation, and it is said that it is accompanied by the birth of a rare treasure."

"Our sect's Lingyuan Ancestor, along with the combined ancestors of the other two major combined sects, have already intervened in this matter and gone to Hanguang Cave Mountain Range to personally investigate."

"Even if there were an opportunity, it would be something we could never have coveted."

Qin Ming and Lü Lu both nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

"By the way, after March, the three major sects of Tianyuan Domain originally planned to send their Void Refinement level elders to compete for the ownership of Hanguang Cave Mountain Range. Taiyi Sect originally had the best chance, after all, with a strong person like Jianzi, our Lingmiao Sect and Beast King Valley had extremely slim chances."

"But this time I heard that Dugu Tian, ​​the swordsman of Taiyi Sect, is seriously injured and unable to fight. In that case, our Lingmiao Sect will have hope again."

Lu Lu then shared with the two of them some things he had heard from his master.

This isn't exactly secret information; it will probably be made public in a few days.

Upon hearing this, Qin Ming suddenly realized that he had unintentionally disrupted the relationship between the three sects.

But that's alright, he still has to go to the Hanguang Cave Mountains to take over the Desolate Realm.

He originally planned to use the [Sumeru Mountains and Rivers] entry to bring the Desolate Realm into the Lesser Spirit Realm as soon as he came out, but he discovered that the Desolate Realm and the Hanguang Cave Mountains seemed to have some kind of connection.

Then he thought of the sealed land deep in the desolate realm, which maintained a delicate balance, so he did not act rashly.

He planned to figure things out before taking action, so as to ensure that nothing went wrong, since he needed to collect the faith power of the natives of the desolate world.

Moreover, he has planted his own natal spirit plant, the Black Vine, inside as a celestial vine, so he will probably have to go to the Hanguang Cave Mountain Range several more times.

Zhao Xuan and Lü Lu spent half a day chatting with Qin Ming after their reunion before preparing to leave.

However, something interesting happened during that time.

Those were the other four teammates from Qin Ming's team. After hearing that he had returned to the sect, the cultivator surnamed Huang and the others also came to visit him.

However, when the cultivators surnamed Huang and others saw Zhao Xuan and Lü Lu at the entrance of Cui Xu Garden, they all showed expressions of disbelief.

After all, these two are the pride of Qinglu Peak, and their status is worlds apart from that of the outside disciples. They usually have absolutely no contact with each other.

Unexpectedly, I ran into two people at Qin Ming's Cui Xu Garden.

Previously, they had gone to great lengths to find Zhao Xuan, the beloved disciple of their peak master Qing Luzi.

The cultivators surnamed Huang and the others hurriedly paid their respects to the two.

The look in his eyes when he looked at Qin Ming again was now filled with genuine awe, after all, there weren't many cultivators in the sect who could interact with two direct disciples.

Qin Ming also treated them to a meal.

During the banquet.

The cultivators surnamed Huang and the others held him in the highest esteem, especially considering Qin Ming's calm and composed demeanor during the previous mission and the intelligence he had gathered.

"Junior Brother Li, please forgive our poor eyesight. We did not expect that you had such a good relationship with Senior Sister Zhao and Senior Brother Lü. Please be more tolerant of us in the future."

"If there is anything the sect needs us for in the future, please feel free to use us. Next time we carry out a sect mission, we will definitely team up with Junior Brother Li again."

The four cultivators surnamed Huang were very quick-witted and had already begun to curry favor with Qin Ming.

Their junior brother Li seems unremarkable, spending his days cultivating in the spirit herb garden, yet he possesses such strong connections; he must have extraordinary abilities.

He might be the illegitimate son of some powerful sect leader.
"My fellow disciples have misunderstood. Senior Sister Zhao and Senior Brother Lü only came to ask me for some spiritual herbs; we don't have any deep relationship."

Qin Ming didn't want to draw too much attention here, so he casually made up an excuse to send them away.

Next.

After returning to the Lingmiao Sect, he began to plan the fusion of the two.

Qin Ming first asked Qingyang Old Demon, "Old ghost, you are knowledgeable and experienced. What are the conditions I need to break through to the Integration Stage?"

This time, the Old Demon Qingyang unusually didn't keep anyone in suspense.

He witnessed Qin Ming's journey step by step, finally standing at the threshold of the Integration Stage, and he was quite emotional.

"Alas! I never expected that young friend Qin would reach this point so quickly; it is quite beyond my expectations!"

"For ordinary cultivators, completing the Void Refinement stage every few thousand years is practically unthinkable."

"And young friend Qin only took a little over six hundred years. Such a feat is something that even the top geniuses of the Spirit Realm might not be able to achieve."

"Although young friend Qin now possesses a seventh-tier, nine-transformation tribulation pill capable of withstanding heavenly tribulations, as well as a defensive treasure like the True Spirit Five Extremes Mountain, the difficulty of breaking through to the Integration Stage will likely far exceed your imagination."

"The Refining Void stage is when the primordial spirit becomes ethereal and leaves the body to roam the heavens and earth, while the Integration stage is when one moves from the ultimate of the ethereal to the stage of tangible transformation. It emphasizes that the primordial spirit and the physical body become one, mutually dependent, and perfectly integrated. This process is also known as 'Unity of Dharma and Body'."

"In addition, one must elevate one's cultivation path, such as alchemy, formation, swordsmanship, and spiritual plant cultivation, from application to representation, becoming the fulcrum of that path in the world. This process is called 'unity of the Dao realm'."

"The final crucial step requires comprehending at least one law of power, making it the very essence of the cultivator upon breakthrough. This process is called 'unity of law and principle'."

"Only by achieving this 'three-element unity' can we possibly gain a sliver of an opportunity to break through to the Fusion Stage."

"The breakthrough process is even longer, often requiring seclusion for decades or even centuries. Therefore, an extremely stable place where seventh-order spiritual veins converge is needed to set up a fusion array to provide a safe place for the breakthrough."

"The assistance of other spiritual treasures from heaven and earth is quite difficult to obtain even in the spirit realm, and they are basically not available on the market."

"For example, the Soul-Stabilizing Divine Object 'Soul-Protecting Divine Stone', the 'Heavenly One Divine Water', and the Heaven-Mending Spiritual Object 'Void Spirit Divine Milk' are all spiritual objects of the seventh rank or above."

"Not to mention those special top-tier treasures that carry the laws, such as the 'Void Crystal Nether Core' which comprehends the law of space, and the 'Sands of Time' which comprehends the law of time. I guess they can't be found anymore." After listening to the old demon Qingyang's story, Qin Ming immediately fell into deep thought.

I never imagined that reaching the Fusion Stage would require so many necessary conditions.
Such opportunities for fusion can directly filter out more than 99% of cultivators who have reached the peak of the Void Refinement stage, making it an insurmountable and unreachable chasm between the Void Refinement and Fusion stages.

"However," Qin Ming thought again, "I have the inscription, so I might be able to get my hands on these rare treasures of heaven and earth."

After Qingyang the Old Demon finished speaking, he remembered something and said, "Of course, although the process of breaking through to the Integration Stage is similar for each race, there are different schools of thought. I heard that among the human race, there is a way to refine a seventh-order 'Dao Integration Pill' to merge the spirit with the void and become one with the Dao, which increases the chance of breaking through to the Integration Stage. However, the resources required for this method are also incredibly scarce and terrifying. Few cultivators in the Spirit Realm can achieve this."

"The formula for the Dao Integration Pill is probably all controlled by the Integration Sect. I don't have it myself, otherwise it wouldn't hurt to give it to young friend Qin."

Qin Ming nodded and secretly made a note of these things.

As a long-standing and powerful sect specializing in the Integration Realm, Lingmiao Sect might possess one of the Integration Realm opportunities. We can secretly obtain it when the time comes.

Subsequently.

Qin Ming continued his quiet cultivation in Cui Xu Garden, serving as an outer disciple.

During this time, he secretly tried to find out about the battle situation in Tianxing City. It was said that as one of the main human cities, it had been heavily targeted by the demonic forces, and the fighting there had been extremely fierce.
Fortunately, Xiaoguifeng is located in a relatively remote area and was not directly affected by the war, so it was preserved.

Qin Ming wrote a message for Mo Lingwei and Baili Hui and had it delivered to them through a special channel, instructing them that if they saw the situation was not right, they could abandon Little Turtle Peak and simply dismiss the vassal families.

To Qin Ming's surprise, Mo Lingwei and Baili Hui were extremely determined and refused to leave until the very last moment.

Their neighbors, the Flower Spirit Clan, have grown incredibly powerful over the past few centuries. Moreover, with the powerful Lord of Ten Thousand Flowers protecting them, they should be able to withstand even a great calamity from other races for quite some time.

Both of them wanted to make a decision after Qin Ming returned.

This made Qin Ming feel extremely ashamed. While he, their master, was thinking about how to escape, the two of them remained stationed at Little Turtle Peak without giving up, demonstrating their utmost loyalty.

However, he also left a contingency plan for the people on Little Turtle Peak. If things went wrong, they could use the inter-domain teleportation array in Tianxing City to travel to Qingfeng Valley in the Nine Dragons Domain and meet up with Master Hanya.
That place is the territory of Golden Beetle, one of the Seven Sons of Humanity. Given Qin Ming's relationship with him, this big shot will give him some face.

And next.

Qin Ming felt an immense sense of urgency regarding the planning of an opportunity to unite with Qin Ming.

The spirit world is now facing a great calamity that occurs once every hundreds of thousands of years. All races are in turmoil, and no one can remain uninvolved; everyone must choose a side or faction.

On the front lines of the Tianji Mountains, even Nascent Soul stage experts are falling, let alone the cultivators below.

After he finished planting the spirit fields in the Emerald Void Garden outside, he took out the seventh-tier 'Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns' magic wine and began to study it.

This seventh-tier wine recipe was obtained through an exchange with that mysterious woman in purple, a truly rare opportunity.

If this wine could be brewed, it might create another opportunity for union.

Qin Ming already had two seventh-tier demon cores, one of the main ingredients for brewing this seventh-tier demon wine, in addition to several spiritual items from the Fiend Clan that he had previously obtained in the Desolate Realm.

The only remaining ingredient for brewing is 'Water from the Nether Spring'.

Qin Ming learned from Qingyang the Old Demon that the water of the Nether Spring was also a rare seventh-order spiritual object, and it was only found in a few places in the Spirit Realm Demon Clan and the Ancient Demon Realm.

Only when demonic energy veins of the seventh rank or higher converge can a spring be formed.

This water from the Nether Spring is a rare and precious holy water for demons to temper their demonic bodies; ordinary demons are not qualified to enjoy it.

Even in the spirit world, only a few bottles of spring water occasionally flow out and are auctioned off in various trading companies. They are usually snapped up by various forces immediately.

Qin Ming instructed his demonic infant spirit to also keep an eye on this item, hoping to encounter it someday.

Time flies.

Three months later.

Qin Ming, along with the Devouring Sky Rat, the Little Silver Fox, and Tian Ling'er, were tending to the spirit herb field in the Small Spirit Realm when they suddenly received a message from the sect.

He immediately put down his work, left the Small Spirit Realm, and came to the outside of the Emerald Void Garden, only to find that the entire Spirit Herb Garden was ringing with bells, and saw that Elder Chen, who was in charge of management, was summoning his disciples.

Qin Ming immediately followed several disciples of the spirit plant master, and then asked them:
"Fellow Daoists, what has happened?"

"Why make such a big fuss?"

When Qin Ming asked this question, the disciples looked at him with extreme surprise, as if he were a monster.

"Fellow Daoist Li, it's one thing for you to stay indoors, but how come you don't know about such a big thing that happened in the sect?"

“These past few days I have been in seclusion cultivating, and I haven’t paid much attention to the affairs of the sect. I would appreciate any guidance from you fellow Daoists.” Qin Ming was also curious upon hearing this, and immediately cupped his hands in greeting.

Seeing this, one of the disciples from the Spirit Herb Garden patiently explained, "We only learned about this recently. We heard that the three major sects of Tianyuan Domain are going to have a public competition to determine the ownership of Hanguang Cave Mountain Range, and the venue for this competition has been chosen to be our Lingmiao Sect."

"Furthermore, it seems that something went wrong at the Taiyi Sect. After discussions among the high-level leaders of the three sects, the rules of the duel have been changed. Currently, the sects are summoning all disciples to the arena to assist in the duel."

"Old Chen should tell us the specifics later."

"This battle of magic is of great importance, concerning the sect's reputation and interests, which is why such a large-scale event has been organized."

Upon hearing this, Qin Ming immediately showed a thoughtful expression.

After a while.

When they arrived at the gate of the Spirit Herb Garden, they saw several huge sect spirit ships already docked there, seemingly there to pick up the disciples.

A large group of outer disciples had already gathered at the entrance of the Spirit Herb Garden.

Old Chen stood at the door, slowly surveying everyone before uttering a statement that surprised everyone present.

"I'm sure you all know about the upcoming Three Sects Tournament."

"The rules of this battle have been changed. It has been changed from a contest between Void Refinement stage elders to a contest between Nascent Soul stage disciples and Void Refinement stage elders."

"Therefore, even we outer disciples will likely have a chance to participate. This is an opportunity for you to change your destiny and ascend the ladder to immortality!"

"You absolutely must seize this opportunity!!"

As soon as Master Chen finished speaking, the disciples present erupted in an excited uproar!

(End of this chapter)