Chapter 1880

Elder Xuduo grinned: "I cultivate the Barbarian Dao; I improve fastest in battle." It had also heard the past events of He He Lingchuan causing a scene in the Tiangong and was very regretful: "If only it had been me that Spirit Mountain sent to Spirit Void City back then. I could have helped those few Fu Beasts."

As soon as He He Lingchuan heard this, he knew this fellow was combative, probably on par with Mother Zhu.

Looking at its muscular build, He He Lingchuan seriously suspected that Qianhuan hadn't had good intentions when it subdued it, just like when it subdued the Blood Demon.

"You are a demon immortal; the spiritual energy in the outside environment is weaker. Don't you feel uncomfortable?"

"It's uncomfortable, but not unbearable." Elder Xuduo explained, and He He Lingchuan finally understood that it was gifted; it could forcibly compress its cultivation into its Qi Sea and then go out for a stroll. However, this compression had a time limit, and hard lumps of Qi would begin to form in its body, especially since intense fighting would shorten the time limit. If it didn't return to its cave and restore its original form as soon as possible, the lumps would grow larger and larger, causing it unbearable suffering.

When He He Lingchuan heard this, he almost blurted out: isn't this cow bezoar? These monsters had all sorts of strange ways to adapt to changes in spiritual energy, but the general idea was about the same—isolating or compressing their true cultivation. For example, the Cave Spider Queen would shed her cultivation in her hard shell, layer by layer.

He had just thought of the Spider Queen when Mother Zhu came over: "The Fire Giant Lizard says the skin of True Monarch Cangxi belongs to the Spirit Void Divine Venerable!"

He He Lingchuan gave a hum, not surprised.

A True Immortal's skin is too rare; even Miao Miao Zhantian didn't have one. So the original owner of True Monarch Cangxi's skin was obvious.

Even Mother Zhu was a bit worried: "We can be considered to have formed a private feud with the Spirit Void Divine Venerable."

Losing a True Immortal's skin must be a heavy blow to the Spirit Void Divine Venerable. Miao Miao Zhantian was already dead, and Qianhuan was also dead; tracing the source, it seemed He could only blame He He Lingchuan, right? However, He He Lingchuan just shrugged when he heard this: "What's there to fear? He won't descend personally to find me."

"Hmm? Why?"

"A commander doesn't move lightly." He He Lingchuan laughed, "Since he found Qianhuan's hiding place, why didn't he come himself, instead of letting Miao Miao Zhantian come? It's because he is the supreme leader of the Spirit Void gods, and he himself cannot afford to have even the slightest accident."

"Besides, how many more True Immortal skins can he have? This thing isn't Chinese cabbage that you can plant and harvest at will." His analysis was very optimistic. "Even a Great Heavenly Demon like Miao Miao Zhantian, who ranked in the top three, has fallen. Before the Spirit Void Divine Venerable figures out the situation, how would he dare to descend personally?"

"So for a long time in the future, he definitely won't descend personally; if other Heavenly Demons descend, hehe, our strength is already not afraid of them."

After speaking, he yawned—ah, so sleepy.

Over the next few days, the Upside-Down Sea returned to calm.

Farmers went out to farm again, commoners lived their lives as usual, Silver Pearl City lifted the curfew, shops and taverns opened for business, and the docks and markets were bustling again.

In fact, people were anxious in their hearts, but they still had to eat and live their lives.

Everything seemed to have been pressed with a slow-motion button.

On Stone Dragon Mountain, the immortals and cultivators were all recuperating, including He He Lingchuan, who slept for more than a dozen hours after lying down, not even entering the Panlong World.

The best way to repair soul wounds is to sleep with one's head covered; even White Flower of the Great Luo cannot replace the effect of sleep.

The Black Armor Army and the Illusion Sect disciples like Luo Xie worked hard to clean up the battlefields of the upper and lower realms.

The Battle of the Upside-Down Sea didn't last long—only two days—but the front was long and changeable, and the fighting locations shifted frequently, bringing great difficulty to the subsequent cleanup of the battlefield.

But everyone was tired and happy, because this was the harvest season!

After five days of cleaning, collecting, organizing, and classifying, Dong Rui, who had been caught to act as a temporary accountant, saw the total figure and shouted "Holy crap," his hands shaking.

The Tiangong contributed a total of more than thirty-seven thousand jin of top-grade Profound Crystals—top-grade! Bai Bai Ziqi had stolen eighty thousand jin of top-grade Profound Crystals from the Illusion Sect's treasury to supply Miao Miao Zhantian's spellcasting and the army's fighting, but no matter how big his spending was, it was impossible to use it all up in two days. Moreover, Miao Miao Zhantian had also saved up many assets when entering the Upside-Down Sea, so now the remaining stock was very sufficient, all of which went to He He Lingchuan.

And what remained here in the Illusion Sect also had a stock of more than twenty thousand jin of top-grade Profound Crystals. The quantities of other grades of Profound Crystals were even greater, making them difficult to count for a while.

A total of sixty thousand jin of top-grade Profound Crystals—what kind of concept is this? "This old fellow Qianhuan truly realized the four words 'long-term effort' to the extreme; the Great Array of Reversing Heaven and Earth absorbed spiritual energy persistently for more than one hundred and fifty years." Dong Rui muttered, "Need to increase the pay; my research must have increased pay!"

Qianhuan's old collections over the years, as well as countless treasures, most of which were difficult to measure in terms of money.

Then there were all kinds of magic treasures, weapons, armor, medicine, spellcasting materials, talismans, arrays, etc. The gold and silver picked up were just small matters; the Black Armor Army was too lazy to even pick them up.

Dong Rui also got new toys. The Tiangong brought several Kui Beasts this time, both large and medium-sized. Although they all died in battle, Dong Rui didn't mind at all.

After emptying the research room of the Master of Red Hut, he also wanted to dismantle the Tiangong's ideas for manufacturing Kui Beasts.

The Tiangong also had four Jin Jia Divine Generals, all of which were damaged to varying degrees, and they were all received by He He Lingchuan.

This thing was extremely expensive to build; apart from state forces, almost no one could handle it. He He Lingchuan himself had only built one Jin Jia Copper General and hadn't been willing to upgrade it to a Divine General. Now it was good; the materials were suddenly abundant, and he could let Songyang Mansion start research when he returned to the Flash Gold Plain.

Apart from burning money, Jin Jia Divine Generals rarely had other problems, making them especially suitable for city defense and breakthrough battles.

Strangely, He He Lingchuan also found more than nine hundred empty Punishment Dragon Pillars in Bai Bai Ziqi's storage bag.

This quantity was truly astonishing.

Besides this, he also had a large, inconspicuous but very important gain:

The classics and seeds of the Illusion Sect.

This was an Immortal Sect that had continued from the ancient times to the present; its inheritance had never been broken, and from history to cultivation methods, the classics were very complete.

And the spiritual rice and medicine planted by the Illusion Sect in the Upside-Down Sea had also gone through a round of emergency harvesting in the past few days.

Since the Illusion Sect had already merged into Yangshan, He He Lingchuan had the power to mobilize everything at any time.

The stay or departure of the sect members was also basically determined; about two hundred and ninety people were willing to follow He He Lingchuan to leave, and bringing their families, it became more than one thousand people.

The rest chose to live in the Upside-Down Sea for a long time.

Not everyone had the courage to leave their hometown and start over, even if "going out" looked better than "staying behind."

He He Lingchuan kept his contract with Xiao Wencheng, respecting their final choices without interference.

So, in addition to receiving these Illusion Sect cultivators, He He Lingchuan's trip to the Upside-Down Sea this time also subdued the Blood Demon and True Person Jieshui, and obtained two great immortals/demon immortals, Liu Qingdao and Xuduo, as well as the great demon Ya Taowu who originally guarded the Illusion Sect's treasury.

Some of the monsters brought into the Upside-Down Sea by the Tiangong were recruited from the Flash Gold Plain, and five or six of them also surrendered to He He Lingchuan.

Counting Mother Zhu and Dong Rui, the number of powerful thugs around him suddenly increased.

On the eighth sunrise after the end of the Battle of the Upside-Down Sea, the sea was calm, and ten ships were ready to set sail.

Among them were the large ships driven by the Tiangong, as well as the Illusion Sect's own magic treasure ships, fully loaded with the manpower and treasures He He Lingchuan had newly acquired.

Everyone was waiting for the small cave-heaven to open.

The sky was clear for ten thousand miles, and everyone could see the giant clam's mountain-like hard shell still tightly closed.

As the last large ship was launched, He He Lingchuan lightly pressed the Divine Bone necklace at his collar:

"Open the small cave-heaven; it's time for us to go out."

As soon as the words fell, Silver Pearl Island began to tremble, and the seawater also bubbled as if it were boiling.

Reading the original text!

Right under the gaze of everyone, the translucent clam shell at the edge of the Upside-Down Sea slowly opened, at a very slow speed.

This was also He He Lingchuan's special request; otherwise, if the clam shell opened suddenly and the seawater poured in madly, it would surely cause a tsunami.

Even so, the giant clam shell was simply too huge; no matter how it opened, it looked like a floodgate being opened. The surging seawater swept over, creating a wild wave nearly a zhang high on the shore of Silver Pearl Island! After the first two large waves passed, the sea surface was truly turbulent for a long time before it slowly returned to calm.

And the moment the golden sunlight shone directly on Silver Pearl Island, the huge clam mountain actually reflected seven-colored light like a soap bubble for an instant, and then slowly disappeared.

Everyone lay on the ship's rail, eyes wide, fearing they would miss this rare wonder of the world.

The sky was bluer, the sunlight was brighter, and the giant clam had disappeared; the sea ahead was boundless.

He He Lingchuan lifted his chin, and the giant vulture perched on the ship's rail flapped its wings and took off, heading overseas.

The Blood Demon had attached itself to the Cave Infant King again; after Dong Rui's modification, it liked this skin very much.

It flew high and far, until it reached the edge of everyone's vision, before turning back and circling the flagship, drawing several "∞" shapes back and forth.

This meant that the path ahead was clear.

The clam shell barrier had indeed disappeared.

He He Lingchuan waved his hand, and a loud horn sounded behind him.

Set sail.

The fleet rode the white waves, slowly sailing toward the ten thousand acres of blue waves under the escort of seagulls.

Looking back, Silver Pearl Island was the same as when they arrived, only the terrain was slightly different. But everyone here understood that the Mirage Realm had disappeared, and this place had returned to reality, with no more division between the upper and lower realms.

The place where the ghost people lived and the source of the Sea Yakshas would never exist again.

After the Mirage Realm disappeared, although the concentration of spiritual energy on the island would tend to be the same as the outside world, there would never be Yakshas coming out of the lake to eat people again. The residents of the island could be freed from more than a hundred years of fear.

Liu Qingdao, Xuduo, and the Illusion Sect disciples stood at the stern of the ship, bowing toward the direction of Silver Pearl Island.

They were not bowing to the island itself, but to the Immortal Venerable Qianhuan!

At the request of the Illusion Sect, He He Lingchuan left Qianhuan's true body in the sea. For a sea monster, this was the most decent funeral.

The Great Fang Hu had already taken the spoils it wanted, and the True Immortal's body required a massive amount of spiritual energy to maintain. He He Lingchuan felt he couldn't afford it, so he went with the flow and agreed to the Illusion Sect's request.

He had just received all of Qianhuan's inheritance and even brought the Illusion Sect under his command; if he turned around and coveted the Immortal Venerable's body, his appearance would be too ugly.

Without proper spiritual energy support, the True Immortal's body would soon decay, and the Heavenly Demons wouldn't be able to use it either, just like countless immortals of the past.

Rest in peace.

Following the sea breeze, the fleet soon left the Upside-Down Sea behind.

As the morning was ending, someone suddenly exclaimed: "Look, a storm!"

Everyone turned back together; the sky was covered with dark clouds, and the originally calm sea was surging again.

Only half a stick of incense later, a giant storm formed again, with lightning and thunder.

The ten-day deadline had arrived, and the Upside-Down Sea was closing again; Silver Pearl Island would soon be taken away by the superstorm.

The Illusion Sect members wept one after another, saying a final farewell to their hometown.

He He Lingchuan and the others looked at the giant storm, also feeling many emotions.

When they arrived, three parties were competing for hegemony; on the return journey, one family dominated.

In this world-shaking battle between immortals and demons, it was ultimately He He Lingchuan and these inconspicuous humans who had the last laugh and won everything! It was thrilling at the time, but now it felt like a lifetime ago.

The giant vulture folded its wings and landed on the bow, asking He He Lingchuan: "Where to now?"

"The central part of the Flash Gold Plain." He He Lingchuan stood against the wind, full of ambition, "My plan is finally about to begin!"

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"Flash Gold Plain (Volume 1)" ends here; the next chapter enters "Flash Gold Plain (Volume 2)." This will be a compact and concise volume.