Chapter 1064

Three days passed in a flash.

Yunmen family, ninth peak, inside the formation.

After a year of healing, with the help of the rich spiritual energy here and the power of the purple crystal, Xu Qing finally completely recovered from the Dao injury in his body.

The moment his eyes opened, his originally pale complexion also showed a rosy glow.

The sickly feeling on his body was swept away.

The coughing that had lingered for a year finally stopped, and the feeling of transparency in his body during breathing made Xu Qing's opening eyes also show a long-lost clarity.

Following this was the vigorous rise of cultivation in his body, and the heavy meaning of his own Dao methods precipitated over the past year.

Compared to a year ago, the change was huge.

If Xu Qing a year ago was a sharp dagger, then after a year of healing and precipitation, he had turned into a heavy sword.

And he had a scabbard!

He could hide his edge.

"It is time to leave."

Xu Qing raised his head and gazed at the horizon.

Everything was as usual; the three cultivators outside the formation were still meditating.

In these last three days, there was no coincidental sudden outbreak of the two-clan decisive battle, nor did any powerhouse appear suddenly.

In Xu Qing's perception, the ancestor of the Yunmen family was still lingering on.

As for his true combat power and the fact that he possessed a token, it had not been exposed either.

"The purple crystal is indeed of huge help to me."

Xu Qing sensed the purple crystal and muttered in his heart.

During the time he was healing in the mud pool, he had tried to use the purple crystal to shield others from detecting his Quasi-Immortal Capital Token.

In fact, he had tried this many times after integrating the Quasi-Immortal Capital Token, but all failed.

The two sides seemed to repel each other.

And the material of the Quasi-Immortal Capital Token was extremely special, appearing to have an inexplicable attraction to this Fifth Star Ring.

Finally, in the mud pool, Xu Qing thought of a barely passable method.

The principle was the relationship between the Little Shadow and the purple crystal.

He turned the Little Shadow into a thin film, covered it on his skin, and then displayed the suppressing power of the purple crystal.

Suppressing the Little Shadow was also suppressing himself.

By continuous suppression, he indirectly achieved the effect of shielding.

But there were also flaws; on one hand, the Little Shadow sent out crying emotional fluctuations every day.

On the other hand, it was the consumption.

Continuous stimulation caused huge consumption to Xu Qing's soul.

If the range was not as good as his own token holder, Xu Qing could still bear this consumption.

But if the other party's range exceeded his own, it would be difficult to complete; forced concealment would cause consumption that Xu Qing could not support in an instant, and the Little Shadow could not bear it either.

Ultimately, he was still too weak.

But fortunately, Xu Qing's token range was now not small; although there were those who could surpass him, in this lazy west, unless a battle was inevitable, they would mostly not approach each other.

After all, it hadn't reached the intense time of the second stage yet.

As for the Yunmen and Earth Spirit clans, the token holders within their clans were not as good as Xu Qing in range, so under Xu Qing's shielding, they could not detect that there was such a person beside them.

It was also because of this that Xu Qing finally chose to join when the Yunmen family recruited externally.

And the war between the two clans also made fewer outsiders here, most of whom avoided it.

This gave Xu Qing a relatively safe period of time.

Today, he finally completely recovered from the Dao injury on his body.

"However, although there were no accidents in these three days, there was a task that came from within the Yunmen family..."

Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, withdrew his gaze from the horizon, and landed on a jade slip in front of him.

This jade slip came yesterday.

It specified a task for Xu Qing.

Escort a Yunmen clansman to Black Cloud City; the sooner the departure time, the better.

"At this moment when the final battle of the Yunmen family is about to break out, this task..."

Xu Qing was thoughtful.

"This is bait."

"However, the conditions given are quite good."

Xu Qing's spiritual sense landed on the jade slip; it clearly stated that the reward for completing this task was the kind of mud containing spatial energy that he had been searching for all year.

Such a coincidence was naturally planned long ago.

Clearly, the family's caravan had not just found clues, but had already found it, just didn't tell Xu Qing.

If his injury hadn't recovered, he wouldn't have accepted this task, even if he really wanted to get that item.

But now...

Xu Qing thought for a while and pointed at the jade slip.

As the jade slip's halo shone, half an hour later, a long rainbow whistled from the core mountain range of the Yunmen family toward the ninth peak.

The speed was not slow, emitting the cultivation fluctuation of the third stage of Return to Void.

Soon, it arrived at the top of the ninth peak.

The three people sitting cross-legged here had strange expressions and gazed over.

The person who came was a woman.

This woman was dressed in white, full of plainness, and at the same time, gray patterns appeared and disappeared on her clothes, emitting array restriction power.

As for her appearance, she was quite beautiful, with a clear sense of freshness, like petals at the first light of dawn.

Her brows also revealed a gentle air, as if a thousand words were hidden in her eyes that seemed to be able to speak.

At this moment, as her steps swayed lightly, she added a bit of agility; after arriving at the ninth peak, she walked a few quick steps and bowed respectfully to Xu Qing inside the formation.

"Yunmen Qianfan pays respects to Senior Yan Xuanzi."

"The person I am to send is you?" Inside the formation, Xu Qing's gaze was like electricity, landing on the woman, and he spoke indifferently.

Being looked at by Xu Qing like this, the woman felt a bit nervous in her heart.

"Troubling you, Senior."

Xu Qing was expressionless; just as his gaze was about to be withdrawn, he looked at the woman's chest the next instant, and his eyes condensed.

"Interesting, come in for a moment."

Xu Qing waved his hand, and the formation opened a gap.

The woman was even more nervous upon hearing this, but knowing that this matter concerned her future life and death, she took a deep breath, stepped toward the formation, passed through the gap in front, and entered the formation, arriving in front of Xu Qing.

Looking at the middle-aged man in front of her, the woman's mind brought up various information about the other party over the past year, and she sighed in her heart, secretly wondering if her choice was right or wrong.

Because according to the family's arrangement, there were three people she could choose from for this escort, and she finally gave up the other two and chose Yan Xuanzi in front of her.

The reason for this was that her constitution was special, and she had practiced divination since she was young.

Since knowing what she had to face, she had tried many times to divine for herself to find a way to survive, and finally, only from this person in front of her did she divine a glimmer of life for herself.

But this glimmer sometimes existed and sometimes disappeared.

But she was also a decisive person, secretly thinking that since she had already chosen, then... determination appeared in her eyes, she bit her silver teeth, and without waiting for Xu Qing to ask, she bowed to Xu Qing first and spoke rapidly.

"Senior, Qianfan has an important matter to inform you; this time, my Yunmen family's task was not only given to you, Senior."

"In fact, a total of fourteen were issued!"

"Each one specifies a guest elder of the family to escort a core clansman to a different city."

"The reason for this is that among us, someone carries a secret key by a special method, which concerns the family's future rise."

"But who exactly carries it, even we ourselves don't know; it might be with me, it might be with others, or it might be that none of us have it."

"But no matter what, except for the person who truly carries the secret key, everyone else is bait to attract the Earth Spirit clan."

After speaking, Yunmen Qianfan let out a long breath; she knew she was gambling, and since she was gambling, she had to go all out, so she raised her hand and took out a box from where Xu Qing had looked before.

She opened it.

Inside the box, there was shockingly a lump of mud the size of a fist!

Bursts of spatial energy radiated from within, distorting the surroundings.

This was exactly what Xu Qing wanted.

According to the jade slip's task, he would only obtain it after completing the task.

But now, the other party took it out in advance, and Xu Qing also saw that this object was not sealed now.

But there were traces of having been sealed, which should have been unsealed not long ago, and there was some blood, so he thought the method of unsealing was done with blood.

"This spatial soil is what you, Senior, have been seeking for this past year; after I obtained it from the family, it was originally sealed, and this seal was locked to my life; only with my own source blood, when I am willing, can it be opened."

"After thinking about it, I did not want to use this method to threaten you, Senior, so I have already unsealed it."

After speaking, Yunmen Qianfan respectfully presented it, then lowered her head and knelt down.

At this moment, she had said everything that could not be said, destroying the means her family had arranged to let her live.

Without any concealment, she did not defend herself, whether in her heart or her body; in this kneeling, she was completely honest, allowing Xu Qing to check.

Xu Qing's expression was as usual; his gaze swept over the mud, and after confirming that the object was correct, he raised his hand to put it away, then looked at the woman kneeling there.

He spoke indifferently.

"A person with normal thoughts would not do as you did."

Yunmen Qianfan took a deep breath and responded in a low voice.

"My constitution is special, and I practice the way of divination, but I did not divine for you, Senior, nor did I dare to, but rather divined where my own request came from, and the divination result pointed to nine."

Xu Qing's gaze sank.

"What do you seek?"

"I want... to live, to live until Black Cloud City."

The woman raised her head and spoke softly.

Xu Qing did not give an answer immediately, but thought for a while, then slowly stood up and walked toward the outside of the formation.

Every step he took, the formation rippled.

Yunmen Qianfan, who was kneeling there, was anxious in her heart; as she lowered her head and felt worried about gains and losses, Xu Qing had already walked past her.

"Follow."

As the sound came and fell into Yunmen Qianfan's ears, her whole heart fluctuated violently; she immediately stood up and followed behind Xu Qing.

The entire ninth peak shook suddenly.

As the formation rippled, amidst the respect of the three cultivators, Xu Qing walked out of the formation.

One step landed in the void, forming ring-shaped fluctuations that stirred in all directions.

The second step walked onto the sky, moving toward the distance.

Yunmen Qianfan followed behind, like a maid; this was her self-positioning for the next journey.

For her, she had already paid everything as a bet, and now she could only pin her hopes on this Yan Xuanzi, whom her divination technique had pointed to.