Chapter 134: The Lost Qingdi Changsheng Gong

Shh!

Ye Ming and the others let out a long breath; their small group got along well, and they naturally did not want Liu Haodong to perish here!

"Get up!"

Wang Ping smiled faintly and spoke!

"Oh, oh, all right, Brother Lan, thank you for saving my life, Brother Lan!" Liu Haodong, who had just been frightened to the ground, suddenly rose, bowed, and thanked him.

Wang Ping smiled and said, "Taking people's money and wealth to avert disaster for them, since I promised to bring you to this trial, I will do my utmost to preserve your lives!"

Having said that, he spoke loudly, "Gather your spoils within the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, then leave this place at once."

After an hour, in a hidden mountain cave, Wang Ping sat cross-legged on a slightly higher stone, smiling as he asked:

"Everyone! How do you feel after the battle?"

Ye Ming and the others, having recovered fifty to sixty percent of their spiritual power, lowered their heads in thought for a while, then finally asked, puzzled:

"Brother Lan! How could you kill that demonic beast in a single strike? Even if it was already at the end of its strength, we couldn't manage a guaranteed kill; at best we could only do what Liu Haodong did."

Liu Haodong pursed his lips, offering no excuse, for he had indeed not slain the demonic monkey.

Wang Ping chuckled and said, "First, the application of spiritual power. Second, keen eyesight!"

"That is, your spiritual power is exceptionally pure and thick, able to support your reckless bursting forth with such mighty techniques; plus, those demonic monkeys lack defensive prowess, which let you scrape by victorious. If it were that demonic elephant instead, with its thick hide and sturdy flesh, even double your spiritual power would prove it."

"Think about it: after defeating those demonic monkeys, which of you could still have thirty percent of your spiritual power left?"

"Surely your elders taught you to use spiritual power wisely in battle, but think back—did you recall any of that during the fight just now?"

"After all, this is our first battle, and we won, didn't we?"

Among the crowd, a female cultivator with fairly good looks muttered.

Hehe!

Wang Ping smirked inwardly; he wasn't really annoyed, since he didn't expect these people to become talented or achieve rankings—between them it was merely a transaction, not worth getting angry over.

Seeing Wang Ping smile without speaking, Ye Ming turned his head toward the female cultivator who had just muttered, and said with a slight anger:

"What are you saying, Yun Yun? Shortcomings are shortcomings; thanks only to Elder Brother Lan holding the line for us today, otherwise several of us would surely have died! You know full well how many have perished in past trials at the jaws of demonic beasts!"

Yun Yun's face flushed red, and with many in the team glaring at him with complaints, his heart trembled; he hastily rose and bowed to Wang Ping to apologize.

Wang Ping waved his hand, "Customers! Even ordinary folks know to greet with a smile; he wouldn't dare put on a sour face toward paying customers."

He then continued, "Eyesight comes from experience; the more you fight, the roughly you can locate a demonic beast's weak point!"

Liu Haodong thought seriously for a moment, then continued asking, "Elder Brother Lan, what if we can't find the weak point?"

Wang Ping replied without hesitation, "Then we fight! If we can't win, we flee—there's nothing shameful about that!"

"In short, my role here is merely a safety net; you should focus more on recalling your elders' teachings, combine them with today's practical combat, and think it over carefully."

Having said that, Wang Ping closed his eyes to cultivate; after entering Foundation Establishment, his spiritual roots improved, and with all-out cultivation, leveraging the loophole in the rules, he estimated that in one Spirit Realm day he could condense over eight hundred strands of spiritual power!

Such a cultivation speed is undoubtedly astonishing; the spiritual power vortex forming above him left Ye Ming and the others gaping.

Liu Haodong nudged Ye Ming beside him and whispered, "Do you think Brother Lan has a special cultivation physique? This cultivation speed is terrifying!"

Ye Ming shook his head with a solemn expression, saying, "I'm not sure; I've never witnessed such a cultivation physique in action, so I can't speculate! But just from this momentum, it's not far off from those prodigies."

"Huh!"

Liu Haodong let out a surprised "Huh!" which drew everyone's attention.

Luo Ning, who had fought the mid-stage second-rank demonic monkey alongside Ye Ming and Liu Haodong, lowly growled in dissatisfaction, "Haodong! Can't you be quiet for a moment?"

Liu Haodong didn't mind; instead, he lowered his voice and said, "Did everyone notice? Elder Brother Lan seems to be cultivating the Qingdi Changsheng Gong!"

As soon as that name was spoken, everyone's interest was piqued, and they all turned their gazes toward Wang Ping.

With so many eyes on him, Wang Ping had naturally noticed long ago; moreover, since he wasn't deep in cultivation, he also heard Liu Haodong's words.

Seeing Wang Ping open his eyes, Liu Haodong hurriedly asked, "Elder Brother Lan! Are you cultivating the Qingdi Changsheng Gong?"

Wang Ping calmly nodded; the Qingdi Changsheng Gong originates from the Spirit Realm, and since its name contains the character "Emperor", it is naturally extraordinary.

He had also long anticipated being recognized for it in the Spirit Realm, so he felt little surprise.

"It really is the Qingdi Changsheng Gong—a method that leads straight to the Great Completion stage!"

"Just who is Elder Brother Lan, that he can cultivate the Qingdi Changsheng Gong!"

"Wasn't it said that this technique vanished with the disappearance of the Green Emperor?"

Wang Ping's thoughts churned as he listened—the Qingdi Changsheng Gong actually leads directly to the Great Completion stage, and that Green Emperor, having vanished, caused the technique to be lost as well.

"Not good!" Wang Ping felt a sudden surge of vigilance—since the technique has been lost for so long, the fact that he possesses the Qingdi Changsheng Gong is bound to spread.

For a moment killing intent flared in him, but he suppressed it, deciding first to hear what they had to say.

"You also know the Qingdi Changsheng Gong?" Wang Ping asked doubtfully.

Liu Haodong spoke without yielding, "Elder Brother Lan, low-level cultivators in other great domains of humanity may have forgotten the Qingdi Changsheng Gong, but we in the Profound Yellow Realm certainly have not! For the Green Emperor is a cultivator who emerged from our Profound Yellow Realm!"

"Yes, yes! The Green Emperor lived for 180,000 years, but vanished suddenly ten thousand years ago—actually not so sudden, for on that day a terrifying battle erupted on Green Emperor Mountain, and by the time human experts arrived, the Green Emperor had already disappeared!"

Ye Ming added at the end, "Afterward, human cultivators discovered that all those who had practiced the Qingdi Changsheng Gong mysteriously forgot their own techniques!"

Wang Ping's heart jolted—forget one's own technique?

How could a cultivator possibly forget his own technique?

Liu Haodong continued on his own, "Back then the matter caused an uproar! The human emperor flew into a rage, ordering the entire clan to investigate thoroughly—even the human True Immortal himself once appeared!"

"A True Immortal appeared!"

Wang Ping felt that what he had heard upon entering the Spirit Realm this time was too astonishing; for a moment he even thought of quickly returning to the lower realm.

"This place is too dangerous—at the drop of a hat you encounter Great Completion cultivators, and True Immortals manifest!"

"What happened afterward?"

Wang Ping did not conceal his ignorance, believing that even if he were unaware of these matters, they amounted to nothing.

"Later?" Liu Haodong shook his head and said.

"Later, several major wars broke out, then things calmed down, and then even the Qingdi Changsheng Gong was lost!"