Chapter 145: You've Finally Returned!

Bishop Qiao En left Daci Dabe Temple early in the morning and canceled his subsequent itinerary to Sakura Country.

This naturally attracted the attention of some people.

Some speculated that this was related to him meeting Grandmaster Yuan Ci.

Regarding this, Grandmaster Yuan Ci naturally wore an innocent expression.

He had already been very careful with his words; aside from hinting that he knew the other party was a mortal and hoping to have a transcendental exchange with him, there didn't seem to be anything out of line, right?

Could it be that the other party was so anxious to personally convey his message to their transcendent?

Grandmaster Yuan Ci thought this, but did not tell anyone.

Bishop Qiao En took a private plane and landed at an airport near Sheng Cheng, then immediately ran to meet His Holiness without a moment's delay.

No one knew what this bishop and His Holiness talked about in private.

Only that the two of them stayed in the secret room for a full five hours.

Afterward, His Holiness convened a grand assembly and, in front of most of the cardinals, bestowed a holy object upon Bishop Qiao En and granted him greater authority.

Subsequently, Bishop Qiao En held the holy object and began issuing orders, establishing a new special organization named the Shepherd.

In the near future, this organization would use reasons such as recruitment to start with members of the grassroots organizations they could control, collecting blood samples from those elite soldiers and strong generals.

The various parties did not know the inside story, but this did not affect them from each exerting their own magical powers to insert their own people like sand to try and find out the truth.

Additionally, the collections of books regarding transcendence in major museums were also being worked on overtime by staff to be organized and uploaded.

Afterward, the intelligence personnel of the major forces discovered that the situation was a little different from what they had expected.

These so-called secret inheritances of the various sects and schools, the transcendental inheritances.

It wasn't that they couldn't be found, but that there were simply... too many of them!

The names were more pleasant-sounding than the last, and the people who annotated them had more impressive backgrounds than the last.

These seemed to be real cultivation secret manuals and mysterious rituals; once one really started collecting them, one would find that a single library probably wouldn't be enough to hold them all!

And this was only a part of what was on the surface.

If one counted the various Side-Door Paths, evil arts, and black witchcraft popular among the common people in the shadows.

The total amount could more than double again.

This made the officials in charge of this area complain endlessly.

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Pot Heaven.

Su Ping sat cross-legged in the room, practicing the Water Moon Formless secret technique.

After Foundation Establishment, the progress of his cultivation had slowed down.

It wasn't until he ate the Red Blood Rainbow Carp and obtained the Big Dipper Seven Stars Body that Su Ping felt it speed up again.

And after the trip to the Bai family of Jinquan ended.

Su Ping, who had obtained a large number of Superior Pills, took these pills and went to various markets, including Yunshan Market, under the identity of Exorcist Mage Yunkong.

He exchanged them for a large quantity of middle and low-grade pills suitable for Foundation Establishment.

Only then was he able to put his cultivation improvement back on the fast track.

This made Su Ping sigh that he was indeed not suited for blind, bitter cultivation.

It was more suitable to combine pill-popping with Purification Spirit Medicine.

Hum!

Su Ping spat out a breath of ice-blue Qi, ending today's practice.

Afterward, he took out a middle-grade Nourishing Pill that increased Dharma Power cultivation and swallowed it.

Only then did he switch to God's-eye view to observe every move in Pot Heaven at this moment.

Zhou Xuan was still continuing to refine pills.

That Bronze Pill Furnace had made his pill-refining experience increase very quickly recently.

Currently, he was already able to refine Superior Blood Qi Pills.

His own cultivation had also reached the Qi Refining Third Layer, and he had practiced various Martial Dao Divine Skills.

If released onto Blue Star, he could at least count as a human-shaped tank.

After Shanawati returned to her hometown, her enthusiasm for learning had greatly improved.

It seemed she very much enjoyed the feeling of being a Saintess, respected and sought after by people from all around.

As a Blood Talisman Spirit Body, Shanawati's progress in the way of talismans could be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.

Coupled with the fact that her own blood could increase the success rate of Talismans.

In these few days, she had learned the remaining few types of First Tier High Grade Talismans.

It was just that her own cultivation was too low, barely at the Qi Refining Second Layer, and insufficient Dharma Power led to low output.

However, Su Ping was not in a hurry and never urged her regarding Talismans; he did not intend to pull up the seedlings to help them grow.

Finally, there was He Mao Chun Yi Lang, whom Su Ping focused on.

After this person was locked in the Little Dark Room, he did display the qualities a cultivator should have.

He practiced bitterly for a full week before showing signs of restlessness and anxiety.

It was only when the other party's emotions showed violent fluctuations that Su Ping allowed the Fox-Masked Shrine Maiden to appear before him.

While clearing up his confusion, he took out the Magic Path Technique Su Ping had obtained and began to earnestly teach this He Mao Chun Yi Lang.

These Magic Path Techniques mainly involved the way of incense.

For He Mao Chun Yi Lang, a Yin-Yang Master with a Nether Ghost Body, it was like a match made in heaven.

Su Ping was not afraid of the other party learning it and rebelling.

After all, once he left Pot Heaven, he would lack the combination of the Spirit Gathering Array and Spirit Stones.

Even with mysterious knowledge, he had nowhere to use it.

Furthermore, Su Ping had already reached Foundation Establishment.

It was impossible for him to fear that He Mao Chun Yi Lang, a Cultivator who had just entered Qi Refining and barely reached the first level, could turn the world upside down.

Not to mention that Magic Path Techniques inherently had weaknesses like unstable foundations and a tendency to cause sudden death; without Purification Spirit Medicine to assist in cultivation, the path ahead was bleak.

He Mao Chun Yi Lang did not know this now, even though he vaguely felt during practice that this technique was overbearing and strange, and that any mistake could lead to Qi deviation.

But truthfully speaking.

The secret techniques they practiced in reality were equally perilous.

There were those who suffered from split personalities after Qi deviation, and those who became idiots.

And most crucially, even if one successfully learned the secret techniques in reality, there were no supernatural transformations like those in novels and television.

But the things learned in this Secret Realm... could have them, and even exceed them!

When Su Ping looked over.

He Mao Chun Yi Lang was sitting cross-legged in the Little Dark Room with disheveled hair, reading the Incense Guidance Formula on the silk scroll by the light of the fireball hanging overhead.

This was a key secret technique of the incense path, using a host body as a transit station to guide the incense divine thoughts of believers into statues or other Spirit Objects for storage.

In addition, there was a set of accompanying secret techniques for forming incense pills.

Using the host body itself as a pill furnace, taking the absorbed incense divine thoughts as the main material, and supplementing it with heaven and earth Spirit Qi and special medicinal herbs.

Refining the incense divine thoughts within the body into individual incense divine pills.

When needed, one only had to break the pill to draw out the incense divine thoughts inside.

However, these secret techniques could only be performed if one had the relevant Spirit Body.

Generally, people with Spirit Roots who performed these secret techniques would end up becoming incense acolytes, and eventually, the whole person would turn into incense ash; it was a technique that completely harmed oneself to benefit others.

Boom!

He Mao Chun Yi Lang suddenly woke up from his state of focused concentration, and then saw a white-haired youth appear in the room.

Although he was a bit puzzled as to why it wasn't that Shrine Maiden, He Mao Chun Yi Lang still hurriedly stood up and bowed respectfully.

He knew very well in his heart that whoever could appear in these places, regardless of gender, age, or seniority, was someone he could not afford to offend.

"I am Yunkong, an official Exorcist Mage of the Yun Family, a family of exorcists."

Su Ping controlled Yunkong to introduce himself to this He Mao Chun Yi Lang:

"Your time is up; follow me out to tidy up, and then you can go back."

"Go... go back? So soon?"

He Mao Chun Yi Lang knew he was going back to lead the fellow practitioners of Sakura Country to condense the power of the nation's faith to help those big shots.

But he had not expected it to be so soon.

He could feel that there were still many spells he had not learned, and his cultivation had far from reached the bottleneck mentioned in the books.

"Hehe, you are just a novice Cultivator who has just made an Entry; you haven't made any contributions, so it's already good luck that you were allowed to stay for so long."

"Want to continue coming to this Spirit Realm to cultivate, or even get better treatment?"

"Then it depends on how well you do after you go back."

"Do you know what to do after you go back?"

"I know! The Shrine Maiden has already given instructions, and the books provided also have detailed records."

Just as He Mao Chun Yi Lang finished speaking, this Exorcist Mage Yunkong waved his large hand, causing the door of the Little Dark Room to swing wide open!

The mist outside surged in and swept up this He Mao Chun Yi Lang.

And then, within just a few breaths in the mist, he was sent into the bathhouse in a guest room of the Zhaoyue Tingfeng Pavilion.

After being violently scrubbed clean, fed a Middle-grade Qi and Blood Pill, and changed into a new set of clothes tailored from fabric provided by the Jinquan Bai family.

He Mao Chun Yi Lang was kicked out of the Pot Heaven, looking brand new.

He appeared in the hospital room where he had originally disappeared.

At this moment, in this special VIP hospital room.

A certain Cabinet Minister was lying on the hospital bed, chatting with the nurses under the pretext of a stomachache.

The sudden appearance of He Mao Chun Yi Lang gave this minister and the nurses a big fright.

Amidst a burst of "Baka, Yamete" exclamations.

The alarm sounded loudly.

The security guards responsible for safety rushed in from outside.

And then, after seeing clearly who had caused the commotion.

The two security guards were stunned on the spot, and in the next second, they were brought back to their senses by the angry reprimand of the Cabinet Minister, who had suddenly recovered from his stomach illness and jumped off the bed; they hurriedly lowered their heads and retreated.

"Is... is it Grandmaster He Mao?"

"You have finally returned!"

"Sakura Capital cannot be without you, His Majesty the Sakura Emperor cannot be without you!"

This Cabinet Minister revealed a face of joy mixed with tears, using the most sincere tone.

This was something He Mao Chun Yi Lang had never seen on the faces of big shots in his life.

Yet he did not expect to see it just after returning.

He knew that the things he had to do next would inevitably require cooperation with these bureaucrats.

Plus, he had spent the first half of his life drifting in Sakura Capital, and his friends and relatives were all living under the shadow of others in Sakura Capital.

Becoming extraordinary was only a matter of the recent period.

He still could not bring himself to disregard the powerful.

After nodding slightly, he said to this Cabinet Minister:

"Your Excellency Bao Jiu, please contact the Sakura Emperor and the Prime Minister."

"Tell them I have returned with important news and need to meet them immediately to convene an emergency meeting!"

"Yes!"

The Cabinet Minister was slightly taken aback, but immediately responded as if meeting the Prime Minister, and hurriedly took out a dedicated mobile phone to start making a call.

Not long after.

The news that He Mao Chun Yi Lang of Sakura Capital had returned to the Sakura Country, which gave him a warm welcome, spread out.

Following closely was the news that this Yin-Yang Master had immediately found the Prime Minister and the Sakura Emperor to convene an emergency meeting.

This caused all factions to be unable to resist sending forces to scout for information.

Then, the news could not be hidden at all, or perhaps they did not intend to hide it.

Very quickly, all factions knew that He Mao Chun Yi Lang had brought news.

It was said that the Sakura Country would still face natural and man-made disasters.

In order to minimize losses as much as possible, the power of the sects must be integrated, and then a large-scale Dharma Assembly must be held to collect the faith of the nation.

Only then would there be a chance to mitigate losses as much as possible under the great catastrophe!