Chapter 134: Delivered Right to the Door

Boom!

A blinding, snow-white radiance filled the sky above Wangyue Island.

It made it difficult for anyone to keep their eyes open.

Golden arcs of lightning and silver runes collided and intertwined in mid-air.

Moments later, the bright light gradually faded, and the sky returned to calm.

As the Lei Jie dissipated, the first thing to catch the eye was the towering, upright Everlasting Vine, which seemed to have transformed into the spiritual island's guardian, quietly gazing upon this land.

The Everlasting Vine's dozens of zhang-long black vines danced wildly, actually blocking this final bolt of golden tribulation lightning, yet remaining completely unscathed itself.

The silver six-winged frost bee, curled up beneath the Everlasting Vine, also noticed this scene.

Its mood, which had already sunk into silence, instantly reignited with the excitement of surviving a catastrophe.

Having endured nine bolts of tribulation lightning, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth began to replenish its body.

Gradually.

The six-winged frost bee's size instantly grew to that of a calf.

Furthermore, the aura on its body thoroughly stabilized at the early stage of the second rank.

It let out an excited neigh and flew toward Qin Ming, affectionately rubbing against him.

Qin Ming reached out to stroke its head, feeling extremely gratified as well.

"Hmm, looking at its current appearance, I can't call you a six-winged frost bee anymore."

"From now on, I'll call you Silver-Yin Yi Shuangfeng."

"I wonder what abilities you have now that you've broken through to become a second-rank great demon?"

The Silver-Yin Yi Shuangfeng seemed to understand Qin Ming's words; it let out a neigh, transmitting a message directly into Qin Ming's mind.

He briefly filtered the information in his mind, and a joyful smile immediately appeared on his face.

After advancing to a second-rank great demon, the Silver-Yin Yi Shuangfeng possessed not only extremely powerful defensive capabilities throughout its body and magic-power-repelling attributes.

Its overall strength had leaped up a major tier; ordinary foundation-establishment demonic beasts were no longer its match.

First and foremost was its flight speed, which had reached an unimaginable level, comparable to a foundation-establishment late-stage cultivator flying at full speed through the air.

Secondly, a soul-destroying poisonous stinger, different from before, had formed at the tip of its tail, capable of ignoring any defensive means to attack an enemy's divine soul.

Extremely sharp! The celestial phenomenon of the recent Tribulation Crossing was naturally witnessed by the Profound Water Crocodile; it dashed back to the island in a flash, proudly sizing up the Silver-Yin Yi Shuangfeng while emitting a series of low roars.

It seemed to be congratulating it on its successful breakthrough.

Qin Ming waved his hand to dismiss the Profound Water Crocodile, then leaped into the air, landing on the back of the Silver-Yin Yi Shuangfeng.

The Silver-Yin Yi Shuangfeng immediately understood Qin Ming's intention and let out a joyful neigh at once.

Its six silver wings trembled, and with a "Whoosh," it carried Qin Ming and vanished from the spot.

In an instant, it traced a streak of silver light across the sky.

Feeling the lightning-fast speed of the Silver-Yin Yi Shuangfeng, Qin Ming was immensely exhilarated.

With this second-rank great demon as a flying mount, he would no longer need the Spirit Light Shuttle in the future.

The speed of the two was simply like one being in the heavens and the other on the ground.

Moreover, having this beast for transportation in the future meant he wouldn't need to consume any of his own magic power.

Qin Ming rode the Silver-Yin Yi Shuangfeng, flying at extreme speed in a wide circle around the perimeter of Wangyue Lake; its energy remained incredibly abundant, requiring no rest at all.

After experiencing the Silver-Yin Yi Shuangfeng's ultimate speed, Qin Ming rode it back to Wangyue Island.

He then tossed a Nether Spirit Pill to it, instructing it to continue consolidating its realm.

From this day forward, he had gained another powerful beast pet.

Wu Jiang also saw Qin Ming returning while riding the Silver-Yin Yi Shuangfeng; gazing at the imposing silver bee flying mount, he revealed deep envy—this was yet another foundation-establishment great demon!

"Hehehe! Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Qin, on your spiritual pet's further advancement!"

This time, Wu Jiang's heart was thoroughly put at ease; now, Wangyue Island suddenly had two additional foundation-establishment great demons.

One must know that the strength of a foundation-establishment great demon is often several times greater than that of a human foundation-establishment cultivator of the same rank.

Furthermore, these two spiritual pets of Fellow Daoist Qin clearly were not ordinary second-rank demonic beasts; they were likely the cream of the crop.

Their true power was even more indescribable, and the safety of Wangyue Island had suddenly improved significantly.

Qin Ming was also in a good mood; he smiled, nodded, and rewarded Wu Jiang with a Spirit-Nurturing Pill.

Wu Jiang accepted the pill with immense joy and withdrew.

In the days that followed.

Aside from his cultivation, Qin Ming began studying the third-rank spiritual planter inheritance he had obtained from Mo Lingwei.

This inheritance recorded methods for cultivating various high-grade spiritual plants, even involving many obscure and niche spiritual plants, offering great help and improvement to Qin Ming.

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month passed.

The clashes between the Seventy-Two San Alliance and the Zhao family occurred every few days within the spiritual energy Archipelago.

The spreading flames of war naturally attracted many calamity cultivators and evil-path cultivators looking to profit from the chaos.

Many scattered cultivators were forced to flee this place, temporarily seeking refuge in Canghai Xiancheng.

Within the Tianhe Market, because large powers were stationed there, some petty villains dared not cause trouble, allowing it to remain intact; however, the rent for shops inside had risen along with the tide.

In just one short month, prices within the market surged continuously by several times over.

A few more days passed.

Near the usually tranquil Wangyue Lake, figures flashed.

Surprisingly, there were audacious bandits who had set their sights on the remote Wangyue Island.

These people were one of the several groups of foundation-establishment calamity cultivators recently notorious throughout the spiritual energy Archipelago: the faction of the Evil-Faced Old Monster.

Among this group of calamity cultivators, the Evil-Faced Old Monster, at the early stage of foundation establishment, served as the leader; he committed every kind of evil and killed countless people.

Rumors circulated in the outside world that the massacres and exterminations of Kongtong Island and Yushui Island were most likely the work of this band of heinous rogue cultivators.

Previously.

The Evil-Faced Old Monster had inadvertently received news that on this inconspicuous, remote spiritual island, a spirit planter had actually cultivated the legendary Spirit-Perching Rice, making him intensely covetous.

Furthermore, through a special channel, they had already ascertained that there was only one Foundation Establishment cultivator on the island: Qin Ming, the Island Lord of Wangyue Island.

Although rumors among the folk claimed this person's combat prowess was truly formidable, their side possessed two early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

They believed that seizing Wangyue Island by surprise would be a mere trifle.

On a moonless, windy night, the Evil-Faced Old Monster and his cohort secretly sneaked into the vicinity of Wangyue Lake.

"Boss!"

"This should be the place ahead, right?"

"Correct, this is the spot; who would have thought that in such a rarely visited location..."

"... such a spiritual island brimming with spiritual energy was hidden. We're going to make a fortune this time!"

"There must be a protective formation on the island. Second Brother, quickly take out that second-tier Formation-Breaking Talisman."

"Eh? It seems there are quite a few low-stage Qi Condensation cultivators on the island as well?"

"Old rules: kill them all, leave no one alive!"

But before the Evil-Faced Old Monster and the others could even enter the boundaries of Wangyue Island, they were detected by the Xuanwater Crocodiles patrolling outside.

The Xuanwater Crocodile suddenly opened its cold-blooded eyes and quietly surfaced from the water.

Abruptly.

The Evil-Faced Old Monster, hovering in mid-air, suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, sensing as though some terrifying entity had locked onto him.

"Something isn't quite right!"

Having immersed himself in the path of the rogue cultivator for many years, the Evil-Faced Old Monster had survived until now solely thanks to this innate instinct for danger.

"Roar~"

A earth-shaking, sky-trembling roar echoed out; from Wangyue Lake below, a colossal beast over ten zhang long suddenly shot out of the water.

Its blood-filled maw gaped wide as it lunged straight toward the group!

(End of Chapter)