Chapter 428: Li Huo Shangren, Guest from the East Sea [Thanks to Fellow Daoist Spring Warm Eleven States for the 6666-coin tip]

Half a year later.

The news of Qin Ming achieving the Nascent Soul True Monarch spread further and further, already reaching several surrounding Immortal Cultivation Worlds.

With the passage of time.

Not only was Moon-Gazing Island bustling with noise and excitement, but even the entire Spirit-Dwelling Archipelago was long filled with a festive atmosphere.

Qin Ming's Nascent Soul Ceremony was about to begin, and the cultivators of the Four-Country Alliance, as well as the people on Moon-Gazing Island, were all busy preparing.

Sending invitations to all parties, decorating the venue, preparing the banquet, everything was proceeding in full swing.

On Moon-Gazing Island.

A yellow escape light tore through the sky and fell onto the spirit island, revealing the silver-haired Wu Jiang.

He looked at the cultivators busy decorating the square below and instructed seriously: "You all be careful; every blade of grass and tree on this spirit island is precious, don't you dare break them!"

"Yes, yes, yes! Patriarch Wu."

Wu Jiang nodded, only then leaving satisfied.

The cultivators busy on the outskirts looked at Wu Jiang's departing figure, and everyone couldn't help but reveal an envious expression.

After all, being able to work under the Nascent Soul True Monarch, how many people squeezed their heads to seek a job.

However, just as they were busy working hard.

The entire space nearby suddenly began to tremble, as if something terrifying was about to descend.

So much so that the surrounding spiritual energy also became chaotic.

Then, in the sky above, ripples suddenly surged, and the next moment, an incredibly massive spiritual pressure suddenly descended.

The cultivators of the Four-Country Alliance and the people of the Wu family, including Wu Jiang, faced this astonishing spiritual pressure and revealed panicked expressions.

Even cultivators with lower cultivation levels couldn't stand steadily and fell directly to the ground.

Accompanied by the dissipation of a crimson escape light, above their heads, someone had appeared at some point.

This was a golden-haired old man wearing a python robe, his figure slightly thin, but the magic power spiritual pressure he emitted made everyone below unable to help but change color.

"Nascent Soul True Monarch!"

The next instant.

Whoosh! On the main peak of Moon-Gazing Island, a green rainbow flashed and disappeared, landing steadily before the red-haired old man, revealing Qin Ming's figure.

His powerful spiritual sense, comparable to the late Nascent Soul stage, had actually long discovered the red-haired old man's tracks, but he had deliberately not gone out to welcome him... The moment Qin Ming appeared, an even more terrifying spiritual pressure descended, instantly overpowering the spiritual pressure released by the other party.

The red-haired old man's face suddenly changed, and he couldn't help but feel astonished.

He immediately restrained the spiritual pressure aura on his body.

"Hehehe! I suppose this Fellow Daoist is the newly promoted 'True Monarch Moon-Gazing' of the Southern Wilderness, right?"

"Congratulations to Fellow Daoist for achieving the Nascent Soul; this seat is Li Huo Shangren Ding Pu, specially here to observe the ceremony and offer congratulations."

"Fellow Daoist Qin achieved the Nascent Soul in only three hundred years, which can be considered breaking the record for the youngest Nascent Soul cultivator in the Great Jin and Southern Wilderness in nearly a thousand years."

"The immortal path is limitless! It is truly something to be happy about."

Li Huo Shangren was also seeing this legendary newly promoted Nascent Soul for the first time, and he immediately piled up a smile, cupping his hands at him with a fake smile.

His first impression of Qin Ming was like an ancient evergreen tree standing tall, his temperament indifferent like water, extremely young.

But after a slight probe just now, he already had a rough estimate in his heart.

The cultivation strength of this kid was probably just as the rumors from his disciples said, not an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.

A cultivator who could cross the Earthly Fiend Heavenly Tribulation had not appeared in the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty for a long time.

His divine abilities and means would definitely not be those of an ordinary person.

Therefore, Li Huo Shangren did not dare to be arrogant, and upon seeing Qin Ming, he did not put on a very arrogant posture relying on the power of Li Huo Palace.

Having reached their step in cultivation, the skill of biding one's time had already reached an extremely high level.

"So it is Fellow Daoist Ding of Li Huo Palace, please come to the island for a chat." Qin Ming's expression remained as usual, making a gesture of invitation.

Immediately, Qin Ming led Li Huo Shangren to the Green Wood Pavilion on the main peak.

After a while.

Li Huo Shangren saw the Tier 4 spirit vein on the island, as well as many high-tier spirit plants that were dazzling to the eyes, not weaker than the spirit medicine garden of their sect.

Even some rare spirit plants had not been seen by Li Huo Palace, making him secretly admire him.

"I heard Fellow Daoist Qin is a spirit plant master by background; I didn't expect your attainment in this path to be so high, I fear it is not far from the Tier 4 realm, right?"

"Hehehe! Just some small things Qin planted in his spare time, not comparable to your sect's treasures." Qin Ming replied casually.

"Hehehe! Fellow Daoist Qin is truly humble and low-key..."

"And your style of breaking through to the Nascent Soul secretly without a sound is truly a style."

After Li Huo Shangren entered the main hall, he flipped his hand, and a long wooden box appeared in his hand.

Then he smiled and stepped forward to hand it to Qin Ming: "Fellow Daoist Qin, forgive the previous offenses; if this seat had known that the Southern Wilderness had a Great Cultivator like you sitting in town, I wouldn't have come here to conscript soldiers."

"The disciples under the palace were ignorant; if there was any offense or collision with Fellow Daoist Qin, please don't take it to heart."

"Since you are sitting in town in the Southern Wilderness, from now on it will no longer be a vassal relationship with the Great Jin, and Li Huo Palace will no longer interfere in the affairs of the Southern Wilderness Immortal Cultivation World; please rest assured about this point."

"Sigh! It's mainly because the front line is tight and the demon path is rampant; this seat was also forced by helplessness..."

"This Tier 4 low-grade Heaven-Gang Red Sun Array will be a congratulatory gift, expressing my sincerity."

Li Huo Shangren, as an old monster who had lived for over a thousand years, narrated it in a reasonable and vivid way; if it were someone else, they would have really believed it.

Qin Ming received the wooden box with an expressionless face and put it away without even looking at it.

"Then Qin will accept your sect's sincerity."

When Li Huo Shangren arrived at Moon-Gazing Island, he had already seen that there was only a Tier 3 mid-grade island-protecting array here.

Originally, he had planned to bleed heavily when he came here, intending to endure the pain of sending a bottle of spirit pills used by Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

One was to apologize, and the other was to be a congratulatory gift.

But after seeing the environment here, he changed his mind temporarily; although the value of this Tier 4 protective magic array was not as great as spirit pills, it was still something he could take out.

More importantly, it saved a huge expense.

After all, Tier 4 spirit pills for the Nascent Soul stage were truly rare and hard to find.

"By the way, Fellow Daoist Ding, with your sect, the Dao-Protecting Alliance, and the many forces and sects of the Great Zhou, is it possible that you cannot pacify this war?" Qin Ming took this opportunity to ask silently.

After inviting the other party to sit down, he poured him a cup of Snow Soul Spirit Tea. Li Huo Shangren sighed upon hearing this: "Fellow Daoist Qin doesn't know!"

"With your current cultivation and vision, you should have heard of the matter of 'Descending Realm', right?"

Qin Ming sipped his tea and nodded slightly without hiding it.

Li Huo Shangren continued: "If it were only the Yin Demon Sect of Great Li and the God Dao Mountain of the Southern Border, our Dao-Protecting Alliance would have long been able to keep them out."

"But the point is, we never expected that this blood-colored world's descending realm would have some unexpected abnormalities; the Heavenly Demon Great Tribulation that should have ended in ten years, when the time limit arrived, not only did the demon tribulation not end and return to the upper realm, but it became even more intense."

Hearing this, Qin Ming also revealed surprise and couldn't help but ask: "The descending realm had a problem?"

After all, it concerned his own life, and although Qin Ming had already broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, he was still carrying the Blood Ring Curse Seal of the disciples of several Blood-Refining Demon Sects.

He had to be cautious.

"That's right, this interface intersection tide, I don't know what problem occurred; until a few years ago, this old man finally sent people to find out the reason behind it."

"Between the Blood-Colored World and the Human Realm, several void rifts located in Great Li appeared with abnormal fluctuations, directly connecting to a void passage..."

"There are endless blood-colored world demon cultivators pouring into the Human Realm through this passage."

"The Great Li demon path is precisely because of the support behind the Blood-Refining Demon Sect that it can contend with our Dao-Protecting Alliance until now."

Qin Ming didn't expect that he had only left the Great Jin for a few years, and the situation had undergone such great changes.

But at the same time, he also sneered at Li Huo Shangren; this old guy was also old and cunning.

Up to now, he hadn't mentioned the matter of the Profound Heaven Sect's secret realm to him at all.

It was just that since the other party didn't want to say, Qin Ming had no intention of asking more; after all, he was truly not very interested in matters like secret realms.

Immediately, he asked the question he was most concerned about right now.

"Then according to what Fellow Daoist Li Huo said, if a void passage appeared between the two interfaces, would those high-tier cultivators within the Blood-Refining Demon Sect descend directly to the Human Realm?"

Li Huo Shangren seemed to have expected him to ask this, "Hmm, judging from the current situation, although the interface intersection has greatly increased the number of demon cultivators passing through, it is limited to demon cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage."

"But if the void passage changes and widens in the future, what kind of situation it will develop into is not something we can predict."

"Nascent Soul Demon Monarchs, or Soul Transformation stage Demon Venerables descending to the realm, is not impossible; at that time, the Human Realm will inevitably be plunged into misery, and even we Nascent Soul cultivators will not be able to fully protect ourselves..."

"Fortunately, the overall strength of the Blood-Colored World and the Human Realm is on par, just slightly stronger."

"If it were an intersection with other great worlds, for example, if it were an intersection with the true Demon Realm, the consequences would be truly unimaginable; I fear the Human Realm would be blood-washed in an instant."

"Therefore, Fellow Daoist Qin must also understand our sect's helplessness! Right now, it is the Dao-Protecting Alliance of the Great Jin that is holding the front, so the Southern Wilderness will not have the pressure of demon path invasion."

"Once the Great Jin falls, the demon path invasion of the Southern Wilderness is only a matter of time."

Li Huo Shangren heard that Qin Ming was quite interested in this, and took the opportunity to explain, incidentally playing the emotional card, making their Li Huo Palace's struggle for resources at all costs sound magnificent and selfless.

Qin Ming, holding his teacup, looked indifferent and said lightly: "Those demon paths want to invade the Southern Wilderness, they have to weigh themselves; this seat happens to want to learn about the Demon Monarch's means."

Hiss~ I didn't expect that even after saying this, Qin Ming still had this attitude and reaction, looking extremely confident in his own strength.

Li Huo Shangren's expression was astonished.

Are young people nowadays all like this? You must know that he had only just advanced to the Nascent Soul.

"Hehehe! Fellow Daoist Qin's courage and divine abilities are extraordinary, this old man admires you!" Li Huo Shangren also had to respond with a dry laugh.

Immediately following.

Qin Ming sent a sound transmission to the Heaven-Devouring Rat, asking it to bring Jing Qing of Li Huo Palace up.

When Li Huo Shangren saw the Heaven-Devouring Rat, he was also suddenly shocked; this Tier 3 perfection semi-transformed Demon King could already be worth half a Nascent Soul cultivator.

'No wonder this True Monarch Moon-Gazing was so calm when hearing about the demon path invasion; it turns out that not only is his spirit plant attainment peak, but his beast-taming path is also unfathomable...'

The Heaven-Devouring Rat led Jing Qing into the main hall; now relying on its master's power, it didn't put Li Huo Shangren, this Nascent Soul True Monarch, in its eyes at all.

It pushed Jing Qing over and shouted in a rogue manner: "Be low-key next time, don't fall into this big master's hands again; I had to serve you food and drink for this half a year, truly affecting this big master's clam-fishing time, humph!"

"Consider yourself lucky, kid."

Immediately, it raised its black steel fork, patted its butt, and walked out of the main hall. Li Huo Shangren saw this scene, and his eyelids couldn't help but twitch.

Jing Qing's aura was withered; seeing his own ancestor come to lead the person away, and recalling everything he had experienced in the past half a year, suffering the torture of that rat demon, all kinds of inexplicable emotions surged into his heart, and he couldn't help but choke: "Disciple Jing Qing, pays respects to the Supreme Elder!"

Li Huo Shangren saw that the Nascent Soul seed of his sect had been made into such a state, and immediately reached out to check, fortunately, it was only some damage to the meridians and did not hurt the foundation, which would not affect future cultivation.

As long as he went back to recuperate for ten or so years, he would be able to recover.

Only then did his face look a little better, "Hehehe! Sorry for the trouble, Fellow Daoist Qin."

"No problem." Qin Ming said indifferently.

Just at this moment, Qin Ming's expression moved slightly, discovering that another Nascent Soul True Monarch's aura had approached the vicinity of the Spirit-Dwelling Archipelago.

So he turned to ask Li Huo Shangren:

"Did Fellow Daoist Li Huo invite other fellow daoists to come together this time?"

Li Huo Shangren was stunned, "Not at all? Why does Fellow Daoist Qin ask?"

"Then since that's the case, I fear this seat has to go out to welcome them; a Nascent Soul fellow daoist has already arrived outside." Qin Ming said indifferently.

Li Huo Shangren then carried a suspicious expression and secretly released his spiritual sense to investigate, but he didn't detect anything... Why did Qin Ming say this? Li Huo Shangren came back to his senses and was suddenly shocked; could it be... Less than half an incense stick later, a blue escape light arrived at an astonishing speed and fell onto Moon-Gazing Island, emitting a Nascent Soul stage magic power aura... Li Huo Shangren was stunned on the spot; what did this explain? It explained that Qin Ming's spiritual sense was so powerful that it far exceeded his own.

He couldn't even detect the distance that the other party had easily detected.

He was also shocked, and followed Qin Ming out, preparing to meet the Nascent Soul fellow daoist who had arrived.

When Qin Ming and the two arrived above Moon-Gazing Island and saw the person who had arrived, it was a Nascent Soul early-stage cultivator who was a stranger.

This person was dressed in extremely simple hemp clothing, an old woman with silver hair, her gaze restrained, her face ruddy, holding a pitch-black dragon wood staff in her hand, emitting an obscure and powerful aura.

The moment Qin Ming saw her, he had already judged that although they were both in the early Nascent Soul stage, this old woman was clearly much stronger than Li Huo Shangren.

It was just as he expected; the moment Li Huo Shangren saw the silver-haired old woman appear, he immediately piled up a smiling face and enthusiastically greeted:

"Fellow Daoist Long Mu, long time no see, I didn't expect even you to come."

"Fellow Daoist Qin, please allow this old man to introduce you; this is True Monarch Long Mu, who is famous in the Penglai Immortal Sect of the East Sea Immortal Cultivation World."

The silver-haired old woman called "True Monarch Long Mu" only nodded slightly in response to Li Huo Shangren's greeting.

Immediately, she turned her head, a smile appearing on her expression, and said to Qin Ming:

"This old woman was recently handling matters near the Black Sea and happened to hear that a newly promoted Nascent Soul fellow daoist was born in the Southern Wilderness Immortal Cultivation World, so I came uninvited to have a cup of celebratory wine; Fellow Daoist doesn't mind, right?"

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