Chapter 472: Plan

Within the Small Spirit Realm.

After returning to Wangyue Island, Qin Ming immediately began cultivating the Blood Flood Dragon Green Rice.

He mixed spiritual substances like Azure Sky Spirit Soil and Profound Yellow Essence Qi according to the cultivation method and refined them together, then cast plant spirit arts to plant all the spirit seeds, irrigating them with a small amount of essence blood from the Demonic Python.

He tended to and cultivated them meticulously every day.

Several months later.

Over a dozen emerald-green, dew-laden sprouts quietly began to emerge.

On these green rice sprouts, faint traces of blood-colored veins were interwoven, surrounded by a light, misty rosy haze.

At the same time, two golden, glittering entries appeared in his line of sight:

【Name】: Blood Flood Dragon Green Rice 【Entry】: Nascent Soul Magic Power x5 (Maturity 2%) 【Name】: Blood Flood Dragon Green Rice 【Entry】: Time Flies Like an Arrow x5 (Maturity 2%); in the time that followed, he needed to irrigate these spirit grains with the essence blood of snake and flood dragon types every so often.

Time flowed away, the years passed like a shuttle.

On this day, the sky above Wangyue Lake was clear for ten thousand li.

Yet above a mountain peak located on the outer perimeter of the spirit island, a vortex of spiritual energy and rosy clouds spanning ten li condensed, surging forward one after another to pour into a certain cave dwelling.

The numerous spirit farmers working on the island, along with low-ranking cultivators, were all startled by such a phenomenon and stared at the sky dumbfounded.

"It's the celestial phenomenon of forming a core!"

"I didn't expect our Wangyue Island would give birth to another Jin Dan True Person."

"It must be Great Steward Mo Lingwei."

Qin Ming also drifted out of the cave dwelling, his sleeves fluttering and his expression calm, gazing toward the mountain peak where Mo Lingwei was located.

This woman's path of immortality had been incredibly rough; cultivating to this point meant she had undergone numerous hardships to reach this step.

She possessed the Phoenix Chant Spirit Body, which provided a certain degree of bonus to the quality of her formed core.

Several days later, the rosy clouds of spiritual energy dissipated.

"She formed a superior-grade Jin Dan; this woman's mental fortitude is indeed remarkable."

Qin Ming's gaze shifted slightly; he had already sensed the quality of her Jin Dan.

Immediately following this came the Jin Dan Lei Jie.

Over these years, Mo Lingwei had exchanged merit points for two magical treasures, and she successfully withstood all the lightning tribulations.

With the Jin Dan achieved and having undergone the baptism of the Lei Jie, from now on she could be counted among the high-tier cultivators of the Immortal Realm.

A few days later, this matter spread throughout the four kingdoms of the Southern Wilderness and became a beautiful tale.

After all, in her early years, Mo Lingwei had chosen to cooperate with the Zhao family to obtain Foundation Establishment Pills, fleeing with her entire clan to the Jin Kingdom.

She had even taken refuge under the Modaoliu Sect; had it been anyone else, they would surely have been wanted endlessly, and with such a blemish on their record, how could they ever turn their fortunes around so easily?

But she met Qin Ming, who favored and personally appointed her to manage Wangyue Island.

Now, achieving the Jin Dan in one fell swoop, both her status and her cultivation strength had completed a magnificent transformation.

Mo Lingwei's experience made countless female cultivators green with envy, and many speculated that her status would continue to rise like water lifting a boat.

After all, she was highly favored by Wangyue Qin Zhenjun, the only Nascent Soul cultivator in the Southern Wilderness.

After her successful breakthrough, she entered closed-door cultivation to stabilize her realm, and Qin Ming did not go to disturb her.

Seven days later.

Qin Ming was in the Green Wood Pavilion, browsing through a book.

A streak of green light landed outside; as the brilliance converged, it revealed Mo Lingwei clad in a green gauze long skirt, her immortal aura fluttering, with a hint of joy added to her brows.

It was evident that she was extremely delighted to have broken through to the Jin Dan realm.

"Lingwei pays her respects to the Island Lord, my lord!"

"Mm, you have broken through to the Jin Dan, and it is a superior-grade Jin Dan, which is quite rare; I hope you continue to work hard, neither arrogant nor impatient, and strive to break through to the late Jin Dan stage as soon as possible." Qin Ming released his divine sense, scanned her a few times, and then offered some words of encouragement.

Her magic power aura was stable, her body brimming with abundant qi and blood, and her realm had already stabilized.

Qin Ming then rewarded her with a bottle of Jin Dan-stage pills for consolidating the foundation and nurturing the origin, before dismissing her.

Nowadays, with Mo Lingwei managing Wangyue Island, Hua Tianxiong had already been sent to operate the Star Moon Market.

He was also instructed to focus on searching for Nether Profound Stones.

As for Qin Ming, he remained garrisoned on Wangyue Island, as steady as an old dog.

Outside, it was his Demonic Infant who went out to struggle and seek new opportunities.

In the days that followed.

Qin Ming returned to his life of farming and cultivating on the island.

As for the Shi Tian Shu, Qin Ming sent it to find Yue Lingyan to ask for some experience regarding undergoing the heavenly tribulation of transformation.

Upon hearing that it was going to the fox clan, this fellow immediately perked up with energy and vanished without a trace within a few days.

Within the borders of the Liang Kingdom, the Tianluan Mountain Range.

The verdant mountain range stretched continuously in undulating waves, encircling a lake covering an area of one hundred li; a silver arc of light flashed and vanished from the distant sky, causing nearby demonic beasts to flee in panic.

A trans-national spirit ship of the Four Kingdoms Alliance descended above a valley near the lake.

On the spirit ship stood rows upon rows of silver-armored cultivators, all resting with weapons ready, while rows of pitch-black, dim spirit-energy giant cannons were aimed outward.

This newest trans-national spirit ship was something Qin Ming had obtained from the Dao-Upholding Alliance of Great Jin.

After fully activating its formations and replenishing spirit stones, it could unleash giant cannon attacks comparable to the Nascent Soul level.

However, the spirit stones required to load a single shot were an astronomical figure; it was simply a gold-swallowing behemoth.

In a poor and remote place like the Southern Wilderness Immortal Realm, it was not something that could be brought out for fun very often.

Not long ago, the Xuanxi Valley outpost of the Liang Kingdom received a report from a herb-gathering cultivator stating that abnormal celestial phenomena had appeared near Sword Lake in the Tianluan Mountains, highly likely to be a void anomaly.

Thus, they immediately reported back to the Four Nations Alliance and dispatched cultivators to inspect the situation.

Hum~ Just at this moment.

The space near the valley suddenly began to tremble violently, and above an area on the right side of the valley, a pitch-black vortex, dark as ink, appeared eerily.

Immediately afterward, even space became distorted; several blinding bolts of lightning erupted in the air, then suddenly exploded.

A spatial rift five zhang in size formed in an instant, within which Lei Ting flickered unpredictably, as if something were about to emerge from inside.

"There's a situation!"

"Full alert!"

The entire spirit ship lit up with a silver light screen to protect the vessel, and the silver-armored cultivators atop it began to move swiftly.

After the spatial anomaly appeared, the rift passage flashed repeatedly, and two pitch-black figures abruptly descended into the air above the valley.

They were a withered old man and a blue-robed youth.

"Old Freak Luo, I didn't expect that the moment we descended to this lower realm, alchemy ingredients would be delivered right to our door," the blue-robed youth said with an eerie smile, gazing at the Four Nations Alliance's spirit ship not far away. The withered old man said, "Junior Brother Shan, do not underestimate these humans."

"I have heard that Wu Kui, the Old Demon of Wan Hun Ya, also met his end in this cultivation region."

"According to my reliable intelligence, that Wangyue Zhenjun, who guards the Southern Desolate Immortal Realm, possesses strength that cannot be underestimated."

"Hehe! The most important objective of our Changsheng View on this journey is not to attack the Southern Desolate Immortal Realm, but to scour the Beast Cry Mountain Range for materials to refine the Blood Spirit Sun Dadan; naturally, there will be old freaks with high cultivation going to deal with that person." Upon hearing this, the blue-robed youth seemed to harbor considerable apprehension regarding the name Wangyue Zhenjun.

The withered old man nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, "Mm, Qishang Mojun of the Blood Refinement Demon Sect has already spoken; from now on, he will be responsible for all arrangements concerning the Southern Desolate Immortal Realm. Previously, no one paid much attention to this barren land, but with incident after incident occurring, it seems Qishang Mojun is about to get serious."

The two conversed right in front of the Four Nations Alliance's spirit ship, acting as if they did not even see it.

Boom!!

Following a command from the commander on the spirit ship, the largest main cannon on the massive vessel suddenly ignited with an orange sphere of light resembling a small sun, blasting toward the two from Changsheng View.

A beam as thick as a water bucket erupted with world-destroying power, instantly tearing across the sky; wherever it passed, everything was reduced to powder.

The Shanfeng near Sword Lake were pierced through and incinerated in an instant.

This strike, comparable to a full-power attack from a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, directly consumed several million spirit stones.

Once the dust settled, the middle-aged cultivator on the spirit ship, who bore a stern face, looked toward the place where the spatial anomaly had just appeared.

However, he saw that the two figures from before had vanished without a trace, and he immediately furrowed his brows.

"Elder Fang, our investigation detects absolutely no spiritual energy emitted by the opponents; could they have already been turned to ash under the spirit energy cannon?" a silver-armored soldier below came forward to report.

The middle-aged man surnamed Fang gazed at the spatial anomaly in the sky, pondered for a moment, and said indifferently, "A large-scale spatial passage of this magnitude suggests that those who descended are demonic cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage. We must quickly clear this anomaly here and report the matter to our superiors as soon as possible."

"I wonder why they did not attack us?"

"A Nascent Soul Demon Lord..." Upon hearing this, that silver-armored soldier could not help but break out in a cold sweat.

Subsequently.

The cultivators of the Four Nations Alliance began taking out Shadow-Cracking Stones to set up formations and clear away that spatial anomaly.

Several hundred li away from this location.

The figures of the two Nascent Soul Demon Lords from Changsheng View from earlier slowly reappeared.

"If I were not in a hurry to meet up with other fellow daoists and wished to avoid extra trouble, I would have long ago refined that group of human cultivators into ingredients for refining the Five Viscera Pill," the blue-robed youth surnamed Shan said indifferently.

The withered old man said, "Time is of the essence; let us depart immediately."

Immediately, their figures blurred and vanished eerily from the spot.

On Wangyue Island.

Qin Ming reviewed the intelligence information that had been sent back, and his brows involuntarily furrowed.

Looking at the two individuals on the image-recording jade slip, Qin Ming quickly recognized their identities.

"People from Changsheng View; why have they suddenly appeared in the Southern Desolate region?"

"Based on Qishang Mojun's memories, he was not unfamiliar with these two either."

Although Changsheng View sounded very righteous, in reality, their bloody methods were no weaker than those of other demonic sects, and perhaps even surpassed them.

They specialized in raising low-stage cultivators solely as alchemy ingredients to refine various pills forged from flesh and blood.

There were even Sun Dadan refined by exhausting the flesh and blood of tens of thousands of cultivators; it was said that consuming a single pill could easily increase one's cultivation power significantly.

It was estimated that the people of Changsheng View had appeared in the Beast Cry Mountain Range to collect the so-called alchemy ingredients.

The Southern Desolate Immortal Realm had already been demarcated by his second Nascent Soul, 'Qishang Mojun'; the people of Changsheng View did not dare to easily overstep the boundary, so they could only turn their attention to the Beast Cry Mountain Range, which was rich in demonic beast resources.

After all, the flesh and blood of demonic beasts were also rare and precious tonics for those of the demonic path.

"Two descending at once; there is likely some major movement afoot."

Thinking of this, Qin Ming immediately wrote an intelligence report and handed it to Wei Wuya, instructing him to rush it to the demonic beast faction to give them a warning as well.

After all, at present, the Southern Desolate Immortal Realm relied on them to draw firepower; if this natural barrier of the Beast Cry Mountain Range were broken, it would only be a matter of time before the Great Li demonic path joined forces with the demonic cultivators who had descended to the lower realm and marched south.

Since Qin Ming had finally managed to enjoy a brief period of peace, he naturally did not wish to see such a situation occur.

On the other side.

Inside the Blood Demon Palace on Demon Abyss Island, all the Nascent Soul Demon Lords had mobilized en masse, gazing at a huge spatial passage fifty zhang in size at the center of the island, as if awaiting the arrival of some important person.

Qishang Mojun, after being possessed by Qin Ming's demonic infant, was also prominently among them.

As far as he knew, the person they were about to welcome was the Second Elder of the Blood Refinement Demon Sect, a great cultivator at the late Nascent Soul stage—Lord Tianhen.

A moment later.

Suddenly, black light exploded within the massive spatial rift; the surrounding spiritual energy began to go wildly out of control, and bursts of Lei Ting roared and flickered inside.

Hum! As a humming sound rang out, a streak of black light shot through the rift and landed on Demon Abyss Island in the blink of an eye.

This person wore a loose black robe patterned with blood designs and a white mask covering half his face; from the scruffy beard visible beneath, one could vaguely discern that he was a cultivator resembling a middle-aged man.

The moment Yunxi Laozu Tianhen appeared, the wind and clouds in heaven and earth changed color; a terrifying spiritual pressure from the late Nascent Soul stage caused all the Demon Lords present to change countenance, and they all respectfully cupped their fists and bowed to him, saying, "We respectfully welcome the arrival of Lord Tianhen!"

Such a powerful Demon Lord, within the mortal world, was an existence that could walk horizontally and vertically without obstruction, unless encountering a Soul Transformation stage Venerable.

After all, within the Human Realm, once a Soul Transformation cultivator acts rashly, they will suffer rejection and backlash from the realm's forces, resulting in a loss of lifespan.

Unless one ascends to the Spirit Realm, yet unfortunately, over tens of thousands of years, the number of Soul Transformation cultivators in the Human Realm who have successfully ascended remains countable on one's fingers.

Therefore, even within Soul Transformation sects, Soul Transformation Venerables merely hold the positions of Supreme Elders or Founders, never concerning themselves with mundane affairs, as their reputations alone are sufficient to intimidate numerous other powers.

Important positions within a Soul Transformation sect, such as Sect Master, Elders, and Dharma Protectors, are all held by Nascent Soul cultivators.

The fact that Lord Tianhen Mo Jun could attain the position of Second Elder of the Blood Refinement Yuan Yuan Mo Men clearly demonstrates that his cultivation and strength are extraordinary.

This is evident from the moment he appeared, instantly intimidating numerous Nascent Soul Demon Lords.

Under the gaze of everyone present, Lord Tianhen Mo Jun naturally flew down into the Blood Demon Palace and took his seat on the supreme throne at the head.

Having listened to the reports from the cultivators below.

He then spoke, saying: "Fellow Daoists, let us now begin formulating our next plan."

Subsequently, the demon cultivators present began discussing their respective plans.

During this process, Qin Ming also learned from the Demon Lords attending on behalf of the Longevity View that their sect had allied with another power, 'Wuliang Mountain,' preparing to launch a massive assault on the Beast Cry Mountain Range to acquire flesh and blood for refining a substance known as the Blood Spirit Sun Dadan.

Because the refinement of this pill often requires a million corpses, forged from the flesh, blood, and essential souls of a vast number of living beings.

It is said that once successfully refined, it can not only greatly enhance one's Nascent Soul cultivation but also significantly extend one's lifespan, with the efficacy varying greatly depending on the quality and quantity of the living beings used to refine the Blood Spirit Sun Dadan.

Qin Ming, present at the scene, heard the demon lords' entire plan clearly, knowing every detail inside out.

These Soul Transformation sects of the Blood Universe Realm were preparing to join hands and launch the first wave of what could truly be called a large-scale invasion against the Human Realm.

Lord Tianhen Mo Jun had even made detailed deployments for the Southern Desolate Immortal Realm, but Qin Ming took responsibility for all of it.

Invisibly, this once again reduced the pressure of invasion on the Southern Desolate Immortal Realm.

(End of Chapter)