Chapter 1217

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

The moment this thought surfaced, Xu Zhangqing suppressed it.

Ever since he passed the Refining Void tribulation in the Starfall Secret Realm last time and was appointed Yuheng Star Lord by his Master, he had understood a principle.

Although the Grand Dao Venerable does not manifest before his disciples, as a transcendent existence who commands the River of Time, His perceptual range is fundamentally not something ordinary cultivators can imagine.

Some words can be thought in the heart; some words, once spoken, require extraordinary caution.

Especially when it involves karma at the level of the Chaos Sea and Outer Realm evil entities, even though his own Meta Dao does not touch karma, he clearly knows that maintaining reverence before his Master is the way of longevity.

Jin Buhuan put away the recording jade slip, a rarely seen solemn expression on his face. He glanced at the three unnamed planets currently collapsing, then at the cluster of red mist that had already turned into nothingness: "Luo Siming, I will report today's matter to the Wanxiang Chamber of Commerce Headquarters.

At the same time, I will send people to secretly investigate the Ten Great Ancient Clans' grand clan ceremony records over these thousands of years. If there truly is a second Cang Lei Ancient Clan secretly worshipping the Red-Robed Lord, their ceremony arrangements will certainly have traces to follow.

However, to return to the matter at hand, our trip this time — exterminating the Cang Lei Ancient Clan is only one part.

The Eternal Night Ruins is about to open. Those three suspected locations we circled in advance — we can't just not go verify them because an evil entity popped up halfway, right?"

"Naturally we must go."

Luo Qinghan sheathed Han Yue; the cold aura on her body retracted a few degrees compared to during battle. She raised her hand and unfurled a star map condensed from moon-white light in the void. Three striking silver light points were marked on the star map.

The distance between each light point was extremely vast. The nearest one was located at the border between Dongji Lingzhou and Beili Xuezhou.

The other two — one biased west, one biased south.

Far enough that even Jin Buhuan clicked his tongue: "Good fellow, enough for us to walk."

Luo Qinghan said seriously: "The Cang Lei Ancient Clan matter, I have already reported to Master via transmission spirit light.

However, the Eternal Night Ruins is about to open; we absolutely cannot miss it. These three locations must be visited one by one; absolutely cannot miss any."

The opening of the Eternal Night Ruins is closely related to the Qinghua Liuyao moment and the Qingdi Garden.

For cultivators possessing a Wood Spirit Root, the Qingdi Garden itself is a natural dao field containing the Wood Dao's origin laws.

The Qinghua Liuyao moment appears who knows how many tens of thousands of years once.

If it weren't for the Creation Dao opportunity and the Demon God Kong Fang's appointment battle, actually the Grand Dao Venerable's arrangement this time would inevitably have been for Xu Zhangqing to go to the Qingdi Garden.

"Let's go, back to the flying ship first."

Luo Qinghan stowed the star map, her figure turning as she flew off first.

Seeing this, the group all hurriedly followed close behind.

Soon, the group returned along the route they came, back to the flying ship moored at the Wanxiang Chamber of Commerce's dedicated berth.

Tongming Star resembled a giant trade hub; caravan flags from every continent fluttered densely side by side on the planet's surface.

To the merchants and travelers on this planet, the series of major events that occurred on the distant unnamed planet — the Cang Lei Ancient Clan's destruction, the evil entity's manifestation, the Red-Robed Lord's exposure — they knew nothing.

Business as usual.

Spirit mines loaded and unloaded just the same.

The auction house's bidding cries rose and fell in succession.

This clamor formed an extremely intense contrast with the life-and-death struggle under the blood-colored sky just now.

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After a brief stopover for resupply, the flying ship set sail again.

Jin Buhuan, in his capacity as Wanxiang Chamber of Commerce President, personally handled arrangements; efficiency was who knows how many times faster than normal procedures.

After the flying ship slowly departed Tongming Star, it accelerated toward the direction of the first silver light point on the star map.

This direction belonged to the depths of the Endless Star Domain.

Strictly speaking, it was no longer completely within Dongji Lingzhou's jurisdictional range.

Rather, it lay in the gap between Dongji Lingzhou and Beili Xuezhou, a region not yet incorporated into any ancient clan or immortal sect's sphere of influence.

Viewed on the star map, this star domain did not count as desolate.

On the contrary, it was one of the important trade routes connecting Dongji Lingzhou and Beili Xuezhou.

One could often see Wanxiang Chamber of Commerce and various major merchant alliances' trade fleets, arranged in neat formations sailing slowly.

Occasionally one could also see some loose cultivators, piloting strangely shaped magic treasures lingering outside the trade route.

Those loose cultivators mostly relied on reselling price differences spanning the two continent domains, acting as itinerant merchants scraping a living.

Of course, among them were also mixed an extremely small number of calamity cultivators and evil cultivators.

However, these people were almost all solitary, rarely grouping in threes or fives.

Judging by the lineup on the Beidou Immortal Mansion flying ship, placed on any trade route in the Endless Star Domain, it was enough to walk sideways.

Even if some blind calamity cultivator crashed into them, it could only be courting death.

Inside the flying ship, Luo Qinghan took out that segment of Complete Thunder Path Ancient God Finger Bone sealed in thick ice crystal from her Divine Kingdom, placing it on a long table cast from cold iron at the cabin center.

The finger bone inside the ice crystal, under the seal's suppression, no longer emitted the purple-red evil light, having returned to its original purple-black color.

Those dense thunder patterns on its surface, although covered in cracks from previously enduring Hundred Li Hong's full-power saber strike and Huo Yuan's Mixed Yuan Heavy Water Long Spear in succession.

The thunder patterns' structure itself had not been destroyed; one could still clearly see the Thunder Dao laws contained in each thunder pattern.

Luo Qinghan stared at this finger bone segment for a moment, her tone carrying a trace of regret: "If this finger bone had fallen into the hands of a proper thunder cultivation sect thirty-eight thousand years ago, with the Thunder Path Ancient God's law origin as foundation, it could completely have cultivated a Thunder Path Holy Land over ten times stronger than the Cang Lei Ancient Clan within tens of thousands of years.

Its Thunder Dao laws can directly fuse into a cultivator's bloodline; enhancing cultivation speed is merely the most basic usage.

The true value lies in it allowing cultivators to contact Ancient God-level Thunder Dao law structures before the Refining Void stage.

This kind of opportunity to touch high-dimensional laws in advance — the entire cultivation world cannot find more than a few Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures comparable to it."

Jin Buhuan sat at the other end of the long table, his plump fingers tapping the tabletop twice before he said: "Luo Siming is right. The Cang Lei Ancient Clan people have relied on this finger bone for thirty-eight thousand years to research the Cang Lei True Explanation."

Even pouring the Thunder Path Law into their bloodline generation after generation.

This practice is extremely short-sighted, wasting over ninety percent of the finger bone's value.

But it also happens to prove another characteristic of this item."

Hundred Li Hong felt slightly curious: "What characteristic?"

Jin Buhuan smiled slightly: "It can be used repeatedly, and as long as one can withstand the backlash of the Thunder Path Law, any xiuxian zhe can benefit from it."

If this finger bone enters the Beidou Xianfu, no need for me to say, everyone knows."

Xu Zhangqing nodded slightly.

He is the Yuheng Star Lord, controlling the Lingti, Ding, and Fenglei departments.

Once this Ancient God Finger Bone of the Thunder Dao enters the Fenglei department, the thunder cultivator disciples of the Fenglei department will have directly gained a shortcut to the Thunder Path Origin.

And among the Lingti department, those special spirit plants that need thunder laws to be nurtured can further upgrade their quality under the blessing of the Thunder Path Law.

Therefore, this finger bone may be merely a powerful Ancient God relic to others, but to Star Lords like Xu Zhangqing, it is a strategic resource capable of endlessly producing long-term value!