Chapter 12

Early the next morning, Cheng Yunqi arrived at the door of a courtyard diagonally opposite and waited. It was only at the banquet last night that he learned that Luo Wanhua in this courtyard was registered in Shouyin Mountain. He had made an appointment to hitch a ride on his cloud frame to go to Shouyin Mountain to buy a cloud.

The main reason why Cheng Yunqi wanted to buy a cloud frame now was actually for consuming Qi. Once he had a cloud frame, wouldn't it be convenient to consume the sun's fire Qi at high altitude, consume the great marsh's water Qi on the lake, and consume the forest wave's wood Qi in the deep mountains?

Furthermore, after all, he had a bonus, didn't he?

He didn't wait long before Luo Wanhua pushed the door and came out. This person was thin but liked to wear wide robes and big sleeves, and the robes swayed violently when he walked.

He pretended to be angry on his face, pointing at Cheng Yunqi and saying: "You, you, although there is a bonus bestowed, you must also be calculating. There will be many places to spend money in the future. You want to buy a cloud today, don't you have to spend money? Since that group of brats from Guteng Street wanted to bleed last night, and we wanted to slaughter them, why did you secretly pay the bill, making both of our groups feel very embarrassed!"

Cheng Yunqi bowed repeatedly and smiled, "I won't dare next time, I won't dare next time."

Luo Wanhua was obviously very happy in his heart. He flicked his big sleeves and flicked out a water-blue cloud.

He pulled Cheng Yunqi up. Cheng Yunqi felt that the touch under his feet was about the same as that of Feng Jihu's cloud, soft and cottony, but this one felt cooler, a bit like being in the morning mist.

"This is my cloud frame, named 'Rain Lake'. Shouyin Mountain is in the southwest corner of the sect. We will fly west all the way, cross the Xiping Ridge, and see the endless sea of clouds. The highest mountain in the sea of clouds is Shouyin Mountain."

Luo Wanhua said.

Luo Wanhua's cloud didn't fly very high at first. Along the way, he was still introducing the scenery and mountain peaks of the sect to Cheng Yunqi. They first flew seven or eight miles to the northwest and saw the mountains full of azaleas. Luo Wanhua told him that this was Du Juan Valley below.

Cheng Yunqi looked at Du Juan Valley, which was truly a sea of crimson flowers, incomparably gorgeous.

Traveling west for another ten miles or so, Luo Wanhua drove the cloud to make a circle to the south, avoiding a place with lush ancient trees and clear streams and lakes.

He explained to Cheng Yunqi that that piece was the Wan Shouyuan, the residence of immortal birds and divine beasts. Ever since a few female dragons complained that sect disciples were peeping at them bathing in the air, no one dared to fly directly over the Wan Shouyuan.

To the northwest of Wan Shouyuan was the Dan Workshop, the place in the sect for refining, selling, and collecting elixirs.

Cheng Yunqi looked at the gentle slope and saw palaces growing in clusters, people coming and going, and blue smoke curling up, and even exotic fragrances drifting over.

After passing the Dan Workshop and going southwest for five or six miles, it was the Ten Thousand Immortals Welcoming Guests Peaks, the residence of guest ministers.

Luo Wanhua said that the mountain peaks in the sect related to the word "Wan" were the Ten Thousand Tablets Facing Heaven Peaks where they, the registered disciples, lived, the Wan Shouyuan where immortal birds and divine beasts lived, and the Ten Thousand Immortals Welcoming Guests Peaks where guest ministers lived. Therefore, the disciples in the sect abbreviated them as Small Wan Mountain, Big Wan Mountain, and Immortal Wan Mountain, respectively.

After passing Immortal Wan Mountain, Cheng Yunqi had vaguely seen the towering Xiping Shanling under the cover of mist, stretching for dozens of miles from south to north.

The two bypassed the south side of Xiping Ridge. Here, Cheng Yunqi saw the strange scene of the cloud layer boundary again. East of Xiping Ridge, the cloud layer was level with the mountain ridge; west of Xiping Ridge, the cloud layer was only at the waist of the mountain ridge.

"There are many clouds and mists in the mountains, which is actually the sect's protective formation, called the Six Dragons Returning to the Sun Nine Heavens Cloud Prohibition Formation. Under the control of the formation, if you want the clouds to rise, they rise; if you want them to descend, they descend. If you want the rain and mist to be thick, they are thick; if you want them to be light, they are light. We have never seen the power of this formation, but we have seen enough of its beauty."

"The sea of clouds west of Xiping Ridge is dyed red at sunset, so it is called the Red Sea. The sea of clouds east of Xiping Ridge is dyed orange at sunrise, so it is called the Orange Sea."

"I also heard that the sect intends to build a South Screen Ridge in the south, but I don't know the construction period."

Cheng Yunqi nodded and accepted the instruction. At this time, the Red Sea was under his feet, boundless, but because it was blocked by the tall Xiping Mountain, the Red Sea was not red at this moment. The morning sun in the east cast boundless shadows here, and the clouds looked cyan-gray.

The clouds swayed slightly under the mountain wind, looking like a boundless deep lake.

In this deep lake, a high peak stood alone. Looking up along its height, it seemed to be as high as the sky.

"This is Shouyin Mountain. There are more than two thousand cultivators on the mountain. The clouds that go out from here are said to be good everywhere in the world." Luo Wanhua pointed to the place where Shouyin Mountain was level with the Red Sea and explained:

"This piece is the place for catching and collecting clouds. The cultivation places of the teachers and disciples are still above."

Cheng Yunqi looked in the direction he pointed and indeed saw people casting nets on the sea of clouds, which was very magical and looked much livelier than Mingzhi Mountain.

"Let's go."

After speaking, he took Cheng Yunqi to continue flying toward the sky.

Soon, the two flew over the height of Xiping Mountain and came to the sky above the second layer of clouds. This place, as Feng Jihu said, was where the vast number of sect members practiced magic, escape techniques, and control techniques. The lingering charm of various magic techniques and the brilliant light of weapons shone.

If one were to say that below the cloud layer was the ritual of the immortal family, then above the cloud layer was the power of the immortal family.

The clouds above this core area of Sanqing Mountain, when viewed from bottom to top, were pure white, like silk and threads, but when viewed from the clouds, they were dyed in five colors by the lingering charm of magic techniques and escape lights, so they were called the Neon Sea.

There were still cloud layers above the Neon Sea, piled up like cotton wool. Each cloud was as big as a hill. The peak of Shouyin Mountain was still above this cloud.

The two were still flying high, and Cheng Yunqi felt cold. Ever since he consumed the clear spiritual energy into his body when he was young, he hadn't felt cold for a long time.

The two traveled through the thick cloud layer, and everything they saw was milky white. Cheng Yunqi could no longer distinguish southeast from northwest.

Suddenly, the surroundings were bright, and the strong light made Cheng Yunqi subconsciously close his eyes.

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When he opened his eyes again, the strange scenery of heaven and earth made Cheng Yunqi almost suffocate.

At this time, above his head was the sky, a clear blue, blue like an inverted sea.

Under his feet were clouds, white like milk, boundless, like a plain after days of heavy snow.

The name of this layer of clouds was the Milk Sea.

Between the sky and the clouds was the golden sunlight. One end of the visible light rays hung on the golden-red morning sun in the east, and the other end fell into the eyes. This light was sometimes a brilliant gold, and sometimes it was colorful, making people dizzy after looking at it for a long time.

On the plain paved with white clouds, several mountain peaks stood abruptly. The nearest one was Shouyin Mountain, but on this plain, the originally extremely high Shouyin Mountain could only be called a "hill". In the south, there was a sharp peak like a sword; in the east, there was a mountain protruding from the sea of clouds like a turtle's head; in the north, there was a glittering high platform, which was very regular.

Besides this, there were three mountains in the middle of the snowfield. Those were truly high mountains, high mountains that made all other mountains look small. These three mountains stood in a triangular formation, looking at each other from afar. At such a high altitude, those three mountains were still that green, like three green-clothed sacred beings standing between heaven and earth.

"The one in the south is Toujian Mountain, the one in the east is Aohuo Peak, the one in the north is the Flying Immortal Platform of the Lotus Blessed Land, and those three are the Yuqing, Yuhua, and Yuxu mountains."

Luo Wanhua introduced them one by one along Cheng Yunqi's gaze.

"Are there still clouds above this?"

Cheng Yunqi asked a question.

Luo Wanhua nodded and gave Cheng Yunqi a positive answer, "The clouds above have had their forms hidden, but as far as I know, there are at least two more layers above. It is said that in the highest layer of clouds, spiritual gang is still being gestated, but few people have been there. After all, that height, if placed outside the sect, is already the height of the Third Heaven."

Cheng Yunqi looked up at the sky, unable to see a trace, only feeling the boundless vastness.

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