Chapter 637

Seeing this familiar, cold face, Song Qingming never expected that he would meet the genius rogue cultivator Li Xianyun, whom he hadn't seen for many years, here.

"It's been many years. I didn't expect to meet Fellow Daoist Li here. Greetings!"

"Fellow Daoist Song, I really didn't expect that the person who wants to go hunting for demons with us is you. This is truly a coincidence!" After Li Xianyun bowed in return, a hint of surprise also appeared on his face.

The Foundation Establishment cultivator from Spirit Guidao who was just about to introduce both sides, seeing that they actually knew each other, explained somewhat awkwardly:

"Senior Song, these two are the seniors who are preparing to go to the outer sea to hunt demons next month. Since you all know each other, I won't disturb you anymore. You can talk slowly."

A woman in white robes standing beside Li Xianyun hurriedly waved her hand at him: "You go down first. As long as we have negotiated, we will naturally not be short of the spirit stones that should be given to you."

When cultivators from Spirit Guidao help introduce others to form teams to go out and hunt demons, they naturally have to charge some introduction commissions.

Hearing the woman in white robes' words, the Foundation Establishment cultivator from Spirit Guidao hurriedly nodded and replied: "Thank you for your care, seniors. I will take my leave first!"

After the person retreated, Li Xianyun hurriedly asked Song Qingming with curiosity: "Fellow Daoist Song, you shouldn't be in Wei? Why did you come to the East Sea, and why do you want to go to the outer sea to hunt demons?"

"Fellow Daoist Li is right, but I did come here for a reason..."

Facing Li Xianyun's persistent questioning, Song Qingming hurriedly smiled and explained to him that he had come to the East Sea cultivation world to travel and incidentally wanted to go to the outer sea to gain some experience.

"So that's how it is. I was wondering why Fellow Daoist Song would suddenly come to Spirit Guidao!" Hearing that Song Qingming was traveling in the East Sea cultivation world, a hint of understanding appeared on Li Xianyun's face.

In the cultivation world, whether they are sect cultivators or rogue cultivators, most cultivators choose to travel to other places after Foundation Establishment or Core Formation to increase their knowledge. It is not strange that Song Qingming would choose to come to the East Sea cultivation world to travel at this time.

However, bumping into Li Xianyun here made Song Qingming feel very surprised in his heart.

Although Li Xianyun is a cultivator from Wei, he left Wei soon after forming a Core. Apart from helping the Xiaoyao Sect deal with the once-in-a-century beast turmoil last time, Song Qingming hadn't heard when he had returned to Wei.

However, when the "Heaven-Reaching Tower" opened last time, Li Xianyun also appeared once. When Song Qingming saw her at that time, he thought he had always been traveling near the Floating Yunshan Range. He didn't expect him to have come to the East Sea cultivation world so far away.

After decades of not seeing each other, both of their cultivation bases have changed. Song Qingming broke through from the third layer of Jin Dan to become a mid-stage Jin Dan cultivator, and Li Xianyun's cultivation base also advanced from the eighth layer of Jin Dan to the ninth layer, only one step away from breaking through to Nascent Soul.

After Li Xianyun chatted with Song Qingming for a few sentences, he introduced the woman in white robes beside him: "Fellow Daoist Song, this is my good friend Long Yue, who is also going to hunt demons with us this time."

"I am Song Qingming of the Xiaoyao Sect in Wei. Greetings, Fairy Long Yue!"

Song Qingming had actually seen the woman traveling with Li Xianyun once outside the "Heaven-Reaching Tower" years ago. Although she was wearing a veil at the time, through her figure and attire, Song Qingming could roughly guess that it was the same person.

Although Long Yue's cultivation base was slightly lower than Li Xianyun's, she had also reached the eighth layer of Jin Dan and was also a late-stage Jin Dan cultivator with unfathomable strength.

Long Yue smiled, bowed in return, and then asked with a smile, squinting her eyes:

"Fellow Daoist Song, this time we are going to the outer sea to hunt demons. The Heavenly Source Sea area we are going to has Nascent Soul Demon Emperors appearing. Relatively speaking, it will be quite dangerous. Have you considered whether you want to go with us?"

"I came here this time precisely to gain some experience in the outer sea. I will certainly not retreat because of a little danger. If the two fellow daoists don't mind, I am willing to go with you." Song Qingming replied firmly to Li Xianyun and the other.

Song Qingming had also witnessed Li Xianyun's supernatural powers years ago. As a sword cultivator, he basically had the upper hand against beasts of the same tier. In addition, Long Yue, who was with him, was also an eighth-layer Jin Dan cultivator, and her strength was clearly not weak.

Having these two late-stage Jin Dan experts whom he knew well was certainly more reliable than finding other strange Jin Dan cultivators to go with. Therefore, Song Qingming did not hesitate much and immediately expressed his idea of wanting to go with them.

Seeing this, Li Xianyun and Long Yue looked at each other and made up their minds.

"Since Fellow Daoist Song has such determination, we welcome you to join. Half a month later, we will meet at the port. I will notify Fellow Daoist Song in advance by then."

After the three of them agreed, they left each other a contact address and chatted in the hall for a while before leaving separately.

Just after returning to the outside of his cave dwelling, Song Qingming saw a white note left on one side in front of the cave's restriction array. It was obviously placed there not long ago.

After Song Qingming picked up the note and scanned it, he soon discovered the two somewhat delicate characters "Luo Li" at the very bottom of the note, and a hint of a smile couldn't help but appear on his face.

After opening the restriction and walking into the cave dwelling, Song Qingming immediately released the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" from the spirit beast bag, and then took out a spirit fruit from his body that was completely snow-white and emitting wisps of cold air.

This second-tier low-grade "Ice Spirit Fruit" was precisely what Song Qingming had purchased from the Wind Spirit Pavilion based on the news provided by Luo Li.

According to some methods of cultivating spirit beasts that Song Qingming had inquired about, taking special spirit fruits corresponding to their attributes helps spirit beasts break through their cultivation base and advance their realm. This "Ice Spirit Fruit" is precisely one of the second-tier spirit fruits that is relatively suitable for the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" to break through.

Seeing the "Ice Spirit Fruit" in Song Qingming's hand, the Ice-Fire Flood Dragon, which had already climbed onto his shoulder, immediately leaned in curiously to smell the spirit fruit and soon showed a bit of happiness.

Seeing this, Song Qingming's magic power moved, and a wisp of pill fire floated out from his body, soon removing the layer of white ice on the surface of the "Ice Spirit Fruit," revealing the blue spirit fruit inside.

Just after placing the spirit fruit in his hand on the stone table to one side, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon," which had been waiting for a long time, immediately darted over and swallowed the spirit fruit on the table in one gulp.

After successfully swallowing the "Ice Spirit Fruit," a strong icy cold aura suddenly erupted from the Ice-Fire Flood Dragon's body. Soon, the entire cave dwelling became somewhat extremely cold due to the influence of the Ice-Fire Flood Dragon.

A moment later, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon," which had originally been full of energy, slowly coiled its entire body together, drooping its little head and falling into a deep sleep on the stone table.

Seeing the huge change in the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" after swallowing the "Ice Spirit Fruit," Song Qingming also felt a hint of surprise in his heart, and a hint of joy slowly appeared on his face.

According to some books and notes on cultivating spirit beasts that he had seen before, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" currently in a deep sleep was clearly in the state of bloodline transformation recorded in the classics.

And as long as a beast enters this state, it basically equals that it is starting to break through its realm. If nothing unexpected happens, when the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" wakes up, it will likely be able to advance to the early stage of Foundation Establishment and become a second-tier beast.

Although it is not 100% certain that a beast will successfully break through its realm, Song Qingming felt unusually confident about the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon's" advancement this time.

I don't know if it's because the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon's" bloodline was enlightened by the Fire Phoenix when it was born, but ever since it was hatched, the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon's" cultivation speed has always far exceeded what Song Qingming had expected in his heart.

However, in just over ten years, it has cultivated from the early stage of Qi Refining all the way to the peak of the late stage of Qi Refining, and now it has even started to break through the Foundation Establishment realm.

If this were any other ordinary beast, even if Song Qingming invested more resources, it would be unlikely to cultivate so quickly. Clearly, there are still some other reasons.

This "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon" is still in a juvenile state and is not of much help to Song Qingming, but after it breaks through to the Foundation Establishment realm, it should be able to have some effect, more or less.

Thinking that his spirit beast was about to break through its cultivation base and realm, Song Qingming also felt very happy.

A beast's advancement generally doesn't happen very quickly. To prevent anyone from accidentally breaking into the cave dwelling during this period and affecting the "Ice-Fire Flood Dragon's" advancement, Song Qingming set up a separate array in the cave dwelling and placed his spirit beast inside it before he felt somewhat relieved.

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Someone reacted that six thousand words is too much, let's break the chapter!

Half a month later, on top of a huge reef not far from the port on the west side of Spirit Guidao, four or five figures were already standing.

Not long after, a streak of golden light flew from the port direction and landed on the reef, transforming into a round-faced man wearing golden armor.

"Haha! You fellow daoists really arrived early. Luo specially got up early today, but I didn't expect to be the last one to arrive. This is truly a bit shameful."

Hearing the words spoken by the golden-armored man, the leader, Long Yue, smiled sweetly: "Haha! Fellow Daoist Luo didn't arrive late. It's just that we arrived a bit early. Fellow Daoist, don't misunderstand."

"Oh! It's good that I didn't arrive late. It's not easy to gather enough people to go to the outer sea. I don't want to delay everyone's time to hunt demons because of this. Fairy Long Yue, don't you think so!" The golden-armored man replied somewhat carelessly.

Long Yue nodded slightly, then took out a third-tier top-grade spirit boat of not low grade, and said to the people beside her:

"Since everyone has arrived, let's set off immediately and return early!"

After Long Yue finished speaking, she jumped onto the green flying boat under her feet first. Seeing this, the others hurriedly followed and jumped on directly, including Song Qingming, who had arrived here not long ago.

This time, going to the outer sea to hunt demons, besides Song Qingming, Li Xianyun, and Fairy Long Yue, there were three others going together.

They were the golden-armored man who arrived last, an old man with a long beard, and a white-robed scholar with a delicate face who was always holding a folding fan.

The cultivation bases of these three were not much different from Song Qingming's. Among them, the old man with the long beard was also a fourth-layer Jin Dan cultivator like Song Qingming, and the white-robed scholar didn't seem to have formed a Core for very long, only having a third-layer Jin Dan cultivation base.

Among the few, the one with the highest cultivation base was the golden-armored man, who had already reached the peak of the sixth layer of Jin Dan. In addition, it was clear that he had practiced body-refining techniques, so his strength would likely not be much worse than an ordinary late-stage Jin Dan cultivator.

This team of Jin Dan cultivators, added together, was absolutely enough to deal with ordinary Jin Dan-stage Demon Kings as long as they didn't encounter a Nascent Soul Demon Emperor. After joining the crowd and setting off, Song Qingming also felt some anticipation in his heart about going to the outer sea to hunt demons this time.

After a group of six people took the flying boat and traveled east for a few days, Song Qingming saw that the color of the seawater suddenly became deeper, and he also knew that they had entered the dangerous outer sea area.

The so-called outer sea area is actually far away from the Donghuangxianzhou continent and has entered the territory of the Thunder Origin Sea.

The Thunder Origin Sea is located to the east of Donghuangxianzhou. Its territory is also full of islands and countless rare spirit items, and it can be considered a very rich large-scale cultivation world.

However, there are many beasts in the sea, and the islands occupied by human cultivators are only a small part of them, especially the sea area near the Donghuangxianzhou side, which is almost entirely the territory of beasts.

In the depths of this sea area, not only are there countless various powerful high-tier beasts, but there are also legendary fifth-tier Demon Saints comparable to human Soul Transformation cultivators, and even Nascent Soul cultivators dare not easily go deep into it.

This boundless and extremely dangerous outer sea area, where beasts run rampant, also cut off the normal contact between the cultivators of Donghuangxianzhou and the Thunder Origin Sea.

Ordinary cultivators who want to cross the outer sea area controlled by beasts to go to the Thunder Origin Sea cultivation world have only two methods. Either take large treasure ships built by Nascent Soul sects in the East Sea cultivation world, find a relatively safe sea route to go around, and if they are lucky, they can reach the Thunder Origin Sea cultivation world in two or three years.

However, choosing to take this kind of sea route is not only time-consuming but also very dangerous. Only merchant fleets from major sects that regularly go to the Thunder Origin Sea to trade spirit items would choose to risk taking this path.

There is another relatively safe method, which is to pass through the Floating Yunshan Range to the Donghuang Kingdom and take the super-large teleportation array that can cross continents there, directly teleporting to the Thunder Origin Sea cultivation world.

If taking a teleportation array, there will absolutely be no major problems with safety. However, such super-large teleportation arrays are basically controlled by those top-tier cultivation sects in the cultivation world. The spirit stone fees they charge for one teleportation are also very astonishing. Generally, only cultivators above the Jin Dan stage can afford it.

After entering the outer sea, they traveled forward for about four or five days, and the flying boat suddenly entered a sea area full of islands and reefs.

Seeing the small islands scattered around like stars below, and the unusual spiritual energy emerging around them, a hint of excitement slowly appeared on Song Qingming's face.

This should be the destination of Li Xianyun and the others' demon hunting this time, the Heavenly Source Sea area.

These past few days on the flying boat, Song Qingming chatted with the others for a long time and slowly learned about the specific situation of this sea area.

The Heavenly Source Sea area originally had an ancient sect. About tens of thousands of years ago, for some reason, this sect was suddenly attacked by several Demon Emperors, leading to the destruction of the entire sect, and this place was completely occupied by beasts.

In that great battle, this human sect, which was not weak in strength, fought a bloody battle with the beasts, which was extremely tragic. In the end, even the sect's spirit vein was directly destroyed, and the entire island where the sect was located sank into the sea, leaving only these small islands around it.

Since then, the Heavenly Source Sea area has almost had no traces of human cultivators. But because there are still many small and medium-sized spirit veins remaining here, it has attracted many beasts and even Demon Kings to occupy the vicinity, becoming a demon hunting place that some cultivators like.

There are also some cultivators who, in order to find some inheritance left by that legendary ancient sect, will risk coming here. However, the vast majority of them return in disappointment, and only a very few lucky ones can be fortunate enough to find spirit items that still have a connection to tens of thousands of years ago.

After the six people entered the Heavenly Source Sea area, Fairy Long Yue, who was controlling the flying boat, slowly slowed down the flying boat, and then waved her hand to throw out a banner magic treasure and stood it in front. The entire flying boat, including the people on it, was soon covered by a thin layer of clouds and mist, concealing everyone's figure.

After doing all this, the flying boat slowly moved forward until half an hour later, when it arrived at a small island on the west side of the Heavenly Source Sea area that was only about ten or twenty miles in radius.

"Fellow daoists! We are not far from the Silver Tiger Shark's nest. Let's rest here first and go find the Demon King tomorrow."

After hearing Fairy Long Yue's suggestion, everyone nodded and agreed, each finding a place on the island to sit and meditate to rest, preparing to welcome the battle with the beasts that would follow.

The "Silver Tiger Shark" in Fairy Long Yue's mouth is a very powerful late-stage Jin Dan Demon King, and it is also the first target for everyone on this trip to enter the Heavenly Source Sea area to hunt demons.

The reason why they set their target on this powerful Demon King as soon as they arrived was mainly because Fairy Long Yue and Li Xianyun wanted to refine a high-tier pill and happened to need the Jin Dan inside its body. They were also the ones who took the initiative to organize this demon hunting trip.

Before setting off, Li Xianyun and Fairy Long Yue had already made this matter clear to Song Qingming and the others, and the group basically had no objections to this.

Anyway, coming out on this trip, everyone was here to hunt demons. It didn't matter much which Demon King the target was, as long as they could get the corresponding spirit stones or beast materials afterwards.

After resting for a night, the next day, after Fairy Long Yue once again concealed the flying boat's tracks, Song Qingming and the others soon set off together to the sea area where the "Silver Tiger Shark" often appeared, looking for the traces of this Demon King.

However, after searching for more than ten days, apart from harvesting a few not-so-powerful second-tier beasts, the group didn't find any traces of the "Silver Tiger Shark." Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but feel a bit anxious.

So many Jin Dan cultivators had finally come to the outer sea to hunt demons; they couldn't just miss other opportunities to hunt demons just to look for a "Silver Tiger Shark," leading to returning empty-handed in the end.

Seeing that everyone started to have some opinions, Fairy Long Yue also sighed helplessly and agreed to everyone's opinion: first go to find and hunt other beasts, and then come back to see if they could find the "Silver Tiger Shark's" tracks.

After changing their minds, Song Qingming and the others left the west side of the Heavenly Source Sea area and turned north to start looking for other beasts.

More than ten days later, in a sea in the north of the Heavenly Source Sea area.

Song Qingming, the white-robed scholar, and the old man with the long beard each held a formation flag in their hands. Several golden lights were hooked up above the formation flags, locking the huge beast body, which was more than three feet high, firmly in the golden light.

Although this Demon King was in the sea, it wanted to slip away from the seabed several times, but each time it was pulled by the golden light underwater, and it was unable to stay away from this large formation formed by golden light at all.

Li Xianyun and the golden-armored man had already rushed directly into the formation and joined forces to attack the Jin Dan Demon King, who was trapped in a desperate situation and difficult to escape. They didn't give the other party a chance to break free from the golden light formation at all.

After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, with a powerful blow from the golden-armored man using a giant hammer magic treasure, the Jin Dan Demon King's head was smashed crooked.

Li Xianyun's flying sword also followed quickly and pierced into the Demon King's body, directly ending its life, and even its natal Jin Dan was taken out.

Seeing the Jin Dan Demon King's corpse floating on the sea surface below, which had no movement, the golden-armored man put away his magic treasure and laughed loudly at Song Qingming's side:

"Fellow Daoist Song's 'Jin Guang Binding Demon Array' is truly easy to use. With this array helping, encountering other Demon Kings will certainly be easy to capture, and they won't be able to escape easily."

Song Qingming, who was putting away the "Jin Guang Binding Demon Array," heard the golden-armored man's praise and hurriedly waved his hand:

"The large array in my hand is only third-tier low-grade. It's okay to deal with this kind of Jin Dan early-stage Demon King with not high cultivation base. If I really encounter a late-stage Jin Dan Demon King, I'm afraid it will be difficult to trap the other party as smoothly as this. Fellow Daoist Luo, don't overrate this array."

The old man with the long beard to one side smiled and shook his head: "Sigh! Although Fellow Daoist Song's array is only third-tier low-grade, under the fellow daoist's control, it is indeed better to use against beasts than ordinary third-tier mid-grade arrays.

I think even if it encounters an ordinary Demon King, it won't be difficult to trap the other party for a while. Fellow daoist is still too modest."

Just as the few were talking, a streak of white light flew over and landed beside the crowd. It was Fairy Long Yue, who had been guarding the surrounding area not far away and driving away those low-tier beasts summoned by the Demon King.

"Fellow daoists, this place is not that safe. I'm afraid there will be other high-tier beasts appearing. Let's hurry up and deal with the beast corpse and leave here first!"

"Haha! Fairy Long is right. This place should not be stayed in for long. If this corpse attracts a beast tide, it will be a bit troublesome. Let's hurry up and leave here."