Chapter 648

This Daoist temple was located in the deep mountains, with no human habitation for dozens of miles around, and only a few mortal Daoist priests without cultivation lived here.

However, what surprised Song Qingming was that these Daoist priests were not the least bit panicked when they saw the three Jin Dan cultivators descending from the sky.

One of the slightly older Daoist priests greeted the leading Jin Dan cultivator, then turned and led them into a very ordinary-looking tile-roofed house behind the Daoist temple.

Just as they entered the door, Song Qingming immediately felt a powerful aura that was not weaker than Feng He's coming toward them. Looking closely, he found an old man with a crane-like appearance and a childlike face, dressed in a gray Daoist robe, walking toward them.

The old man had a slight smile on his face, looking like a kind and benevolent person, but his cultivation was unfathomable; he was also an expert who had practiced to the peak of the Jin Dan.

The Jin Dan cultivator who brought Song Qingming and the other, after seeing the white-haired old man, quietly transmitted a sound to him, then took the initiative to exit the room and quickly left the place in a streak of white light.

"Two Fellow Daoists, I am Luo Tongzhou, an Elder of the Juxian Alliance." After the guide left, the white-haired old man bowed slightly to Song Qingming and the other and stated his identity directly.

"Feng He, Song Qingming!"

Seeing this person, Feng He also changed his usual arrogant attitude in front of Song Qingming and took the initiative to bow to the other party with a smile.

After greeting the two, Luo Tongzhou took out the white jade pendant that Song Qingming had sent to "Xianyuan City" a few days ago and asked Feng He at his side:

"If I am not mistaken, this White Feather Jade should have been sent by Fellow Daoist Feng, right? Is it that you want to practice in seclusion to impact the Nascent Soul realm?"

Feng He nodded immediately upon hearing this and replied, "Fellow Daoist is right, it was indeed brought by me. This item was given by a close friend of mine. He once dealt with an Elder of your Alliance, so he was fortunate enough to obtain this item.

This time I came to the Donghuang Kingdom and happened to have a need, so I borrowed this item from my friend to use. This shouldn't violate your regulations, right!"

Luo Tongzhou waved his hand and smiled, "The rules of our Chamber of Commerce are to only recognize the token and not ask about its origin. Fellow Daoist does not need to worry about this. Even if this jade pendant was obtained by killing someone and seizing the treasure, it has nothing to do with us, as long as it does not hinder us from doing business.

Since Fellow Daoist brought this token to the Tianbao Chamber of Commerce, you should know our rules. May I ask Fellow Daoist, have you prepared enough spiritual items?"

"I naturally understand this. I have already prepared the spiritual items for forming the Nascent Soul. I only need your Alliance to help find a safe place for seclusion to protect me and prevent others from disturbing my seclusion to break through the realm."

After Feng He finished speaking, he took out a silver storage bag from his body and threw it to Luo Tongzhou.

After taking the storage bag and opening it to look, a hint of joy appeared on Luo Tongzhou's face, and he nodded slightly to Feng He with a smile.

"I have already understood Fellow Daoist's request, but I must remind you that our Alliance can only provide you with a cave dwelling for seclusion and protection, and no one will take action to help you deal with the Nascent Soul Tribulation. I hope you know this in advance.

If you haven't thought it through, you can still take back your things and leave here now. If there are no problems, then set off with me!"

"This junior understands, I will trouble Fellow Daoist!" Feng He replied firmly to the other party.

Seeing that Feng He had already made up his mind, Luo Tongzhou did not say anything more. After returning the white jade pendant in his hand to Feng He, he led the two into the room.

The two followed Luo Tongzhou to the front of a wall in the inner room. Luo Tongzhou faced this very ordinary-looking stone wall, waved his hand to throw out a golden token, and then his hands began to cast spells quickly.

A moment later, a burst of white light suddenly erupted from the golden token, and then a pitch-black square hole slowly appeared in front of the wall.

"Two Fellow Daoists, please follow me!"

After Luo Tongzhou finished speaking, he put away the golden token in mid-air and led the way into the black hole. Feng He scanned the surroundings before following without too much hesitation.

The three soon passed through the hole and came to a pitch-black cave without a trace of light.

Being in this pitch-black environment where one could not see one's fingers, it immediately gave people a feeling of oppression out of thin air. Just as Song Qingming reached out to condense a ball of flame to illuminate the surroundings, a ball of white light suddenly lit up in front, soon illuminating the entire cave.

Under the illumination of a high-tier night-luminescent pearl released by Luo Tongzhou, Song Qingming saw clearly the position of the three: it was a fully enclosed cave embedded in the interior of the mountain, with no entrance or exit around, and not even a trace of breeze could be felt.

In the cave, there was nothing extra, only a teleportation formation about five or six feet in size placed in the center.

"Intermediate Teleportation Formation," seeing this formation, a hint of surprise appeared on Song Qingming's face. He did not expect that there was an "Intermediate Teleportation Formation" capable of teleporting a distance of tens of thousands of miles hidden in this inconspicuous deep mountain Daoist temple.

One must know that the cost of setting up an "Intermediate Teleportation Formation" required at least one hundred thousand spirit stones. Ordinary sect forces simply could not bear such a large sum of money.

In the Fuyun Mountain Range cultivation world, those capable of setting up and using this kind of "Intermediate Teleportation Formation" were basically forces above the Nascent Soul stage. The Xiaoyao Sect, which had been passed down for thousands of years, had only set up one "Intermediate Teleportation Formation" in the most important Guiyunfang in the north of the sect.

Although he had heard about following Feng He for the past few days and roughly knew that the "Juxian Alliance" behind Luo Tongzhou was not a simple force, seeing them set up an "Intermediate Teleportation Formation" in such a place with his own eyes, Song Qingming couldn't help but sigh at the other party's wealth.

Just as Song Qingming was sighing in his heart, Luo Tongzhou had already taken out two mid-grade spirit stones and placed them on the side of the teleportation formation.

After preparing, Luo Tongzhou reminded Feng He and Song Qingming to step onto the teleportation formation. Standing on the side, he immediately cast a spell to start the teleportation formation. After the formation began to run, Luo Tongzhou walked into the formation quickly.

Soon, a flash of white light, and after a dizzying spin, Song Qingming and the other three reappeared in a very spacious hall.

"Two Fellow Daoists, please!" After glancing at Song Qingming, who was still in a daze, Luo Tongzhou reminded the two and led the way off the teleportation formation.

Under Luo Tongzhou's lead, Song Qingming and the other came to the depths of another group of mountains that looked similar. However, compared to the desolation near the previous Daoist temple, this place was very lively with human habitation everywhere, and there were many cultivators and mortals living in the town.

Besides this, Song Qingming also clearly felt that the spiritual energy of these floating clouds was very rich, not inferior to the "Xianyuan City" he had been to before. Apparently, there should also be a spiritual vein above the fourth tier nearby.

After arriving here, Luo Tongzhou greeted a Jin Dan cultivator who was guarding near the teleportation formation, and then led Feng He and Song Qingming to a nearby highest mountain peak.

"Two Fellow Daoists, please wait here for a moment. I will first inform the Supreme Elder of the Alliance about this matter, and then arrange the cave dwelling for your seclusion."

"Fellow Daoist, go ahead and get busy. We two will wait for you here!" After replying to the other party, Feng He immediately found a clean stone on the spot and sat down.

The two waited here for about the time it takes to burn a stick of incense. Luo Tongzhou returned here with another Jin Dan cultivator, and then the two led Feng He and Song Qingming to a cave dwelling outside that had relatively sufficient spiritual energy and was enough for seclusion to break through the Nascent Soul realm.

"Fellow Daoist Feng, this is the location of our Alliance's main altar. You can rest assured to practice in seclusion here. As long as our Juxian Alliance is still here, no one will be able to find this place to disturb you.

I still have some matters to attend to, so I will leave first. If the two Fellow Daoists have any needs in the future, you can just tell Junior Martial Brother Hu." After Luo Tongzhou finished speaking, he bowed to the two and left directly on a streak of light.

For the next year or so, Feng He and Song Qingming lived here at the main altar of the "Juxian Alliance," preparing for his upcoming seclusion to form the Nascent Soul.

During this period, Song Qingming also went out and left here several times to go to large immortal cities and markets such as "Xianyuan City" to help Feng He collect some spiritual items needed when breaking through to the Nascent Soul.

The location of the "Juxian Alliance" main altar was very mysterious. After Song Qingming and Feng He arrived here, they discovered that there were powerful restrictions within a hundred miles around the mountain. Without the guidance of their own people, others simply had no way to leave this place alone.

Every time Song Qingming went out, he basically had to use the internal teleportation formation of the "Juxian Alliance" to go outside.

He could only judge the location of their main altar by the effective distance of the teleportation formation and could not know exactly where the places he had been to were.

After staying inside the "Juxian Alliance" for a period of time, Song Qingming slowly understood some things about this somewhat mysterious Chamber of Commerce and also knew why Feng He would choose to find them to protect himself in condensing the Nascent Soul.

The "Juxian Alliance" could be considered a very mysterious force in the Donghuang Kingdom cultivation world.

On the surface, they seemed to be just an ordinary Chamber of Commerce organization. In many places in the Donghuang Kingdom cultivation world, there were commercial shops that they secretly controlled or directly participated in operating. The Tianbao Chamber of Commerce that Song Qingming had been to was one of them.

But what many people didn't know was that behind these shops, there was a cultivation organization with a huge force called the "Juxian Alliance," and the projects they operated were far from as simple as they appeared on the surface.

Organizing underground auctions that couldn't be seen in the cultivation world, hiring killers, trading intelligence, selling stolen spiritual items of unknown origin, and protecting some cultivators with identity problems to break through the realm, etc.

These things that were difficult to handle outside could be accepted by the "Juxian Alliance" as long as you could afford the spirit stones. The "Juxian Alliance" could also be considered one of the most famous underground cultivation forces in the Donghuang Kingdom cultivation world.

Precisely because of this, Feng He chose to find them for this seclusion to break through to the Nascent Soul. Although the spirit stones that needed to be spent at the "Juxian Alliance" were much more than in "Xianyuan City," at least there was no need to worry too much about safety.

Unlike cultivation forces like the "Tiandan Alliance" that Song Qingming had seen, the things mainly operated by the "Juxian Alliance" organization were almost all things that couldn't be seen in the light.

These people inside their organization, although they looked no different from ordinary cultivators, their style of conduct was only looking at interests and would not tell you too much about the bottom line of benevolence and morality.

Therefore, underground cultivation forces like the "Juxian Alliance" were extremely unwelcome by the major righteous cultivation sects in the Donghuang Kingdom cultivation world. When they walked outside, they were also very careful and did not dare to easily reveal their identity in front of others.

Even many shops that had been secretly controlled by them, the people inside did not know the existence of this organization. Only when the organization needed it would they send core cultivators of the Alliance to take over the operation.

As an important stronghold that the Juxian Alliance had operated in Xianyuan City for thousands of years, although the Foundation Establishment cultivators above the Shopkeeper inside were internal members of the Juxian Alliance, those shop assistants in the Qi Condensation stage actually did not know the true identity of this shop.

After more than a year of careful preparation, Feng He, who had adjusted his state and prepared everything, finally activated the restriction at the door of the cave dwelling and began to practice in seclusion to impact the Nascent Soul realm.

After Feng He practiced in seclusion, Song Qingming did not rush to leave. He also found a cave dwelling on a nearby mountain and lived there directly. After practicing in seclusion for a period of time, seeing that Feng He's situation here had stabilized, Song Qingming took the initiative to leave here.

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A break in the chapter.

Ten years later, beside a high mountain west of the "Juxian Alliance" main altar, the sky, which was originally clear for ten thousand miles, suddenly changed drastically. A group of black clouds gathered, directly covering the entire mountain top, covering the original daylight into something like a dark night.

The mortals and low-tier cultivators near the high mountain were instantly attracted by such shocking heaven and earth anomalies. Just as everyone was discussing, several streaks of light suddenly flew from the high sky and stopped above these people's heads.

"Everyone, immediately enter the mountain-protecting formation. You are not allowed to stay outside at will, otherwise, you will be severely punished without exception!"

Hearing the lecture from the several high-tier cultivators in the sky, the crowd below surged, and soon they all stayed away from the vicinity of this high mountain.

After these people finished speaking, they scanned the crowd below and saw that no one was staying here, then turned and flew quickly to the side of the high mountain.

Soon, these people came to a place more than ten miles away from the high mountain in the distance. Seeing two figures already standing in the air ahead, they hurriedly bowed respectfully.

"Greetings, Supreme Elder!"

The two people in front were a man and a woman, both of whom were cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage. Among them, the young man in white clothes was a third-layer Nascent Soul cultivator, and the other slightly older woman in yellow clothes had a higher cultivation, already at the fifth layer of the Nascent Soul.

Seeing the several Jin Dan cultivators who had just arrived, the young man among the two turned and nodded slightly to greet them. The other woman did not pay any attention, her gaze always staring firmly at the top of the mountain.

"It seems that the little friend who is practicing in seclusion on the mountain is about to start dealing with the Nascent Soul Tribulation. This is a rare good opportunity for you, so don't miss it easily!"

Hearing the young man say this, Luo Tongzhou, who was standing in front, was slightly surprised and hurriedly asked, "Senior Martial Brother Zhang, how much certainty do you think this Fellow Daoist Feng has to cross this Tribulation?"

"Haha! This is hard to say. However, cultivators who can reach this step must also be people with some ability. I estimate that there should be a fifty percent chance."

"It's just that the cultivators who hide here to practice in seclusion to cross the Tribulation are basically people with improper origins. Although we can provide them with a place of protection, we must never intervene in the crossing of the Tribulation."

"If he really dies under the Tribulation, then it can only be considered that his luck is not good!"

After the man in white finished speaking, he greeted the woman in yellow clothes beside him and disappeared from the spot in a streak of white light. The woman in yellow clothes stood there and watched for a while, then followed and disappeared in a streak of light, leaving only Luo Tongzhou and the others standing there.

After these two Nascent Soul cultivators left, soon more than a dozen Jin Dan cultivators flew over, including Song Qingming, who happened to be practicing in seclusion nearby and suddenly sensed some changes in the spiritual energy outside, so he came out to check the situation.

Although Feng He did not ask Song Qingming to stay here at the "Juxian Alliance" to protect him after he practiced in seclusion.

However, for fear that something might go wrong on his side, after Feng He practiced in seclusion, Song Qingming did not dare to leave too far. After traveling around Ningzhou for a few years, he returned to the "Juxian Alliance" and stayed here to practice in seclusion.

Fortunately, because Feng He spent spirit stones, the people of the "Juxian Alliance" did not intentionally make things difficult for Song Qingming. Not only did they agree to let him stay, but they also allowed him to go out to purchase spiritual items when needed.

However, if he wanted to leave here and use the teleportation formation in the "Juxian Alliance," he still had to collect spirit stones separately, and the fees they charged Song Qingming every time he teleported were not low, which also made Song Qingming spend a lot of spirit stones on this.

"Fellow Daoist Luo, is this heaven and earth anomaly caused by Fellow Daoist Feng?" After seeing Luo Tongzhou, Song Qingming hurriedly bowed and asked the other party.

Luo Tongzhou nodded slightly upon seeing this and said, "Fellow Daoist Song, rest assured. Judging by the situation, Fellow Daoist Feng has already successfully formed the Core. Next, as long as he successfully crosses the Tribulation, he will be able to step into the Nascent Soul realm."

"Oh! Many thanks for the guidance, Fellow Daoist Luo." After Song Qingming bowed and replied, he also shifted his gaze to the sky like everyone else.

Hearing the news that Feng He was about to start crossing the Tribulation, Song Qingming was excited and also slightly worried for him.

Unlike breaking through the Jin Dan realm, every cultivator who breaks through the realm above the Nascent Soul will encounter the Tribulation brought down by the Heavenly Dao because they have gathered and absorbed too much heaven and earth vitality at once.

The Nascent Soul cultivator's Tribulation has a total of six bolts. The first three bolts are not very powerful, only equivalent to the full-strength blow of an ordinary late-stage Jin Dan cultivator, and normal cultivators crossing the Tribulation can deal with them.

The last three bolts of the Tribulation are much more powerful, and their power has reached the Nascent Soul level, and the power of each bolt of the Tribulation will be a few points stronger than the previous ones.

Ordinary cultivators crossing the Tribulation will find cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage to help, so that it will be safer.

However, the influence of outsiders helping to deal with the Tribulation brought down by the Heavenly Dao is limited. It only slightly reduces the pressure of dealing with the Tribulation itself and cannot completely help you cross the Tribulation one hundred percent. If you want to successfully cross the Tribulation, you mainly have to rely on yourself.

After Song Qingming and the others waited at the foot of the mountain for four or five days, as the movement of the black clouds gathering above the sky became larger and larger, a thunder finally came down from the sky and instantly fell on the top of the mountain.

Seeing this amazing speed and the thunder light that was no less than the full-strength blow of a late-stage Jin Dan cultivator, a hint of horror appeared on the faces of the Jin Dan cultivators with slightly lower cultivation present.

Only a few late-stage Jin Dan cultivators like Luo Tongzhou remained calm and did not change because of this.

After this blow fell from the sky, a golden light suddenly lit up on the top of the mountain, and then Feng He, with a golden jade seal on his head, flew into mid-air against the thunder light.

This thunder light fell on the golden protective cover beside Feng He, and sparks flew everywhere, very fierce, but it did not cause much damage to the golden protective cover, and it disappeared in mid-air soon.

However, before everyone could relax, rolling thunder sounded in the sky again, and soon another more powerful thunder light fell, but it still did not penetrate the golden protective cover beside Feng He.

Until the third thunder fell, the golden jade seal on Feng He's head was suddenly shattered by the thunder light into two halves, and the protective cover beside him soon disappeared.

Fortunately, inside the golden protective cover, there was a white protective cover arranged by another defensive magic treasure used by Feng He, which blocked the attack of the remaining thunder light.

Seeing that his golden jade seal magic treasure had been destroyed by the third bolt of the Tribulation, Feng He had no time to feel sad for his magic treasure. He waved his hand and immediately took out a green formation disk and threw it into the air directly.

As Feng He cast a set of magic formulas, five golden lights lit up on the formation disk, instantly connecting to the five formation flags that had already been arranged around, forming a semi-circular white protective cover, protecting Feng He in the middle.

"It's actually the Tiangang Five Elements Formation. No wonder this person has such confidence to deal with the Nascent Soul Tribulation alone!" Seeing this formation light up on the top of the mountain, a late-stage Jin Dan cultivator in the crowd exclaimed immediately.

Song Qingming at the side saw the "Tiangang Five Elements Formation" before him, and a hint of excitement also appeared on his face.

This third-tier top-quality defensive formation was exactly what he helped arrange together before Feng He practiced in seclusion. It's just that this formation was not something he had, but something Feng He had long prepared.

Because no one else helped, the two of them also spent a full half a year to barely arrange this formation.

Seeing this formation light up, Song Qingming was also looking forward to it. How powerful is this formation, and can it help Feng He deal with the next few bolts of the Tribulation? (End of chapter)