Chapter 519 - 518: Eating Soft Rice Hard, Alien Palace Inspector

Li Jing’s craftsmanship never disappoints.

Originally, Blue Phoenix just wanted to sit down for a meal and take the opportunity to communicate with Lingling and deepen their relationship.

However, after tasting the food, she immediately felt as if all the delicacies she had eaten in the past were like garbage; her appetite surged.

The culinary skills of an Earth’s modern professional "househusband" were radically different from the primitive age Blue Phoenix had experienced.

The food of that time.

How could it be so flamboyant?

Not to mention that time.

Even in the present Immortal Realm.

Although there are many delicacies, they are incomparable to Blue Star.

How can it be compared to Earth, where a variety of food cultures thrive and few people consider culinary skills due to their cultivation practice in Blue Star?

Under the temptation of delicious food, Blue Phoenix quickly finished an entire huge crab claw that Li Jing had prepared for her.

The food being delicious was one thing.

Mainly, Lingling sitting on her shoulder was relentlessly indulging in food, making conversation quite difficult.

Since there was no opportunity to strike up a conversation, she just kept eating.

Li Jing wasn’t idle on the side, either.

After some thought, he casually refined a treasure-level hollow jade bracelet and set up a seven-star formation within it.

Then.

He put in a Blue Phoenix tail feather that he had always been unsure how to "deal with".

Under the effect of the seven-star formation.

The bracelet can store things like a storage device but is far less secure than a proper storage device.

The bracelet contains a foldable space that can be opened at will, not an independent space that can have clear ownership.

But that’s exactly what Li Jing wanted.

The Blue Phoenix’s tail feather was quite large, even longer than him when straightened.

If he were to keep it close to his body, he might have to wear it as clothes.

If he just kept it on, he’d be worried about damage during fights.

For such an excellent item, Li Jing certainly wouldn’t refine it casually.

He wasn’t planning to refine another artifact for now.

On one hand, he didn’t have any direction.

On the other hand, the only high-quality materials he had on hand was Snow Sound-Silk, which could turn an artifact into a half-step Taoist artifact.

The Blue Phoenix’s feather was of high quality, on par with the most extraordinary treasures of the world, but it couldn’t provide an artifact with rules; it could only serve as the base material for artifact refinement.

Li Jing already had the Taoist Snow Sound.

He certainly couldn’t use Snow Sound-Silk as the main material for refinement again.

He wasn’t sure what he could refine by combining feathers and silk.

In that case, he’d naturally have to think it over.

The key was to keep this thing close to him, so it could absorb the murderous intent accumulated from killing too many alien species.

If it was stored in a storage device with an independent space inside, it wouldn’t work as intended.

However, the folded space created by the seven-star formation could solve this problem perfectly.

...

With Li Jing’s work done, Blue Phoenix had also nearly finished her meal.

Without staying in the Little Universe for long, the two returned to the Immortal Realm.

Standing on the edge of the cliff, Li Jing said.

"Elder Blue Phoenix, I have an inappropriate request."

?

Blue Phoenix sent a question mark.

She was just about to show her true body and continue on her journey.

Li Jing’s sudden statement confused and slightly surprised her.

Why couldn’t Li Jing speak about his inappropriate request in the Little Universe and had to mention it once they came out?

Was he intentionally avoiding Lingling and Ya’er?

Before Blue Phoenix could figure it out, Li Jing said.

"We need to cross the Endless Sea to reach the Western Immortal Realm, and dangers are inevitable along the way. I believe there are numerous sea creatures that even Elder Blue Phoenix would find troublesome and want to avoid, but we might not be able to avoid all dangers."

As he spoke, he blushed and rolled up his sleeve to reveal the newly refined bracelet that was still warm, saying confidently,

"Just in time, I want to make my murderous aura more intense, since the tail feather you shed suppresses it and doesn’t affect my daily interactions with non-human alien species. If my murderous aura is intense enough, it may have unexpected effects in the future. Therefore, I would like to ask Elder Blue Phoenix to hold back when facing enemies blocking our way that we cannot avoid. Wound them without killing them and let me take the kill."

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Blue Phoenix.

At first, she thought Li Jing was avoiding Lingling and Ya’er to raise a request that he found difficult to bring up in public.

Is this the result?

However, she had to admit.

Li Jing’s idea had some merit.

The bracelet Li Jing just refined, she had just seen it with her own eyes.

She also saw Li Jing put her tail feather into it.

Obviously, Li Jing refined the bracelet at the last moment because he was considering the potential obstacles on their way, intending to accumulate more murderous aura with her help.

And this murderous aura accumulated from killing too many alien species, it was indeed useful at times.

Without much thought, Blue Phoenix nodded.

"Sure, I will try my best to hold back when we encounter enemies on our way."

Hearing the agreement, Li Jing was secretly pleased.

There was more easy life for him to live!

This wave, may be even more worth anticipating than the eradication of the Shadow Demon in the Cangming Realm!

Although he showed no change in demeanor on the surface, Li Jing gratefully cupped his hands in respect.

"Thank you for your kindness, Senior Qingfeng."

"No need to be so formal with me."

Qingfeng responded with a playful grin, lightly pursing her red lips.

"I’ve taken a lot from you. Feel free to present your requirements to me. As long as they’re not too excessive, I can fulfill them all."

Receiving such a substantial response, Li Jing grinned widely.

"Qingfeng, don’t spoil me too much, or else I might start losing my own countenance," he said, chuckling.

"At this point in time, not only have we become good friends, but you are also now a member of Chen Tang City and Cangming Entertainment City. No need to talk about debts. As the Lord of Chen Tang City, I’m merely doing what I should."

Listening to those words, Qingfeng was momentarily speechless.

Weren’t they supposed to be spoiling each other? Right from the beginning, Li Jing had been treating her better.

Although she hadn’t made any outrageous demands since knowing Li Jing...

When she didn’t know how capable he was, she mostly made requests from a perspective of her own strength being strong enough.

To be blunt...

She felt that Li Jing would treat her with respect since he wouldn’t dare to disrespect her.

But now she realizes...

Li Jing’s abilities are frighteningly profound; he doesn’t necessarily need to give her face.

Looking back...

She has now understood what kind of person Li Jing is.

As long as you are on his side and not just taking from him, he will consider you as one of his own and wouldn’t hesitate to give you all kinds of benefits.

Thinking carefully...

Everything about her and Li Jing started when he understood that the Burn the Sky God had come to find her, and then she gifted him a feather tail. Isn’t all their interactions just a series of him behaving tactfully towards her?

The encounter...

Was due to destiny.

The actions and behavior of Li Jing towards Qingfeng can be likened to the person who had a great impact on her life, second only to the Fire Phoenix. He was not a passerby.

Gazing at the calm and composed Li Jing, Qingfeng realized that it was pointless to be courteous with him.

Instead of being courteous, it would be better to do something tangible in return.

After some thought, Qingfeng said,

’If our journey across the Endless Sea is successful, I can take you on a hunting spree. This will allow you to accumulate enough evil aura, which may be greatly useful on the Earth of the Western Immortal Realm, which is dominated by Alien Species."

Hearing Qingfeng say this, Li Jing’s eyes gleamed brightly.

He had been shamelessly asking for favors...

But now, Qingfeng was stuffing favors into his mouth herself!

Before he could say anything, Qingfeng transformed back into her true form.

After receiving the Original Fortune in the Little Universe, Qingfeng’s physical form had significantly changed.

Firstly, her originally bright feathers became more dazzling, and secondly, her long-damaged foundation was restored, which gave her the overbearing aura of being a supreme beast from ancient times.

It may also be because she was revealing her completely unfettered self after a long time. As Qingfeng revealed her true form, she couldn’t help but let out a loud phoenix cry into the sky, startling the birds on the shore into flight.

Birds of all types - spiritual beasts, demon beasts, or ordinary birds, all gathered together into a large black swarm, circling around her and chirping, as if worshipping her.

Upon seeing this scene, Li Jing was astonished.

The Phoenix truly deserved to be called the King of All Birds in the legends.

While he was lost in amazement, Qingfeng turned her head and gently plucked the most randomly vibrant feather from her tail.

"After the departure of the Fire Phoenix, I have been living alone in a hazed existence for countless years. I have no worldly possessions and nothing to repay you with. This ’fresh’ feather of mine I’ll give to you. The one on your bracelet has had nearly a million years of wear and tear on it; it will vastly reduce the effect if you plan on refining it. Use this fresh one instead."

Hearing Qingfeng say this, Li Jing didn’t refuse. He accepted the fresh feather and kept it safely.

Indeed, this fresh feather was quite different from the one Qingfeng had previously given him.

It contained an unimaginable spiritual rhyme, which faintly gave him the impression that it had surpassed the category of Heavenly Treasures.

"Hop on, we should get going."

Qingfeng bowed her head.

Li Jing nodded, flying up to land on her back.

"Whoosh!"

Qingfeng raised her head. Suddenly, with a violent flap of her wings, a terrifying gale stirred up. Turning into a scorching streak of light, she shot up into the sky, heading westward.

...

Throughout the journey to the west...

Qingfeng did not fly at her terrifying speed, but instead flew at a relatively slower pace across the Endless Sea. This allowed Li Jing to appreciate the vast perspective of the Endless Sea while deliberately suppressing most of her presence, leading many blind vicious creatures their way.

Unlike spiritual beasts and demon beasts... vicious creatures are extremely violent and aggressive by nature.

However, they are not completely blind.

When they encounter a particularly powerful existence, they won’t suicidally jump out for an attack.

In fact...

Vicious creatures that can survive and become extremely powerful are often deceptively cunning, knowing how to avoid powerful enemies and bully the weak.

It’s survival of the fittest.

Those who can’t read the situation won’t necessarily be able to grow up.

There is a food chain in the beast cultivation...

Vicious creatures are just more aggressive by nature, they are just natural predators.

There are also top-level predators among the spiritual beasts and demon beasts, they certainly wouldn’t be scared of vicious creatures. In fact, many top-level predators even feed on vicious creatures.

Qingfeng deliberately suppressed most of her own aura, giving many territorial and domineering vicious creatures the illusion that "this divine bird is very weak".

With such an illusion, how could they resist?

You have to know that Qingfeng comes from a divine beast bloodline, which is extraordinary.

For them, as ferocious creatures, their "nutritional value" is inexpressibly high.

If they are lucky enough to devour one, they might be endowed with a bloodline transformation.

Who could resist such a temptation?

Not to mention the ferocious creatures. Even some ignorant Spiritual Beasts and Demon Beasts who thought that they could make Pei Chang’s journey came out.

Naturally.

They turned into a sumptuous meal, prepared by Blue Phoenix and fed to a certain someone "by mouth".

Li Jing was not one to refuse.

No matter if they were Spiritual Beasts, Demon Beasts, or ferocious creatures. Anything that Blue Phoenix had defeated and sent his way, he would kill. He gained a large amount of Essence Source and harvested countless high-level Alien Species corpses.

Some of them were even of the Venerable level.

This time, Li Jing thoroughly enjoyed himself.

Before even reaching the Western Immortal Domain, he thought that the trip had been worthwhile.

Blue Phoenix, now at its full-flourishing core, was insuperably powerful. It swept across the battlefield with Li Jing as they "fished" along the way. Few creatures could withstand her attack without being knocked down.

There’s a saying that freeloading is preferable.

Blue Phoenix’s freeloading, was tens of thousands times better than Sikong Lu’s.

In the Endless Sea, "originated energy resources" could be said to be inexhaustible.

In the blink of an eye, six days had passed.

Li Jing had reaped countless Essence Sources, feeling incomplete without them.

Due to the sheer amount of ferocious beasts "fed" by Blue Phoenix with a high concentration of nefarious spirits, his entire body had accumulated so much nefarious energy that even he himself could feel it distinctly.

The incomparable nefarious energy, with the suppression of the tail feather of Blue Phoenix, rose proportionately in strength.

This directly led to Li Jing being unable to part with the Blue Phoenix’s tail feather.

...

After six consecutive days of travel, the two finally arrived at their destination, the Western Immortal Domain.

Having landed on the coast, Blue Phoenix, which had not rested for a moment on their journey, resumed her human form, and said,

"I’ll recover a bit before we continue the journey. You should take out your Immortal Mask and put it on."

Continuing, she said,

"The Western Immortal Domain is reigned over by non-human Alien Species. There are numerous top-tier powers here. This place is extremely hostile to humans. Many here enjoy eating humans or consider them as blood-food or even pets. Humans, if they do not hide themselves, might attract unnecessary troubles."

Listening to her words, Li Jing, who had enjoyed his fill of freeloading with Blue Phoenix, nodded and took out his Smoke Eye to veil his own breath.

The Western Immortal Domain is an Alien Species territory, belonging to neither humans nor beasts, but something else.

In simpler words.

The beings that dominated these lands were high-class intelligent civilizations.

Li Jing had encountered such beings in the past like the Lizard Men in Small Secret Realm No. 107, and the Ancient God’s Descendants in the Chongyuan Holy Realm.

Leaving aside the former,

The view of the Ancient God’s Descendants towards humans was not necessarily repulsive.

It was just that in the long-lost past, humans living in Chongyuan Holy Realm had a very low status, almost similar to the status of human pets or blood-food that Blue Phoenix mentioned.

However, the rise of the Blue Star races had made the already declining Ancient God’s Descendants realize that they were not a group that could be compared to humans from the weak and small Chongyuan Holy Realm.

Leaving those matters aside,

While Blue Phoenix was recovering, Li Jing summoned his status bar.

Controller: Li Jing

Rule Control: Thunder Punishment, Space, Shadow, Heavenly Fire

Heavenly and Earthly Essence: 5598462/5944346

Level: 321 (Ask Heaven) / Next Phase Level 330

Skill Points: 72

Strength of Thunder Punishment: 103362

Lifebound Magical Instrument: Linglong (Eleventh Realm Level 99%), Qingfeng (Eleventh Realm Level 99%), Smoke Eye (Eleventh Realm Level 99%), Unknown, Snow Sound

Equipment: None

Passive Skills: Small Universe, Reverse Space

Active Skills: Zhou Tian Talisman

Limit Breakthrough (passive): Divine Might, Moon Shadow

Limit Breakthrough (active): Spirit God’s Whisper, Heaven’s Creation Skill, Eye of True Vision

Forbidden Skills: Thunder Punishment Body in All Worlds, Burn the Sky

Second Breakthrough: Heaven and Earth Return to Heart, Wind Thunder Domain, Eternal Chant

Looking at the changes in the status bar, Li Jing was overjoyed.

The freeloading from Blue Phoenix had allowed him to level up by 34 levels, reaching the later-stages of the Eleventh Realm.

If he can level up 9 more times, he can step into the Twelfth Realm.

He only needed a few hundreds of thousands more Essence Resources to level up one more time.

As expected of the "level up treasure land", the Immortal Realm!

And then...

Freeloading is really pleasurable!

Glancing at Blue Phoenix, who was sitting beside him and recovering, Li Jing wondered whether he should go back to the Endless Sea to do something "meaningful" during his free time.

Whilst pondering, Blue Phoenix, who had just settled down, furrowed her brows and opened her eyes.

"Someone’s coming."

Li Jing was slightly taken aback upon hearing her words.

Immediately afterward, a sense of something caught his attention, causing him to look towards the far-west.

At the same time,

Two streaks of light shot towards them from the distance, reflecting in his eyes, and landed near them in an instant.

As the light dispersed,

Two non-human alien species, each with wings sprouting from their ribs, revealed themselves.

It is the same case of wings growing out of ribs.

These two have significant differences compared to the Winged People.

The Winged People at least have just one pair of feathered wings, while the rest of their features perfectly correspond to those of humans.

As for these two creatures.

One had a head that resembled a golden eagle, and the other like a hawk.

Furthermore, while they both possessed human-like erect bodies, they were all covered in feathers under their clothes, and their hands and feet were not different fingers but more like the sharp claws of a bird of prey.

Looking again at their health bars positioned over their heads.

Li Jing was utterly astonished.

The one with a head that resembled a hawk had a health bar showing the value of 18495.

The one resembling the golden eagle ran straight up to 18966.

One was in the early Venerable Realm, and the other was in the middle Venerable Realm.

He and Blue Phoenix had just arrived, how come two venerable beings appeared out of nowhere?

Could it be...

Probably not just passing by?

At this point.

Upon seeing the two real "bird people," Blue Phoenix’s gaze briefly lingered on their exquisite robes, she exclaimed in surprise.

"Inspectors from the Alien Palace?"

At Blue Phoenix’s question, the two nodded in response.

Li Jing was momentarily stunned, examining the two with an incredulous look.

The Alien Palace.

It was not just any other place.

It was the organization under the Emperor of the Western Earth’s direct control, managing the Western Immortal Realm, much like Donghua Immortal Palace.

The Inspectors.

Taking the literal meaning from the term, the duo was likely responsible for inspecting the Western Immortal Realm.

The two being able to find Blue Phoenix and him so quickly suggested that they were in charge of this border area.

That was interesting.

From a bigger perspective, Venerable Realm beings are commonplace in the Four Realms of the Immortals.

But no matter where they are, they still belong to the uppermost echelon.

They wouldn’t typically be assigned to patrol duties...

It was incredibly extravagant for the Western Immortal Realm to have two Venerable Realm beings patrolling the border.

Could it be that something happened here?

While he was speculating, the one resembling the golden eagle glanced at Blue Phoenix and then at Li Jing, who had concealed his aura and appearance, and spoke in a relatively polite tone.

"We welcome guests from afar, but you two have come at an inconvenient time. No matter where you two are from, please leave immediately. There will be an important event happening in my Western Immortal Realm soon, and by order of the Emperor, the border is sealed off, and we have to refuse any visitors."

Blue Phoenix frowned upon hearing this.

If it was ordinary, she certainly wouldn’t care.

So what if they are in the Venerable Realm?

Those two, at most, were just a slap in the face to her.

However, since the Emperor of Western Earth’s order was involved, recklessness was not an option.

Not to mention she had not yet achieved emperor status.

Even if she had reached that level, she would have to think twice when facing the old Dominator who controls the entire Western Immortal Realm.

Li Jing, standing on one side, was also frowning.

He and Blue Phoenix had just arrived.

Then immediately, someone came to urge them to leave, and it was a request they couldn’t ignore. What should they do?

Should they stay or should they go?

Thinking back.

Border sealing.

It meant that the entire Western Immortal Realm was under lockdown, not just the direction facing the Eastern Immortal Realm.

Discussing the size of the realms.

The Western Immortal Realm wasn’t much smaller than the Eastern Immortal Realm.

To seal off the entire realm’s border required a lot of manpower.

Seeing that the Western Immortal Realm sent out Venerable Realm inspectors...

What exactly was about to happen here?

Elsewhere.

Blue Phoenix was also puzzled.

Then, as if she had realized something, a surprised look flashed across her face before she quickly hid her emotions. She stood up and addressed the two inspectors.

"As the Emperor of Western Earth has ordered to close the borders of the Western Immortal Realm, we will leave. It shouldn’t be a problem if we stay on a nearby island and wait for the ban to be lifted, right?"

"Please feel free."

The one resembling the hawk spoke.

As if not worrying about Blue Phoenix and Li Jing being unruly, the two inspectors took to the sky, transforming into lights that quickly faded into the distance.

Watching the two figures depart, Li Jing turned his gaze.

"Senior Blue Phoenix..."

Before he could say his piece, Blue Phoenix raised her hand to silence him and sent him a voice transmission.

"I think I know what’s about to happen in the Western Lands. We have come at a rather bad time. We shouldn’t linger here; let’s find a nearby island to settle down."

Having said that, she pulled Li Jing into the air.

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