Fire Monster

Chapter 263 Carrying goods mission
Zhao Guanshan was somewhat shocked, mainly because the name of Floating Cloud Taoist Palace was too famous.

Before the world of immortal cultivation collapsed, the so-called Floating Cloud Immortal Sect was already the boss of the world of immortal cultivation, the most outstanding one.

Even now, even in the mouths of the demon hunters in the Cangwu Taoist Palace, the Fuyun Taoist Palace is still a lighthouse leader-level existence, and even the old man Qin Wuyuan is thinking about it all the time.

At that moment, Zhao Guanshan quickly replied: "My name is Zhao Chengfeng. I was born in Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace, but I am currently registered as a demon hunter in the spirit world of Cangwu Taoist Palace."

This message was passed on through the Daoyu Jade, and soon, the other party responded.

"Zhao Chengfeng, we know you, can you tell us about the current situation of Linjiang Prefecture Dao Palace?"

"Yes, the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace has currently chosen to close off the palace and practice the forbidden art of conferring the gods. The total population has exceeded seven million, and not long ago, the sixth-level imperial seal chariot was being installed."

Zhao Guanshan knew what the other party wanted to ask, so he didn't beat around the bush and told the truth directly.

After a moment, the other party's voice was heard again in the Daoyu, "Zhao Chengfeng, can you predict for us when the destiny microclimate of Linjiang Dao Palace will be formed?"

"I'm not sure, maybe within one or two hundred years."

"Can you be more specific?"

"I said, I'm not sure, and I don't want to get involved in guiding destiny."

A chuckle soon came from the Daoyu, "Zhao Chengfeng, I understand your caution, but you probably don't know that the Floating Cloud Dao Palace is currently the only Dao Palace in our broken world of cultivation with an immortal in charge, and it is also the leader of all Dao Palaces!"

"At present, including the Linjiang Prefecture Dao Palace where you are, and the Cangwu Dao Palace where you serve, there are a total of seventy-six Dao Palaces that are led by my Fuyun Dao Palace or are directly or indirectly governed."

"Fairy?"

Zhao Guanshan felt that he was shocked too many times today, so much so that he began to think that the other party was lying.

At this time, the voice from the other side sounded again in the Daoyu Jade.

"To be honest, our team came here to look for you. It has been ten years since you last appeared in the spirit world. For this reason, we have traveled tens of thousands of miles to the base of Linjiang Dao Palace in the spirit world. You can choose not to believe it, but can you wait for us here for two days?"

"Of course, it doesn't matter if we don't wait. Since we are here, we naturally have a way to pass through your base and enter Linjiang Prefecture. However, if we do that, we will offend the destiny. We are unwilling to do so unless we have to."

Hearing this, Zhao Guanshan thought for a moment and asked:
"What do you want to do?"

"It's simple. It's just to determine a location for the Linjiang Palace in the real world. Fuyun Palace is planning a big event. In the next hundred years, the three palaces of Linjiang Palace, Zhenhai Palace, and Qingcheng Palace will be brought together and merged into a continent with a radius of more than 10,000 miles. Then, a nine-level spirit-supplying tower will be built here to accelerate the maturity of destiny to the greatest extent!"

"I don't quite understand. How dare you so blatantly guide destiny?"

Zhao Guanshan continued to be shocked.

"I know what you want to say. Cultivators are indeed very taboo about destiny, but this is the time now. The world of cultivation has been destroyed, and the spiritual world is almost completely occupied by evil spirits. First of all, we must survive. Destiny naturally has great restrictions on us cultivators and Qi refiners, but it is very suitable for unleashing the potential of mortals."

"Anyway, that's about it. If you're willing to help, we'll give you another jade slip. You just need to take it back to Linjiang Prefecture. For that, we're willing to pay you a certain amount of money."

"For example, how about five spirit stones?"

Zhao Guanshan hesitated for a second, but still refused.

"I'm sorry, five spirit stones are indeed a lot, but you are afraid of offending fate, am I not afraid too?"

"Haha, that's different, that's completely different. We forced our way in, and since our physical bodies are not here, the methods we need to use are inevitably a bit drastic."

"And you, originally belonged to Linjiang Dao Palace, and your physical body is here. What do you have to be afraid of? In fact, if the three Dao Palaces can be successfully merged, and the three microclimates of destiny can be combined into one, not only will your behavior not be wrong, but you will also gain merit."

"Merit, I thought you understood."

"Fifty spirit stones, and I'll do it."

Zhao Guanshan began to bargain, "Isn't your Fuyun Taoist Palace very powerful? Why don't you come and help me?"
"Then forget it, don't even think about it!"

The opponent directly withdrew from the Daoyu Jade, which was quite willful.

Zhao Guanshan also logged off without hesitation. It was not that he suspected the other party was cheating or anything, but the credibility of the jade slips was still very high. Besides, this was not the first time he brought the jade slips back. The other party even knew about this, so the possibility that he was an enemy was very small.

He just felt that it was safe now and he could go offline again to resupply.

Before, he didn't even dare to log off, and he was ready to travel a long distance until he found a safe place before logging off.

But now it’s different, that’s the Demon Hunter Team of Fuyun Taoist Palace.

With them around, Zhao Guanshan feels very safe.

It is also worth mentioning that in the spirit world, going offline once and going online once is a complete cycle. It is easy to be tracked when you are offline, and you don’t have to wait until you complete the closed loop online to avoid being tracked.

At this moment, with the slight spinning of the sky and the earth, Zhao Guanshan also returned to his statue space. Then he saw at first glance that there was one more person in this statue space. Yes, it was one person, the immortal Mei Xun!
The crazy woman who almost killed Zhao Guanshan before.

At this time, she was sitting on the fourth stone platform, looking at Zhao Guanshan leisurely.

Zhao Guanshan was not too surprised. He had sensed it when he used the Imperial Seal Oil Lamp to collect the purple fire. This mechanism seemed to be the same as the mechanism used by the Lihuo Taoist Talisman to collect Liu Yuwei and Xiao Chengyun as NPC female teammates.

However, Liu Yuwei and Xiao Chengyun were too weak, so they themselves could not notice it.

However, because Mei Xun was too powerful and had no physical body, he was unable to form the Dharma image on the stone platform, so the current scene appeared.

But looking at the current situation, Mei Xun actually had a strange feeling of leaving home when he was young and returning home when he was old.

"what's your name?"

Na Mei asked, and before Zhao Guanshan could speak, she added again: "Tell the truth, don't use the fake name Zhao Chengfeng to evade your ancestors."

Zhao Guanshan was silent for a few seconds, and finally told the truth, "Zhao Guanshan."

"What generation is the Zhao family?"

"do not know."

"Don't know? Haha, it seems that my Zhao family has also fallen."

Mei Xun stood up, his eyes swept over the statue of Zhao Guanshan, and then fell on the statues of Liu Yuwei and Xiao Chengyun, "You have good taste. The two dual cultivation partners you chose are good in all aspects. They are already above average. With time, maybe you will really make a name for yourself. It's a pity that you are born with deficiencies. You lack the Genshan Dao Talisman and the Xuanwu Dao Talisman. Especially in the current situation, you are useless."

Zhao Guanshan did not comment and continued to listen. This old woman had been isolated from the world for thousands of years. What did she know?

"I know you will definitely not accept it, but do you know that my Dharma image has also appeared on this Dongxuan Stone before, at this location."

Mei Xun pointed at the statue of Xiao Chengyun and said, "Your Zhao family's ancestor, Zhao Fengxiao, had four dual cultivation relatives. Unfortunately, only he and I became great immortals. The other three have long been annihilated."

"Since then, the secret key of the Lihuo Dao Talisman has been passed down from generation to generation in the Zhao family. Unfortunately, no one has succeeded in using it. When it came to your turn, only three of the five Dongxuan Stones were left. You have only cultivated to the fifth-level Qi Refiner now. You are too weak."

Zhao Guanshan listened quietly, and suddenly asked, "Why did you want to kill me in the spirit world before?"

Mei Xun turned around and rolled his eyes.

"I didn't know your last name was Zhao! Do you know how many times that demon has fought with me over the past thousand years? That demon is very good at changing and is very good at guessing people's minds. Once, it even pretended to be your ancestor Zhao Fengxiao to deceive me. Another time, it even materialized my eldest son. Every time, it was different. It deceived me more than once that the Demon Hunting Corps of Linjiang Prefecture's Taoist Palace had come to kill me. I almost believed it several times."

"In fact, even at this moment, I still have some doubts whether the scene happening before my eyes is still the illusion of that spirit demon!"

"So if you think I look crazy, difficult to talk to, eccentric, hated by everyone and evil, vicious and treacherous, and very annoying, I hope you can understand."

Zhao Guanshan was stunned when he heard this, but considering how difficult the demon was to deal with, he could understand it. Indeed, a confrontation lasting for thousands of years was miserable enough.

After thinking about it, he clasped his fists and bowed, put aside his attitude, and used a respectful title. After all, this was the ancestor of the Zhao family, wasn't he?

"Then, may I ask what your current condition is?"

"Neither dead nor alive! I am no longer a human being. You can think of me as the spirit of the Imperial Oil Lamp. In the past thousand years or so, I chose to merge my spirit body with the Imperial Oil Lamp in order to save my life. So, as long as the oil lamp is not extinguished, I will not die. That's about it. Also, don't be so defensive. I am a spirit of your ancestor and I can't do anything to you."

"From now on, you have to take care of me and provide for my old age. You must provide me with three meals a day and pay respect to me during festivals."

"what?"

Zhao Guanshan was so confused by what he heard, was he kidding?

"Humph! I can tell from the looks of it that you are an unfilial descendant! I was just teasing you. This remnant of my soul will only last a few months. Now, do what you need to do. I can't influence you. Just pretend that I don't exist."

After Mei Xun said this, his complexion indeed turned a little paler.

It seems like it will float away if the wind blows.

Then he sat weakly on the stone platform and closed his eyes to rest.

Zhao Guanshan looked helpless and said, "Grandmaster, I still have some spiritual ashes here. If I can help you——"

"No, don't worry about it. Instead of worrying about me, you should worry about yourself. Look at your body. Your foundation is too poor. With the help of the Fire Key, did you take a lot of shortcuts? Boy, wait, there will be a day when you cry."

"The Fire Separation Key is not given to you for free. In this world, apart from your own parents, who would be willing to pay for you for free? There is no such thing as a free lunch. Even mortals have to pay back nine out of thirteen of the loans they make. Do you think you can afford to repay the debt when the Fire Separation Key needs you to pay it back?"

(End of this chapter)