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Chapter 677 Goodbye, Diaoyun Sou

Diaoyunsou did not expect that Qin Ming would come to the spiritual world quietly.

He followed Baili Hui out of Tianxing City and headed for Xiaogui Peak.

On the way.

Diao Yunsou even learned from Baili that Qin Ming had already broken through to the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm and was also a sixth-rank Alchemy God.

This made this old acquaintance of his in the human world sigh with regret.

More than a hundred years ago, they traveled to the spirit world via the ascension platform, which was a life-and-death experience.

Diao Yunsou watched helplessly as Fu Yaozi and Bing Shenzi perished in the terrifying turbulence of the void, without even a chance to struggle.

He is terrified when he thinks about it now.

"Ah! As expected of Venerable Wangyue who once dominated the human world, he not only quelled the great disaster of the human world in one fell swoop and turned the tide, but now that he has come to the spirit world, he is like a fish in water, and his cultivation has made great progress."

It takes several days to travel from Tianxing City to Xiaogui Peak in the Donghuang Mountains. Even if you take the Silver Armor Star Guard's magic boat, it will take at least two days.

Along the way, Diaoyunsou got to know the old dwarf in front of him and realized that he was a trusted and capable general of Qin Ming.

Just looking at his Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivation and his dwarf-like appearance, I don't know why Qin Ming valued him.
But just when the two of them were halfway through the flight.

Suddenly!
Diao Yunsou's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly released his divine sense to scan a certain area behind him, revealing a hint of suspicion.

Baili Hui, who was standing by, saw this and asked, "Senior Diaoyunsou, what's wrong?"

"I seem to feel that someone is coveting me in secret. I hope I am just overthinking. I hope Fellow Daoist Qin has not offended anyone during this period of time?" Diaoyunsou said with a frown.

Baili Hui looked around when he heard this, and was immediately frightened. He didn't expect that he might be followed and watched by someone.

"Well, I don't know about this matter either. I'm afraid I'll know it only after I meet the master." Baili Hui thought for a moment and replied.

After a brief exchange, the two did not linger any longer and quickly left on the magic boat.

Wait until they are far away.

At the mouth of a valley thousands of miles away, the originally empty void began to distort, and then the space squirmed, echoing with layers of transparent ripples, and the outline of a monster vaguely appeared.

Followed by.

A burly man in a purple robe, riding a dark green lizard monster, slowly emerged.

The demonic power of this dark green lizard spread out and reached the fifth level. It was obviously a rare demon with a special bloodline.

The person on his back was none other than Wu Kui, the disciple of the former Lord Ling Tian.

“I was almost discovered.”

"What a powerful divine power! If it weren't for this phantom black lizard, this person might have seen through my tracks."

"How come this Li guy has so many connections with the Star Guards in Tianxing City?"

"And he is like a turtle, hiding in the small turtle peak all day and not going out. It is difficult for Master to take action."

Wu Kui's expression changed several times, and then he drove the black lizard monster under him and disappeared instantly.
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the other side.

After two days of trekking, Baili Hui brought Diaoyunsou back to the sacred area of ​​Xiaogui Peak.

The Sky-Devouring Rat, who was working hard in the spiritual field, looked up and saw the two of them flying towards them.

It immediately dropped the Shennong hoe and walked towards Diaoyun Sou. After taking a look around, it said excitedly, "Hey! Isn't this Diaoyun Sou? You've been promoted. You're now dressed as a silver-armored star guard, which is really different from your original carefree and wild appearance!"

Diao Yuntai looked at the Taoist boy in green robe opposite him. At first glance, he almost didn't recognize him.

But after a closer look, the things that happened on Moon Watching Island came to his mind one after another. He also widened his eyes and pointed at the Sky Devouring Rat and said, "Oh! It turns out to be the Rat King controlled by Fellow Daoist Qin. You have also advanced to the fifth-level demon master. Congratulations!"

"Hey! There's nothing strange about that. You, Diaoyunsou, got promoted and made a fortune without making any noise, and you didn't even show your appreciation?" The Sky-Eating Rat clenched his fist and coughed lightly, his meaning was simple and shocking.
"Forehead"

When Diao Yunsou heard this, his face twitched and he almost choked. He thought to himself that he wanted to accept gifts before he even entered the door. This guy is really shameless!

However, for Qin Ming's sake.

He still took out a jade box from his storage bag and handed it over, "Then I wish you to break through the fifth level and make further progress in your immortal path. Inside is a fifth-level top-grade cold dragon monster fruit, which will have a great supplementary effect on monster cultivation. This small gift is not enough to show your respect."

Sky-Eating Rat happily accepted the gift and invited the other party in. "That's better. You are really too polite!!"

As he spoke, a green rainbow flashed and landed in front of the few people. After the light dissipated, Qin Ming's figure was revealed.

"Fellow Daoist Diaoyunsou?"

"Please come into the cave and talk." Qin Ming was also surprised when he saw the other party.

"I haven't seen you for over a hundred years. I didn't expect you to still be as charming as ever!"

After all, Diao Yunsou was in the spiritual world, and he met an old acquaintance from the human world again, and he had some things to ask the other party.

"Brother Qin," Diao Yunsou saw a strange middle-aged cultivator, but from his tone he could tell that this person was Qin Ming in disguise.

"I didn't expect that you also ascended to the spirit world and broke through to the late stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm. Congratulations!"

Qin Ming smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Diaoyunsou is truly the most glorious. He broke through the shackles as soon as he arrived in the spirit world and reached the late stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm. Qin has practiced hard for more than a hundred years and experienced many twists and turns before he reached this state."

Diaoyunsou smiled bitterly and said, "Fellow Daoist Qin, please don't bother me. If I had a choice, I would rather not have this opportunity to break through to the late stage."

"Oh? What do you mean?" Although Qin Ming already knew the inside story, he still welcomed him into the cave courtyard, "Let's sit down and talk in detail."

Qin Ming immediately called the little silver fox and Tian Ling'er to serve the spiritual tea.

Diao Yuntai took a sip of the spiritual tea, looked around at the environment on Xiaogui Peak, and said with great emotion:

"Alas! Fellow Daoist Qin's paradise of cultivating immortals, where you can be free and unfettered, is truly something that I envy to no end!"

Then, he remembered something and said directly: "Fellow Daoist Qin, do you know that the upper echelons of the human race and the demon race are searching everywhere for your whereabouts?"

"Several elders from Tianxing City have approached me and Fellow Daoist Su to inquire about the whereabouts of a cultivator who has ascended from the lower realm."

"After much thought, I think that the only person in the human world who is wanted by the two great saints of the demon world and qualified for such treatment is you, Fellow Daoist Qin."

"However, I didn't expect that you, Fellow Daoist Qin, would be so blind as to live directly next to Tianxing City."

"Who could have imagined this? Hahaha!"

Qin Ming nodded and replied: "Thank you two fellow Daoists for keeping this matter a secret for me. I, Qin, also learned about this, so I did not use the ascension platform, but ascended up on my own and smuggled in." "Ah? Smuggled into the upper realm? Then why can't my Sky Survey Mirror sense any breath of another world on you? Could it be that fellow Daoist Qin has taken the World Transformation Pill?" Diaoyunsou took out a white jade spirit mirror from his arms, and was surprised to see that there was no reaction on it.

While pouring tea for Qin Ming and the others, the Sky-Devouring Rat said, "World Transformation Pills? My master successfully refined a lot of that stuff after he ascended to heaven. We ate them all and almost got tired of them."

Hearing this, Diaoyunsou was stunned and speechless for a long time.
Then he smiled bitterly and said:

"Fellow Daoist Qin, you don't know. I had to choose to join Tianxing City just for this World Transformation Pill. If I had the same opportunity and alchemy level as Fellow Daoist Qin, I would be more than this."

“Although becoming a Silver-Armored Star Guard seems to be extremely glorious on the surface, the missions that we Ascended Monks are sent to perform are often the most dangerous, with extremely high casualty rates.”

"I barely managed to survive this time."

After hearing what Diaoyun Sou said, Qin Ming felt quite sympathetic towards this old friend, so he asked, "What about Su Yuqing? Isn't he with you, Daoist Fellow Lu?"

"Alas! Fellow Daoist Su has an unusually high talent for alchemy. It would be a waste of talent to send him on a dangerous mission, so he was sent by the higher-ups of Tianxing City to the human race's base to do logistics and refine pills. However, he is also very close to the front line." Diaoyunsou shook his head and sighed.

Qin Ming had not expected that after his two old acquaintances ascended to the spirit world, although they had gained some opportunities, they also paid for it with their lives, which was really miserable.
According to what Diao Yunsou said later, they would have to continue serving in Tianxing City for hundreds of years.

"Friend Su's situation is not optimistic! I heard that several large and small wars have broken out in his area, which is located on the border between the alien races in the spiritual world and the human race. The alien cultivators are extremely ferocious, and the human cultivators on the front line are directly used as cannon fodder to barely resist the pace of the alien attack. But I'm afraid it will soon be the turn of the logistics cultivators, and they will also be sent to the front line." Diaoyunsou sighed.

Qin Ming didn't expect that Su Yuqing's situation would be even worse than Diao Yunsou's. So he asked, "Aliens from the spiritual world? Didn't they say that alien invasions would only occur tens of thousands of years later? Could it be that it happened earlier?"

"No, these are just small-scale conflicts and frictions. After all, the human race is now in the period of expanding its territory in the spirit world, and friction is inevitable." Diaoyunsou explained, "It's just that the alien race that broke out in conflict with the human race this time is the 'Giant Spirit Tribe', whose overall strength is even greater than that of the human race."

"The giants are known for their strong bodies. The stronger their cultivation, the taller their bodies are. They are also born with supernatural powers. The strong ones can destroy mountains and rivers with just a wave of their hands. They are simply natural war machines."

"It is said that within their tribe, there are even several ancient giants that are comparable to great immortals. Their bodies alone are as big as stars, and they possess eternal and indestructible bodies."

"Fortunately, the giants are a non-warlike race in the spiritual world. I just don't know what happened on the border. That's why several giants broke into the human territory and caused unrest."

"Just this alone has caused great trouble to the human settlement over there."

Qin Ming: “.”

After hearing this, he couldn't help but be amazed.

Among the myriad races in the spiritual world, the human race is just a drop in the ocean and is extremely small.

Subsequently.

Qin Ming also asked Diao Yunsou about many things, which could be regarded as first-hand intelligence from the front line.
However, compared to Qin Ming, Diao Yunsou was truly shocked by Qin Ming's situation and was deeply moved.

After all, not everyone can reach the realm of the sixth-level Alchemy God.

Now he has established his own business around Tianxing City and has a place for himself.

Isn't this exactly what he has always dreamed of?

But once you join the Star Guard Army, nothing is up to you.

"By the way, has Fellow Daoist Diaoyunsou figured out why the human leaders in the Spirit Realm did nothing when the Blood Realm and the Ancient Demons conspired together to invade the human world in a massive way, intending to cut off the human race's spiritual support and sever its lineage?" Qin Ming expressed a doubt in his mind.

Diaoyun Sou heard this, then thought for a moment and replied: "Fellow Daoist Qin, it's not that the people in the upper realm don't care about this matter, but they are powerless."

"One is that it was during the Tianji Mountains, and there was a war between the three tribes of humans, demons and monsters. Most of the top leaders' energy was focused on this."

"The second reason is that the human race's top leaders have actually tried to send people to investigate the anomalies in the human world for thousands of years, but all the ascension platforms and space channels set up in the human world have been sealed, and without exception, there have been no results."

"Third, I once heard an elder from Tianxing City mention this in his sermon. When a large interface descends to a small interface, not only will one have to endure the backlash of the interface's power, but one will also be eroded by the turbid air of the human world. In serious cases, one's cultivation will even regress."

“Even a cultivator at the Void Refinement Stage can’t handle it, so at most they can send a cultivator at the Spiritual Transformation Stage to the lower realm.”

"If we send out a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage, the resources needed are said to be enough to train several more Nascent Soul cultivators."

"Unless he is like the Saint Ancestor of the Demon Realm, who differentiated into other incarnations and descended to the other world by taking over other bodies, but those who can do that are all great immortals above the Mahayana stage, and there are very few of them in the entire human race."

After Qin Ming heard what he said, he also showed a look of enlightenment.

"I see. I didn't expect that there is such a thing as turbid air in the human world. Could it be that tens of thousands of years ago, the human world was polluted by the ancient demon world and the ancient devil world, causing the spiritual energy to decline?"

Diaoyunsou replied, "It has nothing to do with this. The Elder Lianxu from Tianxing City once said in his public sermon that the heaven and earth energies of the spirit world and the human world are essentially the same, but they are also slightly different."

"The sky is clear, the earth is turbid, the turbid air in the human world has existed since ancient times, which is the so-called breath of the other world."

"If powerful cultivators above the Void Refining Stage want to descend to the human world, it is not impossible. However, they need to expend a large amount of mana to resist the erosion of turbid air, and if they stay in the human world for too long, they will worry about regressing in realm."

“So, only after taking the World Transformation Pill and removing the turbid qi from the body, can the ascended cultivators like me transform into the pure and spiritual body of the spirit world.”

"The Blood Realm, like the Human Realm, is a small realm, so there are no such concerns."

Next, Qin Ming talked with Diao Yunsou for several days.

I also got a lot of useful information from him.

Diao Yunsou had just returned from the front line and had a lot of materials in his hands. Qin Ming immediately exchanged some of them with him for the magic rice, so they shared what they had.

Among them, there are even several fifth-level auxiliary materials needed to refine the Yin-Yang Guixu Pill, which is an unexpected surprise.

"Look over there, Friend Qin and Friend Su."

Diao Yunsou knew that the two of them had a close relationship, so he asked if they needed help.

Qin Ming thought for a moment, "This is a mission for Tianxing City. Without an order from the elders, I'm afraid Qin can't help. I can only rely on his luck."

"Okay, if you need my help, please just ask."

After all, they are all ascended monks from the human world, with the same roots and origins, and they have a good relationship with each other. They should help each other in the future.

Finally, Diao Yunsou also stood up and said goodbye to Qin Ming. He still needed to go back to the city to do some work and could not stay here for long.

After Qin Ming sent Diao Yunsou away.

Baili Hui came over with a smile on his face and presented a pale yellow jade slip respectfully: "Master, here is the information about the two spiritual objects you are looking for. It is all here."

"Oh? So fast?" Qin Ming took the jade slip and a look of joy immediately appeared on his face.

Immediately, he invaded the divine consciousness and began to browse.

After counting the breaths.

Qin Ming's expression turned strange, and he murmured, "The Chaos Yang Gold is actually in the territory of the Giant Spirit Clan. Is it such a coincidence?"

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(End of this chapter)