You're just a single demon beast? I have a whole army of beast tamers!

On the other side, after Qin Shou returned to the villa, he handed over more than 10,000 immortal crystals to Shui Rou and put them in her tent. He then took out 100 immortal crystals and placed them in front of Shui Yao.

"You also contributed today, so take these," Qin Shou said.

Shuiyao's eyes lit up: "Really for me?"

"If I let you spend it, then it's true. But don't tell anyone," Qin Shou said.

Shuiyao chuckled and neatly put it away.

Qin Shou then looked at Shui Rou: "You are in charge of the Immortal Crystals."

Any future income will also be recorded by you.

You have a rough idea of ​​how many pools you need to build. If that's not enough, we'll think of other ways.

Shui Rou nodded earnestly: "I understand."

Shui Yingyue brought in tea, and seeing the relaxed atmosphere, she smiled as well.

"Judging from your performance, today should have gone fairly smoothly."

"It went more smoothly than expected." Qin Shou took the tea and sipped it.

Shuiyao leaned closer: "My husband also sold a few four-lined pills."

The people from Wanxiang Pavilion were stunned.

They also said they would buy long-term, at a price 10% higher than the market price.

"Possessing a treasure is a crime." Qin Shou put down his teacup. "Be more careful when you go there in the future. If there's nothing else, let's go there less often."

The three women exchanged a glance and nodded.

Qin Shou got up, walked to the window, and looked out at the gray sky.

He held the Wanxiang Pavilion token in his hand, his fingertips slowly stroking it.

Today's trip has secured the immortal crystals, but it has also drawn attention to me.

Fortunately, the other party only saw Dan and didn't know his true background.

"It would be good if there were a way to obtain the Nine Souls Elixir."

A thousand four-line patterns isn't too difficult.

He was making plans in his mind.

The real challenge is to push one's cultivation, immortal pool, beast taming, and elixirs to the very last step within these twenty years.

The blade of the Ten Thousand Demons Sect is already hanging over the Shui family's heads.

He couldn't wait until the knife fell before he made preparations.

As night deepened, Qin Shou returned to the quiet room.

He unbuttoned his coat, sat cross-legged, took out the "Compendium of the Immortal Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts," and began to study it sentence by sentence.

To switch to this skill, one must first thoroughly understand the immortal meridians of the five natal beasts.

He has now fully opened all six orifices. If he can establish a common origin with the beast orifice of his tamer, his combat power can be further enhanced.

The first step of this technique requires the master and the beast to enter a meditative state simultaneously, using their essence and blood as a guide to jointly build a beast-taming platform in their sea of ​​consciousness.

"Twenty years is enough."

Qin Shou closed his eyes, his mind sank into his sea of ​​consciousness, and began to deduce.

Outside the courtyard, Shui Yingyue was teaching the children to read.

In the southeast corner of the courtyard, a servant in gray robes was sweeping the floor with his head down, but his ears kept twitching towards the main house.

The night in the immortal city did not truly quiet down.

......

The people from the Ten Thousand Demons Sect arrived later than expected.

Three months later, a jet-black bone ship sailed into the airspace of Wucang Immortal City from the western direction.

The boat was only about twenty feet long, and its entire body was made from the spine of some kind of giant beast, with dark red runes engraved on its surface.

An old man with a gray beard stood at the bow of the boat, followed by more than ten disciples dressed in black.

The old man did not conceal his cultivation level; his aura as a mid-stage Xuanxian was so tangible that it even dispersed a portion of the clouds above the city wall.

A ring of cyan light illuminated the protective array of Wucang Immortal City, then slowly descended.

At the city gate, cultivators from five families had already arrived upon hearing the news.

Two True Immortals came from the Water family, one each from the Wood and Fire families, while the Metal and Earth families only sent stewards.

The five families are closely connected, but when it comes to facing a mid-stage Xuanxian, none of them are willing to be at the forefront.

The gray-bearded old man stepped off the bone boat and landed a hundred feet in front of the city gate.

He looked around, his gaze finally settling on the two True Immortals from the Shui family.

"Qiu Rang, a member of the Ten Thousand Demons Sect and one of the Three Shadows of the Northern Wilderness."

The old man's voice wasn't loud, but it carried clearly across half the street: "I've come today only to ask the Shui family for one person."

Among the True Immortals of the Water Clan, a middle-aged man in a blue robe stepped forward, clasped his hands in greeting, and said:

"Senior Qiu has come from afar; may I ask who you are seeking?"

"Shen Liuli," Qiu Rang said directly, "This woman is someone my Ten Thousand Demons Profound Sect is hunting. Your Shui family has kept her hidden for decades; it's time to hand her over."

The middle-aged man in the blue robe's expression changed slightly, but he still maintained his polite demeanor:

"Senior Qiu, please allow me to inform you. Shen Liuli did indeed stay temporarily at my Shui family, but she disappeared several years ago. The True Immortals of my clan personally investigated and found no trace of her."

"Where have they gone?"

Qiu Rang sneered, "I want to see him alive or dead. Do you think a pseudo-immortal cultivator could possibly fly out from under the noses of your five great immortal clans?"

Before he finished speaking, his aura suddenly darkened.

The bluestone paving stones within a radius of several dozen feet cracked simultaneously, and a sharp, earthy-yellow power of law emanated from beneath his feet.

The laws of earth, though small in scale, can become as heavy and imposing as a collapsing mountain.

The middle-aged man in the blue robe turned pale, and several Shui family disciples behind him couldn't stand up and knelt down with a thud.

Just then, a clear voice came from inside the city.

"Fellow Daoist Qiu, are you planning to make a move right at the gates of my Five Cang Immortal City?"

Above the Five Immortal Cities, a refined-looking man descended from the sky.

He was dressed in a dark blue robe, with a gentle face; he was none other than Shui Chenyuan, the patriarch of the Shui family.

Accompanying him were two gray-robed elders from the Shui family, one a late-stage True Immortal and the other a mid-stage True Immortal.

The moment the three landed, the Shui family finally regained their footing.

Qiu Rang looked up and said, "Shui Chenyuan, it's just in time for you to come."

"Shen Liuli, hand her over."

Shui Chenyuan landed in front of the city gate and first gently patted the shoulder of the middle-aged man in blue robes.

The latter breathed a sigh of relief and stepped aside.

Shui Chenyuan then looked at Qiu Rang and said gently:

"Fellow Daoist Qiu, Shen Liuli has indeed left the Shui family."

I can swear an oath to Heaven and Earth for this.

"Heavenly blood oath?"

Qiu Rang narrowed his eyes. "I'm somewhat surprised that you're willing to swear an oath."

"Although the Shui family has no relationship with the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, they are unwilling to get themselves into trouble for the sake of one person."

Shui Chenyuan said, "Shen Liuli possesses the bloodline of the Wood Spirit, and she herself came to us back then."

The reason my Shui family protected her for a period of time was only because of the fact that her Shen family and we had known each other in the past.

But she later secretly left, and her whereabouts remain unknown to the clan.

"Then let me search your Shui family's house," Qiu Rang said.

Shui Chenyuan's expression turned calm: "Fellow Daoist Qiu, Wucang Immortal City is not your sect's mountain gate. The Shui family is not a place where anyone can search at will."

"After all that talk, they still won't pay."

A hint of impatience flashed in Qiu Rang's eyes. "If that's the case, then let's give it a try."

He stopped talking and stomped his foot.

The laws of earth spread with a roar, and the bluestone on the street rippled and rolled, as if an earth dragon were turning over.

Qin Shou had by then arrived at the second floor of a teahouse in the east of the city.

He was waiting for the people from Wanxiang Pavilion to deliver fresh tea, but he didn't expect that the whole street would shake twice as soon as he picked up the teacup.

He walked to the window and saw two figures of immortals colliding in the direction of the city gate.

Shui Chenyuan did not use any magical artifacts.

He raised both hands, and the Law of Water spread out like a reversed Milky Way, blocking Qiu Rang's Earth-Yellow Law in mid-air.

Water overcomes fire, but not earth.