Lord Holy Sword is unreliable again.

Inside a dazzling, colorful flying boat.

A figure in a black robe stood proudly at the bow of the ship, watching the rising sun paint the clouds on the horizon crimson.

This was the first time Wang Hong had flown on his own, even if it was piloting a flying boat.

This feeling is fucking awesome! The gloom that had tormented me for half a day by the ink corrosion gradually dissipated.

As dawn broke, large streaks of light could still be seen flying out of the city. Among them were ordinary demons fleeing famine with their families, imperial guards chasing down the remaining enemies, and law enforcement elders pursuing and suppressing rebellious members of their clans.

No one bothered Wang Hong. Although the spirit boat he piloted was only of the eighth rank, its exquisite quality clearly indicated that it came from a prestigious family and was not something that an ordinary force could possess.

The place where Mo Shi is located is a thousand miles away from the Lu family ancestral hall. If he were to run back, it would be too late.

Mo Shi thoughtfully prepared a top-quality eighth-tier flying boat for his precious son. It could travel two thousand miles in an hour. Even if a Foundation Establishment Peak cultivator traveled at full speed, it would only travel five hundred miles, saving both time and effort!

It wasn't that Mo Shi was unwilling to send a higher-level spirit boat, but rather that Wang Hong couldn't control it!

However, Wang Hong didn't express much gratitude to Mo Shi. This old fellow kept claiming that Tian Sha was his faction, yet he hadn't even given him a token of his identity.

Wang Hong guessed that they had a special way of sensing each other, and that Mo Shi did not intend to give him the power to mobilize Tian Sha.

The Holy Sword and the Glazed Lamp have returned to his brow. The Holy Sword has told Wang Hong everything: he has been poisoned by the Soul-Devouring Seed of Ink Erosion!

But Wang Hong was not worried, because the Holy Sword was specifically designed to counter the techniques of the Qing Clan!

However, Wang Hong did not immediately use the Holy Sword to dispel it. Mo Shi wanted to use Wang Hong, and Wang Hong also wanted to use him in return.

And what about that soul contract? What am I now? A human pet? A human spy?

Wang Hong suddenly had a bad feeling. Could it be that the old man Holy Sword had made a mistake again, and that it was simply unable to deal with this Soul-Devouring Seed?

[The Holy Sword is fully fused; the communication module is now online...]

[Communication module: Enables remote communication with other terminals]

A flood of information rushed into Wang Hong's mind.

[Task system fully activated]

[Wang Hong, find a safe place immediately. I will communicate with you remotely.]

When news of Lu Zhiling arrived, Wang Hong was overjoyed. After being in the Four Continents for so long, Lu Huaiyuan had finally made contact with him!

However, it's not easy to find a safe place here. Let's find Ji Duanyi first.

What does it mean that the Holy Sword quest system is fully activated?

The Holy Sword has still not responded.

Wang Hong had long suspected that Holy Sword was blocking the mission reward information because it simply couldn't provide the rewards!

Thinking of this, anger rose in his heart. If it weren't for the ridiculous task of completing the ancestral hall, he would have run away with Lu Qingyuan long ago!

How could we let Lu Qingyuan suffer such serious injuries?

However, if they had simply run away, there wouldn't have been the events of Xiaoyao Pavilion and the Broken Wings of the Substitute Bride.

When divine sense probed into the glass lamp, Lu Qingyuan's face was serene, and he was still sleeping peacefully.

The Holy Sword had already scanned her body, and the Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline within her was extremely active, seemingly undergoing a crucial evolution.

It seems that when the Holy Sword and the Nine Lotus Lantern tempered her bloodline, those bloodlines hidden deep within her meridians were not fully unearthed.

Then, she repeatedly activated her life essence and blood to unleash her supernatural powers, which in turn completely awakened these hidden bloodlines.

The Holy Sword sent another message.

[Mission: Find a safe, undisturbed location to communicate with Lu Huaiyuan.]

[Task Reward: None]

Wang Hong: ? ? ? No, are you kidding me?

The Holy Sword has fully fused and can now actively generate spiritual energy.

[When the sword wielder infuses spiritual energy into the holy sword, it can be transformed into nano-level spiritual energy; the conversion speed is related to the sword wielder's cultivation level.]

[Sword wielder's current spiritual energy absorption rate assessment: Mid-stage Qi Refining, able to absorb 100 spirit stones per year, equivalent to 0.1 nanometers of spiritual energy (1 spiritual energy = 1000 spirit stones)]

Wang Hong's face twitched. With his mid-stage Qi Refining cultivation, even if he absorbed spiritual energy continuously for a year, he could only obtain 0.1 nanometers of spiritual energy!

A single Grade 9 Blood-Making Pill has a spiritual energy value of 500!

Thinking back to his extravagant move of spending 10 spirit resources, he couldn't help but feel a pang of regret. That was a century of arduous cultivation!

From now on, I'll just burn spirit stones directly. Ascetic cultivation? Impossible!

He has the spiritual energy to create spiritual sources, so he might as well improve his own cultivation!

Although all functions of the Holy Sword are unlocked, due to the limitations of the Holy Sword's material, the maximum spiritual power release value is still 10000, which is equivalent to 10 pieces of spiritual energy.

According to the Holy Sword, it needs to absorb a large amount of rare and precious materials to upgrade its material, or improve its cultivation level and use its own spiritual energy to add to the Holy Sword in order to break through the 10000 spiritual energy limit.

Sensing the powerful aura of the holy sword, he couldn't help but shout from high above: "The sea is wide enough for fish to leap, the sky is high enough for birds to fly!"

Then Wang Hongjing sat down and began to cultivate the Heavenly Heart Righteous Qi Technique.

He is currently only at the first level of the Heavenly Heart Righteousness Technique, with his inner fire just beginning to ignite.

The first level of inner fire is just a tiny spark the size of a fingertip; the flame is stable, but very small.

Only through continuous nurturing can it gradually grow until it becomes a pillar of fire or a sea of ​​fire! The stronger the inner fire, the stronger the spirit, and the higher the absolute control over spiritual energy.

The process of cultivating sacred energy is extremely complex.

After the heart fire is injected into the dantian, the spiritual energy in the dantian will be refined. The refined spiritual energy is then injected into the heavenly heart between the eyebrows. Only when it is nurtured by the heavenly heart can it become holy energy!

Wang Hong has not yet been able to open up the mind of heaven!

Therefore, the holy energy within him was pitifully small, or even nonexistent!

At this moment, seemingly sensing Wang Hong's thoughts, the Holy Sword issued another mission.

[Mission: Break through to the second realm—the initial condensation of the Heavenly Heart—within one day]

[The fire of the heart has been ignited; now it is time to establish a heavenly heart. Using this fire as a guide, and the space between the eyebrows as an aperture, draw spiritual energy upwards, knocking on the heavenly gate to open the sacred heart.]

[Reward: Information Blockade]

Wang Hong: ? ? ?

Alright, alright, I'm taking this reward for information blocking!

I'd like to see what kind of reward you'll give me!

Wang Hong already knew that the second step of the Heavenly Heart Righteousness Technique was to condense the Heavenly Heart. However, before condensing the Heavenly Heart, the newly born seed of the Heart Fire had to be cultivated to be solid and stable before one could attempt to break through to the second level.

The Heavenly Heart is different from the Sea of ​​Consciousness, which is a spiritual space that only Foundation Establishment cultivators can open.

The location of Tianxin is between the brow and the sea of ​​consciousness.

He took a deep breath and, following the guidance of the holy sword, slowly shifted his attention from the fire in his chest upwards.

Because Wang Hong would infuse his inner fire into the holy sword in his sea of ​​consciousness during each battle, he became increasingly adept at controlling the inner fire and was also very familiar with the meridians in this area.

He controlled a wisp of inner fire, guiding it slowly upwards along a line in his body, stopping when it reached his brow.

He sensed a strange space here, which should be the location of the Heavenly Center.

As more and more inner fire gathered there, he felt an increasingly intense stinging sensation between his eyebrows.

What happened?

Is the method of development wrong?

"boom--"

The sound of a mirror shattering seemed to come from between my brows, and a speck of light, no bigger than a speck of dust, appeared, yet it was more dazzling than any star.

It hovers in the center of the forehead, echoing the inner fire from afar, and slowly rotates.

Wang Hong breathed a sigh of relief; the Heavenly Heart had finally been successfully condensed!

Before he could even feel joy, he immediately guided the refined spiritual energy in his dantian upwards.

The spiritual energy rose from the dantian, passed through the heart and chest, and then through the space between the eyebrows, before converging into that tiny glimmer of light without dissipating.

The surface of that tiny glimmer of light instantly glowed with a silvery-white light, warm and pure, carrying a faint sense of righteousness.

Wang Hong finally managed to condense his first wisp of holy energy on his own.

[Task Completed]

[Reward Distribution: Secrets of the Immortal-Grade Cultivation Technique "Grand Celestial Immortal Manual"]

A celestial-grade cultivation technique?

In the Four Continents, cultivation techniques are divided into four grades: Heaven, Earth, Mysterious, and Yellow. Earth-grade techniques can be cultivated to the level of immortals.

The incomplete Nine-Tailed Sacred Fox Technique that Lu Qingyuan cultivated was assessed as Earth-grade by the Sacred Sword!

Wang Hong's heart began to pound.

Damn, this reward seems to be part of an information blackout!

But what about the secret?

[Secret Rumor: The "Great Celestial Immortal Technique" is a celestial-grade cultivation method.]

Wang Hong?

OK OK.