Yellow Court Daoist

Heavenly Stele Secret Realm.

Bai Geng Dark Star.

On this day,

Lu Qingfeng, as usual, was cultivating within the Bai Geng Star.

Suddenly,

"Yellow Robe!"

"Yellow Robe!!"

"Yellow Robe!!!"

He heard someone calling by his ear, and Lu Qingfeng, feeling an irresistible pull, unconsciously blurted out in response. After speaking, he immediately realized—

"Someone is casting a spell!"

A sense of being watched enveloped his heart. Lu Qingfeng looked up to the sky and saw what seemed to be nine pairs of eyes, nine gazes falling upon him. Tracing back through these gazes, Lu saw in a grand hall, an object of treasure casting a profound light across the space, surrounded by nine individuals, each with an imposing aura.

Among them, there was even a familiar face.

And the Green Wood King Ding incarnation, no matter how many miles away, also felt watched.

Fingers continuously moved within his sleeve calculating frantically.

Then he paused abruptly.

"Green Wood Valley!"

A surge of realization jolted Lu Qingfeng's heart.

His thoughts racing, he instantly—

Pointed at the heavens!

In the expanse of the sky, the constellations stirred, and one by one, pieces of the Star Constellation Tablets appeared.

One!

Two!

Three!

In the blink of an eye, traces of twenty-four Star Constellation Tablets revealed themselves. The tablets, sparkling with starlight and celestial movements, had ancient Erosion Texts emitting ancient and vast mysteries that shrouded onlookers in confusion.

"Is this—"

"Twenty-four Star Constellation Tablets!"

"After tens of thousands of years, a second person has comprehended the twenty-four tablets?!"

"Not just that!"

"The stirring of the Star Constellation Tablets indicates the twenty-fifth tablet is about to emerge, bestowing the Five Elements Rings!"

Within the Heavenly Stele Secret Realm.

Both inside and outside the Dark Star.

Everyone, whether they were diligently cultivating within the Dark Star or merely pondering the sixty-four Star Constellation Tablets from the outside, looked up towards the sky.

Indeed, following the appearance of the twenty-four tablets,

The twenty-fifth Star Constellation Tablet revealed itself in the heavens without hesitation.

On the tablet, the figure of a Daoist in a Profound Green Daoist Robe appeared, pointing at the sky, truly unmatched in elegance.

"Who is this—"

"This is Changqingzi!"

"It's actually him! Rumored to be a newly emerged Primordial Spirit of the Bi Yang Lake Territory, having joined the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Mountain just thirty years ago."

"In a mere thirty years, a newly advanced Primordial Spirit, how could he possibly fathom the twenty-fifth Star Constellation Tablet that has confounded all others for tens of thousands of years?!"

In the Heavenly Stele Secret Realm, whether Jiedan True Men or Primordial Spirit Practitioners, upon witnessing the anomaly in the sky and the figure of Lu Qingfeng, many paid attention to the recent emergence of 'Changqingzi' among the Primordial Spirit Practitioners of the Three Mountains and Nine Waters. As a seldom-seen new face, not a few recognized him upon his appearance.

Having the Five Elements Rings, those twenty-three cultivators with deep origins, cultivating atop the Dark Star, also recognized Lu Qingfeng.

Regardless of recognition,

Lu Qingfeng's comprehension of the twenty-fifth Star Constellation Tablet shocked everyone in the secret realm.

Lu Qingfeng, however, paid no mind.

He looked up at the sky.

As the twenty-fifth Star Constellation Tablet appeared, with Changqingzi's figure emerging, a radiance flickered, and a Red Flame Ring bearing a crimson glow fell.

Plunging from the highest heavens, it landed in Lu Qingfeng's hand.

"Red Flame Ring!"

"Indeed, it's the Red Flame Ring!"

Whether it was Lu Qingfeng or the other cultivators in the secret realm, seeing the crimson light, such a thought passed through their minds. Of the previously discovered twenty-four Five Elements Rings, the Black Mysterious Ring, Bai Geng Ring, Green Jade Ring, and Yellow Sand Ring, each had five. Only the Red Flame Ring consisted of four.

Those cultivators familiar with the Heavenly Stele Secret Realm had long speculated that the twenty-fifth Star Constellation Tablet might contain the Red Flame Ring.

Witnessing it today, their guesses now proven true.

"Red Flame Ring!"

Lu Qingfeng grasped the Red Flame Ring, having no time for a closer look, and immediately stored it away. At that moment, with a stroke of the Bai Geng Ring on his finger, instantly innumerable Bai Geng Sword Qi enveloped him.

In a flash, he left the Bai Geng Dark Star and returned to the Soldier Book and Treasure Sword Gorge.

...

Soldier Book and Treasure Sword Gorge.

Outside the valley, his dwelling was directly in the open.

A resonant voice boomed in the air—

"What a demon!"

"How dare you deceive the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Mountain!?"

Lu Qingfeng recognized the speaker—it was none other than the Snow Mountain Ancestor of Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Mountain.

Looking upward,

Sure enough,

A tall Daoist with long flowing whiskers and an imposing hat, wearing a daoist robe with a green flask on one side and a yellow flask on the other, stood with a face full of anger, glaring at Lu Qingfeng from midair.

"Senior Guyue."

Lu Qingfeng looked toward the Snow Mountain Ancestor, his face showing embarrassment too.

This was utterly unexpected.

He'd thought himself concealed by the Great Divine Power of the Inverted Void Glazed Glass Wall, shielding his fate mechanism, going undetected in the Three Mountains and Nine Waters. Even beyond, amongst the Great Powers of the Upper Realm, it wouldn't be common for them to pay any mind to the trivial mortal cultivator from the Lower Realm.

At most, those concerned would be Earth Immortals or Heavenly Immortals.

Such characters,

Separated by two realms, may not be able to discern his fate mechanism; thus, he was not worried.

But to Lu Qingfeng's surprise,

Green Wood Valley had actually deployed such a Great Method to ascertain his whereabouts. Although they did not directly compute his entwined karma, they did determine his current position, which alarmed Lu Qingfeng.

Fortunately,

...

Lu Qingfeng is currently operating under the guise of 'Changqingzi', with his clone stationed far in the East Sea, ensuring that 'Xuanyuan Sect Lu Qingfeng' has no apparent connection at all.

Fortunately, his true identity has not been exposed.

That can be considered a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

"Immortal Artifact!"

"That treasured mirror is definitely an Immortal Artifact, and it contains Immortal Essence Qi Mechanism. To think the Green Wood Valley would be willing to pay such a hefty price for the Green Wood King Ding!"

Lu Qingfeng, reflecting on what he just witnessed through the Void to the inside of the Green Wood Valley's Star Palace, was able to guess the situation rather accurately.

They both belonged to the One Realm.

Using the Immortal Essence of Daoist True Men to stimulate the Immortal Artifact and cast some unfathomable Great Method.

With such a combination.

Without the concealment of different realms or the severing of causality by the ancient technique of Reincarnation described in 'Primordial', the 'Inverted Void Glazed Glass Wall', which he had just barely mastered to the level of Small Success, still lacked Fire Control and ultimately failed to block.

Qi Mechanism pulling.

Lu Qingfeng's location was revealed.

The exposure of Changqingzi and his clone was of secondary concern.

It was also of no great importance that the identities of Fiery Fire Wanderer and the Yellow Robed Old Monster were exposed.

Given the versatility of the 'Twelve Heavenly Demon God Skill' Lu Qingfeng had cultivated, he could easily fabricate even more identities.

Except—

Being publicly unmasked was indeed embarrassing now that he was facing Ancestor Master Guyue.

"I have no malicious intentions."

"I will certainly visit in the future to apologize."

Lu Qingfeng flicked his wrist, tossing the Bai Geng Ring back to Ancestor Master Guyue as a gesture of returning his property.

He then made a move to flee.

There was no need to think further.

The experts of Green Wood Valley were certainly on their way, and staying now would inevitably lead to a terrible fight.

For the time being, there was no need for that.

Ancestor Master Guyue caught the Bai Geng Ring, a flash of astonishment crossing his eyes before rage resumed on his face.

"Where do you think you're going!"

Seeing Lu Qingfeng attempting to leave, Ancestor Master Guyue immediately roared in protest.

Craaash! Boom! Boom!

From the south, the Chengyang River surged as the Cold Jade Turtle charged through the waves.

Wherever it passed, countless tons of river water turned into Mystic Ice, splitting a path through the river. The Cold Jade Turtle opened its maw wide, spitting out a Green Ice Pearl.

The chilling aura rolled out, the river water raging.

Encasing the entire Soldier Book and Treasure Sword Gorge in ice.

Lu Qingfeng was caught in the midst, transformed into an ice sculpture.

"The Cold Jade Pearl!"

Upon seeing this treasure, Lu Qingfeng immediately realized what it was.

During the last thirty years, aside from cultivating in the Secret Realm Dark Star, he also roamed the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Mountain, familiarizing himself with the names, techniques, and stories of many Primordial Spirit Practitioners within and beyond the mountain, in the Three Mountains and Nine Waters.

The Cold Jade Turtle was among them.

This Cold Jade Turtle, an ancient and unusual species tamed by the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Mountain, had lived for who knows how many ten thousand years. The Cold Jade Pearl was a Supreme Treasure, birthed from having condensed ten million years of chill, compressed by the Heavenly Gang Qi. Overtime, it turned into a mass of bizarre cold essence, cultivated by the Cold Jade Turtle day and night for tens of thousands of years until it became this treasure.

Even among the entirety of the Three Mountains and Nine Waters, if used in combat rule against a figure like the Snow Mountain Ancestor, it could surpass the latter in terms of cold attributes.

Its reputation was considerable.

Now, freezing the entire Soldier Book and Treasure Sword Gorge, common Divinity Transformation Realm and Soul Emergence Realm Great Cultivators wouldn't be able to break it quickly. And if delayed even for a moment, the Green Wood Valley's Primordial Spirit Experts could arrive.

It was a matter of life and death.

"I can't delay!"

Lu Qingfeng, trapped within, was anxious to escape but didn't panic.

Just as he was about to invoke the Dutian Demon Flames to burn through the endless mystic ice around him—

A thought struck him—

"Right here!"

With a flick of his finger, flames lit up the sky, and Lu Qingfeng effortlessly tore an opening in the Northwest direction, creating a massive path to the heavens.

It was that easy.

Lu Qingfeng didn't even need to use the Dutian Demon Flames. Any Nourishing God Realm Cultivator that happened upon this situation could have broken through it.

Lu Qingfeng cast a glance toward the Cold Jade Turtle lying across the Chengyang River.

Huffing and puffing!

The Cold Jade Turtle was desperately channeling the Cold Jade Pearl, enveloped in cold air, paying no heed to Lu Qingfeng.

"Thank you!"

Lu Qingfeng understood.

Gratefully acknowledging the turtle in his heart, he slipped away towards the sky.

"Emperor Jiang!"

"Heavenly Wu!"

The two Demon Gods burst forth from Lu Qingfeng's body: one tearing the Void open, the other conjuring Gale.

In an instant.

They soared straight up ninety thousand miles!

Amidst the Xiling Gorge.

"Withhold, demon!"

Upon seeing Lu Qingfeng break through the barrier set by the Cold Jade Turtle, Ancestor Master Guyue roared in anger, smacking a green-skinned gourd at his waist from which a net emerged, aimed to ensnare Lu Qingfeng.

However, Lu Qingfeng's speed was simply too fast.

With spatial changes and Gale entwining.

He quickly ascended to high altitudes, and beneath his feet appeared a Golden Carriage out of nowhere. With Heavenly Wu Demon God leading the way, Emperor Jiang Demon God in the rear, and Lu Qingfeng seated in the carriage, he was instantly engulfed by the Nine Heavens Gang Wind and swept away, vanishing from sight.

The green net fell to nothing.

"The Nine Heavens Cloud Breaking Charge."

"It's really him."

Ancestor Master Guyue watched Lu Qingfeng's departure, smacked the green-skinned gourd again to retrieve the net and didn't pursue. His gaze turned towards the Cold Jade Turtle on the Chengyang River.

The Xuan Venerate Protector shook his head, seemingly distressed.

He swallowed the Cold Jade Pearl back and, standing atop the river, didn't make a sound.

"Elder Master."

Bing Yi Daoist suddenly appeared from nowhere, leaping down and landing in front of Ancestor Master Guyue. His Qi Mechanism remained concealed, yet his aura had undergone significant changes compared to thirty years ago. Had Lu Qingfeng still been there, he would have noticed that Bing Yi Daoist had ascended to the God Transformation Realm without anyone being none the wiser.

Furthermore, his aura was profound, evidently a formidable being within the God Transformation Realm.