Qi sea banquet.
Transactions were undergoing.
A Gu Immortal walked up the stage, he wore a black robe and had messy hair. He raised his head and showed his appearance, it was an Eastern Sea lone immortal, Wu Ma Yang.
He had an aquiline nose and his gaze was dark, he seemed to have an injury, he coughed while taking out a shell that was floating in the air.
The Eastern Sea immortals looked over, they recognized what it was and quickly showed disappointed expressions.
This was the shell of a small music clam, it was a rank seven immortal material.
Music clams were ordinary clams that contained sound path dao marks. When they grow to desolate beast level, their size would increase, they would become giant music clams. After becoming an ancient desolate beast, their size would shrink again, becoming small music clams.
The small music clam that Wu Ma Yang took out was dead and had no vitality, it was merely a rank seven sound path immortal material.
But Wu Ma Yang smiled coldly: "Everyone, calm down, why would I dare to embarrass myself at ancestor's banquet? I am not selling this small music clam, but the music stored inside."
Saying so, Wu Ma Yang cupped his fists at Fang Yuan: "Ancestor, please pardon my rude action."
Qi Sea Ancestor nodded lightly.
In truth, Fang Yuan and Wu Ma Yang had met long ago. Back then in Eastern Sea, Fang Yuan sold bone spike Immortal Gu to Wu Ma Yang.
After getting Fang Yuan's agreement, he used his method and opened a slit in the small music clam.
Instantly, everyone heard a crying sound emitting from within it.
This voice was very weak, it was like a sobbing sound that had a music rhythm to it, if someone tried to investigate it, they would be restrained by this voice, they would get weaker and unable to resist it. Mortals would definitely fall prey to it, even Gu Immortals would get lightly injured or die if it was a severe situation.
However, after Wu Ma Yang let it emit its sound for a while, he shut it tight, the small music clam became silent, many Gu Immortals sighed in pity before alerting themselves, they had been affected by it.
"This is rank seven immortal material ghostly wail."
"Ancestor has great knowledge, I am willing to exchange this ghostly wail for any rank seven dark path immortal material of equal value. It would be best if you have any black hole wood or dark thread algae." Wu Ma Yang announced.
The Gu Immortals below were silent for a while before someone said: "I have dark thread algae."
Wu Ma Yang nodded in joy, he was about to answer when someone said: "I have black hole wood, I will exchange for your ghostly wail."
After some negotiation, Wu Ma Yang left the stage in satisfaction.
In the recent years, due to the five regions' Earth Trenches emerging, Eastern Sea gained an abundant source of cultivation resources even though they had the fewest Earth Trenches.
Wu Ma Yang's ghostly wail was likely obtained from them.
Even though Eastern Sea Gu Immortals interacted often and held auctions commonly, they were mostly small events, how could they be as large as Fang Yuan's banquet. The qi sea banquet involved the entire Eastern Sea Gu Immortal world after all!
Treasure yellow heaven's transactions had gone up in numbers due to the Earth Trenches, but treasure yellow heaven charged a fee for every transaction done.
The transaction fee of treasure yellow heaven varied according to the intensity of the treasure light, therefore, the more valuable the transaction item, the higher the transaction fee one would have to pay.
Rank seven immortal materials were already quite valuable, Wu Ma Yang tried to save as much cost as he could.
After Wu Ma Yang walked down, another Gu Immortal went up, selling a lump of fire.
This fire was yellow inside and orange outside, it was filled with deep death energy. Once it was taken out, the surrounding air became dry like a desert, the temperature rose sharply.
"This is drought zombie flame." The Gu Immortal who sold this flame smiled.
He came from Su clan, an Eastern Sea super force, he was called Su Lun, a righteous path member.
Fang Yuan arranged them in the order of one righteous path followed by one lone immortal, this arrangement clearly took the Eastern Sea lone immortals into consideration, it was welcomed by them. And most wonderfully, he did not allocate any spots for demonic path Gu Immortals, it showed a certain political attitude of Qi Sea Ancestor.
Eastern Sea's righteous path did not get upset by this arrangement, after all, Qi Sea Ancestor was a lone cultivator in Eastern Sea himself.
The drought zombie flame caused a slight commotion, it was a rank eight level flame, Fang Yuan had to wave his hand lightly as he forced the flame to gather into a tight lump.
The temperature of the qi sea banquet gradually returned to normal.
"I am sure many people know what flame this is already. But I am not just selling the flame today, I am also adding in a drought immortal zombie lifespan extension method. This method can allow a Gu Immortal who is near their lifespan limit to use the flame and become a drought immortal zombie. I am sure everyone has heard of the drought immortal zombie, its battle strength rivals rank eight Gu Immortals."
But there was a lack of interest in this among the Gu Immortals.
Currently, everyone knew about Heavenly Court's plan to repair fate Gu. Once they succeed, immortal zombies would likely cease to exist. If fate is restored, the world would not allow dead people to exist, they would all need to remain dead.
Therefore, becoming a drought immortal zombie did not have good prospects.
After a while, a Gu Immortal asked: "Can a rank seven Gu Immortal convert into a drought immortal zombie as well?"
Su Lun nodded: "Of course, but the drought immortal zombie body would not be complete, it would only be a small drought immortal zombie, the battle strength will also be at rank seven."
He did not dare to deceive anyone, in this situation, experts were everywhere, they would likely notice the truth. By then, he would have publicly offended Qi Sea Ancestor, a rank eight great expert, at his banquet, that was a problem that Su Lun and Su clan would not want to create.
When Eastern Sea's righteous path sent representatives to this banquet, did anyone not bring gifts along with them?
In contrast, only a small portion of the lone and demonic immortals did this.
After all, Eastern Sea's righteous path forces had a lot of territory and businesses, they needed a good relationship with Qi Sea Ancestor. Meanwhile, most of the lone and demonic immortals were alone, they did not have much restraints.
Su Lun did not manage to make any trades in the end.
But a few Gu Immortals expressed their interest, they were willing to negotiate, it might be sold if the cost was lowered enough.
"This drought zombie flame likely came from Eastern Sea's Zombie Alliance." Fang Yuan thought to himself, he had obtained the inventory list of Zombie Alliance from Shadow Sect's inheritance, among which, there were several drought zombie flames in Eastern Sea's Zombie Alliance headquarters.
Back then, Spectral Soul tried to refine sovereign immortal fetus Gu, he exposed Shadow Sect and Zombie Alliance. Spectral Soul failed, Eastern Sea's Zombie Alliance was mobilized in the effort and reduced to nothing, it was wiped out by the combined effort of Eastern Sea's righteous path.
Looking at the location, Su clan was one of the closest forces to Eastern Sea's Zombie Alliance headquarters. Other than them, there was Qing Yue clan, Song clan, and Hua clan.
After the drought zombie flame, another Eastern Sea Gu Immortal walked up the stage.
He slowly walked up and took glances at Qi Sea Ancestor from time to time. He saw that Fang Yuan had no response, his eyes were shut and he was relaxed.
This Eastern Sea Gu Immortal calmed down slightly, he let out a breath of air as he said in a hoarse voice: "I came here to exchange Immortal Gu."
Saying this, he spread open his hand and revealed an Immortal Gu.
Instantly, a bloody smell spread out rapidly, many of the immortals' hearts pounded intensely.
This was the first Immortal Gu transaction since the banquet started!
Everyone focused their attention and looked at this ladybug-like Gu, it was small and delicate, with a bright red shell and an iron-black belly and head. Listening closely, one could seem to hear a thumping heartbeat from inside the ladybug. The sound of this heartbeat was very faint, but the more one listened, the louder and louder it got, echoing with the rhythm of the heartbeat of the Gu Immortal, thus affecting the heartbeat of the Gu Immortal as well.
The immortals were a little shocked, some of the weaker rank six Gu Immortals here grunted, some had pale faces, they were evidently affected.
"What Immortal Gu is this? Even Gu Immortals got injured, while mortals definitely cannot approach it."
"It is clearly a blood path Immortal Gu."
"This Drowning Uncle is too daring, he is publicly selling a blood path Immortal Gu at the qi sea banquet, is he not afraid that Qi Sea Ancestor and the Eastern Sea righteous path members would take action?"
"Drowning Uncle is a demonic path immortal, who in Eastern Sea does not know that? Ancestor did not state that demonic immortals could get on stage but he still walked up so fearlessly."
The immortals conversed among themselves, the righteous path Gu Immortals had ugly expressions, Drowning Uncle had killed countless people, but now he was feeling trepidation too.
He cultivated water path but was specialized at dealing with water path Gu Immortals, he drowned countless mortals and even targeted many Gu Immortals of the righteous path, he was a heinous person with many sins committed.
Until now, he was still under the arrest warrant of five super forces in Eastern Sea.
During normal times, the righteous path Gu Immortals would have ganged up to attack him already, but now was the qi sea banquet, it was Qi Sea Ancestor's event, who would dare to act rashly here?
Regarding Drowning Uncle's matter, all the Gu Immortals turned to look at Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was still calm and composed, as if he was resting, he said nothing.
After looking at Fang Yuan for a while, they gradually understood that Qi Sea Ancestor was likely not going to take action here.
Drowning Uncle became very excited, he had made the right gamble! He was greatly daring, if not, why would he go against Eastern Sea's righteous path forces? At the same time, he was meticulous and did not take risks blindly.
"Since ancestor allowed me to join the banquet, it meant that he would not do anything to me. Otherwise, he could have done so when I arrived. Such a person is high and mighty, why would he spend effort on a small fry like me?"
Thinking so, Drowning Uncle spoke: "This is rank seven heart blood Immortal Gu, I caught it inside an Earth Trench, will anyone exchange for it?"
After a momentary silence, many Gu Immortals quickly bid for it.
But no righteous path member took part.
Blood path was created by Blood Sea Ancestor, it had flourished for a while before the five regions' righteous path suppressed and sealed it. Blood Sea Ancestor was extremely capable, he actually set up his blood path inheritance in all five regions, causing blood path to continue existing until today, while the righteous path forces all tried to research on it secretly.
Transactions of Immortal Gu were only done through exchange for other Immortal Gu.
There was no bidding here, it only depended on what Immortal Gu Drowning Uncle wanted.
There were many Gu Immortals who wanted to exchange for it, many took out water path Immortal Gu. Water path was the most common path in Eastern Sea, the number of water path Immortal Gu was also highest in Eastern Sea.
This heart blood Immortal Gu had incredible strength just from seeing it, it would have a great effect if used in battle.
In normal situations, Gu Immortals could not cultivate many paths due to conflicting dao marks. But Eastern Sea had many Gu Immortals cultivating blood path, most of those primarily cultivated blood path, while several rank sevens and sixes cultivated it on the side.
Seeing this, Eastern Sea's righteous path Gu Immortals had even uglier expressions.
Eastern Sea had many secluded cultivators, but to think that only heart blood Immortal Gu would cause so many blood path Gu Immortals to show themselves.
But Fang Yuan was not surprised.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, blood path was extremely popular, after the five regions merged, the number of blood path Gu Immortals rose drastically, by the time of the five regions chaotic war, blood path became a mainstream path that could not be banned anymore.
In the five hundred years of his previous life, Fang Yuan was one of these people.
"I can try to get this heart blood Immortal Gu, Song Zi Xing's inheritance had a heart blood premonition killer move, it is most appropriate to use this heart blood Immortal Gu as the core."
Fang Yuan developed this thought, Zhang Yin started to speak: "I want this heart blood Immortal Gu, I have several rank seven water path Immortal Gu, you can pick any one of them. Furthermore, I will owe you a favor."
This was the first time a rank eight Gu Immortal had spoken in the auction, the surroundings went silent the moment he spoke.
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The moment Zhang Yin spoke, because of his rank eight dominance, all the competitors backed off.
Not only could they not outbid a rank eight Gu Immortal, even if they did, they would have offended this rank eight lone immortal.
Sometimes, lone immortals were scarier than righteous path rank eights, they were unrestrained and free, they did not have so many concerns like the righteous path members.
As for why Zhang Yin had an interest in heart blood Immortal Gu, that was his business, the Gu Immortals could not ask him why.
As the Heavenly Court representative, Jun Shen Guang watched this with deep worry.
Qi Sea Ancestor hosted this banquet that publicly traded Immortal Gu and immortal materials, it satisfied the needs of many Eastern Sea Gu Immortals.
After this banquet, Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals would have an abundance of suitable cultivation resources, their battle strength would rise sharply.
This was great news for Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world, but for Heavenly Court, it was not so good.
Especially after Qi Sea Ancestor declared earlier that this qi sea banquet would be held annually! That was very frequent, Jun Shen Guang could not help but think: Is this Qi Sea Ancestor too free and bored? He wants to hold banquets every year, isn't it tiring? Different from treasure yellow heaven and other auctions, he is not collecting any fees, what is he after then?
"It seems that Qi Sea Ancestor is not without ambitions, he is trying to raise his reputation. Making use of the qi sea banquets to solifidy his influence and reputation every year, in the future, whether he joins Heavenly Court or stays in Eastern Sea, he will benefit greatly."
"I heard that Qi Sea Ancestor has many descendants, in the future, when these people roam Eastern Sea under Qi Sea Ancestor's name, they will be well received by every force they visit."
As a Heavenly Court rank eight, Jun Shen Guang was astute, he gradually saw through some arrangements and plans.
At this moment, information came from Heavenly Court.
Fairy Zi Wei told Jun Shen Guang that he had to cooperate with other Gu Immortals and buy heart blood Immortal Gu without raising any suspicions.
Jun Shen Guang frowned.
He was not confused about why Heavenly Court wanted this blood path Immortal Gu, the truth was, Heavenly Court had been researching blood path all along, with great success.
Jun Shen Guang felt troubled as he transmitted secretly: "The situation has changed, earlier, Zhang Yin took action and bid for this heart blood Immortal Gu using a high price."
Fairy Zi Wei who was in Heavenly Court hesitated for a moment, she arranged: "Then continue to observe them, I will ask others to do it."
Jun Shen Guang was a Heavenly Court representative, if he fought with Zhang Yin over a blood path Immortal Gu, Heavenly Court's reputation would take a huge hit.
In Fairy Zi Wei's original plan, he was only meant to help out.
Heavenly Court placed great importance on this qi sea banquet, they sent people like Jun Shen Guang to come openly, but there were also secret members that were hidden among the rank six and seven immortals.
"Haha, this is a coincidence, I am interested in this heart blood Immortal Gu as well." Yang Jun suddenly spoke.
Right when Zhang Yin thought that he was about to succeed, this Eastern Sea rank eight lone immortal also joined the competition.
This change of events stunned many immortals, even Fang Yuan became slightly puzzled as surprise flashed in his eyes.
In Fang Yuan's previous life, Yang Jun participated in the battle over Dragon Palace.
He had an Immortal Gu House called Fragrant Treasure Horse Chariot, while chasing after Dragon Palace, he found Fang Yuan's traces and ruined his chances of sneaking up on it.
Afterwards, Yang Jun suddenly helped out Duke Long and helped him to suppress the rank eight Immortal Gu House's resistance, before capturing it.
After that, Yang Jun went into concealment and vanished without a trace.
During the battle of repairing fate Gu, Yang Jun did not appear to help Heavenly Court.
During the battle, Heavenly Court was in a difficult spot, there was no way they would have any forces left unused. But Yang Jun did not show up, this showed that he was not a Heavenly Court member, he likely had some sort of agreement with Heavenly Court and would only act once for them.
"Then, is he working for Heavenly Court now?" Fang Yuan had a thought that flashed by.
This was not easy to deduce.
Even with Fang Yuan's deep wisdom path attainment, due to the lack of clues and evidence, he could not be sure of it.
Regardless of the situation, Fang Yuan instructed Zhang Yin to act more forcefully and try to obtain this Immortal Gu.
Thus, Zhang Yin smiled: "Yang Jun, the truth is I really like this Immortal Gu. If you insist, maybe we can spar to decide this?"
Yang Jun frowned as he thought: "Zhang Yin wants this Immortal Gu even if he has to fight? Qi Sea Ancestor was able to defeat him in one move because of his overwhelming strength! But if I fight him, it will likely be a draw."
"Sigh, do I continue this and help Heavenly Court?"
Yang Jun fell into hesitation.
When he was at his lowest, he received Heavenly Court's help, he owed them one favor, promising he would do one thing for them.
This favor was just too heavy to bear, it became Yang Jun's worry eventually.
Yang Jun thought about it, he decided to repay Heavenly Court's favor and resolve this agreement.
"This is a good chance, if I do not act here, during the five regions chaotic war, Heavenly Court will ask me to deal with Eastern Sea's Gu Immortals and I won't be able to reject them."
"Thankfully, I know about Drowning Uncle's situation."
Thinking about this, Yang Jun smiled: "Zhang Yin, don't be so impatient. It is not important to spar, this heart blood Immortal Gu belongs to Drowning Uncle, I am sure that this water path Immortal Gu I am offering will satisfy him greatly."
Saying so, Yang Jun took out an Immortal Gu.
Drowning Uncle saw it and beame overjoyed, he shouted: "Let's do it, I'll exchange for this Immortal Gu."
Zhang Yin was dazed.
What could he do now? Everyone was watching, he could not snatch it, otherwise, Qi Sea Ancestor would need to stop him.
Even though they were in cahoots, they needed to act under their respective roles now.
They had to keep up the act after all.
Zhang Yin could not take action, neither could Qi Sea Ancestor.
Right at this moment, Yang Jun stood up from his seat, he grabbed onto heart blood Immortal Gu and tossed the water path Immortal Gu to the other party.
The immortals showed varying expressions.
Yang Jun moved extremely quickly, he had evidently used an immortal killer move, wasn't he too impatient?
Yang Jun let out a breath of air, he relaxed as he sat down, placing heart blood Immortal Gu into treasure yellow heaven.
Buying or selling Immortal Gu in treasure yellow heaven was very costly, but Heavenly Court did not mind it with their huge assets.
Fairy Zi Wei obtained heart blood Immortal Gu and quickly gave it to someone else.
This person cultivated within Demon Judgment Board all his time, after getting heart blood Immortal Gu, he shouted in joy: "Success has arrived!"
He got out of Demon Judgment Board, all the surroundings surged with blood light, fragrance spread as clouds resounded with immortal music, bloody petals flew in the sky like raining flowers.
He was tall and had a handsome face, he smiled lightly and had a headband on his forehead, there was a lump of blood light behind his head.
A formless flight of stairs seemed to have formed in the air as he walked down slowly.
Fang Zheng was cultivating in front of the Demon Judgment Board, upon seeing this, he knelt on the ground and said: "Fang Zheng greets master!"
"Get up, my disciple. I have gotten a crucial Immortal Gu, the blood path method that I conceptualized my entire life finally has its core and foundation. After staying in this Demon Judgment Board for hundreds of years, it is finally time for me to leave."
This rank eight Gu Immortal spoke warmly, he stretched his arm as a formless force helped Gu Yue Fang Zheng to stand up.
Fang Zheng cupped his fist again: "Congratulations, master."
Ever since the Eastern Sea journey, he got captured by Shen Cong Sheng and was brought back to Heavenly Court afterwards.
Qin Ding Ling observed his luck, she suggested to Fairy Zi Wei that he could be the next Demon Judgment Board Lord.
After Fairy Zi Wei discussed with Duke Long, they agreed to this.
Fang Zheng thus came to the Demon Judgment Board to cultivate, he became the disciple of the current Demon Judgment Board Lord.
Demon Judgment Board was a rank eight Immortal Gu House with a long history. When Blood Sea Ancestor caused chaos in the five regions, Heavenly Court sensed danger and a Heavenly Court predecessor followed the revelation of fate Gu, finding a wild blood relation Immortal Gu.
Blood relation Immortal Gu was rank eight, after Heavenly Court captured it, they added it to Demon Judgment Board. This caused every single blood path cultivator in the world to be detected by Demon Judgment Board as long as they were not rank nine.
Heavenly Court relied on the information from Demon Judgment Board to execute their plans and exterminate the budding blood path trend in Central Continent. Furthermore, they passed the news from Demon Judgment Board to the other four regions, allowing their righteous path forces to deal with blood path more effectively.
Blood path had not flourished, it was suppressed fiercely, Demon Judgment Board was the key contributor to this.
After Blood Sea Ancestor created blood path, Heavenly Court had been researching it, their gains were the greatest compared to any force in the world.
The current Demon Judgment Board Lord, Red Heart Traveler, was a sole blood path cultivator, he had been in closed cultivation in Demon Judgment Board for years, researching and gaining great results, he allowed Heavenly Court's blood path to be far ahead of the five regions.
Spiritual light flashed as Nine Spiritual Fairy suddenly appeared, she went to Red Heart Traveler: "Red Heart, I was ordered to come here and gather with you, we are going to Western Desert to find trouble with Fang clan."
Red Heart Traveler nodded slightly, instructing Fang Zheng before he left: "Demon Judgment Board cannot be without an owner at all times, my disciple, you will take over as Demon Judgment Board Lord after I leave. My inheritance is inside the board, not just that, the cultivation experiences of the past generations of Board Lords are also inside. From now on, you will cultivate inside Demon Judgment Board, it will benefit you greatly, I hope you can work hard and not slacken, don't waste this fortune."
"Yes master, I will remember your teachings, I will never forget it." Gu Yue Fang Zheng quickly replied.
"Mm." Red Heart Traveler nodded before turning around and leaving.
He and Gu Yue Fang Zheng had a very shallow relationship, if Fairy Zi Wei had not given orders, he would not have taken him in as a disciple.
Their relationship however, provided him a huge help.
"Luck is truly profound and mystical. Earlier, Senior Qin Ding Ling told me that if I accept Fang Zheng as my disciple, once we become master and disciple in name, I would be able to use his luck to aid in my own cultivation."
"To think that I gained so much in just a short period of time, before leaving, I should go and visit Senior Qin Ding Ling first." Red Heart Traveler said with deep emotions.
Nine Spiritual Fairy nodded.
They were in no rush for time.
After Qin Ding Ling returned to Heavenly Court, she stayed in a specialized Immortal Gu palace.
After the two met Qin Ding Ling, she inspected their luck, Nine Spiritual Fairy's luck had nine spiritual lights, they were clear and clean, like leaves after withstanding a storm, they brought benefit to the world, giving off an aura of prosperity.
Red Heart Traveler's luck was like a sun or blood pill, it was round and perfect without any flaws, it had just emerged from the clouds, grand and vast, it was truly an amazing sight. This showed that after years of closed cultivation, Red Heart Traveler had finally emerged to travel the world, he was going to spread his radiance throughout the five regions.
Qin Ding Ling smiled as she told them that this would be a smooth trip, as long as they followed the plan, nothing bad would happen.
After the two said goodbye to Qin Ding Ling, they flew in the sky, passing by Embroidered Tower, they saw a Gu Immortal stationed there in a daze, not moving at all.
Nine Spiritual Fairy looked down at Red Heart Traveler as she sighed: "This is Feng Jiu Ge, after the loss in the River of Time, he became this despondent."
Red Heart Traveler shook his head as his expression turned grim: "He is comprehending his Dao now, when I was in closed cultivation in the board, I often fell into this state, we cannot interrupt him."
Nine Spiritual Fairy showed a look of surprise: "Oh? No wonder Fairy Zi Wei is letting him do as he pleases. I am embarrassed, I inherited the nine spiritual transformations inheritance, I have cultivated it wholeheartedly and did not modify it, so I was unaware of this."
Red Heart Traveler consoled her: "Your nine spiritual transformations is the greatest transformation path inheritance in Heavenly Court, it has been modified by countless generations of predecessors, it is near the point of perfection that cannot be modified any further."
Even though he cultivated blood path, he had an extremely gentle temperament, he was as soothing as the spring winds.
Nine Spiritual Fairy smiled: "Back then, when master gave me the true inheritance, he said my aptitude was insufficient. Compared to geniuses like you, I can only feel admiration and envy."
The two immortals talked and laughed as they left Central Heaven Gate, entering white heaven and going towards Western Desert.
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Eastern Sea.
Swish swish swish!
Waves crashed onto the rocks by the island shore, bursting into white bubbles upon impact.
Wicked winds howled, the sky was dark.
This uninhabited island was not eye-catching in the huge Eastern Sea, but it actually hid four Gu Immortals.
The four Gu Immortals were injured, one was lying down, either dead or alive, the other three were sitting and trying to heal their injuries.
A moment later, someone coughed as he spat out mouthfuls of blood.
"Lord!" The other two immortals who were still conscious quickly stopped healing their injuries as they gathered towards him.
The person coughing blood was Miao Ming Shen.
This Gu Immortal cultivated space path, he had rank seven cultivation level, he was famous among Eastern Sea's lone immortals, he had a huge network and influence.
Miao Ming Shen was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin. In terms of appearance, he looked ordinary, only his flat and wide nose left a heavy impression on others.
In terms of appearance, he was unassuming. But he was an ambitious person, being very good at building relationships, he had a lot of charisma. Three Eastern Sea lone immortals, Immortal Hua Die, Feng Jiang, and Gui Qi Ye all looked to Miao Ming Shen as their leader, the four were a group of Gu Immortals with common interests.
But now, Gui Qi Ye was unconscious, his body was covered in a poisonous purple color, he was in great danger.
Miao Ming Shen wiped the blood off his face as he spoke with a pale expression: "My injuries... cough cough.. are not an issue! Gui Qi Ye's condition is more severe."
"That's right, Gui Qi Ye was hit by the ice poison starfish, we do not have the way to heal him." Immortal Hua Die was very worried.
Feng Jiang's expression was cold as ice: "The ice poison starfish might have a troublesome poison, but I've heard that Su Chen and Fairy Jiu Yue can heal it."
Miao Ming Shen shook his head and sighed: "Fairy Jiu Yue has some relationship with Ren Xiu Ping while Su Chen is attending the qi sea banquet, we cannot go and expose our identities and secrets. We can only rely on ourselves to heal him. I intend to use the extreme time pole to exchange for underworld yellow water and cleanse the poison of the ice poison starfish."
"Lord..." Immortal Hua Die and Feng Jiang were both moved.
Miao Ming Shen laughed: "Just one rank eight immortal material to save Gui Qi Ye, it is worth the price. Speaking of which, we need to thank that demon Fang Yuan, if he did not defeat Heavenly Court this time, they would not have purchased time path immortal materials from treasure yellow heaven so frantically."
Immortal Hua Die nodded as she sighed: "Indeed, that demon Fang Yuan actually obtained a Red Lotus true inheritance, he is able to control the stone lotus island, Heavenly Court suffered a great defeat, their losses were too severe!"
Feng Jiang was a little worried: "This demon Fang Yuan is too crafty, Heavenly Court is without options against him. Now that Fang Yuan has a Red Lotus true inheritance, he is finally a huge influence. If he is not stopped, this Fang Yuan will become more terrifying, the entire world will be threatened by him."
Immortal Hua Die smiled: "Feng, you are worrying too much, how can any of us deal with a powerful person like Fang Yuan, the world is so huge, will we ever meet him? Even if heaven collapses, giants will hold up the sky. Heavenly Court will not let him off, we just need to watch this quietly."
This time, Fang Yuan used the stone lotus island to cause great harm to Heavenly Court, he naturally did not waste this chance, he put up the video of Heavenly Court losing in treasure yellow heaven, letting the entire world view it.
This way, Fang Yuan's reputation and prestige rose again, while Heavenly Court's fame was heavily damaged.
It was logical that Immortal Hua Die and Feng Jiang knew about this situation.
But what they did not know was, Fang Yuan had disguised as Chu Ying and got close to them, he saved their lives before.
Miao Ming Shen sighed deeply to himself.
He had deep ambitions, he was not willing to lead a normal life.
Otherwise, he would not create a wide network and many connections, he even got the loyalty of Feng Jiang, Immortal Hua Die, and Gui Qi Ye.
As an ambitious Gu Immortal, he had a complex feeling towards Fang Yuan's rise and immense strength.
Fang Yuan's rise was too fast, it had not been a hundred years, he already went from a mortal Gu Master to a rank seven Gu Immortal.
And how long did Miao Ming Shen take?
Hundreds of years!
In just this last period of time, Miao Ming Shen watched the rise of Fang Yuan, it was like a drama that played out before him.
Except he was not the main character.
He felt that both he and Fang Yuan were rank seven Gu Immortals, it was just that Fang Yuan had a rank eight Immortal Gu House and controlled the stone lotus island, which resulted in his victory over Heavenly Court.
But what about himself?
Miao Ming Shen looked at himself, he was truly pathetic!
He was heavily injured, Gui Qi Ye was on the verge of death while Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die were both injured. The cause of this was his enemy Ren Xiu Ping, who aggressively chased after them.
He was truly full of problems both internally and externally.
At this moment, Miao Ming Shen even questioned himself, was he wrong in trying to expand his network these years, was he wrong in getting the loyalty of these three immortals after so much hard work? If he was not wrong, why did he end up in this state?
He thought of Qi Sea Ancestor next.
Qi Sea Ancestor held his qi sea banquet and invited the Gu Immortals of Eastern Sea, it was such a huge event that Miao Ming Shen had heard of it long ago, he wanted to attend it. But because of Ren Xiu Ping, he had to hide himself, he had lost this opportunity as a result.
Miao Ming Shen felt deep admiration and envy towards Qi Sea Ancestor.
"If I can follow Qi Sea Ancestor's example and cultivate in seclusion, would I be able to get stronger, would I avoid suffering from the devious schemes of Ren Xiu Ping?"
Miao Ming Shen gritted his teeth, he quickly dispelled this thought that wavered his determination.
He let out a breath of air, he said to Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die: "Fang Yuan is having a good life, he is backed by several venerables and does not lack cultivation resources, he is also an otherworldly demon and has control of Spring Autumn Cicada."
After pausing for a while, he added: "He is far beyond us, let's save Old Gui first before we leave this place."
Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die nodded in agreement.
Miao Ming Shen immediately connected to treasure yellow heaven and used the extreme time pole to exchange for underworld yellow water.
The transaction process was very smooth and no unexpected mishaps occurred.
In the previous life, Heavenly Court not only occupied the River of Time to restrict Fang Yuan from finding the stone lotus islands, they even worked with Southern Border's righteous path to suppress Fang Yuan in treasure yellow heaven, stopping his businesses and aggressively buying time path immortal materials.
But in this life, Heavenly Court was in a much poorer state. Even though they still allied with Southern Border's righteous path and suppressed Fang Yuan's businesses in treasure yellow heaven, just their loss in the River of Time made them loss a huge amount of Immortal Gu, they needed to try to refine these time path Immortal Gu rapidly, they needed to refine them before Fang Yuan tried doing so.
Thus, in this life, even though Heavenly Court did not lack time path immortal materials in their inventory, they intensified their actions of purchasing time path immortal materials in treasure yellow heaven.
Miao Ming Shen obtained the underworld yellow water much earlier than in the previous life.
Of course, he did not know the cause of it.
Next, Miao Ming Shen used the underworld yellow water to cleanse Gui Qi Ye's entire body.
He used just the right amount, after all, this water was also corrosive on an undefended Gu Immortal body.
Gui Qi Ye was completely cleansed of the poison, he slowly woke up and thanked Miao Ming Shen.
Miao Ming Shen said some words of encouragement as Gui Qi Ye's eyes turned red from gratitude.
The four finally had the time to catch a breather, they started to think about their situation, how would they get out of this and deal with that accursed Ren Xiu Ping!
The four of them were just not enough.
Ren Xiu Ping was an enslavement path expert, he could fight a group on his own, this time, there were more than just him around, Ren Xiu Ping's group was far stronger and more numerous than Miao Ming Shen's group.
Gui Qi Ye pondered and said: "The reason why Ren Xiu Ping targeted us is because lord has the method to enter the blue dragon whale, it concerns Paradise Earth's true inheritance. Right now, we need to use this secret and invite allies to explore that Paradise Earth true inheritance before Ren Xiu Ping. If we are late and Ren Xiu Ping spreads news of this, not only will we lose our initiative, we will also be the target of all the Eastern Sea Gu Immortals!"
Miao Ming Shen nodded in agreement.
Even though he did not like it, this was the only way now.
Regarding the secret of the blue dragon whale, it was better if fewer people knew of it. It was a pity that Ren Xiu Ping plotted against Miao Ming Shen, news would spread in a short time.
Following Gui Qi Ye's method, not only would Miao Ming Shen gain a bunch of Gu Immortals to help him, gaining enough strength to fight Ren Xiu Ping and protect their own lives, they would even be able to explore the blue dragon whale, if they could gain anything inside, that would naturally be good.
In this situation, he had to give up some of his potential future profits and share the secret with more people.
Similar to the previous life, after Miao Ming Shen and the rest discussed this, they decided on the participating members, including Chu Ying.
When Fang Yuan received the invitation, he was still hosting the qi sea banquet.
During this period of time, more famous Eastern Sea Gu Immortals came to attend the banquet.
For example, Dragon Head Tortoise Immortal in adversity sea.
All sorts of famous people came, Fang Yuan gained a deeper understanding of Eastern Sea's situation. Jun Shen Guang who was present also collected information here, the truth was, Southern Border, Northern Plains, and Western Desert also had people here trying to gain information, that went without saying!
Even though this was Fang Yuan's first qi sea banquet, it had already caused a huge impact and influence, the Gu Immortals of the five regions were very concerned.
Eastern Sea had too many spare resources after all, during this period, more Gu Immortals started to trade Immortal Gu.
Each transaction that succeeded meant that Eastern Sea's Gu Immortal world would get slightly stronger, Jun Shen Guang and the rest felt deeper pressure.
If Fang Yuan wanted any of these Immortal Gu or immortal materials, he would get Zhang Yin to buy them for him.
He planned to stay here and remain motionless, he would just be a backdrop.
But this backdrop was something nobody could ignore or look down on.
"The time is about right, the qi sea banquet will end now." Fang Yuan spoke.
The immortals were confused and felt perplexed, why was it ending so suddenly?
Fang Yuan smiled warmly: "Transactions will never stop, how long would it take? Everyone here has important things to do, it is not good that I keep everyone waiting here. I held this banquet so that all of you Eastern Sea friends can meet up and have a nice gathering. Now, this goal has been achieved."
The truth was, he had things to do now, these people should scram and get out of his way.
Fang Yuan spoke politely, even if any Eastern Sea immortal was unhappy, they would not dare to defy the number one Eastern Sea immortal.
The immortals quickly stood up and said their goodbyes to Fang Yuan.
Song Qi Yuan and the rest left first, as leaders of their force, they were indeed busy with many things, they had a lot of territory to guard. Fang Yuan's words were music in their ears.
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Several days later, on a nameless island in Eastern Sea.
Eight Gu Immortals finally gathered.
Miao Ming Shen was the leader, other than him, Gui Qi Ye, Feng Jiang, and Immortal Hua Die were there. In addition, Zeng Luo Zi, Tu Tou Tuo, Tong Hua, and Fang Yuan were present.
"Even though I was reborn, it seems that the influence has not reached Miao Ming Shen." Fang Yuan was disguised as Chu Ying, he observed without showing changes in his expression.
Similar to the previous life, Miao Ming Shen chose the same people without changes.
But Fang Yuan was very different now.
He was in a much better state than in the previous life.
In the previous life, at this time period, he could not annex Qi Sea grotto-heaven, he could only take the resources of Qi Sea grotto-heaven and the Five Xiang's public grotto-heaven, consuming a portion of time. As for the rank nine killer move heaven form, it was still resisting Fang Yuan's refinement and was not his yet.
And most regrettably, his plans in green ghost desert had failed, his soul path cultivation was obstructed and could not progress. At the same time, his guts Gu productions fell drastically.
In this life, at this point, he had already annexed Qi Sea grotto-heaven, he had rank eight cultivation level and even became Qi Sea Ancestor, obtaining huge political power. Heaven form was refined long ago, but he did not find more grotto-heavens.
Green ghost desert developed rapidly, his soul path cultivation also progressed smoothly. The production of guts Gu was also many times of his highest records in history.
In the previous life, Heavenly Court dominated the River of Time, Fang Yuan had to fight desperately to escape.
But in this life, Fang Yuan dominated the River of Time, Heavenly Court suffered severe losses and their prestige was greatly affected. Despite this, Heavenly Court had no choice but to continue building Immortal Gu Houses, to send more reinforcements into the River of Time, they could not allow Fang Yuan to dominate the River of Time alone and find another Red Lotus true inheritance.
His position in the River of Time was easy to defend while hard to attack, Fang Yuan also had many arrangements in Western Desert, Eastern Sea, Profound Literature grotto-heaven, and Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, his progress was very smooth.
After rebirth, Fang Yuan worked hard and used the five regions and two heavens as his chessboard, he played many different pieces and set up arrangements everywhere, his gains were not just in the present but would continue increasing for future periods of time.
There was a similar situation as the previous life, Fang Yuan's businesses in treasure yellow heaven were suppressed and targeted by the joint efforts of Central Continent and the Southern Alliance.
Fang Yuan did not have any solution to this problem now.
Firstly, his influence on the Southern Alliance was falling gradually, he did not have much of a bargaining chip, only his second aperture Immortal Gu had an intense attraction to several Southern Border Gu Immortals.
Secondly, be it Heavenly Court or the Southern Alliance, they had deep foundations and assets, competing with them in treasure yellow heaven through price and quantity was not wise.
Fang Yuan's foundation was skewed towards Immortal Gu, Immortal Gu Houses, and secluded domains of heaven and earth. Most of his cultivation resources were used for his own strength. For example, guts Gu, if he sold them in treasure yellow heaven, this monopoly would be well received by the market, Southern Alliance would not affect his gains.
But Fang Yuan did not do that.
He chose to use most of the guts Gu on his own soul path cultivation.
He was still trying every way possible to raise his battle strength!
This decision made his business in treasure yellow heaven even worse, he fell into a disadvantage against them.
"In terms of immortal materials, I have even less compared to my previous life. I refined Immortal Gu multiple times and used too much of them. I also gained many subordinates this time, Lady White Rabbit, Sixth Hair, and Fairy Miao Yin died last time. But now, they are alive and well, I even took in the variant human alliance. Right now, the sovereign immortal aperture is also raising many snowmen, rockmen, hairy men, and others, I am trying to comprehend human path."
Fang Yuan gained a lot more immortal materials than in his previous life, just the annexation of Lang Ya blessed land alone was an immense gain.
But his expenditure also increased as well. The refinement of luck path and wood path Immortal Gu, the nurturing of variant humans, the gathering of twelve different immemorial year beasts, his other clones needed resources, he also faced several intense battles that required vast immortal essence, many Gu worms were lost during those fights...
All in all, be it internally or externally, Fang Yuan's situation was much better than the previous life.
His only weakness was the lack of immortal materials, he was running out of certain immortal materials already.
In this situation, Fang Yuan would not compete with Heavenly Court in treasure yellow heaven at all.
Heavenly Court was buying time path immortal materials, they wanted to obstruct Fang Yuan, their attitude was even stronger than the previous life, Fang Yuan chose to avoid them.
In this regard, he could not beat Heavenly Court alone, not to mention they had the Southern Alliance as well.
Fang Yuan's following plan was to obtain regret Gu and advance the bulk of his current Immortal Gu, this was the same as his previous life's plan.
He currently had a large number of rank six Immortal Gu, once they become rank seven, his battle strength would surge again in an all-rounded manner!
Cooking Luck Pot alone was worth anticipating.
"In the previous life, I lacked time and did not get Red Lotus' true inheritance, I had to act quickly in the blue dragon whale's immortal aperture and could not tackle it with peace of mind."
"This time, not only do I want regret Gu, I also want to try to get that Merit Obelisk, in fact, I want to get Paradise Earth's true inheritance and the blue dragon whale itself!"
Fang Yuan calculated his time well.
Very soon, Central Continent's Refinement Path Convention would start, they would try to repair fate Gu.
But that did not matter.
Fang Yuan put Zhan Bu Du in Beast Calamity grotto-heaven, this clone lived up to his expectations, he progressed rapidly and smoothly. When Fang Yuan appeared, Zhan Bu Du would cooperate with him and annex Beast Calamity grotto-heaven without issues.
He would save a lot of time in that regard, it could all be used to tackle the blue dragon whale's tasks.
His early investment was growing like a snowball, soon, Fang Yuan would gain even more benefits.
Miao Ming Shen looked around and said solemnly: "Everyone, I have already explained the details of this expedition, I gave you all some time to consider. This is my first journey too, the risks are unknown, we might possibly die. If anyone wants to give up now, you can leave. I will definitely not stop anyone, I understand from the bottom of my heart."
Nobody backed out.
This involved Paradise Earth's true inheritance, even if their paths were different, the immortals still held great expectations towards it.
These days, they had been thinking about what could be inside this blue dragon whale.
They did not know that Fang Yuan, who was beside them, already had a reliable plan to work with.
Similar to the previous life, before the immortals set off, Zeng Luo Zi went ahead to make the alliance agreement.
Next, the immortals went into the sea and used a method to find out each other's location.
After that, they went into the undercurrent with Miao Ming Shen taking the lead, they moved around through twists and turns, Fang Yuan was mixed among them as they followed Miao Ming Shen.
He had already made arrangements at the area that the blue dragon whale appeared in the previous life, but he did not receive information about the arrival of the blue dragon whale.
If not for Miao Ming Shen, he indeed might not find the blue dragon whale.
There were eight immortals here, they continued to travel for days. They used several undercurrents to travel, if there were no undercurrents, they would travel under the sea as well, being extremely low profile. Even if they met desolate beasts or ancient desolate beasts, they avoided them. If they saw any resources, they would ignore them.
Along the way, the immortals were led by Miao Ming Shen as they conversed, the atmosphere was quite harmonious and lively.
Miao Ming Shen also became the central member of this group subtly, he managed the relationship between everyone meticulously, he was truly skilled at interpersonal communication.
The immortals traveled with days and nights without stopping.
Miao Ming Shen was afraid that Ren Xiu Ping would expose this matter, so he had to race against time.
Suddenly, he slowed down as he showed an excited expression: "We are getting close!"
The immortals were energized.
Fang Yuan frowned lightly, similar to the previous life, he had been using investigative methods on Miao Ming Shen all along, he could not tell what method Miao Ming Shen was using to search for the blue dragon whale.
And their current location was completely different from the previous life as well.
As the blue dragon whale got closer, the immortals started to notice something strange.
The seawater became more turbulent, desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts increased in numbers, Fang Yuan and the rest had to resist them as they advanced, slaughtering desolate beasts as they forcefully created a path filled with blood.
The immortals fought desperately while Fang Yuan showed a peculiar expression.
In the previous life, he had fallen for it, but this time, he was experienced, after considering this situation, he saw some of the peculiarities in this situation.
"It seems that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's test started in the sea. If I try to die now, will I get transported into the blue dragon whale's immortal aperture?"
Fang Yuan felt that it was likely but he did not want to take the risk.
To play safe, he would follow his actions in the previous life, 'dying' after a certain amount of time.
"Who is it?!" Right at this moment, Zeng Luo Zi shouted as he sent a killer move behind him, towards his left.
The killer move did not have offensive power but several figures appeared immediately.
"As expected of Zeng Luo Zi, this is a wonderful investigative method." The leading Gu Immortal smiled as he spoke, his aura surged as it destroyed Zeng Luo Zi's investigative method while also sweeping towards Miao Ming Shen and the rest.
Fang Yuan saw him and felt slightly dazed: "Why is Shen Cong Sheng here as well?"
This was different from the previous life.
This person who only said one sentence and broke Zeng Luo Zi's investigative killer move was none other than Shen clan's first supreme elder, Shen Cong Sheng.
This was a righteous path rank eight Gu Immortal!
Miao Ming Shen and the rest only had rank seven cultivation level, they were completely outmatched.
Not only did Shen Cong Sheng come, he even had many Gu Immortals with him, there were Shen clan members and also lone cultivator experts like Ren Xiu Ping.
Fang Yuan had a shocked expression, he was obviously acting. His main body was here, not just Shen Cong Sheng, even if four of Eastern Sea's righteous path rank eights came here, Fang Yuan would not fear them.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest were truly shocked.
The enemies were too powerful, there was no way of contesting them.
What should they do?
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"Why are they here?!" Immortal Hua Die gasped, she felt her body turning cold.
"If not for the dangerous situation, if I did not sense this mild peculiarity, I would not have found these people. Quickly leave!" Zeng Luo Zi urged as he said anxiously.
"There is a traitor among us! We need to split up!" Miao Ming Shen said with an ashen expression, he understood already. He looked around at Tu Tou Tuo, Tong Hua, Zeng Luo Zi, and paused when he looked at Fang Yuan.
Evidently, his biggest suspicion was Chu Ying because he did not know about this person's background.
"Hahaha, I wanted to follow you all into the blue dragon whale, but since you found out, none of you will escape." Shen Cong Sheng said as he moved his finger, sound waves spread out and shot towards Miao Ming Shen and the rest.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest were surrounded by these sound waves as their speed fell drastically.
Sssssssssh—!
Shen Cong Sheng started whistling in the depths of the sea.
Immortal Hua Die gasped as she was tied up by countless sound waves, Shen Cong Sheng dragged her away immediately.
"Hua Die!" Feng Jiang watched and stared with a furious expression, he tried to help her but was too weak, Shen Cong Sheng captured him too.
Shen Cong Sheng had rank eight cultivation level, his sound path methods were quite profound. In the previous life, he captured rank eight Gu Immortal Old Man Bei Feng alive in Hidden Dragon Cave, it was much simpler now to capture weaklings like Immortal Hua Die and Feng Jiang.
"Leave!" Feng Jiang shouted loudly.
But soon, Shen Cong Sheng grabbed his neck and he fainted.
He snorted coldly: "Attack."
The Shen clan Gu Immortals around him and Ren Xiu Ping found their targets and attacked.
They had followed behind closely, having already discussed among themselves who to fight. Not only was their attack coordinated, they helped each other out.
The only who attacked Fang Yuan was Shen clan Gu Immortal Shen Tan, he was an ordinary water path Gu Immortal.
He shot out a water ring that was the size of a vat, it flew towards Fang Yuan's head.
Fang Yuan did not want to fight, he turned into a small seahorse that was palm sized, he moved like lightning speed.
Shen Tan missed his target, he was shocked and attacked with three more water rings, they appeared before Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan turned into a fish and swerved around with great agility, dodging all three rings.
Shen Tan's expression turned ugly, he called out to Ren Xiu Ping: "Lend me a hand."
Ren Xiu Ping was attacking Tong Hua with two vicious sharks. Hearing Shen Tan's words, he nodded: "Of course."
A vicious shark that was attacking Tong Hua quickly turned around and swam towards Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan looked around him, he found that if he got past this obstacle, he would be the frontmost person charging out.
He quickly stopped as he pretended to be obstructed by the vicious shark.
Because of this, Shen Tan laughed loudly as he moved his four water rings, blocking Fang Yuan: "Where can you run to now?"
He had no idea who he had obstructed, if he knew Chu Ying's true identity, he would be shivering in fear now.
Fang Yuan pretended to be trapped while patiently observing his allies.
Tu Tou Tuo was also obstructed, as an earth path cultivator, his speed was not fast, it was even slower in water.
Tong Hua was busy dealing with two of Ren Xiu Ping's vicious sharks.
Zeng Luo Zi was like a white ghost in the sea, he moved around swiftly and competed with Shen clan's Shen Qi in speed, they were well ahead.
Gui Qi Ye and Miao Ming Shen moved together, when Shen clan's two Gu Immortals got close, he shouted: "Lord, quickly go, I will stop them."
He stopped as he pushed with his palms.
With a loud sound, a huge area of black fog spread out.
Shen clan's two Gu Immortals were moving too rapidly, they entered the fog and vanished into thin air.
"Old Gui, take care!" Miao Ming Shen knew the severity of the situation, he had tears in his eyes as he flew up.
Shen Cong Sheng suppressed Feng Jiang and Immortal Hua Die completely as he snickered: "Where are you going?"
Saying this, countless sound waves chased after Miao Ming Shen.
Miao Ming Shen's hair stood on end as alerts rang in his mind, his gaze flashed like lightning as he grunted, activating his space path killer move.
His figure vanished instantly, appearing a hundred steps away. At the next moment, he vanished again, he moved a hundred steps further from Fang Yuan and the rest.
As he flickered continuously, Miao Ming Shen escaped and charged out of the sea.
Shen Cong Sheng gasped lightly, feeling surprised.
He had used a genuine rank eight method, Miao Ming Shen was actually able to escape from it, it was very impressive.
Miao Ming Shen was the most important person, Shen Cong Sheng did not care about Immortal Hua Die or Feng Jiang, he did not have time to store them into his immortal aperture, he tossed them to others and flew out to chase Miao Ming Shen.
Miao Ming Shen charged out of the sea as sweat poured out of his forehead.
"My escaping method could usually move a hundred li with one flicker, but before Shen Cong Sheng, I could only move a hundred steps away. Is this the power of a rank eight Gu Immortal?"
Suddenly, there was a sound behind him as Shen Cong Sheng broke out of the sea.
Miao Ming Shen's body shook, his speed fell as he had fallen into Shen Cong Sheng's killer move's range once again.
Seeing that he was about to be captured, Miao Ming Shen struggled intensely, he felt deep despair in his heart.
Right at this moment, there was a shrill cry resounding.
An immemorial thunder phoenix flew over and attacked Shen Cong Sheng.
The immemorial thunder phoenix attacked fiercely, intense winds blew as Shen Cong Sheng's expression changed, he did not dare to be careless, he let off Miao Ming Shen for the time being and faced the immemorial thunder phoenix instead.
With a loud sound, the immemorial thunder phoenix sent Shen Cong Sheng flying into the sea again as huge waves were created.
Miao Ming Shen used this chance to flicker and escape, his body was covered in cold sweat.
At this time, he finally had time to observe the surroundings.
Only to see that above the sea, intense tornadoes surged in the sky, lightning flashed continuously as thunder rumbled, dark clouds extended to the horizons.
The sea was in a frenzy, waves surged from the sea, they were thousands of feet tall.
Countless flying birds and eagles fought intensely amidst the thunder and lightning.
Blue charm lightning shadows flickered in the dark clouds, they were hunted down by immemorial desolate beast thunder phoenix.
The situation was too dangerous!
"Where in the world did I end up at?!" Miao Ming Shen took a deep breath in shock.
"Catch them!" Right at this time, Shen Tan's anxious voice could be heard behind him.
Just earlier, Shen Tan received the two captives that Shen Cong Sheng tossed him, Fang Yuan used that chance to not only destroy the water rings but also helped the others out.
Tong Hua, Zeng Luo Zi, and Fang Yuan got out of the sea, flying into the sky.
"Don't think of running!" Shen Qi, Shen Tan, and Ren Xiu Ping chased after them.
At the same time, lightning flashed in the sky and shot towards the immortals.
The immortals quickly attacked to block it.
Another group of eagles flew down and scattered the group of people, the scene was a chaotic mess.
"All of you, scram!" At the next moment, an intense sound wave burst out from the depths of the sea.
Sound waves shot out of Shen Cong Sheng as he flew out of the sea and towards the sky in an instant, he waved both hands as two translucent sound waves moved around the battlefield like two sharp blades.
Immortal killer move — Aerial Sound Blades!
Wherever the sound blades went, be they eagles or lightning, they were all cut into two, even the immemorial thunder phoenix was injured and moved back.
A sound blade went around Tong Hua and quickly slit through Zeng Luo Zi's throat.
Zeng Luo Zi stared with wide eyes as his head fell off his body.
A sound blade went after Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan sighed to himself, he made a turn and burst out with speed, he charged on the closest route to the immemorial thunder phoenix.
At the next moment, his body became charred by lightning, he died on the spot.
Shen Cong Sheng did not even look at Fang Yuan's corpse, he went after Miao Ming Shen immediately.
Within the blue Dragon Whale Paradise.
Starting island.
Fang Yuan opened his eyes as he woke up.
"I arrived here after all." He stood up and looked around him.
The sea was blue with white waves, there was a golden sandy beach, the temperature was warm and nice, this was a serene location.
"Hmm?" Fang Yuan saw Zeng Luo Zi here as well.
He was clearly killed by Shen Cong Sheng's sound path killer move, he was beheaded. But now, he lay near the beach, he breathed normally but was unconscious, his head was still attached to his body.
"As expected." Fang Yuan was not surprised: "The illusion started long ago, within it, whoever dies would not die for real."
Fang Yuan was killed by the immemorial thunder phoenix and arrived here afterwards. Zeng Luo Zi was killed by Shen Cong Sheng but arrived here as well.
Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created Reincarnation Battlefield in Central Continent, it had a similar trait. Central Continent's ten great ancient sects occupied that place and sent Gu Immortals to fight inside it. No matter who died inside, they would not lose their life, they would only sustain some injuries or damage if they died too many times.
Thus, Fang Yuan did not do anything earlier. Even if he killed Shen Cong Sheng, he would not die, he would even get transported here earlier, while Fang Yuan would have exposed his identity for no reason.
Fang Yuan waved his hand as a qi blade flew towards Zeng Luo Zi.
Zeng Luo Zi did not have any defenses up, but right before the qi blade landed and killed him, it vanished.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly, turning around and leaving.
When Shen Cong Sheng woke up, he felt that his vision was still blurry, but a joyful sound was heard beside him: "First supreme elder, you finally woke up!"
Next, his vision cleared up, he saw Shen Qi, Shen Tan, Ren Xiu Ping, Miao Ming Shen, Hua Die, Feng Jiang, Tong Hua, and the rest, they were in a nervous standoff.
"What happened? Didn't I die!" Shen Cong Sheng was internally shocked, he felt that this was unreal.
As a rank eight Gu Immortal, he lasted the longest in the illusion, he was also the final person who arrived.
"First supreme elder, this is likely Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's method, it is similar to Central Continent's Reincarnation Battlefield." Shen Tan said.
Shen Cong Sheng managed to calm down as he nodded: "This is indeed the style of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable."
At the next moment, his eyes flashed like lightning as he looked at Miao Ming Shen and the rest, asking directly: "How long have you been awake for?"
"We had just woken up too." Shen Qi answered.
Shen Cong Sheng nodded, he looked at Miao Ming Shen, Immortal Hua Die, Feng Jiang, and Zeng Luo Zi.
These people were either captured or killed by him, but now, they were alive and well. Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable truly had unfathomable methods!
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"Where are we? Tell me everything that you know!" Shen Cong Sheng said as he attacked Miao Ming Shen again.
The result was that his killer move vanished upon activation, Shen Cong Sheng grunted as blood flowed out of his nose, he had sustained injuries from the backlash of the killer move.
"First supreme elder, hold on, this place seems to forbid fighting. If you have the intention to fight, any killer move or Gu worm activation will fail. In contrast, healing yourself will not be obstructed." Shen Tan said.
"Why didn't you say that earlier?" Shen Cong Sheng stared with furious eyes.
Shen Tan felt wrongly accused as he thought to himself: "Wasn't it because you acted too quickly?"
He could not say that of course, Shen Tan lowered his head and apologized.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest let out sighs of relief.
They were also healing their injuries.
When they woke up, they saw the Shen clan Gu Immortals around and attacked without thinking, they had suffered intense backlash as a result.
Shen Tan and the rest were in similar situations.
But at that time, Shen Cong Sheng had not woken up, nobody knew if a rank eight Gu Immortal would be restricted as well.
"It seems that even rank eight Gu Immortals cannot defy the arrangements of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable." Miao Ming Shen let out a breath of air, after seeing that Shen Cong Sheng had failed, he calmed down completely.
They were temporarily safe.
Shen Cong Sheng heard this as bright light flashed in his eyes: "It seems that we are inside the immortal aperture world of the blue dragon whale."
Miao Ming Shen did not acknowledge or deny his words.
Gui Qi Ye who stood beside him stared at Tong Hua furiously: "Tong Hua! You betrayed us!"
Tong Hua lowered her head and did not speak, looking ashamed.
She was standing beside Ren Xiu Ping now.
The traitor among Miao Ming Shen's group was her.
Earlier, when Shen Cong Sheng used his killer move in the illusion, he avoided her, everyone saw that.
And now, her status was exposed.
Immortal Hua Die had a cold expression: "Fairy Tong Hua, to think my lord trusted you so deeply, when you had to fix your immortal aperture after tribulation, he helped you so much. Not only did he help you, he even invited you to explore the blue dragon whale, you actually betrayed our kindness with enmity! Why did you betray us? Where is your conscience?"
Tong Hua wanted to speak but she turned around and stopped looking at Miao Ming Shen and the rest.
Miao Ming Shen sighed heavily as he stopped Immortal Hua Die: "Fairy Tong Hua probably has her own difficulties, forget it, everyone has their own goals."
Tong Hua's gaze flickered intensely.
"Lord... you are too kindhearted. How can we let this kind of people off?" Immortal Hua Die stomped her feet.
Ren Xiu Ping smiled arrogantly, he was the one who made Tong Hua a traitor: "Miao Ming Shen, you need to understand this situation clearly, you need to know who is the stronger side! Tong Hua was wise to have chosen us, if you surrender and hand over all your information, we might spare you."
Immortal Hua Die was still furious about it, this was their fortuitous encounter but these people wanted to snatch it away and threatened them, she rolled her eyes as she called out: "I'm so scared, why don't you come attack me, my entire body is shivering from fear."
Shen Cong Sheng's expression turned cold.
Ren Xiu Ping squinted as he smiled even more coldly: "Girl, you have a sharp tongue, do you think Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's methods can protect you for a lifetime? After you leave this place, when we get back to Eastern Sea, can any of you resist Lord Shen Cong Sheng? Even inside here, do you think Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable's arrangements are perfect without a single loophole?"
Immortal Hua Die's expression froze.
Miao Ming Shen and the rest had grim expressions, especially Zeng Luo Zi, he looked at Shen Cong Sheng with fear in his eyes. After all, he was killed earlier by a killer move.
"It is uncertain who will win. Let's go!" Miao Ming Shen did not want to waste time on arguments, he turned around and left this beach.
"This person had the special method to find the blue dragon whale, he definitely knows more than us. Follow him!" Shen Cong Sheng quickly ordered.
They could not fight now, following Miao Ming Shen was the best alternative.
The two groups walked with some distance between them, they moved in silence.
Soon, they got out of the beach, arriving in a dense forest.
"This forest is a bit strange, the leaves of the trees have empty heart shaped spaces at the center." Immortal Hua Die said in confusion.
"Hmm, these are just ordinary trees." Feng Jiang checked and touched a tree trunk with his hands.
With a soft sound, the tree that he touched collapsed, it shattered into a pile of wood dust.
"What is going on?" The immortals sensed a commotion and quickly gathered.
"These are not ordinary trees, they are rank seven immortal plants, cloud ladder trees." Shen Cong Sheng looked as he said grimly.
They arrived as well.
Seeing that the rank eight Gu Immortal was standing beside them, Miao Ming Shen and the rest felt their hearts tighten but they quickly relaxed.
Gui Qi Ye said arrogantly: "Old Shen, do you think we are ignorant? I know about cloud ladder trees, this tree has dense wood path and cloud path dao marks. Every hundred years, it grows by ten inches, which is one step of a ladder. How can these be cloud ladder trees? With such a height, they have to be a hundred steps at least, that means these cloud ladder trees have lived for ten thousand years? Hehehe."
But Shen Cong Sheng was calm and composed: "These are cloud ladder trees. You only know a portion of the details. Cloud ladder trees are a rank seven immortal material, the leaves of ten thousand year old cloud ladder trees would form the rank eight immortal material, cloud ladder leaf heart. Once all of the cloud ladder leaf hearts are taken away, the cloud ladder tree would collapse into a pile of wood dust, becoming an ordinary material."
Gui Qi Ye was stunned before he smiled coldly again, pointing forward: "Then you mean to say that this dense forest is filled with ten thousand year old cloud ladder trees? Hehe, this is too laughable."
Shen Cong Sheng nodded: "Cloud ladder trees are quite rare, of course, this forest isn't made up of such a precious tree. But at the very least, this particular plant was a cloud ladder tree!"
Shen Cong Sheng was very certain while Gui Qi Ye stuck to his views, he pointed at a tree nearby: "Then according to Lord Shen Cong Sheng, this tree, this tree, and that tree are also ten thousand year old cloud ladder trees. Haha, look, all of their leaves have an empty heart shaped space. There are so many cloud ladder trees, how many rank eight immortal material cloud ladder leaf hearts are there? Isn't there too much of this rank eight immortal material? How different is it from a plain cabbage you grow in your farm?"
The immortals were looking at Shen Cong Sheng, his expression also changed slightly.
On this island, investigative methods were not very useful, but he had already inspected his surroundings gradually.
He walked quickly and struck several tree trunks, once he touched these cloud ladder trees, they turned into wood dust.
Shen Cong Sheng gasped as he said to his subordinates: "These were all cloud ladder trees, but the leaf hearts on them had all been taken away. These are valuable rank eight immortal materials, quickly look for any that are left behind!"
The Shen clan Gu Immortals believed in Shen Cong Sheng, while Ren Xiu Ping and Tong Hua believed him to some extent, because of his reputation, they had to obey him and spread out to search.
As cloud ladder trees got destroyed one after another, none of the immortals found any cloud ladder leaf hearts.
The entire forest was made of cloud ladder trees, there were no trees left here.
Even while Shen Cong Sheng walked out of this dense forest, he started to suspect his own finding: "Are these really cloud ladder trees? If they are, there are simply too many of them, right?"
The immortals left the forest, they saw the yellow sandy ground, as wind blew, dust clouds moved in the air.
It was a desolate land.
This was everyone's first impression.
"The air seems to have the smell of clear wind grass stems." Shen Cong Sheng sniffed as he crouched down, moving the soil and exposing the holes in it.
Shen Cong Sheng's expression changed.
At this time, Zeng Luo Zi also sensed something strange, he called out: "This place must have an entire field of clear wind grass stems planted here in the past, I've smelt this aroma before, it is this. There are holes here, each is as large as a fist, the walls of the holes are all smooth and round, this is the effect of the roots of clear wind grass stems."
Miao Ming Shen was stunned: "Clear wind grass stem is a rank seven immortal material, this means that this area filled with holes was once an entire field of clear wind grass stems?"
"Even though it is unthinkable, don't forget that we are inside the blue dragon whale now. This is the location of a Paradise Earth true inheritance!" Hua Die's words were like a stone dropped into the hearts of the immortals.
Shen Cong Sheng frowned as he looked at Miao Ming Shen, asking: "Why is there someone missing from your side?"
Miao Ming Shen was stunned, he realized why he had felt something strange earlier, after hearing this reminder, he understood, indeed, someone was missing.
"Chu Ying is not around!" Feng Jiang said grimly.
"Where did he go?"
"Speaking of it, he died really early, he should have arrived here long ago."
"Did he awaken earlier than us, did he take away all of the immortal materials here?"
The immortals were all astute figures, because they were at conflict earlier and the atmosphere was tense, they did not think so much when exploring the island.
Once this topic started, everyone became anxious.
Shen Cong Sheng stopped following Miao Ming Shen, he moved rapidly and advanced.
Miao Ming Shen hesitated, he decided to follow.
The immortals quickly arrived in front of a huge pit.
This hole was tens of li wide, it was hundreds of feet deep, there were some fragments left in the hole.
Tu Tou Tuo picked up these fragments as he looked, shouting instantly: "Oh heavens! This is the rank seven immortal material rooster iron. Which bastard took everything away, only leaving behind these fragments?"
Tu Tou Tuo stared with wide eyes, he shouted loudly.
"Rooster iron only exists in mines exposed to open air. When roosters sing, heaven turns white[1], with such a wide span of rooster iron here, when wind blows, there will be resonance, rank eight immortal material heavenly white snow iron will be produced!" Shen Cong Sheng said with a cold tone: "We need to find that Chu Ying as quickly as we can."
All the immortals were anxious.
All these immortal materials were likely taken by Chu Ying.
They needed to find him!
They quickly spread out and called his name but they could not find even a trace of Fang Yuan. All they saw were holes and pits, dried rivers and a large field of land with their plants uprooted and taken away.
[1] A saying from Chairman Maori
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The island they were sent to was not big, the immortals did not gain anything from their exploration, they quickly gathered at the center of the island.
Over there, they made a shocking discovery!
A huge obelisk that seemed to be made of gold was radiating with a mild crystalline light.
Rank eight Immortal Gu House — Merit Obelisk!
The surface of Merit Obelisk had words appearing on it, introducing the background of this island and also the details of the Paradise Earth true inheritance.
To obtain the Paradise Earth true inheritance, one had to accept the missions on the Merit Obelisk, they would gain merit points when they complete these tasks. The more merits they had, the more valuable things they could exchange for.
If one did not accept this, they could only wait on this island, they could not leave and go to other places in the grotto-heaven world.
Of course, Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was merciful and kind, he would not let them leave empty-handed. The immortal materials on this island were specially prepared for them to split among each other.
Three hundred days later, everyone would be transported away.
The immortals were shocked.
"There are immortal materials on this island after all. Those cloud ladder leaf hearts, clear wind grass stems, rooster iron and others were not fake."
"They were all taken by someone! Damn it, he took literally everything, he left nothing for us at all."
"It must be that Chu Ying."
"Where is Chu Ying? Why have we not seen him?"
"I found Chu Ying!" Immortal Hua Die suddenly shouted.
The immortals quickly gathered towards her, they saw that on another side of the Merit Obelisk, by looking at where Immortal Hua Die pointed, they saw words that appeared on the Merit Obelisk.
Merit Board Ranking — Chu Ying, eighty-two merit points.
Other than Chu Ying, there were nobody else.
"This person!" Ren Xiu Ping gritted his teeth in anger.
Right at this moment, Chu Ying's merit points jumped again, from eighty-two to ninety-three.
Next, the Merit Obelisk flashed.
The immortals quickly took steps back.
The light faded as Fang Yuan appeared.
"Chu Ying!" Feng Jiang cried out.
"You finally showed up." Tu Tou Tuo had bloodshot eyes, he thought about the empty pit that was filled with rooster iron before.
"Oh, you are awake." Fang Yuan nodded at them, he said in a plain tone.
"Hey, what is wrong with your attitude!" Shen Tan shouted in displeasure.
Fang Yuan's indifferent attitude made every immortal furious.
Shen Cong Sheng stepped forward with a cold expression and overbearing tone: "Tell me, did you take all of the immortal materials on this island?"
"Who else could it be but me?" Fang Yuan retorted, he was indifferent about Shen Cong Sheng's overbearing tone. He quickly got to the other side of the Merit Obelisk and quickly browsed through the missions.
The immortals were furiously staring at him.
This person had taken all the benefits but still acted so arrogantly!
Ren Xiu Ping said grimly: "We have seen the text on this obelisk, all of these immortal materials are arranged by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable for us. Chu Ying, isn't it too much to take everything yourself? You owe us an explanation!"
Fang Yuan did not even look at him, he pressed his palm at the obelisk and took another mission.
Swoosh.
White light flashed, he vanished again.
The immortals were shocked.
Shen Qi shouted in anger: "This guy!"
"Where did he come from? He is completely disregarding Lord Shen Cong Sheng and us." Ren Xiu Ping spoke with a livid expression, his voice was cold as ice.
"Investigate him after we go out." Shen Cong Sheng was a rank eight after all, as the leader of Shen clan, he quickly calmed down and started to mimic Fang Yuan, walking to the Merit Obelisk.
"Chu Ying is acting so fearlessly, he is merely relying on the fact that we cannot attack him in this paradise." Shen Cong Sheng thought to himself: "Chu Ying is merely a rank seven secluded lone immortal, we can deal with him later. The important thing now is this Merit Obelisk."
Fang Yuan's actions earlier were a great example to the immortals here.
In the previous life, Miao Ming Shen and the rest came to the obelisk with suspicion, they first distributed the immortal materials on the island before going to accept the missions.
But now, Fang Yuan woke up in advance, he acted first and ransacked the entire island.
The only thing left to these immortals was this Merit Obelisk.
There were many missions on this Merit Obelisk.
Helping the merfolk in South Coast City to excavate the golden lotuses on silver lake.
Round fish island was drying up, it needed wells to be built.
Three stripes tribe lacked medicine, there was a plague spreading, they needed a lot of medicinal herbs.
Piper tribe was stuck in a fog, they were asked to lead them out.
Aurora Mountain's spirit spring had an issue that needed to be dealt with immediately.
...
The Gu Immortals watched with a dazed expression.
Similar to the previous life, they encountered the same situation again.
These missions were only described briefly, they were not detailed, the Gu Immortals could not gain any useful information.
For example, this mission: Three stripes tribe lacked medicine, there was a plague spreading, they needed a lot of medicinal herbs.
What kind of force was three stripes tribe? Were there Gu Immortals? Were they an ordinary force or super force?
A plague was spreading, what kind of plague was it? There were many kinds of plagues that even rank eight Gu Immortals did not dare to handle.
They needed a lot of medicinal herbs, what kind of herbs did they want? Immortal materials? What method did they need to use?
Nobody knew.
The Merit Obelisk only had this one line.
The immortals were really unaware of the situation.
"Does that Chu Ying know anything?" Someone muttered.
The immortals were silent, their hatred, anger, and suspicion towards Fang Yuan intensified again.
Even though Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable was known for kindness, this was an unknown environment, even the rank eight Gu Immortal Shen Cong Sheng was barred from fighting, the Gu Immortals had to be vigilant.
And looking at the rewards on the Merit Obelisk.
There was a large amount of immortal materials and Immortal Gu that could be exchanged for using merits!
Of course, there were some peculiar things here like titles or mortal Gu.
Shen Cong Sheng immediately saw one rank five mortal Gu, it was called good deeds Gu, this was the first time he had seen such a Gu worm.
To exchange for a good deeds Gu, one needed fifty merit points, it was the most expensive mortal Gu.
But the actual effect of the Gu worm was not written on the Merit Obelisk, Shen Cong Sheng knew nothing about it.
However, it had to be unique and special for Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable to put it up as a reward.
After the immortals discussed among themselves, they realized that they had to try this to find out. Shen Cong Sheng was the first to act, he quickly walked up to the obelisk to receive his mission.
In the previous life, the group of eight including Fang Yuan and Miao Ming Shen came to the Merit Obelisk, only ten missions had appeared to them. But now, because there were more people, it seemed that the number of missions had also increased correspondingly.
There were many missions, they were slowly taken.
Because they did not know anything, there was no fighting or snatching here.
Shen Cong Sheng's mission was: Round fish island was drying up, it needed wells to be built.
As light flickered, he appeared in a desert at the next moment.
Shen Cong Sheng's pupils shrunk.
He was a rank eight Gu Immortal with dense dao marks, he could not be transported using ordinary methods. But when he was transported here, it could not be blocked, a grand and mystical power brought him here instantly.
"As expected of Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable." Shen Cong Sheng sighed internally, he looked around as his investigative method spread out over the surroundings.
Shen Cong Sheng quickly sensed something different: "Oh, my investigative method works properly here, it is not the same as the starting island."
Tens of li away from here, there was a small village in the desert.
Shen Cong Sheng stood on the spot, moving his ears as he listened to the conversation of the people in the village.
A moment later, he confirmed that he was on round fish island. This island was huge and had many villages, but decades again, vegetation had started to become sparse, right now, a large area desert had already spread around the remaining few villages.
Mortals and Gu Masters lived in the village, their lives were getting tougher.
"This means to say, I need to build water wells near these villages?" After learning of the situation, Shen Cong Sheng let out a breath of air as he relaxed.
This mission was much easier than he had expected.
They were all mortal level issues, not at the level of Gu Immortals.
Even if it involved immortals, he was a rank eight sound path great expert, he could deal with most issues.
Shen Cong Sheng thought about Fang Yuan as he muttered to himself: "That Chu Ying only has rank seven cultivation level but he accumulated ninety-three merit points so quickly. This shows that the missions must be very easy to complete."
Even after knowing the situation, Shen Cong Sheng did not rush to take action.
He needed to test many things here.
For example, could he ignore this mission and fly out of this place?
Could he communicate with the outside world?
How many methods could he still use in this situation?
Shen Cong Sheng did not interact with the mortals, he used sound path methods and secretly dug wells near the villages.
The desertification here was very severe, Shen Cong Sheng had to dig for a long time before he found some underground water deep below.
Using these sources of water, he created deep wells around the place.
Thinking about it, he used his methods to reinforce the walls of the well. Finally, he made the mouths of the wells and covered them with a thatched roof on top.
"To think that one day, I would have to do such manual labor." Shen Cong Sheng laughed.
He built a total of more than thirty wells, this mission was not difficult at all to this rank eight Gu Immortal.
In the process of completing it, Shen Cong Sheng tried many things, he probed the foundation of this paradise to a great extent.
For example, he could not leave this place, he was only able to move around this desert area.
His communication was also restricted, forget about treasure yellow heaven, he could not even send anything to Shen Qi or Shen Tan.
He was also unable to attack the ordinary villagers, all his offensive methods would fail and he would sustain backlash.
He could open his immortal aperture's entrance and take out stuff from within, yet he could not take anything from round fish island to put into his immortal aperture.
Shen Cong Sheng also gained a lot of information from these mortals, these people were able to leave round fish island and tour the seas. In the past, there were conflicts among the villages, people had died.
In conclusion, Dragon Whale Paradise gave the inhabitants a lot of freedom, while the Gu Immortals who received these missions were greatly restricted.
As for how they were restricted, Shen Cong Sheng was unable to detect the method, he simply could not deal with it or get around it. This made him feel even more admiration towards Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable.