Lu Ping was able to kill Fan Yuqing not only because Fan Yuqing was seriously injured and only had 70% to 80% of his strength left, but more importantly, the Three Rushing Thunder Swords had risked their lives to fight. Lu Ping did not play much of a role, to be exact, he was the fisherman who benefited from the fight.
Fan Yuqing was dead, they could not stay here for long!
Lu Ping put away the damaged Taixuan Thorn and took away Fan Yuqing's storage magic item, then burned Fan Yuqing's body with the Crimson Spirit Fire.
Lei Jian's and Lei Jian's bodies were collected. These two had died a heroic death, so Lu Ping did not want to cremate them, so he planned to hand them over to the Taixuan Sect.
Fortunately, Yun Jian still had a breath left. Lu Ping put a Zhong Ding Pill in Yun Jian's mouth to keep him alive, and after a careful examination, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Although Yun Jian was seriously injured by Fan Yuqing's broken Dharma, it was not fatal. With this Zhong Ding Pill, Yun Jian's cultivation foundation would not be greatly damaged. As long as he recuperated for a few years, he could completely restore his cultivation, and it was possible that he could go further in the future.
After summoning Lu Qin-er out of the Golden House, Lu Ping carried Yun Jian on his back, and flew in the direction of the Taixuan Ancient City.
Lu Ping flew all the way, and when he was still thousands of miles away from the Taixuan Ancient City, Lu Ping seemed to sense something, and slowly slowed down his flying speed. The Cyan Phoenix behind him also slowly began to circle.
A space portal flashed in front of Lu Ping, and then an old man with gray hair and beard without any aura came out of the portal with his hands behind his back.
Lu Ping's divine sense couldn't detect any aura from the old man, but the moment the old man appeared, Lu Ping's heart skipped a beat and his body shuddered with fear.
Lu Ping had only felt this feeling from Celestial Phenomenon Laozu!
Lu Ping hurriedly bowed and said, "Junior Lu Xuanping of North Sea Zhenling greets Senior!"
Lu Ping felt two solid gazes staring at him, as if all his secrets would be exposed under these two gazes.
The old man's gaze finally passed over Lu Ping, and Lu Ping couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. But then, an overwhelming killing intent assaulted him. Even though this killing intent wasn't directed at Lu Ping, Lu Ping still found it difficult to breathe under this monstrous aura. Not far away, the Azure Phoenix let out a series of mournful cries, its trembling body almost unable to support itself and falling from the sky.
"Who did it?"
The old man was naturally referring to the unconscious Yun Jian on Lu Qin-er's back.
Lu Ping quickly told the old man about what had happened, including the alliance of the envoys from the Five Great Sacred Lands, the deaths of Lei Jian and Lei Jian, the appearance of an unfamiliar cultivator and so on.
As Lu Ping recounted these things, his Divine Sense could clearly sense that the overwhelming killing intent was rapidly receding. The old man before him had suddenly become an unfathomable abyss, devouring all the happiness, anger, sorrow and joy that had been emitted from his aura.
However, Lu Ping could sense an even deeper throbbing from the old man's body. This wasn't because the old man had suddenly become emotionless. Instead, it was more like a dam storing water. Once the dam burst, there would be no turning back.
Lu Ping knew that the old man must be burning with anxiety. So, he narrated what had happened in an extremely concise manner, and at the same time, he did his best to describe everything he had seen in the forest.
The old man gave Lu Ping a deep look. Then, he reached out with both hands and pulled at the space before him. A spatial crack was forcibly torn open.
The old man took a step into the crack and it immediately disappeared, leaving only the old man's voice echoing in Lu Ping's ears. "The Old Man has an important matter to attend to. Take the Old Man's keepsake and go to Profound Sky City's Pill Ding Hall to treat Yun Ding Lou. If what you said is true, the Profound Sky Sect will reward you generously. If it is false, you know the consequences!"
His voice lingered in the air. Only now did Lu Ping realize that a jade tablet was quietly floating in the air at the place where the old man had torn open the space. Lu Ping stretched out his hand and waved. The jade tablet flew into Lu Ping's hand. After carefully examining it for a while, Lu Ping called the Cyan Phoenix behind him and quickly flew toward the Profound Sky City.
Several days later, Lu Ping came to an ordinary alley in Profound Sky City with a jade tablet in his hand. At the entrance of the alley, Lu Ping placed the jade tablet in a bowl in front of a lazy beggar who was basking in the sun.
As soon as the jade tablet was placed in the bowl, it quickly melted like a piece of ice under the sun. It turned into half a bowl of purple soup.
The beggar picked up the broken bowl and drank the soup in one gulp. Then he let out a comfortable sigh and dozed off under the sun again. From beginning to end, the beggar didn't even look at Lu Ping.
Lu Ping faintly smiled and didn't mind. He bent down and picked up the broken bowl from the ground. He walked to the end of the alley and placed the broken bowl on a hidden groove. Then, he crushed a few mid grade spirit stones and scattered them into the bowl. With a flash of light, Lu Ping disappeared from the end of the alley.
When Lu Ping reappeared, he was in a small house that was only three feet wide and one foot tall.
In the corner of the house, there was a set of black clothes and a black cloak. The clothes would completely cover the cultivator's head.
Lu Ping thought for a moment and simply put on the stone armor before putting on the black clothes and cloak.
Pushing open the door of the small house, Lu Ping walked into a huge underground palace. He immediately noticed that there was an inexplicable connection between the hidden formations around the palace and the black clothes and cloak.
Lu Ping's expression became serious and he extended his spiritual sense to carefully investigate his surroundings. Only then did he find that although the black clothes had the ability to conceal a cultivator's aura, they were still unable to prevent others from peeking at them. This was especially true for those with special attainments in spiritual sense cultivation or those who practiced divine eye techniques.
However, there was a wondrous magic array engraved within the palace. Every set of black clothes was connected to the magic array. That way, the cultivators would be able to receive the assistance of the magic array through the clothes, concealing their identities.
In this way, if someone still wanted to peek at other people's secrets, they would have to use their own strength to resist the entire formation. This was naturally impossible.
Lu Ping secretly sighed at the amount of effort that the Tianxuan Sect had put in to facilitate this Spirit Item Trade Fair between the various sects. Fortunately, because he had ambushed Fan Yuqing and saved the Rushing Thunder Three Swords, he had never formed a good relationship with the Tianxuan Sect. In advance, he had received a lot of help from the Tianxuan Sect and already knew the process of this Spirit Item Trade Fair like the back of his hand.
In particular, when he was bringing the injured Yun Jian and the bodies of Lei Jian and Lei Jian back to the Tianxuan Sect, Lu Ping then found out that this person was actually Qing Li Laozu of the Tianxuan Sect. He was also the Tianxuan Sect's fifth Dharma adept who had just advanced. In the cultivation world of the Central Plains, the Tianxuan Sect was still keeping the matter of Qing Li Laozu's advancement to a Dharma adept a secret.
It was also because of Lu Ping's prior notification that Qing Li Laozu was able to find the location of the battle between the two sides and bring back the Tianxuan Sect's group of cultivators.
Although Xiahou Wushang was seriously injured and needed close to ten years to recover, and Xiao She's Dharma power had collapsed and there was no hope of advancing to the mid Dharma stage in this lifetime, the two of them were still saved.
After Qing Li Laozu returned, Lu Ping was quickly summoned by Qing Li Laozu. The two of them had a secret discussion in a secret room for half a day. When they came out, Lu Ping was holding the jade scroll that had previously melted in the beggar's broken bowl.
However, what surprised Lu Ping was that this time, the Crystal Palace had actually participated in the game of the five holy lands suppressing the Tianxuan Sect.
However, this time, the Crystal Palace was actually on the side of the Tianxuan Sect and publicly opposed the five holy lands. Previously, when the five holy lands' messengers had ambushed Xiahou Wushang and Xiao She, the three third-generation disciples who had come with the Crystal Palace's messengers were the ones who had helped.
Lu Ping already knew that this time, the Crystal Palace's messenger to the Tianxuan Sect was Yuan Guang Laozu, who had once been to the North Sea. Moreover, one of the three Crystal Palace disciples who had accompanied him was an old acquaintance of his, Zhang Shijie, who had once been defeated by his sword.
After Yunjian had woken up, he had told Lu Ping about the appearance of the Crystal Palace's cultivators. When he heard that Zhang Shijie's cultivation had already reached the peak of the Core Forging Realm and that he had injured Fan Yuqing during a sneak attack, Lu Ping was greatly surprised. He secretly sighed that he was not the only one who could improve his cultivation in just a few decades. After Zhang Shijie had been defeated by his sword in the North Sea, he had obviously had his own opportunities.
Both sides did not make this secret fight public. This time, the Tianxuan Sect had lost two direct disciples at the peak of the Core Forging Realm and three were seriously injured, including two direct disciples at the Dharma Phase. On the side of the five holy lands, Fan Yuqing had also died, and Zhu Jiuluan Tower's Zhu Jiuluan had also been injured by a direct disciple at the Dharma Phase from the Crystal Palace.
In any case, this was only a contest between the two sides' third generation disciples. After Qing Li Laozu realized that he had made a mistake, he ran to help, but he did not attack the five holy lands' emissaries. Instead, he allowed the five of them to come to the Tianxuan Ancient City.
This time, the Spiritual Item Trade Fair of the various sects became grand. Not only did the six great sects send emissaries to participate, but there were also many cultivators who released news that they wanted to exchange some rare treasures in the cultivation world for high-grade spiritual items. Among them, the most eye-catching was the appearance of the Purple Crystal Royal Jelly, which had disappeared from the cultivation world for thousands of years. The owner of the jelly claimed that he wanted to use it to exchange for the Heaven-level spiritual item, the Thunder Punishment Water.
The Calamity of Mara was approaching day by day. Raising one's cultivation and increasing one's strength had become the main theme of the cultivation world. However, the main force of the cultivation world to resist the Calamity of Mara was not the Dharma Adepts, but the even larger number of Core Forging Stage Adepts.
Many Core Forging Realm cultivators were often stuck at a bottleneck due to the scarcity of spiritual items. Therefore, following the Pure Yang Spell Conference of Seven Fans Laozu, the Tianxuan Sect's Spiritual Item Trade Fair came into being.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
