On Sky Cloud Road in the Central Region, a slender cloud boat flew on like lightning within the pure white cloud, which caused many people below to sigh.
In recent years, the development of Sky Cloud Road was really fast.
The so-called Sky Cloud Road, as the name implied, was a road built on the cloud. It’s surrounding spiritual energy was constrained by an array and flowed in a specific direction. A cultivator could get twice the result with half the effort when flying through this by managing the spiritual energy. Based on this principle, the high speed cloud boat was designed to travel back and forth along the Sky Cloud Road. The speed of which was as fast as that of a Peak Deity Stage cultivator, and it was safe and comfortable. It was much easier than a cultivator flying alone in the sky. With a reasonable price, both cultivators and ordinary people could board on the high-speed cloud boat and go to distant foreign land.
The Sky Cloud Road was the first commercial road built on the basis of Shengjing Sect’s Nine Regions strategy. The Sky Cloud Road radiated to all directions with the Shengjing Sect at its center, which greatly stimulated the commercial prosperity of the Central Region. Later all the major sects in Nine Regions realized the benefits of the Sky Cloud Road and also built it one after another. However, the construction cost of the Sky Cloud Road was too high. Except for the rich sects like Shengjing Sect, most sects could not afford it. Therefore, in addition to the several main roads belonging to Shengjing Sect, the level of Sky Cloud Road in regions was uneven, and the coverage area was also very limited.
However, in the past ten years, with the vigorous effort to implement it by the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals, the Sky Cloud Roads had been greatly developed. The total length of the Sky Cloud Road and the number of cloud boats doubled every year. Gradually, it became an important transportation channel in Nine Regions.
At this time, in a spacious cloud boat, two cultivators, a man and a woman, were sitting in a VIP box near the window and chatting quietly. There were only two people in the huge space, but their voices were still very light, and their expressions showed vigilance and alertness.
These two people were Earth Immortals Bai Ze and Xuan Mo.
“Xuan Mo, according to our calculations, which group came after Blue Region eight wastelands?”
“Mount Qi School in the Central Region, then Pingle Sect at the foot of Mount Qi… Are you sure you want to investigate such sects?”
“What else can I do?” Bai Ze asked, “Do you want that Fallen Immortal to fall into the trap by announcing it? Or do you want us to use the power of the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals to help us investigate it?”
“I get it, but if we go on like this…”
“It won’t be long.” Bai Ze paused and then said it again, “It won’t be long. I have a hunch that we will meet the Fallen Immortal soon.”
Just as his voice fell, both of them felt that the cloud boat that they were in slightly stopped, and then, a clear woman’s voice rang out from the box on the ceiling.
“Dear passengers, we have arrived at Mount Qi Station, please take your carry on luggage…”
“Already here? That’s fast.” Xuan Mo could not help but sigh. “Even in our time, there is no such convenient and fast Sky Cloud Road.”
Bai Ze smiled and took out a large bag of luggage and walked out of the box.
“By the way, remember our identity…”
Xuan Mo took a step forward and held Bai Ze’s arm, and said, “I know. We are newlyweds on vacation… You don’t have to remind me again and again. It’s you who should be careful to play your part.”
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The Earth Immortals who disguised themselves as husband and wife soon came to Mount Qi School, the first stop of the trip, along the spacious and bright passage.
As one of the top ten famous mountains in the Central Region, Mount Qi occupied an extremely vast area, and were all counted as the area of Mount Qi. Although Mount Qi School took Mount Qi as its name, it did not occupy all of its area. In the continuous area of Mount Qi, there were tens and hundreds of small and medium sized sects that coexisted in harmony. However, in such a distribution of power, the management of Mount Qi was relatively loose. The scenery at Mount Qi was very beautiful, which counted among the ten most well-known scenic spots in Nine Regions. From time to time there would be loose cultivators who came here to look for scenery and predestined affinity. As long as the interests of the local sects were not violated excessively, people would just let the matter go.
Therefore, on this day, a newly married couple who came down from the cloud boat did not attract any attention at all–because hundreds of tourists disembarked in Mount Qi station to observe the scenery from the same cloud boat.
After leaving the cloud boat, most of the tourists followed their tour group toward Qi Mountain and visited the local scenic spot in turn, while a few cultivators with high cultivation base could wander freely. The scenic spots of Mount Qi had been developed for many years. Except for a few remote places, most areas did not have powerful monsters. There were also obvious signs in dangerous areas to remind tourists to not enter by mistake.
Of course, every year, there would be reckless adventurers. They were mediocre but loved to take risks. They indulged in the dream of immortal cultivation. They rashly entered the dangerous areas of Mount Qi without heeding the warnings and then were trapped in the dangerous spots and helplessly asked for help from the surrounding.
There were tens to hundreds of Immortal Cultivation Sect, from big to small, in Mount Qi, and the distress signal could be easily passed to a certain sect. However, the locals had unwritten rules about this: they would let the disobedient tourists die in the mountains and turn them into fertilizers. There was no need to waste manpower. Only when more people die could they teach enough lessons for the future generations.
And on this day, Mount Qi seemed to usher in a pair of tourists who couldn’t help themselves. A newly married couple with heavy luggage bags on their back walked a short distance on the mountain road in Mount Qi. But then they turned into a dark mountain forest road in a corner. Soon, they were covered by the lush mountains and disappeared without a trace.
Every year, Mount Qi would engulf hundreds of thousands of tourists, where nobody knew whether they were alive or dead, like a man-eater beast. Every year, this vast mountainous area could get fertilizer from cultivators with various cultivation bases, from Qi Gathering, Foundation Establishment, and even Xudan. Thus, this scene was not unusual. However, few people knew that the newlyweds, soon after they entered the dark mountain forest area, showed a far more powerful force than the world imagined. They strode toward the real forbidden area of Mount Qi as if it was just a level ground.
“The first stop is Mount Qi School. Their sect gate is at the main peak. Do you need to get closer?”
Bai Ze pondered for a moment and said, “No. Although it’s just a middle rank sect, our goal is an immortal from the upper realm, so we need to be careful… No, if the other party is an immortal who has restored all of its strength, then even if we are careful, it would still be useless. So it’s better to move closer a bit to test the other party’s reaction.”
“Are you not afraid of beating the grass to scare the snake?”
“Beating the grass to scare the snake is certainly troublesome… No, in the past ten years, the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals has not been idle. Judging from the strength that Wang Lu holds, if it’s just one Fallen Immortal, there should be a certainty in victory. If we can succeed in scaring the snake out, it might be a good thing.”
Xuan Mo exchanged her opinions with Bai Ze, but she couldn’t help but secretly sigh. The changes in Bai Ze in the past ten years were really great. Previously he was still a hot-headed reckless man, but now he seemed to have matured a lot and became a partner who could make people feel quite secure.
“Actually, there’s nothing remarkable about this.” Bai Ze smiled a bit deprecatingly. “I just give myself a negation first whenever I want to say something.”
“… Give yourself a negation first?”
“Yes, I know what a stupid hot-headed reckless man I was. Most of the decisions I make based on my own thinking are wrong, so I only need to reverse it with one negation. This is the so-called double negative is positive.”
“…” Xuan Mo really had nothing to say. Was this supposed to be an enlightenment or self abandonment?
“Okay, it’s closer now. Mount Qi School is in front of you… Do you feel anything?”
Xuan Mo swept away all the thoughts in her heart, sucked the fresh air in the mountains and slightly raised her immortal spirit. She gathered the jade-like golden liquid of immortal spirit at her nose, to instantly strengthen her sense of smell to an unimaginable circumstance.
After a while, Xuan Mo said hesitantly, “… I’m afraid there’s no smell of Fallen Immortal. Everything is normal.”
Bai Ze was about to nod, but then frowned. Then he raised his hand and lit up a light.
The light was not strong, but in Xuan Mo’s eyes, it was extremely dazzling. This light belonged to the explosion of the immortal spirit, which could not be noticed by ordinary cultivators. However, any cultivator who had reached Mahayana Stage and began to transform their magical power into immortal form would be very sensitive to this particular light. This light from Bai Ze was like a roar in the ears of everyone who possessed the immortal spirit.
In the present day Nine Regions, apart from the Earth Immortals, only an extremely few top Supremes, such as Hetu, Tianlun, and others possessed the immortal spirit. Since Mount Qi was located in the Central Region, it was obvious that there was no top level Supreme around. Thus, the burst of immortal spirit by Bai Ze naturally would not be perceived by anyone. Unless the person that he had been looking for a long time was also in Mount Qi.
Bai Ze was planning to accomplish the strategy of beating the grass to scare the snake. Taking advantage when Xuan Mo’s sense of smell was in the peak state, he tried to force the Fallen Immortal out in one breath, even if it was just a tiny flaw.
However, after a cup of tea’s time had passed, and Xuan Mo’s immortal spirit liquid had gradually dissipated, they still hadn’t gotten any result.
Xuan Mo was a bit frustrated and said, “It seems like, there’s no need for us to visit the other spots in Mount Qi?”
The influence area of the immortal spirit burst of Bai Ze just now was measured in hundreds of miles. As long as the Fallen Immortal was within Mount Qi area, it should basically be perceivable.
Bai Ze himself frowned and said, “I myself very much want to admit that in this operation we will return without any result. But, based on the double negative is positive consideration, I ought to persevere this time.”
For Bai Ze’s double negative equals positive principle, Xuan Mo felt both funny and angry at the same time. “Then shouldn’t your current opinion be applied with double negative equals positive principle?”
Bai Ze was stunned, and immediately fell into an infinite loop of logical contradictions.
However, before Xuan Mo had the chance to help him untie the knot, a chill suddenly rose in her heart, which caused her to subconsciously move.
Her body swooped forward and hugged Bai Ze in her arms. Then, her impulse was not to stop but to move further away. Using her magical ability of so close yet worlds apart, she suddenly flashed for thousands of miles away.
However, when she set foot on the ground again, Xuan Mo was frightened to find that she had actually returned to her original position.
The next moment, a soft voice came from behind her.
“Well, didn’t you two come here to specifically look for me? Why are you two in such a hurry to leave?”