Qinghe Immortal Clan.

Seeing the familiar cold face in front of him, Song Qingming never thought that he would meet the talented cultivator Li Xianyun whom he hadn't seen for many years here.

"I haven't seen you for many years. I didn't expect to meet you here, Fellow Daoist Li. I am honored to meet you!"

"Fellow Daoist Song, I never thought that it would be you who wanted to go out monster hunting with us. What a coincidence!" After Li Xianyun slightly bowed in return, a hint of surprise appeared on his face.

The foundation-building cultivator from Linggui Island who was about to introduce the two parties to each other saw that they actually knew each other, and immediately explained with some embarrassment:

"Senior Song, these two are the seniors who are going to hunt monsters in the outer sea next month. Since you all know each other, I won't bother you any more. You can chat slowly."

A woman in white standing next to Li Xianyun waved her hand and said, "You go down first. As long as we have reached an agreement, you will get the spiritual stones you deserve."

The monks on Linggui Island help to introduce other monks to form teams to go out and hunt monsters, and naturally they will charge some commission.

Hearing the words of the woman in white, the Linggui Island foundation-building cultivator nodded and said, "Thank you for your care, senior. I will take my leave now!"

After the visitor left, Li Xianyun asked Song Qingming curiously, "Fellow Daoist Song, shouldn't you be in Weiguo? Why did you come to the East China Sea and want to hunt monsters in the open sea?"

"What Fellow Daoist Li said is correct, but I did have some..."

Facing Li Xianyun's questioning, Song Qingming smiled and explained to the other party why he came to the East China Sea to travel in the immortal cultivation world and wanted to go to the open sea to gain some experience.

"So that's how it is. I was wondering why Brother Song suddenly came to Linggui Island!" Upon hearing that Song Qingming came to the East China Sea to travel around the immortal cultivation world, Li Xianyun's face showed a hint of understanding.

In the world of immortal cultivation, no matter whether they are from a sect or a solo cultivator, most cultivators, after establishing their foundation or forming their elixir, will choose to travel to other places to broaden their horizons. It is not surprising that Song Qingming would choose to travel to the East China Sea immortal cultivation world at this time.

However, Song Qingming was also very surprised to run into Li Xianyun here.

Although Li Xianyun was a cultivator from Wei State, he left Wei State soon after he reached Dan Formation. Apart from the time when he helped Xiaoyao Sect deal with the monster riot that occurred once every hundred years, Song Qingming had not heard of any time when he had returned to Wei State.

However, the last time the "Tower of Babel" was opened, Li Xianyun also showed up once. When Song Qingming saw her at that time, he thought that he had been traveling around the Floating Cloud Mountains. He didn't expect that he had come to the distant East China Sea immortal cultivation world.

After not seeing each other for decades, the cultivation of both of them has changed. Song Qingming broke through from the third level of Jindan to become a mid-stage Jindan cultivator, and Li Xianyun's cultivation also advanced from the eighth level of Jindan to the ninth level of Jindan, and he is only one step away from breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.

After Li Xianyun chatted with Song Qingming for a few words, he introduced the woman in white next to him: "Fellow Daoist Song, this is my good friend Long Yue, who will also go with us to hunt monsters."

"I am Song Qingming from the Xiaoyao Sect of Weiguo. Fairy Longyue greets you!"

Song Qingming had actually seen the woman traveling with Li Xianyun once outside the "Tower of Babel" that year. Although the woman was wearing a veil at the time, Song Qingming could still roughly guess that it was the same person based on her figure and dress.

Although Long Yue's cultivation is slightly lower than Li Xianyun's, he has also cultivated to the eighth level of the Golden Core. He is also a late-stage Golden Core cultivator with unfathomable strength.

Long Yue smiled and stood up to return the greeting, then narrowed his eyes and smiled and asked:
"Fellow Daoist Song, this time we are going to the outer sea to hunt monsters. The Tianyuan Sea where we are going is where the Yuanying Monster King will appear. It will be relatively dangerous. Fellow Daoist, have you considered going with us?"

"I came here to gain some experience in the open sea. I will definitely not retreat because of a little danger. If you two fellow Taoists don't mind, I am willing to go with you." Song Qingming replied to Li Xianyun and the others with a firm face.

Song Qingming had witnessed Li Xianyun's magical powers in the past. As a sword cultivator, he basically had the upper hand against monsters of the same level. The other cultivator, Long Yue, was also an eighth-level Jindan cultivator, and it was obvious that he was very powerful.

With these two familiar late Jindan masters around, it would definitely be much more reliable than going out with other unfamiliar Jindan cultivators. Therefore, Song Qingming did not hesitate too much and immediately expressed his desire to travel with them.

Seeing this, Li Xianyun and Long Yue looked at each other and made up their minds.

"If Fellow Daoist Song is so determined, then we welcome you to join us. We will meet at the port in half a month. I will inform Fellow Daoist Song in advance."

After the three of them agreed, they left each other their contact addresses and chatted in the hall for a while before leaving.

As soon as he returned to the outside of his cave, Song Qingming saw a white note left on the side in front of the magic circle at the entrance. It was obviously left there by someone not long ago.

Song Qingming reached out and picked up the note and glanced at it. Soon he found the two graceful words "Luo Li" at the bottom of the note. He couldn't help but smile slightly on his face.

After opening the restriction and entering the cave, Song Qingming immediately released the "Ice and Fire Dragon" from the spirit beast bag, and then took out a snow-white spirit fruit with a hint of coldness from his body.

This second-level lower-grade "Ice Spirit Fruit" was exactly what Song Qingming had purchased from Feng Ling Pavilion based on the information provided by Luo Li.

According to some methods of cultivating spiritual beasts that Song Qingming had inquired about, taking some special spiritual fruits with corresponding attributes would help spiritual beasts break through their cultivation and advance to a higher level. This "Ice Spiritual Fruit" was a second-level spiritual fruit that was more suitable for the "Ice and Fire Dragon" to break through.

As soon as the Ice and Fire Dragon, which had already climbed onto Song Qingming's shoulder, saw the "Ice Spirit Fruit" in Song Qingming's hand, it immediately came up to the fruit with a look of curiosity, smelled it, and soon showed some joy.

Seeing this, Song Qingming moved his magic power, and a trace of Dan Fire emerged from his body, which quickly removed the layer of white ice on the surface of the "Ice Spirit Fruit", revealing the blue spirit fruit inside.

Just as he placed the spiritual fruit in his hand on the stone table beside him, the "Ice and Fire Dragon" that had been waiting for a long time immediately rushed over and swallowed the spiritual fruit on the table in one gulp.

After successfully swallowing the "Ice Spirit Fruit", a strong icy aura suddenly emanated from the Ice and Fire Dragon's body. Soon, the entire cave became extremely cold due to the influence of the Ice and Fire Dragon.

After a moment, the "Ice and Fire Dragon" that was originally full of energy slowly curled up its body, and fell into a deep sleep on the stone table with its little head raised.

Seeing that the Ice and Fire Dragon had undergone such a big change after swallowing the "Ice Spirit Fruit", Song Qingming felt surprised and a hint of joy slowly appeared on his face.

According to some books and notes on the breeding of spiritual beasts that he had seen before, the "Ice and Fire Dragon" in deep sleep before him had obviously entered the state of bloodline transformation recorded in the classics.

As long as the monster enters this state, it basically means that it is beginning to break through the realm. If nothing unexpected happens, when the "Ice and Fire Dragon" wakes up, it will most likely be able to advance to the initial stage of foundation building and become a second-level monster.

Although it is not 100% certain that a monster can successfully break through a realm at once, Song Qingming seems unusually confident about the advancement of his "Ice and Fire Dragon" this time.

I don’t know if it’s because this “Ice and Fire Dragon” had its blood enlightened by the Fire Phoenix since birth, but since it was hatched, the cultivation speed of the “Ice and Fire Dragon” has always been far beyond Song Qingming’s expectations.

However, in just over a decade, he had already cultivated from the initial stage of Qi Refining to the peak of the late stage of Qi Refining, and was even now beginning to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

If it were any other ordinary monster, even if Song Qingming had more resources to invest, it would not be possible to cultivate so quickly. Obviously there are some other reasons.

This "Ice and Fire Dragon" is still in its juvenile stage and cannot be of much help to Song Qingming. However, after it breaks through to the Foundation Establishment stage, it should be able to be of some use to some extent.

Thinking that his spirit beast was about to break through in cultivation and realm, Song Qingming was very happy.

It usually doesn't take too long for a monster to advance. To prevent someone from accidentally breaking into the cave during this period and affecting the advancement of the "Ice and Fire Dragon", Song Qingming set up a magic circle in the cave and placed his own monster in it, only then did he feel at ease.
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Some people said that 6,000 words were too many and they wanted to end the chapter!

Half a month later, four or five figures were already standing on top of a huge reef not far from the port on the west side of Linggui Island.

After a while, a golden light flew towards this side from the direction of the port and landed on the reef, turning into a round-faced man wearing golden armor.

"Haha! You all are here early. I got up early today, but I didn't expect to be the last one to arrive. I am really ashamed of myself."

Hearing what the golden-armored man said, the team leader Long Yue smiled and said, "Haha! Daoist Luo is indeed not late. It is us who arrived a little earlier. Daoist Luo, please don't misunderstand me."

"Oh! I'm glad you're not late. We finally managed to gather enough people to go to the outer sea. I don't want to delay our monster hunting time. Fairy Long Yue, don't you think so?" The golden-armored man replied indifferently. Long Yue nodded slightly, then took out a high-grade third-grade spiritual boat and said to the people beside him:
"Since everyone is here, let's set off right away. The sooner we go, the sooner we can return!"

After Long Yue finished speaking, he jumped onto the green flying boat under his feet first. Seeing this, the others immediately followed and jumped on, including Song Qingming who had arrived here not long ago.

This time, they went to the open sea to hunt monsters. In addition to Song Qingming, Li Xianyun and Fairy Long Yue, there were three other people traveling together.

They were the big man in golden armor who arrived last, an old man with a long beard, and a handsome scholar in white clothes who always held a folding fan.

The cultivation base of these three people is not much different from that of Song Qingming. The old man with a long beard is also a fourth-level Jindan cultivator like Song Qingming. The scholar in white seems to have not been in the Jindan stage for a long time and has only the third-level Jindan cultivation base.

The one with the highest cultivation level among the few people is the big man in golden armor, who has reached the peak of the sixth level of the Golden Core. In addition, it is obvious that he has practiced body-refining techniques, so his strength is probably not much worse than that of an ordinary cultivator in the late Golden Core stage.

This team of Jindan cultivators together is definitely enough to deal with ordinary Jindan stage demon kings as long as they don't encounter a Yuanying demon king. After joining everyone and setting off, Song Qingming began to look forward to this trip to the open sea to hunt demons.

After the group of six traveled eastward on a flying boat for several days, Song Qingming noticed that the color of the sea water suddenly became darker, and he knew that they had entered the dangerous open sea area.

The so-called outer sea area is actually far away from the Donghuang Xianzhou continent and has entered the Leiyuan Sea territory.

Leiyuan Sea is located in the east of Donghuang Xianzhou. There are also many islands and countless rare and magical objects in its territory. It can be regarded as a very rich large world for cultivating immortals.

However, there are many monsters in the sea, and the islands occupied by human cultivators are only a small part of them. Especially the sea area near Donghuang Xianzhou is almost entirely the territory of monsters.

Deep in this sea, there are not only countless powerful high-level monsters, but also the legendary fifth-level demon saints who are comparable to human beings' gods. Even Nascent Soul cultivators dare not go deep into it at will.

This boundless and extremely dangerous outer sea area, where monsters and beasts are rampant, also blocks the normal communication between the cultivators in Donghuang Xianzhou and the Leiyuan Sea.

There are only two ways for ordinary cultivators to cross the outer sea area controlled by monsters and go to the Leiyuan Sea immortal world. Either they take a large treasure ship built by the Yuanying sects in the East China Sea immortal world and find a safer sea route to go around. If they are lucky, it will take two to three years to reach the Leiyuan Sea immortal world.

However, choosing to take this sea route is not only too time-consuming, it is also extremely dangerous. Only the caravans from large sects that regularly go to Leiyuan Sea to trade spiritual objects will choose to take the risk of taking this route.

There is another safer method, which is to cross the Floating Cloud Mountains to the East Phoenix Country, take the super-large teleportation array there that can cross continents, and teleport directly to the Leiyuanhai cultivation world.

If you take the teleportation array, there will definitely be no major safety issues. However, such super-large teleportation arrays are basically controlled by the top sects in the world of immortal cultivation. The cost of spirit stones they charge for one teleportation is also astonishing. Generally, only cultivators above the Jindan stage can afford it.

After entering the open sea, the flying boat continued to move forward for about four or five days before suddenly entering a sea area with dense islands and reefs.

After seeing the small islands scattered like stars below, and a hint of unusual spiritual energy emerging around them, a look of excitement slowly appeared on Song Qingming's face.

This should be the destination of Li Xianyun and his team’s monster hunting this time, the Tianyuan Sea.

During the past few days on the flying boat, Song Qingming chatted with his companions for a long time and gradually got to know the specific situation of this sea area.

There was originally an ancient sect in the Tianyuan Sea. About tens of thousands of years ago, for unknown reasons, this sect was suddenly attacked by several demon kings, which led to the destruction of the entire sect. The place was also completely occupied by demon beasts.

In that great battle, this powerful human sect fought a bloody battle with the monsters. It was an extremely brutal fight. In the end, even the mountain gate's spiritual veins were directly destroyed by them. The entire island where the sect was located also sank into the sea, leaving only the surrounding small islands.

Since then, there has been almost no trace of human cultivators in the Tianyuan Sea area, but because there are still many small and medium-sized spiritual veins left here, it has attracted many monsters and even monster kings to entrench nearby, making it a favorite monster hunting place for some cultivators.

There are also some cultivators who would venture here in search of some inheritance left by the legendary ancient sect, but most of them return disappointed, and only a very lucky few can find those spiritual objects that are still related to tens of thousands of years ago.

After the six people entered the Tianyuan Sea, the Fairy Longyue who was controlling the flying boat slowly slowed down the speed of the flying boat. Then she waved her hand and threw out a magic flag and stood in front. The entire flying boat, including the people on it, were soon covered with a thin layer of mist, obscuring everyone's figures.

After doing all this, the flying boat slowly moved forward. After half an hour, it finally arrived at a small island with a radius of only about ten to twenty miles on the west side of Tianyuan Sea.

"My fellow Taoists! We are not far from the Silver Tiger Shark's lair. Let's take a rest here first and then go look for the demon king tomorrow."

After hearing Fairy Long Yue's proposal, everyone nodded in agreement and found a place on the island to meditate and rest, preparing for the next battle with the monsters.

The "Silver Tiger Shark" mentioned by Fairy Long Yue is a very powerful demon king in the late Jindan period. It is also the first target of everyone entering the Tianyuan Sea to hunt demon beasts.

The reason why they set their sights on this powerful demon king right from the start was mainly because Fairy Long Yue and Li Xianyun wanted to refine a high-level elixir, and they happened to need the golden elixir in its body. That was why they took the initiative to organize this demon hunting trip.

Before setting off, Li Xianyun and Fairy Long Yue had already explained the matter to Song Qingming and others, and the group basically had no objection to it.

Anyway, everyone came out here to hunt monsters. It didn't matter which monster king the target was, as long as they could get the corresponding spirit stones or monster materials afterwards.

After a night's rest, on the second day, when Fairy Longyue concealed the whereabouts of the flying boat again, Song Qingming and others quickly set out to the sea area where the "Silver Tiger Shark" often appeared, still looking for the trace of this demon king.

However, after searching for more than ten days, apart from killing a few not-so-powerful second-level monsters, there was no trace of the "Silver Tiger Shark". Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but become a little anxious.

So many Jindan monks have come to the outer sea with great difficulty to hunt monsters. They cannot miss the opportunity to hunt other monsters just because of looking for a "Silver Tiger Shark", resulting in returning empty-handed.

Seeing that everyone was starting to have some opinions, Fairy Long Yue sighed helplessly and agreed with everyone's opinions. She decided to go find and hunt other monsters first, and then come back to try to find the whereabouts of the "Silver Tiger Shark".

After changing their minds, Song Qingming and others left the west side of Tianyuan Sea and turned north to look for other monsters.

Ten days later, in the sea in the northern part of Tianyuan Sea.

Song Qingming, the scholar in white and the old man with a long beard, each of them held a formation flag in their hands. Above each flag were several golden lights, which locked the body of a huge monster over three meters tall in the golden light.

Although the demon king was in the sea, he tried several times to escape from the bottom of the sea, but was always caught by the golden light under the water and could not get away from the formation formed by the golden light.

Li Xianyun and the big man in golden armor rushed directly into the formation and attacked together the Jindan Demon King who was trapped in a desperate situation and had difficulty escaping. They did not give the other party any chance to break free from the golden light formation.

After about an incense stick of time, the man in golden armor used a giant hammer magic weapon to smash the Jindan Demon King's head with a powerful blow.

The flying sword in Li Xianyun's hand also quickly penetrated into the demon king's body, directly ending its life, and even its natal golden elixir was taken out.

Seeing the dead body of the Golden Core Demon King floating on the sea below, the golden-armored man put away his magic weapon and laughed loudly at Song Qingming:
"Fellow Daoist Song's Golden Light Demon Binding Formation is indeed very useful. With this formation, we will be able to capture other demon kings easily when we encounter them, and will not let them escape easily."

Song Qingming, who was putting away the "Golden Light Demon Binding Formation" in his hand, heard the praise from the golden-armored man and quickly waved his hand and said:
"The formation I have is only of the lower third grade. It's OK against a Jindan early stage demon king with low cultivation. But if I really encounter a Jindan late stage great demon king, I'm afraid it will be difficult to trap him so easily. Fellow Daoist Luo, please don't overestimate this formation."

The old man with a long beard beside him smiled and shook his head when he heard this, saying: "Alas! Although Brother Song's magic array is only of the third-level low-grade, under Brother Dao's control, it is indeed more useful than the third-level middle-grade magic array when dealing with monsters.

I think even if we face an ordinary big demon king, it won't be difficult to trap him for a while, you are still too modest."

Just as they were talking, a beam of white light flew over and landed beside them. It was Fairy Long Yue who had been driving away the low-level monsters summoned by the Demon King not far away.

"My fellow Taoists, this place is not that safe. I'm afraid there will be other high-level monsters lurking around. Let's quickly deal with the monster corpses and leave here first!"

"Haha! Fairy Dragon is right. We shouldn't stay here for long. If this corpse attracts a tide of beasts, it will be troublesome. Let's leave here quickly." (End of this chapter)