Refining the Mountains and Rivers

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“Hahaha!” White Ape laughed out loud. He held the stone stick in one hand and grabbed his waist with the other. “Throughout all my adventures in the world, I have never once tasted defeat. So what if you are the incarnation of the world’s will? If I want you to kneel, you still have to kneel…”

The laughter suddenly stopped. Qin Yu, who was standing on White Ape’s shoulder, had a dignified expression. He looked up at the skies. There was nothing there, but the sudden pressure that covered his body – so thick that it almost solidified into essence – was coming from there.

White Ape almost lifted his hand and slapped himself. His mouth was just far too smelly. He spoke of the devil and now the devil had come!

What should he do now?

If he was in his peak state, White Ape wouldn’t care. At the worst he would simply shatter space and leave this world.

But these years of being sick and wounded had shaken his foundation; it would take him at least several dozen years to fully heal himself. If he were to fight with the world’s will now…if it wanted him to kneel, he would have to kneel!

Qin Yu was silent for a moment. He suddenly said, “The essence of the sky reaching jade pendant has been destroyed. All that is left behind is the power for a single strike. At some point, I will thoroughly destroy that space and allow the Great Dao of the heaven and earth to return to its rightful circulation.”

The suppression that came from the skies lessened a little but it didn’t disperse. Qin Yu thought for a moment and looked at White Ape below him. “The hidden dangers in White Ape’s body have been resolved. Once he has healed from his injuries, he will leave this world. Before that happens, I promise that he won’t interfere in the balance of this world.”

Shua –

The pressure vanished, as if it had never appeared.

Qin Yu let out a sigh of relief.

White Ape wiped a cold sweat from his forehead. “Brother Qin, you really have a way with words. If it were me, I think I would just have to endure another battle.”

Qin Yu said, “Brother White, we can’t fight it.” He added in his heart, “At least not now.”

He looked forward and said, “Brother White, you should have heard the promise I just made. You cannot break this promise, otherwise if the world’s will were to arrive again, it won’t give up so easily next time.”

White Ape nodded repeatedly. “Brother Qin, rest assured. I know how serious the situation is and I won’t provoke any troubles.”

Qin Yu smiled. “That’s good then.”

With a thought, the unconscious chicken overlord appeared. In the past he was at a loss for how to deal with its heart demon, so he could only borrow the Icesoul Jade Bed to help it wake up. But to the current Qin Yu, this small heart demon wasn’t worth mentioning at all.

He placed a finger between the chicken overlord’s eyes. There was a light ‘pa’ sound in the air, followed by a scream filled with hatred, unwillingness, and resentment.

Qin Yu coldly sneered. He lifted his hand and grasped out. The scream vanished, thoroughly erased.

White Ape’s eyes were full of envy. If he was only 90% sure before, now he was absolutely positive.

Qin Yu must have obtained the brand mark. Only its legendary ability could so neatly and directly extinguish a heart demon with the turn of a hand.

The erect ‘rod’ finally began to wilt. Looking at its previously magnificent state reduced to less than a tenth of what it used to be, the losses could be imagined. It would be a long time from now until it regained the ability to cause trouble again.

The chicken overlord drowsily woke up. It was stunned when it first saw Qin Yu. It raised its wings and vigorously rubbed its eyes. It cried out loud, its voice heartbroken and filled with righteous indignation.

“Qin Yu, Qin Yu, you finally saved me! Wahh! Let me tell you something, I was just wallowing in a beautiful dream about cultivation, one that anyone would become addicted to. But while I was trapped within and couldn’t free myself, an old white-haired ape appeared. It was simply a demon. In my dream it brutally tortured me. If I was able to record the sufferings I endured, you would see that I am nothing but a mass of cuts and bruises!

“That bastard white-haired ape. I definitely won’t let things go like this. Qin Yu, you will help me right? You must help me! I have a premonition that this isn’t a person that only exists in my dream and I will meet him sooner or later. At that time, I will teach that old ape what a pain worse than death means, what taking revenge means!”

As the chicken overlord wildly howled and screeched, its aggrieved face was now completely distorted. When combined with the tears that were dripping from its eyes, one could only think of a single word to describe it – freak!

Qin Yu was silent. He looked at the chicken overlord with pity and then the pale White Ape behind it whose eyes were nearly burning with flames. There was no need to mention anything after that.

With a light cough, he interrupted the still complaining chicken overlord. “First, look behind yourself.”

After being unhappily interrupted, the chicken overlord thought that Qin Yu was still the same old person who never understood others. It frowned and turned its head…

Ka –

One could almost hear the crunching of teeth from the chicken overlord closing its mouth too fast.

White Ape’s cheeks twitched and his teeth crackled. “Old white-haired ape…hahaha…haha…are you talking about me?”

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The chicken overlord howled in despair and grabbed onto Qin Yu’s thigh with its wings. But in the end, it was carried away by a smiling White Ape.

That’s right, he was smiling. Though his face was indifferent, the corners of his lips were raised up. It was something that was a smile and wasn’t a smile, an expression full of mystery.

Facing this mysterious smile, Qin Yu felt a chill surge through his heart. As he watched White Ape’s back fade into the distance, he silently mourned for the chicken overlord.

However, the reason that White Ape gave him was logical and appropriate. He said that since Qin Yu had saved his life, then as an old ape who knew what gratitude was, he had to repay this favor!

If a useless and good-for-nothing descendant like this chicken overlord was allowed to go out as he was, it would be far too embarrassing. He would help Qin Yu train it properly and then send it back to Qin Yu’s side.

Thinking about it, Qin Yu didn’t have any reason to refuse, so he tacitly agreed.

He turned around and looked at the last light fading over Starfall Archipelago. Qin Yu’s eyes flashed and he said, “It’s time to leave.”

Shua –

His figure flickered and he howled away.

As for Dorelis, Senior Lin, and Yun Die, Qin Yu didn’t worry about them at all. With Dorelis accompanying them, it would be easy for them to find him.

What Qin Yu needed to do was to stop for a moment after he left and wait for them to catch up.

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Starfall Archipelago had persevered.

The alliance had persevered.

Everyone had survived!

A jubilant attitude spread throughout the numerous alliance cultivators. The alliance cultivators had fresh smiles as they hugged each other.

But after the joy, the high level alliance figures began to feel nervous – it seemed that the situation had really overdone things this time.

Regardless of the outcome, that thing in the sea had gone crazy, almost dragging down Senior White Ape to perish with it. This was an indisputable fact.

Senior White Ape’s appetite had always been good, and they feared that it would even be better this time! As the numerous high level figures thought about how the bulk of their saved up assets was about to be ripped away from them, they found it difficult to breathe.

How sad, this wasn’t the result they wanted…

Bah!

But this was the result! If Senior White Ape hadn’t killed off the Sea God then they would have been truly pitiful. Still, there were some people who wondered why that old White Ape fellow didn’t disappear along with the Sea God. That would have been the most perfect result!

But this thought was only for daydreaming. No one dared to express it in the least. Did any of them want to be killed off by White Ape?

Daogasi said, “This time, Senior White Ape has rescued the entire alliance. We shall agree to any request he asks for. I believe no one will argue this.

“Now, let us return to another issue. According to the message sent by the Elders within the mystic realm, the Western Tomb Qin Family descendant Qin Yu managed to create a resonance with the sky reaching jade. This is the only harvest that the alliance has had in countless attempts over the last 100,000 years.

“Compared to the price that the alliance will soon pay, this talent is even more important…so, find Qin Yu and bring him back to the alliance. No matter what he wants, no matter what request he has, as long as it is within a reasonable scope then agree to it and invite him to become a part of the alliance.”

President Daogasi looked over at the crowd. “Everyone, the future might be right in front of us right now…to prosper or to decline!”

The entire alliance started to move. The mystic realm entrance was opened and all cultivators who entered were found and brought out. But, this didn’t include Qin Yu.

The unwilling Beast Trainer Alliance dispatched a massive number of cultivators and flipped the entire mystic realm upside down. But in the end, they found nothing.

They didn’t see him if he was alive, and he had no corpse if he was dead!

As if Qin Yu had vanished from this world….