Invincible Starts From Dao Fruit-Chapter 630 - 475: Meng Qing’s Return and Shock!
East Sea, Sumeru Island.
The East River Palace Master left Dongqi Palace, exited the Eastern Continent, entered the East Sea, and when he arrived at this place, it was already deserted.
One of the ’Xuanyang Two Immortals’ was in the starry sky, the other had obtained the ’Spider Heart Grass’ and vanished without a trace.
He searched in vain.
Finding nothing, the East River Palace Master had to return to the ’Thousand Treasure River’ to slowly inquire about the whereabouts of the ’Xuanyang Two Immortals’.
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Time flowed on.
Approximately seven or eight years later.
Rip!
Heaven and earth tore open, and out walked a Daoist. The Daoist waved his sleeve— 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Gururu!
Hundreds of Upper Immortals rolled out from within.
"I am Qizhenzi, remember my name well, if you become a True Immortal in the future, remember to bring me a few hundred pounds of source jade, to repay today’s life-saving grace from me."
Chen Jichuan looked at the scene of hundreds of tormented Peak Immortals and, leaving his words, leaped away.
Only then did the Immortals react: "Thank you, senior, for saving our lives!"
Most of the Immortals expressed their heartfelt gratitude.
Some had been enslaved by the Mountain Climber, others bewitched by the Zheyou Immortal, each had been powerless, suffering endless humiliation. Today, being liberated at once, even though Qizhenzi’s words seemed transactional, True Immortal is not easily attained, though they were all Peak Immortals, none dared claim they could reach it. The notion of paying back after achieving True Immortal was mostly in jest.
"Senior’s grace is immense."
"If one day I luckily prove the Dao, I will repay it with all my might!"
Meng Qing, among the crowd, bowed solemnly in the direction where Qizhenzi had left. This senior had not only freed them from the Mountain Climber and the Zheyou Immortal but also released them from the Mountain Climber’s enslavement, broke the bewitchment, granting new life to each one.
Anyone with a conscience would surely remember this kindness.
"But I’m only Fourth-order and severely wounded in the ’Changshan Tower’, injuries unhealed to this day, I’m afraid True Immortal is beyond reach, unable to help Senior Qizhenzi."
Meng Qing sighed.
More than two thousand years ago.
He resigned from his position as the head of the Daoist True Inheriting Hall of the One Origin Dao Sect, leaving behind Golden Wind Mountain and Sea to venture around, striving to prove the Dao.
First the Eastern Continent.
Then the East Sea.
Then from the East Sea to the South Sea.
Meng Qing harbored the ambition that he would not return to the mountain gate without proving True Immortal.
Unfortunately, upon reaching the South Sea, hope of proving the Dao was not found, instead, due to several clashes with demons, he caught the eye of the Zheyou Immortal, who was planning to attack the ’Changshan Tower’.
Struck in secret, he was bewitched.
In the blink of an eye, it had been a thousand years.
"Alas!"
Looking at himself, seeing that shameful pink robe, recalling the entangled days with the Zheyou Immortal these thousand years, he couldn’t help but smile bitterly: "Memories too painful to recall!"
He laughed at himself, then changed the pink robe to a Daoist robe, clasped hands with the surrounding comrades in hardship: "Meng departs first!"
As his words faded, he rode a cloud, identified the direction, and headed to the Eastern Continent.
Ventured through the East Sea and the South Sea, sunk for nearly a thousand years.
Meng Qing, having encountered calamity and luckily escaped, now utterly exhausted, wished only to return to the mountain gate, to the East River Palace to rest well.
"Senior Brother fell at the ’Dayan Victory Conference’, I wonder if he is okay."
"Junior Zhou won the championship at the ’Dayan Victory Conference’, I also wonder how his Daoist cultivation is now."
"And Junior Sister Xuee Gu, when she left to establish a Daoist School, I wonder if she succeeded and if she has secured her place as chief."
During his early ventures in the East Sea, Meng Qing also paid attention to the ’Dayan Victory Conference’, aware of Shen Mo and Zhou Yan’s performances there.
But later, leaving the East Sea for the South Sea, he scarcely knew about matters of the Eastern Continent or the Dao Sect.
Later, being enchanted by the Zheyou Immortal, he spent years outside the ’Changshan Tower’ doing Dual Cultivation to enhance Daoist cultivation and combat power, completely unaware of the happenings in Shenzhou.
Now returning, his heart was heavy with thoughts.
On the way back.
Nearer home, cowardice rises.
Meng Qing missed his sect but, recalling his experiences over more than two thousand years, especially the last thousand years, felt a moment of sorrow.
A mix of emotions.
The road, though long, has an end. Unknowingly, Golden Wind Mountain and Sea appeared ahead.
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"Return!"
"Return!"
Meng Qing shook his head, stepped into the mountain gate.
Inside the gate.
Instead of hurrying back to the East River Palace, Meng Qing casually summoned a Daoist Disciples flying with a sword, asking, "I’ve been away from the mountain gate for a long time, in the past two thousand years, have there been any noteworthy events in the sect?"
"Noteworthy events?"
"There are plenty!"
This Daoist disciple, though only at Divinity Transformation, seeing the Immortal Light hidden in this visitor, recognized him as an Upper Immortal without a doubt, immediately became animated, vividly narrating, "The greatest event must be the original Daoist Chief of Dongqi Palace, proving True Immortal at three thousand three hundred and twenty years old!"
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"Daoist Chief!"
"Dongqi Palace Master!"
"Proving True Immortal at three thousand three hundred and twenty years old?!"
Meng Qing was momentarily stunned.
Stopping this Daoist disciple to ask about changes in the Dao Sect was merely a casual chat to ease the emotions about to overflow upon returning to the East River Palace.
As for any changes in the Dao Sect.
In a mere two thousand years, he had truly been out of touch for barely a thousand years, what major changes could there be?
But as soon as this disciple spoke, it left Meng Qing dazed, almost doubting whether he had been away from the mountain gate for two thousand years or twenty thousand years.
The Daoist disciple, seeing the shock of this Upper Immortal, became even more eager, vividly narrating, "Indeed! This Dongqi Palace Master is extraordinary, said to have emerged as a Mighty Lifter, once on the Immortal Path, rarely leaving the mountain gate, yet his Daoist cultivation soared. After entering the sect not long, he ascended to Upper Immortal, then consecutively became a True Inheritor, Daoist Chief. Oh right, in the meantime, he also went to the ’Dayan Victory Conference’, casually took first place. Then he secluded himself, read some books, and unexpectedly proved the Dao ten years ago. At that time, True Immortal ancestors from mountain and sea returned together to celebrate, the sky rained sweet dew, and golden lotuses burst from the earth—that kind of scene witnessed once in a lifetime, truly worth it!"
