The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 301 - 182: Who Wasn’t Reckless in Their Youth

Suddenly, the ground shook slightly, and the Qishou crouching at the edge of the battlefield suddenly raised its head and stepped forward. This Holy Beast, guarding Yunxiao Palace for over a thousand years, had defeated countless powerful enemies for the Immortal Sects and was extremely powerful. The disciples of the Various Immortal Sects cheered in unison, their eyes widening, eager to witness the Mountain Guardian Beast subdue the demon and dispel evil.

As the Qishou entered the center of the field, it abruptly stopped. Tu Jin sized up the giant beast from head to toe, nodded, and said, "Not bad, this shell is indeed quite good." After speaking, his eyes rolled back, and he collapsed on the spot. The crowd, unsure of what trick he was playing, widened their eyes but dared not approach.

Suddenly, a mass of dark light emerged from Tu Jin’s mouth and nose, smoke-like without pause, and with a "whoosh" sound, it burrowed into the wide-open maw of the Qishou. Afterwards, the Holy Beast stood as still as a wooden chicken, not moving at all.

"This?" This scene seemed off, not quite like Lord Qi displaying his Divine Power to vanquish the demon. The disciples from the Four Immortal Sects present also sensed great misfortune, and the clever ones among them were already beating a quiet retreat.

Indeed after two breaths, the Qishou slowly moved its neck, stretched its limbs as if loosening its muscles, and in the pair of huge eyes that opened, a sinister red light flickered!

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Where had Ning Xiaoxian gone? Naturally, she returned to the God Demon Prison.

Upon leaving the secret realm, her connection with the Magic Artifact was instantly restored. The moment she stepped out of the secret realm, she heard a familiar and pleasant voice: "You shameless girl, are you not going to hurry back in?" The voice was tinged with three parts annoyance, three parts urgency, and four parts joy.

Changtian! He had finally awakened.

Her heart was thumping wildly! Ning Xiaoxian wanted to cry at that moment, no amount of Breathing Control Technique could calm her now, even if she practiced it ten thousand times. Biting her lower lip hard, taking advantage of the diversion caused by Tu Jin unleashing his demon powers to draw the attention, she quickly escaped to the forest beside the field, ducked behind a large tree, and casually hung the Demon Eye on a branch before tumbling into the God Demon Prison.

Granny had finally made a victorious escape, fully intact from the "Heavenly Ladder"!

Clutching the Moonlight Cup, she leaped into the deepest layer, and upon looking up, she met a pair of shallow golden eyes brimming with laughter.

It seems Changtian was in a good mood, which allowed her to let go of her worries.

Ning Xiaoxian giggled and said, "Are you fully charged now? Uh, no, have you extracted all the Spiritual Power from the turtle pearl?"

He replied irritably, "I came out of retreat two days ago, and you happened to enter such a strange secret realm." He had worried about her getting into trouble and had exited his retreat early. As expected, she had not stayed put in the Water Mansion.

"Hehe. How are you feeling now?" she quickly changed the subject, "Do you want to also use up the remaining three turtle pearls?"

Changtian gave her a knowing look: "Do you wish for me to go into retreat for some more time?"

"Not at all, not at all!" she defensively protested, "I’m just worried that your Divine Power might be insufficient, and falling back into a deep slumber would be bad."

"If all goes well, after completing this Westward journey, such occurrences should no longer happen." The Turtle Snake’s power was similar to his own, and had it been another Divine Beast’s source power, it wouldn’t have been as easy for Changtian to extract, so obviously, his mood was also quite good. "Qiongqi mentioned that you entered the secret realm to find the Moonlight Cup?"

She hurriedly retrieved the cup and offered it sycophantically: "Hehe, I really got it, look, it’s this one!"

Changtian took the cup, inspected it for a while, and suddenly said, "So it’s this cup."

The Moonlight Cup was that renowned, even he had heard of it?

"I know, back then I was the one who went to fetch its wood." He gently caressed the wooden cup, as if awakening memories, "Do you remember what I told you and Wen Liangyu about the Fusang Divine Wood that hosted the Golden Crow?"

"I remember." It seems this cup has quite the story, doesn’t it?

"During my youthful travels in Nan Zhanbu Continent, I arrived under this famous Divine Wood, also encountering those ten noisy Golden Crows... Later, on a whim, I climbed to the top of the Fusang Divine Wood and chopped off the tree core. The Heavenly Divine Wood stopped growing upwards from that point on."

"This Moonlight Cup was made from the chopped tree core. I had a friend who liked to study ingenious creations, and upon learning of this, came to me for the wood. I gave it to him, never expecting that he would make this thing out of it."

He looked at the cup in his hands, his eyes filled with nostalgia. Indeed, the unpredictable ways of the world, who would have thought that the casually chopped and gifted wood would catch the eyes of the then-young Changtian? Who knew that after tens of thousands of years, it would come back to him in this form and turn out to be exactly what he needed!