Chapter 1339: Chapter 568: Traveling as a Pair

Up in the sky, at the grand ceremony, Bai Meng prowled around, looking in all directions, and said, "Where’s Brother Ming?"

Pei Shuyan swirled the amber liquor in his Crystal Cup and said, "He went off to be vulgar."

Bai Meng immediately refuted, "That’s sheer nonsense."

Cheng Cheng took a small sip of fine wine and said, "I just saw Qin Ming and your elder sister gazing into each other’s eyes, then vanishing together into the night. I hope it lasts, that they won’t be envied by Heaven—deep feelings rarely have long lives."

Bai Meng felt that walking with the two of them, he himself was about to become abnormal too—one had a heart as still as dead water, as if stripped of all worldly desire, while the other was the exact opposite.

And yet those two still felt that they themselves were perfectly normal.

Just like now, Pei Shuyan was still counseling Cheng Cheng, saying, "In this boundless, limitless Yewu World, the Yujing Territory is but a drop in the Vast ocean, and you are but a speck of dust on that drop. What are those joys and sorrows, those partings and reunions, really worth? You must be greatly free and greatly open, completely let go. You and I came for this one trip through the human world—there is nothing that cannot be released. Past glory and shame are but dust upon dust, not worth a mention."

Bai Meng spoke up, "Mr. Pei, I’m impressed; I keep feeling like you’ve attained great enlightenment."

Cheng Cheng sighed and said, "Since ancient times, true feelings have been like sand at the fingertips, light between the cracks—can’t grasp it, can’t keep it."

"Only the ruthless one who draws his blade is naturally Divine!" Bai Meng felt that if he kept going along with their words, his own Spirit was going to have problems.

...

Above the Nine Heavens, under the night, a five-colored stream of light flashed in front of Qin Ming, and a familiar voice came: "Who disturbed my slumber and forcibly woke me up?"

The special weapon fragment had arrived, and it seemed to have "just-woke-up temper," extremely impatient.

Qin Ming tilted his head and looked at it. It actually was this "trashy weapon," an old acquaintance. Last time he had obtained this Treasure Fragment, and it had spewed trash talk, saying Qin Ming’s level wasn’t high enough, that his main role was to provide it with emotional value, to awaken the one it used to be.

Thus, now that man and weapon met again, both looked at each other in silence, the sight of each other mutually unpleasant.

"We meet again," Qin Ming forced himself to stay calm; after all, he was still counting on it to do some work.

"Mm." The Five-colored Treasure Fragment answered with reserved composure.

Then it was dumbfounded. Qin Ming directly stuffed it into a pitch-black Earth Realm where it couldn’t see anything at all, as if it had been locked into a Heavenly Immortal Cage.

It tried to break out, but couldn’t shake it in the slightest.

It was stunned right there, its Spiritual Field almost going numb. So this was that monster at Qin Ming’s side that it had vaguely sensed back in Madman Abyss but had never been able to detect?

Qin Ming felt that Old Bu was only good for this one thing—keeping up the mystery, imprisoning Supreme Treasures, and knocking them around without leaving a trace.

Since he now had a special weapon in hand, there was no need to borrow the power of the Jade Mirror. Qin Ming reconsidered, looked across, and said, "How about... you head back?"

Tang Yushang was instantly displeased. Was he treating her and the Jade Mirror as backup options, ready to kick away the bridge after crossing the river?

Qin Ming said, "The road ahead is full of dangers and obstacles. I truly can’t bear to have you go through fire and water with me. Therefore, I’ve decided to enter the peril alone and shoulder it myself."

Tang Yushang just wanted to roll her eyes at him and said, "Weren’t you saying you were going to make a big deal in the Otherworld? Earlier you bent over backwards to invite me. Now you suddenly start considering my feelings."

Listening to Qin Ming’s trash talk, she felt she’d been used.

So Tang Yushang slanted him a glance, and insisted on going anyway.

Qin Ming explained, "I’m just afraid of accidents. If you get hurt, I’m worried the Immortal Sister will settle accounts with me later."

Tang Yushang glared at him and said, "Shut up, that’s my Grandma!"

Qin Ming compromised and said, "All right then, we go together!"

Silently, they sank into the Night Fog Sea, descending from Above the Nine Heavens toward the ground.

Even with Grandmaster Level strength and Nascent Soul Stage Taoist cultivation, in this great era, they still couldn’t fly through the sky with the Body alone, but they could ride the Wind Control for short periods.

On the ground there were many towering mountains, reaching into the clouds. The peaks were like isolated islands protruding from the Night Fog Sea. The two of them stepped from island to island, borrowing force again and again, as if flying through the sky.

Qin Ming was surprised and said, "Huh, didn’t expect it; we’re actually not far from Black and White Mountain now. I’ve been away for a while; I want to go back and take a look."

He didn’t linger long, only pausing briefly at Chixia City and Shuangshu Village to learn of current events, and overall nothing unusual had happened.

It was just that in recent days, quite a few people had been snooping around Chixia City, trying to find out whether Qin Ming had made it back alive from the Flying Land.

Not everyone was concerned about him. For example, the Cui Family, Purification House, Blood Immortal, and the like were all hoping he’d stay in the Outer Domain forever and disappear for good.

Qin Ming didn’t say much. He only took out a few portions of Big Medicine and handed them to the volunteers Talking Sparrow and Thunder King Bird.

"Eat this and you’ll have babies?" The Red Squirrel was shocked. Just now it had been drooling at the sight of those glowing, bright-red fruits. Now it respectfully backed away in awe. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

The talking sparrow patted its chest and said, "Mountain Master, rest easy. We do things subtly, like moisturising things in silence, and when it’s all over there won’t be any traces. We’ll very naturally send them into the Earth Realm of the relevant factions, and make sure they end up in the hands of their Direct Lineage."

The Big Medicine Qin Ming took out all had issues, but looked absolutely top-grade. If he intentionally sent them out, they would, with high probability, fall into the hands of a clan’s hope for the future.

The talking sparrow guaranteed it would arrange suitable scenes in the corresponding Earth Realm—of Divine Medicine being discovered and fought over. It said, "Since the big organizations spying include the Cui Family and Purification House and the rest, we must make sure Double Dragon Cui Chongxiao and Cui Chonghe of the Cui Family get hit and become ’Male Saint Mothers,’ and make the core high-level of Purification House and Blood Immortal have children in their old age!"

In the distance, Tang Yushang stood disheveled in the night wind. What had she just heard?

What kind of Magic Potion did Qin Ming have in his hands? Tang Yushang became wary of him. If they traveled together, she wouldn’t even drink water he offered.

This was only a small interlude. Qin Ming joined up with Tang Yushang, who had been waiting in the distance, and they quickly departed.

Outside Jinrui City, the Ancient Mist Gate was unfathomably deep, shrouded in dense fog.

Qin Ming returned to his old haunt, planning to go to the Mysterious Realm to make a big deal.

This was one of the first two Ancient Mist Gates to open in Ye State, and in the end he chose this place mainly because he was familiar with it and had once made a huge haul in that stretch of land.

He knew those mountains and rivers were full of spiritual grace and extremely rich.

As for the other Ancient Mist Gate, it led directly into a forbidden zone. There had once been Three Treasures of Essence, Qi, and Spirit medicine fields there, at a terrifyingly high level, enough to make Earth Immortals go all-out in bloody battles.

Unfortunately, that place had turned into a meat grinder; in the end even the ground was paved with bloody mud.

Qin Ming wanted to do big business, so of course he had to choose wherever had the most people. The first ancient gate that connected straight to a forbidden zone was crossed off right away.

As for the various gates to distant lands that the Night State Ancestor Master had opened, they were all relatively close, mostly within the Yujing Territory’s sphere of control, or in surrounding regions.

Qin Ming suspected that the two Ancient Mist Gates connected to territories where other Supreme Systems resided. If so, they were perfect for doing business you didn’t have to take responsibility for.

Tang Yushang was a bit wary and said, "We’re leaving the territory Yujing controls?"

Qin Ming tried again, sincerely, to persuade her to stop here. "Yeah, very far. Alone in a foreign land, we’ll be short on backup. If we run into powerful enemies, things might get extremely dangerous."

Tang Yushang’s Dai Mei brows arched slightly as she lifted her snow-white chin. "Right now I’ve got the Jade Mirror on me. What’s there to fear?"

In truth, she felt she could already play Qin Ming in the palm of her hand. No matter how Divine the Five-colored Treasure Fragment was, it couldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as her family’s Ancestral Artifact.

Jade Mirror, Yujing—the pronunciations were similar; obviously its background was shockingly great.

However, every time she had proudly raised her chin and talked big before, she’d ended up eating dirt. So today she was slightly more low-key and hadn’t planned on picking a fight.

Seeing that she was determined to go, Qin Ming didn’t try to stop her again and asked, "Is the Immortal Blood Curse Mark on you still there?"

"You’re worried it’ll cause trouble?" Tang Yushang frowned. That kind of mark was entangled with the Origin of her Spirit. She’d cut off some of it, but remnants still remained and needed time to dissolve.

Qin Ming nodded. "Details decide success or failure. The Mysterious Realm we’re heading to might be in the deeper reaches of the Yewu World, where even Dream Insects exist!"

He had already learned that deep in the Yewu World, some Supreme Camps had once fed Blood Meal to a colossal entity, trying to conduct Longevity experiments—utterly terrifying stuff.

He’d once killed a Holy Traveler. The Supreme Martial hall behind that system had also been secretly taking part in these experiments and even knew about the golden mark inside the Immortal Blood Calamity.

Qin Ming said, "I’ll help you dissolve it."

He had mastered the Saint Lineage’s devouring trait and had first used it to break down his own Immortal Blood Curse Mark.

The two of them went to a place where no one was around and sat quietly in a dense forest.

A moment later, Tang Yushang, who had just regained her proud mindset, once again became a lot more subdued, as the faint golden marks on her lustrous white skin were forcibly peeled away by Qin Ming’s hand.

The marks coiled in her Spiritual Field shattered quickly and were yanked out.

Only when her body heated up and the Immortal Blood Curse Mark was fully wiped out did she come back to herself and say, "That’s enough."

Qin Ming withdrew his hand. His burning right hand seemed to have a black-hole vortex twining around it, where faint golden fragments were torn apart into dust and scattered with the wind.

He muttered to himself, "What a tyrannical method."

Tang Yushang said, "There’s a limit to self-obsession, you know!"

Qin Ming said, "You don’t understand its true origin. I only managed to get real results with it recently, and it originally belonged to some unfathomable old monster’s life’s work—his Supreme Ultimate Skill."

When they stood before the Ancient Mist Gate again, Qin Ming had Tang Yushang put on a special suit of Liquid Armor.

They hadn’t even crossed realms yet and were already on full Defense, which immediately made Tang Yushang’s expression turn solemn. She asked, "Is it really that dangerous?"

Qin Ming nodded. "Just in case."

He still clearly remembered the terrifying experience of being tracked by that Old Worm, as well as that White Tiger Female Grandmaster. Her cultivation was definitely a problem—conservatively, she was at least a Great Grandmaster.

The Double Worms were mysterious and unpredictable, leaving him with psychological shadows.

He’d either fought in bloody battles or played the game of feints and smiles, escaping by the skin of his teeth. Thinking back on it even now, he still felt some lingering fear.

Qin Ming extended a wisp of his Spirit to cross realms first and found everything normal.

"Let’s go!"

In the end, the two of them left the Yujing Territory and headed for the deeper reaches of the Yewu World.

Their travel speed was extremely fast, like two streaks of drifting light, vanishing at the edge of this land. Only after a long time, when they had changed into the local natives’ clothing, did they finally breathe a sigh of relief.

During this process, Qin Ming had tuned himself to peak state, entering a moment of Spiritual Clarity, and didn’t sense anything wrong. Only then was he truly at ease.

Gazing over this land, many vivid faces surfaced in his heart—for example, Sanhua, Li Hua, and the others he’d met when disguised as Yuan Dingming.

And also that degenerated Old Yang who had fallen from the Seventh Realm, whom he had met when he went adventuring after the Divine Grain black wheat ripened. The two of them were the only living beings who’d escaped from underground.

Of course, what left the deepest impression on him was still the Kaiyuan Grand Ceremony, where he’d reaped enormous gains.

"Since nothing went wrong when we came in, then it’s fine."

Qin Ming’s eyes were bright, full of anticipation. "If our luck’s good enough, forget Grandmaster nourishment—even resources that lead straight to the Sixth Realm might be something we can fully gather."

Tang Yushang didn’t believe him at all. Her beautiful eyes slanted over at him. "Keep bragging."

Qin Ming waved his hand and strode ahead. "Don’t doubt me. Stick with your bro and you’ll be eating nine meals a day."

It’s the weekend again, still no break, but today’s Chapter will be a bit shorter.