Chapter 736 - 683: Who Is That? (Requesting Yue Tickets)

Chapter 736: Chapter 683: Who Is That? (Requesting Yue Tickets)

On the way back to the Heavenly Interence Sect, Yun Shang sighed repeatedly inside the Cloud-Breaking Charge, filled with regret.

"Why wasn’t I reborn into the Demon Clan, why?"

Yun Shang pitifully leaned her hands on the window sill, watching the Demon Realm gradually fade into the distance, shrouded by the mists over the Illusionary Wave Sea.

"...So many exotic beasts and strange insects that I’ve never seen before, and I haven’t even touched all of them..."

Jiang Yuebai fiddled with two Phoenix Feathers, contemplating if she could directly transform the Nirvana Divine Fire using her Chaos Body.

It was a pity there was only this precious wisp. If she couldn’t transform such a top-tier fire as the Divine Fire, it would be wasted after absorption. Jiang Yuebai wished she could turn back and ask the Phoenix for more.

"Or else, how about I extract your soul now and find a newly deceased demon for you to possess, that way you can stay with the Demon Clan forever."

Yun Shang blinked her large, beautiful eyes and actually began considering it.

After a while, Yun Shang shook her head dejectedly and leaned back against the windowsill, "Forget it. Although I love exotic beasts and strange insects, the survival laws of the Demon Clan don’t suit me. Yuebai, look at the good stuff I picked up in the Demon Realm."

Yun Shang excitedly took out several storage bags and sat down next to Jiang Yuebai. As soon as she opened the bags, a stench immediately spread out.

Jiang Yuebai quickly covered her nose, "What is this!"

Yun Shang chuckled, "Various exotic beast droppings, only these I could take away, Little Phoenix wouldn’t scold me for it. Let me tell you, these are all good stuff, can be used to cultivate different spiritual insects, and some can be used in medicine and alchemy, and..."

"Stop, stop, stop! Can we not talk about poop?"

Jiang Yuebai was utterly resigned, how could Yun Shang become like a Grass Demon, interested in poop?

Yun Shang put away her treasures and suddenly leaned closer to Jiang Yuebai and asked, "Yuebai, during those years when you were a grass in the Demon Clan, did you ever... try it?"

Yun Shang raised her eyebrows, Jiang Yuebai was furious.

"No! How could I possibly eat poop!!"

"It’s okay if you did, it’s a grass instinct after all~"

"I didn’t! Never did!"

"Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone."

"......"

On this trip out, Jiang Yuebai and Yun Shang utilized the Transmission Array along with the Cloud-Breaking Charge, saving a lot of time, traversing more than half of the Earth Spiritual Realm in less than half a year.

She recalled how, back in the day, Jiang Yuebai wandered in the Black Water Area for over two years just to find a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object.

In the Earth Spiritual Realm, she had met the people she should meet and completed the tasks she needed to handle. Now, she just awaited the end of the Fuyao Immortal Conference, then packed up to head for the Nine Rivers Realm.

After that, she was to seclude herself and cultivate together with Anan under the guidance of Immortal Monarch Chongmin.

Jiang Yuebai reckoned she might only come out when the Once-in-three-hundred-years Nine Great Star Alliances Qingyun Conference in the Upper Realm started.

The exact start of the Nine Great Star Alliances Qingyun Conference was uncertain, probably in thirty to forty years. During this time, the Yin Yang Double Thunder consumed in the Thunder Marsh along with the dense spiritual energy from the Nine Rivers Realm’s Immortal Palace should be enough for her to cultivate to the Late-Stage Nascent Soul.

Hopefully this time, the Heavenly Interence Sect could make a remarkable impact at the Qingyun Conference.

The countdown to leaving the Earth Spiritual Realm had begun. Jiang Yuebai couldn’t help but ponder if there were any regrets she had here, things she always wanted to do but never did.

After all, once gone, she was unlikely to return; her next journey aimed for further and higher horizons.

On the way back, Jiang Yuebai rarely cultivated, instead taking out her journals from all these years and started reading from the first page.

She watched her own chaotic yet magnificent cultivation life, observed her transition from childish innocence to mature stability, many people and things changed, including herself.

What never changed was her initial desire to survive, to reach the pinnacle of the Great Dao.

Immersed in her journal, Jiang Yuebai was unaware that a month had slipped by in a flash. They had crossed the Ten Thousand Mountains, passed through the quicksand desert, and returned to the lush and green Fengxian Domain.

During this period, Yun Shang didn’t disturb her, instead focusing on documenting her sightings in the Demon Clan, illustrating various demon beasts, annotating with small notations, compiling into a "Strange Insects and Beasts Record".

Jiang Yuebai set down the latest Journal Jade Scroll and lifted her gaze to the window. When she spread her divine sense, piercing through the clouds to see the ground below, her eyes lit up.

They had unexpectedly arrived near her hometown in Yun Country’s Qingzhou.

Jiang Yuebai’s temple pulsed involuntarily, an indescribable sensation made her heart race.

This was the precognition and intuition triggered by a Nascent Soul Cultivator towards certain matters, but she could only vaguely feel it, not knowing specifically what it meant.

Gazing at the mountains and lands outside, Jiang Yuebai suddenly recalled an event. After she achieved Foundation Establishment and returned home from the Land of Azure Flame, she had met a young girl with a Spirit Root in her family’s original courtyard.

She had left an ’Energy Introduction Technique’ on a tombstone in the back mountain of Jiang Family Village to guide people into the Dao.

She wondered how that young girl was doing now and how Jiang Family Village was faring. ℯ

Maybe she truly should go take a look.

"Shang, you go back to the sect first, I want to wander for a bit, I’ll return before the Fuyao Immortal Conference begins."

Yun Shang nodded, "Alright then, you keep the Cloud-Breaking Charge, I’ll have my Crossing Goose take me back."

The Cloud-Breaking Charge descended in a barren mountain within the Qingzhou Realm, Jiang Yuebai watched as Yun Shang flew away on her bald Crossing Goose before turning around, keying into direction, she unleashed the Michen Seal and upon a flash, crossed hundreds of miles, appearing directly at the back mountain of Jiang Family Village.

Where there once was a desolate mountainside cemetery, it had been replaced by a courtyard with green brick walls, nestled amongst the woods.

"Jiang Family Ancestral Hall?"

Jiang Yuebai spread her divine sense, looking back towards Jiang Family Village below. Compared to her last visit, it had undergone considerable changes, with many new houses sprouting, the population flourishing, it now resembled a prosperous small town.

Outside the ancestral hall’s courtyard walls, an old lady picking wild vegetables was resting under a tree, sorting out her harvest. Jiang Yuebai’s mind moved, transforming into a passing wanderer, walking up to her.

"Madam, may I have some water?"

The old woman looked Jiang Yuebai up and down, wiped her hands on her clothes, and poured a bowl of spring water from a pottery jar beside her, handing it to Jiang Yuebai.

As Jiang Yuebai drank, she asked, "Madam, I recall my father mentioning this place was a wasteland cemetery before; since when has such a large courtyard been built here?"

The old woman, seeing Jiang Yuebai’s kindly demeanor, smiled and said, "It’s been many years already. Ever since someone in the village gained an immortal opportunity here, the village chief had this turned into an ancestral hall."

"Immortal opportunity?"

The old lady nodded while picking vegetables, "Yes, it was Jiang Li, the eldest daughter of Jiang Guiping’s family from the village. To mention, she and I were handkerchief friends, but alas, I had no such immortal opportunity. Jiang Li always said from a young age that she could see things others couldn’t, and for that, her mother often scolded her."

"She once told me she saw writing on the tombstone behind the Jiang Family cemetery, but except for her, no one in the whole village could see it. Later, an itinerant Daoist who happened to pass by discovered she had an Immortal Root and took her away."

"Due to this event, many people came from afar just to see that tombstone, and because of this, Jiang Family Village gradually prospered. Yet over the years, no one else, like Jiang Li, has seen writing on the tombstone."

Through the walls of the ancestral hall, Jiang Yuebai ’saw’ that positioned in the center was the tombstone she left the ’Energy Introduction Technique’ on, inscribed with the names of all the Jiang Family Village villagers who had fled and perished because of the drought demon chaos, including her own parents and brother.

"Thank you for enlightening me."

Jiang Yuebai stood up, taking her leave. Initially, she had recklessly left that Energy Introduction Technique, never expecting over the years that it would truly guide someone into the Dao and improve the lives of Jiang Family villagers, somewhat her blessing for her family.

Leaving Jiang Family Village, standing by the main road to Yong’an City, Jiang Yuebai still maintained the guise of the red-clad wandering female knight, holding the Night Ban Blade with her aura concealed.

"Nothing in Jiang Family Village pertains directly to me, so what was the sensation I felt earlier?"

The main road was bustling with people, villagers driving ox carts to the market, scholars walking with book bags, and a convoy of dart masters resting not far away in a tea booth, their keen eyes all inadvertently watching her, perceiving her as potentially troubled individual.

Yah!

A fast horse galloped by, suddenly racing past Jiang Yuebai’s eyes, ridden by a dashing woman in black leather armor.

Jiang Yuebai didn’t pay attention initially, but as soon as she was about to leave, the Little Green pendant at her waist suddenly started vibrating, flashing green light, forcefully pulling Jiang Yuebai in the direction the horse was heading.

Little Green’s force was overwhelming, Jiang Yuebai, caught off guard, stumbled. Little Green broke loose, transforming into a streak of green light, shooting far away, disappearing in an instant.

Jiang Yuebai stood firm, looking over with surprise.

Who was that? To cause Little Green such excitement?