Time gradually passed.
After half a year of travel, Ling Pengyun, Yan Siyi, Ling Yunhong, and Ling Penglin successfully arrived within the Azure Sea Secret Realm.
Thundercloud True Person, who had long been waiting at the secret realm's mountain gate for the Ling Clan's arrival, spotted Ling Pengyun and the others. Seeing the number of Golden Core cultivators the Ling Clan had sent this time, a smile immediately spread across his face, and he hurried forward to greet them.
"I am truly grateful that you could arrive at such a time."
Ling Pengyun and the others cupped their hands in greeting. Ling Pengyun, who was leading them, spoke on everyone's behalf.
"Our clan naturally must honor what we promised back then."
With that, he and Ling Yunhong summoned the fourteen Golden Core Demon Corpses, Beast Puppets, and the Black Armored Turtle.
Pointing at those demon corpses, beast puppets, and the Black Armored Turtle, Ling Pengyun continued.
"Senior, to repay your sect for helping our clan set up that Third Rank High Grade Lightning Destruction Grand Array at Cloud Stepping Valley, we promised to provide five Golden Core cultivators and fifteen Golden Core-level combatants to protect my master while he attempts to form a Nascent Soul. They are all here."
At the sight, the smile on Thundercloud True Person's wrinkled face deepened.
"You are indeed people who keep your word..."
After offering a few more compliments, Thundercloud True Person personally led Ling Pengyun and the others to Azure Water Island, the cultivation place of Azure Water True Person, with whom they had a good relationship.
Ling Pengqiu, the Golden Core Middle Stage fire technique cultivator who had established a Fire Serpent Sect branch under the righteous Misty Water Immortal Sect in the Boundless Sea Region Cultivation World, had long since arrived