Arc 17The Black Market and the Fallen Dynasty
Li Qing expanded the Black Market, seized a Primordial Stone from Shangqing Sect elders, and advanced to Foundation Establishment Late Stage. After the Ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty fell, he prepared for the turmoil surrounding the missing Ancestral Emperor Sword and trained new martial artists.
- Li Qing demonstrated the Scarlet Crystal’s ability to transform a White Feather Snake, then sold the remaining crystals at the Black Market gathering.
- Li Qing and Shen Ningbing escaped a Puppet Master’s ambush, took his Second-tier Puppet, and began training Xiangyang City orphans in martial arts.
- Li Qing learned of King Jing’s Tomb, where a Thousand-Year Yin Corpse emerged and ravaged cultivators, then gathered Red Crystals and Illusion Toxin Mushrooms for a second trade fair.
- Li Qing and Shen Ningbing lured Mu Maocai and three Shangqing Sect elders into an illusion and captured them, then Li Qing questioned Zhang Da about the sect and Lingyun Sect remnants.
- Li Qing kept the Shangqing Sect’s Primordial Stone and Heavenly Thunder Seed, while Shen Ningbing found the complete Crimson Blazing Heaven Art, and Zhang Da accepted the task of managing the Black Market.
- Li Qing cultivated for two years and reached Foundation Establishment Late Stage as the Ancient Hua Immortal Dynasty was destroyed and the Ancestral Emperor Sword disappeared.
- Li Qing fitted Zhang Da with a divine-sense-controlled mechanical arm, ordered him to expand the Black Market’s intelligence network, and sought Skyfire Treasure Liquid and Azure Jade Spirit Water.
- Li Qing taught three aspiring martial artists the Nine Revolutions of Qi and Blood as cultivators began searching for the Ancestral Emperor Sword and the righteous and demonic paths announced a region-wide auction.