Cultivating in Seclusion, a Visitor to Kunlun

Ever since handing over the gourds.

Mount Kunlun had once again, for once, fallen into a tranquil atmosphere.

Freed from having to spend her mind refining her own gourd, Zhou Qingqing naturally continued cultivating in seclusion, slowly raising her cultivation.

Taking human form as soon as possible still held an immensely powerful allure for her.

She had already begun circulating the Nine Revolutions Profound Art she had obtained from Houtu as part of her daily routine.

Ever since entering the first level.

She had felt her Azure Lotus body becoming smoother and more textured.

The Nine Revolutions Profound Art was indeed highly effective at sculpting Zhou Qingqing's body.

She treated it like a daily yoga class and practiced it diligently.

The advancement of Primordial Spirit cultivation was destined to be a long process, even with masters like the Three Pure Ones.

Zhou Qingqing now completely understood why spiritual treasures and plants found it so difficult to take human form.

Every step of advancement required them to consume far more spiritual power than ordinary cultivators.

And the difficulty of breaking through realms rose along with the quality of the spiritual treasure.

Zhou Qingqing herself was a twenty-four-petaled Creation Azure Lotus, an innate supreme treasure. The difficulty naturally rose with the tide.

If she had not had the Three Pure Ones as her backers.

Who knew how many Calamities it would have taken for her to take human form.

Fortunately.

She truly did have the Three Pure Ones as her backers.

The difficulty of her breakthroughs had ultimately been reduced by quite a bit.

With the infusion of countless resources.

Zhou Qingqing finally crossed several realms and successfully broke through to the Golden Immortal realm.

Golden Immortal.

The word "golden" represented the meaning of immortality.

In other words, upon reaching this stage, Zhou Qingqing had condensed immortal matter within her Primordial Spirit. Even if her Primordial Spirit were shattered, she might still survive by relying on it.

Ordinarily.

After breaking through to Golden Immortal, Zhou Qingqing should have begun condensing the qi of the five elements and launched her charge toward the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.

As the First Disciple of the Three Pure Ones, Zhou Qingqing naturally understood this process very clearly.

However.

Once she truly reached the Golden Immortal realm, she discovered that the process of transforming spiritual qi into the qi of the five elements was somewhat difficult.

This was something she had never expected.

Even Zhou Qingqing herself had yet to understand the trick hidden within it.

But if she did not know, someone naturally did.

At the very least, Upper Pure Tongtian, who was refining the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd and the Creation Gourd nearby, knew the reason.

Back at Purple Cloud Palace.

When their eldest brother saw the Western Plain White Cloud Boundary Flag that Hongjun had bestowed upon the Queen Mother of the West, he had already sensed something.

How could it be so easy for an innate supreme treasure to take human form?

If Zhou Qingqing wanted to absorb the qi of the five elements by herself now, it would take countless years. If she wanted to restore Zhou Qingqing's normal cultivation speed.

The best method was still to obtain all five of the Heaven and Earth Five Direction Flags that represented the five elements.

If Tongtian wished to help his disciple solve her cultivation problem now, the best approach would naturally be to seek out the Queen Mother of the West on neighboring Western Kunlun.

But.

Upper Pure Tongtian himself felt that he had no suitable reason to visit the Queen Mother of the West, so he could only remain powerless for the moment.

Just as he was thinking this.

Outside Mount Kunlun, a ray of pure yang light suddenly came from afar, heading toward Mount Kunlun.

However.

That figure did not stop at Eastern Kunlun. Instead, it passed over their side and headed for Western Kunlun.

"Eh, isn't that the Eastern Duke? He actually came to Western Kunlun?"

Above the Lotus Pond, Upper Pure Tongtian let out a soft cry of surprise.

The Eastern Duke had come to Western Kunlun?

Had he come at this time to invite the Queen Mother of the West to join the Penglai Immortal Court? Joining the Penglai Immortal Court was no good thing. Zhou Qingqing wondered whether the Queen Mother of the West had ultimately agreed to the Eastern Duke's invitation.

Zhou Qingqing recalled some records concerning the Queen Mother of the West, her thoughts racing like lightning.

Hm?

Penglai Immortal Court?

Upper Pure Tongtian's swordlike brows lifted slightly as he immediately caught something in Zhou Qingqing's inner thoughts that he had not known before.

As expected.

This Penglai Immortal Court was likely the organization Eastern Duke had established after being invested with the supreme karmic position of leader of all male immortals.

According to Zhou Qingqing's thoughts.

Eastern Duke was clearly going to invite Queen Mother of the West to join him.

The leader of all male immortals and the leader of all female immortals—one overseeing the registers of male immortals, the other overseeing the registers of female immortals. If they truly came together, they might genuinely be able to oversee the immortal gods of the Primordial World.

If they could truly pull it off, there did seem to be something to it.

However.

Tongtian had long learned through Zhou Qingqing's inner thoughts that the so-called supreme positions of leader of all male immortals and leader of all female immortals were a trap.

And Queen Mother of the West, within her Western Kunlun abode, had already vaguely begun to sense that something was wrong.

In that case.

There would inevitably be some twists in this encounter between Eastern Duke and Queen Mother of the West.

Perhaps he could use this opportunity to help his disciple obtain the Western Plain White Cloud Boundary Flag.

An opportunity like this could not be missed lightly.

With that thought, Upper Pure Tongtian flicked his sleeve and spoke to Zhou Qingqing, who was daydreaming beneath the Lotus Pond.

"Qingqing, quickly turn into a lotus pattern and come up. I'll take you out to broaden your horizons."

Oh, oh, Third Master wanted to head to Western Kunlun to watch the show, didn't he?

Could it be that Third Master also played a role in this Penglai Immortal Court storyline?

Then this was going to be great fun.

Zhou Qingqing herself had naturally held no interest in any Immortal Court.

But now that Third Master wanted to go have some fun, she was more than happy to witness it.

She could watch the drama and eat melons right from the front row, without any risk. Of course she was willing.

Without the slightest hesitation.

She leaped out of the Lotus Pond and, as before, transformed into a lotus pattern upon Third Master's Daoist robe.

The corner of Upper Pure Tongtian's mouth curved upward.

Boundless sword light arose beneath his feet, and in the blink of an eye, he vanished from Eastern Kunlun.

The Kunlun mountain range was enormous.

But Eastern and Western Kunlun stood side by side. For Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals like them, that distance—

In the blink of an eye, the scenery before Zhou Qingqing changed dramatically.

If Eastern Kunlun was like spring all year round, then Western Kunlun was wrapped in heavy snow. They could not have been more opposite.

So this was Queen Mother of the West's abode. Sure enough, its style was entirely unlike Eastern Kunlun's—full of a feminine air, with an ethereal immortal aura swirling through it.

Immortal aura?

Upper Pure Tongtian could not sense any difference at all between Western Kunlun and Eastern Kunlun.

Did being draped in silver snow make it immortal?

Not immortal in the slightest, all right!

Tongtian had no desire to listen to Zhou Qingqing's fairy-maiden aesthetics, so he was about to send a voice transmission into the abode to announce his visit to Queen Mother of the West.

Before he could speak.

A tiger with nine tails leaped out from the formation and spoke in human speech. "Lord Upper Pure, my master invites you into the abode for a conversation."