Prefect Changqing and I Have a Pact!

The Spirit Serpent Clan was truly sluggish in getting things done, mainly because their natures were far too carefree and unrestrained. Something that could have been finished in an hour took them several days.

Whenever they thought of something fun while working, they would unhesitatingly set aside what they were doing to go play first. They might even play until they forgot they still had unfinished business!

Wang Ping did not urge them, however. He felt that quietly staying at Gray Water Pool for a while was not a bad thing. In any case, he had plenty of time, and there was nothing especially important that urgently needed handling.

Time slowly flowed by, and before they knew it, six years had passed. Lanyang had already led a small portion of the clan ahead to Sanhe Prefecture, where Wang Ping had long arranged for Thousand Wood Temple's Internal Affairs to secretly receive them.

Yet while Wang Ping lived his leisurely life free from worldly strife, the situation in Haizhou Road grew increasingly tense.

The cause of this had to be traced back five years.

Five years ago.

That was Dao Palace Zhengli Year 143, the second year of Wang Ping's seclusion at Gray Water Pool, when a rumor spread through the Southern Cultivation World...

The rumor claimed that the Earth Vein formation Daoist Zhi Gong had set up on Cloud Sparrow Mountain in Haizhou Road for her advancement to the Fourth Realm had drawn the attention of an extraterritorial Fourth Realm True Spirit, and that this True Spirit would soon descend into reality.

Cloud Sparrow Mountain in Haizhou Road was not like Daoist Chongxing's Cloud Sparrow Mountain in East Continent. This was a famed mountain of the Southern Cultivation World in Central Province!

There were more than a hundred Daoist temples