Immortal King Shroud, the youth who shook the entire Northern Spirit Territory!

Azure City,

Inside Qing Luo's cultivation room at Azure Manor.

Qing Luo sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion. Purple Qi and crimson Spiritual Energy reflected behind him, forming a lifelike Purple Kirin and True Phoenix Phantom.

A page of Black Paper hovered before Qing Luo.

As Qing Luo's hand seals shifted, the Mandala Flower patterns on the Black Paper rippled with mysterious spiritual light.

Sharp cries echoed in Qing Luo's ears from time to time.

Qing Luo slowly opened his eyes.

As his Double Pupils opened and closed, streams of runes flickered within them, while Order Divine Chains flowed through his gaze.

The cries within the room faded, and all the Spiritual Energy phenomena within it gradually returned to calm.

Qing Luo withdrew the page of the Immemorial Catalogue back into his sea of consciousness.

He began assessing his current condition.

After returning from the Black Nether Abyss, his strength had broken through, reaching the Spirit Soul Realm Middle Stage...

Not bad.

Furthermore, the Azure Sky Glazed Art had reached the major completion stage.

His body was no longer jade-white, but shrouded in a layer of clear radiance.

The most obvious change was in his hands.

They were as dark as ink, emanating an incomparably terrifying aura. Anyone unaware of the truth might think something had gone wrong with his body.

This state did not persist at all times.

Only when he went all out did his hands undergo this change.

Still, when facing enemies, it was necessary to wear a pair of gloves to avoid making people think he was from the Spirit Stone Clan or Spirit Jade Clan...

After all,

This was the Great Thousand World, where any unimaginable race could possibly appear.

The gloves would preferably be a Divine Artifact, a quasi-Divine Artifact,

Or something on the level of a peerless spiritual treasure.

That was impossible in the Northern Spirit Territory. He would have to wait until he reached the Five Great Academies to find an opportunity to acquire one.

After briefly examining himself,

Qing Luo began reviewing the Black Nether Abyss operation.

That was simply Qing Luo's nature.

He had never reviewed his actions before because no major or troublesome events had occurred. There had been no need for it.

But this exploration of the Black Nether Abyss

Had exceeded Qing Luo's expectations in both its developments and gains.

First,

His estimate of his own strength had been inaccurate during this operation.

He had told the Mu Region about the Nine Nether Sparrow because he wanted the Mu Region to stop the Liu Region people.

Qing Luo had not expected

That his combat strength would be enough to completely overwhelm Zhou Ye at the Spirit Soul Realm Middle Stage.

As a result, his prior plans had become somewhat superfluous. Not only had he gained nothing from them, he had even become enemies with the Mu Region's Fortune's Child.

Before fighting in the future,

He needed to gain a clear understanding of his own strength to avoid the same thing happening again.

Second,

Qing Luo did not reject the appearance of system rewards.

The system rewards had also given him better options.

But the problem was that the True Phoenix Spirit Essence rewarded by the system had drawn the Nine Nether Sparrow's covetous gaze, causing her to make a move ahead of time.

This threw Qing Luo's original plan to drive away the Mu Region group out of control, forcing it to become a killing trap for Mu Chen!

As a result, it triggered the Primordial Sacred Artifact, the Immemorial Catalogue, within Mu Chen's body.

Judging from the outcome,

This loss of control had allowed Qing Luo to seize the Immemorial Catalogue from Mu Chen's body.

It could restrain Mu Chen's cultivation

And benefit Qing Luo's future cultivation.

But rewards that went beyond his control had also made Qing Luo sense the danger.

What if, instead of the Immemorial Catalogue, Qing Yan Jing's Spirit Body left within Mu Chen had been drawn out by this loss of control?

What would the outcome have been?!

And what if a future reward was the Immortal King Shroud?

Would it draw the covetous eyes of the Five Great Ancient Clans and expose him to the Evil Demon Clan ahead of time?!

Qing Luo believed there would certainly be no shortage of such rewards in the future.

He needed to find a way to deal with these uncertain factors that could cause events to spiral out of control.

Besides that,

The benefits gained from this Black Nether Abyss operation had also far exceeded Qing Luo's expectations.

True Phoenix Spirit Essence, True Phoenix Treasure Art, Sky Mending Art, Immemorial Catalogue, Nine Nether Sparrow!

Qing Luo was now in the Spirit Soul Realm.

Refining the True Phoenix Spirit Essence would give him an absolutely unmatched advantage at this realm.

The True Phoenix Treasure Art and Sky Mending Art

Were both existences comparable to the Thirty-Six Peerless Divine Abilities.

Combined with the True Phoenix Spirit Essence, the True Phoenix Treasure Art should reach the Heaven Fusion Realm when unleashed.

Of course,

If he were in the Black Nether Abyss, in an environment where flames burned across millions of miles, using the True Phoenix Treasure Art should allow it to reach the Heaven Transformation Realm.

Its power would only grow more terrifying as Qing Luo's strength increased.

The Sky Mending Art,

The power of this technique did not lie in offense, but in the strand of spacetime law it controlled.

In essence, the Sky Mending Art manifested through reversing time and space.

Once cultivated to the later stages,

This technique would absolutely become Qing Luo's ultimate life-saving method. Unless the gap between both sides was too vast, such as an Earthly Sovereign encountering a Heavenly Sovereign,

As long as he had enough Spiritual Energy, Qing Luo would be almost impossible to kill.

Besides that,

The Immemorial Catalogue and the Nine Nether Sparrow

Were both items that had allowed Mu Chen to cheat in the original work.

Now that Qing Luo controlled them, they not only enhanced his strength but also indirectly weakened Mu Chen's potential.

Of these two, what Qing Luo valued most was the sealing power within the Immemorial Catalogue.

At this stage, it was absolutely a bug-like ability.

If he could not defeat someone, he could simply seal them away and deal with them slowly.

According to Qing Luo's estimate, his current Spiritual Energy was enough for the Immemorial Catalogue to seal a Heavenly Pass Realm expert.

If he risked everything,

He could even seal a Three Lesser Tribulations expert for a period of time.

Although his Double Pupils had yet to see the full patterns of the Immemorial Catalogue's sealing power,

Qing Luo could use some of the sealing patterns he had glimpsed within it to study certain sealing methods. Those methods would consume far less Spiritual Energy.

In other words,

Although Qing Luo was only at the Spirit Soul Realm Middle Stage,

With the Double Pupils, Azure Sky Glazed Art, Kirin Treasure Technique, True Phoenix Treasure Art, True Phoenix Spirit Essence, Sky Mending Art, Immemorial Catalogue, and his many other methods,

He had ways to deal with anyone below the Sovereign Realm.

Of course,

That was only under the condition that each side exchanged one or two moves. If it became a prolonged battle, Qing Luo would have no chance of winning.

The Three Heavens Realm was powerful

Because of the vast reserves of Spiritual Energy within its practitioners. Qing Luo did not possess such reserves.

"There is one more trump card..."

Qing Luo muttered softly.

Then, his consciousness withdrew inward and entered his sea of consciousness, arriving at the place where the Immemorial Catalogue imprisoned the Nine Nether Sparrow.

"It's you..."

"You bastard, let me go!"

The moment she saw Qing Luo appear, the Nine Nether Sparrow bristled, fury surging in her eyes as she shouted.

"I can let you go, but you must acknowledge me as your master!"

Qing Luo said.

With the Nine Nether Sparrow's strength, if she could become his spirit pet, he would gain a trump card capable of dealing with the Sovereign Realm.

"In your dreams!"

"I am a once-in-ten-thousand-years genius of the Nine Nether Clan. Rather than acknowledge you as my master, I would rather die!"

The Nine Nether Sparrow glared viciously at him.

Though she was currently bound by that Mysterious Black Paper, making her submit to him was nothing but a dream!

"It doesn't matter!"

Qing Luo replied calmly, his consciousness connecting with the Immemorial Catalogue.

The next moment,

Black vines covered in savage barbs emerged from the prison-like Mandala Flower petals.

Smack—

Smack—

Smack—

The black vines lashed the Nine Nether Sparrow like sharp whips.

Those black vines were formed by the Immemorial Catalogue.

Every strike contained unbearable spiritual torment. If the Nine Nether Sparrow refused to submit, he would beat her until she did!

Afterward,

Qing Luo paid no further attention to the Nine Nether Sparrow. He returned to his body, pushed open the door, and walked out.

"Young Master..."

"News has come from the Northern Spirit Academy. The Five Great Academies selection is about to begin, and they want Young Master to go to the academy for final preparations."

Seeing Qing Luo emerge from the room, Xu Mu hurried forward and spoke respectfully.

"It's about the Five Great Academies selection, isn't it..."

Qing Luo murmured.

Over the next month, Teacher Mo would conduct targeted training for those qualified for the selection.

That sort of training was completely useless to Qing Luo.

"Go to the Northern Spirit Academy for me. I have a better cultivation method for this next month."

"Yes!"

Xu Mu nodded. Ever since returning from the Black Nether Abyss, the concern and advice of an elder were no longer present when he faced Qing Luo. What remained was mostly awe and conviction.

He knew

That this youth, who appeared to be no more than seventeen, possessed power enough to shake the entire Northern Spirit Territory!