661 Maid Xiaoqing

Ye Qin looked around the sea and discovered that Blood Gourd Old Devil had vanished without a trace.

In the bloodstained waters, he stood alone. The Demon Race beast tide had temporarily retreated to regroup, while in distant Coastal City, East Sea cultivators were hurrying to repair the city's defenses and deploy warship formations. The great battle would not resume anytime soon.

Yet Ye Qin's mind was not on the war.

He was now at the seventh level of Nascent Soul cultivation, already one of the very few pinnacle cultivators within the East Sea cultivation world. Moreover, if he continued consuming Vermilion Fruit flesh, he would only need another month or two to charge straight to the peak of the ninth Nascent Soul level.

Breaking through to the Spirit Transformation realm was already within arm's reach for him.

There were very few high-grade spiritual items needed by Spirit Transformation cultivators in the East Sea cultivation world.

Whether for breaking through to Spirit Transformation or for cultivation after reaching it, sooner or later he would have to go to either the Southern Demon Continent or the Northern Abyss Continent. Choosing between the two was not difficult; he could decide it by drawing lots.

What gave Ye Qin the greatest headache was whether he should abandon the Sitting-in-Forgetfulness Sutra!

For a Nascent Soul Cultivator to abandon an old cultivation art that he had practiced for many years midway through and switch to a new one was a great taboo of cultivation. Every immortal cultivation art had its own theoretical foundation and circulation pathways. Once changed, the old and new arts could very likely clash violently, ruining one's cultivation realm in a single stroke. The risk of qi deviation was immense.

But if he did not change cultivation arts, the Sitting-in-Forgetfulness Sutra's state