The Path Ahead Is Open

"Host, since you look down on the things in the secret realm anyway, why not..."

"That works too. They're nothing good anyway. I'll use them to settle the bill!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Qing Mo sensed the system's excitement!

"Do I owe that much?" (ー_ー)!!

"What do you think?" (౦ ‸ ౦ `)

The demonic beasts in the secret realm sensed Da Bai's aura and hid themselves one after another. Qing Mo and the others began strolling idly through the secret realm. Qing Mo and Liu Yurou did not even spare a glance at the spirit herbs and spirit treasures they encountered, but Han Qianxue's eyes went completely straight at the sight of them. Seeing Qing Mo treat these spirit herbs like air left her stunned.

Han Qianxue worked very hard to collect the heavenly materials and earthly treasures. After all, in the past, she would not even have dared imagine such a situation!

Qing Mo wrapped an arm around Liu Yurou's slender waist, enjoying the sensation transmitted through his palm. Da Bai followed closely behind step by step. After reaching the Sky Vault Realm, it also looked down on these things. The tiniest bit that slipped out from between its master's fingers was better than this place's goods by who knew how many times!

"Qianxue, these spirit herbs are too young, and the spirit treasures aren't much use either. Do you need to take them?"

Qing Mo had Han Qianxue return to his side. Seeing that Han Qianxue had eyes only for spirit herbs and spirit treasures, the hand wrapped around the slender waist drifted upward to her chest and gave it a squeeze, making Han Qianxue tremble all over!

"Master, these are still low-grade? Many of them are great medicines over a hundred thousand years old! The spirit treasures are also very rare materials outside!"

Han Qianxue blinked her large eyes as she looked at Qing Mo. After all, during the time she had followed Qing Mo, Qing Mo had not revealed anything particularly good for her to know about. In her impression, she only believed that Qing Mo's cultivation and alchemy were unparalleled under heaven!

"Miss Qianxue, when Master had me serve as a mount just now, he directly gave me a great medicine five million years old. Master even said that was the one with the lowest age and medicinal effect among what he owned!"

"F-Five-million-year-old great medicine!!!"

Da Bai's voice came from behind her. When Han Qianxue heard it, her mind felt as if it had been struck by lightning, and she stood rooted in place, at a loss. She had never imagined that her master actually had so much substance!

The forces that had entered the secret realm together with Qing Mo were not so fortunate. Because Da Bai had been constantly releasing the aura of the Sky Vault Realm, the demonic beasts in the secret realm vented all their anger on those forces.

"This is the true center of the Baishang Secret Realm. That remnant soul is hiding here!"

After obtaining the Ice Jade Stone, Qing Mo arrived at a dilapidated cave residence. Earlier, along the way, he had discovered that the value of those heavenly materials and earthly treasures was far from as high as the ones inside the cave residence. He planned to take everything in the cave residence to settle the bill!

Not long after Qing Mo and the others entered the cave residence, they discovered many heavenly materials and earthly treasures even more precious than those outside, and Qing Mo collected them all. Da Bai and Han Qianxue, however, felt uncomfortable all over!

But that was no wonder. When alive, the remnant soul inside had been among the very top group of people in the Middle Thousand World, and formations that could stimulate people's greed had also been engraved within the cave residence. As long as one kept walking inward and continuously collected the scattered items, by the time they reached the deepest part, their mind and spirit would fall into chaos. At that point, the chances of the remnant soul successfully seizing a body would increase even further!

These petty tricks could not hide from Qing Mo and Liu Yurou's eyes at all. As for Da Bai and Han Qianxue, they had been wrapped in Liu Yurou's energy from the start and had not detected the formation at all!

When Qing Mo had collected almost everything, he looked toward the platform in the deepest part. Several stone slabs beside the platform were engraved with some incomplete cultivation methods. They were there to entice people to stand on the platform and comprehend the cultivation methods, thereby activating the trapping formation at the very center. Then everyone who entered the cave residence would be trapped to death inside, and the remnant soul could freely choose a suitable physical body!

"Let's go! There's nothing much inside anymore!"

The remnant soul had originally still been looking forward to Qing Mo continuing into the deepest part. Hearing Qing Mo say this, it was completely dumbfounded. "What's going on? Could it be that he already knows this is a trap? That's not right! By convention, shouldn't he keep walking inward? There's no way he wasn't affected by the formation!"

Just as the remnant soul was puzzled, Qing Mo really did turn and leave. When the remnant soul saw Qing Mo and the others walking farther and farther away, it finally could not hold back. A streak of remnant soul lunged toward Qing Mo at extreme speed!

"You took This Venerable One's things and want to leave? Boy, there's no such cheap deal! Hand over your physical body!"

Smack.

"Ah!!!"

Qing Mo did not even turn his head. Before Da Bai and Han Qianxue could react, they heard a heart-rending, lung-tearing scream!

Liu Yurou's divine sense had been paying attention to the remnant soul's movements the entire time. The moment it appeared and lunged over, she directly slapped it. This remnant soul already had great difficulty maintaining its soul-body state, and after taking one slap from Liu Yurou, its soul scattered and its spirit dispersed on the spot!

"Did someone get slapped just now?"

Da Bai and Han Qianxue turned back and found nothing there, their heads full of question marks.

Outside the cave residence, the many forces had finally managed to reach the very center of the secret realm. Among them, the Duan Nian Palace disciples had relied on comprehending the sword intent Qing Mo had left behind, so they had not suffered too many losses. As for the remaining people from the other forces, a large portion of them were injured.

Qing Mo handed all the things he had collected from the cave to the system!

"Burp~"

"Host, you finally acted human!"

When Qing Mo heard the system say this, his face did not redden, and his heart did not skip a beat!

"You're already burping! My debt should be paid off now, right!"

"Half full, half full!"

"You're fucking burping already! And then you tell me you're half full?"

"It really is half full, burp~"

Qing Mo's forehead filled with black lines. He truly had no idea who this system had learned such shamelessness from.

"Host, I'm preparing to transmigrate to a new world. You should get ready quickly too!"

"Wait a moment. I'll go to the new continent first and find a place for Qianxue to raise her cultivation, then we'll transmigrate. This time, I'm bringing Yurou with me!"

"Fine! Once you've arranged everything, tell me!"

Outside, just as the various forces were arguing endlessly over who would enter the cave residence first, they discovered Qing Mo and the others leisurely walking out from within.

"Greetings, Senior."

"Greetings, Senior."

"Greetings, Senior."

Everyone obediently bowed to Qing Mo, while also wondering just what could possibly be left inside after Qing Mo had paid it a visit.

The people of Duan Nian Palace, however, were very calm, because they had already harvested plenty of heavenly treasures this time and achieved the purpose of their tempering. On top of that, before entering the secret realm, Han Qianxue had transmitted a message telling them not to enter the central cave dwelling!

"Master, I want to leave a few things for my student!"

"Master, can I..."

How could Qing Mo not understand what the two women meant? Before coming out, he had already told them they were going to leave this continent. One was the teacher of the Duan Nian Palace Saintess, and the other had grown up in Duan Nian Palace since childhood.

With a thought from Qing Mo, the people of Duan Nian Palace and Qing Mo appeared outside the secret realm.

"Third Elder, I am leaving with Master. Please take these things back to Duan Nian Palace."

"Tell my student to cultivate diligently and not become proud or complacent. Take this back to her!"

Han Qianxue handed all the heavenly treasures she had collected in the Baishang Secret Realm to Duan Nian Palace's Third Elder. Liu Yurou also tossed a storage ring to the Third Elder; inside were some cultivation techniques that she, as a teacher, had prepared for her student.

Relying on the gift Liu Yurou had given her, and through her own ceaseless efforts in the future, Shen Yunrong also stepped into the Divine Realm!

"The laws of this world are slowly becoming complete. The road ahead has opened. Work hard."

After Qing Mo and the others finished speaking, they tore open space and headed to the next continent.

The people of Duan Nian Palace looked at the spatial rift with reluctant expressions. The Third Elder looked at the two storage rings in his hand, recalled Qing Mo's final words, and hurriedly led the disciples back to Duan Nian Palace.

"The road ahead has opened. Dao Integration is no longer the end. There is hope beneath the vault of heaven!"