The Purple Gold Ship

As the Immortal Spiritual Energy entered Xiao Hua's body, a faint humming sound emanated from within him. Amidst the "whirring" sounds, Xiao Hua's face suddenly flushed red. He dared not delay and quickly sat down cross-legged, refining the Immortal Spiritual Energy using the Scattered Infant cultivation method. After a moment, joy appeared on Xiao Hua's face. Then, with a "poof," he spat out some residue and laughed, "Although this Residue Cleansing Pill is a bit crudely made, it's still an immortal pill. It truly replenished my Immortal Power. If Senior Xu had left a little bit of Immortal Arts within the Sacred Lotus Seed's residue out of selfishness, I would be able to use them now!"

After speaking, Xiao Hua looked at the unclosed cave entrance and walked out. The sky outside the cave was already slightly bright, with a half-moon hanging in the night sky. The moonlight was indeed white. Although Xiao Hua felt that the ice thorns and coldness still existed, they were incomparable to before.

"Alas, I didn't expect this Chu Yu to also be from a place called Earth. He stood out through a selection called 'Earth's Sole Cultivator.' It seems he's from the same hometown as Senior Xu! If he doesn't have ill intentions, it's not impossible for me to take him to see Senior Xu."

"They say that oranges grown south of the Huai River become tangerines when moved north of it. It's true. They both come from the same place, yet the difference is so vast!"

After his thoughts raced, Xiao Hua turned to look at the cave, contemplating whether he should hide here again and cultivate for a while before leaving. Suddenly, with a soft "creak," a clear cry of an immortal crane sounded from the void near the cave.

"Who?" Xiao Hua was greatly startled and quickly urged his Immortal Power to be on guard.

He saw a crane shadow, about a foot in size, fly out from the void. It circled in front of Xiao Hua for a moment before directly rushing into the cave.

"This must be a type of immortal art similar to sending messages by crane," Xiao Hua thought, and floated in after it.

Indeed, the flying crane entered the cave, looked around, and landed where Chu Yu usually meditated cross-legged. As it flapped its wings, it transformed into a human figure wearing dark robes, but its face could not be seen. The figure opened its mouth and said in a hoarse voice, "Fellow Immortal Chu, today is the day you agreed with Jing to go to that place. I have already invited a powerful Immortal friend. This time, there will be no more problems. However, the other party has high demands. Not only do they want to go in first upon arrival, but they also want forty percent of whatever we obtain. I think this is quite a good deal, as we cannot enter with our combined strength. What do you think? If you agree, take the token for this meeting from the crane messenger. Otherwise, let the crane messenger return!"

After the figure finished speaking, the light and shadow retracted, and it returned to its crane form, waiting there.

"Oh?" Xiao Hua understood. This was the dangerous place Chu Yu had mentioned going to today. Xiao Hua had thought Chu Yu was lying to him, but it turned out to be true.

"Should I go or not?" Xiao Hua hesitated for a moment, but then he smiled and muttered to himself, "What's there to hesitate about? Since there's a token for this trip, it's clear this person hasn't seen Chu Yu's true appearance. Besides, Chu Yu doesn't have a map of Yunmeng Marsh, only a route to a place called Jueyu Pool. If I want to avoid that Guiding Emissary, it's better to head to Jueyu Pool! Haha, actually, the most important thing is that I don't know how to make this crane messenger return."

Saying this, Xiao Hua raised his hand and took out a Bronze Token from the immortal crane's mouth.

"Caw..." The immortal crane let out a clear cry, flapped its wings one last time, and then transformed into a patch of scattered phosphorescence in mid-air, falling to the ground.

Since he had decided to go, Xiao Hua quickly reviewed the items in his Hundred-Gathering Bag. He took out a small Flying Shuttle and an Ink Immortal Pupil. He found the method to control the Flying Shuttle and familiarized himself with it, knowing that he could control it with his Nascent Soul body. He then put everything in the cave into his Hundred-Gathering Bag and walked out of the cave.

As soon as he stepped out of the cave, with a soft "boom," layers of small yellow flames actually appeared on the surface of Xiao Hua's Nascent Soul body. At the same time, a pain that could burn to the tip of his heart arose within Xiao Hua. Xiao Hua retreated rapidly. After retreating into the shadows, he looked at the light outside, which had already begun to turn yellow, with an unsettled expression.

"The Jiaotu Sun is rising!" Xiao Hua thought to himself. "It seems this fiery yellow sunlight is a great enemy to my Nascent Soul body! What Xiao Hua needs most right now is not a cultivation technique for Nascent Souls, but Spirit Cleansing Liquid!! According to Chu Yu, this Feathered Immortal is immensely powerful. Since he can bring cultivators from the mortal world to the Immortal Realm, he must also have Spirit Cleansing Liquid. It's a pity that Chu Yu was in a hurry to act, and I couldn't find out how to obtain the Spirit Cleansing Liquid. However, whether it's through the Feathered Immortal or the Immortal Market, Immortal Spiritual Crystals are indispensable. I still need to make a trip to Jueyu Pool! I hope Chu Yu's Pearl Shirt can be used..."

Xiao Hua put on the Pearl Shirt and, feeling a bit anxious, stepped out of the cave again. Fortunately, although the surface of his Nascent Soul body was hot as if burning, it didn't catch fire. Moreover, there was only a faint stinging pain within his body.

Xiao Hua breathed a sigh of relief, summoned the Flying Shuttle, stepped onto it, and flew out like a sword. In just a moment, he disappeared.

Xiao Hua had been gone for about an hour when the Guiding Emissary's Flying Shuttle arrived through the void. He looked around and whispered in disbelief, "Something's wrong. I was here last night. How... how could he be here?"

When the Guiding Emissary took out his Dharma Wheel and checked again, he let out a startled cry as if he had seen a ghost, "How is this possible? This guy has disappeared again?"

After putting away the Dharma Wheel, the Guiding Emissary released his Emanated Thought. This time, he easily discovered Chu Yu's cave. Standing inside the cave, he looked at the bear beast's bloodstains on the ground and the traces within the cave. The Guiding Emissary's expression was extremely grim. He gritted his teeth and roared, "So this guy was hiding inside the Immortal Beast's body! He's a Nascent Soul body, and when my Emanated Thought swept over, I easily mistook him for the Immortal Beast's essence! As for this cave, whose hiding place is this for a Mortal Immortal?"

After a moment of contemplation, the Guiding Emissary thought to himself, "Since this fellow has already met a Mortal Immortal from Yunmeng Marsh, he must have obtained an Immortal Artifact that can evade the Jiaotu Sun. However, since he's a Mortal Immortal, the Immortal Artifact he obtained can only be a low-grade Immortal Artifact, and it won't last long. Therefore, the first thing he needs to do is find Spirit Cleansing Liquid. He can only survive in the Immortal Realm after washing away the Dust Qi. The closest place to find Spirit Cleansing Liquid can only be Helan Que, guarded by the Azure Jade Gate! I can only pursue him there now, hoping it's not too late to mend the situation!"

Just as the Guiding Emissary was about to leave the cave, he suddenly remembered something. Silver light flashed around him, and his appearance changed. Even when the silver light receded, his spiritual pressure and other attributes were concealed, making him resemble a Mortal Immortal like Chu Yu.

"If I do this, that fellow won't recognize me. When we meet, I'll use Thunderous Means to capture him. Let's see where he can escape!"

It must be said that struggle makes people progress, and this saying also applies to Immortals. The Guiding Emissary, after a night of wits and battles with Xiao Hua, had learned a great deal from Xiao Hua, this Ascended Immortal.

Meanwhile, Xiao Hua sat cross-legged on the Flying Shuttle, controlling it while familiarizing himself with Chu Yu's two Immortal Artifacts. The chain had no name, while the scythe-shaped one had a rather impressive name, Sky Cutter. As Xiao Hua familiarized himself with these two items, his jaw almost dropped in the strong wind! To call these two items Immortal Artifacts was truly elevating them. Besides the material used for refining, which Xiao Hua didn't know, both their materials and quality were beneath Xiao Hua's discerning eye. However, the Ink Cloud Pupil left by Chu Yu did not mention how to refine Immortal Artifacts, nor did it mention their grades. Therefore, Xiao Hua could only reluctantly refine them casually.

Xiao Hua was not very familiar with this Nascent Soul body. Controlling the Flying Shuttle and refining Immortal Artifacts with the limited Immortal Power was also a process of exploration.

As the fiery yellow Jiaotu Sun rose higher, a piercing eagle's cry suddenly sounded. In the sun that blazed like fire, an eagle beast, a hundred zhang in size, shot out from behind the fiery clouds in the high sky. It flapped its wings a few times, then tucked them under its body and swooped down towards Xiao Hua's Flying Shuttle like a meteor!

Seeing the eagle's beak, sharp as a flying sword, sparking in the air, and the fist-sized runes on its black feathers elongating due to its downward speed, Xiao Hua was shocked and jumped off the Flying Shuttle. Without hesitation, he swept his Heart God over the Flying Shuttle, preparing to use Light Escape to flee. In this fiery world, it was already good enough that he could keep his Nascent Soul body from being burned by the fire. How could he dare to fight an Immortal Bird of unknown strength?

The eagle beast descended extremely quickly. As Xiao Hua urged his Immortal Power, the eagle beast was already less than a thousand zhang above his head. The two eagle claws hidden beneath its body suddenly extended. As these eagle claws emerged, the space actually produced black patterns. The patterns flashed and disappeared, and then, hundreds of rippling spatial patterns above Xiao Hua's head descended with a "swish," sealing off the space around Xiao Hua!

"This... this is too powerful!" Xiao Hua was dumbfounded, and the world before his eyes had already blurred into fiery light.

At this very moment, inexplicable firecracker sounds rang out above Xiao Hua's head. Countless large black and white tadpole-like runes gushed out like a spring, and then a dazzling purple-gold light shot up into the sky. A diamond-shaped outline emerged from the void with the radiance...

Due to the haste of the event, the eagle beast had no time to dodge. Its sharp beak, and its beak that could split rocks, lunged towards the diamond-shaped outline.

This change occurred directly above Xiao Hua's head. The emergence of the diamond-shaped outline also interrupted Xiao Hua's Light Escape. However, it was precisely because of this that Xiao Hua could see clearly. As the eagle beast's claws touched the radiance of the diamond-shaped outline, with a deafening "boom," a pillar of triangular golden light shot out from the diamond-shaped outline and pierced the eagle beast's body with lightning speed. Although the runes on the eagle beast's body flowed wildly, producing green light, this light was as fleeting as a candle flame in the golden light.

The eagle beast, powerful enough to make Xiao Hua look sideways, was killed by the golden light just like that. Its carcass fell like a broken kite along the golden light. As for the diamond-shaped outline, after it appeared, a thunderous sound of wind and thunder erupted. A ship's bow, a thousand zhang in size and entirely cast in purple-gold, surged out from the void...

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