[After obtaining the treasures, you were casually tossed into a major world by the Abode Spirit.] [After wandering the wilderness for several days, you found a magnificent city. You entered and asked around, only then learning that you had arrived in the Firmament Major World.] [The Firmament Major World was ruled by the Firmament Sacred Land, which controlled a total of eighteen hundred cities. The city you had just entered was one of them, called Luotian City.] [Once you knew where you were, you felt reassured and began considering your plans for the future.] [First, although your comprehension of the Dao was exceptionally profound, your Qi Refining cultivation was still only at the Primal level, far too low. You needed to raise it as soon as possible.] [Second, you had just obtained a Southern Brightness Li Fire Pearl and needed to cultivate your Second Primaltwin as soon as you could.] [Then, you had to return to the Great Xia World and check on the Wujiang Immortal Mansion. Several decades had passed since you left, and you were worried that something might have happened there.] [Last were Immortal Wusui and Immortal Duohe, who had been teleported to who knew where. You had to find an opportunity to locate them.] [After reviewing your plans for the future, you immediately got to work.] [You first went to the Xuancang Trading Company, the largest trading company in Tianluo City, and sold one of the four warrior puppets you had captured in the Golden Light Cave.] [The Xuancang Trading Company was controlled by the Firmament Sacred Land and had money to burn. It purchased your Immortal-grade puppet outright for ten high-grade Immortal pills.] [You then spent a fortune buying ten million jin of Essence Liquid and a full five Greater Teleportation Talismans.] [Spending money so lavishly naturally made you a fat sheep in certain people's eyes. They were all waiting for you to leave Luotian City.] [After taking care of these matters, you rented an Immortal-grade cultivation abode in the city.] [After entering the abode, you first used the Southern Brightness Li Fire Pearl to cultivate your Second Primaltwin. You then refined Essence Liquid to raise its cultivation to Late Void Return before stopping.] [Unlike Ji Ning, you had no powerful visualization technique, so it took you several months to restore your original body's damaged soul.] [Afterward, you refined more Essence Liquid and raised your original body's Qi Refining cultivation to Late Void Return as well.] [That year, you were one hundred and ninety-five years old.] [After completing these tasks, you chose: one, search for Immortal Wusui and Immortal Duohe. Two, return to the Great Xia World and check on the Wujiang Immortal Mansion.]
"Two." Zhou Qing made his choice without much thought.
The conditions inside the spatial passage had been so chaotic that Immortal Wusui and Immortal Duohe could have been teleported anywhere. Looking for them now would be no different from fishing for a needle in the sea.
[After giving it some thought, you decided to check on the Wujiang Immortal Mansion first.] [Using the Greater Teleportation Talisman and the Wujiang Immortal Mansion's coordinates that you had recorded earlier, you arrived outside a city in the space of a breath.] [You entered the city and asked around, only to discover that you had arrived outside Anchan City.] [As an Earth Immortal of the Void Return, your arrival naturally attracted the attention of the Northmont Clan, the masters of Anchan Commandery.] [Before long, an Immortal came to welcome you.] [He was very cordial, and upon learning that you had not joined any major power, he eagerly invited you to join the Northmont Clan.] [You tactfully declined his invitation, then requested a map of Anchan Commandery on a jade slip before leaving on your own.] [You opened the map and gave it a cursory glance, suddenly spotting a place called Yan Mountain.] [You immediately looked up the details of Yan Mountain. When you read that "Yan Mountain is ruled by the Ji Clan, the Blackfire Cult, the Kou Clan, and other powers," your eyes lit up.] [The Ji Clan. Upon seeing the tribe where the future protagonist would be born, you suddenly felt an urge to go and see it for yourself.] [You acted on the impulse at once, following the route on the map to the lands of Yan Mountain.] [Several days later, after some searching, you finally reached the Ji Clan's territory.] [But a sweep of your divine sense revealed that, let alone Ji Ning and Ji Yichuan, even the Ji Clan elders Ji Ninefire and Ji Shadow had yet to be born.] [The Ji Clan currently had four Zifu cultivators in total. The strongest was a Peak Zifu cultivator named Ji Changming.]
"It seems the Three Realms' great tribulation is still a long way off at this point in the timeline."
Watching the events in the simulation, Zhou Qing fell into thought.
[Having learned this, you found the place utterly uninteresting. After casually leaving the Ji Clan an opportunity, you departed in grand fashion.] [Half a month later, you reached the depths of the Tianyou Mountains. According to your spatial coordinates, the Wujiang Immortal Mansion was somewhere nearby.] [But you soon discovered several large magic-treasure ships in the Tianyou Mountains.] [You went over to investigate and found that the ships were transporting a considerable number of the Demon Race from the Wujiang Immortal Mansion as prisoners.] [The sight sent you into a rage, and you immediately stopped the magic-treasure ships.] [Upon discovering your presence, two Loose Immortals flew out of the ships. They warned you that they were members of the Shaoyan Clan and advised you not to meddle.] [Hearing this, you sneered and immediately used the Sky Rend Claw to capture them both.] [Your experience in the Golden Light Cave had brought you another step forward in the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. Your level had surpassed that of an ordinary Celestial Immortal, so capturing these two hundred-thousand-year Loose Immortals was as easy as lifting a finger.] [After you promised to let them enter reincarnation, the two Loose Immortals immediately told you the whole story.] [It turned out that the key to the Immortal Mansion held by the Shaoyan Clan had reacted the moment you forcibly broke through the Wujiang Immortal Mansion's spatial barrier.] [It was the abode of a Celestial Immortal, after all, so the Shaoyan Clan immediately sent Immortal Xuanzhen, a five-hundred-thousand-year Loose Immortal, to investigate.] [After using the Immortal Mansion key in his possession to open the Wujiang Immortal Mansion, Immortal Xuanzhen learned of the situation inside.] [After lamenting that Immortal Wusui and Immortal Duohe, two ducks already at his mouth, had flown away, Immortal Xuanzhen immediately set about plundering the treasures in the Wujiang Immortal Mansion to recoup the loss. He also sold a large number of the Demon Race into slavery.] [After asking where the captured members of the Demon Race had gone, you casually sent the two Loose Immortals into reincarnation.] [You then slaughtered every Shaoyan Clan cultivator aboard the three magic-treasure ships.] [Next, you freed the captive members of the Demon Race. You then used the Immortal Mansion key to enter the Wujiang Immortal Mansion and gathered those members of the Demon Race who were still hiding here and there. Finally, you placed all of them inside a pocket-world magic treasure.] [After finishing all this, you chose: one, go and rescue the members of the Demon Race who had been taken away. Two, lie low for now and rescue the remaining members of the Demon Race once you were strong enough to deal with the Shaoyan Clan.]
"One." Zhou Qing made his choice without hesitation.
Lie low first and wait until he was strong enough to save them?
By then, there was no telling where the members of the Demon Race from the Wujiang Immortal Mansion would have been sold.
Besides, he had caused this accident when all was said and done. If he had not forcibly broken open the Wujiang Immortal Mansion, he would not have drawn the Shaoyan Clan there early, and those captured members of the Demon Race would not have suffered such an undeserved calamity.
Given his character, if he backed down at a time like this, it would inevitably leave a flaw in his Dao heart.
[Based on the information you had extracted from the two Shaoyan Clan Loose Immortals, you used a Greater Teleportation Talisman to travel directly to the outskirts of the Chenyu Mountain Range, where the Shaoyan Clan was gathered. You then lay in wait on the only route into the mountain range.] [According to the two Loose Immortals, Immortal Xuanzhen had only left the Tianyou Mountains two days ago. Even using teleportation arrays and traveling at a normal speed, he could not have reached the Chenyu Mountain Range yet. As long as you waited at the pass outside the range ahead of him, you were certain to intercept him.] [Sure enough, half a month later, you spotted a flying magic treasure outside the Chenyu Mountain Range that matched the description of Immortal Xuanzhen's flying magic treasure given by the two Loose Immortals.] [After confirming that it was indeed Xuanzhen, you immediately sprang into action and attacked him with a full-force strike.] [Your comprehension of the Dao surpassed that of an ordinary Celestial Immortal. Although you had not passed your heavenly tribulation and lacked a Celestial Immortal's magic power, your full-force strike was already comparable to that of a million-year Loose Immortal.] [Caught by your furious sneak attack, Immortal Xuanzhen fell on the spot. You then found a pocket-world magic treasure on him, and sure enough, the captured members of the Demon Race from the Wujiang Immortal Mansion were inside.] [Having accomplished what you came for, you were just about to flee when you saw an old man with black hair and a black beard approaching from afar.] [Looking at the old man before you, whose appearance matched the description given by the two Shaoyan Clan Loose Immortals in every detail, you understood that the commotion had been too great and had drawn out the strongest person in the Chenyu Mountain Range, Old Devil Fufeng.] [As Old Devil Fufeng approached, you chose: one, take the initiative and test Old Devil Fufeng's strength. Two, avoid confronting him for now.]
"Two." Zhou Qing made his choice.
To be honest, he also wanted his simulated self to measure himself against Old Devil Fufeng, but on careful consideration, it was not a sensible choice.
It was not that he feared Old Devil Fufeng. They both had the combat strength of a million-year Loose Immortal, and he was not necessarily weaker than Old Devil Fufeng.
His main concern was that if Old Devil Fufeng tied him down, the fight would draw other Shaoyan Clan experts, especially its Celestial Immortals.
[Seeing Old Devil Fufeng closing in, you immediately used an escape technique to flee.] [Because you excelled in the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, your escape technique was far more powerful than Old Devil Fufeng had imagined. Before he could react, you vanished without a trace.]