Misty clouds and immortal qi lingered.
Between the towering peaks, sword light flashed from time to time. Sometimes sword qi soared into the sky, and other times sword intent was threatening. This lasted for half a day.
In mid-air, in the clouds, Jing Xingzhi casually withdrew his flying sword.
He looked with satisfaction at the brilliant and incomparably sharp flying sword in his hand.
This was the ownerless sword that he obtained from an ancient immortal mansion when he built his foundation. Until today, he still did not know what precious material this sword was made of, but after recognizing its master and nourishing it for more than two hundred years, the sword was connected with his mind, sharper and sharper, and the sword intent was stronger and stronger.
He still remembered that more than two hundred years ago, when he obtained this sword, his master, who was still alive, said that this sword was as clear as autumn water, and contained sword qi, so it was better to call it Still water sword.
In fact, although he seemed to be playing around with the world, he would rather break than bend, and was not suitable for this sword name at all.
However, he understood what his master meant. He hoped that he would restrain his edge, so as not to provoke disaster.
Unfortunately, at that time he was young and aggressive, and did not understand these things. Later, he had no chance.
After the death of his master, he endured for a hundred years in the ancient sword sect, but in the end, he could not endure it.
The Still water sword was called Still water, but he had cultivated it into a sword of swift and fierce killing intent.
But he did not regret it.
What was the use of enduring?
In this world, strength was everything. With strength, one could be above others!
He did not have the opportunity of Qin Shoujing and Mo Qingwei, but in this immortal palace, he also obtained a lot of good things.
Just high-grade spirit stones alone, after 20 years of unscrupulous cultivation, he still had tens of thousands of pieces, which was almost an unimaginable wealth outside.
In the world of immortal cultivation, middle-grade and above spirit stones were rare. Even Yuanying stage cultivators, on weekdays, mostly used low-grade or middle-grade spirit stones to trade, and kept high-grade spirit stones for their own use.
Ordinary Yuanying stage cultivators, most of their transactions were in the tens of thousands, and their total net worth was only a million or so. Tens of thousands of high-grade spirit stones were equivalent to hundreds of millions of low-grade spirit stones!
This made him sigh. Ancient times were ancient times, and high-grade spirit stones were not valuable!
Unfortunately, although this huge immortal palace was also made of high-grade spirit stones, there were restrictions. Otherwise, he really wanted to move a spirit stone house back.
However, although high-grade spirit stones were rare, they could not be compared to crystal jades.
He was not proficient in miscellaneous knowledge, so he gave up the materials in exchange for crystal jades.
He used the secret method of sword cultivators to refine these crystal jades into the Still Water Sword. After twenty years of nourishment, the Still Water Sword, which was originally filled with killing intent, became even sharper. In his view, it was not inferior to the Wind Feather Sword, the only cultivator of the Ancient Sword Sect at the Late Yuan stage, Venerable Swordsman Yuanying, who was known as the best sword in the world.
Thinking of this, he could not help but look towards the northeast. There was also a lone peak there, quietly sitting in the corner of the Immortal Palace.
Speaking of which, it was strange. It had been twenty years. What were Qin Shoujing and Mo Qingwei doing?
Unexpectedly, he did not even take a step out of the cave. Even if he went to visit, he would just send his spirit beast to send him away.
He knew that after leaving the underground palace, Mo Qingwei would go into seclusion to form her Nascent Soul, but even so, it shouldn't be to the extent of not seeing her for twenty years, right?
The little devil cultivator in the underground palace had already reached the peak stage of the Core Formation realm and was planning to enter secluded meditation to form his Nascent Soul.
Besides, she was in seclusion, so why didn't Qin Shoujing go out?
When it came to forming one's Nascent Soul, no one else could help.
Could it be that they were having a good time here and forgot to go out?
This thought suddenly popped up in Jing Xingzhi's mind, and then he felt that he was thinking too much.
No matter how good this Immortal Palace was, it was useless if they couldn't get out. They would not be stupid.
But why didn't they appear for twenty years?
Did Mo Qingwei succeed in forming her Nascent Soul?
With a stomach full of questions, he wanted to go to their cave to have a look, even if he knew that the one who sent him away must be that spirit beast with eyes looking at the sky!
After thinking about it for a while, Jing Xingzhi finally decided to go back to his cave to meditate.
No matter what, improving his cultivation was the most practical thing.
Turning around in mid-air, he was about to ride his sword back to the cave, when suddenly he stopped and turned his head again to look towards the northeast.
"Spiritual light!" he blurted out.
He saw the cave in the northeast direction suddenly burst into a bright spiritual light, and countless spiritual qi rushed over there, converging into a little spiritual light, surrounding the entire cave.
"The celestial phenomenon of forming a Nascent Soul!" When the auspicious clouds appeared and spiritual birds flew, Jing Xingzhi was certain.
Joy appeared on his face. "It seems that Mo Qingwei succeeded in forming her Nascent Soul!"
In this way, there were three Nascent Soul cultivators among them. In addition, Yang Chengji was close to forming his Nascent Soul, which was one step closer to their plan.
But this scene only lasted for less than half an hour before it stopped. There was no sound of wind and thunder, and there was no follow-up celestial phenomenon.
When the spiritual light dissipated and everything returned to normal, Jing Xingzhi was confused again.
What was going on?
How could the celestial phenomenon of forming a Nascent Soul only reach this level?
It should have lasted at least half a day!
Did Mo Qingwei succeed in forming her Nascent Soul?
If she didn't succeed, how could there be a celestial phenomenon? If she succeeded, how could the spiritual light dissipate so quickly?
And even the most basic sound of wind and thunder didn't appear!
It was said that in ancient times, when a cultivator formed his Nascent Soul, there would be a minor heavenly tribulation, because the Nascent Soul cultivator had already obtained the magical power to move mountains and seas and entered the gate of immortality.
Today, the minor heavenly tribulation no longer appeared, but the sound of wind and thunder was inevitable. This was the trace left by the minor heavenly tribulation, and it was also a symbol of the cultivator's great success in forming his Nascent Soul.
He was full of doubts, and the flying sword under his feet turned and flew towards the northeast.
* * *
Mo Tiange opened her eyes. Her whole body felt comfortable and full of power. She gently waved her sleeves, and the spiritual aura around her surged.
She stepped out of the Closed Door Meditation Room. At first glance, she saw the person she expected, just like when he formed his Nascent Soul.
Their eyes met. After a long time, he said in a hoarse voice, "Finally …"
Mo Tiange smiled and naturally put her arms around his waist. He also reached out to hug her.
After a long time, the two of them calmed down and walked out of the Virtual Sky World hand in hand.
"What's going on?
Why did it take twenty years? "Qin Xi asked.
"Twenty years?" Mo Tiange was surprised. "You said I was in Closed Door Meditation for twenty years?"
"Yes, if it weren't for the fact that your spiritual aura was very stable, I would've thought you had an accident!"
Mo Tiange was also puzzled. "I just felt that the spiritual aura was very comfortable, and I didn't feel anything.
Later, when my core broke and formed my Nascent Soul, it was also natural, and I didn't take the initiative to guide it. "
"Really?"
Qin Xi pressed her pulse and carefully felt it for a while. In the end, he said happily, "It seems to be a good thing. The spiritual aura in your whole body is very condensed. It doesn't look like you've just formed your Nascent Soul at all."
Mo Tiange was relieved to hear what he said.
Although she felt her Nascent Soul was very smooth, twenty years was indeed a bit abnormal.
After all, she started to form her Nascent Soul as soon as she entered the Closed Door Meditation Room, unlike some cultivators who cultivated to a certain level before starting to form their Nascent Souls. The so-called Closed Door Meditation for dozens of years was actually only a few years.
She recalled her experience of forming her Nascent Soul.
She had smoothly passed the first mental trial. After taking the medicinal pill, she had been absorbing spiritual energy. This process wasn't something she had actively controlled, but it had happened naturally. At the last moment, when the conditions were right, her Earth Core shattered and she became a Nascent Soul.
The process of her core breaking was also very smooth, and she almost didn't feel any pain. Perhaps because her primordial spirit was strong enough and she absorbed enough spiritual aura, she easily absorbed the power after her core broke and formed her Nascent Soul.
Finally, it was the real Inner Demon trial.
It was different from the Inner Demon trial during core-formation. During soul-formation, one had to pass the first mental trial before they could enter the step of breaking their core to form their Nascent Soul. After forming their Nascent Soul, they still had to pass the real Inner Demon trial.
The mental torture at the beginning tested the cultivator's heart towards Dao and whether they had a firm belief in continuing to advance on the Great Dao of the Nascent Soul realm. As long as there weren't any obvious flaws in their mental state, this trial wasn't difficult. However, the Inner Demon trial was much more terrifying. Any fears or expectations would appear in this trial. If they couldn't control themselves and got lost in the Inner Demon, all their efforts would be in vain.
Fortunately, all these years, she never relaxed her mental training, so she didn't immerse herself in the Inner Demon for long. She easily got rid of it.
After talking about herself, she began to ask about the outside world in the past twenty years.
During these twenty years, Qin Xi had been guarding the Virtual Sky World.
At first, he felt strange and didn't dare to leave. Later, he found her condition stable, so he calmed down and paid attention to her condition while cultivating.
After being tempered by the Vermilion Bird's Breath, he needed to adapt to his body and spiritual aura again.
The Three Yang Real Fire on the Three Yang Real Fire Sword had transformed into the more overbearing Vermilion Bird's Flame. Even the Extreme Yang Real Fire had been fused with the Vermilion Bird's Breath. In his dantian, the pure Yang spiritual aura and the Vermilion Bird's Breath combined to form a new and powerful force. But because of this, he needed to refine the Yang Spiritual Bead again. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to control the Vermilion Bird Bow that had been absorbed into the Yang Spiritual Bead.
After twenty years of refining, he had regained control of the Yang Spiritual Bead. Presumably, it wouldn't be long before he could take out the Vermilion Bird Bow.
As for the spiritual beasts and the cave outside, there were no abnormalities.
Just as Qin Xi guessed, Xiaofan advanced to the sixth rank in the past twenty years. Xiaohuo was also almost there. Although the Bright Bird didn't advance, its strength also increased greatly.
Sure enough, the Blood-eating Vine had a miraculous effect on spiritual beasts.
Feifei, who was left outside the Virtual Sky World, had also cultivated to the peak of the fifth rank.
As for the cave, there weren't many people in this Immortal Palace, so there wouldn't be any accidents. At most, Jing Xingzhi would come to harass them.
Speaking of Jing Xingzhi, Jing Xingzhi came outside.
"Qin Shoujing, Mo Qingwei, you should come out of your Closed Door Meditation now, right?" He didn't send them a Summoning Talisman. Instead, he shouted at the entrance of the cave.
Mo Tiange and Qin Xi smiled at each other then stood up and opened the restriction on the cave.
Upon seeing them, Jing Xingzhi immediately withdrew his flying sword and rushed inside.
"Did you advance to the Nascent Soul realm or not?"
He asked. He quickly scanned Mo Tiange from top to bottom. Upon discovering that she had indeed become a Nascent Soul cultivator, his expression became strange. "Did you pass the Inner Demon's trial?
Are there any problems? "
Mo Tiange didn't understand why he looked like this. "Otherwise, how could I still be standing here?
Fellow Daoist Jing, what are you doing? "
Jing Xingzhi rubbed his nose and said, "I saw the celestial phenomenon of your Nascent Soul formation outside, but there was no sound of wind or thunder, and the spiritual light dispersed very quickly. I thought you advanced to the Nascent Soul realm but didn't pass the Inner Demon's trial …" He then muttered to himself, "It's strange. Since you advanced to the Nascent Soul realm smoothly, why is the celestial phenomenon only half complete?"