Chapter 88: Five Spirit Beasts
In the Immortal Realm, there are five major star domains: the Golden Mysterious Star Domain, the Wood Maple Star Domain, the Water Lake Star Domain, the Fire Glow Star Domain, and the Earth Gui Star Domain. These five domains form the Immortal Realm Nebula, which resembles a “banana” shape.
The Fire Glow Star Domain is divided into thirty-six star regions, with the core planets of these regions being the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Stars. Each star region is further divided into seventy-two star clusters, and the core planets within these clusters are the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Stars. Earthlymysterious Star is one of the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Stars in the Tianying Star Region.
As the ruler of the Earthlymysterious Star Cluster, the Youhan Sect naturally also counts as a force within the Fire Glow Alliance. Its sect master, Luo You Tian, also obeys the rule of Huang Xu, the ruler of the Fire Glow Star Domain. Huang Xu often assigns tasks to Luo You Tian.
The five major forces in the Immortal Realm— the Golden Mysterious Alliance, the Wood Maple Alliance, the Water Lake Alliance, the Fire Glow Alliance, and the Earth Gui Alliance—among which the Golden Mysterious Alliance, Wood Maple Alliance, Fire Glow Alliance, and Earth Gui Alliance all sent their disciples to the Cultivation Realm to compete for the treasures in the Haotian Immortal Mansion. However, they failed, and the alliance leaders only learned that the treasures in the Haotian Immortal Mansion had been taken by Qu Yi.
Naturally, the leaders of these four alliances secretly ordered their subordinates to keep an eye out for cultivators who ascend from the Immortal Realm, especially those with exceptional skills in array formations, and to report them immediately.
After hearing Luo Yi’s account, Luo You Tian immediately realized that Fire Lord might well be Qu Yi, and he devised a plan. “Luo Yi, it seems this Fire Lord could be Qu Yi’s alias. Go and follow him. As soon as you detect any suspicious behavior, capture him,” Luo You Tian said with a faint smile.
“Yes, Sect Master,” Luo Yi replied calmly.
With that, Luo Yi disappeared. Seeing him leave, Luo You Tian smiled and murmured to himself, “If Fire Lord is indeed Qu Yi, I’ve stumbled upon a treasure. If I report this to the alliance leader, I should be able to get a top-grade immortal weapon.”
At present, Luo You Tian was only a high-ranking Earth Soul Immortal, possessing only one immortal weapon at the high-ranking Human Soul Immortal level, which was actually a mid-grade immortal weapon.
Luo You Tian wasn’t aware of the specifics regarding Qu Yi, but he understood that since it was a secret order from Huang Xu himself, Qu Yi must be someone of great importance.
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Inside the Origin Spirit Vein Cave, Qu Yi had already ventured four thousand meters deep. Relying on his unique chaotic energy body, he shattered and refined the violent elemental origin energies in the cave, using them to strengthen his physique.
By this time, when Qu Yi had reached a depth of four thousand meters, the strength of his physical body was sufficient to withstand the attacks of a First-Star Earth Soul Immortal. Thus, in the future, he would no longer fear such immortals and could face them head-on. Suddenly, the Instrument God transmitted a message: “Qu Yi, five Spirit Beasts are approaching.” Upon hearing this, Qu Yi immediately stopped the operation of his internal cultivation techniques and used his physical body to withstand the fierce gale attacks, while focusing his immortal consciousness on the five approaching Spirit Beasts. Crack, crack, crack. The gale struck Qu Yi’s body but failed to penetrate it, instead shattering into countless fragments that were blown away by the wind. Suddenly, the gale surged violently, transforming entirely into a stream of blades—all the primordial energy condensed into a solid mass that pushed toward Qu Yi like a wall. Qu Yi knew the five Spirit Beasts were approaching, which caused the surrounding primordial energy to condense infinitely, generating an even greater force. “Five Spirit Beasts, you were born from primordial energy and exist by absorbing it. Though you can control this energy, your intelligence is limited. There’s no chance you can defeat me,” Qu Yi said with a faint smile. Suddenly, Qu Yi drew out the top-grade immortal weapon, the Vast Heaven Sword. It was the first time he had used it since obtaining it from the Vast Heaven Immortal Mansion, where it had once belonged to Emperor Hao. Using lower-grade or mid-grade immortal weapons would surely be insufficient against these five Spirit Beasts; only this top-grade weapon could potentially harm them. “Heaven-Splitting Slash!” Qu Yi clenched his hands, raised the Vast Heaven Sword, and transformed all the chaotic energy in his body into Fire-type Immortal Essence, pouring it into the sword before swinging down fiercely. Where the sword landed, a massive fire sword soared from the sky, its overwhelming power shattering countless worlds and instantly evaporating all the gale energy condensed in the cave. The primordial energy driven by the five Spirit Beasts also vanished in an instant, seemingly swallowed entirely by the other dimension unleashed by the Vast Heaven Sword. As the gale evaporated, Qu Yi took out the Star Luo Cauldron and retreated inside it, remaining unharmed despite the violent attacks from the external fire dimension. Meanwhile, inside the Star Luo Cauldron, Qu Yi extracted the stored Chaos Crystals, restoring all his Immortal Essence at once. Over the past ten years, while refining his body in this Primordial Energy Cave, he had continuously produced Chaos Crystals, storing them all in the Star Luo Cauldron—now they finally came in handy. Due to the sudden interruption of primordial energy from that strike, the entire Primordial Energy Cave was split into two parts.
In caves less than four thousand meters deep, the primordial energy runs out, and thus there are no fierce winds. Moreover, those disciples of the Youhan Sect at the human-immortal level also stood up suddenly because they failed to sense the presence of Fa Ao. The moment they stood up, the light shields on the cave walls retracted automatically, assuming that these disciples had given up on their cultivation opportunities. All the disciples, including Xiang Qing, Xiang Xing, Xiang Zhong, Xiang Zheng, and Xiang Chun, were interrupted in their cultivation by the sudden changes in the cave. They all stood up in shock, thus losing the protection of the light shields. It was no longer meaningful for them to stay in the cave to cultivate. While these human-immortal level disciples were confused about what was happening, a storm-like force from deep within the cave surged forth, powerful enough to break through planets. The human-immortal disciples couldn’t resist at all and were directly blown out of the Primordial Spirit Vein Cave. Xiang Qing, Xiang Xing, Xiang Zhong, Xiang Zheng, and Xiang Chun also couldn’t hold on and were pushed out of the cave by the violent energy. As a result, they had no chance to set up the Five Elements Backlash Formation, which they had originally planned to use. Moreover, as soon as they left the Primordial Spirit Vein Cave, they saw thousands of Earth Immortals flying in the sky. Realizing that entering the cave again would expose their identities and make escape impossible, the five of them cursed silently and immediately chose to fly away from Youfa Continent to report their failed mission to their leader. Inside the Primordial Spirit Vein Cave, Qu Yi used the Haotian Sword to block the attacks of the five spirit beings, but it failed to harm them. After the explosion, the five spirit beings finally appeared. They resembled miniature human figures about the size of a thumb. There were five in total—gold, green, blue, red, and yellow—representing the elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, respectively. The five spirit beings absorbed endless primordial energy around their bodies, ready to attack at any moment. When Qu Yi emerged from the Xingluo Ding, the five spirit beings immediately pulsed simultaneously. A mass of primordial energy in front of them transformed into countless arrows, aiming to wipe Qu Yi out completely. “Interesting!” Qu Yi smiled and reentered the Xingluo Ding, letting it withstand those countless five-element arrows. Ding, ding, ding! Countless sharp sounds rang out simultaneously, but none of them caused even the slightest damage to the Xingluo Ding. The five spirit beings also realized that while they could freely manipulate primordial energy to launch attacks inside the Primordial Spirit Vein Cave, their limited strength meant their attacks couldn’t break through the Xingluo Ding.
Xingluo Ding was of such an extremely high grade that even top-tier immortal artifacts could not break it, let alone just five spiritual essences at the level of superior human soul immortals. When the five spiritual essences saw their attacks once again blocked by the detestable Xingluo Ding, they became furious and started vibrating rapidly. In an instant, the five spiritual essences arrived beside Xingluo Ding. Spinning, vibrating, and restless, they performed various movements around Xingluo Ding, showing their helplessness toward it. Suddenly, the five spiritual essences merged into one entity, gathering all the primordial energy of the five elements surrounding them. Acting as arrows, the gathered primordial energy from the entire primordial vein cave formed a long arrowhead, which instantly shot into Xingluo Ding. The five spiritual essences intended to pour all the primordial energy from the entire primordial vein into Xingluo Ding to blow it apart, thereby forcing the detestable Qu Yi out and killing him. Unfortunately, though the five spiritual essences had spirituality, they lacked wisdom and failed to recognize Xingluo Ding’s true grade. Their anger had already drowned out their meager spirituality. All the energy in the primordial vein cave was sent into Xingluo Ding. Qu Yi, in a parallel space within Xingluo Ding, had already known about the actions of the five spiritual essences and allowed them to bring the primordial energy into Xingluo Ding without any resistance. “Instrument God, these five spiritual essences are really amusing,” Qu Yi couldn’t help but laugh. “Well, you’re lucky. Now you can control Xingluo Ding, isolate it from external energy, and let it absorb the primordial energy that enters it,” the Instrument God replied with envy. Qu Yi nodded. Suddenly, with a thought from Qu Yi, Xingluo Ding formed its own space, isolating itself from the outside world and preventing the five-element energy from entering. At the same time, Qu Yi controlled three thousand parallel spaces to draw in the primordial energy arrows. Sucking, sucking, sucking… The five-element primordial energy arrows formed by the five spiritual essences were completely absorbed by Xingluo Ding. At this point, the five spiritual essences were horrified to realize they could no longer control the surrounding energy, meaning they were completely trapped. Qu Yi entered the parallel space where the five spiritual essences were and, smiling, began to touch them. Since the five spiritual essences could no longer control energy and thus had no offensive power, Qu Yi felt completely at ease. Sensing Qu Yi’s touch, their originally violent state gradually calmed down.