Chapter 907 - 677: Farewell to the Cloud-Fishing Elder (2)
Cloud-Fishing Elder forced a smile and said, "Please, Fellow Daoist Qin, don’t flatter this old man. If I had a choice back then, I would rather not have the opportunity to break through to the late stage..."
"Oh? What do you mean by that?" Qin Ming, although already aware of the situation, still brought him into the courtyard of the cave mansion, "Let’s sit down and talk in detail."
Qin Ming immediately instructed Little Silver Fox and Tian Ling’er to serve Spirit Tea.
Cloud-Fishing Platform took a sip of Spirit Tea, looked around at the surroundings of Little Turtle Peak, and said with deep emotion:
"Ah! Fellow Daoist Qin’s Cultivation Blessed Land, carefree and leisurely, truly makes this old man envious beyond words!"
Immediately, he remembered something and said directly: "Fellow Daoist Qin, do you know... now both the upper echelons of the Human Race and the Demon Race are searching everywhere for your whereabouts?"
"A few elders from Celestial Star City once sought out this old man and Fellow Daoist Su for a special inquiry, saying they were closely monitoring a Lower Realm Ascension Cultivator’s whereabouts."
"Thinking it over, the only one in the Human Realm who could be wanted by the two Great Saints of the Demon Realm, and qualify for such treatment, is none other than you, Fellow Daoist Qin..."
"It’s just that I never expected you, Fellow Daoist Qin, to be so hidden in plain sight, living right next to Celestial Star City..."
"Who could have thought of that? Hahaha!"
Qin Ming nodded and replied, "Thanks to you two Fellow Daoists for keeping it a secret; I also learned about this, hence I didn’t ascend using the Ascension Platform but smuggled up here on my own."
"Ah? Smuggled to the Upper Realm? Then why can’t my Celestial Patrol Mirror sense any Otherworldly aura on you? Could it be that Fellow Daoist Qin has already taken the Realm Transformation Pill?" Cloud-Fishing Elder took out a Bright Jade Spirit Mirror from his bosom, and seeing no reaction on it, he was also taken aback.
The Heaven-Devouring Rat, while pouring tea for Qin Ming and the others, said: "Realm Transformation Pill? My master refined a whole batch of those after ascending, we all took them, nearly got tired of them..."
Hearing this, Cloud-Fishing Elder stood there dumbfounded for a long while...
Then he forced a smile and said:
"Fellow Daoist Qin, you may not know... it was for this Realm Transformation Pill that I had no choice but to join Celestial Star City. If I had the same opportunities as Fellow Daoist Qin, and your level of Alchemy Dao, I wouldn’t be here."
"Although I became a Silver Armor Star Guard, which seems glorious on the surface, the missions ascension cultivators like us are sent on are often the most dangerous, with very high casualty rates."
"This time I barely came back alive."
Hearing Cloud-Fishing Elder say this, Qin Ming also felt quite sympathetic towards this old acquaintance, so he asked: "What about Su Yuqing? Didn’t he go with Fellow Daoist Lu?"
"Alas! Fellow Daoist Su’s talent in Alchemy Dao is extraordinarily high; it would be a waste of talent to have him perform dangerous tasks. Therefore, he was assigned by the upper echelons of Celestial Star City to the Human Race’s outpost to manage logistics and refine pills, though he’s also very close to the front lines." Cloud-Fishing Elder shook his head and sighed.
Qin Ming didn’t expect that after these two old friends ascended to the Spirit Realm, although they’d gained some opportunities, it came at the cost of their lives, which was rather tragic...
According to what Cloud-Fishing Elder later said, they would have to continue serving in Celestial Star City for hundreds of years.
"Fellow Daoist Su’s situation is also very unfavorable! I heard that his place, located at the border between the Spirit Realm’s alien race and the Human Race territory, has already erupted in several wars, big and small. Those alien race cultivators are extremely fierce; the Human Race cultivators on the front lines, they are being used as cannon fodder, just barely stalling the alien race’s advance, but I’m afraid soon even the logistical cultivators will be sent to the front lines." Cloud-Fishing Elder sighed and said.
Qin Ming didn’t expect Su Yuqing’s situation to be even worse than Cloud-Fishing Elder’s... so he asked: "The Spirit Realm’s alien races? Isn’t it said that their invasions occur only once every several ten thousand years? Is it premature?"
"Not so, these are just minor conflicts and skirmishes for now. After all, the Human Race is currently in the stage of expanding its territories in the Spirit Realm, and friction is inevitable." Cloud-Fishing Elder explained, "But this time the alien race causing conflict with the Human Race is the ’Giant Spirit Race’, whose overall strength is above that of the Human Race..."
"The Giant Spirit Race is known for their formidable physical strength; the stronger their cultivation realm, the larger their size, and they are naturally endowed with divine power, with the strong among them able to collapse mountains and rivers with a mere gesture, practically born as war machines..."
"It is said that within their race, there are even several Giant Spirits comparable to Mahayana Loose Immortals from ancient times, whose sheer size is as large as a star and who possess eternal indestructibility..."
"Fortunately, the Giant Spirit Race is among the less belligerent of the Spirit Realm’s alien races. But who knows what happened at the border for several Giant Spirits to intrude into Human Race territory, triggering chaos."
"Even so, it has already left the Human Race’s outposts over there in a state of turmoil."
Qin Ming: "..."
After hearing this, he couldn’t help but click his tongue in amazement.
The Human Race, standing amidst the myriad races in the Spirit Realm, is but a small drop in the ocean, extremely insignificant.
Afterwards.
Qin Ming also inquired from Cloud-Fishing Elder about various matters, amounting to firsthand information from the frontlines...
However, compared to Qin Ming, Cloud-Fishing Elder was truly shocked by Qin Ming’s circumstances, and was filled with emotion.
Reaching the Tier Six Pill God Realm is not something everyone can achieve, after all.
Even now he has established his own place around Celestial Star City, having gained a foothold.
Isn’t this exactly what he dreams of desiring?
But once you join the Star Guard army, everything is beyond your control.
"By the way, Fellow Daoist Cloud-Fishing, did you ever find out why when the Blood Realm and Ancient Demons conspired massively to descend and invade the Human Realm, nearly crippling and severing the Human Race’s Dao tradition, the human higher-ups in the Spirit Realm remained indifferent?" Qin Ming voiced a doubt that was in his heart.
