Xu Shang witnessed Qi Zhiheng's methods. He even spared no effort in killing the soul. He thought that he was not a kind person.

He did not let the half-immortals under his command continue to fight. He picked up the sword in his hand and rushed forward again!

A celestial immortal and an earth immortal clashed, but Qi Zhiheng clearly had the upper hand!

Just when Xu Shang thought that Qi Zhiheng could only use the power of space, Qi Zhiheng suddenly gathered the fire-attributed spiritual power in his hands. During the battle, he directly overwhelmed Xu Shang's strength and injected the fire-attributed spiritual power into the opponent's body.

Xu Shang immediately felt a strong fiery force spreading through his meridians and dantian, as if it were about to burn his internal organs to ashes.

Xu Shangzhongshan was sent flying backwards.

Qi Zhiheng had no intention of pressing his advantage. His fire-attribute immortal spiritual power was not so easy to neutralize. With the Fruit of Refined Fire, his flames were comparable to those of the immortal realm.

These strikes successfully penetrated the opponent's meridians and dantian, and will likely spread rapidly. The opponent will be busy expelling the fire-attribute immortal spiritual energy, so they won't have time to entangle with him any longer.

Qi Zhiheng looked at the other earthly immortals again and asked, "Do you want to try it too?"

Seeing the two corpses lying on the ground, and then seeing the Celestial Immortal Xu Shang healing his wounds, the two disciples dared not linger any longer and waved their hands to indicate that they were no match for him.

Qi Zhiheng said, "Then why don't you get out of this herb garden?"

Just as they were about to leave, Qi Zhiheng spoke up again, "Wait."

The earth immortals immediately stood still.

Qi Zhiheng: "Take your people away." He pointed to the two corpses on the ground and Xu Shang.

One person stepped forward, and the corpse was put into his storage container.

The other two people simply carried Xu Shang away, who was meditating.

Qi Zhiheng walked a few steps behind his door, set up a formation behind him to defend the medicine garden, and then followed him out.

Mu Ran hadn't given him the reward for the mission yet, and he didn't want the other party to die like this.

So I removed it to see what happened.

Upon arriving at the courtyard, he saw three people fighting in mid-air, with the residual force of their attacks falling from above. The houses below were now in ruins, almost completely leveled.

Mu Ran fought with the two celestial beings, but was not at a disadvantage. He originally planned to ignore the fight between the three, but while observing, he felt something was wrong. Mu Ran did not seem as calm as he saw.

Qi Zhiheng leaped into the air and blocked one of the celestial beings' attacks on Mu Ran.

Qi Zhiheng thought to himself, he had really gone all out for that little bit of reward...

Mu Ran was somewhat surprised by Qi Zhiheng's appearance, and the other two celestial beings also showed great disdain for Qi Zhiheng.

Qi Zhiheng said to Mu Ran, "Senior, if we win later, don't forget my reward for the mission. I've been taking good care of this herb garden for you."

Mu Ran was speechless. At a time like this, they were still thinking about such a small amount of immortal spirit stones. He roared, "Kill these two, and I'll give you ten times the mission reward!"

Qi Zhiheng wasn't stupid. Ten times the price was still only a hundred low-grade immortal spirit stones. Who had ever heard of ten immortal spirit stones being able to buy the lives of two celestial immortals? Don't be ridiculous!

Qi Zhiheng only managed to parry one of the Celestial Immortal's attacks, allowing Mu Ran to focus more on dealing with the other.

Without being attacked from both sides, Mu Ran quickly gained the upper hand. He was extremely ruthless and killed the Celestial Immortal directly!

Meanwhile, Qi Zhiheng also severely injured that Celestial Immortal. It wasn't that he lacked the ability to kill the opponent; he simply didn't want to provoke them. These Celestial Immortals were likely already marked, and killing them might transfer the marks to himself.

After killing one of the celestial beings, Mu Ran then killed the severely wounded celestial being from Qi Zhiheng.

Perhaps because of the closer distance, Qi Zhiheng could sense things more clearly, and that mark-like thing transferred to Mu Ran.

Mu Ran, however, did not care at all and landed on the ground with Qi Zhiheng.

The remaining celestial being, upon seeing the two celestial beings who had fallen to the ground and been killed, had already led the rest of the group away.

Mu Ran retrieved the storage devices from the two corpses and then burned them to ashes.

Mu Ran said to Xu Shang, who had already walked away, "Go back and tell your sect leader! Even if I, Mu Ran, am injured, I am not afraid of him in the slightest! If he dares to send anyone to disturb us again, I will make sure that none of his men return alive!"

The sound wasn't loud, but it traveled directly to Xu Shang's end.

Only after Xu Shang was far away did Mu Ran spit out a mouthful of blood.

Qi Zhiheng asked with some concern, "Senior, how are your injuries?"

Mu Ran swallowed a pill: "It's nothing. But you, I didn't expect you to be able to fight against a celestial being."

Qi Zhiheng laughed and said, "That's because you were seriously injured beforehand, so I had the strength to resist."

Mu Ran waved her hand: "No need to be modest. Let's tidy up here first, otherwise we won't have anywhere to stay tonight."

Qi Zhiheng looked at the mess and asked, "What's in this room?"

"There's nothing of value in it, it's just a waste of a celestial artifact." Mu Ran casually raised the spatial ring in her hand. "We got it all back from them."

Qi Zhiheng thought to himself that it made sense; how could the collections of two celestial beings be worth less than a house?

Mu Ran handed a spatial ring to Qi Zhiheng. It was left behind by the celestial being who had just been killed: "You put in a lot of effort this time, so we'll split what you get. This is much better than that little reward, so don't be stingy. You ascensioners just have such narrow-minded views."

"Thank you, senior." Qi Zhiheng accepted the ring without hesitation. After examining it with his soul power and confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, he put it into his space.

"You deserve this," Mu Ran said. "I owe you a lot this time, otherwise my injuries, which I had just recovered from, would have worsened again."

"I'm also afraid that if you die, my mission reward will be lost," Qi Zhiheng said in a calm tone.

Mu Ran laughed and said, "You certainly have a unique personality."

He restored his immortal spiritual power before using a spell to tidy up the ruins and then rebuild a house on the open space.

Mu Ran was genuinely surprised that the herb garden was undamaged, and readily gave him the spirit stones for the quest: "I'll go to the steward's office with you another day to finish the quest. How about you come help me with some work then? I'll double your reward?"

Qi Zhiheng was speechless. Even with double the reward, it was only twenty immortal spirit stones. He could earn more than that price for a single pill.

Qi Zhiheng naturally declined: "Senior, I'll just finish this month's work. I have other things to do next month."

Mu Ran expressed her deep regret that someone as cheap and useful as Qi Zhiheng could no longer be found in the Immortal Realm.

Mu Ran: "I won't force you. I'm going into seclusion now and will try to come out before your mission is over."

Seeing him about to leave, Qi Zhiheng hurriedly asked, "Senior! I still have something to ask."

"What is it?" Mu Ran stopped in her tracks.

Qi Zhiheng said, "Will the Tiangang Mansion that came this time turn back? Although we withstood their attack this time, I'm afraid that next time..."

Mu Ran said, "You don't need to worry too much. Their Heavenly Gang Palace doesn't have many capable Celestial Immortals. The death of two people this time has freed up two spots for them. Now that I'm still recovering from my injuries, they won't be coming over again."

"What kind of quota?"

"They will come to trouble me, but it's only because they know that I'm injured. My master was originally from Tiangang Mansion, but now he has gone to the Second Heaven. I am still a nominal person in Tiangang Mansion, because this time the quota for Tiangang Mansion to go to the Second Heaven must be mine, but that group of shameless people want to swallow up even my quota." Mu Ran sneered when he said this.

Qi Zhiheng's heart was moved slightly: "A place to go to the Second Heaven? I wonder how to get a place to go to the Second Heaven?"

"You want to go to the Second Heaven? If I could go, there would be a spot for an attendant, but my injuries haven't healed yet, so I might not get it." Mu Ran started to scheme: "How about this, you help me look after the herb garden so I can focus on recovering. Once I'm healed, you can come up with me, right?"

It sounded like a good idea, but Qi Zhiheng didn't agree immediately: "How long will you serve as my attendant? Can I dismiss him at will?"

Mu Ran said, "As long as you can reach the Second Heaven, your identity can be removed. However, if you want to get rid of your servant status, you will need to hand over a piece of immortal spirit stone to change your identity from a servant to a normal resident of the immortal realm."

Qi Zhiheng said, "Actually, I didn't plan to go to the Second Heaven so soon. I still want to find someone. Before I'm sure he's in the First Heaven, I probably won't be able to leave."

"You want to get some information? All you need is a fairy stone." Mu Ran said, "There are many places here where information is bought and sold. As long as the person has been to the First Heaven, you can always find information. Who are you looking for? Let me see if it's easy to find him."

Qi Zhiheng said, "He is also an ascended cultivator, who ascended to the realm about ten years ago."

"Ascension? That makes it even easier to find! There aren't many people who ascend in the Immortal Realm to begin with. As long as you have enough Immortal Spirit Stones, you can buy information." Mu Ran said as she set up a defensive array around the residence.

Qi Zhiheng: "How many immortal spirit stones do you need?"

“If you’re only looking for one person, it would normally cost around 100,000 spirit stones,” Mu Ran said. “You don’t have enough, do you? Considering you saved my life, I can lend you some.”

Qi Zhiheng held up the spatial ring in his hand: "It should be here."

He opened his spatial ring, and inside there were indeed hundreds of thousands of low-grade immortal spirit stones!

He's made up his mind; once this month is over, he'll go and buy some information.

Mu Ran: "..."

Mu Ran: "Then go out and take a look after this month. If you want to go to the Second Heaven, come find me again."