"I am Chu Gang from Qianhuan Sect, greetings to senior. I wonder what business it is that you have come to the Tiantang Kingdom's palace?" An old-looking cultivator in the late Qi Refining stage flew over controlling a magic weapon, bowed towards Li Shiming, and asked in a neither humble nor arrogant manner.
The demeanor of a great sect was fully displayed in Chu Gang.
Even though he was in the late stage of Qi Refining, he had no worries or fears when facing Li Shiming, a cultivator in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.
"Is this the sphere of influence of the Qianhuan Sect?" Li Shiming was slightly stunned and muttered to himself.
He had heard before that Qianhuan Sect and Senluo Sect were adjacent to each other, but after seeing that the defense line between the Shiwan Mountains and the outside world was tens of thousands of miles long, he knew that Qianhuan Sect was not the only sect adjacent to Senluo Sect.
When Chu Gang heard Li Shiming's whisper, his eyes flickered. He guessed in his heart that Li Shiming was most likely a cultivator from afar who was not familiar with this place.
"I want to buy a map. Can you help me?" Li Shiming said with a smile.
Chu Gang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed that Li Shiming was not a demon cultivator, otherwise he wouldn't be so polite to him, a Qi-refining cultivator.
"Senior, you don't have to buy it. I have a map here, but it only has the maps of Qianhuan Sect, Shushan Sect and Qianye Temple. I hope you can forgive me!" Chu Gang took out a jade slip and handed it over.
"Thank you very much!" Li Shiming would not be greedy for such a small advantage. He took out four hundred spirit stones and handed them back.
Chu Gang bowed and accepted the four hundred spirit stones. Four hundred spirit stones were not a lot, but it was definitely not a small amount. For a Qi-refining cultivator, this was considered a good income.
"By the way, Fellow Daoist Chu, I have one more favor to ask of you. I have a letter that please be sent back to your sect and given to Monk Yin Shilan!" Li Shiming continued.
"Senior, you recognize the cultivators of our sect. This is not difficult!" Chu Gang was surprised. Li Shiming didn't even know the sphere of influence of Qianhuan Sect, but he knew the cultivators in the sect. This surprised him greatly.
However, delivering messages is the mission of the stationed monks. When some monks' mortal relatives have important matters that need to be notified to the monks, the messages are delivered through the stationed monks.
Li Shiming took out a jade slip and placed it between his eyebrows. He told Yin Shilan that he had come to Northern Shu and explained his hesitation, wondering whether to join the Shushan Sect or the Qianhuan Sect.
He did not hide anything from Yin Shilan, and there was no need to hide anything in this matter.
"This is the reward. I wonder how many days it will take to deliver the message?" He took out a bottle of Qi Refining stage cultivation auxiliary elixir and asked.
Chu Gang took the auxiliary pills for Qi Refining Period cultivation and confirmed that ten of them were pills he had never taken before. They seemed to be pills from the Shiwan Mountains, and a look of joy appeared on his face.
The monks who can be sent to the mortal world to perform garrison missions are mostly monks who have reached the end of their lives and want to accumulate some resources for their future generations.
The pill that Li Shiming took out was considered ordinary among the pills in the late stage of Qi Refining, but the most important thing was that the pill was a variety that the Qianhuan Sect did not have. For many cultivators who practiced by taking pills, this could achieve the best effect.
The consequence of taking a large number of pills is that you develop resistance to these pills. The original 100% effect will eventually become less than 10%. The more pills you take, the more serious the resistance will become.
There are only a few kinds of auxiliary elixirs for Qi Refining period cultivation. Even if there are new elixirs, they are all re-mixed using the resources produced by Qianhuan Sect, and their drug resistance has not improved much.
This made the elixir produced by the Ten Thousand Mountains that Li Shiming took out extremely precious, at least not something that ordinary sect disciples could obtain.
"I will use the emergency passage and arrive in three days at most!" Chu Gang guaranteed, squeezing the medicine bottle in his hand.
"Then I will stay here for a few days. I hope Brother Chu can provide me with a place to stay!" Li Shiming said with a smile.
"That's not a problem. If you don't mind the lack of spiritual energy in my yard, please come and live in my yard!" After receiving the benefit, Chu Gang said politely.
Under the leadership of Chu Gang, Li Shiming entered the palace and came to a small courtyard in a corner of the palace.
After entering, he felt that the spiritual energy had become much richer, but it was still some distance away from being enough to supply the foundation-building cultivators.
If he really wanted to practice here, Chu Gang would probably be without spiritual energy for a long time.
After sending him to the yard, Chu Gang went to work.
Chu Gang went to the backyard, summoned a spirit bird, and dropped the jade slip into the bamboo tube on the spirit bird's leg.
Before releasing the spirit bird, he needed to know Yin Shilan's identity and cave in the sect. He opened the long-distance communication formation and inquired with the sect.
Soon the news came back from the sect. Although Yin Shilan was a new disciple, her mastery of the Golden Elixir technique in the Foundation Establishment stage and her status as a disciple of the formation master still shocked Chu Gang.
After learning about Yin Shilan's identity, his movements became much lighter. He also took out the spirit bird's favorite snacks and gave some instructions to the spirit bird, asking it to complete the delivery mission seriously.
At the main peak of Qianhuan Sect, a figure with thin shoulders and a slender waist was quietly gazing into the distance. That side was the north, the direction of Tianhai Sect.
It has been more than a year since Yin Shilan came to Qianhuan Sect. Her longing for Li Shiming is faint, but it has never faded at all, and is no different from when she was in Tianhai Sect.
During this year or so, her life was very peaceful. The Qianhuan Sect was not much different from when she was in the Tianhai Sect.
Daily practice and research on formations took up most of her time.
The difference from Tianhai Sect is that Yin Shilan's family is not here, Li Shiming is not here, and there is no one for her to confide her thoughts to.
Thanks to the presence of Master Luo, Yin Shilan did not have any trouble in Qianhuan Sect. Even some cultivators who were attracted by her appearance would retreat in the face of her cold attitude.
"Junior Sister Yin, Junior Sister Yin!" A series of women's voices interrupted Yin Shilan's thoughts. She turned to look at a female cultivator in red with a smile on her face.
The female cultivator in red is named Liang Yexuan. She is also a true disciple, but her identity is more special. She is the daughter of the Jindan Elder.
She is younger than Yin Shilan, but because Yin Shilan joined the sect later, she became her junior sister.
The person who was most happy about Yin Shilan's arrival was Liang Yexuan. Liang Yexuan used to be the youngest one, and every foundation-building cultivator would call her junior sister. Finally, she became a senior sister.
Because they were of similar age and both were true disciples, they quickly became friends.
"Senior Sister Liang, what are you doing in such a hurry?" Yin Shilan asked while supporting Liang Yexuan.
Although she called her senior sister, the manner in which she spoke was somewhat like that of her own younger sister, Ren Feier.
Liang Yexuan has also become accustomed to her attitude. After all, she is her senior sister and there is nothing wrong with that.
"That guy named Zhang always pesters me and follows me as soon as I go out. It's so annoying!" Liang Yexuan said angrily with a pout.
Yin Shilan knew that Liang Yexuan was talking about Senior Brother Zhang, and she also wanted to pester herself, but Yin Shilan seldom went out and stayed in her own place, so it was difficult for Senior Brother Zhang to see her.
"Brother Zhang, just ignore him!" She didn't have any other ideas and could only advise him.
"How could I not know that Zhang was just trying to use me to win over my father? I've heard about his affairs a long time ago. It makes me feel sick just talking about him. He doesn't look like a cultivator at all!" Although Liang Yexuan hated Senior Brother Zhang very much, she was not good at swearing. What she said was the harshest thing she could say.
Yin Shilan was able to know some things about the Qianhuan Sect because Liang Yexuan came to tell her.
At this moment, a message came from Yin Shilan's identity jade disc. She took out the identity jade disc and checked it, and found that it was a notification from the sect's messenger, saying that a spirit bird had delivered her letter.
She tapped her fingers lightly, opening the formation restriction in the area, and a spirit bird flew in and landed in front of her.
She was a little confused as to who would contact her in this way. Soon her eyes widened and she thought of a possibility. She quickly took off the bamboo tube on the spirit bird's feet and poured out a jade slip from it.
Liang Yexuan was a little curious about Yin Shilan's loss of composure. You know, since the day she met Yin Shilan, Yin Shilan never had much emotional fluctuations. He would only smile when he was with her.
Liang Yexuan took out some spiritual food from her storage bag and handed it to the spiritual bird's mouth. This was the reward for the spiritual bird.
Yin Shilan took out the jade slip and placed it between her eyebrows. Her beautiful eyes were full of surprise. After more than a year, she finally got news about Li Shiming again.
Moreover, Li Shiming is in the Tiantang Kingdom, within the sphere of influence of the Qianhuan Sect.
She wanted to see Li Shiming, snuggle up to him, hear his voice with her own ears, and feel his breath.
"Senior Sister Liang, I'm leaving the sect!" She turned around and said to Liang Yexuan with a smile, not hiding her joy.
She didn't want to wait for a moment, she wanted to fly over immediately.
"Junior Sister Yin, should we contact the sect through the communication array before setting off?" Liang Yexuan reminded softly.
Liang Yexuan's eyes were full of gossip. She could bet based on her nearly twenty years of life experience that Yin Shilan must have met a male cultivator.
She really wanted to see with her own eyes what kind of male cultivator could attract the fairy-like Yin Shilan.
Many young talents in the sect wanted to get to know Yin Shilan, but were defeated by Yin Shilan's indifference.
After Liang Yexuan's reminder, Yin Shilan suddenly came to her senses. She quickly activated the Tiantang Kingdom's communication array and sent a contact signal.
The communication on the Beishu Continent is much stronger than that of the Tianhai Sect, and most of the areas are covered by the communication formation.
Even the mortal world with thin spiritual energy can be connected through long-distance communication formations.
Chu Gang received the sect’s communication signal and activated the long-distance communication array.
"Is Li Shiming here?" A pleasant female voice with a slight tremor came to my ear.
"Uncle Yin, Li Shiming is staying in the palace temporarily. Do you want me to invite him over?" When Chu Gang heard the voice and calculated the time, he guessed that it was Yin Shilan who received the jade slip, and he replied.
"Tell Li Shiming to wait for me, I'll be there soon. Don't let him leave!" After saying this, there was no sound from the other end.
Chu Gang looked at the communication array and felt a headache. If Li Shiming wanted to leave, there was no way he could stop him.
On the other side, Yin Shilan took out the flying boat and was about to leave when Liang Yexuan appeared beside him.
"Senior Sister, I have something to do. Why are you following me?" Yin Shilan said anxiously.
"Junior sister, it's not safe for you to leave the sect alone. Let me accompany you!" Liang Yexuan took Yin Shilan's arm and said with a chuckle.
Yin Shilan didn't want to waste time arguing with Liang Yexuan, so he drove the flying boat away.
In fact, within the sphere of influence of the Qianhuan Sect, not to mention the sect cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, even the Qi Refining cultivators will not be in any danger. If there were dangers within the sect's sphere of influence, then the reputation of the Qianhuan Sect would be in vain.
On the flying boat, Yin Shilan mobilized her spiritual power to drive the boat with all her strength. The speed of the flying boat was as urgent as her mood.
She didn't stop her crazy behavior until her spiritual energy was almost exhausted.
"Junior sister, is Li Shiming your lover?" Liang Yexuan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked.
Yin Shilan's face flushed immediately. Her relationship with Li Shiming was almost public when they were on Tianhai Island, but she was still shy when she heard people teasing about it again more than a year later.
"Wow, did Li Shiming come from Tianhai Island? That's not right. Is he very strong? How could he possibly cross the North Sea?" Liang Yexuan's curiosity reached its peak at this time, and she kept asking questions.
"When I left, he had just entered the late stage of Qi Refining. I wonder how strong he is now! At that time, my father said that he would arrange for him to come here on the flying boat of Beishu Trading Company!" Yin Shilan murmured as if recalling the past.
"The Beishu Trading Company's plan to go to Tianhai Island has been delayed. They have not yet reached an agreement with the Mingxin Sect. They will not be able to resume business until at least the negotiations are over!" Liang Yexuan shook her head and said.
She knew a lot about the Northern Shu Continent, and she liked to inquire about these things when she was not practicing.
"If he hadn't taken the flying boat of the Northern Shu Trading Company to cross the North Sea, how could he, a Qi-refining cultivator, have crossed the North Sea and passed through the Hundred Thousand Mountains? To meet his lover, he crossed the sea, jumped over the mountains, and overcame thousands of obstacles. It's so romantic!"
The more Liang Yexuan thought about it, the more excited she became. Such a story was happening right next to her, and she was about to see such a man with her own eyes.
Liang Yexuan couldn't help but feel anxious. She went to the control center of the flying boat and input the spiritual power in her body into it.
The speed of the flying boat increased again. With the full force of the two cultivators in the early stage of foundation building, the flying boat reached the capital of Tiantang Kingdom in less than thirty hours.
Li Shiming was extremely excited when he received Chu Gang's notification. He had almost no intention of practicing and just sat on the roof of the palace looking at the sky.
The emerald green flying boat appeared in the air. Although it used the 'Escape Technique', it could only block the sight of mortals and low-level Qi-refining cultivators. In the eyes of the Foundation Establishment cultivators, this 'Escape Technique' was completely useless.
Li Shiming couldn't wait for the flying boat to land, his figure turned into a sword light and rushed towards the flying boat.
He saw the fairy-like jade-colored figure standing on the flying boat. This figure had appeared countless times in his memory.