Chapter 377: The Crisis of Kunpeng Immortal City
"Ning Daoran."
Lin Tiannan looked at the scenery of Liufeng Island and Chigua Island in the distance and said, "Now that the two island owners Huang Yihan and Nangong Rou have fallen, these two islands will be awarded to you. I will have someone rewrite the deed and send it to you later."
"Okay, thank you, Senior Lin!"
Ning Daoran bowed and saluted. Having two more islands was naturally a good thing. Moreover, this way, Liufeng Island and Chigua Island would not take over the main island, which would naturally save a lot of trouble.
Not long after, Lin Tiannan left.
He is the lord of Kunpeng Immortal City, and he is in charge of the immortal city. Logically, he cannot be moved lightly.
"Fellow Daoist Ning."
Chen Liang led a group of cultivators forward, clasped his fists and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Brother Ning for once again receiving two immortal islands. The Palace Master relies heavily on you, and I'm sure you can sense it."
"Thank you City Lord Lin for your kindness. I am quite nervous!" Ning Daoran looked humble.
“Hahaha~~~”
Chen Liang was already an old acquaintance, and said with a smile: "No need to do that, since it is a gift from the Palace Master, just take it with peace of mind. I will go to patrol the nearby seas and find the source of the black tide, so I won't say any more to you."
"good."
Ning Daoran nodded and returned to the island owner's cave.
…
Inside the cave.
Huang Yiyi was in tears, still immersed in the sad news of her father's death.
"Uncle Ning..."
Huang Yiyi wiped her tears and said: "Father's body can..."
"There are no remains."
Ning Daoran shook his head: "Fellow Daoist Huang fought bloody battles with many monsters to protect Liufeng Island and Chigua Island. He was seriously injured. After his death, his body has returned to dust and earth to earth."
He frowned and said, "After this matter is settled, I will build a cenotaph for him on Chigua Island, so that you won't have a place to worship your father in the future."
"Okay, thank you Uncle Ning."
"Huang Yiyi."
Ning Daoran said, "What are you going to do in the future? Before Huang Daoyou died, he only asked me to rescue you from Chigua Island, but he didn't completely trust you, so what you will do in the future depends on you."
"I……"
Huang Yiyi pursed her red lips and said, "I heard from my father that he came from the Huang family in Yizhou. When he left, the family had already fallen into decline. Now there are only a few people left, and even the ancestral land has been sold, so..."
With red eyes, she said, "I want to follow Uncle Ning, is that okay?"
"Can."
Ning Daoran said, "Since you are going to stay with me on Liuhua Island, you must practice well and learn more from your sister Zhuyue. After you build your foundation, I will leave Chigua Island to you to take care of. You will not let your father down."
"Yes, thank you Uncle Ning!"
So Huang Yiyi settled down on Liuhua Island.
…
A few days later.
Unexpectedly, the black tide receded completely, and Liuhua Island returned to its former tranquility. Ning Daoran built a cenotaph for Huang Yihan on Chigua Island, and also gathered people to bury all the corpses on Liufeng Island and Chigua Island. Those whose names were known were erected with tombstones, while those whose names were unknown could only give up.
In the evening, Chen Liang returned with a group of people.
"Have you found out the truth?"
Ning Daoran served a cup of spiritual tea.
"No."
Chen Liang frowned and said, "I followed the breath of the black tide and the crimson demon to the depths of the sea and found an abyss. I led people into the end of the abyss, but found nothing. It was as if the black tide had evaporated from the face of the earth in an instant. It was really strange."
“To be honest…”
Ning Daoran said, "Since the black tide has disappeared, Fellow Daoist Chen doesn't need to be so busy anymore. Just leave some people to observe for a while. I am here to guard the Liuhua Three Islands, so nothing serious should happen."
“That’s best!”
Chen Liang stood up and said, "I have a mission to fulfill, so I won't bother you any more. Goodbye, Fellow Daoist Ning!"
A few hours later.
Kunpeng Fairy City, Nantian Palace.
"Have you found out anything?" Lin Tiannan asked calmly.
"Not only did the black tide not spread, but it disappeared completely within a few days. I led people to trace the source and found an abyss deep in the sea. At the end of the abyss... there was no sign of the existence of the Crimson Demon or the black tide, but..."
He held a jade bead in his hand and said, "I am using the Image Bead to record the scene at the end of the abyss. Please have a look, Palace Master."
"oh?"
Lin Tiannan raised his hand and sucked the Shadow Pearl into his hand. After activating a strand of magic power, strands of silk-like light suddenly radiated from the Shadow Pearl, casting the light and shadow of the end of the abyss around him.
On the rock wall of the abyss, there were traces of sword marks, and there were also several spear beams deeply embedded in the rock. Those were naturally the traces left by Ning Daoran using the Qinglong Spear to destroy the dimensional gap.
"It seems that the Kuroshio did not disappear naturally this time, but was man-made."
Lin Tiannan said: "But who has the means to kill the source of the black tide directly in the abyss? The aura of the crimson demons in this abyss is so strong that at least tens of thousands of crimson demons must have lived here. Who can kill tens of thousands of crimson demons?"
"Ning Daoran?"
Chen Liang asked calmly.
“Not likely.”
Lin Tiannan shook his head. "Although Ning Daoran is gifted and has even developed a method to target the Crimson Demon, he is only in the middle stage of the Golden Core after all. The method to target the Crimson Demon consumes a lot of mana and vitality. From what I have observed, killing two thousand Crimson Demons is already the limit for Ning Daoran. There is no way he could have done this."
"If that's the case, it should be the work of some powerful people lurking in the world of immortal cultivation."
Chen Liang said: "Palace Master, Senior Shen hasn't appeared for a hundred years, right? Could it be him who did this?"
“Not likely.”
Lin Tiannan frowned and said, "Senior in the Spiritualization Stage has strong cultivation, but the less Heaven and Earth Qi is used, the less it will be. Senior Shen took action last time because the location of the black tide was too vicious, and he wanted to kill all the cultivators from Xia and Sangyu countries in one fell swoop. This time, at most, he will only destroy the three Liuhua Islands. There is no way Senior Shen will take action."
"Could it be another powerful god?"
“Not likely.”
Lin Tiannan shook his head: "The other few masters in the Spiritualization Stage are either accumulating mana or preparing to ascend to the Earthly Immortal Realm. It is impossible for them to appear in the Wuwang Sea area at this time."
"If that's the case, I don't know who did this."
"That's all."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Lin Tiannan said: "You should retreat. Maybe it was done by Shen Luoyan, the owner of the Immortal Killing Tower."
…
Liuhua Island.
After the Kuroshio incident, the three Ryuka Islands were peaceful again. There was an endless stream of independent practitioners and merchants coming and going on the islands, and business was booming.
Ning Daoran taught Huang Yiyi two basic skills, asked her to practice well and prepare to build her foundation, and asked Sui Zhuyue to supervise Huang Yiyi's practice.
Although Sui Zhuyue hated Huang Yihan very much and despised the character of this Jindan senior, she had no prejudice against Huang Yiyi. Huang Yiyi was kind by nature, simple in character, and had a good aptitude for cultivation. She was also very obedient to Ning Daoran. Sui Zhuyue liked her very much and took care of her in every way.
After everything settled down, Ning Daoran decided to go into seclusion again.
He continued to immerse himself in the training of the Dragon Demon Heart Sutra. After tasting the sweetness of strengthening his physical body, he would definitely practice the Dragon Demon Heart Sutra to above the twentieth level.
In this way, three years passed in the blink of an eye.
This year, Ning Daoran was 268 years old and was heading straight for the 300 mark.
In the past, when he was in his twenties in his previous life, he often felt anxious about his own mediocrity and the fact that he was approaching his thirties. In the few years after graduation, he tossed and turned in bed trying to find a job and go on blind dates. He had nightmares every night and it was very difficult to endure.
But now it is different. Although I am "approaching 300", I am not panicking at all! Anyway, it has already come to this. Sooner or later, I will become a thousand-year-old turtle in the Nascent Soul Stage and the Spiritual Transformation Stage. There is no point in panicking. Just keep a good attitude. A man is a boy until he dies!
"Get out!"
He slowly walked out of the Lingpu Cave, and Huang Yiyi immediately brought him a cup of spiritual tea.
"Uncle Ning, are you out of quarantine?"
"Um."
Ning Daoran nodded, his whole body emitting powerful blood and energy. After three years of immersion, he finally gained something. He successfully broke through the Dragon Demon Heart Sutra and now it has reached the seventeenth level!
He stretched out his arms, feeling inspired.
I don’t know what the current situation is like in Longwu Mountain. Zhuo Ting and the others should be quite old now. I don’t know what level they have cultivated the Dragon Demon Heart Sutra to. I wonder what Zhuo Ting would think if he knew that he had cultivated the Dragon Demon Heart Sutra to the terrifying seventeenth level.
"Sir."
At this time, Sui Zhuyue came in from outside with a smile on her face, holding a book in her hand, and said with a smile: "This year's first-level spiritual rice business is very good, and just now two spiritual farmers who can grow second-level spiritual rice have signed a 30-year contract with Liuhua Island. In addition, we already have second-level spiritual farmers, so starting next year, the output of second-level spiritual rice will increase greatly."
"good."
Ning Daoran glanced at the book, then scanned Sui Zhuyue's body with his golden elixir consciousness.
"ah?"
For a moment, Sui Zhuyue's pretty face turned red.
Huang Yiyi on the side had a smile on her face, as if she knew what was going on.
"Zhu Yue, you have been slacking off in your cultivation recently. Don't divert so much of your energy to mundane things. Just hand over the island's business to a few managers. You need to achieve Dan-forming soon."
"yes!"
Sui Zhuyue nodded slightly, feeling inexplicably disappointed. She had thought Ning Daoran had finally come to her senses.
“Sister Sui!”
Huang Yiyi lowered her voice and smiled, "It's a waste of hope, isn't it?"
"Little girl!"
Sui Zhuyue laughed and scolded, and the two of them started to quarrel.
In fact, whether to keep Sui Zhuyue and Huang Yiyi was decided by voting by Ning Daoran, Dabenlu, Xiao Heizi and Bishugui.
In the end, everyone agreed that if they wanted to accept someone, they should either not accept them or accept a pretty woman and keep her by their side. After all, she was pleasing to the eye and could help with their spiritual practice.
If the two people fighting in front of me were not two beautiful women, but two grown men...
That would be so eye-catching!
…
"Island Master!"
A voice of a Foundation Establishment Stage manager came from outside: "Someone from Kunpeng Immortal City has come over, saying that something big has happened in the Immortal City. City Lord Lin asks the Island Master to go there!"
"Oh? Let someone in."
"yes!"
Not long after, a cultivator in the late foundation building stage stepped into the cave. This person had come to Liuhua Island with Chen Liang several times before, but he was injured at this time. His entire arm was covered in blood. He knelt on the ground and said in a deep voice: "Island Master Ning, something big has happened! A black tide suddenly appeared in the jungle south of Kunpeng Immortal City. The black tide spread very quickly and is about to attack the immortal city! This is the first time that a black tide has appeared from land. It is extremely rare. Kunpeng Immortal City is in danger!"
(End of this chapter)