For a cultivator, ten years is but a blink of an eye.
Yunzhou, Qizhou, Mingzhou, and Chaozhou all began deploying their formations, while the Demon Realm, closest to the Thirteen Seas, also made further arrangements. The Demon Palace's two guardians, Qin Siyi and Qin Guihe, were dispatched to Wangcheng, near the Thirteen Seas. Together, they laid the first major formation against the demons.
After that, another three thousand miles away, Qi Luo, the chief steward of the Demonic Palace, would guard Chundu.
The Demon Mountain in the center of the Demon Realm is guarded by the Demon Lord himself.
With so many obstacles like these, it would be incredibly difficult for the demon race to launch another surprise attack. Furthermore, sitting back and waiting for death was not something the human race favored. In the first year of the ten-year peace period, Venerable Hao Xingzi of Mount Taihua and Patriarch Gui Yan of the Broken Soul Sect arrived in the Demon Realm together to gather human cultivators and prepare for the attack ten years later.
These two venerables are both extremely skilled in arranging formations and deploying troops. Although they are not as good as the late Fairy Feng Si in formation, they are also very famous.
When everything was settled, Xuan Lingzi took Luo Jianqing and left the Demon Realm directly.
The next ten years will be an important opportunity for the two races to hide their strength and improve secretly. No one can guarantee whether the demon race will have another heavenly-level demon lord in ten years, or whether the human race will have a few more lords in ten years.
Xuan Lingzi stayed with his disciple day and night, never leaving his side. This behavior surprised Yu Qingzi and the others, but Xuan Lingzi remained calm and said, "Jianqing performed remarkable feats in this battle, revealing his true strength. He was only in the middle stage of the Fusion Realm, yet he was able to activate the Bright Light Green Jade Pearl and successfully launch a surprise attack on Jin Li. The demon race must have already regarded Jianqing as the latest rising genius and a serious threat to humanity. I'm afraid there will be assassination attempts within the next ten years, so I must protect him."
Venerable Yuqingzi thought about it and agreed, but he still felt a little confused. "Junior Brother, even so, there is one thing I'm not quite sure about. When we were fighting Jin Li, I saw Jianqing's spirit. How could his spirit be... like that?"
Hearing this, Luo Jianqing's eyes changed color and he slowly lowered his eyelids.
Xuan Lingzi, however, looked at his senior sister with clear eyes and said in a calm voice, "Jianqing has a special talent in practicing the 'Nine Lotus Heart Record', so his soul is different from that of ordinary people."
Venerable Yuqingzi nodded in understanding.
However, the night before Xuan Lingzi was about to take Luo Jianqing away, Venerable Hao Xingzi came to chat, temporarily sending Luo Jianqing away. He asked solemnly, "The transformation of a soul into a lotus has never happened on Yuxiao Peak in ten thousand years. Junior Brother, could this strange transformation of Jianqing be related to... 'Nine Lotuses Seizing the Heavens' Record?"
Xuan Lingzi flipped his hand and pulled out a blood-red jade token. The moment it appeared, thunderclouds gathered in the sky. Xuan Lingzi quickly put the token away and looked at the bewildered Hao Xingzi. He said calmly, "Brother, I'll be guarding the Nine Lotuses Heaven-Taking Record. You have nothing to worry about."
Venerable Hao Xingzi still felt something was wrong: "But Junior Brother, Jianqing's soul is really..."
"Senior Brother," the handsome, ink-painted Venerable in white frowned slightly and said, "I'm naturally aware of Jianqing's situation. His results from cultivating the 'Nine Lotus Heart Record' are indeed different from mine, but I dare to ask, is there any cultivator in the world who can reach the middle stage of the Fusion before the age of sixty? Even the Venerable Nine Lotus from thirty thousand years ago couldn't compare to him."
Hao Xingzi was finally speechless.
Indeed, looking back over the past 30,000 years, no cultivator has been able to reach the middle stage of fusion before the age of 60.
When Luo Jianqing was his age, Xuan Lingzi was only at the Nascent Soul stage. According to records, even the most brilliant and talented Jiulian Master in Taihua Mountain's history was only at the middle stage of the Out-of-Body stage at that time.
After finishing the business in the Demon Realm, Xuan Lingzi took Luo Jianqing away. As the two of them left the towering and majestic mountain, Luo Jianqing couldn't help but look back, gazing at the majestic palace on the top of the mountain with a complicated expression.
Atop a crimson expanse of earth, a steep, precipitous mountain rose abruptly, looming over the plain. Atop this mountain, a majestic palace stood alone. Countless powerful beings of the human race had gathered here to discuss major events ten years from now. However, the palace's owner had retreated into seclusion several days earlier, detached from worldly affairs.
His long, jet-black hair fluttered in the air, his azure robe outlined with silver threads, a jade belt tightly cinched around his waist, outlining his youthful, slender, and beautiful figure. In this desolate and cold land of the Demonic Realm, the handsome monk, suspended in the azure sky, seemed somewhat dazed, his narrow, phoenix-like eyes fixed on the Demonic Mountain and its palace, unmoved for a long time.
"Gradually clearing."
Luo Jianqing turned around upon hearing this, only to see Xuan Lingzi flipping his hand and taking out a bamboo and wooden treasure ship, looking towards him. He tapped his toes and flew onto the treasure ship.
Xuan Lingzi injected a golden spiritual power into a white jade bead on the bow of the ship. Suddenly, the bead shone with spiritual light, and in the blink of an eye, the ship flew several miles away.
Xuan Lingzi wasn't as skilled in weapon forging as Venerable Huo Mingzi or the Demon Lord, but he had his own unique accomplishments. This was a Heavenly Grade Flying Treasure Ship he had crafted, capable of traveling thousands of miles a day. It would only take four or five days to fly from the Demon Realm to the Far North.
The master and disciple quickly left the Demon Realm, crossed the river, and arrived in Yunzhou.
Whether in the Demon Realm or Yunzhou, cultivators could be seen busily setting up formations everywhere. Over the past hundred years, everyone had almost forgotten the wars that had taken place. Many young cultivators had never even participated in a war, yet once a war began, they had no chance to react.
Luo Jianqing stood at the bow of the flying treasure ship and saw hundreds of cultivators under a hundred years old deployed at the nodes of each large formation, helping the higher-level cultivators set up the formation. Some of them still bore scars, and some were even still injured, yet they stood up.
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