Chapter 26: Achievement

The prince and princess were indeed somewhat bewildered. Clearly, he had seemed to be merely a Primordial Spirit Daoist before, and it was one thing that he had killed hundreds of Firewing Guards, but how could he have also killed eight of the Twelve Eastern Flow Demon Kings?

Although they had not witnessed it with their own eyes, the dozens of immortal-grade treasures could not be false. They would not believe that Firewing Demon King and the other demon kings would willingly give away the immortal-grade treasures they relied on to dominate to Senior Beiming.

"Big brother, we must take Senior Beiming as our master. If we miss this chance, I'm afraid we'll never encounter such an existence again in our lives," the black-clad girl suddenly said.

"Right," the prince's eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly. "Senior Beiming is even more formidable than the Twelve Eastern Flow Demon Kings! He is immeasurably more powerful than my Qi Kingdom."

The black-clad girl said solemnly, "Firewing Demon King is dead, and his Firewing Guards have fled in panic. They know that Senior Beiming is protecting us, so the surviving Firewing Guards will never pursue us again. From now on, we no longer need to flee."

The prince was startled, then nodded excitedly. He was not as perceptive as his sister.

"But the Qi Kingdom's royal clan now consists only of the two of us. How can we become strong?" the black-clad girl said in a low voice. "Relying solely on ourselves, I'm afraid we will never see the Qi Kingdom's former prosperity in our lifetimes. But with Senior Beiming's help, we have hope."

"Mm," Qi Rufeng nodded solemnly. "Let's go and take him as our master."

"We must sincerely take him as our master. For someone as formidable as Senior Beiming, even a hint of disloyalty would be unacceptable," the black-clad girl also reminded him.

Then the siblings entered the immortal mansion together.

Inside the hall of the immortal mansion.

Qingya Xiaoyu was sitting there, watching the royal siblings as they entered.

"We wish to see Senior Beiming," Qi Rufeng said.

"My master is in seclusion. Please wait," Qingya Xiaoyu said, not driving them away, because she knew that since they could enter the immortal mansion, it meant Ji Ning allowed it. After all, this was Ji Ning's cave treasure; if Ji Ning were unwilling, the siblings could not have entered at all.

...

The reason Ji Ning had let them in was that he had discovered something special.

"Hmm?"

"Treasure map?" Ji Ning flipped through the items before him. There were eight maps, all identical—all treasure maps!

Although the eight slain demon kings were formidable, their storage treasures were only at the Heavenly rank, so Ji Ning naturally found them easy to refine. When he examined the storage treasures of these eight demon kings, he was astonished to find... that each demon king's storage treasure contained a treasure map, and they were all identical.

The treasure map also had simple markings, such as 'Qi Kingdom,' 'Quya Mountains,' and other annotations, which made Ji Ning realize at once that the treasure map was compiled by the Qi Kingdom's royal clan! For this reason, Ji Ning allowed the prince and princess to enter the immortal mansion.

"Each of the eight demon kings had a map. Firewing Demon King's map was more ancient. The other seven were probably copies made with the water-printing technique," Ji Ning frowned. "By the way, I only killed a few hundred Firewing Guards, yet the Twelve Eastern Flow Demon Kings appeared together in a very short time. Logically, the Twelve Eastern Flow Demon Kings were scattered in different places; just gathering them after sending messages would take considerable time. This can only mean one thing... when the news of my killing hundreds of Firewing Guards reached Firewing Demon King, the other demon kings were already there!"

"What situation would cause these twelve demon kings to gather?"

Combined with the treasure map each demon king possessed, Ji Ning had fully guessed it.

"Their gathering was probably for this treasure!"

Ji Ning immediately continued searching, examining Firewing Demon King's storage treasure most carefully. Indeed... nothing else was found in the other demon kings' storage treasures, but in Firewing Demon King's storage treasure, Ji Ning discovered an ancient book. The pages of this book were golden-yellow and would not decay even after countless eons.

"The first time I went to the Quya Mountains, I merely entered by chance while exploring and taking risks..."

"I have become a returned void earth immortal. Before undergoing the tribulation, I decided to enter again. Although I knew it was dangerous, I had only explored a small corner of this treasure site. If I could obtain a few more treasures, I believe I would have hope of overcoming the tribulation and becoming a celestial immortal."

"..."

"Six scattered immortals went to the Quya Mountains again..."

"This time, after preparing many talisman treasures, they came to the Quya Mountains again..."

Ji Ning flipped through the book.

This was a book passed down by the Qi Kingdom's royal clan, recounting the great secret of the Qi Kingdom's rise. The founding emperor of the Qi Kingdom had obtained some benefits from it and relied on them to establish the kingdom. In just a few tens of thousands of years, the Qi Kingdom had produced many earth immortals and scattered immortals. Naturally, the Qi Kingdom's royal clan attempted to enter again and again, recording the various dangers of this treasure site.

They sought to learn from experience and succeed in penetrating deeper!

"Treasure?" Ji Ning murmured in surprise. "According to this description, with the qi cultivation techniques, divine abilities, and secret arts obtained from the treasure, the Qi Kingdom had dozens of scattered immortals and earth immortals in a few tens of thousands of years? That far surpasses my Black-White College. I'm afraid these techniques, divine abilities, and secret arts also far exceed those of my Black-White College."

"Well, I should take a good look."

When Ji Ning was at Mount Square Inch, he often chatted with his senior brothers, so he naturally knew quite a bit about this Crescent Moon World.

For instance, the secrets of the 'Evil Dragon River' and many other secrets.

Although this Crescent Moon World was created by Patriarch Bodhi, when the ancient Primordial World shattered, Patriarch Bodhi used his great divine powers to directly teleport some fragments of the ancient world into this Crescent Moon World. Sometimes, when Patriarch Bodhi wanted to create or experiment with something, he would also do so within the Crescent Moon World!

Because this was Patriarch Bodhi's territory, his secrets would never leak out.

"I've heard from senior brothers that within the Crescent Moon World, there are fragment spaces of the ancient Primordial World, and even some treasures left behind from that great battle," Ji Ning's heart grew warm. Very few knew this secret; mainly, the patriarch's direct disciples were aware, so they often roamed the Crescent Moon World in search of such places.

"But these places, which even retain some residual power from that final great battle of the ancient Primordial World, are sealed by the patriarch. Unless one goes there in person, one cannot detect them."

"Now it seems this treasure site is probably a special place."

Ji Ning was very certain.

Because according to the description, the fluctuations deep within the treasure site made some scattered immortals of the Qi Kingdom's royal clan tremble with fear. Scattered immortals could directly suppress and refine immortal-grade treasures, even suppress pure yang treasures. What could make them afraid? The corpse of a great power from ancient times? A weapon? A great formation set up by someone? Or some other strange thing?

"I'll take a good look," Ji Ning immediately decided to go and see. Since an opportunity had come, how could he hesitate?

...

After the prince and princess had waited for a long time, Ji Ning finally emerged.

Ji Ning asked about the treasure. The second princess knew nothing, but Prince Qi Rufeng hesitated, unwilling to reveal the royal clan's greatest secret. However, when Ji Ning mentioned the 'Quya Mountains,' the prince regretted it and finally spoke up.

"You may leave."

Ji Ning simply gave the order.

The prince and princess knelt down, begging to take him as their master.

Ji Ning did something simple: he directly teleported them out of the immortal mansion. Then the entire immortal mansion vanished into thin air and left. Only the prince, princess, servants, and guards stood foolishly on the mountain peak that had been shaved flat. The mountain wind blew, tousling their hair, and they felt despair.

"The opportunity was right before me. Why didn't I speak? It was just a treasure! Senior Beiming already knew about it. He probably intended to take me as a disciple, but it was a test for me, and I didn't speak! I regret it!" Prince Qi Rufeng was filled with remorse.

How could he know that even if he had spoken, Ji Ning would not have taken him as a disciple?

Taking disciples was not so casual.

...

Ji Ning did not rush to the treasure site in the Quya Mountains. Instead, he first went to find the two great sinners.

He first sought out the three surviving great-sin demon kings among the Twelve Eastern Flow Demon Kings who had escaped earlier. Unfortunately, only the fourth-ranked 'Venomsting Demon King' was found by Ji Ning. At the time, Venomsting Demon King was drinking in his demon king palace to vent his frustration and displeasure, with a fox demon beauty in his arms for his amusement.

When Ji Ning appeared, Venomsting Demon King was so frightened he tried to flee, but once Ji Ning showed himself, how could he give him a chance to escape?

"What have I done to offend you!" Venomsting Demon King left behind only a furious roar before being slain by Ji Ning.

...

Then Ji Ning spent over half a month finding a scattered immortal notorious for his evil deeds in a sect. This was a human scattered immortal, the true strongest of that sect, an old fellow who had lived for over six hundred thousand years. His sect was an evil one, and Ji Ning directly stormed this demon lair!

First, he killed three scattered immortals who charged at him. Finally, the old fellow rushed out. Under the eager gazes of the sect's many disciples and descendants... their fearsome, all-powerful ancestor fought with Ji Ning for a long time before finally being killed by the combined attack of Ji Ning's true body and clone!

"What a formidable opponent! His strength is close to that of Golden Fur Bear Demon King, only lacking in defense," Ji Ning enjoyed this battle thoroughly. From this old fellow, he obtained two immortal-grade treasures: one top-grade immortal treasure and one high-grade immortal treasure.

This man was the strongest Ji Ning had slain so far.

"Wonderful, wonderful."

"Having killed so many powerful scattered immortals, the accumulated baleful aura is strong enough. My three Northmoon swords can now rival high-grade immortal flying swords," Ji Ning rejoiced. The killing of ordinary scattered immortals didn't count, but the killing of the nine demon kings and that evil ancestor produced astonishing baleful aura. Especially that ancestor, whose baleful aura was equivalent to that of four or five demon kings.

"If I kill ten more evil ancestors, I estimate my Northmoon swords could rival top-grade immortal flying swords," Ji Ning calculated.

...

Having succeeded in taking a disciple and slain the ten great sinners, Ji Ning finally brought his disciple Qingya Xiaoyu to the Quya Mountains.

"So this is the Quya Mountains?" Ji Ning looked into the distance. The mountain range stretched to the horizon, perpetually shrouded in mist. On the side near Ji Ning, the mountains formed a sharp tooth-like shape.