Chapter 1024 – It’s Hard to Become an Earth Immortal
After sending Xu Chuniang and Xiao Bai to Taihang Mountain, Gong Lao offered his farewell.
“You guys focus on your cultivation here, I still have some things to take care of, so I’m afraid I have to go ahead.”
“Elder Gong, you can go in peace, we’re cultivating here, we don’t know when we’ll be out of the gate yet.”
Elder Gong nodded, and before he left, he handed over the Formation Order in the mansion to Xu Chuniang.
“This is the formation order of my mansion, I’ll leave first, if there’s anything, send me a message, as long as I’m still in Chang Jing Tian, I’ll send you a message back.”
Xu Chuniang accepted the formation order, and after watching Gong Lao leave, she brought Little White to step into the Taihang Mountain, each choosing a suitable Ascension Platform to start practicing.
The Immortal Ascension Platforms in Taihang Mountain were of a higher quality than the ones in Floating Jade City, but Xu Chuniang didn’t just greed for speed and pursue advancement, and always kept her cultivation speed within what her body could handle.
In the six months that followed, after consuming 150,000 Immortal Crystals, her cultivation once again broke through a small realm, smoothly advancing to the late Human Immortal stage.
Xu Chuniang took out her identity token and scanned it, there were a few unread transmissions from Gong Lao.
The transmission mentioned that as early as four months ago, he had gone to the Third Heavens, and if the trip went well, he would return to the Everquiet Sky a year later.
As for Little White, the last time he had transmitted with her was still half a year ago, and at this moment, it was 80% still in closed-door cultivation.
She put down the identity token, and took the Jade Guide and looked through it for a while, the two commissions released before were still the same, there were quite a few people who took the commissions, but no one was ever able to complete the commissions or provide valid information.
It seems that the matter of inquiring for information and finding the whereabouts of Little Orange has a long way to go.
After putting away the identity token and jade guide, Xu Chuniang adjusted her mindset and continued to cultivate.
Time rushed by, and in the blink of an eye, another year passed.
Somewhere in the Immortal Ascension Platform, Xu Chunniang opened her eyes, her expression slightly helpless.
As early as half a year ago, she had already broken through to the peak of the Human Immortal realm, originally thinking that as long as she continued to cultivate, she would be able to smoothly achieve the Earth Immortal body, but who knew that after half a year had passed, she still hadn’t been able to break through.
This feeling was very strange, she clearly didn’t sense any bottlenecks, but it was as if there was an invisible barrier that cut her off from this door.
Continuing to cultivate bitterly was just a waste of time, so Xu Chuniang simply got up, left the Immortal Ascension Platform, and walked out of Taihang Mountain.
Outside of Taihang Mountain, she met Xiao Bai, who had been waiting for a long time.
More than two months ago, after more than a year of bitter cultivation, Xiao Bai smoothly broke through to the Human Immortal Middle Realm, but not long after the breakthrough, he soon encountered a bottleneck and his cultivation could not advance an inch.
Xiao Bai didn’t waste any time in the Immortal Ascension Stage, and after sending a message to his sister to inform her of his whereabouts, he left Taihang Mountain.
After feeling the increasingly majestic aura on Xu Chuniang’s body, Xiao Bai greeted her, ”Sister, how is it? Have you achieved the body of an Earth Immortal?”
Xu Chuniang shook her head, “I encountered some problems, right now my cultivation is at the peak of the Human Immortal realm, if I want to break through to Earth Immortal, I’m afraid it won’t be as easy as I thought before.”
Xiao Bai comforted, “It’s already very rare for sister to be able to achieve such an accomplishment in just a few years, not being able to achieve the body of an Earth Immortal may be because the opportunity has not yet arrived, there’s no need to be too anxious.”
Xu Chuniang nodded slightly and did not continue with this topic, but in her heart, she knew that the truth was not what Xiao Bai had guessed.
She clearly did not feel any bottlenecks, as long as she had enough Immortal Crystals, she could keep cultivating, but the truth was that no matter how she cultivated, her cultivation would no longer improve by half.
As for why this was happening, she wasn’t very clear. “Let’s go, counting the time, one year and three months have passed since Elder Gong went to the Three Heavens, I think he will be back soon, let’s go to his residence and wait for him.”
“Hmm, but before we go, I want to go into the small world to take a look at those immortal herbs I raised, I don’t know if they’ve grown well in the past year or so.”
Xiao Bai’s request was one that Xu Chuniang naturally wouldn’t refuse, and the two of them entered the small world, appearing next to the twigs and spirit fields.
The immortal qi in the small world was thin, coupled with the fact that there was no care from Xiao Bai, the immortal grasses in the spiritual field looked shriveled, and a few of them had even withered, it was heartbreaking to see Xiao Bai.
As for the twigs, they were still the same.
Without saying a word, Xiao Bai nourished the immortal grass with immortal qi, only those few withered, obviously can’t be saved.
After tending to the immortal grasses one by one, and focusing on the little twig, Little White suddenly spoke, “Sister, why don’t I stay in the little world.”
Xu Chuniang was stunned, “These immortal grasses aren’t worth many immortal crystals, you can just enter the small world every once in a while, there’s no need to stay here for them.”
Xiao Bai shook his head, “I’m not doing this for them, but for myself, although I have learned the new technique you gave me earlier, I always feel that there are still a lot of things that I haven’t learned, and I want to ponder over them.
This small world is empty and vast, it’s just right for me to retreat, and by the way, I can also take care of the twigs and these immortal grasses.”
Seeing that Xiao Bai’s mind was made up, Xu Chuniang did not persuade him any further, and after giving Xiao Bai the right to come and go freely in the small world, she left the small world alone and headed towards Gong Lao’s residence.
Calculating the time, Gong Lao should also be back.
The fact is as Xu Chuniang expected, she just arrived at Gong Lao’s residence not a few days, and waited for Gong Lao.
Seeing Xu Chuniang, he squeezed out a smile on his face, “Girl Xu, haven’t seen you for more than a year, your cultivation has refined quite a bit again, it seems that during the time I wasn’t here, you weren’t idle in Taihang Mountain.”
Xu Chuniang keenly sensed that Elder Gong didn’t seem to be in a good mood, could it be that his errand to the Three Heavens didn’t go well this time?
She voiced out the questions in her mind, and Gong Lao simply didn’t even bother to pretend, and got up with a sad face.
“Alas! Am I acting so obvious?”
Xu Chuniang was silent for a moment, “Was the transfer dismissed?”
Elder Gong smiled bitterly, “It would have been fine if it was merely that, and if it didn’t work out, at most, he would have lost some immortal crystals.
The truth is, the transfer passed, I was transferred to the Immortal Demon Battlefield, had I known it would be like this, I might as well have stayed at Zhangwei Mountain, at least there was no risk to my life.”
“Immortal Demon Battlefield?”
Xu Chuniang had a vague guess in her heart, “Is it that battlefield in the Heavenly Canyon in the Three Heavens?”
“Isn’t it?”
Gong Lao had a bitter look on his face, pulling out a wine gourd and pouring a mouthful, “That’s the battlefield of the Immortals and Demons, I don’t know how many famous Celestial Immortals and Celestial Demons had died in the battle where I’m an old man with old arms and legs, once I go there, I simply can’t keep my head above water.”
Xu Chuniang was a bit strange, “Why would you be transferred there for good reason?”
“It’s not because, those devils have recently made a new move, more and more devils have been pouring into the Immortal and Demon Battlefield lately, the front line is tight, it’s because I didn’t know the inside story, and rushed to put forward the transfer order at this time, I was thrown there.”
Mentioning this matter, Gong Lao was filled with chagrin, but unfortunately, the transfer order had already come down, and there was no more room to turn around. (End of chapter)