NOVPUBDaoist of the Hundred Blossoms turned away, trembling and dared not respond.
Li Ping waited for a long time, but still did not see any change of mind from Bai Hua. He then sighed lightly and stored away the three True Immortal Seal Characters beside him.
"Well, if the Daoist friend is unwilling, I shall not insist," he said.
"After all, not everyone has the courage to leverage the Power of the True Immortal..."
"As for the task of moving the Five Elements Great Cave Heaven, is there anything troubling you?" Li Ping returned to the main topic and asked.
Feeling the disappearance of those terrifying forces around him, the Daoist of the Hundred Blossoms briefly recovered from her panic.
The tone of Saint Emperor Li Ping’s inquiry had subtly changed compared to before. Bai Hua knew that if she refused again, she might truly anger this madman and thus reluctantly agreed.
"Please set off as soon as possible, fellow Daoist. Oh, and since you are unfamiliar with the area, for safety, I will send a disciple to accompany you," Li Ping mentioned casually.
When the Daoist of the Hundred Blossoms saw the so-called disciple of Li Ping, she couldn’t help but feel her scalp tingle and her body tremble once again.
"This is..."
Although Bai Hua was exceptionally knowledgeable and had witnessed the destruction of many realms, she was still momentarily unable to accept this: a body that looked completely like an ordinary human but was internally composed of countless wriggling, unknown small worms. Each of these worms had its own individual thoughts yet collectively formed a "human" community.
The Daoist of the Hundred Blossoms’s head tingling was not because she was scared by the endless hideous worms but because it was an instinctive bodily reaction.
Those worms seemed to have a certain innate marking on bodies composed purely of energy.
Even though she was in the Immortal Realm and was still some distance from these worms, Bai Hua could still feel a sudden birth of irritability and unease within her, continuously warning her to stay away from this worm-person.
"You may call him ’Dao Yi,’" Li Ping answered, unrelatedly.
"Don’t worry, although Dao Yi’s strength is somewhat lacking, he possesses some unique abilities. With his help, moving the Five Elements Great Cave Heaven should be much easier for you."
Seeing this, the Daoist of the Hundred Blossoms gritted her teeth and nodded slightly. Under Dao Yi’s lead, she headed straight for the Sky-spirit State.
Watching the two figures disappearing into the distance, Li Ping did not feel much joy in his heart for having intimidated someone of the Immortal Realm.
"It’s still a lack of personal strength. I can only intimidate by leveraging external forces. If I could exert the Essence of Source Power, it wouldn’t be so troublesome."
Dao Yi was a special variation preserved within the Ten Thousand Beasts Crystallize, from the Dao Yi Bug.
No matter how much their number swelled, they could always maintain a collective group consciousness. Even more crucially, the Dao Yi Bug was not just producing Spiritual Energy.
It seemed to reside in Spiritual Energy, using it to proliferate itself, and then gradually transforming itself into an existence like Spiritual Energy.
Given sufficient external proliferation conditions, "Dao Yi" only needed about a year to convert all the Spiritual Energy in a Small World into "itself."
The entire process was utterly silent, and it didn’t even affect the various creatures that depended on Spiritual Energy to live.
Even weaker Cultivators couldn’t detect it.
Only those who reached the Nascent Soul Realm and had their Cave Heaven within could sense this Mutated Spiritual Energy.
Li Fan’s intention for sending "Dao Yi," which was cultivated from a strand of his consciousness, to the Five Elements Great Cave Heaven was to enable it to undergo a transformation beyond its limits there.
By leveraging the massive scale of Spiritual Energy in the Five Elements Great Cave Heaven, he aimed to cultivate a large amount of Mutated Spiritual Energy that could shake the entire Xuanhuang World.
Under normal conditions, Dao Yi could not develop in the Xuanhuang World.
Once the mutation of the Spiritual Energy exceeded a certain scale, it would inevitably alert the Cultivators and be reported to the Immortal Alliance.
Although dealing with these bugs was a bit troublesome, it was actually not difficult for the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals.
But after all, from discovery to governance, a certain reaction time is needed.
If there was a sufficient quantity basis, they could complete a major swap of the Xuanhuang World’s Spiritual Energy before the cultivators in the Xuanhuang realm could react.
This strategy of pulling the rug out from under someone’s feet was a tactic that Li Ping prepared for the counter-attack against the Xuanhuang World.
When the Spiritual Energy developed its own consciousness and could distinguish between friend and foe,
the advantage the United Federation of All Realms’ cultivators would have in battles against the Cultivators of the Immortal Alliance might not be just a little.
"Dare to demand the sun and moon to change the New Sky."
"The aura of Xuanhuang World is far too decayed. It’s time to teach them a harsh lesson."
As a split entity of Li Fan, Saint Emperor Li Ping had his memories concerning Hai Zhen removed.
In his own consciousness, he was the will of Xuanhuang World attempting to save itself from a world-ending crisis, a product of coincidence and opportunity.
The so-called Heaven-Mandated Saint.
He knew most of Xuanhuang World’s deepest secrets very clearly.
He had even foreseen numerous potential destructions of his own future.
And his ultimate pursuit was to transform and liberate Xuanhuang World from the corrupt rule of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals.
Saint Emperor Li Ping firmly believed that he was not far from achieving this goal.
...
The first grand finals of the Da Qi fishing competition officially commenced.
Ten outstanding participants would demonstrate their fishing skills in front of the Emperor.
Originally, all three disciples of the Saint Emperor were competitors, but in the end, only the simple-minded Wang Xuanba advanced to the finals.
This undoubtedly further proved the fairness of the competition.
After passing through a circular light gate and experiencing a moment of dizziness, these ten competitors arrived at a seemingly ordinary garden.
The great Faceless Saint Emperor was sitting by a small pond nearby, fishing with his eyes closed.
The majority of the ten had never seen the Emperor’s face. Out of respect, they bowed their heads and waited anxiously.
After a long while, the Emperor suddenly reeled in his line.
To everyone’s surprise, what was drawn up from the pond was not a fish.
Instead, it was a white orb of light.
Casually pocketing the orb of light, the Emperor turned towards the ten outstanding fishermen and explained the rules of the competition.
"This pond contains countless treasures," he said.
"One rod per person, one chance."
"The higher the quality of the treasure you fish up, the better your score will be."
...
This statement excited everyone listening.
Because the Emperor promised that, regardless of the ranking, the treasures fished out would belong to the competitors themselves!
Eager to try, Wang Xuanba, as a disciple of the Saint Emperor, was the first to act.
Wang Xuanba had never been to the Fishing Pond before.
He sat down blankly for a long while, then reeled in his line.
Ultimately, his hands were empty.
No catch!
This made Wang Xuanba quite disheartened.
The other competitors, witnessing this, were all greatly shaken. They realized the Emperor’s fishing test was not as simple as ordinary fishing. Each one became tense and serious in turn.
As they took their turns heading towards the Fishing Pond, eventually one purple, three blue, and five white orbs of light were fished out from the pond.
