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Chapter 73: The Qilin’s Speculation

Lu Xunxian did not waste any words on the Qilin. He raised a hand and pressed a finger against its forehead, instantly reading its memories.

“So that is how it is. You were sealed here by an Immortal King?”

Lu Xunxian was somewhat surprised.

From the Qilin’s memories, he learned that the Qilin before him had once been a powerful existence at the Peak of the True Immortal Realm. Yet while it was in the Immortal Realm, it had accidentally come into conflict with an Immortal King expert.

Fearing that the Qilin Clan would learn of it, that Immortal King had acted with great decisiveness and, without the slightest hesitation, sealed the Qilin within Tiansheng Continent. That seal had lasted for a full three hundred thousand years.

As for why he had not simply killed it to eliminate all future trouble, it was because every member of the Qilin Clan bore a Restriction Seal. If one of them died unexpectedly, the Qilin Clan would immediately sense it, and when that happened, he would undoubtedly die as well.

That was why he had resorted to this desperate measure, sealing it within Tiansheng Continent and planning to wait until its lifespan ran out and it perished on its own.

He had never expected Lu Xunxian to become an unforeseen variable and take the Qilin as his mount.

As Lu Xunxian laid bare its past, killing intent spread all over the Qilin’s body, and deep down, it wanted nothing more than to cut that Immortal King into a thousand pieces.

But there was nothing it could do now. It could not even leave the Immortal Heaven Ruins Realm.

“If you acknowledge me as your master, then when I go to the Immortal Realm in the future, I can help you take your revenge.”

After giving it some thought, Lu Xunxian felt that this could at least count as a small benefit for his mount.

After all, if you wanted a horse to run, you had to feed it some grass.

At those words, the Qilin’s face was full of humiliation and resentment, but it also knew that it had no other choice now but to agree.

Otherwise, in another fifty thousand years, once its lifespan ran out, it would not even be able to take revenge.

As for Lu Xunxian, all it had to do was wait until it returned to the Immortal Realm and secretly contact the Patriarchs of the Qilin Clan. When that time came, there would be plenty of ways to deal with this man who had dared to take it as a mount.

“Greetings, Master.”

It could be said that the Qilin ground out that word through clenched teeth.

But Lu Xunxian did not care in the slightest. As long as it had become his mount, that was enough. As for what it thought, sooner or later, it would most likely change its mind.

Lu Xunxian also did not stand on ceremony at all. In an instant, he brought Lu Xiaoyao and Lu Qingyun onto the Qilin’s back as well.

“Come. Take us to the place in the Immortal Heaven Ruins Realm that is closest to the Immortal Realm.”

The principle behind that Immortal King’s seal was that he had imprisoned the Qilin between the Lower Realm and the Immortal Realm, thereby cutting off the probing of great experts.

Unless someone investigated with particular care, not even an Immortal Monarch would necessarily be able to find it. On top of that, when members of the Qilin Clan went out to temper themselves, ten thousand years was considered the bare minimum. So while not returning for three hundred thousand years was rare, it was not impossible.

As soon as Lu Xunxian finished speaking, the Qilin carried them straight toward a certain place within the Immortal Heaven Ruins Realm.

Very soon, a shattered spatial rift appeared before them, from which incomparably dense Immortal Qi poured out without end.

In the Immortal Realm, breaking through from the Peak of the Saint Emperor Realm to the Immortal stage was much easier. Peak Saint Emperor cultivators in the Lower Realm had to convert the Spiritual Energy within their bodies into Immortal Power before they could ascend, whereas Peak Saint Emperor cultivators in the Immortal Realm only needed to absorb Immortal Qi to directly convert it into Immortal Power.

However, breaking through to the Immortal stage in the Immortal Realm could never make one as powerful as breaking through to the Immortal stage in the Lower Realm, because the difficulty simply was not the same.

As they drew near that incomparably dense Immortal Qi, Chen Wangu and Xu Ruoshan both felt their realms beginning to loosen, as though they would be able to break through to the Immortal stage after cultivating for some time.

Thus, without another word, the two of them sat down on the spot and began absorbing Immortal Qi to convert it into Immortal Power.

As for the two little ones, Lu Xiaoyao and Lu Qingyun, absorbing Immortal Power also made their bodies feel extremely comfortable.

“Father, this feels so good.”

“That is only natural. Cultivate properly. Once you break through to the Immortal stage, you will be able to go to the Immortal Realm.”

Lu Xunxian smiled as he spoke. He had no intention of directly taking the children to the Immortal Realm. What he wanted even more was to raise them into Immortal Emperors.

With the resources currently in his hands, nurturing a few experts to the Peak of the Immortal Emperor Realm would not be difficult at all.

As Lu Xiaoyao and Lu Qingyun began cultivating, the Qilin finally noticed the constitutions they possessed and spoke in surprise.

“So they are two Saint Bodies.”

In the Immortal Realm, almost all existences above the Immortal King level possessed Saint Bodies. Those with Immortal Bodies were exceedingly rare.

So it could be said that, as long as Lu Xiaoyao and Lu Qingyun cultivated steadily and did not lack resources or opportunities, becoming Immortal Kings would not be difficult for them.

And when it learned that Lu Xiaoyao and Lu Qingyun were Lu Xunxian’s descendants, the Qilin’s gaze toward Lu Xunxian became full of scrutiny.

After all, under normal circumstances, there were only two ways for someone to produce descendants with a Saint Body bloodline. Either their cultivation had to be far above the Immortal Monarch Realm, or they themselves, or their ancestors, had to possess the bloodline of some supreme existence. Only then was it possible for descendants to be born with a Saint Body bloodline.

Then, recalling that move Lu Xunxian had displayed earlier, it was almost certain that Lu Xunxian was an expert above the Immortal Monarch Realm.

But even so, it did not feel the slightest fear. An Immortal Monarch was all he was, and the Qilin Clan had plenty of those.

The day it returned to the Immortal Realm would be the day Lu Xunxian died.

Occasionally absorbing Immortal Qi was likewise beneficial to the cultivation of the two little ones, so Lu Xunxian simply allowed them to continue cultivating there.

As for himself, absorbing Immortal Qi no longer had any effect on him. His current improvement depended mainly on his comprehension of the laws of the Great Dao (in truth, it depended on Feng Qingyu’s cultivation).

The Qilin, meanwhile, was unable to absorb Immortal Qi because it had been sealed by that Immortal King.

But to Lu Xunxian, that was hardly any difficult matter. With a lift of his hand, he erased the Restriction Seal that Immortal King had left on the Qilin.

At the very moment Lu Xunxian erased that Restriction Seal, within a Dao Mountain in the Twentieth Heaven of the Immortal Realm, a terrifying existence who had been cultivating abruptly opened his eyes. His expression was grave, an invisible Great Dao law shrouded his body, and starlight seemed to revolve in reverse within his eyes.

“The Restriction Seal on the Qilin that This Venerable One sealed away years ago has disappeared. Did its lifespan run out, or was it rescued?”

He muttered to himself, a wave of lingering fear rising in his heart.

Although over these three hundred thousand years he had fortunately broken through from Immortal King to Immortal Monarch, even so, before the vast Qilin Clan, he was still no different from an ant.

He raised a hand and was just about to perform a divination, but then he thought of something and abruptly stopped himself.

If the Qilin had simply died of old age, that would be fine. But if it had been rescued by a great expert of the Qilin Clan, then would he not be sending out a signal through that divination and letting the other side find him?

So even though he was inwardly anxious beyond measure, there was nothing he could do but remain still and wait for this storm to pass.

Fortunately, he had already lived in seclusion for many years. Moreover, because he had feared the matter being exposed back then, he had learned quite a few Aura-Concealing Grand Formations. Over the years, he had also laid down many extremely high-grade Aura-Concealing Grand Formations. Even an Immortal Venerable would be unable to find him without first obtaining his Blood Essence or his birth date and eight characters.