Yellow Court Daoist

Outside White Cloud Mountain.

Lu Qingfeng seemed to be moving slowly but was actually fast, weaving through the jungle. Within his body, he visualized the twelve Venerable Dutian Demon Gods curled up in the corner, concealing all traces of breath and mana.

As Lu Qingfeng moved along,

the aura on his body kept escalating.

From the Core Formation Stage, to the Primordial Spirit Stage, and then to the Mahayana Realm, with each step, his mana and Primordial Spirit grew stronger. Or rather, they were being released according to certain rules—

Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer.

Primordial Spirit Sixth Layer.

In the blink of an eye, he ascended to the realm of Mahayana True Immortal.

However, even with Lu Qingfeng acting within the rules of this world as much as possible, his mana and Primordial Spirit were much weaker compared to the outside world at the same realm.

By thousands of times, if not more.

When reaching True Immortal, he needed to continue improving, but that brought on a bout of palpitations, prompting him to stop immediately.

"Three Calamities?"

Lu Qingfeng looked up at the sky, running the Inverted Void Glazed Glass Wall to its limit, and the sensation of heart-pounding fear vanished instantly. Upon internal examination of the Primordial Spirit and mana, he had barely reached the standard.

Outside this realm, he would be considered the weakest True Immortal in history.

As for the Six-winged hidden in his hair, it had not dared to leak a trace of breath from beginning to end. Lu Qingfeng had fortified it with Ninety-nine Layers of Glazed Glass Walls to Conceal Heaven's Secrets.

"This realm does not tolerate Earth Immortals."

"If your breath leaks out, even if you can avoid the celestial punishment, you'll still be expelled."

"Be careful."

Lu Qingfeng admonished.

The Golden Silkworm emerged from the three thousand long strands of hair, swinging on a lock to appear before Lu Qingfeng's face, nodding incessantly. Then it swung back and continued to hide beneath the hair.

"The cultivators of this realm are generally frail."

"My current cultivation level may be the weakest in history outside, but in the Little Ruoshui Realm, it may still be the strongest of my peers, which should be sufficient. If I encounter a powerful enemy that's hard to handle, I can also unleash all my strength temporarily."

Without unleashing his true strength, Lu Qingfeng's cultivation might seem 'seemingly weak but actually strong,' but that was only in comparison to his peers in this realm, to those newly risen True Immortals.

Nobody knows to what extent True Immortals can ultimately reach in a world that does not tolerate Earth Immortals.

And Lu Qingfeng dared not take it lightly.

Nevertheless, he was in possession of numerous Divine Skills and Great Divine Powers, with the Great Divine Power 'Inverted Void Glazed Glass Wall' in his arsenal. In this 'Little Ruoshui Realm,' it wasn't exactly like a fish in water, but at least it was much more comfortable than for the True Immortals from the four major sects in the Beihan Snowy Region.

Skipping a hundred or so years of an unpredictable 'adaptation period,' or 'recovery period.'

To return to True Immortal level at once, he was the only one who could do so.

At this thought.

Lu Qingfeng couldn't help but recall the ordeal in Little Ruoshui half a year ago—

A powerful tearing force that clearly aimed to strip his Primordial Spirit, mana, and even his physical body bare.

"Cast into the mortal world!"

Years of True Immortal cultivation, tens of thousands or even a hundred thousand years of painstaking practice, turned to naught in a moment.

How cruel it was!

And that was just the fate of True Immortals.

Had it been those Primordial Spirit or Jindan cultivators, they would have been shredded to pieces long ago, with only their souls entering this realm, destined to reincarnate and suffer the confusion and pain of rebirth.

Precluded from transcending ever again.

Fortunately, Lu Qingfeng had a strong physical body and Great Divine Powers at hand.

First, he used the 'Taiyin Calamity Crossing Robe' to block the stripping, and then he fully activated the 'Inverted Void Glazed Glass Wall,' deceiving the will of this realm and successfully arriving in the 'Little Ruoshui Realm.'

But the will of heaven is hard to deceive.

To be on the safe side, Lu Qingfeng transformed into Green Bamboo, lying dormant for half a year, hiding his vastly different mana and Primordial Spirit. Now emerging from seclusion, although he's still unrecognized by this world, at least his outward cultivation level meets the requirements of the Little Ruoshui Realm.

He wouldn't attract celestial punishment at every turn.

Next.

He had to find Zhang Yang.

Leaving White Cloud Mountain.

Wandering through the wild lands.

Lu Qingfeng was pondering.

"The cultivation system in the Little Ruoshui Realm is roughly the same as the outside world, yet completely different."

"It simplifies the various cultivation stages to their essence, with True Immortal being the only general classification, divided into just two broad stages of Qi Cultivation and Primordial Spirit."

He hadn't been idle these past six months.

Although he had been in seclusion in the bamboo forest behind White Cloud Mountain, he had also generally understood the world's cultivation system from the cultivators of White Cloud Mountain.

Qi Cultivation.

Primordial Spirit.

True Immortal.

Straightforward and crude.

Without becoming an immortal, one could live at most five hundred years.

Among them, Qi Cultivation Nine Layers.

Starting from the First Layer 'Qi Perception,' all the way to the Ninth Layer 'Golden Core,' encompassing the four major realms and fourteen minor realms of the Postnatal, Foundation Establishment, Spirit Void, and Golden Core outside.

Of course.

Only the essence of the realms can be laterally compared between the two.

In terms of mana, physical body, and even Primordial Spirit, they are all thousands of times weaker than the outside world.

Like Black Meng.

After cultivating under Lu Qingfeng's Qingjing Method Bamboo for half a year, he had stepped into the Qi Cultivation Second Layer, able to introduce energy into the body, corresponding to the Foundation Establishment Qi Introduction Realm.

In the outside world, a methodical cultivation would ordinarily require twenty or thirty years of hard work.

Even under the Qingjing Method Bamboo, where cultivation progresses faster, reaching this level in half a year is still too fast compared to the outside world.

However.

Whether it's the True Qi or the physical body, Black Meng was a hundred times weaker than cultivators in the Energy Introduction Realm outside.

"But when it comes to swordsmanship—"

Lu Qingfeng thought of Black Meng and those White Cloud Mountain disciples of Qi Cultivation Third to Fifth Layers, his eyes shining with insight.

With his keen vision, he could see that although these Qi Cultivators of White Cloud Mountain were a hundred times weaker than the outside world, their swordsmanship was certainly not inferior.

Like Black Meng's master, the one known as 'Fire Cloud Sword' Zhang Ji, he had the cultivation of Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer, corresponding to the Void Core and Solid Pill realms outside, yet his swordsmanship had already reached the realm of 'Refining Sword into Rainbow,' not in the least bit weaker compared to the Void Core and Solid Pill.