48: Chapter 26 Fulfilled Wishes!
48: Chapter 26 Fulfilled Wishes!
Qing Su broke through to Heavenly Immortal so quickly?
Li Dazhi, riding the clouds with Li Ping’an, hurried near Caiyun Peak, greeting familiar Immortals along the way, their voices of salutation ceaseless to the ear.
Li Ping’an stood behind his elderly father, maintaining a polite smile.
This was his first time accompanying his father to an inner ‘grand gathering’, suddenly giving him a sense of déjà vu, reminiscent of attending weddings with his father during his middle school years.
Everywhere there were polite greetings, and within sight were all amiable smiling faces.
Although Li Ping’an really wanted to concentrate on observing the magnificent scenery of advancing to Heavenly Immortal, at this moment he couldn’t be too impolite, only constantly nodding with a smile, properly performing the disciple’s salute when his father introduced this Peak Master and that Elder.
Li Ping’an kept a tally in his heart:
On this cloud path from Liuyun Guan to Caiyun Peak, he had greeted over sixty ‘seniors’ and got to know twelve ‘seemingly age-matched’ male cultivators, and over forty ‘seemingly young but actually around one hundred and eighty years old’ female cultivators; and these young cultivators were all Immortal Sprouts from the various peaks, mostly in the Heaven and Earth Bridge realm.
The mode of interaction was also very uniform; first, they would inquire if one’s cultivation was going well recently, then propose to have a drink together when the opportunity arose, followed by starting to compliment each other’s disciples.
Fellow Sect Immortals found various ways to praise Li Ping’an, while Li Dazhi was also quick-witted in extolling these Immortals’ disciples.
Social interactions in an Immortal Sect were nothing more than this.
Finally, Li Ping’an was greeted by his lifesaver.
“Ping’an, junior brother!
Come closer over here!”
Wearing a light blue disciple’s robe, Ningning Mu stood behind her master, continuously waving to Li Ping’an from a nearby white cloud.
Li Dazhi nudged Li Ping’an’s shoulder, laughing, “Go ahead, your father still has to chat with a few Elders, so I won’t take you with me.”
Li Ping’an expressed his gratitude for his father’s ‘anti-social’ grace and, with the gaze of the younger disciples upon him, drifted over to Ningning Mu’s side.
“Disciple Ping’an, pays respects to Qing Su, senior.”
Qing Su, the True Immortal, nodded with a smile, “Don’t dare to act as senior, young friend.
You and Ningning just play as you like.”
Li Ping’an took a light breath, standing shoulder to shoulder with Ningning Mu, looking up.
An ice lotus as solid as reality blossomed atop the mountaintop, over a thousand zhang in diameter, with a hazy figure sitting quietly at the center of the ice lotus.
This ice lotus was the manifestation of Qing Su’s Great Dao.
Ningning Mu exclaimed gleefully, “Senior brother, Qing Su, our peak’s mentor, is the first from Caiyun Peak’s Qing generation to break through to Heavenly Immortal!
The second one will definitely be my master!”
“The Dao Charm of Heavenly Immortal is so complicated.”
Li Ping’an watched intently at the patterns flowing on the ice lotus, trying to understand fragments of the Dao Charm;
He felt that each strand of the Dao Charm, for himself at present, was so vast and majestic, as if it contained endless mysteries.
Ningning Mu whispered, “Senior brother, it’s said that Qing Su could have the chance to break through to the Golden Immortal Realm in the future.”
Li Ping’an smiled, “If she really can break through, that would be excellent; our Wanyun Sect would then have another Golden Immortal’s protection.”
Ningning Mu sighed, “I heard my master and the others discussing that the process from Heavenly Immortal to Golden Immortal will not be less than a thousand years, it could take tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years…
The longevity of Heavenly Immortals can span several Yuanhuis, it truly inspires envy.”
“Work hard in your cultivation, and the path to becoming an Immortal is within reach.”
Li Ping’an looked down at Ningning Mu.
She must have been brought out by her master during her cultivation; although she wore no makeup, her skin remained white and luminous, her flawless cheeks delicate enough to break at the slightest touch.
This was the benefit of being nourished by Spiritual Energy every day.
Ningning Mu whispered, “Senior brother, this is for you.”
She presented a red string tied around her fingertip, and with a tug at the string, pulled out a newly made amulet.
Looking up at Li Ping’an, she said, “This is…
in return for that Jade Pendant.”
“Take one of these each month.”
Li Ping’an received the amulet, casually handing her a bottle of Peiyuan Immortal Pills previously rewarded by the Sect.
Their eyes met, then swiftly shifted as they stored the exchanged items in their Storage Treasures.
Standing in front, Qing Su the True Immortal couldn’t help but cross her arms behind her back, lifting her head to watch the phenomenon in the sky, a touch of a smile on her lips.
The way the amulet was made was also taught by her, the master.
It was an old tradition of their Caiyun Peak.
Li Ping’an lifted his gaze to his father, noticing his father muttering something with a few external Elders, with Elder Yansheng also by their side, nodding and smiling from time to time.
His father’s ‘family heirloom Jade Pendant’ had completely disrupted the rhythm he had originally planned.
‘Better find something for my own father to do; he’s even more idle after ascending to Immortal.’
Li Dazhi was whispering to a plump external Elder, “Could you find me a few more Jade Pendants or bracelets…
yes, yes, the same kind as last time, acquired from the mundane world, preferably family heirlooms from mortal families, well worn…
that’s right, it needs to have history, imbued with human aura…
secure me a few more, will you?
The Elder stroked his beard and nodded.
Their Wanyun Sect controlled one medium-sized and two smaller mundane Immortal Dynasties; finding such mundane jades was a piece of cake.
He just didn’t know what the revered Li Dazhi needed these for.
In the sky, the ice lotus entered its final blooming stage.
Qing Su reached the critical moment of her breakthrough, with the air increasingly filled with fine ice prisms, and a heavy snow began to swirl around the mountaintop area.
Many cultivators, feeling the significance, focused their minds to comprehend.
Li Ping’an had already started meditating on the cloud, surrounded by a few ice crystals.
Wanyun Sect’s Mountain Protection Array was fully activated, its thin, smooth barrier enveloped by mist, concealing the grand occasion within the Sect.