Chapter 8
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Chapter 8: The Loyal Customer Qin Haishan
Qin Haishan grasped the jade slip and transformed into a long rainbow, escaping into the clouds.
One day later, on a broken cliff, the void suddenly tore open, and Qin Haishan appeared amidst the vast expanse, his fluttering red robes billowing.
This was a cliff.
In front of the cliff, the sea of clouds churned, boundless and endless.
And behind it, mountains stretched continuously, distinctly forming a mountain range.
The so-called Kunlun Valley was not visible; it held no trace.
Was I tricked?
This was Qin Haishan\’s first reaction!
His thousand-year savings had been exhausted in a day, yet it turned out to be a fraud!
Qin Haishan rolled his eyes and nearly fainted on the spot.
The master would not trick me, he would not trick me.
Qin Haishan clenched the jade slip tightly.
The master of Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion could see through his thoughts, deduce everything about him, and was absolutely a reclusive great power.
How could such a person trick him?
Moreover, the most important point was that even if the master tricked him, Qin Haishan did not dare to return.
The horror of Heaven\’s Secret Pavilion still lingered in Qin Haishan\’s heart.
In front of Ye Xu, he was like a small ghost completely seen through, unable to hide any thoughts.
There must be a mechanism.
Qin Haishan remembered Ye Xu\’s words.
The Secret Realm of Kunlun Valley seemed not to have appeared yet.
He looked towards the churning sea of clouds, like vast azure waves submerging everything.
Qin Haishan\’s Divine Sense enveloped this entire area.
Suddenly.
He sensed a trace of abnormality.
Within the sea of clouds was hidden an extremely obscure aura, and the density of spiritual energy was vastly different from the outside world, extremely abundant.
Crash!
Detecting this difference, Qin Haishan\’s mana surged; with a thought, a top-quality spiritual treasure appeared in his palm, which was a bronze ancient sword.
As a semi-god, now Qin Haishan could only wield a top-quality spiritual treasure.
Clang!
The sound of sword resonance arose; Qin Haishan raised the sword and struck downwards, sword energy like a pillar, like a giant sword of a hundred zhang, slicing into the sea of clouds and slashing towards that eerie spot.
Rumble!
The next moment, the sea of clouds split apart, as if cleaved into two halves.
Qin Haishan\’s sword strike split open the void, resembling the primordial act of creation. A colossal spatial rift tore across the sea of clouds, from which spiritual energy erupted with the fury of a volcanic eruption.
\"What incredibly dense spiritual energy!\"
\"The senior wasn\’t lying to me after all!\"
Qin Haishan roared with laughter. Such intensely concentrated heaven-and-earth spiritual energy was something even the cultivation holy land of the Tianxin Sect couldn’t condense.
He peered into the spatial rift, triggering his Eye Technique. His irises shimmered a profound purple-gold.
Beyond the rift lay mist-shrouded immortal mountains—a divine sanctuary, a paradise like the very realm of divine immortals.
Qin Haishan felt his heart pound with excitement, nearly unable to resist the urge to charge into the Secret Realm immediately.
Abruptly, however, Qin Haishan recalled that this Kunlun Valley was guarded by the Great Five Elements Sword Formation. This formation could slay even gods, let alone a mere semi-god?
Qin Haishan immediately retrieved the jade slip and meticulously studied it again, committing the secrets of the Great Five Elements Sword Formation firmly to his mind. Only after ensuring he had memorized every detail without a single error did he soar into the spatial rift.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
The instant Qin Haishan stepped into Kunlun Valley, the formation sensed his aura and activated.
Five divine beams shot skyward. Boundless heaven-and-earth spiritual energy coalesced into endless Five Elements sword energies—Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—while countless Symbols danced chaotically across the sky.
Symbols of the Five Elements branded the void itself. Five divine pillars, piercing the heavens and burrowing deep into the earth, stood tall at the four cardinal directions and the very center of the space.
These were the core energy sources of the formation:
The Five Elements Divine Pillars.
Having mastered the formation’s mysteries and knowing the location of the door of life, Qin Haishan moved with extreme caution within the Great Five Elements Sword Formation. Nervously, he avoided blast after blast of sword energy, escaping unharmed—though not without considerable fright.
His entire body was tense. Being struck by even one beam of sword energy would result in severe injury, if not death.
\"What good stuff,\" Qin Haishan muttered, gazing covetously at the Five Elements Divine Pillars.
\"If this old man attains godhood, I’ll definitely pack up this whole formation and take it with me.\"
Qin Haishan\’s ambition surged.
Once he became a God King and mastered a divine-level formation like this, he could become a true titan within the Southern Wilderness, standing toe-to-toe with sect masters themselves!
He traversed the formation and finally beheld the full panorama of Kunlun Valley.
The Secret Realm nestled within a basin—the very ruins of the ancient Kunlun Sect.
A thousand years had passed. The once majestic temples and palaces were now mostly dilapidated and rotted. Yet, their faint outlines remained, just enough to evoke memories of the Kunlun Sect’s former glory.
Qin Haishan felt a stir of deep emotion.
He had not yet been born during the Kunlun Sect’s final days.
Nevertheless, he knew much of its secret news.
Once, it was a powerhouse standing tall among the giants. Legend said that offending a certain mysterious entity of sage level led to its complete annihilation within a single night.
\"It must have taken a powerhouse of sage level to utterly erase a giant sect like that without even shattering its protective great formation, leaving no trace of resistance.\"
Qin Haishan murmured to himself quietly.
After all, even against a God King of the Creation Realm, given such a giant sect’s accumulated profundity and heritage, they shouldn\’t have been utterly powerless to resist.
Qin Haishan descended upon the Kunlun Sect ruins, sweeping his gaze over a landscape nearly barren of vegetation.
A faint yet terrifying power lingered over these ruins, capable of annihilating all life. Even after a thousand years, this power had not dissipated.
\"It must be the power of a saint!\"
Qin Haishan shuddered, not daring to set foot inside the ruins for fear of triggering the remaining saint\’s divine ability and meeting his end—body perishes, Dao vanishes.
What he sought was not within the Kunlun Sect ruins.
Following the information in the jade slip, Qin Haishan headed southwest.
To the medicinal garden of the Kunlun Sect.
Moments later, he saw a medicinal garden spanning hundreds of acres.
Filled with exotic flowers and precious herbs, the garden boasted countless medicinal kings.
And at the center of this garden,
a skeleton stood bolt upright.
Its bones shone as if cast from solid gold, radiant and gleaming. Yet Qin Haishan noticed that the golden skeleton bore no trace of Dao imprints.
Resting in a deathless state, it signified the skeleton had been a God in life.
But with its Dao imprints erased, it meant the deity had suffered an insurmountable wound during life, one that eradicated its very essence—leaving it a dead husk.
Yet Qin Haishan\’s focus was not on the skeleton.
His attention was drawn to the divine herb before it.
Stretching over nine feet tall, a divine lotus bloomed gloriously, its roots and stems golden as precious metal. Semi-opened golden lotus petals formed a resplendent lotus platform.
And upon this platform rested seven golden lotus seeds.
The aura radiating from the seeds was profoundly mysterious, containing immense, overwhelming divine power.
Qin Haishan’s heart surged with excitement, his blood boiling fervently.
The Seven Star Heavenly Treasure Lotus.
The ultimate objective of his journey.
This object could help him achieve godhood.
\"This is likely the deity of the Kunlun Sect,\" he pondered. \"Killed, his divine blood nourished the Seven Star Heavenly Treasure Lotus. Only after a millennium of evolution did this single divine herb emerge.\"
\"Senior Ye Xu truly possesses remarkable wisdom and vast divine abilities.\"
Awe toward Ye Xu swelled within Qin Haishan instantly.
In that moment, he even envisioned his own future.
Since Ye Xu could deduce the affairs of the world, omniscient and all-knowing, surely he could also foresee opportunities for becoming a God King—or even a saint. As long as Qin Haishan clung to Ye Xu\’s coattails, ascension to godhood and ancestral status would be effortless.
As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Qin Haishan charted his path ahead.
No amount of arduous cultivation could compare to a single opportunity.
As long as he could amass enough treasures, greater resources would inevitably follow!
Qin Haishan shook off distracting thoughts.
He observed the skeleton and chuckled, \"Heh heh, though its inherent laws are worn away, it\’s still a divine bone. Combined with other materials, it could at least forge a second-tier divine weapon.\"
With a sweep of his sleeve, he stored the golden skeleton away.
Qin Haishan channeled his magic power to pluck the Seven Star Heavenly Treasure Lotus.
This divine herb\’s millennium of essence coalesced within its seven seeds. For Qin Haishan to break through to the Divine God realm, he needed to consume these seven seeds.
\"Moon-Grasping Hand!\"
Qin Haishan made a grasping motion. Heaven and earth plunged into sudden darkness; the glow of the Heavenly Treasure Seven Stars Lotus dimmed abruptly.
As the divine ability manifested, all seven seeds fell into his grasp.
He sat down in lotus position and placed one seed into his mouth.
Generally, divine herbs require refining into pills to best preserve their essence, but Qin Haishan could wait no longer.
He intended to ascend to godhood within Kunlun Valley.
After achieving divinity, he would plunder everything from the Kunlun Sect, including the Great Five Elements Sword Formation, to serve as resources for his second transaction with Ye Xu.
Ye Xu would undoubtedly be overjoyed to know this.
In such a short time, he had cultivated another loyal client.
