Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 736: Chapter 314: Reunion with an Old Friend

The night was dark with a fierce wind.

"Sst——"

Accompanied by a flash of green ghostly light, a black shadow streaking through the night sky plummeted downward, seemingly on the verge of falling into the swamp ahead.

Another faster black shadow swept past, and both the falling shadow and the blood-red flying boat vanished in an instant, leaving everything silent.

Even the insect chirps in the swamp remained uninterrupted.

At an unknown treetop.

A black shadow flickered by, revealing a figure clad in black attire. He illuminated his storage bag slightly and uttered two words indifferently.

"Poor ghost."

He then took out another storage bag, glanced at the neatly arranged corpses inside, and murmured to himself:

"Killing this demon cultivator, I’ve finally passed halfway with upgrading the [Chaotic Burial Mound] with the 100 corpses of Foundation Establishment cultivators."

"With 50 left, at this pace, it’ll take at most four to five months, and that’s assuming no large-scale slaughter."

"But having killed more than a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators in this area consecutively, Old Devil Qiu’s name has already spread. Seems like it’s time to move on to another place for harvesting."

"Though, it’s better to check back on the island first. These isolated overseas islands can’t compare to before. Without anyone watching, even with an array set up, it’s precarious."

With this thought, Ji Yuan’s figure leaped and headed straight east.

...

Days later.

East of the Cangluo Continent, in uncharted waters.

A dharma ship suddenly emerged from the seawater, but only manifested for a brief moment on the surface before disappearing instantly.

...Luckily, no one’s around. It seems no one has noticed this place.

Having passed through the Star Dust Illusionary Killing Array and returned to the isolated overseas island, Ji Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s good that home is still here.

Now, this island is one he found after returning from the Extreme Abyss Continent, located south of Black Dragon Island. Overall, it is still within the previous control range of the Water Dragon Sect without reaching the domain of the Joy Palace.

Time has flown; it’s now been four months since his return.

In these four months, he first settled down in his cave mansion, set up arrays, released some constructions, and then began returning to the mainland to hunt Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Alongside, he was probing for news from the Cangluo Continent.

When it comes to Foundation Establishment cultivators, quite a few were killed.

Qiu Qianhai’s name has also started to spread; at least in some places, mentioning Old Devil Qiu is enough to make some Foundation Establishment cultivators flee.

But that’s still not enough; the name isn’t yet prominent enough.

Then there are the major events happening on the Cangluo Continent.

During this time, Ji Yuan had been constantly inquiring and keeping an eye out.

The biggest events are twofold.

Firstly, the Joy Palace finally made a move.

Following the southward escape of the Water Dragon Sect and the surrender of the Medicine King Valley, Joy Palace... disappeared.

It’s not that they were annihilated.

They simply vanished without a trace.

While some noticed the Water Dragon Sect’s migration to the Desolate Ancient Continent, no one was aware of the Joy Palace’s disappearance.

It was as if they suddenly disappeared into thin air.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that few people left with them.

The Joy Palace escape did not even take a single Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Only the Nascent Soul ancestor, the Lady of Joy, along with those Core Formation cultivators escaped.

The rest stayed on the Cangluo Continent to fend for themselves.

For a time, all the cultivators in Shang Dong felt a sense of lament.

In the end, these so-called righteous cultivators ultimately cared only for their own righteousness.

Better another suffers than I.

Tsk tsk.

As a result, ninety-nine percent of the remaining Joy Palace disciples directly turned into the demon path, practicing dual cultivation everywhere with no means barred.

Only a very few kept their original intentions but were pursued and had to flee everywhere.

Thus, of the six Immortal Sects of Shang Dong, only Sword Ruins remained.

Still struggling bitterly on the Shang Mountain range.

It is heard that even the demon path has attempted to persuade them to surrender multiple times, but Sword Ruins only had one response each time.

"There are no spineless cowards in Sword Ruins!"

And Sword Ruins, with its own strength, detained many from the demon path.

At the same time, Sword Ruins has become the faith in the hearts of the remaining righteous cultivators in Shang Dong.

Even Ji Yuan felt great admiration after hearing about the Sword Ruins matter.

Of the six Immortal Sects of Shang Dong.

Only Sword Ruins is the most righteous.

... I wonder how Daoist Changkun is doing now.

Ji Yuan did not have much interaction with Sword Ruins. The only slight connection he had was meeting Daoist Changkun at the Alchemy Square.

The second matter.

This matter is even bigger.

Because someone came from the Extreme Abyss Continent, and upon arrival at the Cangluo Continent, they seemed to have fought with the locals.

Nascent Souls clashed, and the location was over the East Sea of the Cangluo Continent.

Ji Yuan isn’t too clear on it.

Because by the time he returned from the Extreme Abyss Continent, he heard the battle had already ended.

No one knows the outcome.

In any case, after a fight, the Nascent Soul monsters all disappeared.

Hua Yaoyue is gone, the sect is no more.

Ji Yuan has no connections to "high society" channels and has no idea what actually happened.

What intrigues him most is how the people from the Extreme Abyss Continent came over. Is there another passageway?

Surely it can’t be that they forced their way through.

Nascent Soul stage shouldn’t be able to break through the wind screen.

"Shang Dong is almost entirely taken over by Shangxi, and Sword Ruins can’t hold on much longer. Now people from the Extreme Abyss Continent have come over, who knows how this will eventually evolve."

Thinking of this, Ji Yuan hovered on the island.

With a sweep of his divine sense.

The output from the [Pigsty] and [Fish Pond] has been collected, and the remaining [Beehive] is still methodically producing Spirit-Devouring Bees, continually expanding the bee swarm to add bricks and tiles to the name of "Insect Demon."

As for the [Wine Cellar], following the principle of making use of what shouldn’t be wasted, Ji Yuan also released it.