Immortality Start with Farming - chapter 772 (Patreon)

Chapter 772: Reunion

On Little Turtle Peak.

Qin Ming was tending the spirit plants beside the cave dwelling, while the Devourer Rat followed behind him, watering them with spirit liquid.

A short while later, after finishing his work, he straightened up and gazed into the distance.

“Time really flies.”

“In the blink of an eye, another hundred years have passed...”

Over the years, through diligent farming and cultivation, his Void Refinement cultivation had advanced considerably.

In particular, his mastery of Spatial Force had already surpassed that of most Void Refinement cultivators.

“Yes, Master. So many years have gone by, and there’s still no news from Second Brother. Who knows where she’s gone...” the Devourer Rat said, clutching a handful of weeds.

“She must have her own plans. When it is time for us to meet again, she will naturally return. There is no need to worry.” Qin Ming still maintained a spiritual connection with the Silver-Winged Frostbee and spoke calmly.

Several decades earlier, Baili Hui had completed the task Qin Ming assigned him and returned.

The descendants of Mao Yuanzi had declined so badly that they had fallen to the level of a Nascent Soul family. In the vast Nine Dragon Domain, they were nothing more than an obscure little clan.

Baili Hui had delivered the resources as promised, fulfilling the agreement Qin Ming had made with Mao Yuanzi.

After settling that matter, Baili Hui spent these years rebuilding his foundation within the small spirit realm and had recovered to his former peak Soul Transformation cultivation.

In the past, such a thing would have been unimaginable to him.

Without Qin Ming’s miraculous pills helping him reconstruct his foundation, he could never have reached this point in his lifetime.

Although the side effects of his cultivation deviation had permanently left him with the appearance of a dwarf, his cultivation had fully returned, allowing him to once again glimpse the hope of reaching Void Refinement.

His loyalty to Qin Ming had only deepened.

Even Qin Ming had not expected the old fellow to truly recover all his cultivation and even make slight progress beyond his former peak. It could only be said that surviving a great calamity brought hidden blessings.

After all, Baili Hui was one of his most capable subordinates. The stronger he became, the more useful he would be in the future.

Besides that—

After another hundred years had passed, the Linglong Immortal Manor secret realm within demon territory finally opened, drawing enormous attention from the human, demon, and devil races.

Qin Ming suspected that after advancing, the Silver-Winged Frostbee had likely left for that great immortal manor.

After all, she had undergone such dramatic changes only after consuming those strange insect eggs.

Meanwhile, the human race had begun mobilizing troops and dispatching forces to the Redwater Wasteland to suppress the insect tide.

Yet the vicious insects pouring from the wormholes seemed endless, killing one wave only for another to appear. The situation continued to worsen.

The sects and factions in that region were all overwhelmed.

The human, demon, and devil races once again began competing over the Linglong Immortal Manor secret realm.

And as time passed, the cultivation world continued to change with the ages.

Just then—

Suddenly, a sensation arose within Qin Ming’s mind.

He took out an ultra-long-distance transmission talisman.

After listening to the message, an unexpectedly delighted smile appeared on his face.

“What is it, Master?” Seeing Qin Ming so pleased, the Devourer Rat put down the Divine Farmer Hoe and asked.

With a smile, Qin Ming replied, “Several old friends from the mortal world have ascended to the Spirit Realm.”

“Daoist Yue Lingyan has come as well. Little Silver Fox must have missed her mother very much.”

“What?! Mother is here?” Upon hearing those words, Little Silver Fox excitedly ran out from the small spirit realm.

Nearly two hundred years had passed since she parted from Yue Lingyan in the mortal world. Her longing for her mother could no longer be concealed.

Only...

Little Silver Fox had already reached the late fifth tier. No one knew how her mother would react upon seeing her again.

Qin Ming nodded slowly.

“They are already on the way. Let’s go meet the three of them.”

He raised a hand.

The silver Void Piercing Shuttle immediately appeared in midair.

With a sweep of his sleeve, master and servants entered it.

The Void Piercing Shuttle broke through the void between realms and sped toward the endless void near the Ascension Platform.

...

At the same time.

Within the void passage connecting the mortal world and the Spirit Realm, the power of inter-realm transmission enveloped Qi Xiaoyu, Yue Lingyan, and their companion.

Even so, without ascension tokens protecting them, the terrifying void turbulence still affected them.

“Brother Qi... I can barely hold on...” Venerable Hanya said with a pale face and gritted teeth. “When is Fellow Daoist Qin coming?”

The pulling force from the endless void made even their souls feel as though they were being torn apart, let alone their bodies.

Qi Xiaoyu was also using every means available to defend himself. In truth, he too was already at his limit.

He had never expected the void turbulence during ascension to be so terrifying.

The countless Soul Transformation cultivators who perished during ascension had not been exaggerated tales.

Only Yue Lingyan, being a demon with a stronger body and soul and already at mid fifth tier, fared slightly better than the other two.

“Don’t worry. Unless something truly important is preventing him, Fellow Daoist Qin will definitely come once he receives our message.”

Qi Xiaoyu transmitted his voice to the others.

But at that moment—

Two Outer-realm fiends drifting through the void discovered the ascending trio.

Their blood-red eyes flashed with murderous hunger as they charged toward them.

The three were horrified.

They were already exhausted. If several Outer-realm fiends attacked now, they would almost certainly die.

People always said the path of ascension was filled with danger, with even Soul Transformation cultivators facing near-certain death.

Only now did they truly understand how terrifying it was.

“This is bad! Fellow Daoists, prepare to fight for our lives!”

Venerable Hanya cried out and pulled a black bead from his robes.

When Qi Xiaoyu saw it, his eyelids twitched violently.

“A fifth-tier high-grade Gui Water Divine Thunder Pearl?!”

“Fellow Daoist Hanya, where did you get that?”

Such a one-time-use thunder pearl could threaten even a Void Refinement cultivator. Even if it failed to kill them, it would strip away half their life.

Venerable Hanya’s expression hardened.

He was already preparing to throw it.

“Brother Qi, there’s no point talking now. This is my final trump card.”

Yet in the next instant—

To the astonishment of Qi Xiaoyu and Yue Lingyan—

Venerable Hanya pulled out stack after stack of fifth-tier defensive talismans and slapped them onto himself as though they cost nothing.

And that wasn’t all.

He continuously produced various high-grade defensive treasures and one-time life-saving talismans from his storage bag.

Any one of them would have been an extraordinarily rare treasure in the mortal world.

“So many hidden treasures...”

“And he was pretending to be poor the whole time...”

Meanwhile, the two Outer-realm fiends revealed terrifying auras, expanding to thousands of feet in size as they closed in on the trio.

They were just about to strike.

Buzz!

As Venerable Hanya gritted his teeth and prepared to throw the thunder pearl, a tremendous fluctuation suddenly erupted in the void.

A giant distorted portal appeared above them.

A silver shuttle more than ten zhang long shot out from it and came to a halt in the void.

Immediately afterward, an incomparably vast Spiritual Pressure descended.

The two fiends were forced to halt their attack.

An invisible hand, thousands of feet in size, appeared and descended from the heavens.

Boom!!

The two ferocious Outer-realm fiends were instantly erased from existence with a single slap, leaving not even ashes behind.

“It has been a long time since we last met, fellow daoists. How have you been?”

While the three were still stunned by what they had witnessed, a familiar voice emerged from the silver shuttle.

Their vision blurred.

Before they knew it, a man was standing before them, smiling.

The young cultivator stood in the void like an eternal evergreen tree, rooted through the ages, tall and steadfast, his temperament calm as water.

The terrifying void turbulence around him disintegrated the moment it approached.

What kind of cultivation was this?

A terrifying thought appeared in their minds.

“Q-Qin... Brother Qin.”

Not only Venerable Hanya, but Yue Lingyan and Qi Xiaoyu as well were completely stunned.

Qin Ming waved his sleeve, enveloping the three and bringing them into the Void Piercing Shuttle.

In an instant—

The terrifying pressure vanished completely.

When they regained their senses, they were already standing inside the spacious cabin.

“Mother!!”

A delighted cry rang out.

Before Yue Lingyan could react, a young girl had already thrown herself into her arms.

Looking down, she saw the daughter she had longed for day and night.

“Yue’er...”

Overjoyed and astonished, she embraced Little Silver Fox tightly, unable to calm her emotions for a long time.

“So touching.” The Devourer Rat was nearly moved to tears by the heartwarming reunion.

Meanwhile, Venerable Hanya and Qi Xiaoyu stared at Qin Ming in disbelief.

“Fellow Daoist Qin... no, wait. Your aura...”

“We can’t tell how deep your cultivation is at all...”

Before they even had the chance to greet him properly, Qin Ming’s unfathomable cultivation had already left them speechless.

“Both of you seem well. Qin has already advanced to the Void Refinement realm some years ago.”

Qin Ming smiled.

“What?!”

“Void Refinement...”

Those words shocked not only Qi Xiaoyu and Venerable Hanya, but even Yue Lingyan, who had been immersed in her reunion with her daughter.

Only then did she carefully examine Little Silver Fox.

To her astonishment, her daughter had already reached the late fifth tier—perhaps even surpassed her.

At that moment—

The Devourer Rat, who was piloting the Void Piercing Shuttle, puffed out his chest and cleared his throat.

“Ahem! Old Hanya, Fellow Daoist Qi, long time no see.”

As he spoke, he deliberately released his peak fifth-tier aura without concealing it.

“This isn’t the place for conversation. We’ll talk after we get back.”

With that, Qin Ming had the Devourer Rat steer the shuttle back toward Little Turtle Peak.

...

At the Spirit Realm’s Ascension Platform.

The silver-armored Star Guards responsible for guarding the area sensed fluctuations from ascending lower-realm cultivators and gathered to welcome them.

Yet after waiting for a long time, just as the cultivators were about to arrive, something seemed to go wrong within the transmission passage.

The connection abruptly vanished.

The silver-armored Star Guards stared in confusion, unable to understand what had happened.

After all, ascensions from the lower realms were extremely rare.

This time, they had finally encountered one, only for something to go wrong midway.

“Sigh. Another failed ascension.”

“And counting the last one, how many times has this happened now...”

“It looks like there really is a problem with the ascension passage. We need to report it and have it repaired.”

Without delay, the Star Guard squad hurried back toward Celestial Star City to report the matter.

Several hidden devil-race observers nearby also quietly transmitted the news away.

...

Not long afterward.

The Void Piercing Shuttle’s speed was astonishing.

Qin Ming brought the three newcomers back to Little Turtle Peak.

When Qi Xiaoyu, Venerable Hanya, and Yue Lingyan stepped onto the spiritual land, all three widened their eyes in shock.

The moment they arrived in the Spirit Realm, they found themselves in a sixth-tier spirit vein cave dwelling worthy of immortals.

Everything felt unreal.

During the journey back, Qin Ming had already given them a general introduction to the Spirit Realm.

Compared to Fishercloud and Su Yuqing, who had been forcibly recruited by a human immortal city in exchange for Realm Transformation Pills, they were extremely fortunate.

“We should be calling you Senior Qin now...”

After repeatedly confirming Qin Ming’s identity countless times, Venerable Hanya finally revealed a bitter smile and cupped his hands.

No matter how he looked at it, this was unquestionably the same Qin Ming from back then.

Qi Xiaoyu and Yue Lingyan also stepped forward to pay their respects, their expressions complicated.

More than two hundred years had passed since their separation.

Although Qin Ming had ascended earlier than they had, he had only been at mid Soul Transformation back then.

In their estimation, even if Qin Ming was extraordinarily talented, he should have reached only late Soul Transformation by now.

Yet upon meeting again, the gap between them had become a heavenly chasm.

“We are all old friends here. There is no need for formalities.”

“You can settle down on Little Turtle Peak for now. It will give you a place to rely on.”

Qin Ming then handed each of them a Realm Transformation Pill, ensuring they would not be dragged off as laborers.

The three were deeply grateful and felt as though they had found a powerful backer.

Still, Venerable Hanya’s expression was odd.

The way Qin Ming looked at him felt strangely peculiar.

Yet he could not quite put his finger on why.

Soon afterward, Qin Ming summoned Baili Hui and Mo Lingwei.

They were naturally familiar with Mo Lingwei, but seeing that she had already reached mid Soul Transformation left them envious.

What shocked them even more was that Baili Hui, a peak Soul Transformation cultivator, was merely Qin Ming’s gatekeeper.

The amount of information they needed to digest was overwhelming.

Qin Ming also asked about the state of the mortal world and learned that all three had made proper arrangements before ascending.

A Nascent Soul cultivator had emerged from Venerable Hanya’s Xuqing Temple.

Within Yue Lingyan’s fox clan, a new successor had likewise been groomed.

All their affairs had been settled.

The mortal world remained much the same.

Occasional turmoil still occurred, but there were no longer world-ending crises like the demonic invasions of the past.

Most disturbances were relatively minor.

...

With nowhere else to go, the three simply joined Little Turtle Peak under Qin Ming’s protection.

Qin Ming also notified Fishercloud.

These old acquaintances from the mortal world gathered together once again in the Spirit Realm.

They shared their experiences over the past century and sighed at the twists of fate.

Qi Xiaoyu and Venerable Hanya were especially shocked when they learned that Su Yuqing had been blessed with extraordinary fortune and accepted as a direct disciple by a mighty Spirit Realm expert.

Venerable Hanya said sourly,

“I’m not jealous at all. One day, perhaps some great expert will take a liking to me as well.”

“Old Hanya, that may be true,” the Devourer Rat replied with terrible timing, “but if they do take a liking to you, it’ll probably be because of all the treasures you’re carrying. Heh heh heh!”

Venerable Hanya’s face immediately darkened.

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