After that Xu Void realm demon beast fell.
Old Fire, who had been attacking the beast all along, finally put away the long spear in his hand.
With a wave of his hand, he stored the massive Xu Void realm demon beast’s body into his storage ring.
At the same time, Old Water outside also withdrew his water-blue pagoda, his face slightly pale as he dispelled the Minor Divine Power: Prismatic Sea Realm that he had been maintaining all along.
Upon reaching the Xu Void realm and comprehending profound rules.
A cultivator’s essence, energy, and spirit would all be tempered by the profound rules, undergoing a qualitative transformation. Their level of life would be greatly elevated.
One could say that the very essence of life at the Xu Void realm was the profound rules one had comprehended.
To harm a Xu Void realm cultivator, pure energy attacks were no longer useful.
Only profound rules and powers above profound rules could deal effective damage to a Xu Void realm cultivator.
Even so, if the gap between them wasn’t very large.
Fellow Xu Void realm experts would find it difficult to completely erase each other’s profound rules and truly kill one another in a short time.
So even though Old Water and Old Fire joined forces and suppressed that Xu Void realm demon beast.
It still took them about three months to finally kill it.
Once everything settled, the two returned together to the Tianyuan Trading Company’s tower ship and began recovering their expended spiritual power.
After Old Fire and Old Water returned.
The Tianyuan Trading Company’s tower ship set off once again, sailing at extreme speed toward the Eastern Pole Region.
On the deck of the tower ship, Ye Qingxuan—who had witnessed all of this—narrowed his eyes slightly, gazing toward the Eastern Pole Region, lost in thought.
What he was thinking about was not the fall of that Xu Void realm demon beast, but the changes among the demon beasts of the Endless Sea.
Along the way, in other parts of the Endless Sea, no high-tier demon beasts had dared to attack humans.
The demon beasts that had attacked the Tianyuan Trading Company before were mostly mid and low-tier beasts that didn’t know the current state of the Earth Mystery Realm.
But now, near the coastal waters approaching the Eastern Pole Region, the demon beasts here dared to attack humans.
It seemed the demon beasts of the Eastern Pole Region were quite active, huh?
However, the four outer regions of the Earth Mystery Realm had no hegemonic-level forces presiding over them. The strongest forces there were probably only Nascent Soul-level forces.
And the five inner regions of the Earth Mystery Realm would not easily interfere in the affairs of the four outer regions.
In the eyes of the human higher-ups of the Earth Mystery Realm.
The demon beasts in the four outer regions could serve to temper the humans of the four outer regions.
As long as the demon beasts of the four outer regions weren’t overwhelmingly suppressing humans.
The human experts of the five inner regions would not intervene in the conflicts between the demon beasts and humans of the four outer regions.
Over time, the demon race in the four outer regions naturally lost their reverence for humans.
So this was, after all, quite normal.
Ye Qingxuan’s thoughts swirled. He turned around, about to return to his cabin, but unexpectedly found his path blocked by someone:
“Fellow Daoist, I am Han Ming. May I ask how to address you?”
“Gui Xuanzi!”
Ye Qingxuan replied faintly, then quietly looked at the person before him.
Han Ming wore a purple-blue long robe, and his adornments looked quite luxurious.
He lightly waved a folding fan in his hand, looking like one of those young masters who had never seen much of the world and was going out to travel for the first time.
Sensing Ye Qingxuan’s calm gaze, Han Ming smiled slightly awkwardly and spoke again:
“Brother Xuan, this is my first time heading to the Eastern Pole Region for training. Would you be willing to travel together and explore the Eastern Pole Region?”
Having said that, as if afraid Ye Qingxuan might misunderstand, Han Ming explained further:
“Oh, right, I’ve also invited several other fellow Daoists. That way, we can look out for each other in the Eastern Pole Region. What do you think, Brother Xuan?”
Hearing Han Ming’s words, Ye Qingxuan refused without a second thought:
“I still prefer being alone. I won’t intrude on your fun.”
After saying that, Ye Qingxuan didn’t give Han Ming a chance to continue speaking and directly returned to his cabin.
Strangers—naturally, he didn’t want to casually get involved with others.
But one doesn’t slap a smiling face. Han Ming had been polite to him, so Ye Qingxuan didn’t respond harshly—he simply declined calmly.
After returning to his cabin, Ye Qingxuan put the matter out of his mind.
This time, Ye Qingxuan’s main consciousness had not left his external incarnation to return to his true body within the Xuantian Sect.
Now the Tianyuan Trading Company’s tower ship was about to reach the Eastern Pole Region.
Before any major changes occurred in the situation between the Xuantian Sect and the five inner regions of the Earth Mystery Realm.
Ye Qingxuan’s main focus would temporarily be on the Eastern Pole Region, preparing to open up a market there.
Although the Eastern Pole Region was only one of the four outer regions of the Earth Mystery Realm, its territory was vast, and its various mid and low-tier resources were equally abundant.
Given that Ye Qingxuan’s true body could not be exposed, and that his Nascent Soul realm cultivation alone could not stir up any waves in the five inner regions of the Earth Mystery Realm.
The various resources of the Eastern Pole Region were the key to Ye Qingxuan’s Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land advancing to the fourth tier, or even the fifth tier.
So opening up the Eastern Pole Region’s market was something Ye Qingxuan could not afford to neglect.
In the years that followed, Ye Qingxuan’s external incarnation kept a low profile.
Apart from occasionally going out to take in the scenery of the Endless Sea, Ye Qingxuan spent the rest of his time in his cabin.
He didn’t want too many entanglements with others, recklessly forming karmic ties.
But this didn’t mean he feared karma, or that he would isolate himself to avoid it.
When Ye Qingxuan did things, he did them entirely by his own mood—following his heart.
His external incarnation’s cultivation had long since risen to match his true body—both were now at the late Nascent Soul realm.
So Ye Qingxuan’s external incarnation no longer needed to meditate and cultivate in his cabin.
In his spare time, when his heart moved him, he would naturally go out to enjoy the scenery of the Endless Sea—making the trip worthwhile.
Fortunately, whether it was because he had already refused Han Ming, or because of the aloof image he had previously given off.
During Ye Qingxuan’s outings to view the sea, no one came to disturb him.
Time passed. In the blink of an eye, five more years had gone by.
Standing on the Tianyuan Trading Company’s tower ship, Ye Qingxuan gazed ahead and could already see the faint outline of a coastline.
“Finally, almost there!”
Ye Qingxuan sighed inwardly.
His external incarnation had stayed on this tower ship of the Tianyuan Trading Company for nearly seventy years.
Now, he had finally laid eyes on the Eastern Pole Region—situated at one of the four extremes of the Earth Mystery Realm.
Ye Qingxuan looked back at the Endless Sea behind him and thought to himself:
“The Endless Sea truly lives up to its name—Endless!”
In nearly seventy years, the Tianyuan Trading Company’s tower ship had performed seven spatial jumps and sailed for several more years before finally reaching the Eastern Pole Region.
And this was only a portion of the Endless Sea separating the Eastern Region from the Eastern Pole Region.
It was said that the Endless Sea was in a state of expansion every year as the Earth Mystery Realm grew.
In the Earth Mystery Realm, aside from the nine largest regions.
Within the Endless Sea, countless continents were scattered.
The largest of them might even be as large as seven or eight provinces of the Eastern Region.
