Ninth-level fairy

Du Fang was suddenly stunned. He had heard of this legendary monster since he was a child, but had never seen one.

Not only him, no one in the entire Lingxiao has ever seen it. This kind of monster, whose lifespan is almost fifty or sixty times longer than that of a cultivator, has been recorded in ancient books since ancient times.

Because too many people have never seen or heard of it, it gradually faded into legend.

Legend has it that the mythical yellow bird, with a red and white head and wings, guards the elixir of immortality under the command of Shennong, the God of Heaven and Earth. If such a thing really exists, then...

Du Fang immediately asked, "Can eating this bird make me immortal?"

Master Qinghe laughed and said, "You believe this kind of nonsense in the world?"

Du Fang scratched his head and gave a helpless smile. Master Qinghe slowly explained the origin of this bird:

"This yellow bird is the founder of the Longyuan Sword Sect. Empress Qinghua used her immense magical powers to capture it a thousand years ago from somewhere unknown. A thousand years ago, this entire Yuanxu was a deep lake. Empress Qinghua evaporated the lake dry and discovered an ancient Taoist temple beneath it. She then sealed the yellow bird there and, using civilians, built the entire Longqi City. She then gathered the water from the city to form the Jing Lake."

Du Fang sighed, "The legend is indeed true. There is an ancient Taoist temple under the abyss. Is that temple still there?"

"It's gone. It's already turned into ruins. The world's strongest person, the Qinghua Empress, moved all the things in the Dao Court to Longyuan Divine Mountain. From then on, the Longyuan Sword Sect began to flourish and became one of the seven most prosperous sword sects in the world..."

"Dragon's Rest! Dragon's Rest!" Du Fang murmured. "The Qinghua Queen was very thoughtful. She was afraid that people would find out that this monster was actually a yellow bird, so she gave it the nickname Dragon's Rest City, meaning the place where real dragons live!"

Old Monk Qinghe continued:

"The Qinghua Queen dug the Demon-Locking Well and built the Dragon-Suppressing Bridge. She placed the Nine-Eyed Star Sea Pearl, a rare treasure in the world, there to suppress the demon beast. For the past thousand years, the Yellow Bird has been in a deep sleep."

Du Fang suddenly remembered that day at the foot of Lingxiao Mountain, all the people from Lingxiao were about to go on a long journey. When they were leaving for Jinghai, they were stopped by two city lords. As a result, Baizhi took out the Star Sea Pearl, and the pearl fought with him in Lingxiao Yunhai Square and disappeared along with Baizhi.

He immediately said, "This Star Sea Pearl was taken away and the seal was broken, so it was awakened by my blood, right?"

The old monk stared at his face and smiled, "You are truly very intelligent. You are indeed Xuanzhen's disciple..."

"This Star Sea Pearl was taken away by the Lord of Longyuan three months ago. At that time, I knew that she had already planned to deal with the Lingxiao Sword Sect."

"I have informed Brother Xuanzhen before, but I didn't expect..."

Du Fang smiled bitterly. He didn't expect the Lingxiao Sect to be so vulnerable. Before the Xinghaizhu could even take action, the entire sect had been destroyed.

Suddenly, Du Fang felt dizzy and dust fell from above his head.

The old monk's face changed: "It's an earthquake..."

"No!" Soon, both of their expressions changed at the same time.

Suddenly, above the entire Longqi City, there was an old, deep, and strange sound like that of a sheep or a cow, coming from deep underground. Within this strange sound, a clear bird song pierced through the sky and echoed throughout the entire city.

It originated from the abyss and resounded throughout the sky, lasting almost for a breath.

All the residents of Longqi City, upon hearing this strange cry, ran out into the streets and looked around in shock.

All the sounds in the city died down, and in an instant, there was complete silence. Only the sound of birdsong remained, echoing in the air for a long time.

Du Fang and the old monk were both silent. After a long while, the old monk sighed and said:

"This demon beast... has finally woken up..."

His voice was extremely low, as if he had encountered a huge difficulty.

Du Fangqi said:

"Is this prehistoric monster very powerful? Why does Master look so depressed?"

The old monk snorted coldly, "Powerful... Powerful is more than enough to describe it. Every demonic beast that has been passed down from the primordial wasteland has at least the strength of the Ninth Realm. Even if a cultivator of the human race is at the peak of the Ninth Realm, he cannot subdue such a primordial demonic beast without an imperial weapon passed down from generation to generation!"

Du Fang sighed softly.

A cultivator of the ninth realm is almost the top cultivator of the human race, but he has no chance of winning against this kind of monster.

Imperial weapon, imperial weapon!

"Is the Nine-Eyed Star Sea Pearl the imperial weapon of the Qinghua Empress?"

"Yes, the wonder of heaven and earth that has ascended the ninth level has been stained with the essence of the Great Emperor and has become a true imperial weapon!"

Du Fang was confused, and the more he asked, the more questions he had to ask. "What is Essence Energy?"

"You will understand it later. You just need to know that a true imperial weapon is very powerful."

Du Fang curled his lips and said, "But I've fought against the Star Sea Pearl before, and its power seems ordinary, doesn't it?"

The old monk glared at him and said disdainfully:

"First, the divine consciousness within the imperial weapon has not revived. Second, without reaching the pinnacle of the Ninth Realm, the divine consciousness within the imperial weapon cannot be activated, and the imperial weapon cannot exert its corresponding power..."

Du Fang said "oh" and finally understood why the Star Sea Pearl only contained nine sword energies in Bai Zhi's hands, and its power was not that great.

It seems that her cultivation is not good enough and she is using it forcefully.

Du Fang listened quietly to the monk's narration without interrupting a word.

Suddenly, countless screams and the neighing of horses were heard in the distance, and the city was filled with noise. A novice monk from Hongfa Temple hurried over and said in a trembling voice outside the door:

"Abbot, Abbot, many people from Longyuan Sword Sect have arrived! They are all up there."

When the novice monk saw that the abbot had lost an arm, he suddenly said in surprise: "Abbot, you...your arm..."

"Get out!" Master Qinghe said sternly.

The novice monk cried out anxiously, "No... there are so many people riding flying swords, thousands of them, densely packed, they have already reached the top of the city!"

A layer of guilt appeared on Du Fang's face again. "What are they going to do?"

The old monk stared at his face and said, "It's either for you or for that monster! I'll go out and take a look!"

He spread his sleeves and was about to go out.

Du Fang held him back and said, "Master, you are injured. Let me go!"

"Let's stay away from it. Firstly, we don't want to anger the monster. Secondly, you have a lot of blood energy on you, so you'll be easily discovered!"

A trace of doubt flashed through Du Fang's mind:

"Longyuan's desolate master, Bai Zhi, was crippled by my sword a long time ago on the top of Lingxiao Mountain. Why does the Longyuan Sword Sect seem to be fine as nothing happened? Could it be that the ninth-level venerable that Changqingzi mentioned has replaced Bai Zhi?"

The two of them left the room together and flew up to the main hall. When they looked up, Master Qinghe's expression immediately changed:

"They're here for the monsters in the city!"

Suddenly, a soft whistle sounded from afar.

Above Longqi City, there were no less than five or six thousand cultivators, densely packed throughout the city. These people were all standard sword cultivators.

Each one was dressed in red and holding a red sword, as they approached with a whistling sound—

Thousands of people immediately floated in the air and transformed into seven red star-shaped sword formations, floating over the sea in Longcheng Territory.