Chapter 1612  When the Dream Wakes Up

From this day on, Xiao Mian decided to stay in the White Bone Demon Tower temporarily.

The White Bone Demon Tower is a bridge between the underworld and the world of the living.

On weekdays, only Fu Qingqiong and Xia Jiuyou were in charge here. Now that Xia Jiuyou was locked up by Fu Qingqiong, there were only Xiao Mian and Fu Qingqiong.

Without Xia Jiuyou, the eternal light bulb, Xiao Mian was so happy!

Xiao Mian even thought: take this opportunity to turn Fu Qingqiong against him!

Facts have proved that Fu Qingqiong is not completely ungrateful to Xiao Mian.

Fu Qingqiong was Xiao Mian's lifelong love, and now she is the last disciple of the Ghost Emperor, commanding all matters related to ghost spiritual cultivation, and her status is no longer the same as before.

If Fu Qingqiong can change her mind, it will be a great benefit both in public and in private.

However, although Fu Qingqiong responded to Xiao Mian's feelings, whenever Xiao Mian mentioned business, Fu Qingqiong avoided the topic.

Fortunately, apart from this, the relationship between the two is extremely harmonious.

The two even passed through the underground passage and returned to the Five Elements Gate.

With their current cultivation level, even Dan Qiusheng could not find their whereabouts - not to mention that Dan Qiusheng was sent to the Du Zun Mansion by Xiao Mian.

In this way, the two were like a pair of immortal lovers in the Five Elements Gate.

Bi Bo Tan, Shuiyun Peak, and even the cave in the back mountain...

The two's footprints were all over the Five Elements Gate, with both old memories and new loves today.

During this period, Xiao Mian wanted to bring Fu Qingjue and Xiao Chuqing into the Five Elements Gate.

But Fu Qingqiong declined...

"It's rare that you and I have this leisure time, why should we let others mess up our time? There's a long time to come! Qingjue and Chuqing, we can meet each other eventually!"

"That's right! There's a long time to come..." With a turn of his eyes, Xiao Mian remembered something and said in a gentle voice: "These two children, childhood sweethearts, love each other, I can see that Qingjue is really treating Chuqing, and Chuqing also has Qingjue in her heart!"

"..., is that so?"

"Now the master is gone! The eldest sister is devoted to Taoism and doesn't care about worldly affairs. If you and I, as the eldest sister and brother, don't worry about them, who else will?"

"That's right! I don't object to their affairs! But before the master died, he left a will: Chuqing's marriage must wait until the end of the spiritual war!"

"I understand the master's good intentions! Since you don't object, after the spiritual war is over, we will help them get married, right?"

"Okay! After the spiritual war is over..."

Such small talk makes Xiao Mian yearn for it.

There were many times when Xiao Mian wanted to freeze time and never let it pass.

How wonderful it would be if time was always so beautiful?

Unfortunately, no matter how sweet the dream is, there is always a time to wake up!

Suddenly one day, Fu Qingqiong, who was lying in Xiao Mian's arms, trembled.

Without waiting for Xiao Mian to ask, Fu Qingqiong suddenly sat up and stood tall.

"Master has an order! Let's go back!"

"..."

Looking at Fu Qingqiong's resolute back, Xiao Mian's heart sank.

In the White Bone Demon Tower, the psychic skeleton flashed again - the Ghost Emperor returned!

"This emperor and the demon saint have reached a consensus!"

"I wish the two seniors to be invincible in the spirit world!"

"What do you mean by invincible? It's just self-protection!" Having said that, the ghost emperor still said to Xiao Mian: "This emperor has always been clear about rewards and punishments! Last time you broke the bet between this emperor and the Buddha, and this emperor gave you a small punishment and a big warning; this time you facilitated the alliance between this emperor and the demon saint, and this emperor has a reward - so that you don't complain!"

"Junior dare not!"

"Is there anything you dare not do?"

While speaking, a little spiritual light flew out from the spiritual skull.

The spiritual light flew straight to Xiao Mian's forehead. Xiao Mian did not move, allowing the spiritual light to enter his body - he couldn't hide it anyway, not to mention that the ghost emperor clearly said it was a reward!

Since it is a reward, why hide?

A big man like the ghost emperor would not break his promise to enrich himself.

The spiritual light entered his body, and Xiao Mian saw that it was a ghost way of practice.

"Boy! This emperor is far away in the spirit world. Although there is this psychic skeleton to communicate with, the psychic skeleton cannot transmit tangible things! Do you understand?"

The Ghost Emperor meant: he could not give Xiao Mian tangible things!

Only this secret manual can break the world with the help of divine consciousness!

"Junior understands! Thank you for your generous gift!"

"Remember! You have only completed half of what you promised this emperor!"

"..., junior understands!"

What the Ghost Emperor meant was to bring the Demon Lord into the alliance!

Because Renhuang Palace is the only one in power, only by uniting the three forces of the Ghost Emperor, the Demon Lord and the Demon Saint can they compete for the edge while protecting themselves.

After that, the Ghost Emperor cut off the connection, and the psychic skeleton was kept by Fu Qingqiong.

Without waiting for Xiao Mian to speak, Fu Qingqiong changed his previous warmth and ordered him to leave!

"Qingqiong! What are you doing?"

"Xiao Mian! I was just playing with you in the past. You don't really think that we can continue our relationship, do you?" Sitting high up, Fu Qingqiong looked down at Xiao Mian and said calmly: "When you left me and went to Zhongzhou, did you ever think that there would be such a day? Now that I have been favored by the Ghost Emperor, and my ascension to the spirit world is just around the corner, why should I continue to be connected with you and ruin my own practice? You are too naive!"

"Qingqiong! I know this is not what you really mean..."

"Qingqiong? Your second senior sister has died a long time ago!" As he said this, Fu Qingqiong suddenly pulled away the black veil on his face, revealing a ghost face that was half white bones and half red, and laughed self-deprecatingly: "Look at me! Is this your second senior sister?"

"Qingqiong! If you use life and death as an excuse, I will follow you to practice the ghost way!"

Fu Qingqiong was stunned when he heard this, and his expression quickly dimmed.

"What if I ascend to the spirit world?"

This light sentence made Xiao Mian open his mouth and became speechless.

It is not difficult for Xiao Mian to ascend to the spiritual world.

Just like Nalan Mingyue of Xuantian Palace, she had secretly informed Xiao Mian that if Xiao Mian was interested, Nalan Mingyue could help him when the spiritual war ends in the future.

Another example is the Ghost Emperor. As long as Xiao Mian is loyal to the Ghost Emperor, with the Ghost Emperor's powerful means, since Fu Qingqiong can be sent to the spirit world, it is not difficult to have another Xiao Mian.

Even Xiao Mian himself has no way to sneak into the spirit world.

By gathering away the dust, returning to his origin, and changing his appearance, Xiao Mian can disguise himself as almost any spiritual monk with the same level of cultivation and the same realm.

It is not difficult to steal the sky and change the day.

If it was just for his own selfish interests, Xiao Mian could just pat his ass and leave.

After ascending to the spiritual world, who cares - this world is filled with floods! ?

However, Xiao Mian couldn't do it!

Counterattack on the spiritual world has wide implications!

Once Xiao Mian takes care of himself, the consequences can be imagined.

There is definitely no hope of counterattacking the spirit world. After this spiritual battle, the spirit world will probably never start the forbidden experience again. This world will be isolated forever!

Nanyue State will also be in turmoil.

Although Xiao Mian left enough backup, behemoths like Du Tianfeng, God knows how many trump cards they have retained to suppress the box.

If one is not good, there will be only four states and four seas in the world!

Even Dongwu Prefecture, Western Shu Prefecture and Northern Wei Prefecture will also suffer a joint blow due to the fall of Nanyue Prefecture. The Zhongzhou Prefecture will dominate and then annex the world.

Maybe in hundreds of thousands of years, there will be no more monks in this world!

What worries Xiao Mian even more is the fate of those around him.

Needless to say, there are close relatives such as Hemerocallis and Xiao Chuqing, but also close friends such as Jing Chu, Yin Jiansheng and Gui Hai. How can Xiao Mian bear to abandon them?

Although everyone has their own destiny, Xiao Mian couldn't do that.

"Xiao Mian! Wake up!" A word woke up Xiao Mian, and Fu Qingqiong said to herself: "You and I are like two needles on a clock. Although we occasionally intersect, we are two completely different people. In the world, admit it! I don’t blame you!”

"Is there no other way?"

"Yes! Either, I risk disobeying my master's orders, stay in this world, and stay with you for the rest of my life; or, after you finish handling all the matters in this world, incur the Divine Tribulation, and try to ascend to the spirit world - —I’m waiting for you in the spirit world!”

"..., OK!" After saying this, Xiao Mian made up his mind, raised his head and looked at Fu Qingqiong, and said word by word: "Wait for me - I will go to the spirit world to find you!"

"Are you so sure?"

"I, Xiao Mian, have failed you once, and I don't want to fail you again! When the dust settles and I fight to the death, I will go to the spirit world to find you!"

"In that case, go ahead!"

"……,good!"

Nodding, Xiao Mian took a deep look at Fu Qingqiong, turned around and left.

Seeing Xiao Mian's figure disappearing into the White Bone Demon Tower, Fu Qingqiong closed her eyes, and tears burst out of her eyes and surged down.

Only one eye hole remained on half of the bone-white face.

Only half of the rosy face was filled with clear tears.

I know you love me, just like you know I love you!

It’s just that you have your mission, and I have my persistence!

You don’t want to miss my path, and I don’t want to break your wings.

In this case, this ending may be the best ending...

If we are destined to meet again in the spiritual world in the future, I will marry you!

If there is no fate in the future and the spiritual world cannot wait for you, I will die with you!

I just hope that you will be well!

For the sake of this world and for yourself!

Where the tears ended, Fu Qingqiong's black hair turned white in an instant.

I miss you deeply, and my head turns gray in an instant!

Let’s say that Xiao Mian had already left the Five Elements Sect at this time.

Knowing each other, how could Xiao Mian not know Fu Qingqiong's difficulties?

As long as Xiao Mian says a word, Fu Qingqiong will definitely give up the opportunity to ascend to the spiritual world.

However, Xiao Mian can't be so selfish!

Ascension to the spiritual world is the highest ideal of all monks in this world.

Now, this opportunity is placed in front of Fu Qingqiong. How can Xiao Mian ruin Fu Qingqiong's opportunity to go further just because of his own selfishness?

What's more, counterattacking the spiritual world is extremely dangerous.

Even Xiao Mian himself doesn’t know how far he can go!

Xiao Mian didn't dare to make a promise easily that he couldn't even grasp!

It’s okay to go to the spirit world!

At least, Xiao Mian can concentrate on everything and go all out.

When the dust settles in the future, Xiao Mian will no longer have any worries. With Xiao Mian's strength and foundation, it is not impossible that he will have the opportunity to ascend to the spiritual world in an upright manner!

Only then will it be possible for him and Fu Qingqiong to renew their relationship!

Before that, Xiao Mian didn't dare to have any other illusions.

After leaving the Five Elements Sect, Xiao Mian gathered his thoughts and had other important matters.

Xiao Mian and Fu Qingqiong had been together for more than a month, but Xiao Mian only regarded it as a dream.

Now I suddenly wake up from the dream, life must go on...

Xiao Mian has long planned to recruit a group of mercenaries composed of spiritual practitioners!

After the news spread, many spiritual cultivators came to visit.

Seeing the dozens of spiritual cultivators appearing in front of him, Xiao Mian took a deep breath - although most of these spiritual cultivators were not strong in combat power, they were still a force.

The top priority is for Xiao Mian to unite all available forces!

"Fellow Taoists from the spiritual world! I am going to Xiao Mian of Nanyue!"

"I know you! You are the Nanyue Xiao Mian who doesn't know how to count! Last time I used a Sunlight Pearl to exchange for a high-level magic weapon from you, but you gave me two!"

Sunlight Pearl is an eighth-level spiritual material with light attribute.

It is already difficult to exchange an eighth-level spiritual material for a high-level magic weapon. Xiao Mian added an extra high-level magic weapon because he saw that the spiritual practitioner was honest and simple.

I never thought that one day, I would be treated as a fool because of this matter...

"..., I am not good at math! Please forgive me!"

"Fellow Daoist Xiao! We spiritual practitioners have heard your story more or less, and we also understand the purpose of your summoning us this time!"

But there was a female spiritual practitioner who stood out from the crowd.

Xiao Mian glanced at her and understood everything.

This female cultivator was called Lu Yu, a high-level Yuanying cultivator. Among the spiritual practitioners scattered in Nanyue, although her cultivation was not the best, she had certain connections and prestige.

Because Lu Yu is a low-level disciple of a small sect.

Although it is only a small sect, he is still a disciple of the sect.

"Daoyou Lu! You are also a straightforward person. Let's speak frankly! I want to hire you spiritual practitioners to form a mercenary. You don't have to fight for my Nanyue. As long as you can help my Nanyue cultivators when necessary!"

"This should not be difficult! What about the reward?"

"What do you want?"

"Top-grade spiritual stones!"

Lu Yu said this without even looking at the others.

Obviously, these spiritual practitioners had reached a consensus before coming.

But the other party's request was still beyond Xiao Mian's expectations...

Top-grade spiritual stones?

In addition to some places such as long-distance teleportation arrays and top-grade array plates, Xiao Mian really didn't know that top-grade spiritual stones had other uses.

Why did these spiritual practitioners specifically ask for top-grade spiritual stones?

As if seeing Xiao Mian's suspicion, Lu Yu answered without asking.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao! You must be very surprised, right? Actually, we are also very surprised! Although the number of top-grade spirit stones in your world is rare, they seem to be of low value - do you know how much a top-grade spirit stone is worth in our spiritual world?"

"Fellow Daoist Lu Yu, please give me some advice!"

"One top-grade spirit stone can buy a top-grade magic weapon!" Xiao Mian's pupils shrank when he heard this, but he heard Lu Yu continue to say: "I also thought about it for a long time before I suddenly figured out this problem: this world is too low-level!"

Lu Yu's words did not have any derogatory meaning, but were just describing a fact.

Once the other party pointed it out, Xiao Mian suddenly realized it.

Just as Xiao Mian thought, in this world, the use of top-grade spirit stones is very narrow.

That's because this world is banned, and cultivators stop at the Nascent Soul stage, and many higher-level formations and materials cannot be used at all.

These high-level materials are where the top-grade spirit stones are useful!

Because of this, the top-grade spirit stones have such a high value in the spiritual world.

It was only natural that these spiritual practitioners asked for top-grade spiritual stones as compensation.

For the spiritual world, top-grade spiritual stones are the strongest hard currency!

"I understand! I wonder how your commissions are calculated?"

"Two top-grade spiritual stones for a mid-level Yuanying cultivator; six top-grade spiritual stones for a high-level Yuanying cultivator. What do you think, Fellow Daoist Xiao?"

After saying this price, Lu Yu looked at Xiao Mian with some trepidation.

Six top-grade spiritual stones would be a considerable fortune when they return to the spiritual world.

Although the top-grade spiritual stones in this world are not valuable, at the same time, the number of top-grade spiritual stones in this world is not large.

Lu Yu was not sure: where Xiao Mian's bottom line was.

Xiao Mian, there was no bottom line at all!

However, Xiao Mian must have a bottom line!

If Xiao Mian agreed too readily, there would be endless troubles!

The more trepidation Lu Yu had, the more silent Xiao Mian became.

The spiritual practitioners around him looked at Lu Yu and secretly sized up Xiao Mian.

"Daoyou Lu! I really want to agree to your request, but no! You have all seen the situation in this world. My Nanyue Province is the weakest of the five states in the world. Where can I find so many top-grade spirit stones for you?"

"Huh! We also know that it is a bit difficult. Daoyou Xiao, what do you think?"

"Half!"

Xiao Mian cut the price in half without mercy.

"No! This is too harsh!"

"Daoyou Lu! Have you ever thought about a question?" Scanning many spiritual practitioners, Xiao Mian finally looked at Lu Yu and said in a good voice: "Take the example of a mid-level Yuanying cultivator. If you say two top-grade spirit stones, I will definitely not agree. If I say one top-grade spirit stone, you will not agree. Do you want to cut the top-grade spirit stone in half? Or do you want to share one top-grade spirit stone equally between the two of you? Isn't this making trouble out of nothing?"

Xiao Mian's words were not too clear, but the meaning was clear.

Two peaches kill three warriors, it has been a practice since ancient times!