The First Immortal of Destiny

Chapter 1028: Chapter 1028: The Predicament of Fairy Flower Valley (2)

”Forget it!”

Yao and Jia thought for a moment, but finally shook their heads and refused Mi’s proposal, ”Even if Fellow Daoist Shen is strong, he is absolutely no match for a True Immortal, asking him to intervene would only harm him.”

The one who has forced the Fairy Flower Valley into a desperate situation is a female demon named Wu Lan.

Although she only has late-stage Formless Realm cultivation, behind her stands the True Immortal Xuanku Patriarch of the Ancient Demon Palace!

The terrain of the Cangwu Continent is unique; the Nine Abysses Sea occupies nearly seventy percent of this immortal continent’s area, more vast than a thousand combined Immortal Burial Seas. While the Fairy Flower Valley is not within the Nine Abysses Sea, it is also not far from it, only forty million miles away from the Ancient Demon Palace’s gate at Kungu Island.

This distance may seem vast and boundless to ordinary cultivators, requiring years of nonstop journeying without sleep or rest just to travel from one end to the other, but to a Formless Realm Grandmaster, it is not considered exceedingly distant.

A while ago, Wu Lan passed near the Fairy Flower Valley and spotted a Flower Fairy gathering rare flowers and herbs outside. Having never seen such a creature in the Nine Abysses Sea, she immediately developed a keen interest in this Flower Fairy and captured her.

Afterward, she learned from this Flower Fairy about the Flower Fairies’ exceptional talent in cultivating spiritual plants.

As a high-ranking member of the Ancient Demon Palace and the Direct Disciple of the Xuanku Patriarch, she knew her master wished to refine Grade VII and above Immortal Pills to boost his cultivation level, even capturing numerous Longevity race members to refine elixirs for him. However, the Ancient Demon Palace was not adept at cultivating spiritual medicine, so over the years, alchemy materials were either extravagantly purchased or forcibly taken from other places.

Coincidentally, the Fairy Flower Valley, where the Flower Fairies reside, contains a large number of rare flowers and herbs collected from both the Lower Realm and the Immortal Realm, and every Flower Fairy is extremely skilled in cultivating spiritual plants...

Realizing this, Wu Lan was overjoyed and directed her plans at the Flower Fairy clan, intending to abduct all Flower Fairies alongside the Mother Tree nurturing them to cage them at Kungu Island, to make the Flower Fairies one of the enslaved races of the Ancient Demon Palace, eternally cultivating spiritual medicine for the sect!

More than two months ago, Wu Lan approached the Fairy Flower Valley.

However, both Flower Fairy Yao and Flower Fairy Jia had advanced to Class VI, comparable to Formless Realm Grandmasters. Although their strength was far inferior to hers, they relied on the natural barrier upheld by the Mother Tree to fend off Wu Lan’s attacks.

Unable to breach the Fairy Flower Valley, Wu Lan returned to the Ancient Demon Palace, reported the matter to her master Xuanku Patriarch, and borrowed the lower-grade celestial artifact ”Heaven and Earth Spirit Lock” from Xuanku Patriarch, directly locking the earth veins and spirit veins in the Fairy Flower Valley’s area, artificially creating a Spiritless Land!

The Fairy Flower Valley lost the nature’s spiritual energy, causing large numbers of rare flowers and herbs within the valley to wither, and all the Flower Fairies were unable to restore their mana, with a vague tendency for their cultivation level to fall.

In the end, it was the Mother Tree that released the mana stored within itself, barely preserving most of the spiritual plants, also allowing Yao and others a reprieve. But over time, even the Mother Tree would wither, and the Fairy Flower Valley could not be protected!

To break the blockade, Yao and Jia disregarded the gap in cultivation level, repeatedly flying out of the Fairy Flower Valley to duel with Wu Lan, but each time they were defeated and returned, relying on the Mother Tree to barely survive.

Soon afterward, Mi brought Fairy Pei Yu to the Fairy Flower Valley for a ”visit” and happened to witness Yao and the others being injured by Wu Lan.

This infuriated Mi immensely, and she promptly used the minor Soul Refining Flag to command Fairy Pei Yu to engage in a fierce battle with Wu Lan. Initially, Fairy Pei Yu’s ”immortal and indestructible” trait indeed gave Wu Lan a hard time, but after several clashes, Wu Lan pinpointed the problem’s core. After once again dispersing Fairy Pei Yu’s Soul Body, she directly cast a spell to destroy the son flag.

Mi was nearly captured by Wu Lan; ultimately, it was the two Great Moro, Yao and Jia, who, despite being heavily injured, managed to save Mi!

From this period of magical duels, Yao and Jia also figured out Wu Lan’s background and intentions, realizing her actions were fully backed by the True Immortal Xuanku Patriarch of the Ancient Demon Palace, otherwise, she couldn’t have borrowed the Heaven and Earth Spirit Lock.

They had considered asking Shen Mo, with whom they had close ties, to come to the Fairy Flower Valley to help, considering that back in the Lower Realm, Shen Mo had received a lot of favor from their clan.

But after some discussion, they dismissed the idea...

Though Mi frequently traveled between the Fairy Flower Valley and Five Dragon Mountain and indeed knew Chen Shen’s strength was formidable, he had only been cultivating for just a few hundred years and had not yet ascended to True Immortal, so they all felt Shen Mo stood no chance against Xuanku Patriarch;

Once invited to aid the Fairy Flower Valley, even if Wu Lan were slain, it would draw Xuanku Patriarch, leading to Shen Mo’s inevitable demise!

Mi wanted to argue against them; she knew that Shen Mo had once used a big array in the Lower Realm to suppress a True Immortal Dharma Body and had recently even fought a True Immortal to a draw. But due to her comparatively low cultivation, still stuck at the Class IV peak, she had the blind men’s view of an elephant, not truly understanding Shen Mo’s actual strength, imagining he achieved such feats possibly with the help of formations.

And given the valid danger in the Fairy Flower Valley now, she couldn’t make up her mind whether to recite Shen Mo’s true name and title to seek his aid.

Moreover, Yao and others had a second reason for preventing Mi, which was that the Flower Fairy clan had a ”fallback.”

”Mi, you have a close relationship with Fellow Daoist Shen and also shoulder the vital task of tending to the Mother Tree branches, and absolutely shouldn’t perish here. Bring all the spiritual plant seeds and mother stock, and later I will join forces with Jia Moro to cast a spell, using the power of the Mother Tree to send you back to the Phoenix Continent...”

Before Flower Fairy Yao finished speaking, Mi fluttered her wings and flew in front of her, anxiously asking, ”What about you?”

Yao gently patted Mi’s wings with her own, calmly saying, ”The remaining power within the Mother Tree is limited, it can only support the transmission of one person. Once you leave, we will all perform the Returning Magic, infusing our primal Essence and Qi into the Mother Tree, and die along with it. By that time, the branch of the Mother Tree left in the Red Flame Sect will grow into a new Mother Tree, and we will be reborn from the Mother Tree!”

This is a Secret Technique of the Flower Fairy clan. After casting it, as long as there exists a Mother Tree of the same root and origin in the world, it can most likely preserve the soul, but the memory and cultivation of the previous life will be completely lost, akin to a Xian Dao stronghold reincarnated anew.

And because of this, Yao and the Flower Fairies did not want to drag Shen Mo down with them. In the future ”reincarnated” to Five Dragon Mountain, the Flower Fairy clan would need his protection.

Upon hearing this, Mi’s face immediately fell. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

After much contemplation, she ultimately decided to first relay the entire situation in full detail to Shen Mo. Even if he couldn’t match Xuanku Patriarch, he could at least connect with other True Immortals, possibly bringing reinforcements for the Fairy Flower Valley!

She had lived in the Red Flame Sect for two to three hundred years, though not very great, she had nonetheless mastered human speech.

But before she could speak aloud, streams of faint nature’s spiritual energy had already begun to coagulate and, in the blink of an eye, condensed into a Manifest Form, with Shen Mo’s figure appearing before her!