After emerging from the Dark Demon Abyss, Lu Qing did not linger.
Standing in the starry sky, he looked back at the massive rift spanning the Void Realm.
The rift remained pitch black as ink, emitting a heart-palpitating aura, no different from when he had first arrived.
But Lu Qing knew that things inside had changed.
The remnant soul of Great Power Xuanhua had been awakened; although the riot of the power of darkness was temporarily suppressed, the Seal had loosened.
A hundred years—at most, a hundred years.
Lu Qing withdrew his gaze and looked no further.
He took a step forward, and his figure vanished once again.
After several ultra-long-distance Space Teleportations, he had returned to the Guixu Secret Realm.
His figure passed through the Star River Grand Array and layers of space, finally landing within the Immortal Palace.
When Lu Qing's figure appeared in the Immortal Palace, the Old Azure Dragon and the others were first startled, then all showed expressions of pleasant surprise.
They had been constantly monitoring the movements of the outside world, knowing that the great battle between Lu Qing and the Master of the Black and White Temple had ended, but they did not know the outcome.
Seeing Lu Qing return safely now, the heavy stone in their hearts finally halfway dropped.
"Lu Qing!"
The Old Azure Dragon hurriedly went to meet him, its dragon eyes full of urgency.
The Black Savage Ox and Mingfeng followed behind, also looking at Lu Qing nervously.
"How is the situation? Has that Master of the Black and White Temple truly perished?"
Although they had seen the conclusion of the battle, they still wanted to hear the confirmation from Lu Qing's own mouth.
Lu Qing nodded: "The two otherworldly monsters who infiltrated our world have both completely perished."
As soon as these words were spoken, the Old Azure Dragon and the others immediately breathed a huge sigh of relief, finally letting the heavy stone in their hearts drop completely.
It couldn't be helped; the aura previously displayed by the Master of the Black and White Temple was truly too terrifying.
If even Lu Qing could not completely slay him, they truly could not imagine what other existence in this world could resist such a monster in the absence of the Dao Transformation Realm.
The Black Savage Ox let out a long breath, a look of relief appearing on its bovine face: "That's great, that monster is finally dead. I thought we were really finished this time."
Mingfeng also nodded, a lingering fear in her phoenix eyes.
However, before the Old Azure Dragon and the others could relax for long, Lu Qing's next words made their hearts tighten again.
"However, the matter is not yet over."
The Old Azure Dragon's smile froze on its face: "What do you mean?"
Lu Qing recounted what had happened in the Dark Demon Abyss.
At the final moment, the Master of the Black and White Temple had sacrificed himself to send out a wisp of life fluctuation, triggering a riot of the power of darkness in the Dark Demon Abyss.
That power was battering the world passage, attempting to force it open.
The remnant soul of Great Power Xuanhua was awakened; although he ultimately suppressed the power of darkness within the Demon Abyss, having been forced awake from his slumber, his remnant soul had also reached its limit. In a hundred years at most, his remnant soul would completely dissipate.
After a hundred years, he would no longer have the power to suppress the world passage.
At that time, the armies of the Heavenly Demon Realm would drive straight in without any hindrance, devouring all living beings in this starry sky.
Hearing this, the Old Azure Dragon and the others were greatly shocked.
They had personally witnessed the terror of those two monsters earlier.
Just two otherworldly monsters that had sneaked over were already so difficult to deal with, almost invincible in the starry sky.
If the armies of the Heavenly Demon Realm were truly allowed in, it would be a true Great Calamity, and [N O V E L I G H T] the entire starry sky would be plunged into misery.
"Then... then what should be done?" the Old Azure Dragon asked hurriedly, its voice trembling slightly.
Lu Qing said: "The only way now is for someone to go to the other world and find those ancient sages of old. Within a hundred years, the world passage deep within the Dark Demon Abyss must be completely sealed. Only then can we prevent our world from being devoured by the Heavenly Demon Realm."
The Old Azure Dragon fell silent.
Having lived for hundreds of thousands of years, it naturally understood the weight of this matter.
Going to the other world was a matter of narrow escape from death.
Back then, after its Master, the Gui Xu Daoist, entered the other world, there had been no word from him, and no news has been sent back to this day.
It looked at Lu Qing and suddenly understood something.
"So Lu Qing, you want to go to the other world?"
Lu Qing nodded: "In this starry sky of ours, I'm afraid no one but me can pass through that world passage to enter the other world."
This was not self-boasting, but a fact.
Although that world passage was suppressed by the Physical Body of Great Power Xuanhua, the power of darkness was still raging within the passage.
If an ordinary Cultivator entered, they would be instantly eroded by that power of darkness and turned into a demonic creature.
Even a Dao Integration Realm expert would find it difficult to resist.
Only someone like Lu Qing, who was proficient in the Way of Space and whose Physical Body was tempered to the extreme, would have a chance of passing through safely.
The Old Azure Dragon and the others fell silent.
Although they were unwilling, they also knew that what Lu Qing said was the truth.
In this current starry sky, only Lu Qing was qualified for this task.
If it were them, they would probably perish just upon entering the other world.
"Then Lu Qing, when do you plan to leave?"
The Old Azure Dragon knew that dissuasion was meaningless.
If Lu Qing did not do this, all living beings would become food for those monsters in a hundred years.
Having seen the brutality of the Master of the Black and White Temple, no one dared to harbor any more illusions.
Lu Qing said: "I promised Great Power Xuanhua that I would set out in ten years. During these ten years, after I have handled some matters, I will prepare to head to the other world."
Ten years was but a blink of an eye for a Cultivator.
But for Lu Qing, there were still many things to do in these ten years.
The Old Azure Dragon, the Black Savage Ox, and Mingfeng looked at each other, then all looked at Lu Qing simultaneously.
"Lu Qing, we want to go with you."
Lu Qing looked at them: "Have you thought it through? This trip is exceptionally dangerous; it's no exaggeration to say it's a narrow escape from death."
The Old Azure Dragon nodded: "We've thought it through. We've lived for hundreds of thousands of years, seen all there is to see, and experienced all there is to experience. The only wish in this life is to find our Master. Since there is such a good opportunity, how can we let it pass?"
The Black Savage Ox also said in a muffled voice: "Right, right, right, we want to find Master. After all these years, we don't know how Master is doing."
Although Mingfeng did not speak, her phoenix eyes were also full of determination.
Lu Qing looked at them, fell silent for a moment, and then nodded.
"Alright."
After agreeing to the Old Azure Dragon and the others, Lu Qing went to the second floor of the Immortal Palace.
In the vast space, Immortal Caves and immortal mountains floated in mid-air, surrounded by Spiritual Qi and shrouded in mist.
The Old Doctor, Little Yan, and the others were here in secluded meditation.
Lu Qing looked at those Immortal Caves and fell into silence.
Because of the protection of the Immortal Palace, his Master and Little Yan probably didn't know about what had happened in the starry sky not long ago.
They were Cultivating peacefully in their Immortal Caves, completely unaware of the dangers outside.
He didn't know how to tell them.
After a moment of silence, Lu Qing knew that this matter had to be faced eventually.
Using Divine Soul transmission, he awakened his Master and Little Yan from their meditation.
A moment later, the Old Doctor walked out of his Immortal Cave.
He wore a cyan Daoist robe, and his aura was steady; clearly, his recent Cultivation had made significant progress.
He saw Lu Qing and nodded slightly. He was about to say something when he noticed Lu Qing's expression was somewhat serious, so he withdrew his smile.
Little Yan and Xiao Li also came out from their Immortal Caves.
"Lu Qing, what happened?" the Old Doctor asked.
Little Yan also looked at her brother; she too felt that her brother's expression was a bit off.
Lu Qing took a deep breath and spoke slowly.
"Master, there is something I must tell you."
He recounted the events that had recently occurred.
From the battle between his spiritual sense clone and the Vice Temple Master of the Black and White Temple, to his true body emerging from seclusion and the great battle with the Temple Master, and finally entering the Dark Demon Abyss and meeting the remnant soul of Great Power Xuanhua.
He also spoke about how the Dark Demon Abyss would be impossible to guard in a hundred years at most.
This series of words directly shook the hearts of the Old Doctor and the others.
They had not expected that while they were in seclusion, Lu Qing had actually experienced such a life-and-death battle.
The Old Doctor was silent for a long time.
He looked up and gazed at Lu Qing.
"So, the responsibility of going to the other world for help falls on your shoulders, right, Lu Qing?"
Little Yan and Xiao Li also stared intently at Lu Qing.
"Indeed, only I have some certainty of passing through that world passage," Lu Qing nodded. "If I do not go, in a hundred years, all of us will perish in that Great Calamity."
"Therefore, your Disciple must go on this journey."
