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Seeing Yuan Qingtian dead, Leng Dao did not dare to linger. He took advantage of the crowd and quietly slipped away.

After the Exquisite Pagoda had slain Yuan Qingtian with its Divine Stone, it bounded up from the ground and leisurely flew back into Qinchuan's hands.

Qinchuan's Divine Sense entered the pagoda.

A fist-sized, golden Exquisite figure joyously circled around Qinchuan's Divine Sense, extremely excited.

"Master, you're finally back. Little Qi missed you to death."

"Master, you have no idea. Just now, a ferocious and evil bad guy barged in and tried to beat up Little Qi. If Little Qi hadn't run fast, I would have been killed!" As it spoke, Little Qi seriously patted its chest, seemingly truly scared.

If Qinchuan hadn't seen Little Qi's mischievous behavior with his own eyes and known the power of the formation within the pagoda, he would have believed it.

Actually, Qinchuan's previous words were not baseless; Little Qi indeed was a transformation of one of the Seven Ingenious Exquisite Hearts and would only recognize Qinchuan as its master in this life.

Qinchuan knew that such an affable Artifact Spirit didn't have any self-protective abilities, so he had set up a Divines Formation within the pagoda in those years. If Little Qi encountered danger, the formation would activate on its own, eliminating the Divine Power that intruded.

There are two methods to refine an Artifact Spirit within a Dao Artifact.

The first is to subdue the Artifact Spirit; the second is to erase the original Artifact Spirit, seal a new Artifact Spirit, or nurture it over a long period to wait for a new Artifact Spirit to grow spontaneously.

Whether it is the first or the second method, one must enter the Dao Artifact with their Divine Sense to deal with the Artifact Spirit.

Yuan Qingtian also understood that to prevent being refined, Dao Artifacts usually had Killing Formations inside. He had prepared some means to deal with the Great Emperor Formations, but he could never have imagined that the owner of the Seven-Heart Exquisite Pagoda was not Yu Linglong, but Qinchuan!

"In this Lower Realm, no one has been born yet who could break the formation to harm you," Qinchuan said.

As he spoke, Qinchuan flicked the adorable little creature and affectionately asked, "Didn't I tell you to stay by Linglong's side? Where is she?"

Little Qi pursed its lips, answering with a wronged expression: "Little Qi doesn't know…"

Qinchuan asked about what had happened 80,000 years ago, and Little Qi's eyes went wide: "What happened 80,000 years ago? Little Qi doesn't know…"

Before Qinchuan could ask further, Little Qi promptly interjected: "Little Qi doesn't know anything."

"…"

Seeing that it was to no avail to try to get useful information from Little Qi, Qinchuan ordered Little Qi to continue staying in the Exquisite Pavilion before his Divine Sense voluntarily exited.

Just as Qinchuan's Divine Sense left, he heard a series of clanging footsteps and a loud, hoarse voice shouting from the Exquisite Pavilion's floors above.

"Damn it, I'm in closed-door cultivation for just two days, and someone dares to cause trouble here?"

The voice was as loud as thunder, stunning to the ear.

Everyone looked and saw a two-meter-tall, hefty man thumping down the stairs, each step causing the pavilion to tremble.

It was none other than Yu Qilin, who was breaking through to become a Supreme Saint.

When Yu Hudie learned that people from Shadow Hall had come to make trouble, she was concerned that they might interrupt her senior brother's cultivation, so she dispatched everyone in the pavilion to guard the secret room while she alone went to deal with Yuan Qingtian downstairs, never expecting that his target would be the Seven-Heart Exquisite Pagoda.

Yu Qilin's breakthrough to Supreme Saint had come two days earlier than expected. When he left his seclusion and learned the reason from the crowd in front of the secret room, he was furious and rushed downstairs immediately.

Yu Qilin scanned the surroundings and saw an old man lying in the center, lifeless. Ye Xuanji, who apparently had just fought, bellowed, "You old thief, you dare to cause trouble at my Seven Kills Exquisite Pavilion?"

With that, he lifted his fleshy fist to strike Ye Xuanji, but fortunately, Yu Hudie reacted quickly and stepped forward to stop him.

After Yu Qilin listened to Yu Hudie recount the event, he calmed down, kicked away Yuan Qingtian's corpse, strode over to Qinchuan, and looked at him curiously.

His eyes gleamed brightly, and within his pupils, it seemed as though countless stars were rising and falling.

His power of prediction poured into his eyes, falling upon Qinchuan, attempting to probe Qinchuan's origin. But even with his Supreme Saint power, he found that the person before him was like a cloud of mist, utterly indecipherable.

Then, as if recalling something, he cautiously ventured, "I wish to ride the crane to the Nine Heavens."

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Qinchuan answered indifferently, "When I return, I am still the Immortal of the Mundane World."

The old man with a goat beard behind Li Zhi suddenly flashed a bright light in his eyes upon hearing this phrase, and stared intently at Yu Qilin and Qinchuan.

The hefty body of Yu Qilin shook violently, stunned as he looked at Qinchuan, and continued, "Throughout nine heavens and ten earths..."

Before he could finish, Qinchuan interrupted him, "For three lifetimes, I have been a carefree Immortal."

Yu Qilin asked three secret phrases in a row, and Qinchuan responded smoothly.

Because of the circumstances, Qinchuan understood he had not left any Qi at the Exquisite Pavilion in the past, which was why Yu Qilin could not recognize his Qi and thus resorted to this subterfuge to identify him.

When Qinchuan finished the last secret phrase, all of Yu Qilin's doubts evaporated; his corpulent body quivered excitedly, and for a moment, his trembling lips could not utter a word.
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He was about to perform a salutary gesture but was immediately restrained by Qinchuan.

Yu Qilin noticed that Qinchuan glanced at the crowd around them, instantly understanding.

"This place is crowded and eyes are many, it's not appropriate to be too conspicuous."

He immediately ordered the Seven Kills Exquisite Pavilion to close for the day.

Seeing a Great Saint die within the Exquisite Pavilion and knowing that Shadow Hall was unlikely to let matters rest, the guests deduced that a great battle was probably imminent for the Exquisite Pavilion, and they quickly took their leave without lingering.

Li Zhi and Bai Ruoxi, seeing that Qinchuan seemed to have other matters to discuss with Yu Qilin, also stepped forward to take their leave.

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"Brother Li, this Qinchuan is no ordinary person," Bai Ruoxi exclaimed after leaving the Exquisite Pavilion, recalling the events of the day.

Li Zhi was still pondering the change in Yu Qilin after Qinchuan uttered the phrase "When I return, I am still the Immortal of the Mundane World."

The others might not have noticed, but Li Zhi saw clearly that Yu Qilin obviously intended to salute Qinchuan, but was stopped by him at the last moment.

Li Zhi sighed deeply, "He is indeed extraordinary. If such a person could serve our Imperial Family, then our Tianyuan Nation would surely become even more prosperous."

He knew, however, that this was wishful thinking, for he could see from today's events that Qinchuan was not a pond-dwelling creature; this Tianyuan Nation probably could not contain him.

"Who exactly is he? To even make that big shot in the Exquisite Pavilion feel so anxious..."

At this thought, Li Zhi seemed to recall something and asked, "By the way, Miss Bai, do you know what 'I wish to ride the crane to the Nine Heavens; when I return, I am still the Immortal of the Mundane World' means?"

Bai Ruoxi had also heard the secret phrases exchanged between Yu Qilin and Qinchuan, but she had never heard them before. She shook her head to indicate her ignorance and said softly after a while, "Let's take back the matters of this place and ask my teacher; perhaps the teacher might know."

The limping old man with a goat beard who had followed Li Zhi silently until now suddenly began to mutter.

"I wish to ride the crane to the Nine Heavens; when I return, I am still the Immortal of the Mundane World."

Li Zhi looked at the old man, whose eyes were misty, and whose thoughts seemed to drift off as if he was recalling something very ancient.

Both Li Zhi and Bai Ruoxi showed a gleam of excitement in their eyes and asked in unison, "Elder Chen, do you know this phrase?" The two Great Saints accompanying Bai Ruoxi also looked at Chen Baidao with keen interest.

It took a while for Chen Baidao to respond, "It reminds me of someone."

"Who?"

Chen Baidao did not answer their question but continued to speak to himself, "A benefactor. Had it not been for him, I would not have simply ended up with a lame leg."

Then Chen Baidao recounted in detail how he encountered thieves at the age of ten, was chased, and was ultimately rescued.

"After the benefactor saved me, he didn't leave a name and just left. I had asked him for his surname, but at that time, he only left behind one sentence."

Realization dawned on Li Zhi as he exclaimed, "I wish to ride the crane to the Nine Heavens; when I return, I am still the Immortal of the Mundane World!"