Mo Qi quickly floated away. For some reason, although Shi Siyao's beauty was equally breathtaking, he simply didn't want to spend even a moment longer with her.
Returning to the Seventh Tier, Mo Qi tidied himself up briefly, then consumed some Nine Heavens Jade Dew and Beast Soul Pills before entering meditation.
When he was at the Sun Moon Sect, he had already raised his cultivation to the Human Immortal second level.
Now, relying on the Soul Sea Worm Grass within his body, along with the assistance of the Nine Heavens Jade Dew and Beast Soul Pills, he could continuously improve his cultivation.
However, the Nine Heavens Jade Dew was running low, and he had to use it sparingly.
After entering meditation, he circulated a Great Heavenly Cycle. The Soul Sea Worm Grass began to awaken, endlessly emitting spiritual energy and driving the circulation of spiritual energy from the Nine Heavens Jade Dew and the pills. It rose and fell within the Soul Sea, cycling repeatedly, and gradually dissolved into that deep ocean.
A surge of heat rose within his soul ocean, circulating powerfully through his meridians. After repeatedly impacting the Mingmen and Xuan Guan acupoints, his cultivation broke through.
This was a natural progression, and Mo Qi was not greatly surprised. He calmly concluded his practice.
He then cultivated the Pangu Divine Power for a while longer. His Pangu Divine Power was still stuck at the first stage. To break through to the second stage, he needed continuous cultivation improvement and constant refinement.
After circulating the techniques a few times, he clearly felt an improvement in his techniques, but at the same time, there was a barrier across his chest, preventing him from breaking through. He knew it was still due to his cultivation that he was temporarily unable to advance to the second stage.
During his cultivation, he would occasionally touch upon fragments of heavenly laws. Those fragments had slipped from his mind before but had not entirely escaped their constraints, like fragments of meteorites in the vast starry sky, constantly drifting.
He would, at some unexpected moment, capture their presence. These things sometimes brought him an image, and sometimes a celestial phenomenon.
In the depths of his consciousness, he seemed to feel that he could predict the future!
But those futures were like smoke and mist, ethereal and indistinct, not clearly visible, nor solid to grasp!
He only saw a ferocious face before him, and a powerful divine force descended upon him, overwhelming and inescapable. He was powerless to resist, and his body shattered at that moment...
He broke out in a cold sweat and suddenly opened his eyes, only to realize it was just a segment of memory within his mind.
Could it be past life memories?
He had no way of knowing.
Still shaken, he hastily concluded his practice.
As soon as he stood up, he saw a delicate figure blocking his way.
It was Shi Siyao!
Mo Qi was nearly scared to death. He stumbled and fell to the ground, then said with a mixture of shock and anger, "What are you doing?"
It was too much. He had been scared once already, and now he was scared again.
If this continued, he would go mad.
"Doing nothing. You're not bathing, so why are you so shy?" Shi Siyao asked, astonished.
"Why did you come into my room if you're doing nothing?" Mo Qi stood up, glaring at her with lingering anger.
"Didn't you say we were leaving today? I came to find you to leave together." Shi Siyao wasn't angry at all, still beaming.
Today?
Had he really been cultivating for a whole day?
He quickly went out to ask others. Indeed, it was already the next day.
Shi Siyao was already sitting in a chair, waiting for Mo Qi to speak.
Mo Qi walked back, coughed dryly, "I did say we were leaving today, but I didn't ask you to come find me."
"It's the same whether I come to find you or you come to find me," Shi Siyao said dismissively.
Alright, there was no reasoning with her.
Mo Qi gave up arguing and sat in a chair, closing his eyes to rest.
Shi Siyao asked in surprise, "What's wrong? Aren't we leaving?"
"We are," Mo Qi said lazily, "We're waiting."
"Okay." Shi Siyao also closed her eyes to rest.
A moment later, Xing Mian arrived. Upon seeing Shi Siyao, he was visibly shocked but quickly regained his composure. Then he said, "Follow me."
The two of them followed closely behind him, leaving the room.
Xing Mian led the way, with Mo Qi and Shi Siyao walking side by side behind him. The three of them wound their way through rockeries and corridors, arriving in front of a courtyard.
A high wall and a deep courtyard, the gate was tightly shut.
Mo Qi felt very strange. He had been in the Seventh Tier for so long, how had he never noticed this place before?
No, it wasn't that he hadn't noticed, it was that he simply couldn't get here.
Xing Mian's movements seemed casual, but his steps were rhythmic, as if he were walking within a formation.
Changing some directions and steps, and what you saw would be a different scene.
It seemed the Seventh Tier still held many secrets!
He, the deputy leader of the Seventh Tier, was actually kept in the dark.
Mo Qi had always felt that Xing Mian was not leading the Seventh Tier alone.
He must have maintained some kind of connection with the Heavenly Realm in silence.
Many things were not within his control.
For example, the appointment of the leaders within the tiers!
Last time, he had informed Mo Qi of the appointments of Chao Xiyun and others through the Tongtian Tablet, and Mo Qi had then passed it down.
But who had transmitted the information or appointments to Xing Mian through the Tongtian Tablet?
Xing Mian knocked on the door knocker, and the door automatically opened.
The three of them entered the courtyard in succession.
This teleportation array was set up directly within the courtyard.
Xing Mian touched a spot near the rockery, and a circular light screen rose in the courtyard, faint and flickering.
Xing Mian pointed and said expressionlessly, "Go in."
For some reason, Mo Qi had a bad feeling, fidgeting nervously.
"I feel like this teleportation array can hold many people. Why did you say it can only teleport two?"
"Do you have some ulterior motive?"
Xing Mian frowned, "Why so much nonsense?"
He flew up and kicked Mo Qi into it.
Once Mo Qi entered the light circle, he felt his body falling endlessly, as if he were in a bottomless abyss. He couldn't help but stretch out his limbs and flail wildly.
He even let out a scream!
A long, long time passed!
It felt like an eternity.
Suddenly, with a bang, he landed on the ground.
He heard a cheer around him: "We've found a corpse!"
Then several figures surrounded him.
He was in a barren land, but by sheer coincidence, he landed precisely on a hard stone, jarring him so much that his bones felt like they would shatter. He grimaced in pain.
Before he could even cry out in pain, several hands grabbed him and pulled him up haphazardly.
Those hands were fumbling all over him.
He looked up and saw four middle-aged men in front of him, all with ferocious expressions.
Mo Qi recalled the voice he had heard, "We've found a corpse!" and realized they must have mistaken him for a corpse. He then shook his body, took a few steps back, and said, "You've made a mistake, I'm not a corpse."
One of the short, plump middle-aged men moved like a shadow, grabbing him with a suffocating speed and pinning him to the ground. "Everyone thrown from other continents or even other worlds for training will gather here. We are responsible for picking you up, hence 'corpse picking.' Do you have a problem?"
Mo Qi struggled, but the fat man held him so tightly that his spiritual energy seemed to be completely ineffective. All resistance was futile.
"No problem," Mo Qi said dejectedly.
I'll let you be arrogant for now. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
The key was that he was completely unclear about his current situation and needed to figure things out first.
Damn Xing Mian, he didn't say what he would encounter, just told him to follow his instincts, and the first step led him into a den of thieves.
The fat man then pulled him up. The other three also came closer, their eyes scrutinizing Mo Qi.
Mo Qi felt a chill down his spine under their gaze.
One of them, with curly hair, stroked his chin, a look of disappointment on his face. "This one is from the Southern Continent, right? Too weak. What kind of goods are these? Can we send him back?"
He then turned and walked away.
What was going on?
At this moment, another thin, tall middle-aged man said, "There's no use bringing back someone like this. Forget it, we don't want him either."
He also left.
Don't want him?
What did that mean?
Had I become livestock?
And worse, I've been rejected?
Only one middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and large eyes remained. He also sighed, "Alas, the Southern Continent too. What were they thinking? If they're not good enough, don't send them. They have to fill the quota."
He also left.
Mo Qi was getting a little angry!
Who do you think you are, to look down on me like this?
At this moment, the short, plump man finally sighed and released him. "You've seen it yourself, no one wants you. Why don't you just go back?"
What was all this?
Mo Qi was completely bewildered.
"Why should I need someone to take me in? Can't I wander alone?" Mo Qi said indignantly.
The fat man snorted, "Only ten percent of the territory in this Northern Furnace Continent is inhabited by righteous cultivators, occupied by four immortal divisions, each governed by one of the four Heavenly Masters: Ge, Xin, Zhou, and Wang. Their duty is to prevent demon world invasions. If you cannot join one of the four immortal divisions, then you can only go to the demon world. The demon world occupies ninety percent of the Northern Furnace Continent's territory. It's vast and sparsely populated, enough for you to wander. Go, I won't stop you."
Mo Qi began to understand, "So, those three people just now and you, representing the four immortal divisions, you're here to recruit people?"
The fat man nodded, "Precisely."
"Then which family do you represent?" Mo Qi asked.
"The Zhou family—the Demon Slaying Legion. My name is Liao Jin." The fat man said proudly. As he spoke these words, his body seemed to grow taller, with a hint of arrogance.
However, for Mo Qi, it was a blank!
At this moment, cheers could be heard from a distance.
Following the sound, he saw the three people who had left earlier arguing over a beautiful woman: "Come with me to our Wang family's Falcon Legion. We have abundant cultivation resources there."
"Come with me to our Ge family's Demon Subduing Legion. We have a clear promotion channel."
"Come with me to our Xin family's Immortal Slaying Legion. We have many handsome men there."
The beautiful woman was none other than Shi Siyao.
Watching the three of them babble, Shi Siyao was at a loss. But Mo Qi was surprised to see that she seemed to be somewhat tempted by the Xin family's Immortal Slaying Legion, perhaps because the person mentioned they had many handsome men?
At this moment, Liao Jin also ran over, joining the competition with the other three.
Mo Qi was completely ignored!