In the Demon Pill Temple, where the wind freely passes through from all directions.
A young man with the surname Xu sits grandly atop the faintly glowing red carcass of a Kui beast.
According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Kui resembles an ox, with a blue body and no horns, only one foot; when it enters or exits water, there is wind and rain, its light is like the sun and moon, and its voice is like thunder.
Besides the Kui beast, there are also numerous corpses of sea Yaksha, Yuan devils, sea pythons, and some shrimp soldiers and crab generals before Xu Qing.
These mysterious demons and monsters suddenly set their sights on this dilapidated seaside temple for some reason. Xu Qing had secluded himself for not even three days when various aquatic demons and monsters swarmed in like hungry wolves that smelled meat.
Midway, he captured a sea Yaksha alive and harshly interrogated it to learn someone spread rumors that there was a great benefactor of ten lifetimes merit inside this temple, and eating even a piece of its flesh would instantly grant a hundred years of cultivation. If swallowed whole, one could stand on equal footing with the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas.
Xu Qing couldn't understand how such a simple trick, one that might not even fool a child, could deceive so many sea demons.
For peace around him, Xu Qing specifically replaced the plaque of the Demon Pill Temple with a warning slogan about the difficulties of cultivation and the dangers of scams.
Even replacing "My fate is naturally my own, not Heaven's" with insightful words like "Free cultivation is a scam, the ten-lives benefactor hides traps."
But when Xu Qing wrote those slogans, even more demons came and even formed groups to treat him like a monster raid!
Xu Qing couldn't understand, so he asked those demons, "Why come when the sign outside warns of traps?"
The demons replied, "You humans have a saying, 'There's no silver here for three hundred taels.' If there's no ten-lives benefactor here, why talk about them?"
Xu Qing couldn't decide whether the demons were clever or foolish. You could call them silly, yet they could read and think in reverse.
But call them clever, and they can't distinguish the simplest of truths.
"There's no ten-lives benefactor here, but there is a funeral director!"
Xu Qing's face dropped immediately; if reasoning fails, using force might work.
The Ghost-slaying Treasure Sword subdued evil and wiped out demons, adding another layer of blood in the Demon Pill Temple.
After doing all this, Xu Qing simply took out the formation disk and arranged seven or eight arrays near the temple to completely conceal it. Even low-level demons coming here would lose their way and find no trace of the Demon Pill Temple.
Immortal Hall's celestial beings must have a skill, the Chasing Mourning horse didn't understand formation disks, so Xu Qing handed over several secret tomes like "Introduction to Formation Techniques," "Principles of Countless Arrays," "Xuan Sect Formation Manual" to his trusty horse to study them thoroughly.
With some free time, Xu Qing immersed his thoughts into Divine Scenery, continuing to deduce the Celestial Spirit Axe Technique.
In the East Sea Water Mansion, Demon Pill Cave Master, leading his water demons, watched the sights in the Tianshui Mirror with a grim face.
In the mirror, a young man sits calmly, undisturbed by external matters, intending to root himself permanently at the Demon Pill Temple and make it his long-term cultivation abode.
During this, he used various means, controlling tides to flood the temple, dispatching shrimp soldiers and crab generals to disturb and expel, yet no matter what efforts he made, the opponent could always counter water with earth, soldiers with generals, always unwilling to leave!
One might say, my shabby temple doesn't shield the wind or rain, why cling here relentlessly?
Throughout the three realms, he had seen heavy-seated individuals, but none like Xu Qing, whose seat seemed nailed down!
Seeing that forceful methods wouldn't work, the Demon Pill Temple Master stopped hiding his tracks and left the Water Mansion to come directly to the temple.
However, in the face of Xu Qing's highly-arranged formations, he had quite a bit of trouble.
Breaking these formations with brute force wasn't difficult for him, but unraveling them wasn't easy either.
"Illusory Heaven Array, Six Harmony Array, Little Metropolis Array..."
The Demon Pill Cave Master was amazed by Xu Qing's accomplishments in array techniques, yet he couldn't realize this master of formations had the support of the Nine-tailed Fox Race, adept in world illusions, and the authentic lineage of the Five Elders Temple left by the five immortals in the lower realm.
Meanwhile, Xu Qing also mastered several ancient arrays at the Two Saints Temple...
The formation disk, incorporating strengths from illusion warding, enemy repelling, and Five Elements change, was far from ordinary.
If not for Xu Qing's cultivation holding him back, the Demon Pill Temple Master might need more effort to access this formation disk!
In the Incense Hall, as Xu Qing practiced the Celestial Spirit Axe Technique, he suddenly opened his eyes.
At the entrance, a delicate young man in lotus flower celestial attire appeared at some unknown time.
The youth had feminine features, about fourteen or fifteen years old, with rosy lips and white teeth, sculpted like jade. Without a close look, one might mistake him for a runaway girl!
"Who might you be?" Xu Qing felt something stir within him and was the first to voice inquiry.
The young man stepped forward, gazing at Xu Qing with a half-smile, saying, "Who am I? I am your uncle; you are my dear nephew! Why don't you step forward and offer a greeting?"
"..."
Xu Qing remained unmoved. Nowadays, communication between heaven and earth was severed, so celestial beings couldn't descend, which made it improbable for the young man to be who Xu Qing thought...
Xu Qing instinctively opened his celestial eye, but the young man wasn't bothered and kept smiling.
"You claim to be my uncle, can you provide evidence?"
The young man replied, "The owner of the Two Saints Temple is my senior brother; you've inherited his legacy, making you half his disciple. How am I not your uncle?"
Xu Qing's eyes flickered, and he probed, "Demon Child Raging Sea?"
"..."
The young man's smile froze, but the youth who knew not offense continued:
"Returning bones to the father, returning flesh to the mother?"