Chapter 1369: Ghost Mother

There was no need for Qin Sang to give instructions for such matters. His disciples could arrange everything properly on their own.

Seeing that Qin Sang seemed to be in a good mood, Bai Hanqiu’s anxious heart finally settled.

After only a little more than thirty years in seclusion, he had successfully broken through to the middle stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm. This was indeed something worth celebrating.

At the Spiritual Infant Realm, every minor realm was a major obstacle.

Qin Sang had originally estimated that this seclusion would take several decades at minimum, and perhaps even a hundred years. If he could touch the bottleneck by then, it would already be quite good.

Unexpectedly, the cultivation process had gone abnormally smoothly. The soul shadows inside the Spiritual Infant Talisman Puppet had helped greatly.

Qin Sang had only taken eighteen years to refine two Corpseflower Blood Ambers, then secluded himself for another five years, pushing his cultivation to the peak of the early stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm. After that, he began consolidating his cultivation and attempted to break through the bottleneck.

In only twelve years, Qin Sang had felt something in his heart and successfully broken through!

At the instant of the breakthrough, even Qin Sang had found it somewhat unbelievable. Counting from the day he had formed his Spiritual Infant, not even eighty full years had passed!

The immortal cultivation world had never lacked geniuses, but in all kinds of legends, anyone who could break through to the middle stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm within three hundred years after forming a Spiritual Infant, had already achieved something extraordinary.

Yet he had completed it within a hundred years! Of course, Qin Sang did not become carried away.

Qin Sang knew very well that no matter how one looked at it, he had nothing to do with the word genius. He had been able to achieve such astonishing results entirely because of the Corpseflower Blood Amber and the Spiritual Infant Talisman Puppet.

The Corpseflower Blood Amber had been used up, and the Spiritual Infant Talisman Puppet could no longer provide him with further help. This kind of leap in cultivation could not be replicated. From here onward, he could only walk the path one step at a time by himself.

The late stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm was still very distant from him!

“Senior Uncle!” Tan Yi'en and the white cat finally caught up. Panting, Tan Yi'en stepped forward and cautiously asked, “Senior Uncle, have you already broken through to the middle stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm...”

Qin Sang smiled and nodded slightly.

“Congratulations, Senior Uncle, for taking another step forward on the Great Dao!” Tan Yi'en cried out in delight.

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The disciples proposed holding another grand ceremony. At that time, Qin Sang would surely awe the Beichen Alliance, with no one able to compare to him. But Qin Sang rejected it.

After Qin Sang learned about the sect’s current situation and offered his disciples a few words of encouragement, he left Qingyang Temple alone and headed straight south.

Several months had already passed since Mei Gu sent back the news. During that time, Li Yufu had personally rushed over, but neither of them had sent back any new information afterward. It was unknown whether they had encountered danger.

Tan Hao was not only Qin Sang’s old friend, but he was also essential to help Mute Girl awaken. He definitely had to make the trip personally.

However, the place where Tan Hao’s traces had been discovered was extremely unusual. It was actually on a small island at the southern end of the Beichen Alliance.

Farther south was the storm belt. After passing through this storm belt, one could leave Beichen Realm and reach the three other realms of the North Sea!

He sped along the way. Qin Sang barely stopped. He did not visit friends along the route either. He crossed Yuncang Marshlands, flew over Tianxing Highland, and raced through the vast desert.

Great Beichen Desert was so vast that even all the other domains combined were far smaller to it.

Qin Sang’s current journey was almost equivalent to crossing the entire Beichen Realm!

When he arrived at the southern end of Great Beichen Desert, the closer he drew to the sea, the denser the oases became, and signs of human habitation gradually flourished. This place had once been a main target of Sin Abyss’s invasion, but after several decades, the scars had long been smoothed over. Everywhere showed a flourishing scene of vitality.

The desert region had a landscape completely different from other territories.

Qin Sang had no intention of observing the exotic customs and scenery. He went straight out to sea.

The sea was calm. Earlier, Qin Sang had found an immortal cultivator market and gathered some information.

This place was still very far from the storm belt, so the maritime hurricanes caused by the storm belt could hardly affect the nearshore waters, and there were no vicious demonic beasts either. In addition, this sea region was different from Canglang Sea. Islands were sparse, concentrated near the coast, and the spiritual qi of most islands was thin.

Especially near the storm belt, not a single island could be seen.

Precisely because of this, the original inhabitants of the islands were mainly mortals. They did not need to support immortal cultivators to help resist storms and demonic beasts.

The island Mei Gu had discovered was in a very remote location, almost at the southeastern end of the island chain.

Qin Sang did not conceal his evasion light as he raced southeast. Along the way, he did not encounter anyone blocking his path.

Soon, Qin Sang arrived near that island. For safety’s sake, he did not land directly. Instead, he found an islet and activated Qingyang Temple’s communication treasure.

Very soon, two figures flew over from afar. They were Mei Gu and Li Yufu.

“Greetings, Senior Uncle!”

“Greetings, Master!”

When the two saw Qin Sang, joy appeared on their faces, and they stepped forward to salute him.

Qin Sang checked their cultivation and nodded in satisfaction. “Not bad! It seems you have not slackened during this period! Mei Gu, is that the island you mentioned?”

At the end of his vision, the shadow of a small island could be seen, faintly appearing and disappearing among the rippling waves.

With Qin Sang’s eyesight, he could see some of the scenery from far away.

The island looked very ordinary. There was not even a city, only a village, and everyone there was mortal.

A large stretch of dense forest covered the island, occupying almost ninety percent of its area. It was lush and verdant, but its spiritual qi was extremely thin. An immortal cultivator should not have chosen such a place to open a cave dwelling.

Unless the island had an illusion array that even the Sky-Eyed Butterfly could not see through.

“Reporting to Master, this is precisely the place!” Mei Gu explained everything in detail. “When I was traveling through the desert, I obtained news of a senior’s cave dwelling. I pursued the lead all the way to this sea region, and when I passed by the village on the island, I discovered it by accident...”

Li Yufu continued, “Junior Sister and I did not dare act recklessly, so we observed the island in secret from nearby. Over these past several months, no immortal cultivator has entered or left the small island.”

After hearing about their encounter, Qin Sang pondered briefly, then brought the two of them flying toward the island.

There were over a thousand households in the village. Smoke from cooking curled upward.

Qin Sang and the others cast an invisibility art to avoid alarming the mortals. Mei Gu led Qin Sang toward the courtyard in the deepest part of the village. It was said to be the ancestral shrine.

“This is the place...” Mei Gu said softly. She looked around vigilantly, then flashed inside.

Ancestor spirit tablets were enshrined in the ancestral shrine, and incense smoke lingered without cease.

At the very center of the spirit tablets, there was also an exquisite wooden carving. It depicted a person. The carving skill was not even one ten-thousandth of Senior Sister Qingjun’s, but it was meticulous. One could tell the carver had been extremely respectful toward him.

The face could be seen clearly. It was precisely Tan Hao!

Qin Sang’s steps paused, and he fixed his gaze on the wooden carving.

The wooden carving’s position seemed very special. The surrounding spirit tablets had left an empty space around it. Only a spirit tablet inscribed with “Ghost Mother” stood in front of it, but there was no writing on the wooden carving itself, so the identity of its owner could not be determined.

If not for the fact that no one in the village had the surname Tan, Qin Sang might have thought Tan Hao had settled here and left descendants.

Mei Gu continued, “After discovering this wooden carving, I found the eldest chief, secretly used a hypnotic technique on him, and asked about the reason. Over a hundred years ago, a demon caused trouble in the sea, and many mortals on the island nearly ended up in its belly. At the critical moment, the person on the wooden carving suddenly appeared and saved the entire village. He was definitely an immortal cultivator, but it was difficult to determine his cultivation. The survivors remembered his kindness and worshiped him as a second parent. However, this person did not leave his name behind. After killing the demon, he broke through the air and left, saying that he served under Ghost Mother and had acted under her orders!”

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