Insufficient balance

  Xuān Huǒ Shén Pú brought Táng Hào and others into the forbidden area in the mountains, then turned around and suddenly transformed into a young girl. She looked somewhat similar to Líng Huì, but there was no fire-shaped mark on her brow.

  Xuān Huǒ Shén Pú noticed the astonishment of the crowd, smiled slightly, and walked to a mirror beside him. He touched his cheek and sighed: "I can only find myself here, I still remember running in the sunset back then, that was my departed youth. Now my days are numbered, I can no longer do anything for you, but I can answer some of your doubts."

  Tang Hao didn't beat around the bush and asked directly: "You said that the Xiantian Fire Spirit Body can trigger the Xiantian Five Elements Spirit Body, what's going on?" In fact, the Five Elements Spirits are rare existences, let alone the Xiantian Five Elements Spirit Body.

  Xuanhuo Shenpu nodded and said, "This is just a theory that has not been put into practice. The master guessed that if the Ling Shen body swallowed any of the five elements of the Xiantian Ling body, once it swallowed all five elements, due to having the properties of the Xiantian Ling body, its power would be stronger than other powers and would suppress the other four spiritual powers, so it would not form a resonance of the five elements."

  Tang Hao furrowed his brow and said: "Do I have to devour all the pre-heavenly spiritual bodies before I can upgrade my spiritual root?"

  Xuanhuo Shenpu shook his head and said, "It's not because the spiritual vortex originally has the effect of balancing various spiritual powers. It will forcibly transform the other four physiques into innate spiritual bodies."

  Tang Hao's face showed a happy expression, no wonder she had been keeping Ling Xuan for herself all along, it turned out to be due to such consideration.

  Xuanhuo Shenpu continued, "Don't be too happy, to put it simply, this process is extremely painful. Reversing one's fate is something that heaven and earth cannot tolerate. Although it won't bring about heavenly punishment like altering one's spiritual root, the pain is unavoidable. I'm afraid it won't be any more pleasant than your Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation."

  Tang Hao heard the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation, and couldn't help but feel a lingering fear in his heart. Those days were really not something a human could endure, and now he didn't even know how he had managed to get through them at the time. All he remembered was that someone had tightly hugged him.

  "What's even more worth mentioning is that this pain is still four bodies stacked on top of each other, and the main body needs to be transformed into a congenital five-element spiritual body, which is also five times the pain. In other words, all nine times are borne by you alone." said the Vermilion Fire God Servant.

  Tang Hao nodded and said solemnly: "Since we've already boarded this ship, there's no way out. As the saying goes, 'How can you get a tiger's cub without entering the tiger's lair?'"

  Ning Yan said with a bad tone: "You're all talk, when the time comes you'll have to bear it yourself, no one will come to help you." After finishing speaking, a rare blush appeared on her face.

  Xuan Huo Shen Pu nodded in satisfaction, "This is good. Fortunately, once the transformation of the innate five elements spiritual body is achieved, every time you devour five people with different attributes and upgrade your spiritual root, it will automatically transform into an innate spiritual body. Of course, the higher the level, the more painful it will be. You can even put these five people back in the furnace to be remade, and they can also become innate spiritual bodies."

  Huang Yi and the others heard this, and their hearts stirred with some small excitement. After all, becoming a congenital spiritual body meant that they would automatically upgrade their strength by a small boundary. Now, even if they didn't have the help of divine objects or formations, even if they were to fight one-on-one without using the Five Elements Resonance, they could still hold their own against a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator. Once they became congenital spiritual bodies, their strength would be almost on par with Ning Xuan's. But as soon as they thought about Tang Hao having to suffer, the girls couldn't help but hesitate again.

  Tang Hao saw through their thoughts and comforted them, "Don't worry, you're just Huang-level spirit roots. The pain during the transformation process is minimal. If you can't even bear that pain, how can I mix in? How can I still expect you to protect my way?"

  Tang Hao's only regret was that if he were to upgrade to a Five Elements Xuanling Root, considering his actual strength, his cultivation method would also have to change to an Xuan-level cultivation method. His cultivation could no longer be passed on excessively to the five girls who were at the Huang level, which means that their future cultivation would have to rely on themselves.

  Tang Hao suddenly thought of Biyao he met in Nüwa's space and asked tentatively, "Do you know Biyao?"

  Xuan Huo Shen Pu nodded and said, "Of course I know her. However, personally, I don't quite like her. Master and Mistress almost died at her hands. Although she later gave up the position of Guang Han Hall's hall master and followed Master, I still have some reservations about her."

  " Mistress?" Ning Yan asked in confusion, "Shouldn't your mistress be Bi Yu sister? In the realm of gods and demons, Bi Yu sister is indeed Huang Yang brother's wife."

  Xuanhuo Shenpu shook his head and said, "We don't know about the affairs of the Divine Demon Realm, but in the Lower Realm, Yun Yao Xianzi and Master have not yet paid homage to Heaven and Earth, yet everyone addresses her as Mistress. As for what happened in the Spiritual Realm, we are also unaware."

  Xuanhuo Shenpu saw that Tang Hao was no longer asking questions, so he looked at Huang Yi and the others, smiling: "When I see you all, I think of my younger self, still remembering that time in the sunset..."

  Huang Yi hastily interrupted: "Even if the seniors have a Xuan-level spiritual root, they still can't ascend to the Spiritual Realm. Does that mean we won't be able to follow Master in the future either?" Huang Yi asked out the question that all the girls were most worried about.

  Xuanhuo Shenpu nodded, "I can still ascend to the Spiritual Realm, it's just that I received news of my master's disappearance right when I was about to ascend. As for you, with only a low-grade Yellow Rank Spirit Root, if you don't find your own path, you'll likely have no hope of ascending to the Spiritual Realm either. In the end, you'll become like me - either dying of old age or becoming neither human nor ghost."

  "Which way should we go?" Huang Yi and others asked in confusion.

  Xuan Huo Shen Pu nodded, "The master's cultivation speed will be much faster than yours. As long as the master is still in the lower realm, he can still take care of you two. But once the master ascends to a higher realm, you must embark on a different path of cultivation. The journey will inevitably involve suffering that ordinary people cannot endure, but for those with poor aptitude like yourselves, there's no other way."

  Huang Yi and the others fell silent. Tang Hao was not going to wait for them, all they could do was follow in his footsteps. Fortunately, they had the divine seed left behind by Tang Hao in their bodies, so the difficulty of flying up was still much smaller than that of some ordinary Huang-level spiritual root cultivators.

  Xuanhuo Shenpu saw that there were no more questions from the crowd, and time was running out, so she said: "Alright, can I use the remaining time to be with my descendants for a while?" In fact, she didn't want Tang Huang to see her enter reincarnation.

  Tang Hao nodded and suddenly remembered something, asking: "What's your name?"

  Xuān Huǒ Shén pú liǎn shàng chū xiàn le huàn jiàn de shén qíng, shuō dào: "Yàn tiān tiān, hǎo jiǔ méi yòng zhè ge míng zì le, zhè ràng wǒ xiǎng dào dàng nián zài……"

  Translation:

  The Fire God's servant had a nostalgic expression on his face and said: "Yan Tianyan, it's been a long time since I've used this name. This reminds me of the year in..."

  After Tang Hao came out, she called out eight maidservants. The eight maidservants bowed respectfully to Tang Hao and said: "Miss, what are your orders?"

  The actions of the eight maidservants were actually nothing out of the ordinary, but in Huang Yi's eyes and others, it was a huge provocation, with a hint of hostility flickering in their eyes.

  Tang Hao hastily transmitted a message to Huang Yi: "She is Ling Xuan's maid, not mine." The faces of Huang Yi and the others slightly eased.

  Tang Hao hastily instructed the eight maidservants, "Take the remaining children and go to the back mountain to see Old Ancestor. Old Ancestor wants to see them one last time and will leave something for them. You all go too." Tang Hao knew that just like Huang Xia gave Guo Jing his inheritance, these children would also receive their corresponding benefits. These children would become the pillars of Penglai City and would also be the future pillars of Lingxian Pavilion.

  Tang Hao also knew that from now on, he was no longer a NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) otaku and hikikimori. He would be the master of Penglai City, with the responsibility of developing and expanding Penglai City, as well as re-establishing the Lingxian Pavilion. At least on the surface, he should establish an image as a lord of a city.

  Soon, Tang Hao heard a burst of crying, "Old Ancestor!" Tang Hao knew that the swallow who had run under the sunset had returned to heaven. Tang Hao couldn't help but bow towards the back mountain, which was also a thank you for their thousands of years of waiting.

  Now the majestic Penglai City only has a group of young disciples, and some people haven't even started their cultivation yet. This can be said to be a mess, but there's no other way, and this is the only way Tang Huan can establish his own Penglai City. Although he doesn't want to admit it, Lan Guang Dao Ren has helped Tang Huan in a certain sense.

  The battlefield cleanup still needs to be done, at the very least those corpses need to be cremated and buried. Tang Hao ordered people to cremate the people of Penglai City and put them in a jar, while the ones from Hailan Sect didn't receive such good treatment, they were simply piled together and burned with one fire, of course before that they were also looted clean, although there weren't many valuable things.

  Looking at the 15 spiritual artifacts in front of him, Tang Hao felt that their quality was not very high. After Huang Yi chose five pieces and Lin Xiao chose one piece, he directly put them up for auction at the Penglai Palace in the city. However, what gave Tang Hao a headache was that there were no capable people under his command, and even the normal operation of the Penglai Palace was a problem. It seemed that he had to poach Guo Jing and others over, even if it meant offering them high salaries.

  "Ling Xuan sister, will you teach me how to cultivate? I want to avenge my father, and when I grow up, I'll destroy the Hai Lan Sect." A chubby little girl cried out.

  Tang Hao patted the little girl's head and comforted her, "You're still young, what you need to do now is not be picky about food and grow your spiritual root fully. When you grow up, you can take revenge." As for Tang Hao, he would definitely go to the Sea Wave Sect, but not now. He had to wait until he had the power to defeat a Transcendent cultivator.