The First Demon of the Chan Sect-Chapter 98 - 44 Penglai Immortal Island

"Hmph!"

Li Qingming lightly huffed and with a wave of his hand, he encapsulated Xiong Da into the Qiankun Tripod. Dispelling the Primordial Power around him, he unexpectedly decided to withstand the terrifyingly unparalleled Tribulation Thunder with his physical body.

Li Qingming’s upper body was bare, and a surging blood qi enveloped his entire body. His muscles, though not bulging significantly, shimmered with a perfect and extreme wild beauty.

At the same time, the vast Divine Thunder was finally triggered, initiating a comprehensive explosion; in an instant, the thunder and lightning submerged Li Qingming!

"Boom!"

It was unknown how many Divine Thunders bombarded down, their red, orange, yellow, green, grey, blue, and purple lights flashing dazzlingly, making it a dizzying sight to behold.

Li Qingming’s perfectly sculpted, yet not excessively bulky muscles spasmed violently under the bombardment of the Heavenly Thunder. Each strike brought an intense thrill to Li Qingming!

Eventually, countless kinds of Divine Thunders were forcibly withstood by Li Qingming! Numerous fearsome Tribulation Thunders thoroughly baptized his physical body.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple – the flashing lights were endless, and infinite lightning danced, turning the entire murky Chaos Space into an Earthly purgatory.

Li Qingming kept his eyes closed, comfortably basking in the midst of thunder and lightning, as if soaking in a pleasant hot spring; his lips curved up in a smile, his expression joyful, his body enveloped in electric arcs, radiating multicolored glows.

"Boom!"

The sky filled with thunder and lightning seemed to be infuriated by Li Qingming, roaring madly, the tremendous noise causing ear-piercing pain.

At the heart of the vast Thunder Sea, a giant dragon composed entirely of thunder and lightning rose proudly.

With a fearsome dragon head, sharp fangs, a muscular dragon body with shining, cold claws, and gray-purple scale armor still sparking with electric arcs, it proudly displayed its formidable strength and ferocity!

"Roar!"

The giant dragon roared, transforming into an undying eternal light, and leapt up! Carrying an overwhelming fierceness that suppressed all spirits and returned to Primordial essence, it lunged directly at Li Qingming.

Li Qingming opened his eyes, and the Eye of Divine Punishment at the brow burst open. His purple pupils displayed no trace of emotion, seemingly containing endless majesty!

The Eye of Divine Punishment stared at the incoming gray-purple giant dragon and suddenly emitted a dazzling beam of light.

"Roar!"

The beam struck the head of the giant dragon, then gradually spread to its entire body.

The gray-purple giant dragon started to agitate uncomfortably, twisting its robust body; subsequently, it desperately slammed its own body as if enduring an unbearable attack.

Li Qingming, with the Eye of Divine Punishment at his brow unwaveringly focusing on the dragon in front of him, his entire body shimmered with a cyan light, akin to an immortal gloss that made him stand between heaven and earth!

"Roar!"

The purple light beam enveloping the giant dragon shone brightly, swallowing the entire dragon.

Afterward, the gray-purple giant dragon let out a mournful cry to the heavens and then vanished without a trace!

"Disperse!"

Li Qingming shouted loudly, understanding that the crucial moment was before him!

The Eye of Divine Punishment between his brows fiercely exerted a terrifying sucking force. Chaos Qi surged, and the sky full of thunder and lightning, like swallows returning to their nest, rushed fearfully towards the Divine Punishment Eye. Soon, the residual thunder and lightning within the Chaos Space were completely obliterated.

Once again, the Chaos Space returned to calm, only the rampant Chaos Qi seemed to have dissipated by seven or eight parts.

Li Qingming gently exhaled a breath, a violent whirlwind suddenly emerged, violently sweeping up the Chaos Qi in front of him, clearing it all away!

Infinite glows, a beautiful and magnificent small island, instantly emerged before Li Qingming’s eyes.

Only the small island stretched for thousands of miles, bathed in the reflection of the clear sky and bright sun, radiating an enchanting brilliance.

Upon entering the island, one could see Immortal Cranes soaring, Jade Rabbits hopping, spiritual turtles exhaling, and golden scales leaping out of the water. All along the way, the auspicious qi steamed up, surrounded by misty rainbows and lavender qi piercing through the rainbows; truly deserving the title of the first Immortal Island in the Primordial era.

Li Qingming released Xiong Da, allowing it to gallop freely and roam leisurely on the island. Meanwhile, he strolled leisurely across the island, heading straight for the center where the spiritual energy was the richest.

The heart of the island mainly consisted of three parts.

On the far left was a valley enveloped in fog, filled with the cries of gibbons and lush trees, and a sky-reaching stone pillar that shot straight into the heavenly vault.

In the center was a garden constructed to the pinnacle of perfection. Palaces and towers, pavilions and lofts, their eaves facing each other, and decorated beams and painted rafters stretching across dozens of miles.

On the far right was a pond full of lotuses. The whole pond burst into bloom, with lush green lotus leaves covering the entire pond, and the snow-white lotuses emitting an invigorating fragrance. Most astonishingly, in the center of the pond was the exceptionally pure "Twelve-grade World-purifying White Lotus!"

Indeed, the whole island could truly be lauded as "Jade House like Divine Abode of Immortal; a carefree dwelling in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land."

Li Qingming was inexplicably thrilled as he looked at this island, with an ecstasy in his heart almost impossible to express with words. He muttered to himself, "My Ten Thousand Bamboo Island, indeed, should be as memorable as Penglai Island! This island is rich in vitality, and with these palace-like jade buildings already present, using this place as a Taoist site truly offers endless delights."

Thinking this, Li Qingming decided to start setting up the Island Protection Array.

Choosing a spacious area, Li Qingming dumped seventh to eighth parts of the Innate Three Clans corpses he had collected during the Dragon Han Calamity. Millions, tens of millions of corpses of the Three Clans, piled up into a sky-high mountain.

Even in death, the tall and robust bodies of the Three Clans still emitted a terrifying might. Compared to the abundant Daluo Golden Immortals now on the Primordial Land, a mere pressure from these corpses in front of him was enough to make them lose any thoughts of resistance.

Li Qingming touched his immaculately smooth chin, murmuring to himself, "With so many corpses, I can set up a tremendously powerful Celestial Stars Formation! Seems like I’ll have to make a trip to the Heavenly Court!"

Touching his chin again, what Li Qingming was most concerned about at this moment was not the elusive Celestial Stars Formation, but the pond full of white lotuses, or more precisely, that Twelve-grade World-purifying White Lotus.

"World-purifying White Lotus, clear as crystal, washes away evil, holds the righteous qi of all heavens, condenses into a lotus, purifies all beings, spotless as the wind!"

Li Qingming softly chanted a proverb whose origin he knew not, a mysterious divine light flickering in his eyes!

Innate Spiritual Treasures were already rare, and those on par with Innate Treasures even rarer. The Twelve-grade World-purifying White Lotus in front of him belonged to this category.

Currently, although the Twelve-grade World-purifying White Lotus had already matured, for some unknown reason, it had not fallen naturally. Yet outside the Lotus Pond, two exotic beasts were entrenched there.

One was a Sky Shrieking Roc with a wingspan of 3,000 feet, capable of soaring directly up to 90,000 miles, in entire body deep purple, with golden claws and purple pupils; the other was a primordial strange beast, the Three-eyed Red Jade Toad, voice like Qingzhong, capable of swallowing clouds and spewing moons, with a body in water blue, three eyes and three feet.

These two exotic beasts competed several times a day, neither allowing the other to approach the Twelve-grade World-purifying White Lotus even slightly. Any approach was keenly fought in a major battle. Fortunately, both beasts knew not to harm the pond full of lotuses, and each fight was precisely measured.

Li Qingming approached the Lotus Pond with a casual smile, both fierce beasts turned their heads to look at Li Qingming, their eyes blatantly ferocious.

Li Qingming smiled and said to the beasts, "You have guarded this lotus for years and have yet to decide the victor. If I were to take this Spiritual Treasure after you are injured from fighting, you surely would not accept it. Thus, let both of you attack me together; if you can defeat me, then I will give up this Twelve-grade Lotus and will not touch even a single one of this low-grade lotuses in the entire pond! What do you think?"

The two primal exotic beasts had fought for countless years and were all too familiar with each other’s temperament.

Upon hearing this, both proudly shook their heads, the purple Roc spoke, "Daoist, you underestimate us too much! Why would we do such a despicable thing as ganging up on someone! If there is a fight, it should be one-on-one, and we might not even defeat you!"

Li Qingming looked at the two beasts in surprise, and thought to himself, "Seeing the pride of these two exotic beasts, recruiting them as island guardian children might be a good idea!"

Having made up his mind, Li Qingming gently waved his hand and said, "Which one of you is first?"

"Me!" "Me!"

Both almost spoke at once.

"Foolish bird, I’ll go first!" The Red Jade Toad glanced sideway at the Roc, not waiting for the Roc’s response, it leapt up, its body shimmering with red dawn, and with a toad’s croak, like a thunderbolt, truly making Li Qingming’s blood boil.

"Quack!"

A giant toad formed entirely of flames, enveloped in towering flames, took a leap at Li Qingming.