Xiao Fei and Zhu Yu parted ways, with Xiao Fei holding two jade slips and an ugly human skin mask.
Zhu Yu had told him that wearing this mask would conceal his aura and identity, making him difficult to detect even by Immortal Lords.
Xiao Fei picked up the mask and examined it closely. It was truly hideous, with distorted and twisted eyes and mouth.
Xiao Fei surmised that Zhu Yu must be jealous of his exceptional qualities.
Fearing that Xiao Fei might one day surpass him in appearance, Zhu Yu had deliberately given him such an ugly and contorted mask.
This was the only way Zhu Yu could find some solace for his own feelings of inferiority and timidity.
"Hmph! To judge a noble person by a petty mind!"
Xiao Fei muttered to himself, then put on the mask. He glanced in the mirror and was so startled he nearly died.
In his tens of thousands of years of life, he had never seen anyone so ugly.
Xiao Fei's conviction grew that Zhu Yu was indeed envious of his excellence.
In front of the mirror, his facial muscles contorted and writhed, causing the ugly mask on his face to shift along with them.
After much fiddling, he finally managed to make his appearance less terrifyingly ugly. His current look was ordinary, a bit unsightly, but not frightening.
Zhu Yu had also given him two jade slips.
One jade slip contained a map of the former Hao Yu Sacred Land.
The map detailed every significant location within the former Hao Yu Sacred Land, along with some brief descriptions.
In terms of familiarity with the Hao Yu Sacred Land, no one could possibly know it better than he, its previous master.
The other jade slip listed over ten types of treasures, most of which would be beneficial for his breakthrough to the Heavenly Immortal realm.
These included items like the Earth Dragon Immortal Root, Ten-Thousand-Year Immortal Marrow Liquid, and the Seven-Treasure Immortal Flower, all treasures once produced by the Hao Yu Sacred Land.
However, times had changed, and the once-grand Hao Yu Sacred Land was now in ruins. Whether these treasures could still be found was uncertain.
In addition to the treasures that aided in reaching the Heavenly Immortal realm, the slip also listed several items that could help in restoring his divine soul.
Xiao Fei's divine soul had been damaged for many years and had never healed, causing him to lose several of his previous avatars, leaving him with only two remaining.
Furthermore, according to Zhu Yu, damage to the divine soul would also affect his advancement.
However, Xiao Fei possessed none of the treasures listed by Zhu Yu and would have to find them himself in the Immortal Realm.
The location from which he had fled the Immortal Realm last time was now exposed. According to Zhu Yu's information, cultivators from the Immortal Realm had even built a city there.
He definitely could not appear from that location this time and would have to resort to the old method of sneaking in from the lower realm.
A month later, a man with a somewhat ugly appearance arrived at the Qing Qiu Sacred Land.
This ugly man was Xiao Fei. His first stop after his latest clandestine entry into the Immortal Realm was Qing Qiu Sacred Land.
The Blood Sea Sacred Land had been ruined by him, and now only a few demonic figures remained as exiles. Among those with whom he had a closer relationship, only Qing Qiu Sacred Land was left.
After a tour of the city, Xiao Fei discovered that despite the passage of several thousand years, his legends still persisted here.
People in the city were still selling that spiritual wine mixed with "Youthful Bone White," though the formula was now widely known, and the price was very cheap.
Within the city, one could still inquire about his glorious deeds in Qing Qiu City back in the day.
The Qing Qiu Sacred Land had not yet given up its search for Xiao Fei.
Xiao Fei only stayed in Qing Qiu City for a few days, gathering information about the former Hao Yu Sacred Land, and left without attracting any attention.
He flew alone towards the ruins of the former Hao Yu Sacred Land.
According to the information he had gathered, the Hao Yu Sacred Land had been annihilated overnight, and Hao Yu Immortal Lord had vanished without a trace.
According to Immortal Realm rumors, many suspected that Zhu Yu's entanglement with too many women had made him a public enemy, and his sect's destruction was only a matter of time.
However, some rumors claimed that eyewitnesses had seen powerful beings from the Nine Heavens personally intervene.
The legend of the Nine Heavens had always existed in the Immortal Realm.
It was said that the heavens had nine layers, and their current dwelling was the first layer, with increasingly potent immortal energy as one ascended.
However, Xiao Fei had also inquired about the Nine Heavens from Zhu Yu.
It was said that the Nine Heavens was merely an exaggerated tale, spoken to sound more impressive.
It was just that as the immortal energy in the Immortal Realm grew thinner, some people had developed ulterior motives, partitioning off worlds with concentrated immortal energy from the Immortal Realm and separating them from it.
This formed numerous small worlds, independent of the Immortal Realm, with even richer immortal energy.
Some of these small worlds even employed formations and other divine abilities to continuously siphon immortal energy from the Immortal Realm to replenish themselves.
In Xiao Fei's opinion, this was an act of self-enrichment at the expense of the public.
These immortals residing in the small worlds, to appear more prestigious, falsely claimed to reside in the Nine Heavens.
Over time, many people came to believe it.
A month later, Xiao Fei appeared on a desolate plain.
After tens of thousands of years, no trace of the former Hao Yu Sacred Land could be found in its original location.
Regarding what had happened to the Hao Yu Sacred Land, Xiao Fei had asked Zhu Yu, the person involved, but Zhu Yu himself was unwilling to speak of it.
Perhaps the past was too painful to recall.
Xiao Fei compared the terrain with the map Zhu Yu had given him.
The spot where he stood was precisely where the mountain gate of the former Hao Yu Sacred Land had been.
Fifty li forward from the mountain gate, and then ten li to the left, was the Immortal Marrow mine of that year, which produced small quantities of Ten-Thousand-Year Immortal Marrow Liquid.
He wondered if any could still be found and decided to check it out.
Following the map, Xiao Fei quickly located the old mine. The entrance was covered by earth, but after burrowing dozens of feet underground, he found the main mine shaft from that era.
Xiao Fei walked alone through the mine. Small amounts of residual Immortal Stone Marrow could still be seen on the surrounding rock walls, but their value was not high.
As a former sacred land relic, people often came here to search for treasures, and Xiao Fei saw many traces left by other immortals along his path.
He navigated through the mine, making many turns, until he reached a dead end. However, he had no intention of turning back and walked directly towards a stone wall.
This was the location Zhu Yu had indicated as potentially containing Ten-Thousand-Year Immortal Marrow Liquid.
Xiao Fei cast a complex set of runes at the stone wall. After the runes struck the wall, they merged into it.
Then, the stone wall before him rippled like the surface of water, and Xiao Fei walked forward.
Behind the stone wall was a hidden secret chamber. From its appearance, he seemed to be the only person to have entered it in tens of thousands of years.
The secret chamber was only about ten zhang square. In the center of the chamber stood a pillar of Immortal Stone Marrow, about one zhang in size.
This pillar was three zhang high, and its top was slightly concave, like a large bowl.
Within the bowl was a small pool of viscous liquid, milky white in color.
This was precisely the Ten-Thousand-Year Immortal Marrow Liquid that Xiao Fei had been seeking.