Xiao Fei's team passed through a celestial city and needed to enter to procure supplies. Xiao Fei accompanied the team into the city, finally finding an opportunity to temporarily leave them.
He found a secluded spot, and while pretending to urinate, casually tossed an item into a corner before quickly departing.
What he discarded was a branch about a foot long, still bearing a fruit.
It seemed Xiao Fei had truly prospered, to the point of casually discarding a celestial artifact without a second glance.
Just as Xiao Fei's flying ship departed, the branch he had thrown to the ground began to emit a misty white light.
Soon, a figure emerged from the light – it was another Xiao Fei.
He currently had too few clones and lacked positional coordinates. It would be very difficult for his Heavenly Immortal clone to emerge from space.
If he were to appear directly in the Juntian Realm, there would be significant risks, and he could easily be discovered by other powerful beings.
Therefore, he devised this method: his Heavenly Immortal clone would enter the small world celestial artifact, and he only needed to find an opportunity to discard the artifact.
After the Heavenly Immortal clone emerged from the small world, he picked up the branch from the ground and turned to leave.
He had now concealed his cultivation aura, revealing only the True Immortal realm, transforming into an ordinary-looking man.
After walking around the city, he rented a temporary cave dwelling and settled in for the time being.
In the following period, he found another opportunity to release Huang Feifei and the others from the Second Jianmu World.
However, everyone had changed drastically, adopting new identities.
The relationships these individuals had with Xiao Fei were long known to those with ulterior motives. If they were to appear in the Celestial Realm now, they would quickly be captured and interrogated for Xiao Fei's whereabouts.
When Huang Feifei emerged from the small world, Xiao Fei had already used his laws of transformation to turn her into a middle-aged woman.
Ji Wudi was transformed into a handsome young man, fulfilling his dream of being a heartthrob.
Ji Wudi even attempted to persuade Fei Xin, who had accompanied them, to transform into a beautiful woman and pretend to be his Dao companion.
However, Fei Xin had already seen through his ulterior motives and firmly refused. Ji Wudi could only shake his head and sigh in resignation.
To verify his suspicions, Xiao Fei transformed Feiyu directly into the likeness of Zhu Yu.
As expected, the moment Feiyu stepped out of the small world, a bolt of lightning suddenly appeared in the sky and struck Feiyu directly.
When the lightning dissipated, Feiyu was covered in black smoke, his face disfigured by the lightning, his head reduced to a charred mess. A smell of scorched meat wafted out, making Xiao Fei's mouth water.
"Ah! Ahhh!"
Feiyu let out a series of screams. He had initially been quite proud to see his master transform him into his most handsome appearance.
He never expected to be struck by lightning just moments after his pride, leaving him burnt to a crisp on the outside and tender on the inside.
Especially Xiao Fei's expression of salivation made Feiyu realize he had been tricked again.
Xiao Fei swallowed, suppressing his urge to roast Feiyu and eat him.
It seemed that in the Celestial Realm, Zhu Yu's face was a taboo. Without sufficient strength, one would be struck by lightning.
The lightning bolt from earlier was far more powerful than the lightning within his space.
He wondered how Zhu Yu had managed to survive and grow up, and how much hardship he must have endured during his growth.
This also fueled his curiosity about Zhu Yu's identity.
As far as he knew, Zhu Yu was a Celestial Lord who once controlled the Haoyu Holy Land.
This status was quite high in the Celestial Realm, but it was far from enough to make his face a taboo in the Celestial Realm.
Unless he was once a true top-tier powerhouse of the Celestial Realm!
However, this was Zhu Yu's secret, and it was inconvenient for him to probe too deeply; knowing too much could lead to death.
Huang Feifei casually unleashed a surge of life force, healing Feiyu's injuries.
However, Feiyu no longer wished to be transformed into Zhu Yu's likeness. Xiao Fei had to change his appearance to something else.
Ji Wudi and the others from the Second Jianmu World were all at the True Immortal realm. This time, everyone except the giants was released.
Han Yi and Han Er also possessed True Immortal strength, and Xiao Fei could transform their physiques to resemble ordinary humans.
However, the intelligence of these two was unreliable, and they were more likely to cause trouble.
"I'll have to trouble everyone to help again this time!"
Xiao Fei cupped his hands in greeting to everyone and then produced a pile of storage bags, handing them out to each person.
Each storage bag contained some pills and immortal stones, serving as cultivation resources and activity funds for each individual.
To gather intelligence, one had to be willing to spend money. He still had hundreds of thousands of immortal stones left, which he distributed almost entirely this time.
With their resources in hand, everyone dispersed, while Xiao Fei remained in his temporary dwelling, awaiting news from them.
He currently needed information in two main areas.
First, treasures that could heal soul damage, and second, regarding spirit artifacts, whether there were any methods to safely separate a spirit artifact from its treasure, and even better, to have the spirit artifact take over the host.
Both of these matters were directly related to Xiao Fei.
In addition, if it was convenient, he could also gather some information about Celestial Lord Haoyu.
Xiao Fei remained alone in the temporary cave dwelling, waiting for the various pieces of information that everyone would send back.
Five years later, everyone had gradually sent back various intelligence.
Firstly, through their investigations and summaries, they found that there were many ways for spirit artifacts to separate from treasures, with varying degrees of difficulty, but all would cause significant damage to the spirit artifact's soul and consciousness.
This was why the spirit artifacts on those treasures had always remained obediently trapped within them.
Especially for powerful treasures, they would not leave any opportunity for the spirit artifact to escape. After leaving the treasure, the spirit artifact's soul and consciousness might even dissipate.
Xiao Fei did not give up and instructed everyone to continue their investigations.
Another ten years passed, and everyone had compiled a list of various treasures that could repair souls.
They also assessed the efficacy of each treasure. Only a handful of them were truly effective for Xiao Fei, generally aligning with what Zhu Yu had said.
Moreover, these treasures were almost all extinct.
Xiao Fei also knew that things would not be so easy, and he asked everyone to continue gathering intelligence.
Another fifty-odd years passed, and finally, another useful clue was found.
It was said that tens of thousands of years ago, a Ginseng Fruit Tree appeared in the Celestial Realm, triggering a war among the major powers of the Celestial Realm.
The struggle for this Ginseng Fruit Tree caused turmoil in the Celestial Realm for thousands of years, during which countless powerful beings perished.
However, the ultimate fate of this Ginseng Fruit Tree remained a mystery; no one knew.
If anyone were to discover even a shred of information, it would undoubtedly trigger another upheaval throughout the Celestial Realm, and the war would not cease.
Tens of thousands of years had now passed, and finding information from that era was even more difficult than reaching the heavens.
But for Xiao Fei, the only reliable information he had was about the Qianyuan Immortal Fruit. However, the Jade Void Palace was teeming with powerful beings and heavily guarded, and he didn't know if he would ever get an opportunity.
The Ginseng Fruit Tree was the only hope besides the Qianyuan Immortal Fruit. Xiao Fei absolutely could not give up and instructed everyone to continue searching and inquiring.