138: Chapter 138 The Purple Moon Appears

After ten breaths, Long Er let out a muffled groan and collapsed to the ground, completely drained of strength.

He gasped for air heavily, yet looked at Xia Jin with an apologetic expression.

Xia Jin, standing to the side, closed his eyes to concentrate for a moment before slowly opening them, his expression becoming somewhat grave.

"Your Lordship, I apologize... I have truly... given my all..."

"No, you have done very well." Xia Jin snapped back to his senses and nodded at him. He then crouched down and placed his right hand gently on Long Er's shoulder. "Thanks to you this time, this Prince has learned some important things. Come, relax your mind and do not resist."

After saying that, a wisp of white flame emerged from Xia Jin's palm, slowly traveling through Long Er's Meridians.

Wherever the flame passed, Long Er's Meridians throughout his body relaxed and expanded.

This continued for a full fifteen minutes.

Xia Jin slowly withdrew his palm. By now, a thin layer of black, sticky liquid had seeped out of the surface of Long Er's skin; those were the Impurities that had accumulated in his Meridians for a long time.

As soon as he circulated his spiritual power, he was shocked to find that the Meridians in his body were nearly twice as wide as before. Several places that had often felt blocked during his cultivation were now completely clear.

Xia Jin looked at the shocked Long Er and said with a smile, "Now that this Prince has widened your Meridians, with your current state and cultivation speed, it should not be difficult to step into the Seventh Layer of the Spirit Wandering Realm within half a year. If you Cultivate diligently and hard, it is not impossible to touch the threshold of the Ninth Layer of the Spirit Wandering Realm within three years."

"But if you want to take another step forward... that will depend on your own comprehension."

Long Er nodded hurriedly, unable to contain the ecstasy on his face. He stood up and knelt on the ground without hesitation, kowtowing three times to Xia Jin.

"Your Lordship's grace of rebirth is something Long Er will never forget! From now on, Long Er's life belongs to Your Lordship! Whether it be mountains of blades or seas of fire, I am at your command, with no second thoughts!"

"Alright, get up! There is no need to thank this Prince; you have earned this. Since you work for this Prince, this Prince naturally won't mistreat you!" Xia Jin patted Long Er's shoulder and then walked out of the celestial prison with a smile.

...

Three days later, inside the Great Xia Imperial Palace.

Xia Jin was dining in the main hall together with Leng Yuexi and Emperor Xia Yu.

Suddenly, a series of noisy sounds came from outside the hall.

Emperor Xia Yu frowned, his gaze clearly showing some dissatisfaction. He said to Commander Qin Hu beside him, "Qin Hu, go out and see what exactly is happening outside?"

"As you command, Your Majesty." Commander Qin Hu nodded and walked quickly out of the hall. After a moment, he returned in a hurry, his face actually carrying a hint of shock.

"Qin Hu, why are you panicking? What on earth is going on outside!?" Emperor Xia Yu asked in a cold voice upon seeing Commander Qin Hu's expression.

"Your Majesty! Your Lordship! You should... go out and see for yourselves! The moon outside... the moon, it... has turned purple!"

"A purple moon, could it be...?" Hearing this, Emperor Xia Yu and Leng Yuexi turned to look at Xia Jin almost simultaneously, a trace of gravity flashing in their eyes.

They both remembered clearly that the temple order in Xia Jin's hand was engraved with that sentence—When the purple moon appears, the Divine Envoy shall descend.

Now that the purple moon had appeared, wouldn't that so-called Divine Envoy be descending upon the Eastern Profound Continent?

Xia Jin's expression remained as usual, and he even unhurriedly finished the remaining wine in his cup.

From Viper's memory fragments, he had already glimpsed many secrets related to the "Temple" and the "Divine Envoy," so he was not entirely unprepared for this phenomenon.

He put down the wine cup and slowly raised his head: "Let's go, we'll go out and take a look together."

Several of them walked out of the hall and looked up at the sky.

In the sky, the bright moon that should have been white had indeed turned purple.

"Husband, look, the moon really has turned purple." Leng Yuexi pulled Xia Jin's hand and said with an equally shocked expression.

But at this moment, Xia Jin suddenly turned to look elsewhere, his brow furrowed.

At that very instant, he suddenly sensed several powerful auras on the Eastern Profound Continent soaring into the sky almost simultaneously! These auras had a clear target, heading from all directions toward a certain location on the Eastern Profound Continent!

"Husband, husband! What's wrong? Did something happen?" Seeing Xia Jin motionless and seemingly not even hearing her words, Leng Yuexi couldn't help but feel worried.

"It's nothing. It seems that so-called Divine Envoy is about to descend. I just felt several powerful auras heading in the same direction." Xia Jin patted Leng Yuexi's head and said calmly, "You stay here; I'll go over and see what's happening."

"Husband, then be careful!" Leng Yuexi looked at Xia Jin's face, a trace of concern showing in her beautiful eyes.

"Don't worry! Are you still not clear about your husband's strength? In this Eastern Profound Continent, no one can threaten me yet!!" Xia Jin smiled and then took a step forward. A crack in the Void Realm appeared beneath his feet, and in the next moment, he had vanished into that crack.

...

Eastern Profound Continent, atop a remote, mist-shrouded mountain peak.

Xia Jin's figure stepped out from the crack in the Void Realm. Although he was the last to set off, he was the first to arrive at this place.

"I didn't expect that this Prince would arrive a bit early." Xia Jin glanced around, and his gaze was randomly drawn to a Stone Gate ahead.

Not far ahead, in a place that should have been a cliff, a massive Stone Gate several meters high was actually suspended in the air!

Furthermore, under the illumination of the moonlight, that Stone Gate was slowly opening inward!

"This... could it be the gate leading to that temple?" Xia Jin looked at the Stone Gate with some apprehension. The aura emanating through the gate made even someone as strong as him feel a jolt of alarm.

Just then, a sharp Sword Intent suddenly appeared not far behind Xia Jin.

Xia Jin looked at the newcomer and saw a familiar grey figure holding a sword wrapped in rags in his arms.

"So it's him!?" Xia Jin was also slightly surprised. This person was the mysterious Grey-robed Swordsman he had encountered by chance on a reef of a remote island overseas a few days ago.

For him to be the first person to arrive here after himself was something Xia Jin hadn't expected.

The Grey-robed Swordsman had also seen Xia Jin by now and nodded to him as a greeting. Then, his gaze also fell upon the Stone Gate.

Immediately following that, a deep Buddhist chant pierced through the clouds: "Amitabha."

An old monk dressed in a grey monastic robe walked over from the west step by step. With every step he took, a phantom image of a golden lotus flashed beneath his feet.

This person was none other than the tenth-generation first seat of Kasyapa Temple, Venerable Miaodi!