I Got It!

"Who are you, Dao?!" shouted one of the Yuan Ling Sect elders.

"You don't need to know. What's your decision?" asked Li Shen, refusing to tell.

Although the Yuan Ling Sect Leader was at the Early Soul Formation stage, the power gap between Early Soul Formation and peak Soul Ascension was huge —no matter what his Dao concept was.

The qi energy pressure was spread over the place, squeezing everyone in the Yuan Ling Sect to surrender. 

The elders knew the difference in their strength with the mysterious man, but on the other hand, they couldn't give up the Nether Flame Grass.

"Please, Senior Dao, be merciful. It's only Nether Flame Grass, there's no need to hurt all of my sect disciples," replied the sect leader, bowing his head while clasping his hands together.

Li Shen brought up qi energy on the tips of his two fingers, then directed it sideways from left to right. The qi light from the energy released everyone from the qi pressure of the Peak Soul Ascension practitioners.

The sect leader called out to their ancestor without Li Shen knowing. He held the fire-red plate and crushed it. 

While waiting for the ancestor to arrive from his closed-door cultivation, they had to buy time by talking with Li Shen.

"If we may know, what are you going to use those materials for, Senior?" the sect leader asked.

"It's not important to you. Where is the Nether Flame Grass?"

The sect elders turned their heads sideways, looking at their sect leader with great concern. Nether Flame Grass was the main material of level 7 pill making, useful for helping practitioners break through to Soul Formation.

Not only that, they also had the opportunity to gain enlightenment on the concept of dao, although they had to learn it through the heaven and earth way of learning. However, the foundation of creating dao concepts in themselves had already been well established by consuming the 7th-level pill.

"Please seniors to wait. We keep that item in our treasure warehouse," replied the sect leader. Li Shen nodded.

'Don't be so fast. I've already called the ancestors to come,' the sect leader explained to one of the female elders.

'I understand, sect leader,' she explained, speaking with a telepathic qi technique.

The female elder flew into the main sect building, walking casually as the sect leader instructed. Occasionally, she looked back, Li Shen still talking to the sect leader.

After waiting for about five minutes, the momentum of the thunderous roar of lightning arrived. From within Ling Volcano, two cultivators in long red robes appeared, circular ornaments adorning the area behind their backs.

There was no mistaking it! They were the ancestors of the Yuan Ling Sect, Yuan Hao, and Li Xin. The two men stood hovering on the sky floor, staring at Li Shen, who currently stood before them.

Li Shen smiled. He had already expected that the Yuan Ling Sect would call their ancestors to come to fight him.

From the man's eyes, he saw that Yuan Hao was at the middle stage of Soul Formation, while Li Xin was at the peak of Soul Formation. However, what separated the two was the dao conception.

"What?! Peak Soul Ascension?" asked Yuan Hao, shocked.

"What's happening here, Mu Dong?" asked Yuan Hao to Yuan Ling Sect Leader Mu Dong.

"Greetings, Ancestors," greeted Mu Dong, followed by the elders and all the sect disciples.

Mu Dong began to explain in detail about this event to Yuan Hao. The mysterious man's arrival was simply to get the Nether Flame Grass, not anything else. Yuan Hao let out a long sigh.

"You're threatening the sect's existence just for a sixth-level material?" asked Li Xin.

"Yuan Ling Sect desperately needs that material to help our elder practitioners break through. Hope the ancestors understand," Mu Dong replied.

Li Shen laughed softly, breaking through to the Soul Formation stage with cultivation pills was not wrong; some of them did that. However, the impact of breaking through with cultivation pills was about strength.

"You're a Soul Formation, did you also break through using pills?" asked Li Shen, venturing forward.

"Junior breaks through by using heaven and earth's momentum, without the help of cultivation breakthrough pills," replied Mu Dong.

In the blink of an eye, Li Shen stood tall beside Mu Dong. Li Shen began to reveal a circular cultivation ornament behind his back, complete with a blue-colored shawl —Soul Formation did not have a shawl.

Mu Dong was startled by Li Shen's sudden arrival beside him. The old man immediately jumped backwards to avoid the mysterious man, Yuan Hao and Li Xin didn't have time to even follow Li Shen's quick movements.

'He's very fast. He's no match for us,' Li Xin explained, shocked.

'You're right. It's better to give him the Nether Flame Grass than have the sect destroyed!' Yuan Hao emphasized.

'Is there no other way to make him leave?' asked Mu Dong, looking at his two ancestors.

Unfortunately, they both shook their heads. Neither of them could defeat Li Shen. In their opinion, only the three venerable elders of Qing Yan Palace could defeat him, as the three of them had cultivation realms at Soul Ascension and higher.

'No,' Yuan Hao explained, leaving Mu Dong bowed in despair.

Not long after, the female elder who took the Nether Flame Grass arrived. She carried a lustrous red box tied using a special rope locked with a simple material locking technique.

Li Shen nodded. He saw the red box being handed over to Mu Dong. With a sigh, Mu Dong removed the lock technique and completely handed Nether Flame Grass to Li Shen.

"Senior has gotten your item. We hope seniors will no longer disturb our sect," Yuan Hao explained.

The man received the box and opened it. It was indeed Nether Flame Grass. Li Shen put the item away and stepped in a flash of blue qi light. Now, Li Shen's figure stood hovering before Yuan Hao and Li Xin.

"Nascent Soul peak practitioners, come here," Li Shen commanded, confusing them.

The elders were silent for a moment, then Yuan Hao nodded. The four elders with Peak Nascent Soul stage arrived before Li Shen, put their hands clasped together, and bowed in respect.

Li Shen nodded. He brought forth qi energy from his body that flowed toward the tips of the two fingers of his right hand. He touched their foreheads gently, letting his qi energy be absorbed by them.

"I have given you an understanding of the dao concept. If you succeed in understanding it, your dao concept will be formed," Li Shen replied.

He patted the magic bag again, bringing out four celestial-level spirit stones that floated above his palms.

Yuan Hao and Li Xin were shocked, as were Mu Dong and the other elders. In the thousands of years since the Yuan Ling Sect was established, they had never seen or owned a Celestial-level spirit stone.

'Celestial level spirit stone? I heard that it is only collected and condensed in the Immortal Palace? Is he an immortal who descended to the mortal world?' Yuan Hao asked.

Li Shen gave the four spirit stones to the four Nascent Soul peak practitioners. He said breaking through to the Soul Formation stage required a large amount of spiritual energy. With Celestial-level spirit stones, they would get a plentiful supply of spiritual energy.

"Thank you for your enlightenment, Senior," the four explained, thanking him.

"Consider it my debt of gratitude that you are willing to hand over the Nether Flame Grass. If these four practitioners can understand the dao concept and blend in with the mortal world, then they can form the dao concept in less than 100 years," said Li Shen.

Yuan Hao smiled. Li Shen's arrival at the Yuan Ling sect was not a threat, but a blessing and good fortune for the sect.

"Senior's arrival in our small sect is an unexpected blessing from the heavens. If we may know, what is your name, Senior?" asked Yuan Hao.

Not answering Yuan Hao's question, Li Shen said goodbye and left Yuan Ling Sect with the Nether Flame Grass.

As the situation returned to normal, the four practitioners began to perform closed-door cultivation.

"Who exactly is he?" asked Mu Dong, approaching Yuan Hao and Li Xin.

"I don't know. But from the way he gave out celestial-level spirit stones, he's certainly an Immortal," Yuan Hao replied.

"Immortal? What does an Immortal do in the mortal world? Isn't their place in the Immortal Palace?" asked Mu Dong, shocked.

Yuan Hao shook his head, Li Shen was too mysterious to him, "I don't know. Only he knows."