Apart from these inhabited islands, Shi Feiyang also moved numerous uninhabited but valuable islands into the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain.

Such islands are more abundant in the South Sea and North Sea, where one side is hot and sunny, and the other is extremely cold, never seeing sunlight throughout the year. These extreme ecological environments have nurtured different types of life forms.

However, the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain is too hot, and the resources from the cold places of the North Sea, even if moved over, cannot survive and will extinguish themselves after a period.

For example, Long Night Island and Ancestor Xian Kong's Wuding Island are covered with snow all year round, rarely seeing sunlight, fostering many rare plants and animals inside. Long Night Island has Gui Mansion Dan Pomegranate and many large and small demon beasts.

Although these demon beasts were ravaged by Chi You, he mainly utilized the large, combat-ready ones, and many adorable small demon beasts were just left outside, eventually facing extinction, which would be too regrettable.

Shi Feiyang wants to create a cold area on the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain.

Actually, the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain isn't always this hot. It just happens to be attracted by the Antarctica Earth, landed here, right beneath the Sun, and always facing such.

Once in the future the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain flies away, leaving here, flying into the universe, or towards the Heavenly Worlds, it might become cold.

Therefore, Shi Feiyang wants to change the structure and environment of the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain.

He also has two major plans, one is to construct the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain into a spherical shape, transforming it into a planet, having North and South Pole, equator, up and down, left and right, and living space in all directions.

This requires its size to be large enough. Currently, the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain is about one third of the Moon in size, barely enough to become a planet, but the gravitational pull is too small.

And the larger the size, the more difficult the future ascension becomes.

Using things from the sky to increase the size would be better than using those from the ground.

Jin Xunu has been tirelessly guarding the Qiankun Furnace, methodically absorbing and capturing the energy of the Sun, Moon, Five Stars, and Heavenly Stars daily. After a round of refining, it's transmitted and delivered underground by the Chaos Dragon Ball, merging with the Earth Core Pure Yang True Fire.

The core energy of the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain is constantly increasing, and the remaining star sands pile up into mountains, increasing the size of the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain.

These are all from outer space, although not comparable to the Nine Heavens Immortal Spirit Pure Qi, it's still better for future ascension than the turbid heavy stuff on Earth.

The speed is somewhat slow though... Shi Feiyang is worried, at its current rate of increase, it seems the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain won't become a planet before the Dharma Decline Era arrives.

He also plans to set up a Hell, so that after the creatures of the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain die, their souls can return here and reincarnate directly, forming an internal cycle.

But these are not the most important. What's more crucial is to walk on two legs; he has another direction, which is to transform the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain into a Cave Heaven World.

In Shu Mountain, those who can open up a Cave Heaven Small World are not many, and the spaces are very limited. For example, like the Red Lotus Demon, with a length and width of only several hundred miles, the largest and most famous is the Iron City Mountain World, which almost counts as a Small Heavenly World. However, that old demon is quite mysterious, opens and closes every seven hundred and twenty years, outsiders can't get in, those who entered can't get out, and what it's like inside, very few know.

Jiu Panpo may not know either, the Red Flower Princess might know.

Thinking of the Red Flower Princess, Shi Feiyang feels a sense of change; after a round of calculations, he knows something has happened to her as well, she is no longer beside Li Ning, exactly where she is, due to a higher being obscuring Heaven's Secret, he can't figure it out for now, and Shi Feiyang has no time to deal with it.

While moving home in the Outer Heaven Mountain, he needs to stay here to prevent any dirty stuff from sneaking in, and in an unguarded moment, suddenly triggering an internal explosion.

Shi Feiyang has always sensed such warnings, he has calculated three times in succession, and the hexagram shows that at a certain point in the future, someone close to him will betray him, suddenly rise and attack when he's caught off guard.

But to specifically calculate who it could be, he can't find out, their trace is very elusive and hard to find; he has only seen a few scant indications.

There's quite a mix of people around him, including humans, demons, flying beasts, and various plant spirits; he thought it over several times, none seemed too fitting, so he can only be as cautious as possible.

Every person moving into the Outer Heaven Mountain was personally approved by him; no one else has the authority to admit others in, even Jin Xunu can't!

Moving the mountain peak islands, and various major palaces are grand projects; even with the great technique to move mountains and overturn seas, and having sufficiently large ships, enough Daoist Soldiers, it still takes years to move everything in from the Four Seas.

During this period, it was time for Xiong Man Niang and Shi Sheng's ascension.

Both have completed their cultivation and are prepared to ascend; they haven't taken on disciples, leaving their respective Flying Sword Magical Treasures to Shi Feiyang, with Shi Sheng only wearing a Yin Ring from the Heavenly Heart Ring.

Shi Feiyang personally protected them, and many fellow disciples came to see them off.

Xiong Man Niang kneeled once more before Shi Feiyang, expressing her gratitude: "I originally had shallow roots in blessings, relying on Master's guidance and protection, allowing me to complete my lifetime cultivation to become a Heavenly Immortal, with such immense grace and virtue, I have no way to repay... Disciples had hoped to wait until Master achieves Dao, and ascend together, but my roots are shallow, afraid of mishaps, dragging down Master, can only ascend to the Spiritual Space first, waiting for Master and all the junior disciples and sisters."

She bid farewell to Deng Ba Gu, Lin Han and others in turn, finally kneeling to Shi Feiyang with one more request: "My senior sister Luo Ziyuan and junior sister Xiao have celestial roots far superior to mine, by calculation they ought to ascend soon..."

There was a time when Luo Ziyuan and Xiao Nineteen Sister were very unhappy with her, but in those years, they apprenticed together on Min Mountain, known in Jianghu as the famed Min Mountain Three Heroines, ultimately tied by the bonds of the past, bones broken yet joined by tendons. Luo Ziyuan was only displeased by her melancholy over the past, regarding Master Nine-fingered Dragon Mother's arrangement by Kong Reverend as regressive and not favorable to her apprenticing with an outsider, but later the relationship among the three gradually improved. When one encounters difficulties, the other two would wholeheartedly assist, Xiong Man Niang pleaded with Shi Feiyang: "If they encounter any distress or constraint, please, Master, extend a helping hand."

Shi Feiyang agreed to all, followed by Shi Sheng.

Shi Sheng knelt directly on the ground, hugging Shi Feiyang's leg, crying uncontrollably.

He couldn't bear to part with Shi Feiyang, nor with his fellow disciples, especially Lin Han, with whom he had the closest relationship. After crying while hugging Shi Feiyang, he turned to cry while hugging Lin Han.

If it weren't for his mother Lu Rongbo being in Heaven, he wouldn't agree to leave.

Shi Feiyang coaxed him with a smile: "Alright, alright, with you being so reluctant, you might not be able to ascend even if you wanted to later, or you might even cause your Yang God to retreat. Besides, don't we still have the Heavenly Heart Ring?"

Only then did Shi Sheng stop sobbing.

The two prepared themselves, sitting cross-legged together, closing their eyes and concentrating.

Before long, their Primordial Spirits left their bodies.

Xiong Man's inherent nature was too poor, achieving Heavenly Immortal status in one lifetime was too forced, belonging to the category of Corpse Transformation, the lowest rank of Heavenly Immortals, just like Lu Rongbo in the past.

Shi Sheng, however, was much stronger than him, being a true Yang God Heavenly Immortal.

The difference between them is: Xiong Man left a corpse, while Shi Sheng left a shed skin.

The Daoists use cicadas as an analogy, using the term "cicada shedding its shell" to describe the ascension of a Heavenly Immortal.

The former is a cicada carcass:

The latter is a cicada shed:

They didn't manage to achieve the Golden Immortal Position of Perfection, Body Ascension, otherwise, nothing would have been left, and their physical bodies would have ascended directly.

The two's Primordial Spirits continued to rise, and soon the heavenly light that marks ascension formed, carrying them, also serving as protection, continuously rising upward.

Everyone below waved goodbye to them, and they clasped their hands in salute from above.

With them guarding here, no one in this world could stop it, the two ascended smoothly to the Nine Heavens, finally disappearing into the void.

The two had already become Heavenly Immortals, and there was no benefit in leaving their bodies behind. Shi Feiyang instructed Deng Bagu and Lin Han to take them out separately, burn them with True Fire, and return the ashes to the mountains and forests.

Shi Sheng's ascension was also an experiment by Shi Feiyang, to see if constant communication between the celestial and mortal realms was possible.

The communication between the two realms spanned a thousand miles, with the father of Lady Baoxiang, Old Man Xuě Xuě, along with Old Buddha Chì Lì, Poison Dragon Venerable, and the Emei Sect also praying to Master Chang Mei. In the original text, the Emei Sect opened its headquarters, and Zen Master Xiao Yue was captured by Tian Meng, Fen Tuo, and others, taken to Emei Mountain. Master Chang Mei's Jade Box Flying Saber was to execute him. Qi Shuming and other senior and junior brothers knelt down to pray for mercy to Master Chang Mei, and only then did the Jade Box Gold Saber fly back.

This shows that Master Chang Mei can even remotely control a flying knife in the Lower Realm from Heaven.

Shi Feiyang held the Yang Ring of the Heavenly Heart Ring, while Shi Sheng took the Yin Ring.

Since Heaven is Yang and Earth is Yin, if the Yang Ring goes to Heaven and the Yin Ring goes to Earth, with Qiantian above and Kund Earth below, it forms a Heaven and Earth No hexagram, where the heavenly and earthly energies do not communicate.

They had the Yin Ring ascend to Heaven and the Yang Ring descend to Earth, reversing them, forming an Earth and Heaven Tai hexagram, where earthly energy descends and heavenly energy ascends, allowing for the harmony of Heaven and Earth through mutual exchange.

Shi Feiyang didn't take the initiative to contact Shi Sheng.

Heaven is unlike the Earth; Heavenly Immortals entering Heaven must be conferred by heavenly decree, receive clerical positions, similar to becoming a civil servant. They have many people to meet and experience many things, constrained by heavenly laws.

He was also unsure of how these heavenly laws were defined, but casually transmitting messages between the two realms was likely forbidden. Heaven is filled with Heavenly Immortals and Golden Immortal talents; if he directly made contact, it would easily be discovered by a master. In such a case, Shi Sheng could face punishment, and if he were demoted down to the Lower Realm it would be better, but if subjected to heavenly punishment or even taken to the Immortal Slaying Stage or Execution Platform, it would harm Shi Sheng.

After all, no one knows just how stringent these heavenly laws can be.

Shi Feiyang continued to oversee the transformation of the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain and the relocation and settlement of the assembled immortals while patiently waiting.

Unexpectedly, over three months passed before the Heavenly Heart Ring reacted for the first time!

The Heavenly Heart Ring is a supreme treasure that aligns one's heart with the heavenly heart. Both master and disciple had conducted sacrificial refinement of it, allowing for heart-to-heart communication through this treasure.

Because it was not perfectly circular but heart-shaped, it was inconvenient to wear on the finger. Shi Feiyang strung it with a chain and wore it around his neck.

That day, just as he was contemplating where to settle the Qingcheng Sect, suddenly the Heavenly Heart Ring on his chest released waves of warmth, followed by Shi Sheng's thoughts emerging from it: "Master! Master!"

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