Lightless City.

In a luxurious Taoist temple in the east of the city, in the Soul-Nourishing Hall.

A middle-aged man with an ordinary face and short stature was sitting cross-legged on a cushion. He was surrounded by two gases, one black and one white. The two-colored gases rotated back and forth and converged, finally turning into a gray vortex above his head. The vortex was shaped like an animal's eye, with a vertical pupil in the middle that was faintly flickering.

Not far in front of him, a long table was placed at an angle, and it was filled with candles of various colors. These candles were covered with square transparent covers, and the faint candlelight swayed slowly in the square covers.

At this moment, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew from outside the hall, with a slightly scarlet color. It swept from the outside to the inside and blew out one of the green candles through the square cover.

"Um?"

The middle-aged Taoist suddenly opened his eyes, and saw that they were pitch black, without any white in his eyes. He frowned slightly and glanced at the extinguished candle, which was withering away at a speed visible to the naked eye.

He reached out and waved the grey whisk, and the thin scarlet breeze was wrapped in.

Just when the middle-aged Taoist was about to take a closer look, the breeze suddenly exploded in all directions, and then gradually faded away without a trace.

"Li Dao, who wielded the Jade Wolf Flute and could command the five wolf corpses, was killed before he could even escape. Not to mention the restrictions I placed on him, and the outbreak of a soul-destroying disease before his death, yet he showed no reaction at all..."

"Furthermore, such alien power is simply unheard of." The middle-aged Taoist took a deep breath and glanced at the scarlet mark on his whisk that looked like it was burned. His expression became solemn. "The prophecy of the hexagram has come true. A powerful foreign immortal has entered."

A terrestrial immortal like him was extremely sensitive to beings of the same level. He hadn't noticed it immediately because of their different power systems, but after sensing the power contained in the scarlet wind—even if it was only a tiny amount—he could sense the power of authority contained within it.

Authority is the ultimate cohesion of a domain, the prototype of Tao, and a universal force in all the heavens and worlds.

This is the fundamental reason why earthly immortals have the power to descend into other worlds, while human immortals cannot.

"If I want to completely spread the wolf plague within the Great Light Palace, these foreign immortals may be my biggest obstacle." The middle-aged Taoist's expression was a little solemn. He slowly stretched out his hand and wiped away the burning mark on the whisk bit by bit: "But..."

“It’s also the biggest opportunity.”

As the greatest genius in the history of Xiaoting Sect, he had never encountered any bottleneck since he started practicing. He could reach any realm at once and soon surpassed the then Sect Master of Xiaoting Sect, who was also his master, Taoist Longyue.

But after being promoted to Earth Immortal, he encountered the shackles of a bottleneck for the first time, and this bottleneck lasted for five hundred years.

For five hundred years, he tried every possible means, from full of confidence to despair, and then to indifference. He even resorted to the ancient evil secret method, sacrificed many people and monks of the Lightless City, and awakened the Corpse King who was sealed under the Great Light Palace.

"It's not that I'm incapable of talent, it's the cage of the Great Light Palace that's bounding me." The middle-aged Taoist slowly closed his eyes and calmly took down the extinguished Soul Lamp. With a slight force of two fingers, he crushed it into powder. "We are creatures derived from the Great Light Palace. If we want to escape this shackle, we will naturally suffer severe backlash. But whether it's the Wuyou Sect or the outsider Earth Immortals, they will eventually become stepping stones on my path to the ultimate goal."

The path he wants to take is not the path of a celestial being, but the path of a Taoist Lord.

Even the awakened evil god is just a chess piece under his feet.

......

One hundred and twenty kilometers away from Wuguang City, there is a barren mountain surrounded by swamps.

"We are barely of the same race, so why bother?"

Fengyi was floating in the air, and he opened his eyes for the first time, looking at the huge stone statue in front of him with a complicated expression.

Not far in front of her was a huge python about several hundred meters long, with its eyes wide open and its tongue flickering, but it was strangely petrified into a sculpture. Except for its pupils that were still moving, the rest of its body had turned into extremely fragile stones.

Fengyi did not feel any relief in this fierce battle. In order to petrify the giant snake, he even used his complete form.

"A mere despicable alien race, are you worthy of being my equal...?"

An extremely angry roar came from the giant snake stone sculpture. The snake's eyes stared at the snake-haired beauty in front of it with great hatred, but at this moment there was nothing it could do.

"Haha, if you say it's not, then it's not."

Fengyi was not angry, but just bit it lightly with her pearly teeth, and slightly stuck out the tip of her tender and bright red tongue, revealing an extremely greedy and cute look.

Such snakes with pure energy have not yet completely transformed, but they are the best food. As long as she eats them all, her magic power will surely be further improved.

In fact, petrification is just the innate power of Tailor. The concept of her practice is not petrification, but "devouring". Only the final perfection is missing, and she can form her own "devouring" authority, which can directly target legendary creatures.

The 'concept' of this devouring is that only by devouring different powerful creatures can one become more perfect.

This is also the fundamental reason why Tailor loves to kill people everywhere. This is the path she will take.

Just as she was about to open her mouth and completely devour the petrified snake in front of her, something strange happened.

In the deepest part of the swamp, a dark red rabbit several meters tall suddenly jumped out.

The dark red rabbit seemed to have calculated the best time to appear long ago. Taking advantage of the moment when Fengyi was stunned, it bit the head of the petrified snake. Then, with a tug, a snake soul was directly pulled out and then swallowed up cleanly in an instant.

After swallowing the snake soul, the dark red magic rabbit jumped into the swamp without any hesitation and soon disappeared.

The petrified snake, having lost its snake soul, collapsed and fell inward at a speed visible to the naked eye. It soon became a pile of broken rocks, without any trace of life left.

“???”

Looking at everything that happened in the blink of an eye, there was an inexplicable sense of confusion in Fengyi's gray-brown eyes.

Even a fourteenth-ringed wizard like her did not expect such a thing to happen.

Because no creature has ever dared to snatch food under her nose, and actually succeeded in taking it away.

"You...how dare you!?"

After a short period of confusion, Feng Yi's clothes exploded due to the air, revealing her beautiful body underneath, and layer after layer of air waves covered the entire swamp area.