Chapter 131: Ask Jinshan, Shang

Under the moonlight.

Zhang Bairen took a few items and started to arrange them.

In the formation.

Set up a small formation.

Chu Ning noticed that Zhang Bairen took out the Earth Spirit Pearl and placed it in the middle of these items. Then, as he formed seals with his hands, the items placed on the ground began to sparkle.

The luster emitted by these objects began to slowly converge together, forming rays of light.

Finally, under the control of Zhang Bairen's handprints, these lights gathered into a red light as thick as a bucket.

"What kind of formation is this?"

Chu Ning looked in amazement, and the red light began to sweep forward as Zhang Bairen shouted.

It's like a laser sweeping forward little by little.

After advancing three meters, the red light stopped, as if there was an invisible barrier ahead blocking its progress.

The red light of the crimson light also began to become enchanting, and was constantly advancing little by little.

Sweat was already dripping from Zhang Bairen's forehead and his face turned pale, which was a sign that his spiritual power was almost exhausted.

The next moment, a pill appeared in Zhang Bairen's right hand and he stuffed it directly into his mouth.

As the pill entered his stomach, Zhang Bairen's complexion improved slightly. As an alchemist, Chu Ning recognized at a glance that what Zhang Bairen had swallowed was the Xu Ling Pill.

The function of Xulingdan is to replenish the spiritual power in the body, allowing the user to restore the spiritual power in the dantian to its peak in a very short time.

After taking three pills of Xuling Pills, he heard a crisp clicking sound, as if something was shattered, and a scarlet red light suddenly advanced several feet forward.

There was a look of great joy on Zhang Bairen's face. He put away his hand seals, and the red light dissipated. Then, without any hesitation, he flashed and went forward.

"Did they tear open a hole in the formation and sneak in again?"

Chu Ning looked at Zhang Bairen's disappearing figure, pondered for a moment, and then someone came out of the underground boat and followed him in.

There was no trace of Zhang Bairen in front of him. Chu Ning spread out his spiritual sense and found that there was white fog all around him, in which his spiritual sense was limited to a distance of ten meters.

Chu Ning was not worried that Zhang Bairen would hide and attack him, because Lao Hei was following behind Zhang Bairen. If Zhang Bairen hid, Lao Hei would speak out to remind him.

The restriction of this spiritual sense was actually beneficial to him, as he could explore the surrounding situation openly without being discovered by Zhang Bairen.

In the fog, there is a steep mountain road.

The mountain road was steep but it was nothing to Chu Ning. He walked forward carefully for more than an hour. Suddenly, there was a fork in the road, one to the left and the other to the right.

Zhang Bairen chose the left direction, and Chu Ning was originally planning to go left, but the next moment he stepped onto the path on the right.

"The green mountain in my Dantian actually reacted. Could it be that the secret is related to the Unmovable Mountain Technique?"

Chu Ning was shocked. The reason he chose the path on the right was that at that moment, the mountain in his dantian that was as steady as an old dog changed. The mountain suddenly tilted to the right.

This is to make him go to the right.

Stepping onto the mountain road on the right, Chu Ning could feel that he was now going vertically upwards, which meant that the mountain behind this forbidden area shrouded in clouds and mist was vertical, and not slanted on the Wenjin Peak as speculated by the outside world.

Halfway through the journey, Chu Ning stopped because there was no road ahead.

He is already standing on the top of the mountain.

"What's going on here, just a mountain covered in clouds?"

"Where's Zhang Bairen? If I've reached the top of the mountain, I should have run into Zhang Bairen."

Chu Ning looked around cautiously, but found nothing.

There was nothing but fog all around.

Just when Chu Ning was puzzled, the mountain in his dantian moved.

The mountain began to rotate in Chu Ning's dantian. After just one rotation, the spiritual energy in Chu Ning's body was directly washed away.

"A water pump."

Chu Ning muttered something, then quickly took out the same Xuling Pill that Zhang Bairen had taken before and swallowed it.

As the sixth brother, you must always have the elixir of life ready.

After swallowing six pills in a row, the mountain finally stopped rotating.

At the same time, a hand seal appeared in Chu Ning's mind.

"Lianshan Seal?"

Chu Ning formed seals with his hands, and as the seals were formed, the clouds in front of him dispersed to both sides on their own.

The clouds and mist dissipated, and Chu Ning's pupils shrank when he saw the scene in front of him.

Broken mountain!

What he saw was a broken mountain.

He was indeed standing on the top of a mountain, but it was not the real top. Instead, it was the fracture point of a mountain that was cut in half.

A hundred meters directly above him, there was a mountain.

The bottom of this mountain and the top of the mountain where he was standing were clearly the same mountain.

A distance of one hundred meters is nothing for a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, but it gives Chu Ning a feeling that it is close at hand yet far away.

This hundred-meter distance seems like a natural chasm that is impossible to cross.

Just as Chu Ning was staring at the hundred-meter-wide chasm, the broken part of the mountain in front of him suddenly began to extend.

It seemed as if it wanted to fill the gap and merge again with the mountain a hundred meters away.

"It's the mountain in my Dantian that's moving."

Chu Ning could be sure of this because the mountain in his dantian at this moment had turned into the shape of the broken mountain under his feet and was constantly extending.

As the mountain extends, the distance between Chu Ning and the broken mountain a hundred meters above is getting closer and closer.

Ninety meters, eighty meters, seventy meters...

However, after reaching a distance of fifty meters, the pull of the mountain below seemed to have reached its limit and could no longer increase.

"No, I'll give it a try."

A look of determination flashed in Chu Ning's eyes, and he took a step forward.

Bang! Chu Ning stumbled back after taking only half a step, with the lower part of his left leg flashing with light.

"Three of my spiritual armors were broken."

These rays of light were emitted by the spiritual armor on Chu Ning's body. If it weren't for these pieces of spiritual armor that offset most of the power, his left leg would not just be deformed, it would be directly lost.

There really was some terrifying force at this fracture point.

Chu Ning frowned. If there was an opportunity, it would obviously be halfway up the mountain, but he couldn't get up there.

Should we just turn back in vain, or see if there is any opportunity with Zhang Bairen? Just as Chu Ning was thinking about whether to advance or retreat, the mountain in Dantian returned to its original appearance, and the waterfall hanging on the mountain appeared.

This time, the waterfall no longer flowed down the mountain, but poured towards the top of the mountain in a strange posture, like an upside-down rainbow.

"My immortal fruit energy!"

There was a look of pain in Chu Ning's eyes, and the mountain that was baptized by the waterfall began to spin again, but this time it did not draw the spiritual fluid from Chu Ning's body.

The mountain peak rotated, and the mountain that had originally stopped growing began to grow again.

Seventy meters, sixty meters...

Thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters...

On the mountain peak above, some weeds can be seen with the naked eye growing in the cracks of the rocks.

Three meters distance.

Once again the mountain's growth stopped.

Chu Ning knew that it was not because the energy of the longevity fruit was insufficient, because he compared the mountain under his feet with the mountain above him, and the sizes of the two overlapped perfectly.

In other words, with the help of the longevity fruit, the mountain has been completed.

But the three-meter defect still exists.

The mountain in the Dantian stopped rotating, and another spell appeared in Chu Ning's mind.

"Yinshan Jue!"

Draw the power of the mountain and hide it in my body.

This is an introduction to the Yinshan Jue.

Chu Ning sat down cross-legged and began to familiarize himself with the Mountain-Yining Technique. After a quarter of an hour, he digested it and began to form seals with his hands.

The hand seal of Yinshan Jue was very complicated, and it took Chu Ning a whole cup of tea to complete it.

The hand seal is completed! "The power of the mountain is hidden in my body!"

Chu Ning spoke softly, and as his voice fell, the mountain above changed for the first time.

The mountain actually began to slowly fall.

Three meters, two meters, one meter...

Bang! The two peaks finally merged.

At the same time, a small peak appeared within Chu Ning's dantian, on the side of the original mountain.

There was a look of joy on Chu Ning's face. He had no intention of studying the small mountain that appeared in his dantian, but was preparing to climb the mountain.

But just as he stood up, the mountains that had originally merged together suddenly broke apart again.

Half up, half down.

"Fuck!"

Chu Ning couldn't help but swear. He had spent a lot of effort to make the mountains merge together, but now they were splitting apart again.

"Break!"

Boom! A "break" sound suddenly rang in Chu Ning's ears.

The first sound shattered all the spiritual armor on his body.

Without any hesitation, Chu Ning immediately headed down the mountain while protecting his entire body with the Lihuo Armor.

Break! The second “break” sound came, and the flames around Chu Ning collapsed and extinguished, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood.

"Break!"

The third sound was heard, and at this moment Chu Ning only felt darkness around him, and everything disappeared.

Time disappeared, space disappeared.

His expression became dull and he looked like a corpse.

"wake up!"

A voice resounded throughout the darkness. The voice was like light, tearing through the darkness and awakening Chu Ning's soul for the first moment.

Chu Ning immediately looked forward and saw a line of words appearing at the foot of the mountain which was already a hundred meters away.

"Ask about the current mountain, the mountain sect is the 87865th mountain."

Shan Zong?

What kind of sect is this? Chu Ning had never heard of it, but he understood the meaning of the last few words, which meant that Wen Jinshan was from the Shan Sect, and that the Shan Sect seemed to be very powerful.

This can be inferred from Wen Jinfeng's ranking shown in this line of words.

Wenjin Mountain, the Mountain Sect has 87,865 mountains, which means that this Mountain Sect has at least 100,000 peaks like Wenjin Sect.

You can't ask Jinshan just because he happens to be the last one in line.

Chu Ning was shocked. How big is the entire Hundred Cities area? Doesn't this mean that the territory of this Mountain Sect is as large as thousands of Hundred Cities areas? It's unimaginable!

"And who made those three "break" sounds and the last "wake up" sound?"

Chu Ning knew that if he hadn't heard the word "wake up", he would have become a corpse by now.

Just when he was wondering, the small mountain that appeared in his dantian changed.

From one side of the hill to the smooth cliff like a knife, it began to shine.

On it, strokes of words began to appear.

Chu Ning couldn't see the word clearly.

But what followed was that above his head, the mountain peak that was a hundred meters away appeared again, and a line of words appeared.

Among them, two words slowly floated down.

Ask now.

These two words fell, and when they landed in Chu Ning's hands, they turned into a piece of paper.

The words "Ask now" were written on the paper.

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The paper was in Chu Ning's hand, and the next moment it melted into his palm. At the same time, the words on the cliff of the small mountain at his dantian appeared clearly.

Ask now!

Boom! The full moon had already set, but the entire Wenjin Sect was still ablaze with light.

The light illuminated the entire Wenjin City, illuminated the outside of the city... and even spread to more distant areas.

On Wenjin Peak, everyone noticed the changes. Many disciples walked out of their caves. The monks living at the foot of the mountain also walked out of their courtyards, looking at Wenjin Peak that was filled with light with shocked expressions.

What happened? At the same time, at another place on the top of the mountain, Zhang Bairen looked at a yellow square seal that was within his reach and suddenly flew upwards, with an annoyed look on his face.

He was almost there and this rare treasure would be his.

In order to obtain this square seal, he emptied most of his savings, used all kinds of talismans and formations, and even mobilized the most precious power of luck on the disc, and only then did he get close to the square seal.

The power of luck.

It was the name given by Zhang Bairen himself based on the effect of the purple-red energy on the disc.

Over the years, he had encountered more than a dozen opportunities with the help of the disc, but not every opportunity fell on him. Several times, it fell into the hands of others.

But as long as the purple energy on the disc fills the protruding ball on the back of the disc and he releases this energy, then the opportunity will definitely not be missed.

Therefore, he would not use these energies in general opportunities, and would only use them when encountering great opportunities, such as when condensing Qi to break through the foundation, or when breaking through from the middle foundation to the late foundation.

This is the third time.

When he saw this square seal, his intuition told him that this square seal was his chance to form an elixir.

However, that square seal was over a hundred meters high.

The distance of one hundred meters was like a chasm that almost cost him his life.

In the end, he had no choice but to use the power of luck on the disc.

The power of luck did not disappoint him. It turned into a silk thread, wrapped around the square seal, and slowly pulled it down.

As long as he is given another thirty breaths, he will be able to grasp the square seal.

But no one knew what happened suddenly. Fang Yin broke free from the thread of luck and returned to the place a hundred meters away again.

Is there anyone with better luck than him?

Zhang Bairen couldn't accept this reality. Just when he was thinking about whether there was any other way to get the square seal, the whole square seal suddenly exploded.

Endless spiritual energy burst out.

This scene made Zhang Bairen look frightened. Without any hesitation, he turned around and ran.

Aura is a good thing for monks.

But the prerequisite is stable spiritual energy.

The violent spiritual energy is a disaster for monks.

Water is essential for ordinary people to maintain life, but it is different if it is a huge wave, which can take away life.

The principle is the same.

Zhang Bairen ran away, and Chu Ning on the other side also ran away at this moment.

Because he also sensed the violent spiritual energy, if he didn't run, he would be cut into pieces by the violent spiritual energy.

…

Wen Jinzong, Gu Fanzhou and other foundation-building cultivators also walked out of the cave at this moment.

"Brother Gu, what's going on?"

“Not sure!”

Gu Fanzhou shook his head. He really didn't know what was going on.

After just a few breaths, Gu Fanzhou's expression changed instantly: "Ask all the disciples of this sect to leave the mountain immediately and not to linger."

Just as Gu Fanzhou finished speaking, several other cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment stage present seemed to have noticed something. Their faces changed drastically, and they immediately headed down the mountain.

Gu Fanzhou did not go down the mountain, but went towards a certain direction on the mountain.

A torrent of spiritual energy poured down from the top of the mountain.

All the trees were turned into dust wherever it passed. Many monks stood at the foot of the mountain and looked at this horrific scene in horror.

"Ask...Ask if Jin Zong is gone?"

At the foot of the mountain, some casual cultivators were whispering.

This violent spiritual energy destroyed all the buildings on Wenjin Peak, including the caves of many cultivators. From this point of view, the Wenjin Sect was indeed gone.

Gu Fanzhou's eyes were red, he grew up in Wenjin Sect since he was a child, Wenjin Sect was his home, and now his home was destroyed.

The expressions of other foundation-building cultivators in the sect were not much better either.

Their cave was gone. You have to know that in order to build a cave, many cultivators spent several years or even decades of hard work, and now it was all destroyed.

The most important thing is that I’m afraid the treasure house is gone.

Even the treasure house formation may not be able to protect against such violent spiritual energy.

"Senior Brother Gu!"

A cup of tea later, Chu Ning appeared beside Gu Fanzhou. Looking at Brother Gu's stiff body and his eyes fixed on the mountain, he felt a little guilty.

He wondered if the big change that happened to Jinfeng had anything to do with him.

Then I would really feel a little sorry to Senior Brother Gu.

Chu Ning searched the crowd at the same time and soon found Zhang Bairen. Like himself, Zhang Bairen had just arrived.

The violent spiritual energy rushed down, but fortunately it stopped at the bottom of the mountain.

It was as if there was an invisible barrier preventing the violent spiritual energy from continuing to flow downwards. The entire mountain was now filled with violent spiritual energy, making it impossible to see the situation inside clearly.

At the same time, the light disappeared.

The entire Wenjin City seemed to have fallen into deathly silence at this moment.

"Why do I suddenly feel sad?"

"I thought I was the only one who had it, do you have it too, fellow Daoist?"

The monks in the crowd were whispering softly. Chu Ning took a glance and saw that most of the monks had the same expression. Or perhaps they themselves did not realize that there was a hint of sadness on their faces.

What is going on?

"I had a feeling that I had lost something important."

Some young Qi Condensation monks wiped their eyes as they spoke.

Tears flowed uncontrollably.

"Old...I seem to know what happened."

In the crowd, an old man with white hair spoke in a sad voice, and his words made everyone's eyes fall on him.

Seeing the old man, many monks present recognized his identity.

Manager Yang, who runs a post station in the city.

Shopkeeper Yang is in the late stage of Qi Condensation, and his strength is not among the best in Wenjin City, but if we talk about knowing the secrets of the immortal world or the Hundred Cities, this shopkeeper Yang can definitely be ranked in the top three.

As long as the family that runs the post station does not actively fight for territory, no one will attack them.

It is said that the Yang family had already existed in Wenjin City before the establishment of Wenjin Sect. As for how many years before that, only the Yang family themselves knows.

"The spiritual energy was violent and stopped at the bottom of the mountain. This situation was recorded in the notes left by our ancestors. It happened thousands of years ago in a remote place in Baicheng."

Shopkeeper Yang did not keep the secret and suddenly sighed, "This is the death of the mountain. The life of the mountain has come to an end. The mountain will no longer exist from now on."

"One hundred cities, one hundred and six mountains. After today, there will only be one hundred and five left."

Quiet! So quiet that you can hear a pin drop.

All the monks at the scene fell silent because of what Manager Yang said.

After a while, there was a sound.

"No... No way, Shopkeeper Yang, you must have remembered it wrongly."

"It's for sure. You all feel sad because the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that we absorb through cultivation all comes from Wen Jinshan. Wen Jinshan is like a mother who raised us. How can we not feel sad when our mother is gone?"

Shopkeeper Yang's words left some monks who were unwilling to accept the facts with no more reasons to refute.

The spiritual energy was raging and stopped at the bottom of the mountain.

I can still find an excuse to refute it, but the sadness in my heart cannot be concealed.

Chu Ning started to think because of what Shopkeeper Yang said.

If Wen Jin Shan's lifespan ends, then what is the small Wen Jin Shan in his body? Is the end of Wen Jin Shan's lifespan related to the appearance of this small mountain? "If Wen Jin Shan is gone, then won't Wen Jin Cheng also be gone?"

A monk spoke, but his words silenced everyone present.

Without Wenjin Mountain and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, these cultivators can only choose to go to other cities in order to practice.

Many families that have been passed down in Wenjin City for several generations and have already branched out and settled in Wenjin City for hundreds of years, all looked drastically different at this moment.

Going to other cities means leaving home and having to compete with other forces for territory again.

"My fellow Taoists, the reason why I say Wen Jin Shan is like a mother is because even if my life comes to an end, Wen Jin Shan will still give me one last chance."

"From the day Wen Jinshan was born, Wen Jinshan will evolve the cultivation methods of the foundation-building and golden elixir cultivators who passed away, forming Dao fruits one by one. These Dao fruits can help Qi Condensation cultivators build their foundations, help foundation-building cultivators form elixirs, and even give them the chance to become Nascent Soul cultivators."

"Isn't this the last gift a mother gives to her child before she dies, for fear that her child will lose his support and be bullied by outsiders?"

Shopkeeper Yang sighed: "When the spiritual energy on this mountain stabilizes, all monks who come here can enter the mountain. Outsiders who want to enter the mountain will have many restrictions. Fellow Taoists, please seize this last opportunity."

Chu Ning's eyes narrowed, and he noticed that the breathing of the monks around him also became slightly rapid.

Building the foundation, forming the elixir... and the Nascent Soul stage that goes beyond that is a bit too illusory and not something that everyone present can aspire for.

But it was precisely because of these two points that no monk on the scene was not tempted.

Even Chu Ning himself was moved.

However, Chu Ning knew one thing more clearly, and if he asked Jin Cheng, he was afraid that things would really get chaotic this time.

All the Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment cultivators, even the Golden Core cultivators, from the entire Hundred Cities will come. Shopkeeper Yang also said that there are restrictions for outsiders, but they are not prevented from entering.

While everyone was still immersed in the shock of the opportunity to build a foundation and form a pill, Gu Fanzhou's voice resounded throughout the inner city.

"All disciples of Wenjin Sect, gather at the Alchemy Court!"

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