The Zongheng Mountains are mainly considered a forbidden area for humans because of the large number of powerful spirit beasts. The Immortal Fall Ruins, however, are a place where no living being can enter, and there is no return.
According to ancient records, ten thousand years ago, an immortal and a vicious dragon fought a great battle here, ultimately perishing together and creating the Immortal's Fallen Ruins. Initially, this place was not considered dangerous, and many spiritual cultivators came to search for treasures and gain experience, returning with considerable rewards, if not overflowing. But from some unknown time, this place gradually transformed into its present state.
The Valley Master of Medicine Immortal Valley said to the Supreme Elder, "I have a magic treasure that can barely protect the three of us from being corrupted by any evil energy. This place is filled with evil energy, death energy, and resentment energy, so it can only last for half an hour."
Half an hour passes in the blink of an eye, but if all goes well, that's enough.
“Alright,” the Supreme Elder looked at the others, “Does anyone want to go down with us? At a time like this, if you have any tricks up your sleeves, you should stop hiding them.”
Evil energy, death energy, resentment energy—no one wants to be tainted by any of them. Even a little bit of them can harm one's physical body, spiritual awareness, and cultivation.
There are ways to prevent these things, and any sect with a bit of foundation has its own ancestral methods of dealing with them, but none of them include this kind of dense, all-encompassing force.
Di Xiu closed his eyes and recalled Li Chen's memories, focusing on the several opportunities he seized from the original body.
In the timeline, Li Chen entered this place and retrieved a celestial-grade sword. He had entered while holding a golden bead. He had obtained several golden beads before, but he didn't know if he had also obtained this golden bead.
"call--"
"Elder, did Li Chen bring the Qiankun Pearl with him?"
The others looked at the Supreme Elder, who shook his head.
"He has a golden bead that can resolve the problem here."
What are the odds of success?
"Perfectly, but..."
The Supreme Elder acted swiftly and decisively, leaving behind the words, "I will be back soon," and then disappeared.
He said he would be right back, and he was indeed back very quickly. Before the others could even ask Di Xiu how he knew, he returned with a bag in his hand.
The Supreme Elder's expression was not good. He shook the bag, and several golden beads rolled out.
"Eight were found in total. Which one are you referring to?"
Di Xiu picked up the shiniest one: "This one."
"It doesn't seem to be of much use."
Emperor Xiu: "...It still needs the blood of an immortal to activate it."
"Are you kidding me?!"
Are you playing us?
"The only immortal in the entire Xuanling Continent is down there. In the end, what you're saying is that you want us to go and die."
"We're all going to risk our lives going down there anyway, what use are these gold beads?"
Di Xiu rubbed his forehead and looked at the Supreme Elder, who had a "Are you kidding me?" look on his face: "It's in the Qiankun Pearl. It's a red bead the size of a fingernail. It should have been placed in a submerged jade box."
The backdrops suddenly fell silent. The Supreme Elder's face flushed red, then darkened: Damn, I must have run too fast.
"Nothing else?"
"At that time, the Supreme Elder will need to use a strange fire to melt it and drip it onto the golden pearl."
The Supreme Elder left with a sullen face, feeling somewhat embarrassed.
It didn't take long for the blood droplets to melt and merge into the golden droplets. A burst of brilliant light illuminated the sky, and the black mist that was rushing up again was instantly cut in half, startling everyone.
Now that there were no more concerns, the Supreme Elder tossed out a huge dish, carrying everyone directly down the slope.
As it went along, wherever it went, the black mist dissipated and crumbled, and even the thick, stubborn black sea beneath was instantly wiped white, revealing the barren land below.
The Supreme Elder watched the pointer's position and sped along. Suddenly, the pointer drew a semicircle, turned around, and pointed behind him. After studying it for a moment, he realized that it seemed to be underground.
Before Emperor Xiu, this mere Spirit King, could make a move, the other powerful beings all attacked at once, digging three feet into the ground and unearthing... a small black snake.
A small black snake, only as thick as a thumb, with two bumps on its head, was writhing in a tangled mess under the golden light, hissing and screaming.
Everyone immediately thought of the evil dragon.
Regardless of whether it was an evil dragon or not, this little black snake's cultivation level was pitifully low, making their display seem overly ostentatious.
The demon's possessed object was too weak, so weak that anyone could easily crush it. But with the natural protection of the Immortal Fall Ruins, who would have thought the demon was here without the golden bead and the compass? Who could have found it?
The moment the little black snake revealed its true form, Emperor Xiu summoned Wuji. However, as he drew his sword, he suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous. His sea of consciousness was stimulated and began to churn violently.
He gritted his teeth, enduring the tearing pain in his soul, and opened his eyes wide, aiming a precise strike at the system that was trying to break away from its host again.
"Sizzle—die—"
A sense of crisis erupted, and Di Xiu immediately sheathed his sword to defend. The golden bead that had been quietly held by the Supreme Elder suddenly flew out and collided head-on with the dark light released by the Plundering Golden Finger System.
It did not cause any ripples, but it was visibly as if the golden pearl was tainted by dark light, becoming dull and lackluster.
But Emperor Xiu knew that it was because the remnant soul of the immortal inside had been obliterated by the dark light.
Soul erasure—that's its trump card.
Di Xiu forced himself to look around. Without the golden bead, or rather the intimidating presence of the immortal's remnant soul within it, the surrounding black mist began to stir and close in.
Those powerful beings, who were of little use, were all knocked down by the system's impact, half of them. It's unknown whether the impact on their souls will have any future effects.
The Valley Master of Medicine Immortal Valley and the Supreme Elder seemed to be in the best condition. However, the former had a strong fragrance of pills on his body, as if he had taken some kind of pill at that moment, while the latter seemed to be relying purely on his strength.
Without further ado, the three of them pulled all the fallen discs back up. The Supreme Elder poured in as much spiritual power as possible, and the discs shot straight into the sky with a "whoosh," narrowly escaping before the black mist above closed in.
Back on the ship, the Supreme Elder immediately checked the compass. The needle was still, and it remained unchanged no matter where he flew with the compass.
(There's a bug here; the pointer won't point to the main character. Please ignore this, as I don't know how to fix it.)
He returned to the ship, found the Emperor and was about to say a few words of praise when he saw him suddenly collapse, which greatly alarmed him.
“Hey, you surnamed Wan, come and take a look at him.”
The Valley Master of Medicine Immortal Valley had just fed the pile of medicine on the ground and was sitting there in a daze when he heard someone calling him. He slowly came over, but couldn't find anything wrong with his body. Just as he was about to check his spiritual consciousness, he spat out a mouthful of blood.
"What's wrong with you now?"
"He might have a spiritual injury, and he doesn't want me to see."
The Valley Master swallowed a pill and continued, "I can't cure injuries to the spiritual consciousness either."
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