Chapter 95: Ancient Immortal and Ancient Qi, Heaven and Earth are Unkind, Treating All Things as Straw Dogs [5000 words]
"Immortal Slashing Sword, why do you know how to use the Immortal Slashing Sword!"
"This is clearly a method that the immortals use to deal with. How did you, a cultivator, learn this sword technique?!"
Looking at Lu Chen who used the "Outer Sword", the little golden dragon screamed in fear just like before.
And just like before, Lu Chen still couldn't understand the strange notes coming out of the little golden dragon's mouth, as if the notes contained some kind of mysterious power.
Blocking most living beings from sensing them.
Only a golden dragon of extremely high status and fortune like Little Golden Dragon can speak out without worrying about being attacked back by that mysterious power.
But Lu Chen doesn't have this status.
However, he didn't know who was the person who killed the Qingyun Sect's Cangjian Pavilion with one sword.
I also don't know what group the "Guqie" that Xiao Jinlong always talks about is.
But there was one piece of information that he had a general idea of after so many trips to the copy.
That is, there is a complete difference between '仙' and '佡'.
Although the two words sound the same, their meanings are completely opposite.
Although I really want to ask Xiao Jinlong what those 'Guqi' are.
But the Outer Sword, or the Immortal-Slaying Sword, is not Lu Chen's power after all.
He can only imitate, but cannot control.
Therefore, once it is used, it can never be stopped.
Slash! As Lu Chen and his clone's swords fell.
An invisible sword mark instantly appeared on the necks of the little golden dragon and the only remaining corpse dragon.
But this time, the little golden dragon had no way to escape.
Phew!
When the blood on the necks of the corpse dragon and the little golden dragon burst, a huge rotten dragon head and a small golden dragon head fell to the ground on the spot.
Little Golden Dragon was not too upset about his defeat.
Its head was lying on the ground, looking speechlessly at Lu Chen who was also lying down in pain beside the golden tripod due to the backlash of the Immortal-Slaying Sword.
There is no doubt that even though this kid killed his own soul, he still couldn't survive.
Thinking of this, Little Golden Dragon couldn't help but say, "No, why are you doing this?"
"I really don't understand what you immortal cultivators are thinking. What does the life and death of mortals have to do with you?"
"Trading your lives for theirs is sheer stupidity."
"Forget it, as long as you are happy, I just don't know if you will regret what you did today when the ancients regain control of the heaven."
"Goodbye. Or rather, never see you again. After all, by the time I get out, you two will have already turned into two dried bones."
"Alas, old man Qingyun, who would have thought that even though you are dead, your juniors are still looking for trouble with me!"
"I shouldn't have been so greedy back then. Why the hell did I eat those dragon veins? Why the hell did I eat them!!!"
After the little golden dragon finished cursing, the golden dragon head turned into a stream of light and dissipated between heaven and earth.
The golden dragon carving that was about to crawl out of the Dragon-Locking Golden Tripod now returned to the tripod.
[You killed the Dragon Locking Golden Tripod·Transformed Corpse Dragon (first level of the Foundation Establishment Stage), and obtained 2500 experience points, Soul Crystal Fragment (Green)*4, Divine Power Fragment·Human Mountain Art (1/4)...]
[You killed the Dragon Locking Golden Tripod·Transformed Corpse Dragon (first level of the Foundation Establishment Stage), and obtained 2500 experience points, Soul Crystal Fragment (Green)*4, Divine Power Fragment·Human Mountain Art (2/4)...]
[You killed the Fortune Golden Dragon Soul (???), and gained 10,000 experience points, Heavenly Dao Fragment (???)*1...]
[Current experience value: 20,000]
【Human Mountain Secret】
[Type: Earth attribute magical power]
[Practice requirements: Earth spirit roots must be of the highest quality or higher, and cultivation must be at least the fifth level of Qi training]
[Effect: Gather spirits into a mountain. When fully developed, it can transform into a human mountain, possessing supreme power]
Looking at the information popping up on the panel, Lu Chen realized that this dungeon trip was finally almost over.
Bang! On the high platform, Pang Xiao lifted the tilted golden tripod with all his strength and completely straightened it.
The next second, the many spirit tripods in the Jiulong Cave seemed to be affected by something, and a large number of transparent light spots began to emerge.
These firefly-like light spots flew into the air, forming a brilliant galaxy of spiritual power.
After accumulating in the air for a while, the Milky Way all poured into the golden cauldron, like a spiritual spring washing the cauldron.
After a while, those places on the golden tripod that were contaminated by the power of the outside world were quickly cleared.
An ancient and gorgeous golden tripod reappeared in front of Lu Chen.
"Fellow Daoist...thank you for your help."
Pang Xiao came to Lu Chen's side, his corpse-like face full of gratitude.
Because in his opinion, Lu Chen was using his own life to exchange for the life of the little golden dragon's soul.
Although in the end he only delayed the Golden Dragon of Fortune's escape for a hundred years.
But these hundred years are enough for the human race outside to catch their breath.
Although Lu Chen had a splitting headache at this moment, he still cheered up and wanted to seize this last moment to ask Pang Xiao some questions.
"Fellow Daoist Pang, may I ask you some questions?"
Pang Xiao nodded: "Fellow Daoist, please speak."
"I don't know why our sect was destroyed, and what is the ancient thing in the golden dragon's mouth?"
After hearing Lu Chen's words, Pang Xiao immediately explained to him.
Soon, Lu Chen finally understood what happened outside this copy.
I also understood why the Qingyun Sect was destroyed.
In the final analysis, it is actually a dispute between immortals and demons.
Immortal refers to cultivators like Lu Chen.
Although they may occasionally go against the will of heaven, most of the time they choose to go with the flow. Their strength comes from themselves as well as from heaven and earth, and they advocate following the laws of nature.
This is a bit like learning, and then after learning, slowly training yourself to become a being similar to the Dao of Heaven.
This will not only have no impact on the relationship between heaven and earth, but will be beneficial to heaven and earth.
Because the more such cultivators there are, the stronger the way of heaven will be.
It was a mutually beneficial relationship between the two sides.
But it is different for Che. In Pang Xiao's description, Che's understanding of the Way of Heaven is a huge delicious food.
They continue to erode the Heavenly Dao through various means and seize the power of the Heavenly Dao to make it their own.
This top-down cultivation method also makes the mortals in Gu Qie's world no longer human beings, but walking animals.
Because every time Gu Qie wanted to break through a realm, he needed a huge blood sacrifice.
In addition to eating mortals, Gu Qie will also devour each other.
Because the value of eating one ancient person is far better than eating countless mortals.
Therefore, in the ancient world, from the ancient masters to the cultivators.
If they want to become stronger, they need to eat all the way up.
If the cultivators of immortality cultivate the "Tao", then what Gu Qie cultivated is "Tang".
One path above, one bite below, swallowing it bit by bit, this is Gu Qie's way of practice.
And it is different from immortal cultivators who can make a breakthrough as long as they reach a certain level.
The way cultivators in the ancient world break through is very special.
Because of the uniqueness of "Tao", and the fact that they gain power through constant devouring.
Therefore, the Jindan stage and Yuanying stage among the evil ones are both limited.
Three thousand main roads and a hundred thousand small roads.
The number of Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators in the ancient world has remained constant at 2,000 and 60,000 respectively.
Some Nascent Soul and Golden Core cultivators master multiple Daos, but the majority of the rest only master one Dao in their lifetime.
In this way, you will meet the conditions for breaking through from foundation building to golden elixir.
That would require the death of a Jindan-stage cultivator, causing him to spit out the path he had occupied.
Then you have to seize this precious time and make a breakthrough immediately.
Otherwise, it might be snatched away by other cultivators at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage who are on the same path.
Although this kind of cultivation method will make the number of practitioners in the ancient world far less than that in the immortal cultivation world where Lu Chen is.
But it is also because they must swallow a "Tao" to achieve the supreme golden elixir.
As a result, the Jindan-stage cultivators in the ancient world are far stronger than the Jindan-stage cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation.
Using Lu Chen as an analogy.
This is equivalent to all the Jindan-stage cultivators in the 100,000 ancient worlds having mastered magical powers above the 'entry level'.
This is very scary, because 'entering the Tao' and 'being in harmony with the Tao' are two completely different concepts.
One is just getting started, the other has fully mastered it, the difference between them is huge.
In terms of experience points, it only takes 30,000 experience points to upgrade a skill from "Breakthrough" to "Enter the Dao".
It takes a full one million experience points to go from 'entering the Tao' to 'harmonizing the Tao'.
The gap is so big that it can be seen with the naked eye.
As for Gu Xie's demon-like cultivation method, immortal cultivators no longer call them cultivators, but "Xie Nie".
It is a metaphor that they are a group of evildoers who only know how to greedily take things.
But I have to say that most of the time, things that are stolen are much faster than those that are learned.
Therefore, after the war between the two worlds began.
Although the number and quality of true immortals in the world of immortal cultivation are much greater than those in the ancient world, it had a clear advantage at the beginning.
However, because Gu Qie's power was all robbed, as long as they occupied a little territory in the world of immortal cultivation, they could mass-produce a large number of cultivators above the Jindan stage.
Not to mention that even if there were beings of ancient level who perished in the war between the two worlds.
Then they can also quickly make up for the lack of power in this area by devouring Gu Qie's body.
Once an ancient demon devours a large number of corpses of other ancient demons, it means that this ancient demon has mastered more Dao in disguise, and his strength will increase.
But the true immortals in the world of immortal cultivation are different.
Every true immortal in the world of cultivating immortals has cultivated themselves bit by bit over thousands of years.
Every time one of them dies, it will take at least ten thousand years for another True Immortal to appear.
As the strength of one side grew stronger, the other side weakened, resulting in the war between the two worlds entering the middle stage. The immortals and Buddhas in the thirty-three heavens began to be a little timid and did not dare to fight the ancients to the death with all their strength as they did in the beginning.
Without the obstruction of the true immortals and Buddhas, more and more evildoers were able to rush into the world of cultivating immortals.
While they greedily devoured the Heavenly Dao of the world of immortal cultivation, they also continued to hunt down the immortal cultivators in that world.
After all, for Xie Nie, devouring a cultivator above the Jindan stage is equivalent to devouring an extra Heavenly Dao.
It is a very tonic food.
Although a single Jindan stage cultivator cannot allow them to obtain enough "Tao" to break through, as long as they swallow enough.
Even if they failed to seize the 'Heavenly Way' in the world of immortal cultivation, they could still achieve the breakthrough that they could not achieve in the ancient world.
In this way, the struggle between the two worlds turned from superior to inferior from top to bottom.
In such a great era, Qingyun Sect, as the leader of the righteous sect in the world of immortal cultivation, is naturally the first to bear the brunt.
Because of the ability of the devil to become stronger by devouring, the Qingyun Sect later had an unwritten rule.
That is, if any monk of our sect is defeated by the evil ones, he shall escape if he can, and if he cannot escape... he shall be killed on the spot.
No matter what, we must not let the bodies of our fellow monks fall into the hands of evil people.
Because once that happens, the fate that awaits them will be extremely miserable.
Divide and eat... This is not an adjective, but the actual situation when it fell into the hands of the evil people.
This explains why Lu Chen could only find the tomb of the seventy-fifth generation disciple among the ancient cultivators.
This is because after the 75th generation of Qingyun Sect's disciples die, there are always only two outcomes.
Either die in battle, or... be buried in the mouth of an evildoer.
No matter which one it is, the death is without a complete body and cannot be buried.
According to Pang Xiao, the Qingyun Sect was actually wiped out in the 80th generation.
It was during this generation that the Qingyun Sect's mountain gate was breached by thousands of evildoers.
As for what happened after the goal was broken, Pang Xiao didn't know.
Because at that time he happened to be replacing a new Cauldron of Suppression in the Kowloon Cave.
As a result, he suddenly felt the mountain shaking violently. Then he saw that the Dragon-Locking Golden Tripod seemed to be falling, so he immediately rushed up and held it up.
And this resistance... was carried to the point of death.
Because until his death he never saw the second monk from Kangding Peak come in to help him straighten the Dragon-Locking Golden Tripod.
After hearing all this, Lu Chen finally understood why such a powerful Qingyun Sect was destroyed.
They are not against a certain person or force, they are against the whole world.
Thinking of this, Lu Chen couldn't help but ask: "Didn't the True Immortal Buddha discover the situation in the ancient world and respond in advance?"
Hearing Lu Chen's words, Pang Xiao smiled bitterly and said, "Fellow Daoist, you may not know that perhaps because the ancient world is too cruel, the first batch of evildoers who luckily came to our world were very cautious and quickly disguised themselves as ordinary cultivators and perfectly integrated into various parts of Shenzhou."
"In addition, they can become stronger by devouring monks, which leads to their rapid improvement in strength. In just a short period of a thousand years, many of the hundreds of sects in Shenzhou have been taken over by these evildoers."
"Because our sect places great emphasis on the character of its cultivators, most of those evildoers with evil thoughts are rejected by our sect, even though they have outstanding talents. That is why our sect has not had too many evildoers infiltrate it, and has been able to preserve its strength."
"And fellow Daoist, you also know the attitude of the immortals and Buddhas towards the mortal world. Unless something earth-shattering happens in the mortal world, the immortals and Buddhas sitting in the thirty-three heavens will not care too much."
"So at first they just thought it was a conflict between the monks in Shenzhou, and didn't think it was the work of the evildoers."
"In addition, the True Immortals and Buddhas did not take the ancient world seriously at first, so even though they later discovered something was wrong, they only sent some mortal immortals to the mortal world."
"And with the help of the evildoers, these mortal immortals not only became their food, but also disguised themselves as these mortal immortals and sneaked into the thirty-third heaven to continue hiding."
"But the fairyland is not the mortal world after all. Those evildoers who went to the fairyland were soon discovered by the true immortals and Buddhas, who were furious."
"When the ancients saw that the truth had been revealed and they were fully prepared, they immediately started a war between the two worlds."
"This is the Guqie Rebellion..."
"In fact, if someone could have discovered the first batch of immortals who came to Shenzhou in advance, and let the immortals pay attention to the situation in the ancient world earlier."
"Then even if we lose, we won't lose so badly."
"Among us monks, too many have been killed by evildoers in disguise."
"They mistakenly believed that the other party was their fellow disciple until they died, and they died with regrets."
When he said this, Pang Xiao's eyes turned blood red.
Full of anger towards the evildoers.
Because in his opinion, these guys are a group of vicious and ruthless snakes.
When there is no opportunity, they lurk quietly.
Once they find an opportunity, they will immediately show their fangs.
After hearing this, Lu Chen immediately fell into deep thought.
"Is it possible to discover the existence of this evil person early?"
As the saying goes, no egg is left unbroken when the nest is overturned.
Lu Chen initially thought that as long as he hid, he could avoid the Qingyun Sect's destruction and survive.
But now it seems that his idea was undoubtedly too naive.
Because where else can he hide?
When Shenzhou and even the entire world of immortal cultivation are occupied by the ancients.
As an immortal cultivator, there is only one fate for him, and that is to become food for this group of Gu Qie.
But... he is not without a chance.
Because of the special relationship of the copy, he was able to learn about the existence of the evil in advance.
"Fellow Daoist, do you know where the first batch of evil spirits appeared back then?"
Pang Xiao was stunned, then after thinking for a long time, he shook his head and said: "The first batch of evildoers who entered Shenzhou has been traced, but I still remember the first batch of evildoers who were exposed. They were the Giant Spirit Sect in East Shenzhou."
"Because the Juling Sect practices the Heaven-Swallowing and Earth-Eating Art, which is very similar to the Henies in some aspects, many Henies chose to join this sect at first and disguise themselves as ordinary Juling Sect monks."
"The Giant Spirit Gate..."
Lu Chen kept these three words firmly in mind and decided to investigate this sect carefully.
Qingyun Sect is located in Central Shenzhou, the core area of Shenzhou. There are countless golden elixirs and Nascent Souls everywhere in the state.
But it’s the same in Eastern Shenzhou, which is relatively remote and lacks resources.
Often a Jindan cultivator can be the leader of a sect, but there are fewer Yuanying cultivators.
If Lu Chen completed the Heavenly Dao Foundation Building, coupled with his current Dragon Transformation Sword Intention and Mountain Shaking Fist Intention.
He felt that even the evil one who devoured the power of Heaven would not be his match among those of the same level.
After all, evil beings can usually only swallow one Dao and keep improving towards the Dao. There are very few who can master multiple Daos.
And only after reaching the golden elixir stage can the evil one devour other paths.
Therefore, after he completed the foundation-building stage, unless he encountered a Jindan stage cultivator, any cultivator of the same level would definitely not be his opponent.
Although he also wanted to directly tell the sect's top leaders about the evil deeds.
But he had no evidence, and he was not sure whether there were any evil people lurking in the Qingyun Sect.
Saying these things rashly would only make him come out into the open and become the target of the evildoers' attacks.
It wasted his original advantage of the enemy being in the light while he was in the dark.
Thinking of this, Lu Chen suddenly had an idea.
Why does this method of devouring others to become stronger seem so similar to the Black Lotus Cult in reality? Could it be...
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Lu Chen suddenly felt cold all over.
Because if his guess is true, then the real world may not be as safe as he imagined...
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