Chapter 45
"Fish Dragon Realm..."
Lin Yibai repeated these three words softly, and then his expression suddenly froze. The scattered records in the original book flashed through his mind like lightning.
According to the book, Yan Bujian was able to rise to prominence after passing through the three layers of mist in Yunshan Mountain and entering a mysterious realm, where he gained incredible fortune.
The book only gives a few brief descriptions of this place, saying only that he secluded himself there for fifty years, and when he came out into the world, he had reached the state of returning to the void. Afterwards, he swept across the demons and monsters of the Three Thousand Continents with one sword, led the return of the immortals, and became an immortal respected by the world.
And the name of that secret place, if she remembered correctly...
It is called "Fish Dragon Realm".
But looking at the desolate and silent battlefield before her, she could never connect it with the legendary paradise.
Lin Yibai looked around. Beneath her feet lay dry, cracked yellow sand. The wind blew dust past rusted, broken swords and spears. Not even a trace of moisture hung in the air. She couldn't help but frown, muttering softly, "If it's called the Fish-Dragon Realm, how come there's not even a drop of water to be found?"
How can fish and dragons live in a place without water?
Yan Bujian didn't respond. His gaze had been fixed on the stone tablet since the moment he heard it. His slender fingertips gently traced the words "Fish Dragon Realm," as if sensing the ancient aura imbued within the inscriptions... Suddenly, his eyes flickered, as if realizing something, and he quickly circled behind the tablet.
When he saw the scene clearly, he couldn't help but be shocked - looking up, he saw that the back of the stone tablet was densely engraved with words!
There were several lines of deeply sunken ancient seal characters. The ink and the green stone had long since blended into one. Like the front of the stone tablet, it was still clearly visible after years of wind and rain.
He suppressed the turbulent emotions in his chest, walked closer to examine it, and then read the inscription in a low and slow voice: "After the decisive battle of the ancient immortals, the bodies of the Immortal Lord and the Demon Lord were buried in this battlefield. Their remains disintegrated into the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. After thousands of years, they finally transformed into the form of 'fish dragons', floating around the battlefield - sometimes sand, sometimes broken armor, sometimes phantom, changing in a variety of ways, it is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish their whereabouts. Only by breaking the seal of this world can their true appearance be seen..."
Lin Yibai also moved over at this time, and a look of sudden realization appeared on her face when she heard this: It turned out that the so-called "fish dragon" really existed, and was actually transformed from the remains of immortals and demons, but they had now hidden themselves, no wonder she didn't notice anything unusual.
The next moment, Yan Bujian's voice rang out again. It was unknown what he had seen, as this time his words were tinged with a hint of shock. "The cultivation of the two immortals and demons dissipated into 'Jade Rain', condensing within the fish dragon. Those who kill the fish dragon will be reborn with Jade Rain, cleansing their marrow and meridians, and furthering their cultivation."
"What?!" Lin Yibai exclaimed in surprise when he heard this.
"...The Jade Rain's grade changes with the strength of the Fish Dragon. If it's weak, it can help the Qi Refiner break through the Foundation Establishment stage. If it's strong, it can repair the flaws of the Golden Core and stabilize the Nascent Soul Dao foundation."
"The most precious one..." Yan Bujian paused, a glint of disbelief flashing across his eyes. "The most precious one is the 'Dragon Marrow Jade Rain'. It contains the essence of the highest level of cultivation of the Venerable. Its effect is enough to help people...reach the sky in one day!"
As soon as the words fell, the surrounding area suddenly fell into silence, with only the sound of the wind whimpering through the broken walls and ruins.
Lin Yibai felt his mind go blank, and all his previous doubts turned into an uncontrollable shock at this moment - no wonder the so-called triple mist could only be deployed on the periphery of Yunshan. It turned out that in such a secret realm in the belly of the mountain, there was such a heaven-defying opportunity!
The remains of immortals and demons transformed into fish and dragons, and their cultivation spread like jade rain. The most precious of them could enable one to reach the sky and ascend directly in one day!
"...However, the fish dragons are spiritual. When they are strong, they are comparable to the great masters of the Divine Transformation Realm. When they are weak, they are not inferior to the Golden Core cultivators. They are also good at hiding and attacking by surprise. Those who want to take the Jade Rain must fight for their lives."
After he finished speaking, Yan Bujian slowly looked towards her. Their eyes met, and the horror in their eyes was exactly the same.
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At the same time, deep in the Yunshan Mountain network.
In a dense forest just a few miles away from where the bloody vortex disappeared, two figures were fighting so fiercely that the sky and the earth were eclipsed.
"boom--!"
Demonic energy and cold fire collided fiercely in mid-air, the shockwave uprooting the surrounding ancient trees and sending fallen leaves and rocks cascading down like a torrential rain. Su Ruo, clutching her bleeding left shoulder, stumbled backward, slamming heavily against a rock. Her pink robe was now soaked in blood, and her torn right ear was a bloody mess, a horrifying sight.
She suppressed the fishy and sweet taste rising in her throat, and her whole body felt weak.
The young man across from him was also covered in wounds. A deep, bone-deep wound on his pale cheek was horrific. Cold Fire danced around the wound, attempting to heal it. However, every time it tried to approach the wound, a faint gray mist would spurt out from the flesh beneath, like a venomous snake spitting its tongue, forcing it back.
The young man's body trembled slightly, as if he was trying his best to suppress the anger caused by his injuries, but the anger in his pupils became more and more intense, and the cold fire around his body twisted and swirled like a living thing.
Seeing this, Su Ruo's eyes suddenly darkened.
——Since Lin Yibai jumped into the whirlpool, the two have been fighting for nearly an hour.
She had originally thought that the cultivation level of this body was enough to suppress the Demon Lord's remnant soul, but she hadn't expected this young man to possess a rare, extremely Yin-like body, naturally compatible with demonic energy! The aura of annihilation possessed by this remnant soul was actually resurrecting within this body at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"Ahem..." Su Ruo rolled her eyes, wiped the blood from her lips, and suddenly chuckled, "I can't believe that the Demon Lord who once dominated the three realms has now fallen to the point where he has to rely on the body of a mere child to survive."
Xiao Mi sneered, and the cold fire in his palm once again condensed into a spear, pointing directly at his throat: "No matter what I can do, it will always be better than your obsession - for thousands of years, you have not even a complete body, and can only rely on the remaining power I gave you to break the boundary!"
Before he could finish his words, he leaped to his feet, piercing the air with his Cold Fire Spear. Su Ruo frantically threw her whip to block, only to be sent flying again amidst the clanging of metal. Her back slammed hard into the ancient tree, cracking the trunk like a spiderweb, and she spat out a mouthful of blood.
However, the severe pain made Su Ruo's mind clearer.
She stared at Xiao Mi's advancing figure, feeling the demonic energy draining away from her body. Her heart was filled with awe, and she kept thinking in her mind -
How did that bloody vortex appear just now?
It was silent and mysterious, and there was an air of weirdness from its appearance to its disappearance... But it couldn't have just appeared for no reason. It must have been that several people had activated some kind of medium without realizing it.
medium......
After her tongue rolled over these two words, her eyes suddenly lit up——
At that time, there seemed to be nothing unusual in the surrounding environment, but if she had to say what had changed... she clearly remembered that the moment it appeared was when the two of them were fighting fiercely and she was ambushed by the human boy!
The only possible doubt is that the power of her confrontation with the Demon Lord at that time had already broken through the scope of the Nascent Soul Realm!
"Could it be... that only the power of the Out-of-Body Realm can open that passage?" Her mind raced, her eyes suddenly gleaming with a gleam. "But this Yunshan Mountain restricts entry to cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage. Could it be... that 'restriction' is just a facade, and screening... is its true purpose?!"
“Only those who can cultivate to the point of out-of-body experience in a dangerous place like Yunshan are qualified to step into the true secret realm!”
If this is true, the requirements of this secret realm are indeed high. It's a pity that the person who planned it had overlooked the two of them...
Thinking of this, she suddenly looked up at Xiao Mi, with a calculating look in her eyes.
My injuries are getting worse, and a prolonged battle will lead to defeat. If I can't enter the secret realm quickly and seize the opportunity, I will die here sooner or later. Since the passage requires the power of the Out-of-Body Realm to open, why not...
So she forced herself to stand and raised her lips to the young man not far away, saying, "Master Demon Lord, why be so angry? I'm only speaking the truth. Remember when you boasted before a hundred thousand demon soldiers, threatening to razed the Immortal Realm? But what happened? In the end, your body was blasted to pieces by that old Immortal Venerable, leaving only a remnant of your soul to flee in panic, falling into the Forbidden Demon Sea."
Before she finished speaking, her tone suddenly became sharp, and every word was like a knife: "--For all these years, you have been possessed by the body of a fish or shrimp, watching helplessly as your old subordinates betrayed you and the demon usurped the throne. The feeling of lingering on like this... Haha, it's a thousand times more painful than death, right?"
"Shut up!" Xiao Mi was furious when he heard that. The cold fire on his body suddenly rose three feet high. The aura around him rose wildly, and it was several times stronger than before!
The next moment, countless cold fire chains twisted towards Su Ruo like poisonous snakes, and her roar shook the mountains and forests: "How dare you, with your lowly obsession, talk about me! Today, I will destroy your soul and spirit!"
"That's exactly what I want." Su Ruo was secretly delighted. Seeing the attack coming, he didn't dodge or evade. Instead, he urged all his demonic energy and condensed a demonic sickle to meet the attack. He shouted, "Want to kill me? Let's see how much power this remnant soul of yours still has!"
The two forces collided fiercely once again, this time with such force that space distorted slightly, the ground cracked into a bottomless chasm, and the yellow sand swirled into a vortex that soared into the sky. At the moment when the energy exploded to its peak, the ground beneath the vortex trembled violently, and a blood-red light burst out from the ground—the previously disappeared vortex reappeared!
"It's done!" Su Ruo's eyes flashed with ecstasy. Before Xiao Mi's next attack arrived, he shook his whole body with demonic energy, and leaped into a stream of black light, rushing towards the vortex!
Xiao Mi shouted angrily: "Don't run!" Just as she was about to chase after her, she saw that the female cultivator actually raised a mocking smile at the corner of her mouth the next moment she fell into the whirlpool, and then threw out a black talisman with her backhand, which exploded into thousands of demonic energy and slammed into the whirlpool itself!
"boom--!"
The demonic energy and the red light collided violently, and the edge of the vortex quickly dimmed. When Xiao Mi rushed close, she only encountered a wisp of dissipated red light, and then the passage was completely annihilated under the mud!
Xiao Mi stood frozen in the vortex's annihilation zone, his knuckles clenched until pale. Even now, the stirred-up dust still swirled around his feet, like countless mocking ghosts. He could feel it—the aura of the secret realm pulsating deep beneath his feet, like a heart, repeatedly striking at the millennia-old desire to regain power within him.
......However, now, he has missed the opportunity again!
A furious and unwilling roar erupted instantly, swathed in monstrous hatred, nearly cracking the air around him. The cold fire surrounding him exploded uncontrollably—light, sound, even heat, greedily absorbed by the twisted flames...
After a while, all the mountains and forests on the spot were destroyed, leaving only absolute silence and coldness.
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