Begin the path of immortality from mortals

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The first layer of the abyss.

Deep in a swamp covered by thick gray-black fog, an underground palace was dug out hundreds of feet underground.

Although this underground palace is not large, it is located at the core of the local spiritual vein, and is surrounded by numerous powerful restrictions.

In a stone hall, several people were discussing something.

Sitting at the top is an unusually tall man wearing a jet-black hat with layers of black veils hanging from the edge of the hat, making it impossible to see his face clearly, making him look extremely mysterious.

Although his true face could not be seen clearly, he emanated a chill that seemed to make people retreat three feet away, as if it could freeze the air nearby, causing the other people in the hall to shudder.

There were three round tables at the bottom, on which were placed some fruits and wine.

There were only two people at one of the tables. Their faces looked exactly the same, like twins. They were covered in a blood-red robe. Their shapes and auras were exactly the same. It was impossible to tell them apart, as if one person had two bodies.

However, at this moment, the two men in blood-red robes had strange looks in their lowered bloodshot eyes, as if they were expecting something.

There were also only two people at the second table. One of them was a middle-aged beauty with snow-white hair and a pale face. She was dressed in a emerald green palace dress that wrapped around her plump figure. She sat behind the table, emitting a chilling spiritual power that gave people a cold feeling that no one could approach her.

Not far away was a slender figure sitting on a large golden flower about ten feet in size. However, because her entire body was obscured by the black light, her true appearance could not be seen clearly.

There was only one person sitting at the last table. He was a burly man with a fierce look. His whole body was extremely tall, more than ten feet tall, and he exuded a strong murderous aura. Even when sitting, he seemed half a head taller than others, and his aura was extremely shocking.

These six people are none other than the five combined middle and late stage demon kings from the first six layers of the Earth Abyss: Liu Zu, the twin evil demon bodies of Di Xue, the Blue Ghost Lady, Mu Qing and the big man with the surname Zhu.

And this underground palace is exactly the secret cave built by Liuzu on the first level of the abyss.

At this time, the six-legged man at the top looked expressionlessly at the five people below who were talking, "...Everyone, it has been several decades since we agreed to go to the Styx. According to the original agreement, we will each assign tasks and cooperate with each other to enter the Styx. I wonder how everyone's progress is?"

"According to the agreement, I will collect the power and spirit of the Yin spirits for Fellow Daoist Lan to refine the Yin Armor Black Ghost, Fairy Wood will collect various refining materials for Fellow Daoist Dixue to refine a large number of puppets, and Fellow Daoist Zhu will be responsible for collecting blood food for sacrifice..."

"I don't need to repeat the importance of the Styx Divine Milk, right? I called all of you together this time to confirm your current achievements. If there are no mistakes, we will join forces to enter the Styx in four years to seize the opportunity!"

The five people below nodded as they listened to Liu Zu's words, their eyes filled with anticipation.

If it weren't for the spiritual object like the Styx Divine Milk that could help them make further progress, how could these high-level beings who never see each other as kings unite and spend decades putting aside their cultivation to make these preparations?

Sure enough, everyone then reported their progress one by one. Whether it was collecting blood food for sacrificing to the Jingkong Demon or refining the puppet army with earth blood, they were all completed successfully.

The only thing that made everyone a little dissatisfied was that the number of Yin-Jia Xuan Ghosts refined by Lan Guipo was slightly insufficient.

Seeing everyone frowning and looking at her, the beautiful white-haired Lan Gui Po said with a slightly embarrassed look:

"Don't worry, fellow Taoists. I guarantee with my integrity that I did not steal the Yin Spirit power collected by fellow Taoist Liuzu for cultivation. In the face of such a major event, I can distinguish the important from the unimportant."

"The success rate of refining the Yin Armor Black Ghost is really not high, especially the Yin Armor Ghost King, which requires the spirit of someone with a strong mind to be successfully refined..."

Although everyone is not as proficient in the ways of Yin ghosts as Lan Guipo, they also know that refining these high-level mysterious ghosts is indeed not an easy task.

But according to Liu Zu, he had entered the Styx once by chance, and there were countless low- and medium-level ghosts in it. If there were no puppet army and black ghost army, wouldn't it be to clear the way for them, the demon kings, to kill them personally?

After discussing for a while, the leader Liu Zu finally made the decision:

"The time of entering the Styx Land cannot be changed. Based on some information I know, if it is a few years later, the Styx Divine Milk born in the Styx Land may have been taken away by its owner."

"In this case, wouldn't all my years of waiting be in vain?"

"So, in order to ensure that we can succeed this time, Fellow Daoist Xue and Fellow Daoist Zhu will have to work hard with me to collect the power of Yin spirits and the spirits of monsters. As for Fairy Mu, you can help Fellow Daoist Lan. What do you think?"

When everyone heard Liu Zu's arrangement, they all agreed.

As for Lan Guipoqi, although she was unwilling to have Duo Muqing, who she considered a "supervisor", around her, she had no choice but to agree under the pressure of everyone.

Just as everyone continued to discuss other things, the two evil demon bodies of Dixue in front of the round table suddenly raised their heads, and their originally expressionless old faces changed drastically in an instant.

"How is this possible? How could my main soul suddenly lose contact? Could something have gone wrong with the Purple Blood Puppet?"

In horror, Dixue stared fiercely at Mu Qing who was hidden in the black light above the golden flower.

Could it be that Mu Qing has other tricks up his sleeve in his wood spirit cave that he hasn't guessed yet?
What's more, strangely, his main soul was not killed by anyone, but suddenly lost contact with him.

"Daoist Fellow Dixue, what happened?"

Seeing the strange behavior of Dixue, all the demon kings looked over and Liuzu asked.

The journey to the River Styx was just around the corner, and he least wanted any accidents to happen.

When Mu Qing was stared at by the four bloody eyes of the Earth Blood, her beautiful face hidden in the black light also changed, as she felt a chill in her heart. As a spiritual creature of heaven and earth, she also had certain specialties in sensing her own safety.

A sense of malice suddenly struck her heart.

"Oh no, is there someone plotting against my spiritual tree body?"

In order to show their sincerity, the demon kings attended the gathering together with both the two great demons, Earth and Blood.

The demon kings only knew that she was the condensed form of a wood spirit, and that her original body, the spirit wood, had already taken shape long ago. However, one's own family knew one's own business. Mu Qing knew that she did not have the strength to refine her original body for the time being, and her original body still remained in the cave.

This is also the main reason why she dares not show her true face in public.

Perhaps these demon kings can see that her body is just a body formed by the spirit of the wood, and not a real body of the wood.

"I have to rush back to the third floor immediately to see what happened!"

"We must rush back to the cave immediately!"

This thought flashed through Dixue and Mu Qing's minds respectively.

Next, the two of them did not hesitate, found an excuse and left immediately.

After leaving the underground palace, Mu Qing was still safe and sound. Dixue naturally knew that his main body had failed to seize Mu Qing's body.

The two evil demon bodies instantly merged into one and turned into a blood-red streak and disappeared.

As for Mu Qing who was standing on the golden flower, he took a deep look at the receding light of Dixue, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.

Because her real body is the spiritual power of the Ten Thousand Wheels Spirit Tree, for countless years, Mu Qing has set up countless teleportation arrays in every layer of the Abyss with the help of the spiritual tree and some magical powers of the Ten Thousand Wheels Flower under her feet. When it comes to the convenience of traveling in various layers of the Abyss, she is confident that even the Six-legged Man in the late stage of fusion is not her opponent.

She was confident that she could return to her own cave on the third floor faster than Dixue.

Of course, her magical power had long been noticed by other demon kings. It was for this reason that she was assigned the task of going back and forth between the seventh layer of the Earth Abyss to collect various materials for the Earth Blood to refine puppets.

Mu Qing did not hesitate at this moment. He suddenly made a hand gesture and the surface of the golden flower under him flashed with black light, and a black light array appeared out of thin air.

A figure flashed, and Mu Qing disappeared without a trace on the black light array. As the black light array dissipated, Mu Qing and Jin Hua had lost any trace.

The third layer of the abyss.

After Lu Tiandu suppressed the purple-blood puppet into the stone bead world, he put away the magic mirror and three blood-wood puppets on the stone table, quickly searched the blood poison's soul, and then used a Nine Heavens Divine Wind to clear all traces, and then disappeared with the blood poison in his hand.

Although he didn't know that Mu Qing, Dixue and others were having a party at the moment, there was no doubt that Dixue would come here to investigate after losing his main soul.

Before that, he just had to rush to Mu Qing's secret cave and wait for Mu Qing.

Moreover, the place where the Purple Blood Puppet temporarily met with the Blood Poison was only a little over 100,000 miles away from Mu Qing's Wood Spirit Cave, which was very close. It was obvious that both parties had been prepared.

Mu Qing naturally had several caves open to the public. The cave in the Muxian Palace in the Muxian Valley was known to other demon kings, but the cave that Lu Tiandu was going to this time was naturally the secret cave, the Mujing Cave, where Mu Qing placed his real body.

According to the information Lu Tiandu obtained from soul searching, in fact, no one knew about this cave except Mu Qing and Cang Yuan Jin Ling at the beginning.

Later, Mu Qing subdued Xue Du, a blood dragon with extraordinary bloodline in the early stage of Refining Void, and cultivated it all the way to the late stage of Refining Void. After observing and testing Xue Du's loyalty for many years, he revealed this cave to Xue Du.

In fact, apart from Jin Ling and Xue Du, two capable assistants in the late stage of refining emptiness, who knew the relevant information about Mu Qing's Mujing Cave, none of Mu Qing's other subordinates knew that Mu Qing had this secret cave.

Of course, although Xuedu was familiar with most of the restrictions in Mujing Cave, only Mu Qing and Jin Ling knew several key places like Wanlun Garden and Cuiyin Garden clearly.

Generally speaking, Jin Ling always practices in the Wood Spirit Cave and never leaves the Cave.

Previously, the Purple Blood Puppet had informed a demon subordinate who was also in the late stage of the Refined Void Realm to use a treasure to sneak into the Wood Spirit Cave to lure the tiger away from the mountain and get the Blue Ape Golden Spirit to leave the Wood Spirit Cave.

In this way, even if it discovered something unusual, it would not have time to use the arrangement of the Wood Spirit Cave to inform Mu Qing who was outside. With this time, the Purple Blood Puppet could directly break the relevant restrictions and seize the spiritual wood.

Lu Tiandu had already searched Jin Ling's soul and found out the restrictions on entering the Wood Spirit Cave. Now that Jin Ling had left, the door to the cave was wide open to him.

In just a moment, Lu Tiandu climbed over several mountains, passed through a forbidden fog, and finally appeared in front of a small mountain. Looking at the ordinary mountain wall in front of him, Lu Tiandu casually cast a few spells, and in a blink of an eye, these stone walls became crystal green in front of Lu Tiandu, and the pure wood spirit rushed towards him, and Lu Tiandu's eyes flashed with surprise.

"A top-quality wood spirit stone mine. I didn't expect Mu Qing to find such a good place on the third floor!"

Lu Tiandu murmured something, his eyes flashing blue as he looked straight at the emerald green mountain wall.

His clear and sharp eyes, which had been invincible before, did not detect any traces of illusion, but now it was easy for him to discover that there was an astonishingly powerful forbidden force hidden in the emerald green stone wall.

"I didn't expect Mu Qing to have such a high level of skill in the art of prohibition. If I didn't know that the passage to the Wood Spirit Cave was right here, it would have been difficult to find!"

Lu Tiandu sighed secretly.

Even with his Mahayana consciousness, he could only detect a slight difference in this place. If he hadn't paid attention, he would have really overlooked this place.

It's no wonder that Dixue set his sights on Xuedu. If he didn't have an insider to lead the way, he would never have been able to find Mu Qing's secret cave.

Lu Tiandu flipped his hand casually, and a wooden plate with flashing green light appeared in his hand. As he chanted several complicated spells, several green rays of light shot out from the wooden plate and hit the emerald green stone wall.

The next moment, a flash of green light appeared on the stone wall, and then a large crack appeared silently, revealing an emerald green passage leading directly inside.

The entrance to the passage was blocked by a layer of green light curtain. At the same time, around the entrance, some strange runes appeared on the nearby stone walls, making it look extremely mysterious.

After putting away the pass token obtained from Xuedu, Lu Tiandu walked through the light curtain and into the passage.

Shortly after Lu Tiandu entered the light curtain, the entire stone wall flashed with light, and the entrance to the passage disappeared.

But in just a moment, the entire emerald green stone wall dimmed and became ordinary.

After walking for half a cup of tea, Lu Tiandu's eyes suddenly brightened and he appeared in a small hall.

The hall was empty, with nothing in it except seven or eight doorways leading to other places.

According to Blood Poison's memory, among these eight different areas, except Wanlun Garden and Cuiyin Garden, which he has not yet entered, Blood Poison knows the uses of all other areas.

At this time, Lu Tiandu's huge spiritual power spread out, observing the forbidden power arranged at the end of the two passages in Wanlun Garden and Cuiyin Garden.

"Hey, I remember that in the original plot, Mu Qing's original spirit tree was placed in Cuiyin Garden three hundred years later, but now it seems to be in Wanlun Garden?"

After a few breaths, Lu Tiandu seemed to understand something.

It should be that after the shocking incident where his main body was almost taken away, Mu Qing moved his main body to another place.

"Wanlun Garden? Hey, it is said that there is a rare tree in the world called 'Wanlun Spiritual Tree', and its flower 'Wanlun Flower' is said to have mysterious effects. Could it be that Mu Qing's true form is the Wanlun Spiritual Tree?"

This thought flashed through Lu Tiandu's mind, but he had no intention of directly breaking into Wanlun Garden. Instead, he sat cross-legged on a high platform and meditated.

He came with good intentions, so he naturally didn't want to do anything that would offend others. Once you get familiar with Mu Qing, you will naturally know what his true identity is.

After another half a cup of tea, a golden light shot towards the central hall.

"Who are you? How dare you trespass into my master's cave?"

After a moment, the golden light faded, revealing a three-foot-tall golden ape with two swords on its back. Its face was full of shock and anger. It stretched out its hand and was about to release the flying sword to chop towards Lu Tiandu.

"Your hospitality is not good!"

While Lu Tiandu spoke faintly, he did not make any other movements. Golden runes flashed in his eyes. He glanced at the ape, and its flying figure in the air suddenly became motionless.

"I will stay here for a while, so I can check if you have been tampered with by others!"

While Lu Tiandu was speaking, he stretched out his hand and Jin Ling's monkey head instantly appeared in his palm.

Next, Lu Tiandu used the secret technique of controlling the soul to explore the various things in the Golden Spirit's soul.

After a few breaths, Lu Tiandu waved his hand and let Jin Ling fall opposite Xuedu who was thrown to the ground by him.

At the same time when Lu Tiandu withdrew his divine light, Jin Ling, with a look of shock and anger on his face, stared at Lu Tiandu with fear.

"Very good, no one has done anything to you!"

Lu Tiandu smiled slightly and nodded.

Such a loyal subordinate deserves his kind treatment.

The memory of the demon ape Jin Ling is relatively simple. Apart from practicing, he takes care of some spiritual medicines cultivated by Mu Qing and rarely goes out.

This time, he felt that someone had sneaked into his cave, and he thought he had the ability to defeat the other person, so he left the cave without permission.

However, he soon realized that something was wrong and, remembering his master's instructions, he quickly turned back.

When Lu Tiandu saw Dala sitting in the seat where his master usually sat, he immediately realized that he had fallen into someone's trap.

However, Lu Tiandu's great ability to freeze his body and soul with just a glance still made him frightened.

After all, this is a method that even the master does not have.

At this moment, what he was thinking about more was not his own safety, but that if something happened to the body of his master, whom he was protecting, he would be doomed.

After all, the fact that he had grown from an ordinary ape to such an advanced level of cultivation today was all a blessing bestowed upon him by his master, Mu Qing.

As for why Xue Du did not stay in the Wood Immortal Palace but appeared here and seemed to have fainted, Jin Ling just took a look and no longer paid attention.

In this way, after about a quarter of an hour, the restriction of the Wood Spirit Cave was opened again.

A black light rushed towards the hall at an astonishing speed.

In just a breath, a slender figure standing on a golden flower appeared in the hall, wrapped in black mist and unable to see its true face.

"Who are you?"

Mu Qing glanced at the figure of Lu Tiandu, whose cultivation level was unknown, and then looked at the appearance of his two major subordinates, and said with extreme shock and anger.

"Why? Is this how Fairy Mu Qing treats your savior?"

Lu Tiandu chuckled.

"A savior?"

Mu Qing in the black mist sneered, and the huge spiritual pressure of the middle stage fusion cultivator attacked Lu Tiandu, "I have never heard of a life-saving benefactor sneaking into other people's caves at will?"

Although she couldn't see Lu Tiandu's true cultivation level, the spiritual perception of the spiritual tree of heaven and earth allowed her to sense some terrifying aspects of the person opposite her.

At this moment, just as Mu Qing was ready to attack, the demon ape Jin Ling also had a fierce light flashing in his eyes, as if he was going to fight with Lu Tian to the death, which made Lu Tian laugh.

"Well, you better search my soul and poison me! If it weren't for the fate between you and me, you would have been seriously injured if not dead this time!"

Lu Tiandu pointed at the blood poison, and then the blood poison floated towards Mu Qing.

"Blood poison?"

Although Mu Qing was a little confused, he did not hesitate to send out a ray of green light to absorb the blood poison to the nearby area, and stretched out a hand to perform the soul-searching secret technique!

"Damn it! I have cultivated you for nothing all these years!"

But in just a moment, Mu Qing, with a look of anger on his face, slapped his hand, and in the blink of an eye, a blood-red dragon corpse with its head blown to pieces appeared in the hall.

After venting his anger, Mu Qing frowned and looked at Cang Yuan Jin Ling.

"I have just checked this Golden Spirit and found that no one has attacked him. You want to see the Purple Blood Puppet of Earth Blood? This puppet has been suppressed by me!"

As Lu Tiandu spoke, he waved his hand and a thirty-meter-tall blood-red strange puppet appeared in the hall again.

"No wonder that old monster Dixue left in panic halfway through. It turns out that fellow Taoist suppressed his clone!"

At this moment, Mu Qing, who understood the whole story, was still a little scared. He suppressed his murderous intent towards Dixue and bowed respectfully to Lu Tiandu:
"I, Mu Qing, would like to thank you for saving my life! If you can be of any use to me in the future, I will definitely not refuse!"

"Really? How about Fairy Mu repaying your life-saving favor by giving you your body?"

Hearing this, Lu Tiandu on the stone platform smiled.

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