The Ascension of the Evil Path: Starting from Refining Gu

A streak of fire appeared, and the flying Tan Tai Zhen Yu raised his sword and cut through the void.

"Pengpeng..."

A crack of dozens of feet opened up, and raging flames surged into the turbulent void, illuminating the darkness of dozens of miles.

However, no matter how fast Tan Tai Zhen Yu moved, the sword still missed, and there was nothing in the turbulent flow of empty space.

The turbulent flow of the void poured into the world, and the broken cracks slowly closed. Tan Tai Zhen Yu Wu Xin rushed into the void, and turned around to look at the altar that had been set up again behind Tan Tai Ji and Tan Tai Miao.

The altar was filled with sacrifices and the essence and blood of various races. Lines of divine thoughts descended. The Nine Realms could not see them, but they could vaguely sense the spirituality beyond spiritual consciousness.

"As you all have seen, I tried my best but still failed to stop this boy. There are other powerful forces helping him, and there are also immortal species who want to use him."

Tan Tai Zhenyu smiled faintly, put away his sword and stood in front of the crack in the void. The turbulent void currents that flowed back could not hurt him.

The immortals and Buddhas did not respond. After taking away the sacrifice, they withdrew the thread of their divine thoughts and did not blame Tan Tai Zhen Yu.

On the other hand, the ancestors from various families, including the two from the Tan Tai clan of Qingming Continent, all had grim expressions on their faces.

This time, they knew that Liu Feng was in the Yinyue Dynasty, and they went to great lengths to deduce his exact whereabouts. Then, the various families joined forces and cooperated with the evil corpse refined by the immortals and Buddhas. Such painstaking arrangements ended up in vain.

After Liu Feng experienced this disaster, he will definitely be on guard against them in the future, and it will be even more difficult to kill Liu Feng again.

The two leaders of the Blood Immortal Sect had gloomy faces, snorted coldly, flapped their wings and left first.

They will not be at peace as long as Liu Feng is alive. If they offend Liu Feng to death this time, there is no guarantee that Liu Feng will not lead people to attack the Blood Immortal Sect.

With Liu Feng's current capabilities, the Blood Immortal Sect alone, with only its two leaders, might not be able to resist.

The cracks in the void closed, and the ancestors of each family retreated, leaving only Tan Tai Zhenyu from Tianmangzhou.

"Within a hundred years, once I have perfected one path, I will set off for the virtual world. What does the business of these old rubbish have to do with me?"

"Liu Feng has no grudge against me. It's just that the old dogs from various families were ordered by the immortals and Buddhas to make things difficult for him. When this boy grows up, he can sharpen my cultivation skills. But he is not worthy of it now."

This proud son of the Tan Tai clan did not consider the Tan Tai clan as his own at all. He not only looked down on other families, but also looked down on his own clansmen.

In his opinion, it would be best if Liu Feng could survive to the virtual world so that they can meet again someday and fight again as immortals and Buddhas.

……

In the void, away from the thousands of miles of darkness, there is a colorful stream of light illuminating one side.

A hundred-foot-tall gray tree trunk flew by, and its unfolded shadow was between reality and illusion, and was over three thousand feet long.

On the tree, Liu Feng, the Second Heavenly King, Yan An and Yan Bei were sitting in the middle. In front of them were four thin-faced old men, three men and one woman, all of whom were the supreme elders of Yuanyou Palace.

"Thank you all for your help, Liu." Liu Feng thanked them sincerely and glanced at the Yuanyou Divine Tree.

With his current understanding of the void, he only vaguely sensed that he and others were not far from the great heaven and earth. As expected, the Yuanyou Divine Tree had been flying along the great heaven and earth and had not entered the depths of the void.

In this way, you will not get lost in the void and can return to the world at any time.

If it were other cultivators, after reaching the ninth realm and entering the void, they would not be able to sense the location of the great world and could only take their chances.

The four Yuanyou Palace Grand Elders looked kind. The old lady-like Elder Xuan said calmly, "You are also a direct descendant of the Yuanyou Palace. The Yuanyou tree seeds have already taken root and grown in your Yuanling. You are one of us. There is no need to be so polite."

Liu Feng did not comment and would not take the initiative to explain, saying that he could refine the small tree transformed from that tree species.

Another elder named Shu spoke up at this time: "We are here to help you, or to pick you up. We are going to the Forest of No Return to look for you."

"I mentioned it to you nine years ago. I need your help with something important. Forty years ago, not long after the immortals and Buddhas pushed the two races into a war, the Yuanyou sacred tree..."

Following the explanation of the supreme elder, Liu Feng understood why he had to ask him for help. It was indeed related to the void.

It turned out that in addition to the Yuanyou City that fell into the world, that is, the forbidden ancient city of Daming, there were other Yuanyou Cities that appeared in the void and were found by the Yuanyou Divine Tree.

In fact, both cities are ruins with gaps, and are part of the real Yuanyou City.

The Yuanyou City that Liu Feng broke into in the past has been seized by a lineage of evil cultivators from the Zheng family. Their ancestor gave up his own body and used his soul-refining spirit to take over the spirit of Yuanyou City, causing Yuanyou Palace to lose this place of inheritance.

Now, the Yuanyou Divine Tree has found the location of other Yuanyou ruins. In the depths of a void vortex, the Yuanyou Divine Tree cannot get in.

"If I can accomplish this, I will not shirk my responsibility and will do my best. Please don't blame me if I cannot." Liu Feng agreed readily. He had just been rescued, and even if he knew that the elders of Yuanyou Palace would only help when they needed him, he would not owe anyone a favor in vain.

After receiving Liu Feng's response, the four supreme elders of Yuanyou Palace nodded with a smile and each took out a jade box and gave it away.

Liu Feng took it and found Yuanyou Fruit in the box. The quality was better than the one obtained by Yuanyou Shi, which would be of great help to his spiritual practice.

There was no conversation along the way. Six days passed in a blink of an eye, and a large amount of land fragments appeared in the void ahead.

In the center of the many decaying inner worlds and small worlds, there was a vortex of void that stretched for thousands of miles, with dense and flashing void cracks on the periphery.

With such densely appearing void cracks, the Ninth Realm can only rely on self-defense methods or magic weapons to hold on.

But for a Taoist like Liu Feng who had received the inheritance of Dongxu Island, it was not too difficult. He could sense the changes in the void, which was enough to avoid most of the void cracks.

With the help of the Dongxu Divine Weapon, I think I will be able to successfully break into the depths of the void vortex.

The eight people on the tree stood up, and Elder Shu pointed to a certain place in the vortex of thousands of miles of void, where there was an ancient city slowly moving around the center of the vortex.

"That is part of Yuanyou City. I guess it left the virtual world when the two races of the world and the universe were fighting. According to my guess, something may have happened in the virtual world."

Liu Feng didn't waste any words. As soon as his inner world opened up, he released his demonic body and the eight realms that followed him. The Dongxu divine weapon also stepped out.

He wanted to break into Yuanyou City, but to avoid any accidents like last time, it would be better to leave his demonic body outside.

However, with his current means, the Yuanyou ruins city that fell into the great world is unlikely to trap him. On the contrary, he might be able to gain some benefits from it.

This ruined city is different from the previous one. It left the virtual world not long ago and it is very likely that it brought down spiritual objects from the virtual world.

"Second Heavenly King, I will only bring the two of them this time. Please take care of the others." Liu Feng gestured, and the two monks Yan'an and Yan Bei stood behind him.

Not only the Second Heavenly Kings, these two also placed their hopes of becoming Buddhas on Liu Feng. The restrictions planted by their awakening hearts in their bodies were now controlled by Liu Feng's demonic body, but they no longer took them seriously.

Seeing Liu Feng about to leave, the four Yuanyou Palace Grand Elders looked at each other and separated two of them. Elder Shu and Elder Xuan flew to follow. "Liu Feng, the two of us will go into Yuanyou City with you. If there are people coming from the Void Realm, we can deal with them together."

"In addition, if the formation core of Yuanyou City is still intact, we will also need to operate it."

Liu Feng saw that the four elders were still worried about him. They were not worried that he would meet with an accident, but they suspected that he had taken all the good things inside for himself.

As for activating Yuanyou City, there is actually no need to rush. He can wait until he has explored it first and is sure that he can enter, and then he can return and lead people there.

If he went straight ahead like this, and Liu Feng could not get through the rift in the void and got stuck in the middle, the two Yuanyou Palace supreme elders might also be killed together.

The five people flew to the right shoulder of the Dongxu Divine Soldier. Liu Feng immediately sat down cross-legged, reciting the "Dongxu Buddhist Scripture" and fully sensing the changes in the surrounding void.

At the same time, he ordered the spirit of the Dongxu divine weapon to break into the vortex of the void and approach the ancient city in the vortex.

……

The sky and the earth were gray and dark, and this was an inner space of 60,000 miles.

This is the inner world of Yuanyou Ruined City. It is different from the place Liu Feng had been to before. There is no country here, and there is not a single living person for thousands of miles, not even any birds or animals.

The earth was cracking, with large and small pieces everywhere. In some places, the soil was as fine as dust, as if it had been crushed into this state by some method.

Except for the area of ​​four thousand miles in the center, the spiritual energy in the rest of the area is thin, and the central area is shrouded in blood mist, and the ground is dyed red with blood.

In the endless blood mist, there are human heads as big as mountains, the remains of soldier Gu that stretch as long as hills, and the thousand-foot-long monster body that has been beaten to pieces... This place seems to have experienced a great war, and not many years have passed.

Deep within the four thousand li blood fog, close to the center of the formation, a spiritual spring gushed out from the ground, emitting a faint blue glow.

The spiritual spring accumulated and formed a small lake of about two hundred feet. There were people healing their wounds at three locations on the lakeside, and above the lake there was an ethereal human figure sitting cross-legged in the air.

At a certain moment, seven figures on the lakeside and on the lake all looked sideways and looked towards the east of this space.

"There are monks coming in! I want the youngest one, you can take the rest yourselves."

"Don't refine their spirituality yet. If you can get in, you can get out. Now is our chance to leave this place."

"Such pure Buddha power, I want it from that person."

Without hesitation, the shadowy human figures, only the spirits left above the lake, moved together and flashed towards the east.

On the east side of the lake, a skinny old man was hunching his back, listlessly trying to refine the nourishing spring water in the lake. Unfortunately, no matter how much he refined it, it would not be of much use to his warrior body. His physical injuries showed no signs of recovery, and his soul would need years to recover.

"Friend Lu, Friend Yu, why don't we go over and take a look? If the person coming is a descendant of another lineage of Yuanyou Palace, maybe we can really escape." The thin old man looked at the other two people by the lake.

To the south was a drunken burly man, and to the west was a tall, thin woman. They lost interest after hearing what was said, but still managed to get up.

When they went there, they didn't need to steal people's bodies, they just hoped to escape. They didn't even expect to find the panacea that they needed most at the moment.

They did not intend to compete with the four spirits who went to snatch the human body. Anyway, even if they had some elixirs on them, it would be impossible to heal their wounds.

This city fell out of the virtual world, and most of those who broke in by force did so out of necessity, in order to escape their enemies, and once they entered, a mutual slaughter ensued.

Although they are some cultivators who failed to become immortals, their bodies and souls have all transformed and they are true semi-immortals. With their foundation half-destroyed, any elixir below immortal level will be of no use to them.

The thin old man, the big man named Lu, and the tall and thin woman who was at the end, did not waste their energy in performing escape techniques, and walked quickly towards the east, each step covering dozens of miles.

By the time they arrived two thousand miles away, the four semi-immortal spirits had already fought with the four ninth-level realm masters among the newcomers.

The three of them only took a few glances and realized that the four souls all wanted to forcibly occupy the young man in the middle who was in the eighth realm. With a young body and three levels of cultivation, he must have excellent aptitude, at least not inferior to the inherited saint son in the great world.

The lean old man looked at the two people who had reached the ninth level of the Soul Refining Realm, nodded and said, "They are performing the Yuanyou Palace's lineage's Yuanyou Shenwu. It looks like there's a chance they can escape."

“Four of them are all fighting for that young man. Monk Kongyin is trying so hard. He is determined to get him... Looks like he will succeed!” The drunken man narrowed his eyes and sneered.

So what if they just changed their bodies? Several people's souls were severely damaged. If their souls cannot recover, what's the point of just changing their skins?

The three of them watched coldly. In their sight, two Ninth Realm Demon Monks were knocked away, and Monk Kongyin and a demon clan spirit approached the gray-haired young man who was protected in the middle.

Before he got close enough, Kong Yin, at the cost of his soul, used Buddhist mantras to fight off the evildoer and in a flash he disappeared between the young man's eyebrows.

However, to the surprise of the three onlookers, the young man did not show any resistance.

What was even more strange was that the young man had an unhappy look on his face, and when he glanced at the defeated demon spirit, he actually seemed to feel a little regretful.

When the three people here were puzzled, the soul of Kongyin that broke into the young man's spiritual sea turned back, and the spiritual light rushed out of his eyebrows again, but the young man crushed the soul with one finger and pressed it back to his eyebrows.

Seeing this, the thin old man and the big man surnamed Lu narrowed their eyes, and the tall and thin woman with a sad face also couldn't believe it.

With her identity as a Gu Master, she could tell that it was not a Buddhist practice, nor a method of cultivating the spirit, but a Gu technique.

For a witchcraft like this that transcends a great realm, she could think of many possibilities, all of which were methods that would scare ordinary cultivators.

There is no need to think too much, Kong Yin is finished. If that person is not sure of refining Kong Yin's soul, he will not be so suicidal as to press other people's souls into his own spiritual sea.

Then, the young man who seemed to be "protected" took a step forward, displayed the magical power of the blood demon bloodline, and instantly appeared behind the retreating demon soul.

The void twisted into a huge funnel, spinning like a whirlpool, and it did it on its own initiative, bringing the demon clan's souls into its own spiritual sea.

This is not the end yet. When the inner world of the gray-haired young man opened up, a thousand-foot dragon-scale demon came out. Together with the other four ninth realm masters, they turned around and besieged the only two remaining souls.

Seeing that this young man in the eighth realm was about to harvest the last two souls, the faces of the three people here couldn't help but turn pale.

They thought they had waited for a cultivator from the Great World who could be controlled, but what came instead was a disaster, a freak even rarer than the saint son of a great clan in the Void World.

Among the three semi-immortals, the skinny old man was just panicking in his heart, fearing that his disabled body would also fall into the hands of the newcomer, and be killed to refine his soul.

The other two, the big man named Lu and the tall and thin woman, were more and more shocked as they watched. They had seen more and guessed what the thousand-foot evil monster was.

"Dongxu Island Taoist, Dongxu Divine Weapon..."

The scene of the Dongxu divine soldiers destroying a sect emerged in the minds of the two men. They had never witnessed it with their own eyes, but had only seen it in the photos. Once seen, they have never forgotten it.

(End of this chapter)