The Ascension of the Evil Path: Starting from Refining Gu

Inside the ruined city of Yuanyou, time passed quietly while the Grand Elder of Yuanyou Palace was busy opening the core of the formation.

Above the Eighth Realm, it is common to practice in seclusion for decades. Even if there are sufficient spiritual objects, it is still difficult to advance to a small realm in just a few decades.

Thirty-six years passed in a flash, in the void attached to the great heaven and earth, outside the void vortex.

The hundred-foot-tall Yuanyou divine tree was suspended in the air, and its shadow, between reality and illusion, stretched out three thousand feet. Suddenly, a crack in the void appeared at the front end of one of its branches.

Across the crack was the vast world. An elder from Yuanyou Palace followed the shadow of the tree into the void. After arriving on the tree, he bowed slightly to the two supreme elders.

"Greetings, two supreme elders." The visitor glanced at the black-haired young man on the tree with emotion in his eyes.

The juniors who used to treat him with respect in Dameng Ancient City are now famous in the world and have become an equal to the Ninth Realm. The various families outside are still trying to capture the people related to them.

In the middle of the tree, the demon body Liu Feng and the Second Heavenly Kings were sitting in meditation, while the rest of the people were taken into the inner world.

The two great elders sitting in front, the old man on the left named Zuo Qiubai looked at Elder Xiao who was coming over and asked, "Have the Tantai clan and other royal blood families gone to the Tianniu and Jiuwei clans to cause trouble?"

These two tribes were secretly subdued by Yuanyou Palace, and their current territory is actually the territory of Yuanyou Palace. If Yuanyou Palace rescues Liu Feng, it may cause other tribes to come looking for them.

"No one has come to cause trouble yet. I am here to report something else." Elder Xiao's tone became serious.

Under the slightly puzzled gazes of the four people in front of him, he shook his sleeves and threw out a middle-aged woman who looked to be about forty years old.

The woman was conscious, but she was terrified and at a loss after falling on the tree.

Judging from the cultivation level of the people present, they could tell at first sight that this woman had no cultivation at all. Then they realized that she was a dead person, without a trace of life and with a cold and gloomy feeling all over her body.

"Even a corpse cultivator still retains a breath of yang energy. This woman has no yang energy and vitality at all. She is obviously dead and has no cultivation. How can she still exist like a living person?" Liu Feng could see that something was wrong.

The second Heavenly King Fashi, the two supreme elders of Yuanyou Palace, and the three people who have reached the ninth realm were also amazed. They had never seen such a strange thing before, and could not tell whether the woman in front of them was alive or dead.

"Tell me, what big events have happened in the world recently and where did she come from?" asked Elder Zuoqiu.

Elder Xiao bowed, ignored the woman who was kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, sat down nearby, and narrated the whole story.

"It is true that something big has happened. The war between the human and demon races outside has not yet ended. Six days ago, a fifteenth continent appeared, named Qintian Continent. All the creatures in the territory are such sinister people."

"The term Yin Ren is a term that has been circulating recently. There are also Yin demons and Yin cultivators. The living beings in Qintian Continent seem to be unaware that there are fourteen continents outside, and they are also unaware that they are no different from the dead."

Listening to Elder Xiao's words, the four people on the tree started to speculate. With their strong spiritual powers, they could think of many possibilities in a short time.

"There are at least tens of billions of humans in one continent, not counting the monsters. If all of them are dead people who can move and live like this, the truth that is being touched upon is unknown to most of the cultivators in the world, not to mention the immortals and Buddhas." Liu Feng's eyes fell on the middle-aged woman.

The woman was seen cowering with a look of great pain, moving with difficulty on the ground, trying her best to stay away from them.

Liu Feng quickly figured out the reason. He and other living people above the eighth realm were full of vitality and yang energy, which was like the sun to this woman.

If normal living people came here, they would sit still and not emit any breath, so they would not feel pain when meeting each other. Only such sinister people would feel as if they were burned by fire.

If the situation were reversed and ordinary people on their side faced a powerful Yin cultivator, the situation would probably be similar, except that they would be frozen to death by the Yin Qi.

"My lords and immortals, please let me go. I know nothing. I am just a farmer." When the woman begged for mercy, her voice was weak and her body lay on the ground weakly. It was obvious that she was dying.

There was more surprise in the eyes of the people on the tree. They didn't even touch the woman, but she was going to lose her life just by getting close to them.

The Second Heavenly King Fashi had an indifferent expression. He flicked his finger and a wisp of Yin energy was injected into the woman's body. She immediately became energetic, as if she had received a great tonic.

Elder Zuoqiu looked at Elder Xiao and said, "Do you know how this fifteenth continent appeared? Where was it sealed before? What actions have the descendants of the royal bloodline taken?"

These doubts were exactly what Liu Feng and the Second Heavenly King wanted to ask. They had never heard of the fifteenth continent before, and there was no record of it in ancient books.

"Qintianzhou is one of the three continents of Qingmingzhou. It seems to have emerged from the sea and is now together with Bayinzhou. We don't know how it appeared yet, but the various royal blood families did send a lot of slaves to Qintianzhou."

"Ordinary people don't know much. When you get out, send some fox demons to capture some Yin cultivators alive. There's no need to go deep into the Fifteenth Continent for now. First, take a look at the movements of the various royal blood clans."

"Yes, disciple, let's do it now."

Leaving the middle-aged woman behind, Elder Xiao walked along the shadow of the tree towards the crack in the void, and disappeared in a flash.

The people on the tree fell into deep thought, each thinking about their own things.

Logically, all major forces are connected with immortals and Buddhas. If the birth of the fifteenth continent is the work of immortals and Buddhas, I think they will be able to tell each family some news.

The current situation is that all major forces are also completely unaware of the situation. Therefore, the birth of the fifteenth continent may happen naturally, or it may be driven by a few powerful people.

Whether Qin Tianzhou's birth in the world is a good thing or a bad thing is still unknown, but for Liu Feng, it can be regarded as a solution to his urgent problem.

Such a big event can somewhat divert the attention of the royal blood forces such as the Tan Tai clan, as well as the enemy immortals and Buddhas, and the number of enemies guarding him will definitely be less.

Half a moment later, several people were still speculating, and Elder Zuoqiu suddenly said in a deep voice: "Elder Xiao was killed on the way, how can this be possible."

The other three people's faces darkened when they heard this. Elder Xiao had just returned to the Great World and was robbed and killed on the way. It was possible that someone had been targeting Elder Xiao for a long time.

If that is the case, then it is very likely that he had been following Elder Xiao before and discovered the void where they were.

"Let's leave this place first."

Elder Zuoqiu rolled the middle-aged woman away, and with a movement of his spiritual consciousness, the Yuanyou Divine Tree immediately broke away from its original place and quickly moved horizontally towards the void in front.

As soon as they set off, a long crack appeared in the void adjacent to the universe behind them. In front of the gap that stretched for several miles, an ancient city squeezed into the void.

Spiritual chains as thick as ten feet shot out from the city and entangled the outstretched shadow of the Yuanyou Divine Tree.

The shadow of the tree is the spiritual power of the Yuanyou Divine Tree. It is visible to the naked eye that a large part of the entangled tree shadow disappears in an instant.

On the tree, whether it was the two supreme elders of Yuanyou Palace or the demon body Liu Feng, the three of them were very familiar with this ancient city.

It is the ancient city of Dameng in the past, one of the ruined cities of Yuanyou, which was occupied by the evil cultivators of the Zheng family. Their ancestor took over the spirit of the weapon in the ruined city of Yuanyou.

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In the center of the gray world, beside a small lake shrouded in blood mist.

Compared to thirty-six years ago, the blood mist caused by the resentment of the corpses here has become much weaker. The Huangquan Pagoda is suspended high in the sky. In addition to collecting the Yin death aura and evil spirits, it seems that it can also collect the remaining spirituality in the corpses, and the resentment comes from the spirituality.

There was no one by the lake. Liu Feng and others had already entered the core space of the formation at the bottom of the lake.

This space is about three hundred feet in size and is filled with spiritual springs. There are crystals crisscrossing in all directions. In the center of the crystals, which is also the center of the formation, is a black stone that is twenty feet in size.

The three of them sat cross-legged on the stone, and did not rush to refine the surrounding spiritual springs. Liu Feng was extracting the pure spiritual power from the black stone, while Elder Xuan and Elder Shu were practicing "Yuan You Shen Wu", operating the core of the formation using the skills passed down from Yuan You Palace.

While they were busy, the three of them opened their eyes at the same time. Liu Feng shared some memories with the help of his clone. The two supreme elders of Yuanyou Palace didn't know what backup plans they had, and they also knew what was happening outside.

"That evil demon has seized a ruined city of Yuanyou, and is still greedy. He must have come here for this ruined city."

"Now he wants to snatch the Yuanyou Divine Tree as well. We must not let him succeed."

The two supreme elders of Yuanyou Palace looked at Liu Feng at the same time. They and the ruined city were both in the vortex of the void, and they could only rely on Liu Feng to lead them out first.

"Quickly activate the changes in this city, shrink it and let me take it out." Liu Feng said as he rushed out of the core space of the formation.

The two elders looked at each other, one stayed behind to activate the formation, and the other followed Liu Feng.

After arriving at the lakeside outside the formation hub and putting away the Yellow Spring Pagoda, Liu Feng and Elder Xuan flew straight to the exit of this inner space.

In a moment, they left the inner space and stood on the wall of the Yuanyou Cangcheng magic weapon. They could see two powerful men fighting in the void on the north side.

In the distance, an ancient city was flying in the sky, and more than forty people above the eighth realm flew out from it, among whom five were at the ninth realm of spirit refining.

It has only been about a hundred years since the Zheng family captured the ruined city of Yuanyou, but they have produced five people in the ninth realm. One of them was so powerful that he seemed to have surpassed the perfection of the ninth realm. He was a true semi-immortal who had cultivated his spirit.

That would be fine, but what was even more bizarre was that bodhi flowers were blooming all over the sky, and the five primordial spirits of the Nine Realms were neither golden-armored gods nor any kind of monsters, but rather statues of Buddhas.

Unlike the skeleton Buddha images that Liu Feng knew, the five Buddha images were full and gilded all over.

The way of refining the spirit requires visualization at the beginning of practice. After practicing it for a while, one can abandon the physical body, and the soul will be independent between heaven and earth. The spiritual power will be ever-changing. With a thought, the spiritual power can be transformed into various magic weapons.

The more thoroughly you understand the corresponding magic weapons, the more powerful the spiritual magic weapons you visualize will be.

However, as he saw the golden Buddha in front of him, visualizing all kinds of Buddhist treasures and performing methods that looked like Buddhist cultivation methods, not only Liu Feng, but also the Grand Elder of Yuanyou Palace was completely unaware of it.

"Evil creature, we in the Yuanyou Palace refine spiritual energy, spiritual objects, and Yuanyou fruit, and rarely refine human spirits. These evil demons rely entirely on refining human spirits for their spiritual cultivation, and their minds have long been possessed by demons."

"What kind of Buddha is this? They definitely didn't know this method a hundred years ago. It is most likely a secret method of refining the soul taught by the Immortal Buddha of the Void Realm."

At this time, Elder Shu, who had already activated the core of the formation, arrived. The two Yuanyou Palace supreme elders were both surprised and angry.

Because of the vortex outside the void, the Second Heavenly King and the other two elders were at a disadvantage at the moment, and the Yuanyou Divine Tree was being forcibly refined.

Liu Feng did not dare to delay. When he saw the Yuanyou ruins city under his feet shrinking in circles and becoming as small as eight or nine miles, he drove the Dongxu divine soldiers to push the ruins and rush out of the whirlpool.

Halfway through, the Dongxu Divine Weapon opened up a ripple in the void, avoiding the area where the void cracks flashed densely.

As the distance got closer, the scene of the battle in the void became clearer. Bodhi flowers bloomed all over the sky, Sanskrit sounds were heard, and the five golden Buddhas had compassionate faces, but their attacks were extremely vicious.

Without looking at the actions, if one only looks at the appearance, the Buddha appearance cultivated by the Zheng family is more like the right path than the white bone Buddhist path followed by today's Buddhists.

When they reached the area of ​​a hundred miles, without any nonsense, Elder Xuan and Elder Shu, two masters of the ninth level of spiritual cultivation, rushed up to kill them. Liu Feng also released Yan An and Yan Bei.

He had collected a lot of spiritual springs that helped in the practice of refining the spirit, and had little interest in the spiritual objects of the Zheng family. The reason he took action was, firstly, to repay the favor of Yuan You Palace for saving him, and secondly, he wanted to see the other party's spiritual refining technique.

"Old ghost Xuan, you've arrived at the right time. You were so kind to send us a Yuanyou City. Our Zheng family is glad to accept it... My sons, offer sacrifices to the immortals and Buddhas." The thousand-foot-tall golden Buddha in the center spoke in a way that didn't sound like a Buddhist at all.

The golden Buddha holds an umbrella in one hand and a bell in the other. The Buddhist sound is so loud that it can destroy people's minds, and countless golden threads fly out from the umbrella.

As he finished speaking, in the space inside Yuanyou City behind him, Zheng used the cultivators who were trapped there as sacrifices to contact the immortals and Buddhas in the virtual world.

The other side has five people in the ninth realm, one of whom is a semi-immortal who is in the realm of refining spirits. With the cooperation of Liu Feng and his companions and the four supreme elders of Yuanyou Palace, they should be able to handle it.

If we wait until the other party gets help from the incarnation of immortals or Buddhas, I'm afraid we'll be in real trouble.

"Zheng Huasheng, your ancestors have seized Yuanyou City from my Yuanyou Palace, and now they want to steal the Yuanyou Sacred Tree. I, Yuanyou Palace, swear that I will never let you go."

"Those old fools, it was clearly Yuanyou Palace that treated people like pigs and dogs, forcing the younger generation of our Zheng family to practice the art of spiritual cultivation."

The four supreme elders of Yuanyou Palace joined hands with the second Heavenly King Fashi, and the five of them temporarily dealt with the five Zheng family members who were in the ninth level of spiritual cultivation.

Liu Feng controlled the Dongxu divine weapon, followed closely by Yan An and Yan Bei, and rushed towards the ruined city of Yuanyou hanging behind the Yuanyou divine tree.

In front of the wide-open entrance to the inner space stood many spiritual cultivators, including members of the Zheng family as well as other people who had come to seek refuge. In the inner space, an altar was set up, and a hundred thousand cultivators walked up to the altar continuously as if sleepwalking.

Compared to the captivity of the Yuanyou Palace lineage, the methods used by the Zheng family after they seized Yuanyou City were obviously more ruthless.

In a blink of an eye, the two sides fought each other, and the remaining power of the magic spread over two hundred miles.

The Yuanyou sacred tree struggled to fly away, and it moved thousands of miles in the void. The shadow of the tree suddenly tore open the void, driving the two Yuanyou ruins behind it into the world.

"Boom..." The sound of explosive air waves swept across, and turbulent currents in the void surged out.

At this moment, the world outside is still within the territory of the Daqi Dynasty.

As the sun set, a crack in the void appeared, stretching over ten miles in length. Less than thirty miles away was a thousand-mile city called Guping City.

The sky, which was originally getting dark, was suddenly illuminated by golden light for hundreds of miles. For a moment, the people of the Daqi Dynasty inside and outside the city, regardless of whether they had cultivation or not, all looked up at the sky outside the city with shocked expressions.

The sound of Sanskrit echoed across the heaven and earth, and the shadows of the trees dragged out of the ruined city. Then, five thousand-foot-tall golden Buddhas appeared in the sky, along with a white-bone Buddha, a golden-armored deity, and a dragon-scale demon...

On a city street where the flow of people was gradually thinning, a middle-aged Taoist with a big nose was sitting at a stall.

The Taoist didn't care about eating or drinking. He looked up and saw the Nine Realms fighting in the air, as well as the many soul-refining realms and the Eight Realms that were besieging the Dongxu Divine Soldiers.

(End of this chapter)