The Ascension of the Evil Path: Starting from Refining Gu

Liu Feng stared at the short figure in front of him with indifferent eyes. Looking back at it from his current state of mind, for an opponent with whom he had no deep hatred, killing or not killing would make little difference.

As long as they were not like the Tan Tai and Zhuang families who were determined to kill him, he did not deliberately pursue many of his past grudges against them before coming to Tongxu Road.

"You can live if you want. When you live to the virtual world, I will give you two hundred years to enter the ninth life. Let Liu see your usefulness. Otherwise..."

"If I leave this damn place, I will definitely be able to cultivate into a ninth-life body, and will obey Senior Brother Liu's orders in the future." Ouyang Shuiling quickly interrupted.

As she spoke, she switched to voice transmission, telling how she had traveled across the continents for many years, where she had found the insect shell palace, what the scene was like at the time, leaving out no details.

Liu Feng listened attentively, and at the same time, together with Fashi, Rong and others who had joined him, they withdrew from the side road and returned to the main road.

The group swept away the evil spirits that blocked their way, which once again shocked Ouyang Shuiling and Zhou Wan.

Blood Shura Qu Yu glanced around and found that there were several other evil infants hiding in the distance and watching, but since there were not many of them, they did not come up to die.

"The Holy Mother of Yanyou has been suppressed for many years. Even if she is about to run out of energy, she can still produce nearly one or two hundred Nine-Realm Evil Infants. There will be even more Eight-Realm Evil Infants. We need to speed up the road ahead."

Hearing Xue Shura's words, everyone present became nervous and looked at Liu Feng.

He has already provoked the Holy Mother Yanyou. No matter how strong Liu Feng is, if the poison and nutrients used in the witchcraft are exhausted, his strength will at most be comparable to that of a perfect ninth realm.

Facing a siege by one or two hundred evil spirits of the Ninth Realm, let alone one who has reached the perfection of the Ninth Realm, most of them would die, and only one or two would escape by luck.

The only way is to break out as quickly as possible and stay away from the evil infant before being surrounded.

Liu Feng and Qu Yu looked at each other and nodded without saying anything more. They continued to use their powerful mind to deduce the secret revealed by Ouyang Shuiling.

According to the other party, this woman has not been recognized by the Worm Shell Palace and cannot be considered the heir, but the possibility of her lying cannot be ruled out.

He had to deal with the Mother of Yanyou first and had no time to go deep into the Insect Shell Palace, so he could not determine for the time being whether he could get this treasure.

Ouyang Shuiling secretly glanced at Liu Feng's face, fearing that Liu Feng would take her life.

After telling Ouyang Shuiling everything about the Insect Shell Palace, she felt reluctant but relieved at the same time. At least no one would target her because of this treasure anymore.

"Even Yu Fushan and Yu Ying, two stupid beasts, have been able to reincarnate nine times. They must have picked up a lot of opportunities by following Liu Feng."

"If they can have nine reincarnations, I can do it too!"

She thought to herself that Yu Fushan and Yu Ying had also attacked Liu Feng, but they were still able to be cultivated by Liu Feng.

As long as she pretends to be honest and tries to show her loyalty, she might be able to gain some benefits.

If the man surnamed Liu was willing to provide suitable elixirs and insecticides and give her two hundred years, with her qualifications being superior to those of the Yu brothers and sisters, it would be almost certain that she would be reborn for the ninth time.

Ouyang Shuiling was putting on a smile when she suddenly felt a look of contempt falling on her. She turned her head and saw the pale and skinny Zhou Wan staring at her.

"Why don't you remove the restrictions in my body?" Zhou Wan shouted unceremoniously.

Ouyang Shuiling narrowed her eyes and a fierce light flashed in her eyes. She regretted that she had not tormented this woman enough in the past hundred years.

"It's easy to remove the worms, but there are so many poisons that I can't even remember them all. I still need to think about some of the prescriptions. It will take some years to slowly detoxify you."

Zhou Wan felt dizzy when she heard that. She was so angry that she almost died, but she could do nothing about it.

Not long after, the group of Gu surrounded the group and walked away.

On the fork in the road behind, Dong Huangyan stared at Liu Feng's departing back with a deep look in his eyes. He lowered his body and turned into a feathered snake covered in black feathers, and swam away.

The monks from all sides left, the turbid yellow water light floated, and the place returned to silence.

Four foot-long evil babies crawled out, stood on the back of the same evil spirit, and were also looking at where Liu Feng was.

Different from Dong Huangyan looking at Liu Feng himself, their four pairs of eyes were fixed on two young and short figures with dim eyes, and no one knew what they were thinking.

After noting down the two women's figures and appearances, the four evil infants looked at each other, their skin, flesh, and bones twisting in unison.

First there were four "pigtails", then they turned into "ponytails", and they kept changing, all of which looked hideous and ugly.

The reason is simple. The evil baby that was separated is different from her original evil body. The evil baby's body is unbalanced, without pure energy or yang energy. It is an extremely evil and filthy body.

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The tributaries of the Sea of ​​Bitterness spread across thousands of miles of empty road, like a lake or swamp, and ahead is a bloody forest and a bloody passage.

Only a few dozen miles away from the center of Tongxu Road, there is an area with heavy shadows of trees. There are more than 600 white trees scattered around, with black fruits hanging on the trees. These are the Soul-Returning Trees.

Hundreds of King Blood Clan members surrounded the Soul-Returning Tree Forest, all of them were above the Eight Realms. Their inner worlds opened up, and they sent out large numbers of cultivators’ corpses, as if offering a blood sacrifice to the Soul-Returning Tree.

There are not many monks coming from this road. The Soul-Returning Tree, which has been neither dead nor alive for many years, is suddenly nourished by this great tonic. It is stretching its branches, and the shriveled black fruits are slowly becoming full.

At this time, the purple-red-haired old man who was the leader among the eight Nine Realms ancestors said in a deep voice: "The clones of our two ancestors have been destroyed. Liu Feng will be here soon to quickly feed these soul-returning trees. As for those evil flowers that are inhabited, please send some bait to wake them up."

The eight elders gathered here all had cultivation levels above the late ninth realm, and they came from different royal blood families.

Among them were Taoists, Buddhists, and formation practitioners. Some had been enemies with Liu Feng for several lifetimes, while others had only joined the immortals and Buddhas in recent years and received instructions from them.

After coming into contact with the forces in the virtual world, each family realized that it was not just one force that wanted to deal with Liu Feng. In addition, some other forces, although unwilling to get involved, would also ask about Liu Feng and were more or less interested in this person.

The other seven ancestors led their men to disperse, and the evil flowers they wanted to awaken were the rows of flesh and blood hills less than fifty miles away from the Soul-Returning Forest.

The hills thousands of feet high are full of flower buds, which are also rooted in the Tongxu Road. They rarely bloom due to lack of nutrients.

The old man with long purple-red hair was the ancestor of the Tan Tai clan of Tianmangzhou, named Tan Tai Huan. He did not delay and after feeding the Soul-Returning Tree and sweeping away several Eight Realm elders, he headed south again.

In the south, in the center of Tongxu Road, one can see a giant pillar that goes straight into the void, running through Tongxu Road and stabilizing this eternal road.

"The evil soul-reversing cultivator and the evil flower inhabiting him are not enough. Even if we are buried here together, we must bring more trouble to Liu Feng."

"As long as I complete the tasks assigned by the Imperial Princess Palace, regardless of whether I succeed or not, my clone will be able to achieve the promise of becoming a True Immortal. Anyway, it is a trivial matter for those seniors, so I think they will not cheat me."

Tan Tai Huan pondered in his mind and brought the rest of the tribesmen to the front of the giant pillar. Looking from ten miles away, it was truly majestic.

The giant pillar seems to be made of flesh and blood, but it is not known whether it is just covered with a layer of evil flesh and blood on the outside, or it is made of flesh and blood inside and out.

Taking a closer look, the giant pillar was a hundred feet thick, and its length was unknown. Once approached, no matter whether one was in the eighth or ninth realm, it was as if one was stuck in a quagmire, and every time one lifted one's hands or feet, it felt heavy.

As far as the eye can see, countless skeletons are attracted to the pillars. Even after such a long time, many of the skeletons are still emitting spiritual light.

A very small number of skeletons looked dead, but they were moving slightly, as if they were not completely dead. Among the many skeletons, some had runes all over their bones, some were engraved with small characters, and some were painted with Taoist diagrams of the circulation of true qi.

"According to our ancestors, this pillar is called the Zhenxu Pillar. Ninety percent of the skeletons that died on it are immortals and Buddhas who traveled back from the virtual world."

"Some of the immortals and Buddhas inside may not be dead yet. Those skills are all baits. You must not get close to observe them."

"There are scattered remains of immortals and Buddhas under the Zhenxu Pillar. After years of accumulation, they have become evil spirits. The purpose of our coming here is to use blood food to lure out the evil spirits under the Zhenxu Pillar. They are much more powerful than the evil spirits elsewhere!"

More than a dozen elders of the Tantai clan had pale faces and death in their eyes. They knew that the so-called lure with blood food would actually mean that they would also become blood food in the end, but they still had no choice but to lure the evil spirit to deal with Liu Feng.

More than ten people followed the ancestor Tan Tai Huan and slowly approached the Zhenxu Pillar.

As they got closer, they saw a large tumor among the many skeletons.

"Ancestor, that is..." An elder who looked like an old woman couldn't help but gasp after seeing the huge tumor.

The other elders were also frightened and turned pale. It was the first time they saw such a twisted evil spirit.

Looking at it with both eyes, the tumor was of strange shapes, and every part of it looked distorted. Looking at it for a few more seconds would make one dizzy and almost vomit.

The thing dragging the hundred-meter-long tumor was a woman's body that looked like a dried corpse. Her face was as deformed as the tumor, with left and right sides different from those of an ordinary person. There was no symmetry, and it looked awkward no matter how you looked at it.

"This evil spirit should be the source of the evil baby we saw on the way here. Our ancestors called it the original evil spirit. No need to pay attention to it, just avoid it." Tan Tai Huan looked again and caught nine long nails nailed on the vital points of the original evil spirit's body.

The Zhenxu Pillar was a hundred feet thick. More than ten members of the Tantai clan bypassed the deformed tumor and took out the blood food.

The rotten flesh under the giant pillar broke open one after another, and human figures that looked like they were pieced together from various pieces crawled out.

Thousands of feet high, a half-dead woman who looked like a dried corpse suddenly opened her eyes, her eyeballs shriveled and white, staring straight at the dozen or so Tantai clan members below.

"Your bloodline is the same as that of the half-immortal woman. You also want to deal with this person, right? Instead of feeding blood food to the dead, it is better to offer it to this Holy Mother so that she can get a few more evil babies."

"This man doesn't know what's good for him, and I, the Holy Mother, will kill him too."

Three miles away, Tan Tai and his companions were so frightened by the woman's voice that their bodies froze, as if they were facing a great enemy. They did not expect that the evil spirit would ask them for blood food.

Looking up, he saw a burst of turbid air gushing out from the deformed tumor, forming the shape of Liu Feng.

The elders all looked at the ancestor, not knowing whether they should oblige him or not, because they were worried that the evil spirit would turn against them and kill them immediately after getting the tonic.

Tan Tai Huan hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand, indicating that six elders should be sent out to give away all the blood food in their hands, while the rest should go and lure out the evil spirits transformed from the remains of the immortals and Buddhas.

Thousands of feet high, a half-woman with a tumor on her body twisted her face and opened her bloody mouth, sucking hard, swallowing the rivers of blood surging from below.

These are all great nutrients for Jiujing, but to her they are just a drop in the bucket and cannot save her body.

She claimed that she had taken the blood food to share with more evil infants to kill Liu Feng, which was of course a lie. Knowing that she was going to die, how could she be willing to die and not try to save her life?

The hundred-meter-long tumor was covered with a layer of blood, and circles of it dried up and fell off, with all its essence converging inside.

Soon the tumor shrank to a size of less than half a meter, like a large egg. Looking inside the egg, one could vaguely see a distorted human figure similar to the woman, which was hideous and terrifying.

As they watched, Tan Tai and his companions were amazed to see that the deformed human figure in the egg was reshaped, its face became normal, and its appearance became more and more delicate and refined.

Not long after, a young girl could be vaguely seen in the egg. She had very lovely facial features and her long hair was tied into two big buns.

The moment they saw the girl with the bun, the group of Tan Tai clan members who were performing pupil techniques below, including the ancestor Tan Tai Huan, were confused by her intention.

The evil spirits value strength and evil magic, and appearance is not important at all. I don't know why the dying original evil spirit suddenly wanted to give birth to such an evil baby.

"No, this doesn't look like a newborn evil infant. It's... a body she created for herself. She still wants to get rid of the Zhenxu Pillar and survive."

"Such a powerful primitive evil spirit would actually lie to us and steal our blood!"

The other elders of the tribe were dizzy and could no longer watch closely, but Tan Tai Huan was the only one who was still watching, sighing at the evil spirit's struggle to survive.

Natural evil spirits are born in dirty places, and the original evil spirits are probably the same.

Different from the evil spirits that are contaminated by the environment and transformed by monks, the minds of these born evil spirits are completely different from those of normal creatures. Compared with humans, their minds are particularly flawed.

Even such incomplete monsters, when on the verge of death, are like ants trying to survive and try every possible means to continue to live.

"The original body was nailed to the Zhenxu Pillar, and the other immortals and Buddhas were not spared. How could she possibly spare her spiritual power to temporarily refine into an avatar!"

Just as Tan Tai Huan expected, there was a flash of light intermittently flowing out from the woman's brow, and she looked extremely difficult.

But as these spiritual energies overflowed, they were absorbed by the Zhenxu Pillar, and not a single bit was sent into the new body. Using other means to send them again would still be in vain.

The last attempt was useless. The woman suddenly stared downwards and let out a sharp scream.

"Buzz..."

Along with the shrill screams, more than ten people of the Tan Tai clan, including Tan Tai Huan who had reached the ninth level of perfection, swayed their bodies, had blurred eyes, and were all caught in the illusion at the same time.

They thought of borrowing power from the original evil spirit to deal with Liu Feng together, but they didn't know that a trapped and dying evil spirit could easily control them.

Without looking at the dozen or so Tantai clan members below, the woman with a distorted face on the Zhenxu Pillar, who was the Holy Mother Yanyou, turned her gaze to the left with a hideous smile on her face.

The Tongxu Road is a hundred miles long, with the Zhenxu Pillar in the middle, about fifty miles to the left. At this moment, a group of people are trying to avoid the Zhenxu Pillar as much as possible and go around it.

"If I could let you bypass it so easily, wouldn't this Saint Mother have lived for three hundred thousand years in vain?"

"You are not the immortal himself, but a junior who has been reincarnated. I don't believe that I can't defeat you." Holy Mother Yanyou suddenly screamed.

At the same time, in all directions, hundreds of miles away, thousands of evil infants hiding in various places, in the eighth and ninth realms, let out sharp cries together.

The scene within a radius of five hundred miles became distorted and blurred, as if being pulled into an illusion.

In the five hundred li section of road where the sharp sound spread, all living evil spirits, as if driven by this primordial evil spirit, crawled out from the ground.

The Tan Tai clan and other royal blood clansmen nearby, who were under the spell, became baits to attract the evil spirits transformed from the remains of immortals and Buddhas to go to the left.

In addition to the methods of the Holy Mother Yanyou, in the Soul-Returning Forest, black fruits fell to the ground one by one and turned into a group of smiling monks.

In the distance, there are rows of hill-like flower buds, and three of them are blooming quietly, emitting wave after wave of floral filaments.

(End of this chapter)