The Ascension of the Evil Path: Starting from Refining Gu

Within a few breaths, the fluctuations of the upper and lower formations became more and more violent.

As the ground shook, the outermost formation was broken, and twelve blood-red pillars were erected outside the formation, which in turn imprisoned the Jiang family.

The clouds above were dyed blood red, and a huge monster with a human face, a dragon head, a turtle back and a snake tail poked its head out. Its head was as big as a mountain and its body was nearly three thousand feet long.

"You killed our clan elders, kidnapped our clan's heirs, the incompetent people of the Jiang family, come out, we will fight to the death today."

The human face on the dragon's head looked like a middle-aged man, with a broad face, curly beard and a rough appearance. As he shouted angrily, the snake tail behind him whipped towards the formation diagram.

"rumble……"

The formation diagram connected all the Jiang family's major formations. After this attack, the ground everywhere in the Jiang family's territory collapsed.

The Jiang clan members, who were protected by layers of formations, all looked horrified.

They had never seen the ancestor of the Huyan family in person, but just by looking at his majestic presence, they knew that he was the ancestor of the Huyan family at the level of a quasi-leader.

In the Jiang family's land, the ancestor of the Jiang family walked out from the lake with a sullen face. Two gourds appeared on his left and right, and flames flowed from the mouths of the gourds.

"Ming'er, you protect the formation, I'll go meet him."

Jiang Qingxuan gave instructions to the head of the family and was about to fly out of the battle, but was stopped by a burst of extremely cold and gloomy air.

The one who made the move was Goddess Shen Yin. The white jade bridge in her hand flew into the air, and grew larger and larger piece by piece.

"There's no need to confront him head-on. This man's goal is not just to swallow up the Jiang family. He probably knows most of the affairs of the Xia Yin Holy Dynasty. Once the road to the old site of the Holy Dynasty is opened, he will follow." Empress Shen Yin said in a faint voice.

Jiang Qingxuan agreed respectfully, but in fact he was just pretending. If he really went out to fight, he wouldn't be able to beat Huyanba with his physical condition.

When the White Jade Bridge rose into the air and broke away from the formation above the Jiang family, the bridge head was over a thousand feet wide, and the bridge body rushed straight into the sky, extending for thousands and tens of thousands of miles. The other end broke through the world and penetrated into the chaotic space outside.

The torn space was constantly closing up and was supported by the white jade bridge. The collision between them caused rumbling thunder.

In the blink of an eye, dark clouds piled up in the sky, making the already dim sky even darker and without any light.

"Please ask the Imperial Master to return with me to the old place of the Holy Dynasty." Empress Shen Yin's expression became serious, and even the way she addressed Liu Feng changed.

As he spoke, his figure seemed to float in the air, seemingly rising slowly into the sky, but in fact he flew out of the formation in a flash, landed on the end of the white jade bridge, and looked down.

Liu Xiaoxiao quickly climbed onto Liu Feng's shoulder and sat down. Void waves suddenly appeared around Liu Feng. He flicked his sleeves and picked up Bian Qingqin. He teleported in one step and reached the bridge in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Qingxuan's white clothes fluttered and his expression was excited. He moved quickly as if he took a step into the teleportation formation and disappeared on the spot.

"You guard the clan land. I have to go to the ancestral land to take a look. The barbarian will definitely follow us. Don't worry about him breaking in again. You just need to protect the formation and wait for us to come back."

"Old Ancestor, please go now. I will protect the family well."

The Taoist robe of the head of the family, Jiang Ming, burst into formation patterns, and the Jiang family's large formations were in full swing, watching the ancestor, Liu Feng and others step onto the bridge.

At first glance, several figures boarded the bridge and walked towards the sky along the bridge.

When he looked again, as expected, there was a dragon roar, and the ancestor of the Huyan clan, Huyanba, in the blood cloud put away his Taoist appearance, transformed into a strong man with a curly beard, climbed onto the bridge and chased after him.

Immediately afterwards, in addition to Huyanba, the uncertain Dream Snake, the evil Taoist Chengxian and his three commanders also climbed onto the bridge one after another.

"The old evil spirits from the west have arrived, and there are also external forces interfering. More people may come later."

"With so many powerful people following in, I'm afraid that Empress Shenyin and the ancestor won't be able to handle it!" Jiang Ming retracted his gaze, sighed secretly, and felt uneasy.

At this moment, outside the Jiang family, in the gloomy swamp.

After the ancestor of the Huyan clan, the evil Taoist priest rode on the fairy, and the two quasi-leaders followed in, more than ten figures in the yin energy successively boarded the white jade bridge.

These figures used various means to hide themselves, and none of them dared to appear openly like the quasi-leaders.

There was even a Dongxu Taoist who arrived riding the Dongxu divine weapon, and even with his immortal cultivation level he dared to climb the bridge.

The figures in the air teleported, and Ju Hanyan brought Yuwen Shangwu with him, and the two of them climbed onto the bridge in their real bodies.

Only when the real body comes can he display his full strength in an attempt to get an opportunity, or leave the ruins of this ancient battlefield.

A wisp of breeze obscured the vortex of the void, and a thin figure wrapped in a cloak shrank timidly.

She came here following the breath of her own blood, wandered back and forth at the bridge for a while, and after hesitating, she walked towards the sky.

……

The white jade bridge passes through the gap between heaven and earth, and the bridge body extends into the chaotic space outside.

The thin woman wrapped in a cloak slowly left the ruins behind her.

What caught my eye was the same chaotic scene I had seen when I came here. A void storm was raging, and there were many large void whirlpools that were more than ten thousand feet in size, both near and far.

Looking far ahead, one cannot see the end of the chaotic space.

At that time, Dongxu Island was blinded by the Taoist weapon and did not know how far it had advanced in this chaotic space. By the time they discovered it, it was impossible to turn back.

The turbulent currents in the void on both sides of the bridge continued to impact, but were blocked by the precious light that spread out on the bridge.

"This bridge is not a Taoist weapon, it's just made of unique materials. It may not last long, so it's better to go and come back quickly."

"I didn't expect that Liu the Evil would meet an acquaintance when he came to this ancient battlefield ruins. This guy has a lot of karma. If he gets another great opportunity..."

The thin woman under the cloak was shrinking her head. It was Yao Suxiang.

She thought that if someone like Liu Feng, who was entangled in so many karmas, was not killed halfway, his cultivation would most likely improve by leaps and bounds.

It’s hard to say whether she can win the fight with her master for the evil Liu.

She moved faster and used the technique of teleportation.

After a moment, she walked along the bridge and approached a vortex of void that was thousands of feet high. It was as if she was facing the collapse of heaven and earth. The unprecedented void fluctuations made the bridge shake.

With a grit of her teeth, Yao Suxiang bravely entered the vortex of the void, and then ripples appeared around her.

It felt like she was walking through a void passage.

When the scene in front of her eyes became clear again, a new world came into her eyes. Just one glance was enough to scare the girl so much that she almost turned around and ran away.

The sky and the earth were shrouded in blood, with a blood-red full moon hanging in the sky. There were villages and cities on the barren land, but all were dead silent.

Using the pupil technique to scan the sky, he saw the aura of corpses filling the air, as powerful as eerie waves rushing towards him.

Just where the bridge landed, about twenty miles away, there were continuous mountains, covered with human figures, all struggling and twisting.

Twenty miles away, the two Dongxu divine weapons shrank to ten feet in size, and the two Dongxu Taoists stopped in front of the mountain.

Among them, Ju Hanyan was standing next to a late-stage immortal Dongxu divine weapon, his eyes filled with surprise and doubt.

"Fellow Daoist Yuwen, we still have time to turn back!"

"If you want to go back, go back by yourself. I have been to many places of opportunity since I met Liu Feng, and I don't believe that I will return empty-handed every time."

Yuwen Shangwu has transformed into a demon with a bloody mouth and fangs, looking ferocious and evil.

However, despite his ferocious appearance, he couldn't help feeling uneasy inside, as if he had entered a dangerous place where immortals shouldn't be.

Judging from his experience, he estimated that the work here was most likely done by a leader, or maybe more than one.

The corpse qi is everywhere, and when the spiritual consciousness is released, one can sense the resentment that fills the world.

His gaze fell towards the mountain in front of him. The mountain was two thousand feet high. From the top of the mountain to the foot, there were corpses with rotting flesh, all nailed to the rocks by wooden stakes engraved with prohibitions.

From the weakest to the strongest, even the fewest corpse immortals, there were over ten thousand corpses of varying sizes on one mountain. The mountains were continuous, with over thirty mountains within sight, which meant over three hundred thousand corpses were nailed to the mountains.

And this is only within the field of vision. I think there must be such tragic scenes in other places in this world.

Upon closer inspection, all the corpses on the mountain had decayed bodies, which made them much more terrifying than the corpse cultivators in the virtual world. However, none of them had died, and there was still a breath of yang energy in their bodies.

Ju Hanyan and Dongxu Daozi on the other side both tried to use their split souls to investigate the sea of ​​corpse spirits on the mountain and found that the sea of ​​corpse spirits had collapsed.

The body was decaying, the spiritual sea was collapsing, and the spirit seemed to be forcibly imprisoned in the decayed shell. The mysterious thing was that although it was clearly a corpse that could not die any more, it had indeed not yet died.

"What a cruel method! Who could have done this? It would be better for him to die sooner rather than later."

"These corpse ghosts are all crazy. I'm afraid they have been seeking death for many years and have lost control, so they are nailed to the wild."

Ju Hanyan's elegant face turned pale as he looked up at the blood moon in the sky. He guessed that the situation in this world was definitely partly caused by the blood moon.

Yuwen Shangwu's Adam's apple bulged and he swallowed subconsciously. Somehow, he thought of that evil creature Liu Feng.

Turning around and looking at the dead and silent villages and cities in the distance, there were traces of people, but no human figure could be seen outside the house. There were livestock outside the house, and they also smelled like corpses.

Looking at the city from afar, there is a large formation operating on its own, gathering the immortal energy from the outside world flowing into this world. It can be seen that there are corpse spirits practicing, but there is no figure walking out of the city.

"He should have died, but he didn't. I've lived for six or seven thousand years, and I've never heard of anyone who has this ability! Even a normal leader would never be able to accomplish this!"

"The man surnamed Liu went in that direction. He might be heading directly for the imperial city of this corpse-charming kingdom. How can we have good fortune without entering dangerous places? Let's go."

Yuwen Shangwu raised a ball of black mist, and the demon disappeared into the mist, and both the man and the mist disappeared.

Ju Hanyan and the Taoist Dongxu Zhou on the other side looked at each other, and there was tension in each other's eyes.

As a Taoist of the Immortal Cave, who has not been through dangerous places? Even if the family behind them is powerful, it is impossible for the family to cultivate a coward, so they are all true prides who have experienced hardships.

But today, in this place, which is arranged by the leader, even if an immortal comes, it will be dangerous.

……

The sky was covered with corpses, and the imperial city was in ruins.

There were broken walls everywhere on all four sides of the city, and armored soldiers were sitting along the walls.

Nearly 400,000 soldiers defending the city remained silent, and outsiders had no way of knowing how many days, months, or hundreds or thousands of years they had been sitting there.

In front of the gate of the imperial capital, unlike other cities and villages, it was rare to see soldiers riding war horses entering and leaving. They were all escorting the collected spiritual objects, but every cart of spiritual objects was filled with the smell of blood.

Every household in the city had its doors shut, the houses were dilapidated, the streets were overgrown with weeds, and a sense of desolation was evident everywhere. Amid the flying dust, only the occasional low cry of a dead crow could be heard.

Without any warning, the sound of thunder, the sound of unsheathed swords, suddenly rang out from the south wall.

"Unless summoned by the Emperor, all outsiders are prohibited."

The thousand-mile city wall was instantly covered with blood, and corpse gas surged like black smoke.

An armored corpse immortal appeared on the southern city wall, mobilizing all the immortal energy and corpse energy within a thousand miles, and manifested a blood-red long sword in the air.

At the same time, a corpse immortal who had reached the perfect state of the second-body immortal appeared on each of the other three city walls.

The 400,000 defenders on all sides also slowly stood up at this moment. All the corpses and corpse qi were connected together, as if they had merged into one with the entire imperial capital.

There was a simple reason for such a big move. A group of strange strong men had come to the city. They were very different from this world. They were powerful immortals with abundant vitality.

Outside the city wall, thousands of feet in the air.

Empress Shenyin was dressed in palace attire, standing outside the imperial capital, her snow-white face expressionless as she stared at the imperial city in a daze.

Behind her, Jiang Qingxuan looked dejected, with a look of disbelief appearing on his old face from time to time.

At that moment, the two of them were not interested in anything else and were too lazy to care about the evil immortal Chengxian and Huyanba who followed in.

Along the way, they took in the situation of this world and saw clearly the fate of the old people of the Holy Dynasty.

The four hundred thousand zombies on the city wall below cast their gazes over, their eyes empty and lifeless, like those of dead people.

Jiang Qingxuan's hands were trembling, and he couldn't bear to look at hundreds of thousands of soldiers. He suddenly turned around and stared at Liu Feng with hostility in his eyes.

"Our dynasty's Taoism is orthodox, and the head of the Jiang family has inherited the position of prime minister, so what has been passed down is also orthodox... Which generation started to practice corpse Taoism here? Or was it planned by the national master from the beginning?" Jiang Qingxuan looked directly at Liu Feng, no longer as respectful as before.

Only two steps apart, Liu Feng was in front, Bian Qingqin was behind, and Liu Xiaoxiao was still sitting on Liu Feng's shoulder.

"Will he turn against us and fight against us?" Liu Xiaoxiao whispered, worried that the old man would attack her.

Bian Qingqin's pretty face turned pale. Firstly, she was frightened by the terrifying and chilling situation in this world, and secondly, she was afraid that the ancestor of the Jiang family would turn against her.

In a face-to-face situation, with a quasi-leader level opponent as the target, no matter how capable she is or how well she calculates, the result will be her death without a doubt.

Both women were afraid, except Liu Feng who looked calm.

He patted Liu Xiaoxiao's calf hanging on his chest to comfort her, and also looked directly at the ancestor of the Jiang family.

"You ask me, but who else can I ask? There are only a few things I can remember about my past life. If you want to ask, you should go into the city and ask the current king." Liu Feng spoke with confidence.

It was not that he was confident that he could fight with the quasi-leader, but as he arrived, he noticed that someone was looking at him.

To be precise, it was similar to the situation in the Dongxu Island armory, where he was being spied on by the spirit of the weapon.

The source of the gaze that was peeping at him was the blood-red full moon above his head, and this sense of being peeped at was growing stronger and stronger.

As expected, the full moon above his head is Daoxuzi's Taoist weapon, the Lianyin Mirror.

The spirit of the weapon has awakened with his arrival, and a connection has emerged between him and the Lianyin Mirror out of nowhere. He should be able to mobilize this treasure.

Liu Feng's experience and knowledge today are not much worse than those of the older generation in the Void Realm. Seeing the great achievements left in this world, he has a clear idea of ​​what is going on.

Compared with the weapon spirit of the Hyogo in Dongxu Island and the weapon spirit of the Painting Immortal Brush seen before, the weapon spirit of the Refining Yin Mirror is completely not on the same level.

Although they are both Taoist weapons, the power of the Lian Yin Mirror covers the world within a million miles. It is definitely not something that the weak Painting Immortal Brush can contend with, nor can it be compared to the Taoist box in the Eternal Night Palace, even if that box is in its prime.

Although Jiang Qingxuan was at the level of a quasi-leader, he was unaware of the changes in the blood moon in the sky.

When he wanted to ask more, Goddess Shenyin spoke.

"That's enough. You must not be rude to the State Master. No matter what the result is, you cannot blame the State Master. Everything was what the Lord wanted back then."

At this time, in the center of the imperial city, deep in the palace, two quasi-leader-level auras were reviving.

The corpse ghosts here, especially the powerful ones, seem to be sleeping all year round.

Within five breaths, two powerful auras stabilized from the direction of the palace, and a tired voice floated over from afar.

"Open the formation and welcome our ancestors into the city!"

The blood-red light rippled on all four sides of the city wall. When the 400,000 soldiers heard the word "ancestors", most of them had a gleam of light in their empty eyes.

But the look in their eyes had nothing to do with joy; instead, it revealed anticipation and undisguised relief.

Our ancestors planted the seeds, and today the fruits are coming. Whether good or bad, the person who can settle the cause and effect has finally arrived.

Until this moment, hundreds of thousands of soldiers seemed to have regained their normal sanity. They all looked at Goddess Shenyin, and then looked at Liu Feng behind her.

To this day, the statues of these two gods still exist in their land, but no one worships them anymore.

(End of this chapter)