Chronicles of Celestial Origins

"Fellow Daoist Tang, why are you here? Just now I saw that you seemed to be chasing other monsters. Could it be that it escaped?" Zhu Zhen asked as they gathered together.

"That monster has been killed by me. Fellow Daoist He and I met up with Fellow Daoist Zhang. I knew that you were chasing another monster commander, so I came to support you."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned. Zhu Zhen glanced at him in surprise: "Beheaded? That Void Refining level monster?"

"Fellow Daoist Tang has great supernatural powers. Before Daoist Zhang and I could catch up, he had already killed the monster commander." Before Tang Ning could answer, He Yan replied with a profound look.

In an instant, everyone's eyes were focused on him.

"The Void Refining level monster I was chasing was far less difficult to deal with than this one. Its strength was mediocre, so it was killed by me." Tang Ning remained calm as she looked at the magic crystal in Zhu Zhen's hand and said, "Fellow Taoists, there is one of you who doesn't know me. Please say it out of love and I hope you won’t be offended.”

"Fellow Taoist Tang has something to say, but it doesn't matter."

"I wonder if Zhu Daoyou and all of you can give me this magic crystal? I would be very grateful."

Zhu Zhen asked: "Fellow Taoist Tang, do you want this magic crystal? I don't know what it is used for?"

"That's right, I have done some research on the way of elixirs. This magic crystal can be used as a material for alchemy. I have never tried the fusion of high-level magic crystals and elixirs, so I want to give it a try. If you all I would be very grateful if I could give in. Of course, I will give you some spiritual stones as compensation. You can ask for any amount you need," Tangning told a straight lie.

When several people heard this, they were silent. Zhu Zhen glanced at several people: "Since no one objects, then give this magic crystal to fellow Taoist Tang!"

In fact, he is also troubled by this problem. Everyone has contributed to killing this demon, and the only valuable item is the magic crystal. This thing cannot be divided into several pieces, and the specific value is difficult to estimate. If he blatantly lets I was afraid of being criticized if I put it in my storage bag, so I kept it in my hand.

It happened that Tang Ning took the initiative to ask for compensation, so she just handed it over to him as a favor.

"Thank you." Tangning took the magic crystal with a smile and put it into her storage bag: "I don't know the exact value of this thing. If you don't mind it, I'll compensate each of you with five thousand high-grade spiritual stones later. I'm a little considerate. ”

"Forget it! It's no big deal. We are all brothers fighting side by side in the same column. Why should we care about such a small thing? Fellow Taoist Tang is useful. Just take it for yourself. Why bother talking about compensation." He Yan waved his hand and said.

"It's just that Fellow Taoist Tang is too outspoken. It's just a trivial thing. Why should you be so polite?"

"That's not possible. You all worked together to kill this demon. How dare Tang dare to take advantage of it alone? If you are unwilling to accept it, I will not be able to feel at ease."

"There is no need to argue about this matter. Just do what Fellow Daoist Tang said! Let's go to the Monster Castle to check out the situation first. This is the key to the mission of this trip." Zhu Zhen said.

After everyone chatted for a few words, they returned to the castle where the monsters gathered. The surface of its smooth metal wall had been torn into pieces, and there were many densely packed ink-black liquid flowing on the inner surface of the wall.

The city is in a mess, with thousands of miles of space, and huge stone pillars of various colors engraved with strange symbols can be seen everywhere. The demonic energy here is stronger than in other castles, and buildings similar to altars have been found in several places.

There are many corpses of monsters buried under each altar, many of which have been turned into bones, and some of which have not completely decomposed.

Several people searched all the way until they came to the center of the castle, where there was a palace-like building. At this moment, most of it collapsed and turned into ruins.

Inside the palace is a huge altar, which is densely covered with bright red surging runes. It looks like dripping blood, which is very scary.

"This should be the sealed passage from the demon world to the secret realm. The demonic energy is so strong." He Yan frowned as everyone came under the formation altar.

"Then this formation should be the seal that opens the passage to the demon world. It must be destroyed." Zhu Zhen clasped her hands together, and the brilliance surged around her body, forming a black giant sword and slashing it towards the huge formation altar.

With a loud bang, all the bright red runes on the surface of the formation altar surged and condensed into a substantial blood-colored light shield, which actually blocked the black giant sword. At the same time, a powerful force appeared on the formation altar. The aura exploded, and everyone's hearts trembled. Just for a moment, it seemed as if a powerful spiritual consciousness swept across several people.

"This thing is weird. Everyone, please destroy it quickly to avoid long nights and nightmares." Zhu Zhen's face changed slightly and she said quickly.

Several people took action one after another, showing off their methods. The powerful aura above the formation became more and more stable, and a blurry shadow slowly emerged. Seeing this, everyone stepped up their attacks. Various lights enveloped them, and the blood-colored light enveloped them. The shield was immediately breached, the huge array shattered into pieces, and the phantom also disappeared.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. If given more time, the consequences would be disastrous when the shadow materialized.

"I didn't expect that such a powerful creature from the demon world would be stationed in a mere secret passage. The shadow just now should be a wisp of spiritual thought from the demon world guarding the passage there, intending to cross the two realms through the formation." He Yan said with lingering fear.

Zhu Zhenyi looked solemn: "It seems that the demon world's offensive is more urgent than we imagined. The first secret realm we inspected was not only guarded by two Void Refining level monsters, but the sealing array in this passage was guarded by such powerful demon world creatures. , Fortunately, his spiritual thoughts were not allowed to pass through the magic circle, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable."

Wu Quan said: "This secret realm of Yiyuan Sect is a second-level upper-level seal. It is the highest level among all the secret realms in the entire Guiyang City. The monsters in the seals of other secret realms should not be of such high standards."

There are thousands of secret realms of various sizes in Tianyuan City, and they are divided into several levels according to the size and importance of the secret realm space.

The higher the level, the wider the secret space, and the more important the passage connecting it to the demon world.

"Just a second-level high-level secret realm is so difficult to deal with. No wonder the top leaders of the coalition attach so much importance to it. It seems that the rumors about the existence of fused monsters in some high-level secret realms are not false."

"Although the formation has been destroyed, there are still many monsters escaping in the secret territory. After we return to Yiyuan Sect, we will let the members of the sect organize people to go inside and exterminate the monsters to avoid their resurgence."

After some discussion, everyone left here and returned to the entrance of the passage connecting to the Tianyuan Realm. Around noon, a huge rotating black hole slowly emerged on it. The people's figures flashed and entered the inner room. The next moment, light appeared. Coming into view, he has returned to Yiyuan Sect.

Due to the effect of the formation, this space is fixed, so there will be no chance of being separated when entering the secret realm.

"Senior." Yu Zhengqian, the leader of the Yiyuan Sect, saw everyone returning from the secret realm and quickly led the people to greet them and salute them.

Zhu Zhen said: "The formation connecting the demon world in the secret realm has been destroyed by us. Two Void Refining level monsters inside have been killed. Now only some low-level monsters are left. We still have to inspect other secret realms. The remaining ones here are I’ll leave the matter to you, be sure to clean them all up.”

"Yes." Yu Zhengqian hesitated for a moment and then asked: "May I ask, senior, how many monsters are there in the unknown secret realm?"

"There may be nearly a thousand in number!"

Yu Zhengqian had a troubled look on his face: "There are already Void Refining level monsters stationed in the secret realm, and there must be quite a few God Transformation level cultivation monsters. With so many monsters, it may be difficult to eliminate them all with the power of our sect alone."

"The monks in this department will assist you, Fellow Daoist Wu. Can your department mobilize the power of various sects and families in Guiyang City to help eliminate the secret realm monsters here?"

"No problem. I can summon all the sects in this city. I can also negotiate with the aristocratic families, business alliances and Netherworld Sea organizations to establish a team to eliminate monsters and be responsible for the aftermath of various secret areas in this city."

"Fellow Taoist, does your sect still have any difficulties?"

"Thank you, seniors. I will do my best to fulfill my seniors' instructions and completely eradicate the secret realm monsters here."

………

After resting for one night in the Yiyuan Sect, everyone set out again the next day. Under the leadership of Wu Quan, they came to the Zhiyuan Pavilion Yizhi Mountains, where a second-level lower-level secret realm was sealed. The original sect stationed there was captured during the Qingzhou Civil War. After being eliminated, a local cultivating family now takes over the jurisdiction of this place.

After entering the secret realm, it didn't take much effort for a few people to destroy the formation where the demonic creatures had established a connection channel here.

The strength of the demonic creatures in this secret realm is far inferior to that of the Yiyuanzong secret realm, and the level of formations in the castle is also very different. There are only a few deity-level monsters stationed in it, destroying the formation, and killing a few transformations guarding the formation. After seeing the gods and monsters, several people exited this secret realm and went to the next secret realm.

In less than a month, the inspection of several secret areas in Guiyang City has been completed.

Except for the Yiyuan Sect's secret realm where the Void-refining monsters are stationed there, the other secret realms are the strongest, which is at the level of human god-transformation cultivation. There are even three secret realms that don't even have god-level monsters, and the organizational structure of the monsters in them is very It is loose and has no large formation to connect with the demon world.

After investigating these secret realms, Tang Ning found that these monsters were very similar to the demon clan to some extent. First of all, in appearance, both of them were separated by the stage of becoming gods.

Monsters below the divine transformation stage all maintain a half-animal, half-human form, while monsters in the divine transformation stage completely transform into animal bodies. Unlike the demon clan, the transformation of monsters is a gradual transformation process.

For example, a bull-like monster with three heads and two tails will gradually transform into an animal body when it reaches the Golden Core stage. It will first transform into three heads and two tails. When it reaches the Nascent Soul stage, the bull's body will gradually transform into a human body, retaining some of its claws and other features. Part of the animal state, until the stage of transformation, will completely transform into a human form.

The demon clan directly transforms into a beast body when it reaches the god transformation stage, eliminating many changes in the process. Although many demon clan species cannot directly and completely transform into humans, they may retain some tails, hair and other small parts of the beast form, but in foundation building, During the Golden Elixir and Nascent Soul stages, they will not change in any way.

In addition, another similarity between the creatures in the demon world and the demon clan is that the hierarchies are strictly divided, and high-level monsters have absolute dominance over low-level monsters.

Transformation is also the dividing line. Demonic creatures in the transformed stage seem to have the power of life and death over untransformed demonic creatures.

In several secret areas of Guiyang City, where monsters in the transformation stage exist, castles and formations connecting and expanding the passages to the demon world were found. They were well organized, and corpses of demon creatures sacrificed were found under each castle. .

In the other three secret realms where there are no monsters in the transformation stage, the monsters are scattered everywhere, with neither castles nor formations established.

It can be roughly inferred from this that monsters should be like monsters, and the transformation period plays a huge role in the growth of spiritual intelligence.