Chapter 107 Ancient Immortal

The powerful desires of the underworld were buried beneath those ruins. Thunder rolled in the sky, completely covering the area.

Destroying these demonic mountains and temples was still not enough.

Ji Xiang also set up a thunder tribulation formation here.

The Shangqing Sect's formation techniques were among the best in the world, not something that ordinary people could easily break.

With a flash of golden light and fire, Ji Xiang and the Silver Bottle Maiden instantly teleported away, leaving this dim world.

When beings at the immortal level disappeared from here, and the Phoenix Mountain area was also destroyed, with no power to prevent outsiders from entering, this dim world manifested in the mortal realm.

What Sima Shen and Ishida Mitsunari saw was a black space suddenly appearing in front of them, like an opening door, but with irregular, slight movements, revealing a little light inside.

"Alright, the gate is open. This is the entrance to the underworld. We can go in."

The samurai followed the excited Sima Shen into the gate.

Ishida Mitsunari waited outside.

This wait lasted a long time.

The entrance to the underworld began to close, and Sima Shen had not appeared. Ishida Mitsunari was somewhat suspicious. When he entered the underworld, he saw lightning filling the sky!

"Ishida-san, help!"

Calamity struck towards his head. Sima Shen was constantly killed and resurrected in the thunder tribulation. He saw Ishida Mitsunari and wanted him to take him away, but Ishida Mitsunari ran out of the underworld without looking back.

The spatial portal closed, and Ishida Mitsunari was panting, looking disheveled and terrified.

But what was worse was the sound of government troops coming from outside the mountain.

The Qiantang County Magistrate saw Ishida Mitsunari dressed as a samurai and immediately shouted, ordering the surrounding government troops to rush up and arrest Ishida Mitsunari!

"We already knew that the Longyou Merchant Guild was colluding with Japanese sea merchants to find the Treasure Basin here. The disturbances in this mountain, and the recent strange and evil events, were indeed caused by you!"

The government troops were aggressive. Ishida Mitsunari's eyes flashed fiercely. He drew his sword, and the blade flashed, taking dozens of heads. Then, amidst the spurting blood, he ran away without looking back.

Killing some of the local government troops was to deter them and prevent them from continuing the pursuit. But if they were all slaughtered, it would attract the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, and might even alarm some stationed Heavenly Generals, and make activities in the Ming Dynasty territory more difficult in the future.

The Qiantang County Magistrate stared, watching Ishida Mitsunari escape.

But now Lingyin Temple and Yulong Daoist Temple had encountered dangerous events. The monks of Lingyin Temple were greatly weakened, their cultivation levels had fallen, and they needed to recuperate. The Taoists of Yulong Daoist Temple were also muddled, their memories still stuck several years in the past. This shocked the Qiantang County Magistrate and made him aware of the various terrible secrets hidden beneath the calm surface of Qiantang County for many years.

"These damned cultivators!"

.......

At Yulong Daoist Temple, Ji Xiang saw a large group of depressed Quanzhen Taoists. Through conversation, he learned that they had been in a daze for several years, not knowing what they were doing. Now their minds were blank and they couldn't remember anything.

After helping them extract the demonic energy from their bodies, the Taoists looked a little better, because along with the demonic energy, the gathered, and now vast, demonic thoughts also disappeared.

"Slaughtering the entire demonic realm, the number of demons above the primordial spirit stage that were killed was only nine. There is still one missing, and I cannot start the second stage of cultivation of the Subduing Demons Chapter."

These demonic thoughts were also the vows made by many cultivators when praying and comprehending, carrying various confusing sounds, as if they could guide people into a pure world of heavenly demons. But Ji Xiang had no feeling for the illusions presented by these demonic thoughts. Fortunately, the Inner Landscape Divine Tablet indicated that it could eat these demonic thoughts, which made Ji Xiang feel that these things had value.

Normal cultivators, when encountering this kind of demonic thought, would try to resolve it. But Ji Xiang could intervene in the void and eat them. The resulting increase was naturally an increase in his own vows.

This was very helpful for resisting mental intrusions. All demons were Ji Xiang's power. Demonic thoughts that normal cultivators avoided were, in Ji Xiang's eyes, thoughts that helped him cultivate.

"All the demonic thoughts in the mortal world arise from desire. If one has no desires, demons cannot exist in the heart, and there is no way to talk about the Trial of the Dao."

The Taoists in Yulong Daoist Temple, listening to Ji Xiang's admonition, were all thoughtful.

Using Golden Escape transformation, Ji Xiang returned to the Silver Bottle Maiden Temple.

"You have the position of the Fire Virtue Star Lord. I wonder if you can sense a person?"

The Silver Bottle Maiden originally had many doubts she wanted to ask, but Ji Xiang spoke first, and she didn't want to interrupt. So she continued, "I do have some faint sense, it seems that the Fire Virtue God position was once occupied by someone, but it was never truly received. It's really strange."

"That woman is called Puzhao. Her divine position is the Lingxiao Maiden of the human world, with the special ability to steal the Fire God's divine authority. Perhaps you will meet her in the future, you must be careful of her."

"My form and spirit have been fully restored, and I will also be leaving your temple. This time I owe you a favor. If you cultivate to a high level in the future, when you are crossing the demonic tribulation, pray to the heavens, and if you see a piece of azure sky, that will be me coming."

After Ji Xiang finished speaking, he prepared to ride the clouds and mist to the Shangqing Sect's location. The Silver Bottle Maiden seized the opportunity and immediately asked, "Great Emperor, who exactly are you fighting against?"

"That Chen Taichu gives me a vaguely familiar feeling."

Ji Xiang: "The immortals of the Song Dynasty, of course you are familiar with them. They were people who lived under the same sky as you."

"All things in the underworld are now under the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty."

The Silver Bottle Maiden was speechless with shock. Seeing that Ji Xiang was about to leave, she suddenly asked, "Is my father also alive?"

"If he died and exists in the form of a soul or ghost immortal, can that still be called alive?"

"Perhaps, that's how it should be called, he may still exist... Who knows?"

Ji Xiang rode the clouds and mist, soaring into the sky. The Silver Bottle Maiden watched Ji Xiang leave, and then her thoughts were in a mess.

She felt that since she had obtained such important information.

Perhaps she should try hard.

Find some cultivators who can summon souls, and start investigating matters about the underworld. And if there is a folk sect that knows the most about the underworld, it must be the Yinshan Sect?

Unfortunately, the Yinshan Sect is hiding very well now. There is no trace of them in Qiantang County. In fact, even if you search in more distant places, you won't be able to find them.

The Yinshan Sect's dharma realm has been taken away. They have cleaned all their dojos themselves, hiding them so that outsiders will never find their tracks.

Soon, the Silver Bottle Maiden also learned about the Qiantang County Magistrate leading government troops to the Phoenix Mountain area. Dozens of people died, a Japanese samurai escaped, and the Treasure Basin was missing. Of course, the Silver Bottle Maiden knew who took that thing, but she wouldn't say.

This matter came to an end, and the Qiantang County Magistrate immediately reported the matter to the prefecture. The Heavenly General stationed above quickly came here. The Longyou Merchant Guild suffered a huge blow. The merchants scattered and ran away, and those who were caught were willing to confess many things about their collusion with Japanese sea merchants.

The incident seemed relatively major, but the direct reflection of the impact on the Silver Bottle Maiden here was that the incense in the temple suddenly decreased sharply.

The statue of Zhenwu still existed, but there were no more merchants who had done bad things coming here to burn incense.

The Dao Lord of Yulong Daoist Temple came to the Maiden Temple, saw the temple with sparse incense, and thought of the words Ji Xiang had said. This Refinement Spirit Realm Dao Lord with a ruddy complexion couldn't help but sigh:

"Demons are in the heart, it has always been like this. Because of the demonic thoughts in the heart, people expect the gods to descend and subdue the demons here."

"Everyone has a method to subdue demons, just control your desires."

........

The sea of clouds churned. Ji Xiang still couldn't find the traces of the Shangqing Daoist and the others. But after flying for a while, suddenly a buzzing sound rang out between heaven and earth.

The sound came from far to near. It was actually a flying sword.

The flying sword was entwined with vows, transmitting sound to Ji Xiang. The voice was grand, carrying various ethereal illusions, as if seeing an immortal in person.

"Just leave the Xuantian Coffin with you. I will take this Shangqing Sect kid away, and the Ghost Immortal as well. Thank you for letting me out. I will repay this favor in the future."

"Yuqing Heavenly Demon, you will become stronger. We will have a chance to meet again in the future. I am holding goodwill towards you, only because you are enemies with another Yuqing cultivator."

"Remember, all the Yuqing cultivators you see in the future are related to evil things. All twelve of them are! Do not trust any of their words!"

Ji Xiang frowned deeply: "You are the Liexian in the Xuantian Coffin, then can you tell me, who exactly are you?"

The flying sword transmitted the sound. The Liexian's voice paused obviously, as if he had expected Ji Xiang to ask this. Instead of answering directly, he continued to transmit the sound on his own:

"I know you will definitely ask my name."

"It doesn't matter if I tell you, to show my sincerity. Because as long as he is an immortal, his name must exist in the world, and can be sensed or called by people. An immortal cannot be nameless, but mortals cannot easily know it. If you chant it every day, there will be a response."

Ji Xiang: "... Are you?"

The flying sword transmitted sound: "This humble Taoist is Ge Xuan, a Corpse 解 Immortal! Although not the ancestor of Shangqing, I once cultivated in Mount Gezao, and was taught by the immortal Zuo Ci, so I can barely be regarded as the founder of the Lingbao Sect."

"Ancient immortals are gradually recovering, not just me alone."

"We should have woken up long ago, but for some reason, we slept for fourteen hundred years."

The flying sword gradually disintegrated and disappeared. Ji Xiang couldn't hide the surprise on his face, and then thought to himself, this is another old immortal from the end of the Han Dynasty. I had a premonition that I was a person from the end of the Han Dynasty, and now a group of Han Dynasty immortals are really being resurrected?

Dropping the act? Not necessarily, they don't know themselves anyway. There are many hermits in famous mountains and great rivers, who knows who.

It's just that after crossing fourteen hundred years, meeting each other is inevitably a little... intimate?

"However, why are they all choosing this era to awaken?"

Ji Xiang pondered slightly. If Qin Nvxiu's awakening was an accident, and Ge Xuan's awakening was also an accident, then these accidents were too appropriate. Could it be as Chen Taichu said, really because the obverse and reverse sides of the mountains and rivers are gradually merging, and the Dao and the Law will mix with each other, so this group of corpse dissolvers are all recovering at this time?

Pressing down the cloud head, he won't go to the Shangqing Sect. This ancient immortal has awakened, his intentions are unknown, and he has no way to find his location. It is very easy for immortals to hide, in fact, not to mention immortals, even folk sects like the Yinshan Sect, after hiding, the entire immortal cultivation world will find it difficult to find them.

The essence of hide-and-seek lies in the word "hide".

The original task could not be carried out for the time being. The Qingping Sword of the Shangqing Sect is now placed in the Shangqing Dharma Realm, and Ji Xiang cannot communicate with other dharma realms other than the Dafuli Earth before reaching the Yuanshen realm.

Although, Dafuli Earth itself is the highest level dharma realm, Ji Xiang has never felt any special power in Dafuli, it is better to say that he himself came down from Dafuli, perhaps he has long been adapted to that part of the power.

It may also be because the connection has not been established. After all, only the Yuanshen level can establish a connection with a certain dharma realm.

And without being able to go to Biyou Palace, there is no way to use the Descent Platform of Biyou Palace to project a phantom into the reverse side of the mountains and rivers to scare Zhuhuo Palace.

The current Biyou Palace can basically be regarded as a projection of Zhuhuo Palace in the human world.

"When I reach the Yuanshen realm, I will go to the Dharma Realm and wreak havoc in the heavenly palace. It is not realistic to get the sword now. I am still one realm away, and I cannot go to other Dharma Realms."

"Since this is the case, then I will return to Wudang first."

The clouds and mist spread out, and Ji Xiang flew towards Wudang Mountain. With the art of cloud riding, there is no need to take those river boats anymore, but if he encounters the White Lotus Sect on the road, he still has to borrow some interest-free loans.

So, after flying for a short time, Ji Xiang successfully found a den of the White Lotus Sect.

It was still the familiar formula, the familiar taste, and the familiar way of hiding. The White Lotus Sect was disguised as a folk sect, and upon entering the temple gate, he saw some gods with unclear meanings enshrined on the platform.

The current Ji Xiang is not the Ji Xiang who had just come out of Shuntian City. The current Ji Xiang is a true Earth Immortal-level expert, and also possesses the Purple-Gold Elixir with the qualifications to become an immortal. The strength that he can display is not much different from the early stage of Pure Yang.

Of course, the strength displayed is not important to Ji Xiang.

With the counter-strategy of the Inner Landscape Divine Tablet, coupled with the special attack on heretical ways, and the power of the Purple-Gold Elixir, even a banished immortal can be beaten violently. If the Taixu Treasure Light is included, it cannot be said to be the first in the human world, but there is always a place in the top three.

Strength is for you to see.

The actual combat performance is the real thing that works on you.

"Is this scripture genuine?"

Ji Xiang took a copy of the White Lotus Sect's scripture, flipped through it, and confirmed that the scripture could indeed be used for sacrifices, and immediately began to make trouble, directly throwing the scripture classics on the face of the scripture transmitter opposite him.

"You dare to profane the gods, are you here to cause trouble?"

The members of the White Lotus Sect gathered in a crowd!

Most of them were ordinary people. Ji Xiang waved his hand, and a gust of wind rose from the ground, blowing them all away. The remaining White Lotus Sect members were immediately dumbfounded. Sensing the panic of the members, the local leader came out to appease them and angrily rebuked Ji Xiang for being too arrogant!

"The Eternal Mother helps me!"

He shouted three times, but the statue did not respond.

The leader was dumbfounded.

Ji Xiang looked at the statue and shouted loudly:

"Eternal Mother!"

The Divine Driving Power was displayed, and the statue suddenly emitted light in response!

The local White Lotus Sect leader's face changed drastically!

Oh shit, am I a fake leader?

Ji Xiang waved a finger and split the statue in two! Then he calmly looked at the leader who had already begun to panic, with a sense of oppression, he uttered his request:

"Robbery, hand over all the worthless scriptures in your house."