Chapter 1 The Beginning

This Xuantian Coffin was too strange, and Ji Xiang wasn't planning on leaving it here. After all, he had already offended the Zhu Huo Palace. Wouldn't leaving this thing here be like handing the Zhu Huo Palace immortals a powerful weapon?

Anything that should be moved, must be moved. Anything that shouldn't be used, mustn't be used!

He wasn't worried about having too many debts. Ji Xiang had offended this immortal palace and that immortal palace in the Li Shanhe, he didn't know how many there were. From the beginning, he hadn't had any scruples!

Anyway, he would have to face them sooner or later. He might as well take advantage of the present to destroy their means in the Biao Shanhe. By the time they truly had the ability to descend, he would almost be able to directly obliterate them.

It was a contest of cultivation speed, and Ji Xiang had now obtained the Yuan Shi True Inheritance, plus the Tai Xu Treasure Light. At least below ascension, no one could deal with him. Even ascension realm experts, like the Shangqing's Pang Zu, could be killed with a single touch of the Tai Xu Treasure Light.

In a head-on battle, Ji Xiang wasn't afraid of these people.

What he feared and worried about was their roundabout tactics, not confronting him directly, which would be extremely troublesome.

"Step back a little. This coffin can reflect the desires of people's hearts and then bewilder cultivators, causing them to fall into it. The Xuanmiao Temple you saw, with all its prosperous scenes, is your heart's greatest desire."

Ji Xiang warned Nanyangzi, telling him to stabilize his emotions and not be deceived by his desires.

The sudden anomalies occurring in the coffin's world also made Ji Xiang suspicious.

The Shangqing Sect regarded this Xuantian Coffin as a backup for when the sect was destroyed. When the sect was on the verge of destruction, they could use the world in this coffin to re-project the Shangqing, reversing reality and illusion. But now, this locked marker had suddenly disappeared...

"This wasn't broken by me!"

Ji Xiang asked again, "Did you see the Maoshan Mountain Lord?"

Nanyangzi and Luo Po Xian both shook their heads. They were trapped in the Locking Heaven Grand Array and had no way of knowing the outside situation. Whether the Mountain Lord was inside the coffin world or not, no one knew.

So Ji Xiang told the two to step back a little further, and then slowly pushed open the Xuantian Coffin to re-examine the world inside.

This time, the world in the coffin began to change. It was no longer in the shape of Maoshan Shangqing, but gradually turned into a hazy darkness. The original locked scene had become a fog, and the original Shangqing world could no longer be found.

This meant that if there were no Shangqing Sect experts to recreate the Shangqing world with powerful thoughts, then that Shangqing world would no longer be visible to outsiders.

Ji Xiang operated his thoughts, hoping to find the location of the Maoshan Mountain Lord, and the world in the coffin quickly gave guidance, but a strange change occurred.

What appeared in his eyes was not the original Shangqing world, but a gloomy, huge pond.

This was astonishing. Perhaps the Eighth Sect Lord hadn't lied, and the Maoshan Mountain Lord was really locked in the Shangqing world, but now, the Xuantian Coffin's desire projection had unlocked, and the Maoshan Mountain Lord had disappeared from the Shangqing world.

"What is this place?"

There were no markers, so Ji Xiang couldn't see the essence through the illusion. But immediately afterwards, the scenery of this pond also began to change. A black mountain appeared, followed by a ruined palace. The ruined palace then disappeared, replaced by some small sects.

Then there were beautiful concubines, wine pools and meat forests, which then transformed into a prosperous national court. The clothing was obviously not from the Ming Dynasty, but rather similar to the Qin and Han dynasties.

Various scenes alternated and changed.

"What's going on? My thoughts haven't changed. Could this coffin be broken?"

Ji Xiang found it strange. His thoughts had been running all along, trying to find the location of the Maoshan Mountain Lord, but the various changes he was seeing now clearly came from different desires.

So Ji Xiang took out the means to repair damaged items!

Give it a kick!

The old thing is unreliable. Kicking it twice might restore the signal!

Two bangs later, the fog inside became thicker and thicker, as if it had completely lost the signal!

"Damn it, it's really broken."

Ji Xiang was dumbfounded. He had now broken an ancient spirit artifact. If the Maoshan Mountain Lord was still in the coffin world, he might not be able to get out...

He certainly couldn't go down to rescue him. If he also lost his mind and was bewitched in this coffin world, that would be terrible.

"It looks like there are signs of loss of control. These things reflected by desire must not be allowed to run into the real world. Since the Xuantian Coffin has the power to restore the Shangqing, it must also be able to revive the dead."

This was a natural association. After all, if the sect was destroyed, even if the palaces and gates of the Shangqing Sect were restored, they would only be dead palaces with no one living or cultivating there. What use would such restoration be?

Therefore, this restoration must be able to revive even the dead. Then the people reflected by the coffin world, their appearance itself was very interesting. Was it that people's forms and spirits were taken away, or were they constructed by wishes?

Ji Xiang was thinking this when the fog inside surged more and more violently, and Ji Xiang's previous guess came true.

The Inner Vision Divine Tablet reflected the current situation:

[The Xuantian Coffin reflects people's desires, and desires come from wishes. Now the lock has been released.]

[If the reflected world of desires appears in the real world, it can revive people who disappeared in the past, but those who look at the Xuantian Coffin will pay a ██████████ price.....]

[████████████████████!]

[The Ranked Immortals have been resurrected! They are projecting their existence into the mortal world!]

What's going on?

Ji Xiang rubbed his eyes.

The words seen by the Inner Vision Divine Tablet had large sections of black smudges. According to the previous display of Yin spirits, when it encountered something that could not be identified temporarily, the Inner Vision Divine Tablet would give these black smudges to indicate that the part was problematic.

But such a large section of black smudges made Ji Xiang inevitably nervous for a moment!

No, that shouldn't be a description, but a spell!

If it was a description, it couldn't all be black!

But now there was no time to worry about these things!

The last entry forced Yun Zai to act immediately!

Ji Xiang slammed the coffin lid shut with a bang, and stuck many seals on it!

At the same time, he also used the Maoshan trapping and locking formation to firmly lock the coffin!

"I don't care what strange things are inside, anyway, I'm still fine now, so I'll just slam the coffin lid shut. Don't talk about Ranked Immortals, even if there's a big explosion inside, it won't affect me."

"To be able to project oneself from the coffin world to the Biao Shanhe... does he know that he is in an illusory world?!"

"But Ranked Immortals are only the initial stage of ascension!"

The ancient Ranked Immortals, Yuanmiao Dasheng, had already explained this. People in the early stage of ascension, or those who underwent corpse liberation, all belonged to the Ranked Immortal rank. When at the peak of the ascension realm, the blood in their whole body would turn into azure qi, and this was the true Flying Immortal.

A spirit artifact that can accommodate a world, how can it be so easily destroyed?

The grade of spirit artifacts is above treasure artifacts. In terms of their uniqueness, they are very rare and extremely powerful, while Zhen artifacts are above spirit artifacts, but most of the Zhen artifacts that Ji Xiang had come into contact with were defective, including the Golden Strike Hammer.

Ji Xiang carried the coffin on his shoulders, and it seemed that the matter of the Maoshan Mountain Lord would have to be discussed later!

Then, turning around, he spread his five fingers, and the Five Thunder Divine Power roared and fell, blasting the jade platform into powder!

"The Eighth Sect Lord said that the Shangqing Three Ancestors appeared from here. I examined the entire Kunlun Cave, and the only thing that might be problematic is this jade platform. After blasting it, if development is normal, the people from the Zhu Huo Palace will have a hard time descending to the Biao Shanhe again in a short time."

Many things in this Kunlun Cave look like ordinary objects, but in fact, they have profound mysteries within them!

Many Five Thunder Talismans flew out of Ji Xiang's sleeve again. After the three of them left the Kunlun Cave, there were bursts of lightning and thunder inside, blasting and destroying everything that could be destroyed!

Nanyangzi was a little sad: "Isn't destroying the cave with thunder magic a severance of the Maoshan Dao lineage?"

Ji Xiang explained: "The Maoshan Dao lineage is in the Grand Yuan Treasure Hall, in the bodies of those Sect Lords. This cave is just an altar for immortals to descend. It is said to be the root of the Dao lineage, but in fact, it has now become something used to control the Shangqing."

After walking less than two steps, Ji Xiang's footsteps slowed down, and then three small gods jumped out from between his eyebrows. In the astonished gaze of Nanyangzi and Luo Po Xian, these Three Corpse Gods began to commit suicide on the spot.

"This, what are you doing?"

Luo Po Xian looked at it strangely: "Could this be the Three Corpse Gods?"

"You've already severed the Three Corpses!?"

Ji Xiang asked back: "Have you seen someone who has severed the Three Corpses?"

Luo Po Xian immediately shook his head: "No, but people who ascend all sever the Three Corpses. I think you should sever them too..."

Ji Xiang: "The essence of the Three Corpses is the Desire God. The Three Corpses will only disappear when the physical body and the Primordial Spirit are completely united. I haven't reached this state, so my Three Corpse Gods have no brains."

This was indeed the truth. Ji Xiang's Three Corpse Gods were forcibly created using the "Central Jade Book" method. They had no wisdom, and their actions were all controlled by the thoughts given by Ji Xiang.

At this time, the Three Corpse Gods were constantly committing suicide, which was to eliminate the Calamity of the Mortal World.

Previously, Ji Xiang had deduced a method to break the Locking Heaven Grand Array. The Calamity of the Mortal World had become entangled, and he needed to use the Three Corpse Gods' cycle of suicide to break it.

However, the level of the Locking Heaven Grand Array was very high, so even if the Three Corpse Gods kept committing suicide, the Calamity of the Mortal World was only eliminated by a negligible amount.

After discovering that it was useless, Ji Xiang swallowed the Three Corpse Gods back.

"I don't know what big event will happen next, but now the Shangqing Sect is not a place to stay. However, the mountain gates in front of the Nine Heavens Palace have also been smashed by me, and those cowardly Sect Lords don't dare to come and cause trouble for us. Nanyangzi, use your escape technique to gather everyone together, and we'll leave the Shangqing."

"I'll remember this matter of the Shangqing!"

Ji Xiang determined the place he would go next. He had originally planned to go to Yingtian Prefecture, but now he would first go to find the Yin Mountain Sect to resolve Hou Niangzi's abnormal state, which was the most important thing.

Rescuing Nanyangzi was also mainly to use the other party's escape technique. Although Nanyangzi and Luo Po Xian were both in the Yellow Court Realm and had great reputations in the world, in this Shangqing disaster, the two of them were really not enough to watch.

As a result, Luo Po Xian was still nervously talking to himself:

"In the past, the ascension realm was simply invisible. In this battle of the Shangqing, I saw three with a glance. When did immortals become so worthless..."

Ji Xiang: "There will only be more and more immortals. What will happen next is not just the Shangqing family. There will only be more and more descending immortals. What is the ascension realm? The mastermind behind destroying your Xuanmiao Temple back then was in the Heavenly Heart Realm!"

Luo Po Xian was speechless, while Nanyangzi said: "I don't know if the Ten Ancestors of my Quanzhen Dao are still alive in the Li Shanhe..."

If the Ten Ancestors of Quanzhen were still in the Li Shanhe, the Quanzhen Dao should still be able to obtain a place to settle down in the great events that would happen in the future.

Nanyangzi used his escape technique, and the three of them came outside the mountain gate. As the Eighth Sect Lord had said, the other three had been driven out of the mountain gate and were not allowed to return.

Feng Menglong was quite surprised to see Ji Xiang and the others appear, but Ji Xiang was still carrying a black coffin on his shoulder, which made him a little strange.

"There's such a big black coffin in this Shangqing Sect? It can't be the Maoshan Corpse Refining Technique... Is there some powerful corpse inside?"

Ji Xiang: "There are no corpses, but there is an immortal! But this immortal is a bit strange, so he can't be left in the Shangqing."

"I have greatly offended the Zhu Huo Palace, and beheaded two Shangqing Ancestral Masters. Leaving this thing to them is too dangerous. Not to mention that this Xuantian Coffin has the power to reflect the world and restart everything, this coffin also locks up an ancient immortal. If he joins the Shangqing, then I'll be unlucky."

"I would rather sink this coffin into the East Sea than leave it in Maoshan."

Feng Menglong had heard about the bizarre events that the three of them had encountered before, and a clear outline had already formed in his mind.

"Could it be that the Mountain Lord was sacrificed?"

He pointed to the Xuantian Coffin: "There is an illusory world inside, but it can also be seen as another piece of land. Daoist Ji said that Ranked Immortals are slumbering inside. Daoist Ji mentioned before that Ranked Immortals are people who have just broken into the ascension realm. The Qin Nvxiu we encountered last time was a Corpse Liberation Immortal."

"This Ranked Immortal in the coffin is a Corpse Liberation Immortal..."

At this time, Ji Xiang also grasped a glimmer of light: "The awakening of a Corpse Liberation Immortal requires a certain stimulus, which must be something related to his Corpse Liberation."

"Maoshan Mountain Lord, has the condition to awaken that immortal on his body?"

Ji Xiang couldn't imagine what a Pure Yang Realm old man could have to do with a Corpse Liberation Immortal. Could it be using the Pure Yang's Yang Qi to neutralize the other party's Yin Qi?

Feng Menglong continued to speculate: "Moreover, that immortal might have entered the Xuantian Coffin himself, just waiting for his descendants to awaken him. As for their relationship, wouldn't the strongest person in the Shangqing Dao lineage count? The Maoshan Mountain Lord also seems to have said that he is also a Dao Child, right?"

"Major breakthrough."

Ji Xiang thought of the line that was completely erased that he had seen in the previous entry.

An immortal used the Corpse Liberation method to enter the illusory world of the Xuantian Coffin himself, wanting to use this to seek a breakthrough, or...

If the coffin can reflect everything.

Then what about the Great Dao of the Biao Shanhe!

"Boom!"

Suddenly, the Xuantian Coffin made a loud noise, as if someone was kicking the coffin lid, scaring everyone's faces!

It was like responding to Ji Xiang's previous thoughts!

The dead immortal suddenly attacked me.

Ji Xiang threw the Xuantian Coffin on the ground, and added several more layers of seals. Nanyangzi and Luo Po Xian also came to help, using Quanzhen Dao's spells to help suppress this strange spirit artifact as much as they could.

"You're playing dirty with me, huh!"

Ji Xiang's fingers flashed with violently surging electric light!

He welded the seam between the coffin lid and the coffin body with a fierce electric current!