Chapter 225: I, Ao Li, Am Loyal and Devoted!

Ao Li had a dream.

Ever since he gained sentience as a flood dragon, he had rarely dreamt.

After all, for a transcendent creature, dreams themselves are closely linked to the Divine Soul and Divine Sense.

The more powerful the Divine Soul and Divine Sense, the fewer dreams one will have.

Furthermore, once one actually starts dreaming, it is either a warning from the subconscious or a summons from certain existences.

Ao Li remembered the last time he dreamt was when he became a Golden Core Spirit Beast.

But the memory of that Dream Realm was terrible.

Ao Li remembered that at the time, he had entered a certain holy land where Golden Light spilled from the sky, and many True Dragons were soaring through the clouds in a beautiful sea of clouds.

Ao Li was only able to catch a glimpse of that holy land in his dream.

He was suddenly driven away and scolded with, "How dare a Heavenly Demon beast come here!"

After waking from the dream, Ao Li's head ached for an entire month.

Ao Li admitted that he had indeed used a shortcut method at that time to break through to the Golden Core stage.

He had also been bewitched by the evildoers of the Ten Directions Sect into attempting to channel Divine Power into his body.

But heaven is my witness, this was not the fault of poor Ao Li, this flood dragon.

Born into the Ten Directions Sect, where did he, Ao Li, have any choice in his own path?

This night, Ao Li entered the Dream Realm once again.

He remembered that he had previously been circling above the Immortal Boat where his master was, acting as an escort for the Cultivators on those Immortal Boats.

Now, it was clearly a summons from some existence.

Being able to summon him into the Dream Realm, could it be those self-important True Dragon ancestors again?

Ao Li had some guesses in his heart as the shimmering Golden Light mist before his eyes gradually dispersed.

Ao Li saw the Cloud Mist Mountain Sea that had left such a deep impression on him once again.

And this time, not only was he not repelled, but he followed the call deep into the sea of clouds and saw a luxurious, magnificent palace.

There, he saw a cyan Divine Dragon enjoying various delicacies on a huge long table.

This cyan Divine Dragon unhurriedly opened its mouth and sucked up dozens of plates of delicacies.

After slowly tasting and swallowing them, this cyan Divine Dragon looked at Ao Li, who had rolled into the palace.

Ao Li only glanced at the other party before hurriedly lowering his head.

Bloodline memory made him deeply understand that the one before him was a True Dragon among True Dragons.

It was an existence he could never afford to offend in his entire life!

Not long after, Ao Li heard the matter he had already guessed.

It was indeed related to the qualitative change in his bloodline after obtaining the Dragon Blood!

"I remember you."

"A little flood dragon with a mottled bloodline who has taken the wrong path..."

The cyan Divine Dragon's eyes emitted a green divine light, constantly scanning the black flood dragon before it.

"Speak, what kind of fortuitous encounter did you actually obtain?"

Facing the cyan Divine Dragon's question.

Ao Li was suddenly stunned.

The other party... was asking him what was going on?

Strange, didn't the high and mighty True Dragons possess absolute ruling authority over inferior bloodlines like theirs?

The unique Great Divine Ability of the True Dragon Clan, the Divine Dragon Entering Dream Technique, allowed these True Dragons to easily pull low-level dragon kin into a Dream Realm where reality and illusion coexist by using bloodline connections.

When they saw him, they should have known the cause and effect related to the dragon kin on his body.

Could it be that the Dragon Blood in my body is not under the other party's jurisdiction?

Thinking of this possibility, Ao Li's heartbeat accelerated all at once.

The various means that could be called divine miracles displayed by that master also flashed through his memory one by one.

Seeing that Ao Li did not reply for a long time.

The cyan Divine Dragon narrowed its eyes and sneered:

"As expected of an inferior dragon, you think you can defy the will of a True Dragon just because you had a little fortuitous encounter?"

"If you won't speak, I will have to see for myself!"

The cyan Divine Dragon let out a low roar, its eyes operating a Great Divine Ability that could discern the laws of heaven and earth.

Although it spoke lightly, in fact, its heart was also full of doubts.

A dragon kin that did not belong to the True Dragon Realm—this was the first time an existence like it had encountered one.

Otherwise, it would not have taken an interest in a certain flood dragon, or even developed a sense of vigilance.

"Offense taken!"

Silently apologizing in its heart, the cyan Divine Dragon began to trace the roots of Ao Li's bloodline.

Then, it discovered that no matter what, it could not discern the thin film that was obstructing it.

Just as this Divine Dragon refused to admit defeat and began to increase its efforts.

It even extended its front claw to take out a verdant Dragon Pearl.

Under its full strength, the cyan Divine Dragon suddenly discovered that the scenery before it had changed.

Just as it felt a moment of joy in its heart.

It saw a uniquely shaped scepter.

Following closely, it... saw a corner of a back figure that appeared in the vast universe of stars, and even the starry sky was obscured by it.

Crack!

Ao Li heard the sound of the Dream Realm shattering.

He stared, dumbfounded, at the majestic, awe-inspiring green divine dragon before him, which remained in a rigid state with a look of terror in its eyes.

The entire Shenchong shattered inch by inch along with the palace of the Dream Realm.

And after a single breath, it crumbled away completely!

In this instant, Ao Li also broke free from the Dream Realm and returned to reality.

He saw his master, who had appeared above his head, tapping his skull with the Memory Scepter in hand.

"Awake?"

Su Ping looked at Ao Li and asked aloud.

"Many thanks to Master for saving me!"

Ao Li nodded hurriedly, then, thinking of something, he quickly added:

"Master! Your little dragon Ao Li has always been loyal to you; there was absolutely no leak of information in the Dream Realm!"

Su Ping nodded slightly to show he understood.

As the guardian deity under the Blood God main body, Ao Li was also controlled by Su Ping's Blood Chain.

Therefore, when Ao Li was summoned into the dream by the true dragon.

Su Ping immediately sensed it and left behind two Memory Illusions to place the stone walls from the Inheritance Secret Realm—from those willing to cooperate—into his Storage Spirit Tool.

Su Ping flew back to the sky above the Ten Directions Sect headquarters and began to summon the Blood God main body to empower himself before checking Ao Li's status.

As Su Ping vaguely sensed through the Divine Soul connection that Ao Li had encountered something, he recalled that the inherited knowledge also contained methods for dealing with these Special Secret Techniques or divine abilities.

Aside from setting up relevant Dharma Arrays.

One could also take out high-grade items to influence the opponent's spellcasting.

For example, the soul-losing techniques that even Loose Cultivators of the Side-Door Path could use.

Children of noble families could perfectly avoid them as long as they had a common Dharma Artifact for protection.

Su Ping searched through the items on his person.

He discovered that there were actually quite a few, whether it was the Heavenly Sword Divine Weapon, the Zhumo Changqiang, or the many Spirit Tools from the ownerless items he had recently looted; they all seemed usable.

However, after some thought, Su Ping still took out the Memory Scepter.

Judging from the performance of the Fire Knight and Valkyrie Kong.

Items that could be rated as rare were clearly more extraordinary than anything currently in his hands.

Not to mention that the Memory Scepter was also the rare item he had upgraded the most times.

In terms of quality, this was the highest-ranking item in Su Ping's possession!

And as it turned out, the effect was indeed good.

He picked up the Memory Scepter and tapped the silly dragon before him.

The other party woke up immediately, and the look of worship in his eyes seemed ready to overflow!

After listening to Ao Li's account of the memories from the Dream Realm.

Su Ping thought of the inheritance records he had viewed at the Ten Directions Sect headquarters.

Combined with the memory fragments of those Elders.

Su Ping guessed that the place where those true dragons had fled was likely not a Cave Heaven and Blessed Land attached to the Cultivation World.

But rather a Great World somewhere outside this Cultivation World, like the Immortal World or Demon World mentioned in legends.

"They've already run away, yet they still noticed the mutation of a single jiao dragon?"

"Have they been keeping an eye on this Cultivation World, which is being invaded by Evil Qi and about to be digested, or did the unique nature of my False Dragon Blood attract the attention of the big shots?"

"Or perhaps both?"

Su Ping could not guess the true situation, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

He turned his attention back to the spoils left behind at the Ten Directions Sect headquarters.

After the Immortal Boat Fleet stayed above the Ten Directions Sect headquarters for a day.

Feeling that the world behind them was becoming increasingly illusory and terrifyingly strange.

A sense of urgency arose in Su Ping's heart; after obtaining all the inheritances, he moved to the Pot Heaven to ensure there would be no anomalies.

Su Ping consciously shortened his subsequent itinerary.

However, he also had Ao Li exert himself to use the Communication Array to transmit his route to the entire Nanhuang.

He let the various surviving forces in Nanhuang that still intended to make a final push to leave Nanhuang head to a certain location to gather.

Of course, he declined the inclusion of evil cultivators.

Those who changed their faith halfway were also not allowed!

Ao Li's diligent messaging informed most of the surviving forces in Nanhuang that still had strength of this intelligence.

After much deliberation.

Of course, the most critical point was that the current mutation in Nanhuang was already too obvious to ignore.

The Sun and the moon no longer appeared in the starry sky.

Even a Qi Refining Cultivator, as long as they looked up at the starry sky.

Could clearly feel the malice from beyond the stars, which made their whole body's hair stand on end.

Many Foundation Establishment families that were lucky enough not to have been invaded by Evil Spirits or the Demonic Path, after their Old Ancestors made the desperate decision, had all their cultivators board Flying Boats or other transport tools and rush toward the evacuation point.

And as this great evacuation began.

The speed at which darkness swallowed the Nanhuang territory was also accelerating.

Having lost its earth veins, the Evil Qi content in Nanhuang exceeded the Spirit Qi for the first time.

Thick, living darkness thoroughly eroded the outer seas of Nanhuang and climbed onto the shore.

The moment the earth on the shore encountered the darkness, it immediately transformed into vast stretches of pitch-black swamp.

In the ancestral hall of a large Market near the coastline.

The few remaining withered old Cultivators sat cross-legged inside; having sensed a great terror, they twitched their lips and bit their tongues to keep from screaming out loud.

They were local family Cultivators who had voluntarily stayed behind to seek death.

Already on the verge of dying from old age, they truly did not want to continue fleeing and then compete with the younger generation for precious cultivation resources.

Boom!

The darkness covered this Market in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, everything was plunged into darkness, decomposed, digested, and then fought over and absorbed by the billions of lives within the darkness.

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"The time has come, let's set off!"

Three days after Su Ping had finished helping to clear out a few more ruins left behind by sects and arrived at the agreed-upon evacuation point.

Su Ping scanned his increasingly massive Immortal Boat Fleet and spoke slowly.

Instantly, the black flood dragon roared toward the sky, releasing the Dragon Might that shrouded the fleet.

"Old Ancestor Xueshen has an order!"

"Set sail!"

"Set sail...!"

To ensure the speed of the evacuation, the Nanhuang Cultivators who came here were all distributed among the various Immortal Boats.

The current Immortal Boat Fleet added up to thirty large Immortal Boats and over one hundred medium and small ones.

The number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators responsible for the Immortal Boat Arrays and for Old Ancestor Xueshen reached over seventy.

The rest were about three thousand-plus Qi Refining Cultivators.

As for Golden Core Cultivators... there was not a single one.

However, this situation was quite normal.

Golden Core Cultivators had either followed their sects to flee to other regions.

Or they had stayed put to become evil cultivators, attempting to find another way to survive.

And evil cultivators would never come here to throw their lives away.

Therefore, in a sense, the dozens of Foundation Establishment and thousands of Qi Refining Cultivators that Su Ping now commanded were already the last remaining essence of Nanhuang.

As for mortals?

Unless they had migrated away from Nanhuang early on, the mortals of Nanhuang were already dead.

Accompanying the strange changes in Nanhuang, the path connecting to the Central Region had also become increasingly dangerous and terrifying.

Fortunately, Su Ping was skilled at using force to break through clever obstacles.

Facing fog blocking the path, he would simply summon the Xueshen avatar to trample the fog flat.

When encountering monsters and ghosts attacking, it was even simpler; he would continue to summon the Blood Sea to wash all these things into the Blood God Secret Realm to serve as snacks for the Blood God.

During this period, Ao Li was also exceptionally diligent, showing his absolute loyalty.

This allowed the entire evacuation operation to cross the endless mountain ranges and reach the Central Region territory without any mishaps.

Su Ping opened the Abyss Challenge Scroll and took a look.

After frowning slightly, he had the fleet continue to maintain high-speed movement.

Although according to the map they had already arrived in the Central Region.

But according to the range of influence of the earth veins, they still needed to travel a distance further to be considered as having entered the Central Region's earth vein zone.

Because of this, when he discovered that there were still scattered Markets and family strongholds existing in these intermediate zones along the way.

Su Ping kindly reminded them to leave as soon as possible.

But that was just a reminder; whether they listened or not... Su Ping could not be bothered.

Until they entered the range of influence of the Central Region's earth veins.

He clearly felt the decrease in the density of Evil Qi.

Su Ping breathed a sigh of relief, appeared above the large Immortal Boat, and looked toward the boundary between the Central Region and Nanhuang.

Not long after.

The sky in the direction of Nanhuang suddenly flashed.

Then, as darkness occupied that airspace.

In Su Ping's mind, a terrifying and bizarre image emerged.

The Cultivation World was like an egg boiled in boiling water.

At this moment, the eggshell had already fallen off for the most part as the cracks grew more numerous.

Revealing the hard-boiled egg with only a thin membrane left.

Then, at this very moment, the tip of this hard-boiled egg seemed to have been bitten by a greedy child.

The tip of the egg disappeared all at once, and the hard-boiled egg revealed a crescent-shaped break.

This break, at this very moment, appeared before Su Ping's eyes.

It also appeared before the eyes of all sentient life in the Cultivation World.

However, this terrifying break only appeared for a few seconds.

The remaining earth veins of the Cultivation World shone one after another.

The break was covered by light in the blink of an eye.

Immediately, the normal starry sky covered the scene of the break.

From Su Ping's perspective, even the stretch of mountains and land between Nanhuang and the Central Region that had originally been consumed,

reappeared as the light dissipated.

Only Su Ping knew that everything before his eyes, just like the starry sky, was merely a false disguise.

It was the Cultivation World making its final effort, protecting the last life in this world from being rapidly affected by the external power of the Evil God.

"What was that just now?"

"An illusion? Such a large-scale illusion?"

"It's not an illusion! It's Nanhuang, the Nanhuang where dozens of generations of us lived... It's gone!"

"Wuwuwu!"

Many Cultivators felt sorrow rise from their hearts, kneeling on the deck or venting their emotions inside the ship cabins.

One only realizes how much they care about their homeland when they lose it.

Not to mention the countless friends and family who had died during this difficult period.

"..."

"Hm?"

Su Ping suddenly saw the Immortal Boat of the Artifact Heart Sect appear not far away.

The other party clearly also noticed the anomaly here, but after seeing the scale of the Immortal Boat and Ao Li, the black flood dragon coiled in the sky above,

they cautiously kept their distance and then politely sent a message over.

Upon learning that they had formed a fleet to flee from Nanhuang, they were first shocked and then filled with admiration.

Finally, after a friendly conversation, upon learning that this fleet did not intend to go to the inland regions to seize areas with Spirit Veins,

the Artifact Heart Sect's Immortal Boat expressed goodwill and presented many gifts.

It seemed there was no problem, but in reality, Su Ping was no longer too afraid of what the other party's mindset was.

The Blood God main body had already absorbed the memory fragments of their unfortunate Elder.

He knew the true strength of the current Artifact Heart Sect.

And judging from the process where the previous Sect Master attempted to control the Blood God main body but was backlashed instead,

their high-level combat power was likely not yet recovered.

If one did not count the support of Arrays and Spirit Treasures,

Su Ping even doubted whether their entire sect combined could beat his own Ao Li.

Su Ping led the fleet back to the overseas islands.

That day.

Hundreds of thousands of mortals who were living and working in peace on the various large islands overseas,

saw for the first time an Immortal Boat blocking the sky, covering the sunlight and casting a terrifying Shadow of the Abyss over their dwellings.

The island-managing Deacons with a bit of insight, after seeing the black flood dragon leap down from above the fleet,

did not wait for the other party to release their Dragon Might.

These Cultivators, who were at most at the early stage of Qi Refining, all knelt down in unison.

An Immortal Boat Fleet, a Golden Core flood dragon!

And the mysterious expert wrapped in a blood shadow who could step on the head of the flood dragon and look down at them from above.

Never mind that they were all just a group of mortals on these overseas islands.

Even among those cultivation sects, how many could withstand such a formation?

Almost everyone, after seeing the true owner of this place, Baihe Zhenren, lead the crowd in submission,

did not doubt that this was an act.

Instead, they felt this was a normal, reasonable, and logical behavior.

After all, a mere Foundation Establishment, even if their combat ability was slightly stronger,

what use could they have when facing such a formation?

As if it were a matter of course, he smoothly took over his own foundation.

Su Ping let the Nanhuang fleet that followed him rest for the time being in this relatively safe region.

Although the Spirit Qi here was thin,

it had the advantage of being safe, and there were no Evil Spirits haunting it.

The Cultivators could rely on Spirit Stones and Pills to seize the time to recover from the various hidden injuries accumulated during this period.

Meanwhile, Su Ping put his mind into the creation of the Blood God Secret Realm.

Knowing clearly that there was no Jingtu in the Cultivation World, he began to try to utilize the portable nature of the Blood God Secret Realm.

He attempted to build it into his own mobile base, which would also be convenient for other outsiders to enter and exit.

Su Ping moved the mountain peaks into the Blood God Secret Realm bit by bit, imitating the Yunlai Immortal Realm.

He created floating mountain peaks above the Blood Sea.

Then, he formed a large Barrier through the Arrays between the mountains.

Thereby ensuring that the Spirit Qi would not leak out quickly once the Barrier was filled with it.

As for the Divine Power in the Blood God Secret Realm, it could be managed by controlling the Blood God main body to actively avoid disturbing this Jingtu.

This was a major project.

Fortunately, Su Ping did not need to do all the work himself.

After informing his subordinates of this contingency plan,

everyone who had experienced the Nanhuang incident gave their full support; the vast majority of Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining Cultivators with experience as an Array Master were recruited into the Blood God Secret Realm to carry out the tedious and massive renovation project on the relocated mountain peaks.

With laborers working hard for him.

Su Ping was finally able to have some free time.

So, he hurriedly ran to various Fishing spots and began to clear out the accumulated Fishing attempts.