Chapter 333: Ghost Immortal Forbidden Arts

Water Blue Star.

Outside the perimeter of a large stadium.

Early in the morning, a heavy flow of traffic and people had already formed here.

It was not just people from the city where the stadium was located, but even those from surrounding cities and the towns and villages below were gathering here.

They even displayed a spirit of not fearing hardship, having lined up a night in advance.

If it weren't for the management not allowing the quilts, mattresses, and even tents they had prepared to occupy the sidewalk space.

I fear this area around the stadium could have been surrounded by this army of tents by the next day.

And the reason why the event held at the stadium this time would make them so crazy.

Naturally, it was because there was profit to be made.

And it was related to transcendent items!

In order to establish the faith anchor points for the Moon God Tree on Water Blue Star as quickly as possible.

After Huang Zong and the other spokespersons received this task, which looked simple but had a very short time requirement.

They chose a traditional but effective "pay-to-win" strategy.

They and their partners selected hundreds of cities as cooperation points.

Then they held events to worship the Moon Goddess to obtain purchasing qualifications.

That's right, although it was a "pay-to-win" strategy, what was given was only priority purchasing qualifications for mid-grade transcendent resources, not real gold and silver.

However, in a situation where transcendent goods were dominated by a single source and in short supply.

Priority purchasing qualifications were, in fact, real gold and silver; they were hard currency.

And after Huang Zong and the others discussed it, they also organized a lottery event.

Everyone who obtained a qualification could simultaneously receive a string of numbers.

Then, after the cooperation project ended, Huang Zong and his team would hold a live-streamed lottery.

Allowing the lucky ones who drew the numbers to obtain the purchasing qualification for a higher-level, top-grade transcendent item.

As for the top-grade purchasing qualification being the grand prize, Huang Zong and his team had also looked into the relevant market.

They believed that even if the winner was a pauper.

They would suddenly become wealthy and make good use of their purchasing qualification.

As the cooperation project has developed to this point, although it looks like there are projects everywhere on Water Blue Star.

But compared to the demand of the entire Water Blue Star.

The output of the cooperation projects is clearly still far, far too little.

Mid-to-low-grade materials are basically no different from luxury goods in terms of positioning.

Top-grade materials and above are rare items that are hard to find even with a thousand pieces of gold.

Even for spokespersons like Huang Zong...

Although everything they ate and drank after being summoned to Pot Heaven to report was not below the top-grade standard of Water Blue Star.

But in front of the camera.

Huang Zong, who ate too well and whose physique was developing toward that of a Maitreya Buddha, still kept expressing the preciousness and rarity of top-grade resources.

Even they, these transcendent spokespersons, could not eat them often.

Of course, usually, Huang Zong often deliberately revealed how good and how great top-grade transcendent resources were for mortals.

Things like immunity to all diseases and longevity were just basic functions.

If one ate enough, there was even a small chance of Transcending the Mundane or something; Huang Zong didn't say it explicitly, but he kept hinting that this possibility existed.

Making transcendent resources that could be labeled as top-grade, as long as they appeared on the market.

They were basically all at sky-high prices!

It is no wonder that when Huang Zong and the others used top-grade transcendent resources as bait.

They were able to suddenly attract a massive amount of heat and people on Water Blue Star to pay attention.

In the Eastern Ancient Kingdom, on Sunday morning, the time to start the event arrived.

As the stadium staff pulled open the gates, opening the doors to welcome guests.

A wave of noise and commotion immediately appeared on the plaza and even the roads outside the stadium.

Fortunately, all parties were well-prepared for this; not only were there security personnel on-site to maintain Order.

But there were even many Drones appearing in the sky to monitor and broadcast messages.

At even higher altitudes, there were unmanned airships slowly lowering their altitude to reveal their massive bodies for deterrence.

And in places where organizational strength was not strong enough.

It was personnel possessing transcendent power who conducted the supervision.

For example, in the Nierbo region where Huang Zong was located.

In the capital, they directly invited a Fomen High Monk to sit in at the event site, an ancient, majestic temple.

As that High Monk chanted Buddhist scriptures.

The ancient temple resonated from all directions, and a phantom of the Buddha's Golden Light slowly emerged.

Although these phantoms were only illusions.

They were enough to produce a great deterrent force in this kingdom.

Even the most vicious and evil criminals, upon seeing this scene, obediently followed other believers and knelt on the ground to pay respects.

They were not afraid of death, but they were afraid that after death, their souls would still suffer torture, or even become livestock in the next life.

Although... with the appearance of the cooperation project, those talented livestock were living better and better than ordinary people!

After accepting the Array inspection and entering the venue.

The first thing these people saw was a hundred-meter-tall phantom of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree within the venue.

These phantoms were one of the hundreds of avatars differentiated from the main body of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree.

As anchor points, they accepted the worship of the participants.

People who witnessed the phantom of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree at close range, influenced by the divine light of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree, regardless of gender, age, or status,

would all develop an instinctive sense of awe toward it.

When worshipping, they were also cautious and possessed a certain degree of sincerity in their hearts.

And then, while they were worshipping,

the image of the main body of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree on the Moon would suddenly appear in their minds.

They would be asked if they were truly willing to perform this offering, even if the price was a period of mental lethargy.

Mental lethargy, fatigue, and a tendency to sleep.

But after resting well, there was a chance to increase one's mental limit.

This had also been agreed upon before the event started.

Naturally, those who worshipped would not refuse.

Thus, the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree obtained a large amount of mental energy and even soul fragments from them.

Then, these powers were all transmitted from these avatars into the main body of the Moon Surface Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree.

It was then infused by the main body of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree into the Xiaodongtian formed by the wrapping of countless thick tree roots.

There, these manifestations of will were utilized by the Exorcism and Demon-Subduing Purification Array, which had been improved by Su Ping, the Grandmaster of Arrays.

Just like a great river, it continuously scoured and eroded the remains of those Evil Spirits and evil gods.

After Su Ping returned in triumph, he stayed on the crown of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree, using its supernatural bonus to help him control the Sun Moon Star Chart to digest the Small World within it.

As for the three Return to Void Great Abilities who had been captured—one dead and two severely injured—

Su Ping had the Sun Moon Star Chart spit them out for the time being.

Red Eyebrow Abbot and the Supreme Elder of the Heavenly Dragon Sect were suppressed underground beneath the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree.

Thousands of tree roots instantly pierced the bodies of these two Return to Void Great Abilities.

Using their Primordial Spirits and even the Yuanling transformed from their Nascent Souls to nourish the deficiencies of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree.

In front of the main body of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree, which had thirty thousand years of cultivation, the two severely injured men combined were not enough to put up a fight.

Even if these two could, by some stroke of luck, escape from the underground world of the Moon,

the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree only needed to release its main body divine light to suppress the two of them until they could not move.

Coupled with the unfamiliar starry environment and the fact that it was a land without spiritual energy,

even if these two escaped their prison, they would be like trees without roots.

After these two Return to Void Great Abilities regained a bit of consciousness, they both noticed these conditions and their faces revealed despair.

That Supreme Elder of the Heavenly Dragon Sect even wanted to offer terms to beg for his life.

Yet, the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree faithfully carried out Su Ping's orders.

If he said it was nourishment for himself, then it was nourishment for himself; other than that, it would ignore everything else.

The Yuanling formed by the interlacing tree roots blocked all means the Supreme Elder had to send messages.

Leaving him with a belly full of schemes and plots,

yet nowhere to use them.

He could only be slowly digested by the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree, becoming its further nourishment!

As for that old Sect Master of the Heaven Earth Five Elements Sect, although he appeared dead,

his physical body was Undying, and he was the strongest-looking one among the Return to Void experts.

Ultimately, Su Ping was not entirely at ease.

Thus, Su Ping simply threw him to Xuangui Baxia, letting it swallow him in one gulp.

And then, as expected.

After Xuangui Baxia swallowed him,

the old Sect Master's physical body suddenly exploded, and a Yuanling avatar emerged from within, wanting to escape.

But how could something inside Xuangui Baxia's stomach escape so easily?

"Roar!"

Xuangui Baxia and Su Ping shared a telepathic connection; upon learning the specific situation, Su Ping immediately released the Three-Colored Divine Light for Xuangui Baxia to swallow, helping to suppress the old Sect Master's Yuanling.

Following that, Su Ping's heart stirred, and he released dozens of Space-Storing Talismans.

Xuangui Baxia opened its mouth and sucked these Space-Storing Talismans into its stomach.

Then, not long after.

Inside Xuangui Baxia's stomach, which was like a Cave Heaven Secret Realm,

nuclear explosions occurred one after another!

The high temperature and radiation produced by the nuclear explosions, after hitting the Yuanling, followed the Yuanling as it flew out of the explosion zone.

These high temperatures and radiation were condensed by an inexplicable force, relentlessly pursuing that Yuanling.

Continuously wearing down the strength of this Yuanling.

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In the end, the Yuanling, unable to receive replenishment, lost in this chase.

It dissipated along with its unwilling screams.

Xuangui Baxia devoured the countless memories it scattered.

And relying on its innate ability, it categorized these memories.

This actually saved Su Ping quite a bit of effort.

Su Ping was also quite curious about this old Sect Master.

He therefore diverted a sliver of mental energy to examine him.

The old Sect Master of the Heaven Earth Five Elements Sect was named Huo Xuan Zhen.

He was a peerless prodigy of the Fire Family of the Five Elements Sect.

He achieved Foundation Establishment at thirty and Golden Core at seventy.

At the age of one hundred and twenty, with his Golden Core Late Stage cultivation, he reverse-killed a Nascent Soul fiend, instantly shocking more than half of the Five Elements World.

At two hundred, he stepped into the Spirit Transformation realm and became an Elder of the Heaven Earth Five Elements Sect and the Patriarch of the Fire Family.

It was also at this moment that he received a massive influx of resources and obtained many, many secret technique inheritances he had never even heard of.

It was also at this moment that Huo Xuan Zhen learned the truth about the world.

He learned that the Small Thousand World they were in was already situated in a place of despair.

Like many prodigies of the same generation, Huo Xuan Zhen was young and vigorous.

He believed that they were the Children of Destiny and would certainly be able to find a way to break the deadlock.

Then, Huo Xuan Zhen understood what it meant for despair to grow the more one knew.

At the same time that he relied on the support of the sect and family resources to successfully step into the Return to Void realm on his five-hundredth birthday.

He, who was the Vice Sect Master of the Heaven Earth Five Elements Sect at the time, had also become completely desperate about the matter of becoming the savior of the Small Thousand World.

He began to learn from his elders and ancestors.

He chose to simply live his remaining life well and strengthen the influence of the Heaven Earth Five Elements Sect and the Fire Family.

Anyway, there were so many other Small Worlds in the Small Thousand World that could be abandoned.

By the time it was the Five Elements World's turn.

Perhaps he would have long since suffered from Qi deviation and had his Divine Soul destroyed due to failing to break through to the next realm.

Or perhaps, like his ancestors, he would have chosen to become a Ghost Immortal to survive.

However, this method of extending one's life only made it look like one was still alive, while the Divine Soul consciousness and memories after becoming a Ghost Immortal would become increasingly chaotic due to unknown erosion.

So much so that Huo Xuan Zhen did not even dare to confirm whether those surviving Ghost Immortals were truly still his ancestors.

Huo Xuan Zhen became a Return to Void Great Ability at five hundred.

Yet at fifteen hundred, he became an old Sect Master who didn't manage much, with the new Acting Sect Master responsible for affairs, big and small.

His realm remained stuck at the Void Return Late Stage, unable to make any further progress.

Su Ping, having had contact with the Son of the Evil God and Tian Rulai, was not unfamiliar with this situation.

Perhaps when the Small Thousand World was in the Shikong Haiyang, it still possessed the capacity for cultivators above the Return to Void realm to appear.

But after entering the body of this Mother God and being soaked in Evil Qi for so long.

That it could still support the birth of Return to Void Great Abilities within the Small World.

Was already considered a credit to the generations of prodigies of the Five Elements World for guarding the world and successfully diverting the disaster.

"To break through Return to Void, staying in the Small Thousand World won't work."

"One must take the initiative to strike, either by leaving the mother body or by finding a Great World that has been swallowed and is of a higher level than the Small Thousand World!"

"Unfortunately, trapped in the Small Thousand World, they lack the courage and the awareness to take such a gamble."

"After all, as a collection of thousands of Small Worlds, the Small Thousand World provides far too many resources to the Upper Realm."

"Coupled with a relatively safe cultivation environment..."

"They simply lack the courage to go outside and seek opportunities."

"However..."

"The supreme Forbidden Technique of the Heaven Earth Five Elements Sect... the Art of Becoming a Ghost Immortal?"

"This Forbidden Technique actually looks quite interesting!"

Su Ping rubbed his chin, savoring the relevant memories in detail.

He felt this Forbidden Technique was somewhat similar to the Art of Human-Divine Unity within the Incense Divine Path.

It was just that Ghost Immortals did not require Incense Divine Power.

Even after becoming a Ghost Immortal, one's original cultivation could be preserved, and the power of some techniques could even be enhanced.

It was just that although Ghost Immortals appeared to no longer have issues with lifespan.

They also possessed a problem that the Heaven Earth Five Elements Sect had been unable to resolve for so many years.

Which caused them to list this art as a Forbidden Technique.

Only allowing their own high-level members who did not want to die to use it.

"A bit interesting, I must borrow it to read when I have the chance."

"Perhaps a genius like me could find a perfect solution to this Forbidden Technique, thereby allowing it to be carried forward?"

Su Ping continued to read the memories, keeping all the various details regarding the Upper Realm in his heart.

Su Ping had not forgotten.

After he had previously sent the Queen of Space and Mu Cangtian to sneak into the Upper Realm.

He had left a large number of markers inside.

As long as the timing was right, he could use a Teleportation Talisman at any time to instantly run over and pick up the scraps!

For the next period of time.

Su Ping was either staying on the canopy of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree refining the Sun Moon Star Chart.

Or returning to the Biyuan World to check for any oversights.

And then finding Qingyuan Zhenren, the young Abbot, and other Spirit Transformation cultivators among the natives of the Small World to discuss the Dao.

It could also be considered pooling wisdom to find a better method of refinement.

One week later...

Su Ping, who was cultivating in the crown of the Golden Leaf Bodhi Tree.

Suddenly felt a stir in his heart.

His eyes, bright and piercing, looked toward the distant starry sky.