Chapter 997: Eternal Life: My Steady Farming-Style Cultivation Chapter 997 Returning Flow Part 2

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

After the demon sha qi dissipated, the color at Xu Zhangqing's fingertips changed again.

This time, the qi transformed into purple, carrying an utterly pure and yang breath — precisely the third layer of the spell art, named "Purple Origin".

This purple qi is that very strand of utterly pure heaven-and-earth qi that came from the east; upon touching any object or energy, it will "restore" it to its original form.

For instance, a fireball would be restored to fire spirit qi.

And a magic treasure would be restored to ore.

Moreover, the purple qi also possesses purifying ability: demon qi would be restored to pure heaven-and-earth spiritual energy, and sha qi would be restored to harmless yin-yang qi.

Finished?

Not at all!

When the purple qi touches oneself or allies, it traces back to the original state.

For example, a wound corroded by sha qi — as the purple qi brushes past, the sha qi is first restored to harmless qi, and then the wound recovers to its state "before being injured".

Similarly, a magic treasure contaminated by demon qi, after being permeated by the purple qi, has the demon qi restored to spiritual energy, and the magic treasure recovers its original spirituality.

Furthermore, when this move is operated to its utmost, the qi turns purple-gold, and for a short time becomes the "destination" of heaven-and-earth qi.

All qi within a hundred li radius — whether spiritual energy, demon qi, sha qi, earth qi, death qi, blood qi, or any other kind of qi — will be drawn by the purple qi.

Xu Zhangqing hovered in mid-air, his fingertips alternately condensing six-colored spiritual energy, gray-black dark-red intertwined demon sha qi, and the purple-ultimate qi from the east.

Each layer can be flexibly switched between, and different qi can also be fused together.

For instance, fusing wood spirit qi with purple qi turns the qi blue-purple, capable of both defense and healing, with effects doubled.

As dawn gradually brightened, Xu Zhangqing recovered from his trance, the aura around him growing ever more condensed.

And he named this spell art "Returning Flow".

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Meanwhile, Li Lingbi was summoning his core subordinates to prepare for the migration.

Boom!

Suddenly, an earth-shaking roar came from outside the city.

"Not good!"

"This is completely over!"

"A large batch of monsters has appeared outside the city, destroying the teleportation arrays we built earlier!"

Soon, a cultivator stumbled into the mansion, his face pale as paper.

He was covered in blood, looking as if he had just escaped danger, his breath quite disordered.

"What?"

Li Lingbi's face changed drastically: "We reinforced the teleportation arrays multiple times, stationed large numbers of cultivators to guard them, and even laid out layer upon layer of protective arrays!"

Previously, for convenience's sake, the teleportation arrays were built outside.

They were not far from the Imperial City, so we originally thought they could be kept safe.

Never expected these monsters would destroy them so easily.

Xu Zhangqing speculated: "Perhaps someone betrayed us."

Li Lingbi's face darkened: "You mean... a traitor?"

Xu Zhangqing nodded lightly: "Correct."

In such a special period, there are always some people who disregard others' lives for their own private gain.

However, things having come to this, ferreting out the traitor in a short time is virtually impossible.

Immediately, everyone left the room and swiftly flew outside.

By the time they reached the city wall, the spiritual light of the distant teleportation arrays had completely shattered.

The cultivators guarding the teleportation arrays all lay in pools of blood, countless monsters roaring and circling as if they had won the final victory.

The original plan was very simple: just escort everyone willing to leave to the teleportation arrays, and they could cross realms and depart.

Although the spirit stones consumed would be an astronomical figure, with things as they were, this was also a no-choice solution.

But now, the teleportation arrays have been destroyed by monsters, and there are even traitors coordinating — this plan can only be abandoned.

From now on, everyone will be forced to traverse the entire Central Region to reach Dongyu.

"The Central Region has now completely become the monsters' back garden."

Li Lingbi gazed at the surging demon mist outside the city, his tone full of helplessness: "Humans retreating step by step, territory continuously compressed, growing weaker and weaker.

Crossing the Central Region this journey — the peril is unimaginable."

Initially, he himself did not lack this idea, but the difficulty was too great.

This is also why they kept protecting the teleportation arrays.

Yet never expected that the development of events had already exceeded predictions.

Xu Zhangqing patted his shoulder and said seriously: "Things having come to this, we have no other way; when the time comes I will clear the path."

In truth, the task of protecting the teleportation arrays should have been done by himself.

It just so happened that last night, observing the qi of the Zhou Tian, he suddenly had an epiphany.

With the discussion settled, Li Lingbi immediately ordered the organization of manpower to build flying ships.

These flying ships only need to be able to fly and carry as many people as possible, so the design is simple.

In just three days, hundreds of massive flying ships were completed.

Those willing to leave, regardless of men, women, old, or young, could all board the ships smoothly.

"Just leaving like this?"

"Home... my home is gone!"

"Unexpected, I'm already a hundred years old, yet I've embarked on the road of fleeing!"

In these people's expressions, there was both reluctance to part with their homeland and panic about the road ahead.

With everything ready, Xu Changqing rode Kong Ling into mid-air, then manipulated the Five-Colored Banner to open a safe passage for the hundreds of flying ships.

Li Lingbi sat commanding the flagship, directing the cultivators to control the surrounding flying ships.

But even so, they had just left the Imperial City when they attracted countless demons; they swarmed over, pouncing on the flying ships with howls, their eyes full of greed.

For demons, human flesh and blood are necessities for increasing Dao Xing; the more they eat, the faster their Dao Xing rises.

Watching the more and more demons, Li Lingbi's sense of crisis grew stronger: "Changqing, there are too many demons, if this continues the flying ships will eventually be breached!"

Xu Changqing heard this and glanced at him, saying blandly: "I'm here!"

The words barely fell before he had Kong Ling charge into the demon horde ahead, while his fingertips condensed Six Qi and he waved a hand, shaking over a hundred approaching demons into blood mist.

However, these demons seemed endless, wave after wave; not only were there swarms of lesser demons, there were even Demon Kings with Dao Xing exceeding a thousand years.

Not only that, a green figure rushed out from the demon horde, hovering in mid-air, its surrounding Demon Qi several times denser than the other Demon Kings — it was actually a Demon Emperor.

This demon was half-human half-snake; the upper body was a man of bizarre appearance, his eyes emerald-green vertical pupils.

The lower half was a thick snake tail covered in green scales, its overall length exceeding three zhang.

It was actually it that, colluding with traitors among humans, had destroyed the Teleportation Array in advance.

The Green-Eyed Snake's gaze fell on Kong Ling, the corner of its mouth twitching up in mockery: "Kong Ling, as a descendant of the Demon God, flowing with the Demon God's bloodline, you are actually willing to sink to being a human cultivator's mount.

Such humiliation, better to just die!"

Kong Ling instantly flew into a rage, its seven-colored feathers bristling one by one, saying fiercely: "Little Green spawn, you're no better!

Your father is a human cultivator, you're a half-human half-demon monster, the Demon Realm couldn't tolerate you so they sent you to the Central Region as cannon fodder, and you're fit to mock me?"

"Sharp-tongued!"

The Green-Eyed Snake's face darkened, it couldn't be bothered with more nonsense, and immediately ordered the Demon Kings and lesser demons beside it: "Attack, eat all these people, occupy this district."

The more people killed, the richer the rewards they obtain.

Now the Central Region is in great chaos, precisely the perfect opportunity to expand territory and accumulate merit.

The more people killed, the wider the territory occupied, the more likely to obtain the Demon God's favor!