Chapter 1177

"Yan Yan Shixiong, how long has it been?"

On the Yinhe, Jiang Shang came stepping on a petal of the Karmic Fire Red Lotus.

This place does not distinguish between day and night, and even a first-grade Jin Dan would find it difficult to determine the time. Only Cui Dan, with the Five Elements like a wheel slowly rotating, knows the time sequence best.

"About two months!"

Cui Dan, who had refined the Primordial Divine Jade, had been practicing with all his heart these days, feeling somewhat unaware of why Heaven and Earth existed. Seeing Jiang Shang with a bitter face, he couldn't help but ask one more question: "What's wrong? Your 'Great Sun Golden Glow Pill' is already mature, it's time to consider forming the core!"

"Although the Primordial Divine Jade is not a bad external medicine, that Feng Xianzi Liu of the Guanghan Palace possesses the Tai Yin Immortal Light and has formed a second-grade True Pill close to the first-grade Guanghan Ice Soul Pill. She wants to make up for the foundation of forming the core, and you have also reached the time to consider forming the pill. It is a good thing for you to practice together and participate together?"

"Could it be that you are worried Master won't agree?"

Cui Dan joked: "I can't help you with that. After all, she is a disciple of the Guanghan Palace, and Master hasn't reached the time to take over the Guanghan Palace yet!"

Jiang Shang sighed: "Yan Shixiong Sister Liu... Yan Shixiong Sister Liu practices the Ice Soul Divine Blade. The intensity of the Guanghan love tribulation is known to everyone in the Earth Immortal Realm. Master can subdue it, but I can't handle it!"

"Moreover..."

He hesitated slightly, but still said: "That Yan Shixiong Sister seems to treat me as a medicine person and a human pill. I don't want to be medicine dregs."

Jiang Shang hurriedly changed the subject: "I just wanted to ask Yan Yan Shixiong, how far is it to the Black Emperor Altar, and have we lost our way halfway?"

"For the past two months, you first-grade Golden Cores haven't asked or cared, and it's inevitable that others are panicked. Especially..."

"Especially what?"

Cui Dan asked curiously: "We few first-grade Golden Cores have all obtained a little Primordial Divine Jade. Don't look at how first-grade Golden Cores are still somewhat remarkable in the Earth Immortal Realm; in this Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, we are just like ants. The Great Fangshi Xu Fu's strike turned the world upside down, and one hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals were refined into stone figurines. Which one of them has a cultivation base not higher than ours? We are also afraid!"

"We can only practice painstakingly and refine the most neutral and peaceful Primordial Divine Jade."

"Counting the days, those few first-grade Golden Cores should also have refined the divine jade..."

Jiang Shang said speechlessly: "Several Yan Shixiong Brothers chose the Primordial Divine Jade, but there are others who chose the strange treasures nurtured in the beast-like lands like the White Tiger, and the water-like lands like the Koi."

"These two months, Yan Yan Shixiong couldn't free his hands, but everyone is a genius rising star of the Earth Immortal Realm after all, and none of them are simple characters."

"This didn't stop someone from thinking of an evil method to untie the Primordial Divine Stone wrapping the treasures?"

"Oh?" Cui Dan sat up in surprise: "I have to refine the surface layer of Primordial Divine Stone for half a day. How did they untie it?"

Jiang Shang looked under him and sighed: "Naturally, by using the Karmic Fire Red Lotus we are riding. Someone found a method to draw out the fire of the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and slowly refine the stone shell on the outside."

"Speaking of which, this person is still your clansman, named Cui Luo."

"He took that stone egg from the Taotie land, drew out the karmic fire in the red lotus, and burned the stone shell on the surface. Inside, however, was a strange gold—Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Iron."

"It is a mineral vein from a great world destroyed by demons, which sank into the Nine Nethers and was rusted by demonic Qi, then melted by the Soul-Sucking Demon Wind of the Nine Nethers, and deposited in the Demon Abyss of the Nine Nethers. It is a supreme treasure of the Demon Dao, and many sect-protecting magic treasures of the Demon Dao in the Earth Immortal Realm are refined with this object."

"It is also formed by the Nine Nethers' 'Tai Shi Soul-Sucking Wind' melting rusty gold Qi, and it is naturally able to capture souls and seize spirits. It is one of the nine best strange golds in the universe for refining flying swords!"

Jiang Shang said this and was also a bit envious: "That piece of stone opened up a full five taels of Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Iron, enough to refine two supreme flying swords of the Demon Dao!"

Cui Dan didn't care. Their Cui clan had two mineral veins in Qinghe County, mining Tai Yi Yuan Gold.

They could produce three taels of gold sand every year, and they had never lacked materials for refining flying swords.

"It's ultimately a Demon Dao object, so he can't use it, right!" Cui Dan frowned slightly: "Cui Luo is a member of my Cui clan. If he really flies out with a sword that can capture the souls of people and livestock within a hundred miles with one sound, I'm afraid the ancestor will have to take action personally to clean up the sect!"

Their Cui clan uses the Qinghe Sacred Virtue Sword; they really can't afford to lose that face!

"He meant that there is a way to sell it in exchange for Tianhe Star Sand."

Jiang Shang stammered, ultimately too embarrassed to say the little calculation in his heart.

Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Iron!

This object is only produced in the Nine Nethers, and it is rarer than any Tianhe Star Sand or Tai Yi Yuan Gold in the Earth Immortal Realm. If it is used as a main ingredient for alchemy, it might be able to refine a good pill.

Cui Dan was already numb.

"Tianhe Star Sand, the Western Extreme Yin Evil Sea is an important place of production. Because the Yin Evil Sea is a huge meta-magnetic earth cave, it naturally swallows starlight, and star sand from the star river often falls into it, polished by the Yin Evil, and the quality is even three points better."

"Being able to exchange such treasures with the White Bone Demon City, I'm afraid your cousin and the White Bone Demon City haven't just had 'friendship' for a day or two!"

Cui Dan sighed: "Right and wrong are not distinguished, Dao and Demon are mixed, which is also the norm for my aristocratic family... no, for the entire Earth Immortal Realm."

He shook his head helplessly. After all, the Demon Dao is an important part of the Earth Immortal Realm's ecology.

If you don't like it, don't play!

Since the late years of the Three Heavenly Divine Dynasties, it has been common for the Demon Dao to mingle in the imperial court. Nowadays, many high-ranking ministers in the Northern Wei imperial court have to swallow demonic Qi and refine demon heads when they go home.

They are all loyal ministers and filial sons, serving in the same hall as his brother, his father, and his Cui clan.

To say that Dao and Demon are incompatible, that Dao and Demon cannot coexist under the same sky, let alone his Cui family, even Master Kou wouldn't have the face to say it!

Even if the abbot of the White Horse Temple came, wouldn't he have to greet those demonic ministers?

It can only be said that Dao and Demon are positions, and the imperial court is also a position.

And these two positions, it's not necessarily which one is more important!

His Cui clan, Li clan, Wang clan, Lu clan, Wei clan, these northern great surnames, might have to mix with the Bohai Gao clan, a demonic aristocratic family, and the Xianbei Qiu Mu Ling clan, a mixed demonic-Buddhist great surname, to denounce the 'treacherous ministers' in the imperial court!

Jiang Shang was also speechless. His best friend, Shen Bao, was heading toward the Demon Dao.

Neither of them could say anything about the other. By the end, who knows who would be more deeply involved with the Demon Dao!

"Sigh! Fortunately, Master doesn't seem to be the kind of person who has deep views on Dao and Demon, otherwise, maybe one day, he would have cleaned up the sect!"

"We are lucky to be under the true transmission of Tai Shang. We should have kept the righteousness and eliminated demons, but! The word 'fate' is really hard to say. My close friend, I failed to introduce him to the right path, but..."

"Sigh! Only friends like Master, who are upright and unyielding, are the pillars of the righteous path!"

Jiang Shang thought of his master's friends—

Shaoqing true transmission, the daughter of the Zhang Tian Shi, plus a Guanghan Feng Xianzi, they are truly as righteous as can be!

Judging from his master's friends, they are all from famous and righteous sects, and there is no fear of associating with evil people!

Cui Dan looked at him with a complex expression...

Uncle Yan is not better than you!

Is it possible?

Is it possible that our Master is, is, that...

Cui Dan still didn't open his mouth in the end. Anyway, judging from his master's methods in the Pinghu Blessed Land, the person who led you and Shen Bao into the Demon Dao might be him!

"Cui Luo is utilitarian and does such eager-for-quick-success things, which is not surprising. I am Qinghe Cui, he is Boling Cui, we are separated by a layer after all, so it's not easy to say anything. But fortunately, Brother Chuo is watching. He is steady and should be able to suppress those people!"

Jiang Shang wanted to speak but stopped.

Cui Dan saw it, as he had a person with a 'dengtu' (lecherous) look, and immediately saw it, asking: "What's wrong!"

"Brother Chuo, is that Yan Shixiong Cui Chuo?"

Jiang Shang stammered: "Yan Shixiong Cui Chuo discovered the method of using the red lotus karmic fire to burn the Primordial Divine Stone when he was on that stone mountain, so he didn't follow us to Mount Shizhong, but found a group of people to climb another island and burned out many stone eggs."

"Obtained many specialties of the Nine Nethers and the Yinhe!"

"Even the Primordial Divine Jade, he obtained three pieces, and he is the most sought-after person. Most people learned his method to draw out the power of the red lotus karmic fire."

"Cui Luo should have learned his method to untie the stone eggs..."

Cui Dan's eyes went dark, and he suddenly understood why Jiang Shang told him these things.

He hurriedly asked: "They consumed the red lotus fire, is the remaining karmic fire enough to support them drifting on the Yinhe?"

Jiang Shang said sincerely: "It hasn't reached that point yet. Yan Shixiong Cui Chuo summoned all those who consumed the red lotus fire, connected the boats of the Karmic Fire Red Lotus together, and turned them into a huge red lotus. In this way, gathering everyone's karmic fire, it can protect them for longer."

"It's just..."

Cui Dan asked: "What is it again?"

"It's just that Yan Shixiong Cui Chuo also created a method of fishing for things in the Yinhe using the Karmic Fire Red Lotus."

"They use the demonic objects they don't need from the untied stone eggs to fish for evil spirits in the Yinhe! Once an evil spirit takes the bait, they refine it with karmic fire, so they are constantly consuming fire. If this continues, even if everyone is together, it's not certain how long they can hold on!"

Cui Dan frowned: "Why is Cousin so unwise? Knowing that the karmic fire in the red lotus is the only thing protecting us..."

Speaking of this, Cui Dan suddenly realized: "That's it!"

"He is not unwise, but too wise. I led you to climb the mountain, and he knew that Master was secretly protecting us in the dark. I'm afraid he treated this as a test from Master."

Cui Dan drove the red lotus boat under his feet and soon caught up with a huge lotus flower floating on the Yinhe, on which a palace was built.

There were about ninety-odd red lotus petals gathered together, with figures moving and bustling on it.

It seemed to be a Dharma assembly for exchanging treasures.

Cui Chuo was in the center of the lotus, presiding over the Dharma assembly. Seeing his clansman rushing over, he was not surprised.

Instead, he introduced him: "Fellow Daoists have gained something in the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, and many things they don't need, they also want to exchange for things they need."

"Only by grasping every means to strengthen oneself can one have the capital to mingle in the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum. Cui Dan, why don't you take a look and see if there is anything you need?"

Cui Dan's eyes slid over a broken beast bone—that might be the bone of a Zhu Yan.

The Zhu Yan is a race that proved the Disaster Great Dao in ancient times. Legend has it that it was a demon race great sage who competed with the original emperor for the position of the ape race leader.

Even among the demon race, this sage was very special, because the ancient ape race was half-human and hid the bloodline of the human race.

And since the Zhu Yan Great Sage proved the Disaster Dao fruit.

It is hard to imagine any race whose disasters are more profound and terrifying than those caused by the human race.

So there has always been a rumor that the Zhu Yan is the manifestation of the human race's beast nature.

That piece of broken bone could cause the Five Emperors Wheel to stagnate, and it should have something to do with the Zhu Yan, but Cui Dan didn't come here to exchange treasures.

He immediately said: "Brother Chuo, consuming the red lotus karmic fire like this, how much certainty do you have that you can support it until the Black Emperor Altar?"

Cui Chuo pondered, and only after a while did he say slowly: "If others asked, I wouldn't say, but since you came to ask, I will tell you frankly—the Black Emperor Altar is not far away, or rather, we are almost there!"

Cui Dan's expression moved slightly. He knew that his clansman never said things he wasn't sure about.

At this time, a black shadow folded from the sky and landed beside Cui Chuo.

This time Cui Chuo no longer hid it and showed the black shadow to everyone.

Only to see a black swallow landing on a golden plate, pecking at a few blood-red lotus seeds. Jiang Shang was stunned for a moment before saying: "So you asked me to refine the 'Seed-Forming Pill', it was used here."

Cui Chuo laughed: "The day before yesterday, someone untied a stone egg produced in the toad land, which contained a water gall, the essence of the Yinhe. I heard that Little Friend Jiang is good at alchemy, so I asked him to use that Yinhe essence to refine a Demon Dao pill—'Child-Mother River Water'!"

"In this way, using the Child-Mother River Water to drip on this red lotus, a lotus pod was formed, producing twelve lotus seeds."

"Combined with the sacrificial method, I summoned this mysterious bird back. It is also because of this that I can accurately judge—we are indeed almost at the Black Emperor Altar!"

The mysterious bird swallowed three red lotus seeds in one breath.

The golden mouth, like gold, smacked its lips as if savoring the taste, its intelligent eyes turned, and it looked at the crowd with disdain.

Among those present, no one dared to have any opinion.

That was the totem of the Immortal Qin—the mysterious bird. If it really showed its power, everyone present together wouldn't be enough for it to clean up.

The little mysterious bird regained a bit of the arrogance it had on the building ship, and it couldn't see the embarrassed look it had under Xu Fu at all!

After all, this totem of it might have a bit of face in front of other Immortal Qin people.

But meeting Ying Zheng and those Great Fangshi under him, one by one, none of them put it in their eyes!

As the mysterious bird tasted the lotus seeds, it soon flew up again, its wings like cutting open the Yinhe, cutting open the gray curtains in front of everyone...

The next moment, a magnificent sun appeared in front of everyone!

A golden chariot drove over the Yinhe.

An old man on it struck the sky, and the golden light turned into dozens of whips, striking down like thunder and lightning, rolling up strips of Yinhe.

The Yinhe that everyone was riding was also rolled up, like rushing onto a bridge spanning the void, and was rolled into the sky.

A loud rumbling sound was heard: "You old immortal of the Blazing Sun Sect, you don't stay in the Jin Gui Great World to be your Supreme Elder, how dare you come to the Earth Immortal Realm to be presumptuous!"

A Corpse Skeleton Emperor waved his hand and grabbed dozens of golden whips.

The White Bone Demon City crashed out of the void, collided with the golden chariot, and knocked the Supreme Elder of the Blazing Sun Sect off the golden chariot. The two Demon Dao giants of the Earth Immortal Realm laughed loudly: "Mere ants of the lower realm, how dare you offend my Great Demon of the Primordial Era?"

"Today, I will refine you into a strange corpse for my Corpse-Carrying Sect!"

"Demon, don't be rampant!"

A round plate floated in the sky, and after just turning once, the White Bone Demon City actually returned to the void along the way it came.

"Light-Time Disc? The Two Elders of the Great Wilderness? You are also a Nascent Soul of the Earth Immortal Realm, why help an outsider?"

"If you don't take action, won't this altar spiritual treasure be occupied by your Demon Dao?"

"I have already calculated that this altar has five statues in total, which is a set of spiritual treasures, the altar for the Immortal Qin to sacrifice to the Five Emperors of the Primordial Era. The periphery of this Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum is where these two sets of spiritual treasures, the Nine Gates and Five Terraces, are the most important. Your Demon Dao can join forces, why can't we side sects?"

At this time, everyone saw clearly what appeared in front of them!

A majestic building appeared at the end of the Yinhe, backed by the boundless Blood Sea. The black-gold building emitted rolling power, and strips of restrictions crossed the sky, sealing everything in front of it.

The closer they got, the more the space was reduced, turning into ants.

Several spiritual treasures fought into a piece in front of the building, and the Yinhe they were on was caught in the crossfire, innocently involved.

At this moment, the Two Elders of the Great Wilderness from the Eastern Extreme Great Wilderness Mountain and the Supreme Elder of the Blazing Sun Sect from the Jin Gui Great World joined forces to fight against the two Heavenly Demons of the Corpse-Carrying Sect and the White Bone Demon City of the Earth Immortal Realm.

The four divine demons carrying the White Bone Demon City took action, obviously wanting to beat the golden chariot in the sky and the several Yin Rivers rolled up into powder.

And the lotus flower everyone was riding was in the center, and it was about to be caught between the two sides.

It would be easily obliterated by existences that could be called great powers even among the Nascent Soul True Immortals.

Only a Buddha's name was heard, and a big hand gently picked them up: "Fellow Daoists, don't hurt the juniors. It doesn't matter if you hurt the juniors, but there is a disciple of that Louguan Sect Master inside. You don't want the Louguan Sect Master who secretly calculated the Black Emperor of the Heavenly Court to come to your door, right?"

The Nascent Soul Supreme Supreme Tian Mo whose Nascent Soul was entrusted in the Corpse Demon Emperor's body from the Corpse-Carrying Sect snorted coldly.

The old demon in the White Bone Demon City stopped his hand even more, muttering: "I can't afford to offend him. Before in Chang'an, my White Bone Demon City couldn't withstand a few of his moves..."

The mysterious bird laughed and flew over everyone's heads.

Obviously, sending them into the center of the battlefield was intentional by this bird...