Chapter 628: Visitors from Samsara, Those of Demonic Paths Must Die

"Main Mission I: Explore the truth of 'Western Kunlun' while completing your identity roleplay. Completion reward: 2,000 Merit (Truth progress: 98%) (Roleplay deviation: 100%)!"

"Main Mission II: Find the Western Kunlun Mirror. Contact with the Western Kunlun Mirror will allow for return..."

"Side Mission: Slay the tracker using the Thread-Tying Samsara Talisman—the Yuntan Heavenly Demon. Upon returning to the Samsara Land, you will obtain all the items he possesses! Reward: 1,000 Merit..."

Brother Qian Chen stared at the prompts from the Lord of Samsara, his inner doubts growing: "This mission is highly unusual! The Western Kunlun Mirror was originally a spiritual treasure on the Samsara Land's exchange list, yet it has appeared in this world! If there is truly a person, or a group of people, behind the Lord of Samsara, then what is their purpose in setting this mission and guiding me to contact the Western Kunlun Mirror?"

"The first Samsara mission had me investigate the Dragon Head; it was highly likely to recover that meteorite which had been struck down by the Innate One-Qi Great Capture and bore a palm print!"

"The second mission was quite normal, having us slay demons and eliminate the Blood Demon tribulation! But in this mission, I happened to encounter Senior Brother Yan and Junior Sister Si. That three direct disciples of the Three Pure Ones appeared in the same mission—is this a coincidence? I don't believe it!"

"The Great Tang world of the third mission is indeed a projection of the future light of the universe, and the Clear Purity Pearl within it is suspected to be the spirit elixir I will refine in the future! That world seems to be reflecting a segment of history..."

"Beneath the five ancient capitals of Chang'an, Jin Ling, Luoyang, Jidu, and Laoqiu (Kaifeng), Nine-Nether rifts appeared, and an eternal demonic tribulation descended! This seems to be hinting at our future history."

"The world of the fourth mission was filled with endless demonic disasters, suspected to be a world altered by demonic Samsara travelers, and it contained innate creatures like the Innate Peacock and the Yin-Yang Bamboo Bear that had refined the Yin-Yang Five Elements Qi."

"The world of the fifth mission is simply a universe opened up by the Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Western Kunlun Mirror..."

Brother Qian Chen recalled that when he first entered the Samsara Land, the Lord of Samsara had hinted that he could sell the Dao Dust Pearl to the Samsara Land in exchange for a sum of Merit points.

Brother Qian Chen's true form was the Dao Dust Pearl; naturally, he would not sell himself to the Samsara Land for a bit of "pocket change."

But thinking about it now, the Lord of Samsara might not have been unaware of his identity! Thus, the act of encouraging him to sell himself was highly questionable!

"Other acquired spiritual treasures are one thing! The innate spiritual treasures on the exchange list are each equivalent to beings at the Dao Lord realm. Even the Twelve Golden Men, which are Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts, have developed autonomous consciousness. Who could sell them to the Samsara Land?"

"Their masters?"

"Could those great powers capable of controlling innate spiritual treasures sell their own sect-protecting treasures for that pittance of Merit from the Samsara Land?"

"Back then, I felt the Samsara Land was deeply strange. Things like the Supreme Profound Yin Fan, the Earth-Covering Turbid Qi Great Plate, the Twelve-Rank Merit Golden Lotus, and the Western Kunlun Mirror were all in the hands of the Demon Ancestor or Buddha Ancestor, or bestowed as sect-protecting treasures. Could anyone truly move them?"

"At the time, I felt the origin behind the Samsara Land must be shockingly vast; it might even have been founded by several major sects combined! But now, having truly come into contact with the Western Kunlun Mirror, I know that the power of such innate spiritual treasures is truly extraordinary. Just by landing here, its body can open up a universe."

"And those 'transmigrators' being sent from the past and future to the present by the Western Kunlun Mirror is done without effort. I fear this mirror truly has the power to manipulate time and traverse the past and future!"

"If so, the appearance of this divine mirror on the list, and even its landing in the Void World Sea to open this universe, carries implications..."

Brother Qian Chen's heart chilled, and he had a faint, terrifying guess. He sat cross-legged within the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array, lowered his head, and whispered: "It seems it is time to go see the Western Kunlun Mirror!"

The Western Kunlun Research Institute itself was an extremely powerful magic treasure and one of the few Ninth-Rank artifacts whose true body was on Earth.

Its true form was an existence resembling a lotus lamp. Within the iron hall of the lotus lamp, it also hid the 'Western Kunlun' master server, the Nine-Condensation Cauldron, and the Innate One-Qi Chaos Origin Embryo, which contained all data backups!

Wu Wu Tianci and Pan Pan Jianping hid on the side of the building, not daring to look directly at the lotus-shaped, gracefully curved structure. They meditated on the Dao Talisman at their brow centers, restrained their minds, and carefully probed the virtual network enveloping the vicinity!

Western Kunlun Research Institute!

That was a research institution with a famous name in history; it was said that the path of cultivation began here.

Although Wu Wu Tianci and Pan Pan Jianping had seen more brilliant cultivation civilizations after entering the Samsara Land—where the strong in those mission worlds could control heaven and earth energy and temper powerful physical bodies without relying on external objects like virtual networks—

even martial arts experts who hadn't stepped into the threshold of cultivation could split mountains and shatter rocks with their bare bodies.

But when they first exchanged for cultivation classics and achieved some success, preparing to make a name for themselves in this world,

the major monopoly groups and giant corporations immediately turned around and taught them a lesson...

All spells and supernatural powers could not be used in reality. Tempering the body and practicing martial arts also led to being beaten black and blue by the cyborgs of this world, the lay disciples from the Skyborne Skyborne Shaolin! The martial cultivators patronized by major monopoly groups! And even ordinary soldiers loaded with cybernetic combat prosthetics!

It taught the two of them a profound lesson on what it meant for flesh and blood to be no match for alloy!

Hard-tempered flesh and blood could not keep up with the high-tech prosthetics that others were constantly upgrading! The spirit they had painstakingly tempered and the martial arts they had forged through combat were not necessarily better than the martial arts programs supported by big data analysis and virtual networks!

Thinking of how he had once learned a set of Indestructible Golden Body martial arts, becoming impervious to blades and guns, slaughtering his way through mission worlds, and thinking he could run rampant in reality, Wu Wu Tianci recalled his expansion after achieving success in cultivation and his intent to covet power and status in the real world. Even now, he felt so embarrassed that his toes almost tore through his soles, digging a small hole in the ground!

The so-called Indestructible Golden Body was no better than pork in front of the high-frequency blades of corporate field agents.

Later, he simply took a Gauss sniper rifle to the mission world, killing a martial arts grandmaster with every shot, and only then did he understand—

"Cultivators... the times have changed!"

In their world, the path of cultivation was hidden too deeply!

Later, a few more people joined their team, one of whom was a cultivator in the real world, and only then did they learn that the financial groups in reality had long been able to unearth cultivation classics and principles from the 'Western Kunlun' game developed from ancient relics.

There were even immortals who had walked far on the path of cultivation whose consciousnesses had entered their universe.

With the help of these people, human body modification technologies like prosthetics had developed rapidly!

Because the initial prosthetics were puppet bodies manufactured for these cultivators.

In reality, there were 'magic artifacts' loaded with restrictive spiritual light that possessed incredible abilities in the virtual world and were also extremely powerful control programs in reality, controlling satellites, weapon systems, and various high-tech weapons.

There were even 'sword cultivators' who used 'flying swords' manipulated by virtual networks, with sword light that could cut through anything!

In the mission worlds, there were indeed supernatural spells far more powerful than these. For example, in a high-level character world they once entered—Penglai Continent—there were even existences like Nascent Soul great powers who could turn the world upside down.

The Immortal Dao creations developed by Penglai Continent, combined with the relics of an ancient empire called the Immortal Qin, were even more terrifying than reality. Those major sects each piloted flying ships like continents, roaming above the blue void, known as Star Ships!

Every Star Ship had a Nascent Soul True Immortal sitting in command, serving as a symbol of a top sect!

These Star Ships were composed of countless magic artifact and magic treasure components, with their cores opened into 'Cave Heavens.' A single Star Ship was equivalent to a spiritual treasure, carrying an entire sect to roam the Penglai Continent.

They built giant energy towers on land spiritual veins to refine spirit stones.

They had massive artifact-refining workshops and elixir-refining workshops producing massive amounts of resources.

There were nine such sects with Star Ships on Penglai Continent, and three more overseas, known as the Heavenly Sects!

Among them, the Heavenly Sects on Penglai Continent were led by the Yingzhou Sect, while the three overseas were of one mind, serving as the bridgehead for the nine major Heavenly Sects of Penglai Continent to invade another continent in the past. Later, the nine major Heavenly Sects underwent iterations, and the three islands hung alone overseas, gradually becoming independent, known as the Sandao of Penglai!

These three islands and nine sects formed the representative of the entire Penglai Continent Immortal Dao—the Penglai Alliance!

However, even in a world where the path of cultivation was so prosperous, its techniques and classics were still useless to Wu Wu Tianci and Pan Pan Jianping. Who made them live in a world where spiritual energy did not exist, and all means based on heaven and earth energy could not be used?

"This world is too oppressive!"

Pan Pan Jianping stared at the Western Kunlun Research Institute not far away, her right fist clenching quietly: "Although there is a path of cultivation, compared to the orthodox path of cultivation, it appears extremely—bizarre!"

"Those puppets that modify their own bodies, known as prosthetics. Those who upload their consciousness and become AI, known as Corpse-Dissolving Immortals..."

"To be so extremely crazy, this is truly a demonic path of cultivation! Using technology to modify oneself, the physical body does indeed become powerful quickly, but the cultivation of the mind cannot keep up, and the psychology will alienate into a demon! Perhaps, this world is truly in the Age of Dharma Decline!"

A gloomy, oppressive, and even somewhat desperate aura shrouded her soul.

"The Samsara Land seems to have items for exchange that can change the main world! Once this mission is successful! I should be able to gather 3,000 Merit and open the higher-level exchange list!"

"At that time, I must pay attention to such items and go to those worlds that are still in the prosperous age of cultivation to fight for a chance to become an immortal and attain the Dao! According to my experience, even a world like Penglai Continent, which is almost like the heavenly realm, does not have many traces of Samsara travelers!"

"Being able to enter a place of great powers like the Samsara Land that communicates with all the heavens and myriad worlds is our opportunity!"

"With this reliance, leaving this desperate world, I will definitely be able to walk further on the path of cultivation! Perhaps I can touch the threshold of the Nascent Soul! Unlike the Corpse-Dissolving Immortals of this world, who are just fake immortals and cannot attain true longevity!"

"However..." Pan Pan Jianping glanced at her mission, and a trace of faint fear rose in her heart.

Main Mission: The Spirit Pearl came from outside the heavens and landed in the Western Kunlun Realm! The Domain-Outside Heavenly Demon sealed within was thus able to probe a bit of its Dao Fruit, break through part of the seal, and demonize Western Kunlun, causing the world to overturn and tens of millions of players to sink into this realm. The Elder Yu Chen Daoist who came with the Spirit Pearl, in order to avoid the Heavenly Demon, broke through the suppression of the Western Kunlun Mirror and fled into reality, seizing the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array, intending to use this array to find the Western Kunlun Mirror and join forces with the Spirit Pearl to seal that trace of the Domain-Outside Heavenly Demon's demonic thought.

And the Domain-Outside Heavenly Demon also used the consciousness of the tens of millions of sunken players to reveal a trace of demonic nature, turning into a bronze gate, intending to break through the Western Kunlun Mirror's blockade and descend into reality!

This is the eternal tribulation of this realm!

Go to the Western Kunlun Research Institute, stop the transmigrators who are descending from the past and future with the help of the Western Kunlun Mirror and intending to open the bronze gate! And help the Elder Yu Chen Daoist obtain the recognition of the Western Kunlun Mirror to seal the Domain-Outside Heavenly Demon!

"Transmigrators, Western Kunlun Mirror!"

Pan Pan Jianping could not forget the shock in her heart the moment she saw the reality mission.

From Penglai Continent, they had obtained a lot of extremely high-end cultivation knowledge, including legends of certain artifacts that shook the heavens and innate spiritual treasures—the Zhou Tian Star Ship, which was refined from a world and conquered the heavens, being billions of times more magnificent than the Star Ships of the nine major Heavenly Sects; the Twelve Golden Men, which were Luo Tian Immortal Artifacts of the Immortal Qin that conquered the heavens; and the Western Kunlun Mirror, the sect-protecting spiritual treasure of the Western Western Kunlun Realm, the predecessor of Penglai Continent!

In legend, the reason the Yingzhou Sect had dominated Penglai Continent for tens of thousands of years was because it had obtained a Luo Tian Immortal Artifact left behind by the Immortal Qin—a Golden Man!

And there were rumors that if the innate spiritual treasure Western Kunlun Mirror of the ancient Western Kunlun Continent still existed, even if all twelve Golden Men of the Immortal Qin came out, they might not be able to conquer this realm!

This was a divine artifact whose power they could not imagine at all, and its appearance in the Age of Dharma Decline world they came from made them even more horrified. The first thing they thought of was the ancient relic that rumor said allowed Fantasy International to develop the game 'Western Kunlun'!

According to the mission prompts, their entire team had quietly infiltrated the Imperial Capital and come here, anxiously waiting for the moment the mission target appeared.

The scene of the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array appearing in the virtual world and the Elder Yu Chen Daoist cutting off the world also made them more convinced of the mission given by the Lord of Samsara.

That accuracy, almost like a prophecy, was what allowed them to dispel some of their unease in the face of the 'transmigrators'!

Suddenly, the quiet atmosphere around them was broken. The Samsara travelers felt a movement in their hearts and looked up at the sky, only to see several people stepping on a flying boat, slowly descending. The leader was dressed in a green robe, carrying a sword case on his back, his eyes slightly closed, occasionally revealing a trace of divine light, like sword light as frost illuminating the surroundings, with a high-level spiritual realm that seemed to make the empty room bright!

And the two women behind him, one in white fluttering, the other in red and beautiful, both had stunning faces. One of them had a drone hovering beside her, and the other was surrounded by dozens of streamlined robots with a murderous aura amidst their magnificence.

Some of those robots were extremely exquisite, while others were constantly twisting and could not be seen clearly, but through the aura, the few could sense the terrifying power hidden within the bodies of those robots.

These three came by flying boat, without avoiding the eyes of others, and carried an aura that Wu Wu Tianci and Pan Pan Jianping found somewhat familiar.

Such momentum, such demeanor, was definitely not something that could be cultivated by the alienated companies of this world!

Wu Wu Tianci and Pan Pan Jianping were both amazed, and couldn't help but guess:

"Could they be Samsara travelers from other worlds?"

"If they are Samsara travelers from other worlds, descending into this Age of Dharma Decline world, their abilities would only be able to exert one percent. How could they be so composed?"

"And the top-tier combat robots following that woman, we don't even know the model, but they have the True Martial Technology logo. If they are Samsara travelers, then not only have they recovered their magic power, but they have also seized the cutting-edge robots of True Martial Technology!"

Thinking of the embarrassment of being hung and beaten by major companies when he intended to manage the forces of this world, Wu Wu Tianci couldn't believe it: "The Samsara Land encompasses all worlds. There are some supernatural spells that can be used in this world!"

"But to master the method of manifesting supernatural powers in this world so quickly, if these people are Samsara travelers, they are probably extremely powerful, top-tier experts who have cultivated the Yin Spirit and Yang Spirit!"

They subconsciously held their breath, looked away, and only observed with their peripheral vision, fearing to disturb the other party.

They knew the wonders of the Samsara Land very well, and they could hardly imagine what kind of means such experts who had cultivated the Yin Spirit and Yang Spirit in the Samsara Land could have.

Every Samsara was an adventure, and such Samsara travelers who had experienced many such adventures and merged the essence of cultivation from all the heavens and myriad worlds...

I fear they would be countless times more dangerous than ordinary natives!

"Samsara travelers?"

A low laugh came from behind them, and a point of ghostly green fire ignited, but it was burning inside a white paper lantern, held by a thin, long shadow, silently and soundlessly appearing behind them at some unknown time.

"Can you tell me what a Samsara traveler is? And which sequence are you from?"

Pan Pan Jianping heard the sound like snake scales sliding on her skin, and felt a cold, greasy finger sliding across the skin of her sunken spine.

Her whole body was like being trapped in ice water, unable to struggle at all.

With her peripheral vision, she saw Wu Wu Tianci's eyelids flipping over. His eyeballs squeezed upward, and in the gap between his eyes and eye sockets, another eyeball full of bloodshot eyes appeared. That eyeball moved left and right, causing Wu Wu Tianci's eyelids to flip open, as if he were about to be squeezed out from his eyelids.

His skin flipped open from that spot, and on his blood-stained body beneath the skin, one eye after another began to grow.

From his ear holes and deep in his throat, eyes kept popping out.

Her teammates beside her screamed in terror, struggling with all their might... but they were locked by the gaze of one eye after another and could not move at all.

"Cry! Scream! Your resentment and curses, the rationality and spiritual emotions being squeezed out are all very powerful, a good taste! I am becoming more and more curious about your origins? Samsara travelers? Could it be that you are also existences who transmigrated back from the future like us? Which era do you come from? How many times has the bronze gate been opened? Do you know the New Immortal Dao Saint?"

"Hee hee... I feel like you know nothing at all!"

As those eyeballs swam in his body, Wu Wu Tianci's eyes bulged, and a phlegm-like sound came from his mouth.

Pan Pan Jianping clearly perceived that the finger had already reached her scalp, and the cold, cool fingernails gradually scratched open her scalp. A hand inserted into it, peeling downward, and her body was separating from her skin, as if even a layer of skin on her soul was being peeled off along with it.

The shadow holding the white lantern put half of its body into the human skin, wearing Pan Pan Jianping's face, its lips wriggling, but the sound came from the lantern.

"Such strong resentment, such pure thoughts, let me see what secrets you are hiding? Samsara traveler... strange, in your memory, there is a blank space regarding Samsara travelers!"

"Hee hee..." The eyeballs beside her turned: "More and more interesting!"

Pan Pan Jianping's vision gradually blurred. Her skin was peeled off and draped over the white shadow holding the lantern, and even her memories, consciousness, and thoughts were transferred along with the human skin. If it weren't for the fact that all memories regarding the Samsara Land could not be stolen, she should have become a walking corpse long ago!

At this moment, she suddenly caught sight of the figure of the green-shirted swordsman appearing not far away, carrying a sword case on his back, his eyes bright beneath his frowning brows, full of murderous intent!

"It's them! Sure enough, these monster-like transmigrators are far from what we can deal with! The Lord of Samsara sent these senior Samsara travelers!"

Her eyes could no longer close, and a trace of joy suddenly appeared on her face, which was exposed to flesh and blood.

The Green Lantern Master also noticed the reduction in his prey's fear, suddenly raised his head, and saw Yan Shu, who was glaring at him not far away.

Looking at the tragic scenes before him, and the woman who revealed a look of plea for help after seeing him, Yan Shu pressed his hand on the sword case on his back and said coldly: "Demonic path... die!"

"What a big tone!"

The Green Lantern Master sneered: "I originally wanted to deal with these little mice before coming to find you, but I didn't expect you to be unable to wait! I haven't collected the skin of an ancient cultivator yet! The lantern you are made into will definitely look very good!" ===== CHAPTER 629 =====