Chapter 727

"Ying ying..."

The giant Kun originally looked at the starship with its small eyes, very curious; it seemed to be wondering if this giant starship and the massive Riven-Mountain Dragon Whale were its own kind, but the giant hand reached out by the Penglai Soul Transformation cultivator gave it a fright...

It curled its giant tail, wrapping around the boundless spiritual light beside its body, and slapped toward the crowd. The giant Kun's long cry seemed to resonate with this piece of spiritual sea, and the slap of its giant tail actually rolled up countless illusions.

The spiritual light gathered into a torrent, and countless illusions overlapped, resonating with the giant Kun.

"Weng!"

Accompanied by a vast and long fluctuation, like the singing of a phoenix, and like a true dragon turning, the Primordial Spirit Long Wang on the ancient Longcheng turned its head in horror, shouting urgently: "Stop! Don't touch this Kun!"

But it was already too late to say this!

The Penglai Soul Transformation giant hand had already landed on the giant Kun's head, grabbing toward that cloud-smoke wood.

The spiritual sea tide surging around the giant Kun suddenly carried endless spiritual light, and the giant Kun hugged its own big head with its giant fins, hurriedly diving toward the bottom of the spiritual sea.

It rolled and stirred the vast and mighty spiritual light, which suddenly turned into a torrent, rolling toward the crowd.

But it only surged halfway before the endless spiritual light suddenly split open.

A giant figure, incomparably huge, as if the starship had shrunk by more than a circle in front of it, leaped up from the spiritual sea, its figure shrouding everyone.

That giant shadow looked like a combination of an enlarged giant Kun and a Peng bird; its body presented a streamlined shape like a giant fish, but from the spine, it suddenly turned into two giant wings.

Its upper body and lower body were clearly defined; the lower half resembled a giant whale, its skin like shiny metal, extending along the beautiful spine line to the tail, turning into a giant fish tail...

But the upper half resembled a giant Peng striking the water, its wings spreading out, vast and mighty, shrouding everything, stirring up surging spiritual light.

The phantom formed by the spiritual light seemed to be manifesting the feathering at the moment the Kun turned into a Peng.

The strange fish and giant bird were shrouded in radiance, resembling a god, incomparably terrifying. At this moment, the spiritual light reproduced its posture of looking down on all directions, and it even contained a kind of great freedom and great ease...

Resembling a Kun-Peng carrying cloud qi, striking the Southern Abyss!

This was a strike of transcending the mundane and feathering into an immortal...

"Dang!"

The Penglai starship shook violently, as if hit by a supernatural power of a true Kun-Peng.

Countless seals on this peerless giant ship appeared like chains, but they instantly snapped one by one. The starship trembled and was thrown high, almost capsizing, and along with the Penglai cultivators, almost flew sideways into the Return to Ruins Illusion Sea outside the light wall!

If it weren't for the fact that the Penglai starship's materials were meticulously refined by alchemists and were the culmination of the Immortal Qin's war artifacts, not only peerless in might but also incomparably massive in volume and heavy in the base.

If it were any other spirit treasure that had received this strike, it would have at least been knocked into the Return to Ruins Illusion Sea.

Within the Illusion Sea, illusions were layered, and there were countless phantoms like this Kun-Peng.

If one fell into it, I'm afraid one would have a hard time getting out in this lifetime...

But the spiritual light-formed Peng's strike shattered this fragile light pillar, and the spiritual light turned into illusions, surging over, and almost knocked the crowd of spirit treasures behind into the Return to Ruins Illusion Sea!

At this moment, all the spirit treasures exerted their full strength to resist this strike.

More than a dozen spirit treasures combined their brilliance, firing a streak of near-blank radiance, finally shattering the Kun-Peng phantom!

"Fellow Daoists, the Return to Ruins Illusion Sea is mysterious and unpredictable, containing many terrifying phantoms. Although you are not on good terms, you are ultimately on the same boat! It is better to be cautious..."

Xiao Xie An stood on the Clan Records, suppressing the surging spiritual light illusions, frowning slightly, and warning everyone.

The Primordial Spirit Long Wang of the Dragon Clan also nodded, looking at the Penglai starship: "Although that cloud-smoke wood seems to have ten thousand years of fire, it is hard to see in the world, but this place is after all the Return to Ruins, extremely dangerous! You all must not covet this small profit and drag us all into the water!"

The Penglai Soul Transformation cultivator frowned: "I am not coveting a spiritual root, but that cloud-smoke wood is truly very familiar; it should be one that my Penglai lost. I just want to capture that giant Kun and figure out what's going on!"

No one believed him when he said this.

Hearing this, Yu Yu Changsheng of Mount Yujing laughed: "It's just a mere cloud-smoke wood; it's fine if you Penglai provoke danger for this object! Why bother to shirk responsibility and say these irrelevant words!"

The Penglai Soul Transformation cultivator was stunned for a moment, then said: "That cloud-smoke wood is indeed very similar to the one my Penglai lost; its appearance here must be a problem. I just want to find out the truth!"

"There is no truth! You Penglai are greedy; what's wrong with admitting it directly?"

"A real man dares to act and dares to take responsibility; with such a style, it's hard to see that you are a Soul Transformation Venerable!"

The old woman of the Guanghan Palace also sarcastically remarked, neither raining nor sunny, neither cloudy nor sunny.

At this moment, the Penglai Soul Transformation cultivator already had three parts of fire in his chest, stiffly saying: "Whether you fellow Daoists believe it or not, that is indeed an old object of my Penglai; I saw it clearly!"

He looked up and wanted to find the giant Kun, but the Kun fish had already slipped away; where could its shadow be seen?

It only made the Penglai Soul Transformation cultivator anxious...

The blind old dragon of the Dragon Palace said faintly: "The Return to Ruins Illusion Sea is transformed from a piece of spiritual light, containing countless illusions! It is born from the heart, so thinking carefully, that giant Kun, including the cloud-smoke wood, might not necessarily be an illusion reflected by the thoughts of the Penglai fellow Daoist."

"Let this matter rest... pursuing it is meaningless!"

"From now on, let everyone agree not to make a move easily!" The old dragon's way of settling things made the Penglai Soul Transformation cultivator's fire even stronger.

"That's not an illusion, it's my Penglai's cloud-smoke wood..."

The Penglai Soul Transformation ancestor had blue veins bulging on his forehead, stubbornly saying: "In the past, that cloud-smoke wood was... stolen by the boy who raised cranes for my Penglai. Later, he opened a lineage of orthodoxy overseas, called the Qingyu Sect! This spiritual root also has some fame overseas; how could you not know?"

Cao Cao Huangshu of Northern Wei smiled and smoothed things over: "I have also heard of the cloud-smoke wood of the Qingyu Sect. Cloud-smoke wood is already rare, and one with so many years of fire is even harder to find! Perhaps this spiritual plant is really the one from the Qingyu Sect!"

Although he said so, the disbelief in his eyes was visible to everyone.

The Penglai Soul Transformation ancestor was choked with anger: "What 'perhaps', it is or it isn't; that is my Penglai's cloud-smoke wood!"

"Yes, yes, yes..." everyone perfunctorily said.

"Alright! Yi Da."

Beside him, the Penglai Primordial Spirit Xin Xin Hengping said coldly: "No need to say more about this!"

The Penglai Soul Transformation was unable to refute and could only say weakly: "Yes!"

"Fortunately, shattering this Kun-Peng phantom was not without gains!"

The Primordial Spirit True Immortal of the Northern Pole Great Brightness Palace reached out and took the streaks of white light floating after the phantom dissipated.

These white lights were condensed from countless fine white crystals, looking like a feather on the outside, light as nothing in the hand, yet containing a trace of feathering, floating in the air without falling to the ground.

"This material is also quite peculiar; it is condensed from a trace of Dao rhyme of feathering into an immortal, best used for refining flying escape artifacts!"

The Primordial Spirit True Immortal scanned with his spiritual sense and understood the properties of this object; it had a trace of the wonder of becoming an immortal, capable of enhancing escape speed!

Dan Gu Chenzi of the Tushita Palace also stroked his charred beard, casually taking a few feather crystals, and nodded: "It is also extremely miraculous for alchemy. This object has extremely pure spiritual qi, and the rarest thing is a trace of the realization of becoming an immortal, which is hard to find in the world. In the ancient Earth Immortal Realm when the Nine Heavens were still there, there was a main ingredient for Flying Immortal Pills, perhaps it can be replaced by this..."

Hearing this, even the Primordial Spirit True Immortals couldn't help it, and they all reached out to take those floating feathers, dividing them up.

The blind old dragon of the Dragon Clan thought thoughtfully: "I understand!"

"This place is called the Return to Ruins Illusion Sea; illusions are born from the heart, so we can contemplate and use our minds to condense those spiritual lights, turning them into illusions. As for that giant Kun, it should be the thought of the giant Kun often swimming in the Illusion Sea and wanting to turn into a Peng, condensed!"

It picked up the feather: "Illusions condensed to the extreme can turn the virtual into reality, giving birth to some heavenly materials condensed from spiritual light!"

On the red lotus, Seeing Xiao Yu bumped the old Daoist with his hand and whispered: "Doesn't that mean we can contemplate here and condense the materials we need?"

"It's not that simple!"

The old Daoist shook his head: "If you want to condense the spiritual light here and turn the virtual into reality, first, it takes a long time; I'm afraid it would take a year or half a year to form a crude illusion, and if you want to turn the virtual into reality, I don't know how much time it would take. Second, if you want to contemplate and condense the corresponding spiritual materials, you must understand that kind of spiritual material deeply... In summary, it's not easy!"

"Hehe... wife..."

The two heard the big guy's happy laughter and looked back, only to see that the big guy had already condensed a shallow phantom beside him.

It was just a back view!

But it already had an air of peerless elegance that could topple cities and countries...

At this moment, on the red lotus, and even on the other few spirit treasures, people had reacted and began to close their eyes to contemplate, using their minds to condense spiritual light and manifest the illusions they sought!

Next, the group encountered several more illusions. There were two ancient living beings, a three-eyed giant whose eyes could emit thunder, which was destroyed by the Shenxiao Sect, who took the initiative to make a move to condense the third eye into a spiritual material, turning it into a strange crystal flashing with thunder light.

There was also a true dragon, which was subdued by the Primordial Spirit Long Wang in the ancient Longcheng, condensing a streak of dragon qi, which was collected into a dragon pearl; watching it close its eyes from time to time to refine it, it was clear that it had gained quite a few benefits.

The other few types of phantoms were quite strange; some were scenes of destruction and ruin, with tribulation fire igniting out of thin air, vital energy being annihilated...

This time, the crowd only suffered a fire tribulation and didn't get any benefits.

Others were manifestations of the Demon Path, scenes of countless yin demons entangling.

There were actually a few Heavenly Demons turning virtual into reality, combining with the illusions to corrupt the crowd's mental foundation.

This time, a cultivator from the Great Brightness Palace was seized by the inner demon and had his soul swallowed.

He didn't show any abnormality at first, until he encountered another dangerous illusion, when he suddenly launched a sneak attack on his fellow disciples, seriously injuring another Great Brightness Palace cultivator, and was immediately suppressed by the Primordial Spirit!

Within the Illusion Sea, there were countless strange things. If it weren't for the light beam shot by the Dew-Bearing Plate that had been guiding the crowd, I'm afraid that sinking into it without knowing the direction, under the invasion of endless illusions, they would have eventually become a part of it!

Until the surrounding spiritual sea, which had been overflowing with spiritual light and countless illusions floating, turned into a doomsday scene where illusions were destroyed and countless disasters surged and raged!

That was various vital energies turning into blood sea true water, corrosive immortal corpse water, Nine Heavens evil flames, Red Lotus Karmic Fire, Nine Heavens yin wind, Infinite Wind Malevolence, decay tribulation power, etc., filling this heaven and earth, turning this place into a hell.

Demon fire that burned everything, torrential poisonous water that was highly toxic and corrosive, and even bone-scraping wind that was violent and peerless, sweeping everything...

If stained by a trace, one would lose ten years of lifespan to the decay tribulation power.

It was overwhelming, endless, sweeping toward the crowd, not stopping for a moment. Even many spirit treasures were being silently eroded and worn down, their spiritual light dimming a lot.

Only Brother Qian Chen's red lotus bloomed more brilliantly here, seemingly absorbing those tribulation auras!

The terrifying scene outside the spirit treasure scared those cultivators below the Primordial Spirit, and even the Soul Transformation Venerables here honestly closed their mouths tightly.

The illusions contemplated by the crowd were attacked by this, and all of them suddenly shattered, mostly leaving only a bit of spiritual light, which soon dissipated; only a few people with the purest minds had a bit of material residue.

The cultivators all sighed; if they wanted to contemplate and condense spiritual materials, they would have to spend a lot of time in the spiritual sea.

The big guy stared blankly at a strand of green silk in his hand, which emitted a faint fragrance; the phantom of the beauty had just disappeared, and he reached out to grab it, but only grabbed this strand of hair.

But this made Seeing Xiao Yu's hair stand on end; he could no longer tell if it was an illusion!

"This should be the first tribulation of the outermost periphery of the Return to Ruins—the Vital Energy Annihilation Tribulation! The vital energy of heaven and earth is invaded and perished here by the power of the Return to Ruins, turning into various disasters, tribulation auras..."

Dan Gu Chenzi was obviously prepared for this scene and introduced in a low voice: "Now it's just the tribulation of vital energy decay, turning wind, earth, water, and fire into various evil forces of the human world! If we go further in, I'm afraid various disasters that only exist in the heavenly realm will appear!"

Yu Yu Changsheng stood on the Yushan with his hands behind his back, watching a five-colored true locust nearby suddenly spread its wings, fanning out a strange and gorgeous rosy aura, and couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle!

This kind of locust was a famous disaster in ancient times, called the Ancient Plague Locust.

Once it became a disaster, it would fly in swarms, stirring up boundless plague qi; even true immortals could be gnawed into white bones, mountain gods and earth deities could be poisoned to death in swarms, and even the Heavenly Court was powerless to stop it; it was transformed from the most evil and wicked qi.

In the records of his Yu family, it was extremely terrifying!

And this locust was not a living thing, but transformed from plague qi, and there was only this one, so it wasn't enough to make this Primordial Spirit so wary.

But this was only the outer periphery of the Return to Ruins!

Another centipede with twelve wings flew past, a hundred feet long, resembling a heavenly dragon.

It made the true dragon on the ancient Longcheng bristle its scales—

"Twelve-Winged Heavenly Centipede... fortunately, it's only transformed from miasma; this thing feeds on dragons and phoenixes when it's an adult, and it's extremely fierce!" An ancient dragon of the Dragon Clan revealed a wary expression, its voice low.

The blind old dragon was silent for a long time, before finally saying: "Condensed from yin poison evil qi into this form, I'm afraid it's even more fierce than the true fierce thing!"

A layer of colorful qi gradually condensed outside the ancient Longcheng, staining the bricks of the ancient city, actually forcibly corroding the divine light, making those stone walls dim, and in some places, even revealing traces of erosion.

The Dragon Whale of the Great Brightness Palace continued to swim forward, but the true disciples on it saw in horror that those stubborn barnacles, whale lice, and the like on its skin surface, which even the Dragon Whale itself couldn't kill, had all fallen off and died, affected by the disaster!

Even the Penglai starship activated its second layer of defense, initially awakening the gods within the ship.

"This tribulation aura is too terrifying! If there were no spirit treasures to protect us, if these tribulation auras struck, I'm afraid even Soul Transformation wouldn't be able to hold on for a few breaths!" Someone was terrified, looking at those evil auras with an ugly expression.

Only the red lotus was still blooming brilliantly, and it could even protect the cultivators on it to pick some evil qi and refine it into various magic artifacts and talismans.

The Tushita Palace's alchemy furnace was also swallowing those tribulation auras, refining them into strange and ancient pills, each one filled with malevolent qi, as if they could kill people.

"There's something strange ahead!"

The Shaoqing old Daoist riding the Jianmu boat suddenly spoke, looking ahead with a slightly solemn expression.

Wind, earth, water, and fire turned into countless disasters, vast and mighty, like a sea tide, blocking the front, with endless vital energy perishing again, sweeping out terrifying tribulations—dark destruction thunder, bone-piercing Nine Heavens yin wind, blood sea true water covering the sky and earth, and even the burning Red Lotus evil fire, all rushing toward one place, raging...

But further ahead, everything was calm, suppressing all disasters!

It was as if there was a barrier isolating all vital energy tribulations...

Only a Xuanhuang stone tablet was seen standing at the junction, letting those terrifying disasters beat and wash over it; the surging tribulation tide rushed over, only to retreat in an instant, revealing the stone tablet again, which was miraculously undamaged...

What shocked everyone the most was that eight characters were engraved on the stone tablet—"Supreme Supreme Louguan, Suppressing the Return to Ruins!"

"I seem to have seen this scene before!" Seeing Xiao Yu stared blankly, muttering in a low voice.

The old Daoist also had a bitter face, muttering in his heart: "No way! Could it be that the Supreme Louguan Dao predecessor also made arrangements here?"

Old Guo tapped his pipe, his expression silent...

Only Yu Yu Changsheng, standing on the Yushan, who was obviously aware of the intelligence related to Brother Qian Chen, and had naturally heard of that thunder-aperture demon cave which might be the place where the Supreme Louguan Dao guardian sealed himself, just sneered at this: "Playing god and playing ghost!"