Chapter 183

The appearance of the Soul Star and the awakening of Qianmen Fortress not only shocked the cultivators but also caused Liu Chengxiong, who was guarding outside the stone sculpture army formation, to have his expression change drastically. However, soon, an uncontrollable ecstasy appeared on his face.

"General Liu, what happened?"

First, the Fusang Divine Tree suddenly flashed, then the Fusang Divine Tree disappeared, and now a white star has appeared. The white star dispersed the gray fog, revealing the full, majestic appearance of Qianmen Fortress. With these waves of changes, the Gu Heir felt he was somewhat overwhelmed.

Liu Chengxiong was in a great mood and said happily: "The Soul Star is lit; Qianmen Fortress has awakened."

The Xinguogong Prefecture, relying on the information provided by Gu Jinfan, had explored many ruins and collected many ancient books. The Gu Heir had read almost all the ancient books, so he clearly knew about the Soul Star.

The Gu Heir looked at the white star in the night sky, his eyes flickering. It was actually a Soul Star!

At the beginning of the creation of the Demon Prison, not only did fierce beasts and great demons frequently escape from prison, but there were also instances of the demon race launching large-scale attacks to rescue the great demons in the prison. Every time a riot occurred, taking advantage of the chaos, demon race members would sneak into the array heart and the four major array eyes to cause destruction. Once, they almost destroyed the Demon Prison that had been established with such difficulty.

Because of this, the masters of the five great holy lands of the Central Continent flew to the Nine Heavens to meet with the Zhu Que Emperor, the Qing Long Emperor, the Xuan Wu Emperor, and the Bai Hu Emperor to discuss the resolution of establishing nine great passes outside the Demon Prison to guard it.

The Soul Star, with its pure and rich soul power, was fished out by the four emperors working together from the Soul River in the Nether Ruins. It was a unique reward specifically for the Demon Suppression Guards guarding the Demon Prison.

One pass links to one Soul Star. By absorbing the soul power emitted by the Soul Star, the Demon Suppression Guards could continuously strengthen their primordial spirits during their five-hundred-year military service guarding the Demon Prison.

Moreover, to ensure that the Soul Star's soul power was abundant, the four emperors worked together to perform the spatial displacement divine ability, opening a branch for the Soul River that flowed specifically through the nine great Soul Stars.

However, with the arrival of the Great Extinction of the Four Spirit Realm, space was blocked, and the water of the Soul River was cut off. Without the nourishment of the Soul River, the Soul Star's soul power drained away, and it fell into silence.

Now that the Soul Star is lit, it is nine times out of ten because of the previous appearance of the Fusang Divine Tree, which cleared the spatial barrier and allowed the water of the Soul River to flow again.

Looking at the ecstatic Liu Chengxiong, a look of regret flashed in the Gu Heir's eyes. With the Soul Star lit and soul power replenished, Liu Chengxiong could continue to cultivate and strengthen his primordial spirit without worrying about it dissipating. Nine times out of ten, he would no longer cooperate with the Xinguogong Prefecture, and the plan the Xinguogong Prefecture had to gradually seize Qianmen Fortress could be considered ruined.

Seeing Liu Chengxiong begin to assemble the Demon Suppression Guards, looking as if he couldn't wait to return to the city, the Gu Heir couldn't help but say: "General Liu, what about those people who sneaked into Tang Gu? There are demon race people inside. What if they destroy the array eye?"

Liu Chengxiong glanced at the Gu Heir and thought to himself: Those cultivators who entered Tang Gu even brought out the Fusang Divine Tree; their strength and means are far beyond his expectations. If he were to confront them head-on, it's hard to say who would suffer.

Now that the Soul Star is lit and there is soul power to supply his cultivation, his primordial spirit will not dissipate in the short term, so he is not so desperate to seize someone else's physical body.

Since he is not catching that Nascent Soul cultivator, he can't be bothered to care about those people in Tang Gu.

Liu Chengxiong wanted to return to the fortress quickly, but the Gu Heir happened to bring up those cultivators in Tang Gu at this time, which truly annoyed him. However, Qianmen Fortress has awakened. According to the rules of the nine great passes, the Demon Suppression Guards in each fortress must select a Holy Protection Guard force of five thousand people to guard the safety of the holy land.

The Holy Protection Guards, as long as they wear the Holy Order distributed by the holy land, can walk in the human world for a long time even without a physical body.

As long as the Instrument Saint Palace appears, he, as the highest commander of Qianmen Fortress, can also appear in the human world.

He has never been out of the Nine Nether and knows nothing about the human world. The Xinguogong Prefecture has a high status in the human world. If he goes to the human world in the future, he will inevitably have to deal with the Xinguogong Prefecture.

Furthermore, with the replenishment of soul power, although he doesn't have to worry about his primordial spirit dissipating for the time being, if he wants to cultivate to above the Harmony Realm, the matter of a physical body must be resolved sooner or later.

The highest realm a soul cultivator can reach is the Out-of-Body Realm. To advance to the Harmony Realm, the physical body and the primordial spirit must be unified.

The Xinguogong Prefecture could come to the Nine Nether to lay out plans so early; the cultivation resources they have seized in the human world must be quite substantial.

If a cultivator wants to keep cultivating upward, they need massive amounts of cultivation resources. For such a force that controls numerous cultivation resources, unless there is no room for maneuver, he generally leaves some leeway.

Thinking this way, Liu Chengxiong finally gave some face to the Gu Heir and explained: "Qianmen Fortress has just awakened, and there are many things to deal with. This general must hurry back to sit in command to avoid turmoil. As for those people who sneaked into Tang Gu, don't worry too much; the array eye is not so easy to destroy."

After speaking, Liu Chengxiong ignored the Gu Heir's reaction and directly said to the Demon Suppression Guards behind him: "All generals, obey the order: return to the city!"

Liu Chengxiong rode away with the Demon Suppression Guards. The Gu Heir looked at the volcano, and although he really wanted to go in and see what happened in Tang Gu, he did not dare to take the risk and could only regretfully take his followers to chase after Liu Chengxiong.

In Tang Gu, at the bottom of the Tang Yu, countless fine streams of pure fire Qi gathered and poured into Hua Changxi's body, rapidly filling her exhausted Qi sea.

When the Qi sea became a vast ocean again, Hua Changxi's eyes slowly opened. Upon opening her eyes, what came into view was a brilliant light-red world. Blood-red, crystal-clear tree roots were crawling everywhere, and on the red tree roots, dense white stones resembling pebbles were spread out.

Seeing the red tree roots and white stones, Hua Changxi's pupils shook.

The red tree roots were the roots of the Fusang Divine Tree, and the white stones were Soul Crystals.

At this moment, she was lying between two Fusang Divine Tree roots several meters wide, and beneath her were all white Soul Stars.

"What is this place?"

Hua Changxi recalled what happened before she lost consciousness. The Baili master and disciples seemed to have put her into the Tang Yu, so this should be the bottom of the Tang Yu.

She had actually sunk to the bottom of the Tang Yu, and the bottom of the Tang Yu was actually connected to the Fusang Divine Tree, and there were so many Soul Crystals.

However, how could she still breathe freely while in the water?

Hua Changxi discovered that she was surrounded by a layer of red light. This layer of red light protected her like a filter cover, allowing her not only to freely absorb fire Qi in the 'water' but also to be unaffected by anything.

Before this, she had guessed that she might be a fire spiritual body. Now, seeing the red light Qi shield on her body, she was certain.

All spiritual bodies can automatically generate a spiritual energy shield in extreme environments to protect themselves!

Confirming that she was a fire spiritual body and could move freely in the 'water', Hua Changxi supported herself on the tree roots beside her and sat up. Looking at the Fusang Divine Tree roots, she felt a lingering fear in her heart. How dangerous; she had almost been unable to come out of the spatial rift earlier.

Thinking of the process of coming out of the spatial rift, Hua Changxi's heart stirred, and the Floating Light Sword appeared in her hand.

What she did not expect was that the Floating Light Sword actually had the ability to tear through space!

If it weren't for the Floating Light Sword forcibly tearing open that spatial rift that was about to close, she would probably have been lost in the spatial rift and died from exhaustion of spiritual energy.

And there was also the branch of the Fusang Divine Tree, which was also chopped off using the Floating Light Sword. It was a pity that although she had subdued the Great Sun Divine Flame and her connection with the Floating Light Sword had become tighter, she still could not draw the sword from its scabbard, so she had spent a great deal of effort and wasted quite a bit of time when chopping the Fusang Divine Tree branch.

Putting away the Floating Light Sword, Hua Changxi began to check her body.