Immortal Road.

"Brother Jiemie, how long are we going to swim here? I can't take it anymore."

The mantle is pitch black, concealing countless dangers; one wrong step and you could face geomagnetic extermination.

With unobstructed visibility, they were afraid of being detected by the major holy sites, so they didn't even dare to activate their protective aura during the gliding process.

Since none of them are highly skilled practitioners and their body refinement level has not reached the level of the primordial spirit, they cannot stay here for a long time even in the late stage of the primordial spirit realm.

Lin Shan, annoyed by Xiong Shan's troublesome nature, took out the Yan Molten Insect Nest and shook out a large number of black beetles to cover him, as an aid to help him resist environmental pressure.

"See that new light up ahead? Let's go take a look."

"Huh? But I think that's a group of superhumans over there. Should we, as two humans, sneak in?"

After leaving, Xiong Shan missed the old Tai Xuan Holy Land. After all, the supervision there was lax, and he and Xiong Shan were Wu's favorites. They had a large group of Tai Xuan disciples under their command, who were always shouting and shooing around them. It was quite a lively place.

Now, asking him to jump into another fiery pit sends chills down his spine and fills him with fear.

Lin Shan couldn't help but show a look of disdain.

This guy is such a waste of his size; I never expected him to be so cowardly.

"Do you still want the essence of the earth veins? So what if we're from the Inhuman race? We're taking it from the Inhuman race!"

The competition among the four holy lands of the human race has reached a fever pitch. Tai Xuan Holy Land is currently at the bottom. He doesn't want to disrupt the balance too much, as that would be detrimental to his future plans. Therefore, he has set his sights on other forces.

The Inhumans were the first to be affected!
"How exactly should we proceed? Should we try to sneak in, like we did with the Tai Xuan Holy Land?"

Xiong Shan asked Lin Shan for his opinion, looking rather simple-minded.

"You think you can sneak in?"

Lin Shan couldn't help but roll his eyes, but to his surprise, Xiong Shan nodded. He really could do it!
It instantly transformed, growing thick bear fur, its hands and feet became bear paws, its mouth protruded with outstretched fangs, and its head became a bear's head!

"How about it, doesn't it look like a bear-man?"

Lin Shan was startled. He looked him up and down, then followed the light to the Yin-Yang Mysterious Ladder of the Hundred Races in the Star Palace opposite. He found several bear-men, who were about the same size as Xiong Shan.

Good guy!
Xiong Er has this ability?
He immediately transformed into a streak of light and entered the Star Palace, then stuffed the Spirit Treasure Cave into Xiong Er's arms.

"Come on, take me inside, we're going to pull off something big!"

"no."

Master Xiongshan was holding the Star Mansion, but he didn't expect his eldest brother to go inside, leaving him all alone outside. He couldn't help but feel flustered.

"I just sneaked in like this, without any identity?"

"What do you need an identity for! When you're out in the world, you give yourself an identity, so stop babbling on!"

Lin Shan's impatient voice came from within the Star Palace. He couldn't stand this guy's incessant nagging. If you're afraid of death, don't come to Thunderwave Sea. You're already here, yet you're still looking back and forth. With this kind of courage, what kind of immortal cultivation is this?!
Because Xiong Er was too burdened to bear the burden, Lin Shan had no choice but to teach him by force.

How to create your own vest.

Five days later, they quietly approached the outer perimeter of the Yin-Yang Mysterious Ladder of the Star Palace Hundred Clans without revealing themselves in the black mud of the flowing curtain.

This ladder was also built in a fixed ley line. It was built very high in a short period of time, entirely thanks to the large number of alien race members who worked together, and many of them were Nascent Soul cultivators who personally participated in the construction.

Although it is still some distance from the far ahead human holy land, in a real comparison, it probably won't be long before it catches up with Tai Xuan Holy Land.

Thinking of those old guys in the Tai Xuan Holy Land who hold their positions without doing anything, only knowing how to order their subordinates around while putting on airs and being too lazy to move, they truly deserve to be at the bottom.

"We'll go in from below."

Following Lin Shan's instructions, Xiong Shan opened a gap in the earth's veins below and secretly entered the veins without anyone noticing.

He was playing with the limp Infernal Molten Worm in his hand; he really enjoyed petting this long worm and reluctantly returned it to the Star Palace.

"Brother Jiemie, this worm is really amazing. It can dissolve all kinds of formations, restrictions, and barriers, and even return to its original state. Do you have any extras? Could you send me two?"

Lin Shan replied sullenly in the Xing Mansion, "It depends on your performance," without agreeing or refusing.

Just then, another group of people came up from below through the ley line. They looked a bit like foxes with pointed snouts and sunken cheeks, and they were huffing and puffing as they carried blue logs up ladders.

Suddenly, he saw a dark shadow hanging in the middle of the road above, blocking his way, and immediately started shouting.

"Make way ahead, we need to transport Blue Thunderwood to build ladders. Can't you see we're blocking the way?"

Xiong Shan was startled and quickly jumped to another patch of wall to make way for the group.

The other party was carrying it with great difficulty, which meant that the wood used to make the ladder must be very valuable. He had no time to pay attention to Xiong Shan and kept complaining as he carried the ladder.

"Why can't we put them in storage bags and carry them up? It's really exhausting for us to carry them by hand."

"That's right, we fox people don't rely on physical strength for a living, yet they make us do such heavy work!"

"Sigh, let's not say too much. What can we do? We don't have a place among the elders of the Star Palace's Hundred Races. We just have to do what we're told."

"Stop complaining. I heard from the elders that this Blue Lightning Wood needs to circulate and interact with the outside world to maintain its vitality and continuously accumulate electrical energy so that it won't die."

“I’ve heard that too. We can’t put the wood in storage bags and isolate it from the outside world during the whole process of cutting it down from our homes and transporting it here. Otherwise, the wood will wither and rot in a closed space within fifteen minutes.”

"But how can we, with our small bodies, carry this? I feel like I can't carry it anymore."

The fox-people were sweating profusely when a weak voice suddenly appeared beside them.

"Um, do you need my help?"

They turned around and saw a furry bear-man awkwardly waving at them.

"Brother, are you from the Bear Clan? Which tribe are you from?"

Xiong Shan paused for a moment, then immediately put to use the words that Lin Shan had casually made up in Xingfu.

"I'm from the Swill Tribe of the Bear People. You can just call me Xiong Er."

"So it's the Xiong brothers!"

Upon hearing that there was free labor, the fox-people immediately greeted them warmly, completely changing their previous impatient attitude.

The man from Xiongshan was very outgoing and took the wood from the other man's shoulder. He looked like someone who was destined to do hard labor.

Although it was heavy, it was nothing for someone in the Nascent Soul stage.

A group of fox spirits escorted him from the front and back, sandwiching him in the middle and gossiping about him.

Xiong Shan slowly extracted information from them, gaining a general understanding of the Star Palace's hundred races, and gradually felt more confident. He disguised his cultivation level as being around the Foundation Establishment stage, making it easier to blend in with the lower-level members without attracting the attention of the higher-ups.

Before long, they carried it to the top, where many alien races were digging. There were also many people carrying large storage bags to fill with soil. When they saw Xiong Shan carrying the Yuan wood up, they didn't bother to ask him where he came from and made way for him to lay the Yuan wood on top.

After the paving was completed, the fox-people wanted to pull him along, but the eagle-people on the other side stopped them and asked Xiong Shan to help widen the cave wall.

The fox-people were weak and powerless, and dared not argue, so they could only leave dejectedly.

Kumayama found himself fitting in very quickly!

Because the alien race is caught in a frenzied atmosphere, everyone is racing against time to dig and build the Yin-Yang Mystic Ladder. There is no time or reason to check anyone's identity. Just come and do the work for me!
Xiongshan blended in perfectly and then began an endless period of busy work.

We worked like that for three whole days!
"Brother Jiemie, how long am I supposed to keep working for them?"

Xiong Shan was somewhat tired. In the past, when he worked for the Tai Xuan Holy Land, he could keep extracting the essence of the earth veins and naturally enjoyed it.

Now, he's just working like a slave for others, but he doesn't get any benefit in return, which is incredibly torturous.

"Don't rush, I've almost found my target."

Lin Shan, who was in Xingfu, had been hiding steadily on Xiong Shan's body for the past few days, observing the surrounding situation thoroughly.

It can be said that the location has been scouted, and all that's left is to wait for the opportunity to make a move.

"See that Nascent Soul stage cultivator at the very front, taking turns directing the mining?"

Xiong Shan glanced sideways and saw a woman dressed in red gauze with huge wings hanging on her back. She was an elder of the Divine Eagle Clan.

"There are two other Nascent Soul cultivators from the White-haired Clan and the Mist Horse Clan who will take turns with her in the morning and at noon. Only at dawn will the three of them gather together, and all the essence of the earth veins will be under their control."

Based on past patterns, Lin Shan devised a plan to strike, and surprisingly, he made an outrageous demand, deciding to take advantage of the three of them being together to wipe them out in one fell swoop!
Xiongshan was shocked!

"These three are no pushovers. Besides the Divine Eagle Clan elder, who is at the late Nascent Soul stage, the other two are at the mid-Nascent Soul stage, clearly holding high positions within their clans. With so many Nascent Soul cultivators from the Otherworldly race surrounding them, if we fail in our attack and are surrounded, I'm afraid..."

"What are you afraid of?"

Lin Shan didn't care at all. After all, it was just a clone. It could act as a troublemaker to plunder resources for him without affecting his main body.

Since his main body is currently unable to come forward to loot, he can only let his clone do the dirty work.

"The essence of the earth's veins is the elixir that allows us to accumulate resources before building our primordial spirit. You must understand that the cultivation level that the human body can reach at each stage is ultimately limited, but the accumulated foundation is limitless. The stronger the foundation, the easier it is for the primordial spirit to develop!"

Xiong Shan knew this principle, but he was afraid of dying. Now that Lin Shan had led him into a ditch, he could only take it one step at a time.

They waited until dawn, when the day's work was over, and the many aliens began to take turns changing shifts, climbing up and down ladders in a bustling manner.

The Nascent Soul stage elders of the three major clans met and began to take over the earth vein essence handed over by their clan members.

"We've been making great progress lately and are about to catch up with the Tai Xuan Holy Land. Congratulations!"

"We cannot be careless. After all, the human race has four holy lands. Taixuan, like us, has only been established for ten thousand years. The other three are old holy lands that have gone through many ten thousand years. They have a long history and rich experience."

"Indeed, Tai Xuan is nothing to worry about. The other three families are formidable enemies. In the third wave of spiritual tide across the entire continent, this place is considered one of the peak battlefields! If our ancestor hadn't specifically requested that we retrieve the Formless Star Cocoon from here, our Star Palace Hundred Clans wouldn't have taken such a great risk to come in."

As they spoke, the three of them simultaneously turned solemn, as if the ancestor of the alien race had somehow obtained information that clearly identified one of the ultimate treasures in this spiritual tide.

These people are just here to work; their job is to retrieve specific items for the ancestor.

The people on Xiongshan Mountain and Linshan Mountain next to them had been slowly getting closer, pretending to move around by taking turns in the crowd, waiting for an opportunity to make a move. But when they suddenly heard this news, they temporarily held back, wanting to eavesdrop on more information.

The three Nascent Soul elders spoke openly without keeping it from outsiders, but at this moment they suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"Huh? Who?!"

Lin Shan and Xiong Shan were startled, thinking they had been discovered. Just as they were about to make a move, a large hole suddenly appeared in the black mantle outside the ley lines next to them.

The black mantle-flowing soil was suddenly squeezed in, and at the same time, a chilling ice python slithered in, gushing into the passage below.

Click, click, click.
The surging frost instantly descended from above, covering the entire internal passage of the earth veins. The alien disciples along the way were all turned into ice sculptures, hanging stiffly on the Yin-Yang Mystic Ladder.

Then, as the ice python swam downstream, each and every one of them crumbled into ice powder!
The three-life Nascent Soul stage elder was shocked and had no time to stop it. He could only watch helplessly as the Yin-Yang Mystic Ladder was destroyed layer by layer.

Below was the main camp of the alien race, and dozens of Nascent Soul stage auras began to emerge!
However, Lin Shan and Xiong Shan Shangren could clearly sense that the power of this ice python was definitely not just at the Nascent Soul stage, but had already surpassed it!
In the blink of an eye, a fierce battle broke out below, and the entire ley line shook violently.

But soon a roar was heard.

"How dare you, you beast!"

An overwhelming killing intent surged forth, and the ice python let out a mournful cry. Rings of fire spread from bottom to top, sweeping away all the frost.

The three Nascent Soul stage elders at the top are desperately trying to plug the large hole to prevent the black mud from the mantle layer from continuing to flow in.

"Excellent! It's Venerable Burning Flame, Chi Hong, who has made a move!"

The three breathed a sigh of relief. The ice python's sudden attack and rampage had nearly scared them to death, but thankfully, a powerful being was there to protect them.

Unfortunately, the newly built Yin-Yang Mystic Ladder was destroyed in an instant, and the descendants of various races were also swept away by the aftershocks, resulting in heavy losses.

But at that moment, they suddenly discovered that a Foundation Establishment stage bear-man had actually survived the attack by the ice python!

"This is."

Before they could even figure out what was going on, this person suddenly leaped up and attacked them!
not good!

Caught off guard, the three acted independently, each trying to find a way to protect themselves.

Xiong Shan's attack failed, so he turned and attacked the newly repaired hole.

"Boom~"

The black mud from the mantle layer began to seep into the earth's veins again, and the three of them rushed over to stop it without thinking of anything else.

"What are you doing? Why are you destroying the ley lines?"

But in the next moment, three beams of light came in a triangular formation, and a bright blue light shone from Xiong Shan's chest, revealing a small and exquisite star palace.

Lin Shan gently tapped the Xuanwu Five Elements Bell, a magical treasure, and the true essence within the three people instantly became chaotic. Their defensive measures trembled as they were pierced by the Yin-Yang Sun Arrow!
Thump, thump~
Two Nascent Soul stage elders of the alien race perished on the spot, while only the late Nascent Soul stage female cultivator of the Divine Eagle Clan survived, but Lin Shan then finished her off with another arrow.

"Come on!"

Having taken the three people's storage treasures, and sensing the raging battle of the great supernatural powers below, the two quickly slipped out of the earth's veins and fled.

(End of this chapter)