Immortal Road.

Chapter 142: Deep in the Starry Sky
Dongmen Pass is one of the passes that connects the east and west sides of the Central Plains through the Luosong Mountains. It has stood since ancient times and has been reinforced and rebuilt throughout the dynasties.

Until the war between good and evil started again, this majestic city was directly taken over by the righteous cultivation world from the Song Dynasty royal family. Led by the Zixiao Sect, twelve small and medium-sized sects jointly defended it.

Today, this indestructible city is suffering from the flames of war. More than half of the city walls have been blown down, and dense crowds of monks outside the city are rushing into the city frantically.

A Foundation Building Pill cultivator flew in from the sky on a sword. The forbidden air formation had been secretly destroyed by the death squad last night.

Three figures in the center of the battle group in the sky were fighting fiercely, and circles of magic power ripples spread out dozens of miles away. Three huge Yuanying magicians cast magical powers on each other, and powerful magic weapons shone brightly.

If you could get a closer look, you would see that two Nascent Soul Dharma Kings of the Black Lotus Sect were using their numbers to bully the minority. They were surrounding a Nascent Soul stage elder of the Purple Sky Sect and patiently wasting time, determined not to let him command the battle below.

Moreover, there are unwritten rules in the wars of the cultivation world. During the war, high-level cultivators are not allowed to slaughter low-level disciples at will. Generally, soldiers fight against soldiers and generals fight against generals. Otherwise, the top fighters of the two sides will secretly attack each other, and the disciples under their command will probably die. This has been the consensus of the war in the cultivation world for a long time, and it has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

The battle of Dongmen Pass mobilized almost half of the troops in the Central Theater.

There are also a steady stream of reinforcements from other places rushing in from afar. The full-scale attack is just an illusion. The purpose is to disperse the righteous forces and then concentrate firepower to make a breakthrough.

This is an open conspiracy!
Even though the righteous cultivators knew the intentions of the evil ones, they also understood that if they defended for too long, they would lose. However, faced with so many important roads that needed to be defended, they had no choice but to divide their forces.

After all, just the day before, even the three Black Lotus Sect Yuanying Dharma Kings in the Central War Zone didn't know where to focus their attack. Their plan was to focus their fire on whichever cannon fodder completed its mission first.

The advance team at the East Gate Pass was lucky enough to blow down half of the city wall and destroy the air-blocking formation! This kind of God-given opportunity is hard to come by. Compared with other poor mountains and bad waters, this place is obviously easier to pass.

Therefore, the advance teams in other places were all abandoned, and all the troops were temporarily ordered to support this place in order to expand the advantage and completely open up the central part of the Luosong Mountains.

The shouts of killing were deafening in the city below. The low-level monks of the righteous and evil ways had already entered the street fighting stage, but it was obvious that the evil monks were more skilled in fighting and had been advancing steadily. The monks of the righteous way were losing ground, and victory was already in sight.

Flying spirit beasts suddenly appeared in the west, and the righteous reinforcements arrived in time to put out the fire. At the same time, flying boats from the east also arrived on time, and the evil reinforcements joined the battle again.

Both sides have started the tactic of adding fuel to the fire, and it depends on who can hold on to the end.

……

It was not so lively in the Drug Canyon. The advance team waited from early morning to dusk, and from dusk to early morning, and this wait lasted for three days.

All the monks understood that no matter how long they waited, there would be no follow-up troops. After all, thousands of them rushed here in one night, and it was impossible for the master's army of tens of thousands to arrive in three days.

"We can't wait any longer, everyone set off immediately!"

Protector Yan finally made the decision and led everyone to continue moving forward.

As for retreating, she had never even thought about it. If she could fight her way out and meet up with the main force in the imperial capital Bianliang, it would be fine. But if she retreated, she would just have to wait for military law to be applied!
In the eyes of the Nascent Soul, the Golden Core cultivators were just large ants, and there was nothing to be reluctant to kill. Moreover, she was a local faction, and there was no Nascent Soul backer above, otherwise they would not be sent here as cannon fodder.

Lin Shan also stood up with more than forty of his younger brothers. He didn't have a big problem. He just wanted to get to the capital of the Song Dynasty as soon as possible so that he could fish in troubled waters. He had been thinking about the giant black lotus Buddha statue for six or seven years.

The group set out on the road again. The atmosphere among everyone was dull and listless. Even Luanchun, who was usually lively and arrogant, became much more obedient.

I don't know whether the stone forest in front of me is natural or man-made. It is lined up in an orderly manner. The huge rocks are high or low, implying feng shui and connecting to the sky. However, it seems to be very old and did not show any magic during the passage.

If these huge rocks are hit with magical tools, at most a white mark will be left.

Lin Shan touched them with his hand, and the strengthening panel actually indicated that each one was a high-level spiritual material. He was overjoyed and wanted to collect them, but found that each one was deep underground and could not be pulled out at all.

Under the eyes of hundreds of people, he was too embarrassed to take out his magic weapon "Water Breaking Sword" to cut it. He had no choice but to give up temporarily and come back if there was a chance in the future.

After walking for several hundred miles, the team in front suddenly stopped. Before the people behind could react, Yan Yuanchun's telepathic voice rang in everyone's ears:

"hidden!"

As the monks followed the example of their predecessors and lay down, a huge shadow loomed over them, and the sound of footsteps came from far away and gradually approached.

"Da da da da da da."

Lin Shan looked up quietly and saw a giant centipede that was thirty meters long crawling towards him.

On the ferocious head, two five-meter tentacles pointed in the air, and the whole body was covered with black and yellow armor. Hundreds of pairs of feet stepped through the stone forest, leaving a trail of wet traces along the way.

This poisonous insect is obviously at the top of the food chain in the Poison Canyon. To grow to this size, I wonder how many years it has gone through, how much essence of heaven and earth it has absorbed, and how many creatures and monsters it has eaten.

Lin Shan held his breath and dared not move, watching the huge creature slowly crawl past them.

This period of time felt like a year, and everyone's heart was in their throat. They only breathed a sigh of relief until the insect was completely gone.

"This flower centipede is probably just one step away from transforming. I, the demon lord, have just recovered to the Qi training stage, how come I have encountered such a monster?"

The Black Skeleton Demon Lord watched the long worm leave with lingering fear, and this skeleton actually felt afraid as well.

Lin Shan ignored its complaints. After all, in front of such a high-level poisonous insect, he was probably just an insignificant ant, and they wouldn't even bother to look at him. As long as he didn't provoke it, his two taels of meat wouldn't even be enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.

After this incident, the team obviously straightened up their attitude and no longer dared to be careless, for fear that they would encounter some irresistible danger in the next second and die inexplicably.

The stone forest was spread over a thousand miles. Because of the many poisonous insects and ferocious beasts, the team walked cautiously for a full day and a half before getting out.

Next is the last dangerous place, the Yinzhaohuanfeng belt.

Beyond this wind belt is the territory of the righteous monks.

Strong winds blow here all year round from nowhere, and the air is filled with evil spirits and miasma, and even more frighteningly, it has its own magic effect. If a monk is not careful, he will easily get lost in it and never get out.

During the countless years of transmission, many ancient people who had managed to escape recorded that when they thought they were conscious, they had actually fallen into the trap without realizing it.

Yan Yuanchun did not waste any time and took the lead in proofing, rushing in without looking back. Lin Shan and others had no choice but to follow.

……

The biting cold wind made his cheeks hurt, and the spiritual shield was useless. It was the first time that Lin Shan understood what the Yin Sha power was. It was impossible to defend against it, and it could penetrate everywhere. The Yin Sha would gradually erode the human body over time until the spiritual power was transformed into Yin power.

Dozens of younger brothers behind him supported each other, and Old Man Zhong and his companions held Lin Shan's arms tightly, making him feel like he was dragging dozens of people with every step he took.

"Whoosh~"

The sound of wind was mixed with unknown howls, and everything around was white. As soon as the consciousness left the body, it would be blown away by the wind. They had no other choice but to walk straight in one direction based on their feeling.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Lin Shan's thoughts began to slow down. Time seemed to have lost its meaning. He only remembered that he had to lead everyone out, but he could no longer remember what he was going to do after that.
"Brother, wake up!"

The shouts from the skull pendant pulled him back to reality from his dazed state. His eyes refocused on the vast expanse of white, and the whistling sound of the wind in his ears became more intense.

"Huh? You woke me up?"

"No. I'm a little cold. Can you give me some clothes?"

The Black Skeleton Demon Lord felt a little embarrassed. After all, he was just a skeleton in the Qi training stage, without even flesh and blood. It was really hard for him to withstand the cold wind blowing directly on his bones.

"Skeletons are afraid of the cold wind?"

Lin Shan looked suspicious and said, "You, a creature from the underworld, are telling me that you are afraid of the cold, why should I not believe you?"
"I am a skeleton from the underworld. I live in volcanic magma all day long. I am completely different from the skeletons in the underworld!"

Under the crying of the Black Skeleton Demon Lord, Lin Shan had no choice but to pick out a mid-level robe from the storage bracelet and give it to it, and the demon finally behaved itself.

But when Lin Shan turned around, all his brothers had disappeared!
"Huh? What about people?"

The Black Skeleton Demon Lord shrank his head and told him that he had been lost half an hour ago. Lin Shan had no choice but to walk alone in the cold wind.

This time, with the reminder from the Black Skull Demon Lord, he did not faint again. He walked for most of the day, but the sky and the earth were still all white. Without any reference, he had no idea where he was.

Only later did I realize that I still had a magic weapon, the Virtual Star Plate.

As soon as he took out the exquisite silver compass, the needle on it began to spin around, as if something was briefly interfering with it, and finally the needle froze.

Lin Shan then realized that according to the direction of the compass, if he wanted to leave the valley to the east, he would have to turn around and walk backwards, which meant that he had been going around in circles.

I don't know how long I walked this time, but suddenly the view in front of me opened up. An old green tree stood in the wind, with green fruits hanging on its branches.

"Konjac fruit!"

The Black Skull Demon Lord instantly exclaimed in surprise, and his tone was as if a sex-hungry ghost had met an extremely beautiful woman.

Lin Shan looked at the tree in front of him with confusion. It was clearly a tall and green spiritual tree, and it was full of green spiritual fruits. How come it became some kind of "konjac fruit" in the mouth of the Black Skull Demon Lord?

Is this what this thing is called?

"What is konjac fruit?"

"It is an extremely hot area with dense demonic energy. It takes thousands of years for a person to be born. It is also one of the spiritual materials that can help me improve my clone's body to the Golden Core stage."

The Black Skull Demon Lord explained, but there was some hesitation in his tone. He kept looking around, as if he didn't quite believe that such a treasure could be born in such a place.

But at this time Lin Shan couldn't help but sneer:
"It's a konjac fruit in your eyes, but it's a spiritual fruit in my eyes. This is obviously an illusion!"

As soon as he finished speaking, before he could make the first move, the lush old tree in front of him started to move! The trunk of the tree withered instantly, the branches and leaves turned yellow, and the pile of spiritual fruits on it turned into black magic fruits.

"Uh"

Lin Shan looked at the tree in silence. This tree's IQ is really out of this world. Are you trying to cover up your mistake? How dare you cheat with your IQ of a three-year-old?

The dead tree was still shedding its leaves, trying to look as miserable as possible in the howling wind, in order to win Lin Shan's sympathy. But the latter was not moved at all, and instead began to talk to himself.

"It's no use for me to have magic fruit. It would be nice if I had a spiritual peach to quench my thirst."

The dead tree that was withering in the wind suddenly transformed into a short and sturdy peach tree before our eyes, with huge peaches hanging on the branches, waiting to be picked by passers-by.

The Black Skull Demon Lord was also stunned at this time. Even in his hundreds of years of experience, this was the first time he had seen such a strange tree!
Lin Shan, who had already confirmed the answer in his mind, was too lazy to waste words and directly took out his flying sword, intending to use it on this guy to test its quality.

Unexpectedly, when the tree saw the other side displaying weapons, it jumped up directly, and dozens of roots were like flexible tentacles, running wildly into the distance!

"This is the ancient phantom tree!" The Black Skeleton Demon Lord, who was deep in thought, suddenly had an idea and hurriedly urged Lin Shan to chase after it.

On the way, the Black Skull Demon Lord explained to him that the Phantom Ancient Tree was something he had seen in an ancient book. It was said that this tree was born in the dark wind and it would take ten thousand years for it to become spiritual. After it had spiritual intelligence, it would transform into various trees on its own.

The tree in front of him was most likely newly enlightened and did not have much experience, so it could only show off its cleverness in front of Lin Shan and change into the corresponding species according to his needs.

It's not a big deal to just be able to transform, but the function of the Phantom Ancient Tree goes far beyond that.

The thousand-year-old magic wood taken from the tree is a well-known magic material in the world of cultivation! Whether it is used to refine magic tools or to set up magic formations, it is a rare material.

The most precious thing is the Phantom Tree Sap secreted from its body. This liquid is equivalent to the blood of the ancient Phantom Tree. It can not only be used to assist cultivators in practicing most illusion skills, but long-term consumption can also enhance one's own resistance to illusions.

In other words, if you take it more, you will be able to see through most illusions at a glance.

When Lin Shan heard this, he immediately quickened his pace.

The virtual star disk can only help him determine the direction to get out of the maze of illusions. It will be useless if he encounters illusions such as situational or desire-based illusions. Who can refuse such a mysterious thing as illusion resistance?

But what made him anxious was that this phantom ancient tree had more than ten legs, but he only had three legs, and only two of them could run.

How can we catch up with them when the ratio is more than ten to two?
If the Black Skull Demon Lord had not repeatedly emphasized the need to capture the beast alive and continuously bleed it to maximize its use, he would have slashed it with his sword long ago.

The man and the tree chased each other and fled. In a blink of an eye, they didn't know how much time had passed. Lin Shan no longer cared about the direction of the virtual star plate. He just wanted to get the opportunity in front of him first.

Suddenly, while chasing, he plunged into another space. The surrounding scene changed instantly, from the howling wind and the vast whiteness to the deep starry sky!
At this time, the phantom ancient tree in front was also lost, and Lin Shan was confused in the starry sky. Countless stars were twinkling in the distance, and the long-lost dark and cold universe appeared under his feet.

He was a little dazed for a moment. Ever since he came to this world of cultivating immortals, he thought that the round sky and square earth was the new theme. Suddenly he was back in the universe and the starry sky, which made him feel as if time and space were confused.

Before he could adjust his mentality, he suddenly glanced at his side and found that a series of lights suddenly lit up. He raised his hand involuntarily to block the strong light and found that the source was actually a vast expanse of white in the starry sky.
An army of monks.

In the white light array in front of him, there were densely packed heads of monks, and their number was far more than a million. Countless people were dressed in white robes and silver helmets, with their weapons in order, feathers on their heads fluttering, and cloaks fluttering behind them without wind.

Dotted among them are thousands of generals, big and small, wearing blue helmets, with layers of tiled knee and shoulder pads, riding ferocious beasts, with flags lined up beside them, and gongs and drums beating, as if the earth is turning upside down.

More importantly, even ordinary soldiers have huge transparent Dharma images behind them.

The Dharmakāya is a magical power that can only be achieved in the Nascent Soul stage, which means that these millions or even tens of millions of cultivators are at least in the Nascent Soul stage!
"You're just trying to deal with a Foundation Establishment like me, and you're using such a grand illusion?"

Until now, Lin Shan still felt that he was in an illusion. After all, the starry universe and tens of millions of infants, this scene was impossible to imagine!
But it wasn't over yet, in this vast army, everyone's eyes were fixed on him, and colorful magical powers were brewing in their hands. Above their heads, higher-ranking generals waved their flags, which then suddenly fell down.

Magical spells illuminated the entire starry sky, and countless torrents surged over like an overwhelming force. The immersive feeling was simply suffocating, and Lin Shan felt like he was the only one in the world.

Ten breaths later, he opened his eyes and found that all the magical powers and spells passed by him and flew behind him, as if the target of this army of monks was behind him.

Turning around, in the vast universe, a white elliptical halo was hanging there, standing still despite the attacks of countless magical powers.

The ring seemed to be an anchor fixed in the universe. Suddenly, ripples appeared in the middle, and a deep white disc-shaped flying saucer emerged from the water.

The futuristic sci-fi ladder-like shape, the Whipple light shield made of composite star materials, the electromagnetic rail gun with alternating ripples, the densely packed light spot distributed aperture detection system, the tail fins spraying blue flames from the nuclear fission reactor, and the glass observation windows made up of pieces of successive splicing.
Through these glass windows, he could see countless soldiers in blue uniforms and blue berets walking back and forth, a huge screen with dense data, countless computers working in the huge command bridge, generals with military ranks on their shoulders discussing with each other in groups of three or four, and drawing on the map with electronic pencils in their hands.
Everything shows that this flying saucer is the crystallization of scientific and technological civilization!
Before Lin Shan could recover from the huge chaos of time and space, the voice of the Black Skull Demon Lord beside him had trembled and changed.

"Is this... a mirage?!"

It had traveled through several different worlds according to the contract between the Immortal Realm and the Underworld, and also had a wealth of experience. It could naturally distinguish whether it was an illusion made out of thin air or a projection of time and space disorder such as a mirage.

"You mean this scene really exists and has happened before?"

Lin Shan couldn't help but tremble and unknowingly entered a mirage. Being in it, he couldn't help but sigh at the vastness of the starry sky and the incredibleness of the warring parties.

“It’s hard to say, maybe it has already happened, maybe it is happening now”

The soul fire in the Black Skull Demon Lord's head was burning fiercely. No one knew what he was thinking. The two of them were like watching a large VR movie.

At this moment, it seemed that everyone in the operations room had reached a consensus. The huge flying saucer trembled slightly, tilted slightly, and shot towards the distance at a high speed. The tail flame was like a blue comet!
A middle-aged man in a white robe slowly rose up from the army of monks on the opposite side. He walked calmly and looked casual and relaxed, just like a gentle and elegant teacher.

He just raised his hand and clenched it in the air, as if he had not used any magical power. All the starlight around him seemed to be swallowed by darkness, and in the blink of an eye, the universe lost its reference.

The endless void fell into eternal darkness. Just one hundred thousandth of a second later, the flying saucer that had already run millions of miles away and was as fast as a stream of light suddenly exploded, and a grand firework bloomed in the starry sky!

"The Immortal Class is powerful!"

The Black Skull Demon Lord's voice, trembling with disbelief, echoed throughout the starry sky.

(End of this chapter)