Immortal Road.

"That's true, but after all, the Red Lotus Ancestor is a ten-thousand-year-old plant spirit with a long lifespan and many demon veins. Will other demons come to the rescue at the critical moment?"

At first glance, this person's concerns seemed reasonable, but the other person just laughed it off.

"You're overthinking this. Although the demon race has a long lifespan, not all demons in the world can live for ten thousand years!"

"How could it be possible that the good friends of Red Lotus Patriarch from that era could have continued to this Wanhui Year?"

"It has been sealed for a long time now, and it is completely alone. The few disciples it has, such as the Jianjia Monster King in the lower reaches of the Shangshui River, dare not even fart after we entered the Luosong Mountains!"

"Who do you think it can count on?"

Several Nascent Soul cultivators who were also sitting cross-legged guarding the gate behind him opened their eyes and nodded in agreement.

Times have changed. The connections of the past have dried up and the friendships have become invalid. Ancestor Honglian has no external support and can only cower and take the beatings.

Everyone in Penglai knew a little about this past event and had no worries, so the gatekeepers were only symbolically guarding against villains. It seemed that no one dared to break through and go against Penglai.

But many people have doubts about whether this monster can be eliminated.

"Back then, the eighth generation ancestor Zang Yan was a brilliant man who led our holy land to a winner-take-all victory in the last Wanhui. But even so, he was unable to kill the Red Lotus Ancestor and could only seal him. Then our Holy Lord..."

"Haha, this is what you think based on the result, but you don't know the inside story."

The cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage stroked his beard and kept the secret. This was a common problem among the older generation in the big sects. They always liked to take advantage of their seniority and test the cleverness of the younger generations.

Sure enough, other people enthusiastically handed over their pipes, and some filled the mouthpieces with leaves and lit them, begging the old man to speak quickly.

"Suck, suck, suck~ Mmm~ Comfortable~"

The old fellow was puffing out clouds of smoke, feeling high in the air, and started talking while smoking his pipe.

"It is said that the Red Lotus Ancestor was slaughtering people all over the continent. In order to refine the Red Lotus Karma Fire, he slaughtered countless lives and even set fire to the mountains everywhere, which lasted for half a century!"

"Not only are all the major races panicking, even the demon race is jealous of it!"

"Think about it, these deep mountains and old forests are the habitats of the demons. If Red Lotus Patriarch continues to burn like this endlessly, isn't that also destroying the demons' territory?"

"At that time, it was said that many monsters fled in panic, leaving their homes and attacking human gathering places. The source of the trouble was that the Red Lotus Ancestor fanned the flames."

After hearing this, everyone raised their fists in hatred. They knew from their innate sense that this monster had bad intentions.

"This kind of behavior, which is only intended to cause chaos in the world, naturally arouses the indignation of the people in the cultivation world!"

“But the Red Lotus Patriarch is a powerful plant and tree master at the Yuanshen stage. Even if someone wants to stop him, they have to consider whether they are qualified and have the ability to do so!”

"Finally, seeing that many parties were indulging themselves in this and no one dared to intervene, I, the eighth generation ancestor of Penglai, Zang Yan, had the heart to save the world and was the first to worry about it. I led the Penglai ancestors to fight bravely, sacrifice countless people, and after seven days and seven nights of hard battle, I finally captured this monster!"

"It is said that in that battle, my Penglai ancestors suffered heavy casualties, but many other holy places looked on coldly, which shows how cold-hearted people are!"

When everyone heard this, mountains of corpses and seas of blood emerged in their minds. They recalled how their ancestors fought bloody battles to prevent the destruction of lives and to uphold justice, and their blood boiled.

But wanting to know what happened next, he urged the old monk to continue.

"Don't worry, let me take another puff."

"Later, a trial meeting was held, inviting all the powerful souls in this world to jointly convict and decide to sentence the Red Lotus Ancestor to death."

"But this monster is very tenacious and difficult to kill. As long as the red lotus fire is not extinguished, it can maintain its spiritual consciousness and continue to live in the world."

"The master originally wanted to solve the problem once and for all by filling the sea to suppress the monster, using the deep sea eye to extinguish the fire, and then killing its body, but was protested by the local sea tribe."

"Later, they planned to throw it into the demon cave and use the demon energy to extinguish the fire, but they were collectively opposed by the demon holy land in this world!"

"Later, we had no choice but to propose using the glaciers of the northern ice field to suppress the fire and using the extremely cold ice jade to extinguish the fire, but we were met with resistance from the major alien races in the Ice and Snow Alliance!"

"With nothing else to do, facing the selfishness and shortsightedness of various forces, the ancestor had no choice but to negotiate with many parties, and finally found a secret place that would not affect the sphere of influence of each party, that is, the Red Maple Forest."

Speaking of this, he sighed with great emotion and educated the younger generation of monks.

"I am Penglai, and I take it as my duty to slay demons and monsters in the world and maintain the stability of the world. Generation after generation of our ancestors have made generous sacrifices, and only then have we achieved our current status in the world of cultivation."

"But due to the obstruction of other forces, the Red Lotus Patriarch has been left as a scourge until now, and even killed the Saint Shui Xingye. This is simply an unforgivable crime!"

"The Holy Lord has made full preparations this time. He has specially used the Sky-reaching Spiritual Treasure Water-Dividing Flag to refine a large amount of binary heavy water in order to extinguish the Red Lotus Karma Fire and cut off the roots of this monster!"

"After tens of thousands of years, the enemy must have been weakened by the torture of time. Without killing and karma, even the most powerful evil fire cannot thrive. This is a good time for us to strike."

"But all this is happening inside and has nothing to do with the outside world. You just need to guard the door and don't have to worry about anything else."

Everyone's blood boiled after hearing this. They couldn't help but feel excited and secretly thrilled when they thought about being able to witness with their own eyes the fall of a great spiritual being from afar, especially a sixth-rank plant demon from ten thousand years ago.

But while they were discussing heatedly, they didn't know that two large figures and one small figure quietly approached from outside the entrance of the red maple forest.

Seeing that this place was as bright as day, and there were so many formations and monks stationed here, they could not help but stare at each other.

They moved back and forth furtively, trying to find a breakthrough point.

But I found that there was no such thing. There was no way to get in except to force my way into the secret realm!

The three figures seemed to be negotiating, and each of them spoke for a while, but in the end, they were still unable to come to a conclusion.

"Penglai's defenses are indeed tight, and we really can't break through this level."

"Especially the sixth-order formation covering the entire secret realm. I'm afraid it was designed to stop people in the Yuanshen stage. It was their backup plan just in case. I didn't expect it to stop us!"

"It seems that everyone in Penglai has taken precautions this time, even taking into account interference from external enemies in the Yuanshen period. It is more serious than we imagined!"

Lin Shan frowned. He had just looked at this sixth-order formation. The Void Star Disk could not break it at all. Even if the three of them used their full strength as powerful masters, they might not be able to open it for a while.

If they alarmed the people inside, they would be exposed in advance.

Especially when he heard the monks guarding the gate chatting about the Holy Lord of Penglai carrying a magical treasure that could reach the sky, he gasped!
I feel that this battle is increasingly dangerous.

"Brother, what should we do?"

Lin Fan and Brother Ji were also stumped. They didn't expect that a sixth-order formation would leave them helpless. The joy of having just become a powerful person was gone.

"It's not surprising that Penglai has a great master of formations. Back then, Mercury used a large teleportation formation before he sank into the Devil Valley. This formation blocks the void and cuts off the secret realm, specifically to prevent Yuanshen period cultivators from breaking through the void and descending. It's really tricky."

He took out his interstellar pager and called Zhang Yunxi in front of the two of them, wanting to ask her if she had any way to get him in.

Toot——

pat!

There was a sound coming from the other end, crackling like firecrackers.

"Fellow Daoist Lin, have you reached the outside of the Red Maple Forest?"

Zhang Yunxi was very perceptive and guessed it immediately, but the situation on her side didn't seem to be good.

"Yes, I'm already there, and I brought two friends with me, but the entrance to the secret realm has been set up with a sixth-order formation, specifically to isolate the void."

What Lin Shan didn't expect was that the other party suddenly became alert. "You didn't come here alone? Did you bring other people with you?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Are you sure you can trust me? This time, it's a matter of great importance for Ancestor Honglian to escape from the predicament. If you fail, there will be no next time, and you may even lose your life! This is the only chance. Why didn't you tell me in advance if you wanted to bring people with you?"

"No, we are all brothers. We have been friends for more than 200 years."

Zhang Yunxi suddenly fell silent.

Her action confused Lin Shan, and he didn't know why she reacted so strongly suddenly.

There was a constant crackling sound over there, which made people feel inexplicably irritated. After a long while, she spoke again.

"Fellow Daoist Lin, I'll give you the coordinates. That's a secret passage that was opened up by the Void Battleship. It's about dozens of miles from here. When you get there, just send the Substitute Gu in. No one else needs to come."

"What do you mean?"

"It's meaningless. The danger of rescuing the ancestor this time is far beyond our expectations. Penglai's determination is beyond your imagination. I don't want to implicate you. Besides, it's useless for you to come in. It's better to leave early!"

"No, didn't we agree to be together before? Why did you change your mind at the last minute?"

Lin Shan had a bad feeling. From the tone of her voice, it seemed that she was under tremendous pressure and she even showed some signs of suspicion towards the outside world.

"Give me your seat first."

There is a place mentioned there, and then I want to persuade again:

"You'd better not come. Penglai has already set up ambushes inside and outside, waiting for the outsiders to take the bait. This is a clear move."

Lin Shan hung up the phone directly without giving her a chance to say more.

Then he led people to the designated location and released the Void Butterfly.

"Xiaodie, can you find a space wormhole for me?"

The Void Butterfly sensed it slightly, and then easily flapped its wings, and a silver-white void passage was opened.

Lin Fan and Brother Ji opened their eyes wide, and like curious babies, they said nothing. They were wrapped in two yellow bubbles and sent in together with Lin Shan!

In the darkness in front of me, streams of light intertwined and countless white particles came towards me, as if a door for jumping was opened, and in just one breath, my eyes were bright.

The circular holes formed by the ripples are like punctured water films.

The body rushed forward and the ground below was empty!
Several people came directly into the secret realm.

"Are you so fast?"

"scare!"

Before they could react, a voice suddenly came into their ears. They looked up and saw Zhang Yunxi standing in front of them.

Looking around at this moment, he found that this was an underground cave. It was probably to prevent his whereabouts from being exposed that he chose such a remote place. The black ripple halo behind him gradually shrank until it disappeared.

"Didn't I tell you not to come? Why are you still coming?"

Lin Shan did not answer her. It was entirely up to him whether to come or not. He could not be influenced by a woman.

"Let me introduce you. This is my cousin Lin Fan, and my good brother Brother Ji."

Lin Fan and Brother Ji nodded, and asked Zhang Yunxi impatiently where to go to rescue people. It was obvious that they couldn't wait any longer, and the latter's face became visibly worse.

"Is this the person you brought with you?"

"Well, they are all impatient, don't take it personally, they will definitely be able to help you later!"

"You're still helping? You're just a little skinny guy and a chicken, it's good enough if you don't make things worse!"

"Hey, how do you talk?"

Lin Fan looked at his muscular body and was proud of it, but he didn't expect that his first impression would be stepped on. This girl's mouth is too vicious!
Brother Ji was even more unconvinced, and he tilted his neck back and kept clucking.

"What's wrong with chickens? Do you look down on chickens?"

Lin Shan quickly came over to smooth things over, telling her that his two good brothers were both people with great supernatural powers and came to help with good intentions, and that she shouldn't be sensitive and suspicious.

"You should know that at this critical moment when the ancestor is about to escape, the fewer people there are, the better. We cannot allow any mistakes. When the time comes, keep these two under control and don't let them act on their own and ruin things!"

"I know, I know."

"Where's the Substitute Gu?"

"here."

Lin Shan took out the insect nest, and an ugly poisonous insect was squeezed out. It started cursing as soon as it came into contact with him!
"Boy, where did you take me? We agreed that I would only help you once, and then you must send me back to the Tomb of the Ancient Witch, otherwise the bloodline of the Witch Clan will curse me."

Before he could finish his words, the substitute Gu cried out in pain, and with a quick turn of his eyes, he was frightened half to death!
Brother Ji picked up the thing with his iron beak and almost choked it!

"What are you doing? You can't eat this!"

Lin Shan was afraid that Brother Ji would swallow the Substitute Gu as a snack, so he quickly snatched it back from his mouth and handed it to Zhang Yunxi, making the latter dislike Brother Ji even more.

"I'm telling you, we have to obey her in everything we do from now on. Don't disrupt the rhythm of breaking the seal!"

In order to prevent himself from acting impulsively, Lin Shan gave Lin Fan and Brother Ji many instructions, and the two nodded repeatedly to show that they understood.

On the other side, Zhang Yunxi got the substitute Gu, and she didn't expect that this guy was so intelligent. He struggled and jumped out of her hand repeatedly, and kept muttering in a connoisseur's tone.

"You can tell me what you want me to do. As long as it doesn't involve life-threatening situations, I will cooperate. Don't force me. It will inevitably cause resistance."

"You're the only one who's resisting?"

Zhang Yunxi led it directly out of the cave, and Lin Shan and the other two followed behind.

After wandering around, we came to a basin. It was a pitch-black night outside with occasional stars. The red lake surface was actually burning!
The steaming heat waves distorted the space, but their whole bodies were extremely cold.

Because this is not fire in the traditional sense, but the red lotus karma fire!

The sight was even more surprising.

The entire lake was boiling, and the eerie flames burned over a hundred miles in radius, but there was no water vapor blocking their vision, allowing them to see clearly above their heads.

An extremely huge flag is fluttering in the sky at this moment!

The waves on the flag surface were surging, and the storm was gathering, projecting drops of water to the outside world that formed broken lines and were dripping towards the lake below, as heavy as a mountain and causing thousands of layers of water splashes.

Boom, boom, boom, boom
The binary heavy water suppressed the flames, like a meteor falling from the sky.

It is the Tongtian Magical Treasure, the Water-Dividing Flag!

(End of this chapter)