On the Avenue.

Chapter 554: Everyone is Petrified
On this day, farmers working in the fields and peddlers in the city all looked up and stared blankly at the sky.

Above Xiniu Xinzhou, flowers of flesh and blood slowly bloomed on the sky.

Hundreds of miles high in the sky, there is extremely hot solar essence that is dozens of miles thick. Any living creature, including cultivators in the Mahayana realm, will be reduced to ashes in body and soul if it comes here.

However, the flowers of flesh and blood bloomed here, growing and spreading, becoming larger and larger. They seemed to be not afraid of the sun's energy, nor the moon's sword energy at night, and they didn't care about the outer gods at all.

Soon, these flowers of flesh and blood connected with each other in the sky, covering an increasingly wider area, gradually filling the sky of Xiniu Xinzhou.

A thick evil aura diffused down from the sky, and the first things to be transformed into evil were the dead bodies.

Those who had just died suddenly sat up straight, or turned into zombies, or ghosts, or had their heads split open like petals, or had branches grow out of their limbs, in all strange shapes, and preyed on humans.

There were also some livestock and poultry that had just been slaughtered that were also invaded by the evil spirits and transformed into evil spirits, seeking revenge on people.

Also, the plants gradually mutated under the influence of the evil spirit. They swayed their branches, grabbed people who passed by, and penetrated their roots into the eyes, ears, mouth and nose, sucking human blood for nutrients.

Some trees even uprooted themselves and ran around the mountains and fields in a mad rush.

In a short period of time, the entire Xiniu Island went crazy and people didn't know how to deal with it.

There are evil spirits everywhere, and the evil spirit is so strong that even the godmother in the village cannot resist the invasion of evil spirits and often undergoes evil changes, becoming evil spirits that harm the villagers.

The talisman masters from Hongshan Hall traveled around, killing and refining the evil spirits, but there were too many of them to kill them all, and as the evil spirits became more serious, their strength became stronger and stronger.

Gods from all over the country shine brightly, and in the temple, the three lights of righteousness continue to flow out, protecting the people and resisting the invasion of evil spirits.

Emergency memorials from all over the country flew to the imperial capital of Xinxiang like snowflakes, making cabinet ministers such as Hu Feifei extremely busy.

Sha Qiuting, Du Yiran and others came to the Liangtian Cliff of Qianyang Mountain, but saw that Chen Shi was still practicing in seclusion and could not be awakened.

Everyone had to leave and go look for Chen Yindu. Chen Yindu and the Creator Xiaowu were working together to refine the Qiankun Re-Creation Furnace. When they saw them coming, they did not stop and continued to refine.

Sha Qiutong said: "The Heavenly Lord has walked out of the Slope of Despair. The evil changes in the world cannot be changed. He has turned the world into an evil one, causing the entire Xiniu New Continent to enter an evil state, which will soon affect ordinary people. The gods of various places can only protect the living beings for a while. The gods will also be affected by the evil spirit and turn into evil gods. Old Chen, you have the best ideas, what should we do now?"

While offering sacrifices, Chen Yindu said, "The purpose of the Heavenly Venerable allowing the heaven and earth to change evil is to demonize the great way between heaven and earth and transform it into the dojo of that evil creature. The entire Xiniu New Continent is a huge ghost and god realm. The only way now is to use the ghost and god realm to deal with the ghost and god realm, temporarily delaying the evil change of all living beings, which can delay it for a while. But it is only a delay. When the owner of the ghost and god realm is also changed by evil, the people of Xiniu New Continent will also be evil and merge into the flesh and blood of the sky."

He paused and said, "By then, all the people in Xiniuzhou will be wiped out."

Du Yiran frowned slightly: "Use the ghost and god realm to fight against evil?"

Chen Yindu said, "I studied Niangniang Shiji and created a small method, which is placed next to it. You can take it and teach others to practice it, so as to activate the realm of ghosts and gods."

Du Yiran glanced over and saw two pieces of paper on the table next to him, weighed down by a paperweight, and immediately walked forward.

Everyone flipped through it and found that the paper recorded an unnamed martial arts method. Practicing this method would assimilate one's own void realm into a realm of ghosts and gods similar to that of Niangniang Shiji. All living beings in the realm, including cultivators, and even the person who activated this martial arts method, would be petrified!

This technique is extremely simple to practice and easy to master. Even an average person can master it in just one or two days.

Sha Qiutong frowned slightly and whispered, "Even if it is petrified, I'm afraid it won't last long."

Chen Yindu said without even raising his head, "We'll hold on as long as we can."

Tianhu frowned and said, "Old Chen, your technique has a method to petrify people, but there is no method to unlock the petrification! If the battle is over, people will still be stones and cannot be restored to flesh."

"I was too pressed for time and didn't think about unlocking the method of petrification."

Chen Yindu and Creator Xiaowu continued to refine the Qiankun Re-Creation Furnace. Their wisdom was connected. Chen Yindu threw all the emotions that interfered with his judgment to Creator Xiaowu. He retained pure rationality and spoke without any emotion.

"All you have to do is save your lives. After you are petrified, you don't need to unlock the method of petrification."

He glanced at everyone and said, "If we win, I will create a way to break the petrification and rescue you from the petrification. If we lose, you will never wake up. Therefore, I don't need to spend my wisdom to create a way to break the petrification."

He ordered them to leave: "Everyone, please say goodbye now."

Sha Qiutong and the others had no choice but to leave. Tianhu complained, "Old Chen is too unkind."

Du Yiran said, "In a battle with the Heavenly Lord, anyone below the level of an immortal will die. Even if we are immortals, we will die. We are of no use to him, so don't bother him with trivial matters."

They found Hu Feifei and, through the imperial court, passed this skill on to masters of the Huanxu and Mahayana realms in various places in Xiniu Xinzhou.

Sha Qiutong came to Qianyang Mountain, met the big snake Xuanshan, and presented this technique to him.

The big snake Xuanshan is now fighting against the evil spirits between heaven and earth and protecting the creatures near Qianyang Mountain, but he is already unable to do so.

His divine image, Xuanshan in black, flipped through this technique and soon comprehended it thoroughly. He said, "With my cultivation, I can cover the area around Qianyang Mountain and petrify all life. If I turn into stone, I should be able to survive the evil spirit for a hundred years, but what about after a hundred years?"

"Xuanshan, if we can win, it won't take a hundred years."

Sha Qiutong said, "If you fail to win, you and the people of Qianyang Mountain will never wake up."

The great snake Xuanshan looked gloomy and said, "After this deep sleep, I wonder if we will meet again by chance?"

Sha Qiutong bowed to him and said goodbye: "Old neighbor, see you in the future."

Xuanshan in black also bowed and said, "I hope there is still a future."

Sha Qiuting left and went to Grandma Zhuang's place to say goodbye to her.

She walked out of Qianyang Mountain and suddenly felt an inexplicable breath coming from behind her. Sha Qiutong looked back and saw a huge black snake coiled on the verdant mountain. The snake's body gradually turned to stone. With the snake as the center, flowers, trees, birds, beasts, insects and fish also began to turn to stone.

The people and monks of Qianyang Mountain gradually turned into stone.

The scope of the Great Snake Xuanshan's territory is getting wider and wider, covering an area of ​​a thousand miles.

A thousand miles in radius turned into a stone pot. Finally, the great snake Xuanshan also turned into stone.

Sha Qiutong left Qianyang Mountain and returned to the imperial capital. In the court, Hu Feifei was quite anxious and was arguing with Du Yiran and others. Sha Qiutong stepped forward, and Hu Feifei said: "Without so many masters of the Return to Void Realm and the Mahayana Realm, it is impossible to cover all the provinces of Xiniu New Continent! What about the rest of the people?"

Zhuge Jian said: "Then relocate people from other provinces!"

"There's no time at all! They've already turned evil before you can move them here!"

"Then we can only save a group of people, which is better than not being able to save anyone!"

"Which group of people should we save? Which group of people should we abandon? Who will judge? What standard should we use to judge?"

…Everyone was arguing. Sha Qiutong listened for a moment and felt a deep sense of powerlessness in her heart: “Perhaps if we hadn’t gotten rid of the Thirteenth Family, there wouldn’t be so many masters.”

Just as she was thinking this, she heard a resounding voice: "At this critical moment, Yu Lingzi and everyone in Taihua Qingyang Palace must obey the orders of the True King!"

Sha Qiuting was delighted and looked over quickly, only to see Yu Lingzi leading many masters of Qingyang Palace to the imperial city.

Hu Feifei and other ministers of the cabinet came out of the court to greet him. Before they could exchange greetings, they heard another voice saying, "Ji Xuanxuan has led all the monks and nuns from the Bodhi Dharma Field to come to see you. They are willing to face the national crisis with the True King!"

When everyone looked, they saw Saint Xuan coming with many masters from the Bodhi Temple.

Another voice came: "The world is in great trouble now, Tianshi Mansion is willing to obey the orders of the True King!"

"I am Ku Yu, an old monk from the Dabaoguo Temple. I have come to pay homage to the True King and am willing to do my best to help him!"

Many Taoists and monks came over, they were masters from the six holy places of Taoism and Buddhism, and they all greeted him.

Hu Feifei was overjoyed, and hurriedly calculated, frowning and said: "Even if we add the masters of Taoism and Buddhism, it is still not enough to cover Xiniu New Island..."

Suddenly, another voice was heard: "What if we add the masters of our Divine Capital?"

Everyone looked back and saw Daochengzi, Danchengzi and others walking into the court, a total of one or two hundred people.

Dan Chengzi smiled and said, "With us included, can the Void Realm cover Xiniu New Continent?"

Hu Feifei was overjoyed: "That's enough!"

In the fifty provinces of Xiniuzhou, small portals to the heavens opened one after another, and cultivators walked out of them and stood in the positions set by the imperial court.

They each sat on the ground and carefully read the martial arts method created by Chen Yindu.

When Hu Feifei asked the Hanlin Academy to copy this skill, she gave it a name, called Shiji Tahua Jue.

The comprehension and practice of this technique is based on one's own practice and is not difficult. Soon someone comprehended the mystery and activated the Shiji Transformation Technique.

They sacrificed their primordial spirits and activated their own void realm, turning all living things within the territory covered by the void realm into stone.

The last ones to be petrified were their bodies and souls.

"I hope there is still a future." Sha Qiutong whispered.

She sat on the ground, her body gradually turning into stone.

She was in Hejin Town, Longmen County, Xianzhou, and not far away was the Fan family.

Fan Pu, the reincarnation of Xiang Tianyu, was playing in the yard with a smile on his face.

He too had been petrified.

In the imperial capital of Xinxiang, Hu Feifei offered up the Jade Seal of the King of the West and observed the Map of Mountains, Rivers and State. She saw that the mountains and rivers in the Map were constantly turning into stone, and the petrified territory was getting larger and larger. Many petrified void realms intersected, and there were fewer and fewer unpetrified places.

Two days later, the last gap was filled.

Hu Feifei breathed a sigh of relief and looked up and said, "Mrs. Shiji, you can start now."

The voice of Lady Shiji came: "Don't worry, Lord Hu, there is no pain..."

Her ghost and god domain slowly spread out in all directions, covering an increasingly wider range. Wherever it passed, flowers, plants, livestock, and mortal monks were all petrified.

The scope of the ghost and god domain became wider and wider, gradually coming to the imperial city, sweeping over Hu Feifei and other civil and military officials.

Their hair and skin gradually turned into rock, and their blood stopped flowing.

The ghost and god realm of Niangniang Shiji expanded outward, and after a while, it merged with the ghost and god realms around it.

The entire Xiniu Island seemed to have turned into a rock world. In every city, every place, and every countryside, you could always see stone men, stone cows, stone horses, stone grass, stone trees, stone flowers, stone birds on the trees, and stone fish in the water.

But in this huge world, there is no moving life to be seen.

Everything was quiet, so quiet that it was scary.

The positive energy of the sun and the moon formed by the eyesight of the true gods from outer space could not pass through the thick clouds of flesh and blood to reach the human world, and the evil energy between heaven and earth became increasingly dense.

At this time, the figure of Tianzun appeared in Tiandao City.

"It's time to make this world suffer. I have waited for this day for 16,000 years!"

He walked in Tiandao City with a smile on his face. After a while, his face turned pale and he flew up from the city and flew towards another city in the distance.

He floated above the city and looked down. Everywhere he looked, there were petrified people, not a single living person.

Tianzun's expression became more and more gloomy as he continued to fly. However, he saw that there was no movement in either the villages or towns. Even the most prosperous cities were extremely quiet at this moment.

The once vibrant Xiniu Xinzhou suddenly seemed dead.

Tianzun was burning with rage, and suddenly he waved his sleeves. Countless stone men and stone horses exploded one after another. Half of the stone men in the city were crushed into powder by him with a wave of his sleeves!

He stamped his feet again, and the entire city collapsed. The remaining stone men were also buried by the collapsed houses!
He vented his anger and used his magical powers everywhere, destroying the place beyond recognition, but no one panicked, no one screamed and ran away, no one knelt down and begged for mercy, and no one looked at him with hatred.

What greeted him was just a cold, petrified world.

After waiting for more than 16,000 years, the time for harvest has finally arrived. He was originally very excited, but now he has lost all interest.

Destroying these stone statues that do not feel pain and have no consciousness is a different feeling from destroying living people who know how to resist.

The entire Xiniu Xinzhou was petrified, depriving him of the joy of harvest.

"You turn yourselves into stone and expect to escape the evil? Impossible."

Tianzun sneered, his mind moved slightly, and streams of flesh and blood fell from the sky like waterfalls, beginning to cover the earth and mountains, swallowing the petrified people into their flesh and blood.

"It's time to go see the goddess Hou Tu. This deity is always nosy, it's time to send her off."

(End of this chapter)