On the Avenue.

Chapter 655 Siyuan Mountain Pass
A divine general stepped forward and whispered, "Heavenly King, among those who have come this time is Chen Shi. Behind him is the Eastern King Duke, who is also said to be the adopted son of the Earth Goddess Houtu..."

Li Tianwang laughed and said, "Chen Shi certainly has his background, but it concerns the future of the Heavenly Court, and Dongwanggong and Houtu Huangdiqi will understand. Moreover, it's actually a great thing for Chen Shi to become a deity; he'll be even more united with our Heavenly Court and there's no way he'd rebel. On the contrary, when he was alive, he was an immortal who was two-faced and played both sides. I'm worried that he might be a double agent, trying to please both sides and becoming a traitor to both the Celestial Court and the Heavenly Court!"

"Is the Heavenly King not afraid that the Eastern King Duke and the Earth Goddess Houtu will make things difficult for him?"

With a smile on his face, Li Tianwang looked towards Siyuan Mountain Pass and said leisurely, "Little shoes? You think I am a genius who foresaw that the Heavenly Dao Treasure would be destroyed, so I chose thirty-three Heavenly Dao Holders? You think I mobilized these Heavenly Dao Holders to the Nili Great World at the same time? You think I made a plan to control the Heavenly Dao? I don't have that ability."

He smiled slightly: "Above me, there are fifty giants more powerful than me. They are the architects of this plan. Among these giants is Houtu Huangdizhi."

He hesitated for a moment, unsure whether the Eastern King Duke was involved.

After all, the Eastern King Duke is an immortal.

"Even the Earth Goddess Houtu did not come to Chen Shi's rescue. In any case, Chen Shi is doomed this time!"

Li Tianwang said in a low voice, "He only has one path to take: to stand on the side of the Heavenly Court."

Above Siyuan Mountain Pass, a cacophony of noise filled the air, and all sorts of chaotic scenes came into view.

Chaos erupted on the ship. Niu Jingjing dodged a sudden divine power, which then pierced through the body of another Heavenly Dao Master.

The moment the person was hit, their body rapidly turned into mud, becoming a mud figure. They hurriedly raised their hand to check their body, both shocked and horrified.

At this moment, a demon soldier with long arms and legs leaped onto the ship, grabbed the man's head, and crushed the head of the ruler of the Heavenly Dao with a snap!

The demon warriors let out strange, raucous cries and charged at Niu Jingjing.

Niu Jingjing panicked and summoned her immortal artifact to defend herself. At the same time, the other two Heavenly Dao Holders had already steadied their minds and immediately attacked from the left and right.

The demon soldier raised his hand to block Niu Jingjing's immortal artifact, but was knocked backward. Niu Jingjing was overjoyed, but then realized that her magic weapon had been invaded by heretics. The Dao patterns imprinted on the immortal artifact were rapidly disintegrating. She exclaimed in alarm, "Be careful of heretic contamination!"

"Bang bang!"

Two muffled thuds rang out, and the attacks of the two Heavenly Dao Masters struck the demon soldier without any hindrance. The demon soldier, despite enduring the attacks from the two, only paused slightly, yet remained completely unharmed.

The moment their hands touched the demon soldiers, the two immediately sensed the invasion of the heretical forces. Their own cultivated Dao patterns were unable to resist the heretical forces in the slightest, and they all turned into mud.

In the blink of an eye, the two turned into two clay figures, which were then crushed to pieces by the demon soldiers, one in each hand.

"How to fight?"

Niu Jingjing saw the demon soldiers rushing towards her, and behind her came unorthodox supernatural powers and magical treasures. Seeing that there was nowhere to hide, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and activate her supernatural powers to meet the demon soldiers.

At the very moment she made her move, Chen Shi, who was standing not far away, activated his Dao field, which spread outwards and instantly enveloped the entire ship.

That dojo was different from other dojos; it didn't reveal any characteristics of the Great Dao. It was just a vast expanse that became difficult to detect once it was enveloped.

Niu Jingjing encountered the demon soldier, and the two unleashed their supernatural powers. The demon soldier's bones were broken and tendons snapped, and he coughed up blood. He was sent flying backward and hung on the wall of the ship, clearly beyond saving.

Niu Jingjing thought she was going to die, but she never expected that it would be her opponent who died. She was still in shock.

At this moment, more than a dozen demon soldiers rushed onto the ship. As soon as they stepped into Chen Shi's Wuji Dojo, they felt their heretical paths being transformed into immortal paths.

They didn't know how to cultivate immortality, and were immediately killed by Long Yuanling, Xiahou Feng, and others.

After killing these demon soldiers, everyone was bewildered, not knowing why they were so powerful.

Niu Jingjing was the first to regain her senses and hurriedly looked at Chen Shi, asking, "Young Master Chen, why did their heretical methods fail?"

Chen Shi walked to the bow of the ship and explained, "I only made their heretical paths become immortal paths, they just don't know how to cultivate them. Similarly, the corruption of heretical paths is just that immortal paths are assimilated into heretical paths, they just don't know how to cultivate them."

Everyone frowned: "What kind of logic is this?"

In a short time, only fourteen of the thirty-three Heavenly Dao Holders remained on the ship; the others perished in this sudden battle.

They looked at each other in dismay. They had come all this way thinking that they had obtained the mark of the Heavenly Dao Treasure and were already the chosen ones of heaven and the children of destiny. They never expected that as soon as they arrived in the Great World of Nili, most of them would die or be injured!

This horrific scene left everyone deeply uneasy.

Ning Daoshan suddenly said, "Fellow Daoist Chen, could this be the wondrous use of your Heavenly Dao Imprint Heavenly Secret Strategy? Have you already comprehended how to use the Heavenly Secret Strategy?"

Everyone turned to look at Chen Shi with eager eyes.

If that dojo is the wondrous application of the Heavenly Secrets Strategy, wouldn't that mean they too could possess such miraculous power, enough to contend with the demon race?

Chen Shi ignored Ning Daoshan's questions and continued to maintain the Wuji Dao Temple, looking down at Siyuan Mountain Pass.

Siyuan Pass cannot be called a formidable pass at all. This frontline outpost was only half-built, with most of the fortifications still incomplete.

The Heavenly Court's outposts have strict regulations.

Leaving aside other things, the Black Iron Immortal City guarding the west of Penglai, in addition to its inner city, outer city, and barbican, also features crenellations, corner towers, an altar for worshipping heaven, a star-commanding platform, a treasure-refining workshop, and a medical workshop. The outer walls of the city are painted with various defensive formations using the blood of gods and demons, densely covered with defensive Dao patterns. The inner walls are painted with formations based on the Five Elements, Yin and Yang, the Four Symbols, and the Eight Trigrams.

On the city wall, every few miles there was a commander in charge of the battle formation diagram. When the enemy attacked the city, the formation diagram would be activated, and all soldiers would be drawn into the formation diagram to meet the enemy.

Each corner tower has dozens of defensive magical artifacts, and there are millstone crossbows at the crenellations.

The Tongxingtai (Converging Star Platform) gathers the power of the stars in the heavens, forming a celestial sand formation that surrounds the inner and outer cities, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The most crucial element is the altar, where sacrifices can be made to summon the divine avatars of various departments of the Heavenly Court, such as the Fighting Department, the Thunder Department, and the Plague Department, to descend and wipe out the enemy army.

Siyuan Mountain Pass lacked all of these. This stronghold only had time to build the inner and outer city walls. Although the altar for worshipping the heavens was completed, the Daoist patterns and talismans were still being drawn. The Tongxing Terrace had just begun construction, and most of the other fortifications were incomplete.

This is the Siyuan Mountain Pass they are tasked with guarding.

The most outrageous thing is that Siyuan Pass has now fallen!

Chen Shi looked down from his high vantage point. Siyuan Pass was not a large area, with only one battalion of soldiers and a little over a thousand celestial soldiers and generals guarding it. The garrison commander was activating the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Formation, a star lord formation consisting of seventy-two sets of formations. Each set of formations could gather star power and summon an avatar of an Earthly Fiend Star Lord to descend, possessing extremely terrifying combat power.

However, faced with the demonic attack from the Great World of Nili, the seventy-two Earthly Fiend Formations were also shattered, and many were breached. The demons rushed in and began to slaughter the soldiers within, resulting in a scene of carnage.

The Heavenly Army, numbering over a thousand, has suffered heavy casualties, and Siyuan Pass is in grave danger!

"Is this the pass we're supposed to be rotating troops at?"

Niu Jingjing approached Chen Shi, looked down, and felt a chill run down her spine. She muttered, "The change of guard means the soldiers guarding the pass are leaving, and we're taking over. There are only thirty-three of us..."

Long Yuanling's voice came from behind her: "Now only fourteen people are left dead."

Niu Jingjing felt a chill in her heart and murmured, "Let's turn back, leave the Nili Great World, and return to the Earthly Immortal Realm..."

"Turning back means being a deserter, destined for the execution platform."

A voice from behind said, "Besides, the Dark Sea lies just outside the Great World of Nirvana. Who knows how to get out?"

Upon hearing this, everyone felt as if they had drunk ice, their hearts chilled to the bone.

Their only way to survive is to enter Siyuan Mountain Pass and guard this place!
But this path to survival is clearly a dead end!

"Can we survive in other parts of the Nili Great World?" Ning Daoshan's voice was a little hoarse as he looked into the distance and said, "We won't guard Siyuan Mountain Pass. We'll find a safe place in this world and spend the rest of our lives there..."

He stopped abruptly at this point and did not continue.

In the distance, the sky above Niri World resembles a jungle growing downwards, with giant vines taking root in the sky, growing downwards, and winding their way through.

The vines resembled tentacles, some of which coiled around enormous skeletons in mid-air, left behind by some unknown creature.

The surface of the skeleton was tightly bound, with some vines even piercing into the bones, causing the bones to crack where they were rooted.

There are also some strange plants that look like algae, growing in all directions.

Clearly, this is not a suitable place to live.

Dozens of miles away, a procession of demon warriors circled a tall altar of white bones, beating drums and gongs, dancing wildly, as if they were holding a mysterious ritual.

Suddenly the sky exploded, and a huge flower bud emerged from the void, wet and covered in muddy slime, dripping down from the sky.

Then many vines grew out from behind the flowers and took root in the sky.

A vine flew out and wrapped around one of the demon soldiers.

The demon warrior spun into the sky, his face beaming with joy, and shouted down in a low voice.

The demonic flower bloomed rapidly, and as a result, a seed grew, its tip sharp. It pierced the demon soldier's skull with a soft "plop."

The demon soldier's skull exploded, and a new vine rapidly grew from his skull, gradually spreading towards Siyuan Mountain Pass at an extremely fast speed!

The demon warrior was quickly drained by the roots of the vines, turning into a skeleton entangled in the vines.

"They are cultivating this strange sky plant," Chen Shi said in astonishment.

Although he also lived in the Dark Sea, he had never seen such a strange and unusual way of planting.

However, he could sense that the area covered by these vines was experiencing a surge in external power, which greatly enhanced the cultivation and strength of these demon warriors!

Suddenly, a burst of fire struck the ship, containing boundless demonic fire power that exploded and blasted the ship to pieces!
The demon soldiers unleashed their supernatural powers and magical treasures from afar, bombarding this direction.

Meanwhile, at Siyuan Pass below, many demon soldiers also spotted them and attacked the location of the warship.

With everyone suspended in mid-air, they did their best to dodge the magical treasures and supernatural powers flying around them, rushing towards Siyuan Mountain Pass below.

"Enter the pass! Enter the pass quickly! Only by entering Siyuan Mountain Pass will you have a chance to survive!"

Chaos filled the air as various magical artifacts and supernatural powers flew about. Suddenly, someone let out a scream as he was struck by several beams of demonic light and died on the spot.

"We can't stop their supernatural powers!" someone exclaimed in fear.

Niu Jingjing's forehead was covered in cold sweat. She threw all thoughts of the Heavenly Ruler and the Heavenly Court's cultivation to the back of her mind.

Now she has only one thought: to survive!

She looked beyond the pass, where demons swarmed like a tide towards Siyuan Pass, launching their attack.

"Follow Chen Shi, and you'll have a chance to survive!"

The thought flashed through her mind, and she immediately went to Chen Shi's side.

Chen Shi's dojo spread out and rushed downwards. Any supernatural powers, spells, or magical treasures of the demon race that invaded his dojo were immediately weakened and were no threat even if they came to him.

The other Heavenly Dao holders also noticed this and hurriedly moved closer to Chen Shi. In a short while, six people gathered around Chen Shi.

The other seven fought individually, rushing towards Siyuan Mountain Pass below, but were killed before they even got close to Siyuan Mountain.

Chen Shi led six men toward Siyuan Mountain Pass. The soldiers in the pass spotted them and immediately sent a troop of more than ten heavenly soldiers to meet them. But before they could get close, a ferocious maw several miles in circumference suddenly appeared in mid-air and swallowed the more than ten heavenly soldiers whole!
Chen Shi suddenly turned around and, instead of rushing towards Siyuan Mountain Pass, headed straight for the vine in the sky.

"Fellow Daoist Chen!"

Xiahou Feng, Niu Jingjing, and the others were shocked, but dared not leave Chen Shi's dojo. They had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow him, rushing towards the vine together.

The demon soldiers guarding the vines immediately soared into the sky and intercepted them halfway.

When the two sides met, Chen Shi did not make a move. Xiahou Feng and the other six fought back. The moment they clashed with these demon soldiers, they realized that their cultivation and strength were not as strong as they seemed. They immediately knew that their unorthodox methods were suppressed by Chen Shi.

However, this place is too close to the vines, and the power of the vines strengthens the heretical paths in the world, making it difficult for Chen Shi to completely transform their heretical paths into the immortal path for a while.

The crowd fought fiercely, supporting Chen Shi as they charged towards the vines, resulting in casualties on both sides.

Chen Shi arrived in front of the vine, which was still over a hundred feet away. He took out the Heavenly Net Blood Transformation Divine Blade, and with a swipe of the blade, the first principle of Xiniu New Continent was injected into the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, activating the eighth form of the Blood Transformation Divine Blade.

The pillar of heaven collapsed and the earth cracked!
The flash of the blade tore the sky apart like a spider web, severing countless vines. Even when the vines lashed out with their numerous tentacles, they all crumbled.

"Zhengzhengzheng!"

The skeleton of the demon warrior, whose body was rooted in the vines, shattered, and the enormous vine roots fell from the sky.

Those demon soldiers who were sheltered by the vines suffered a significant reduction in their cultivation and strength, and died one after another at the hands of Niu Jingjing, Xiahou Feng, and others.

Chen Shi charged toward the mother vine in one go.

The mother vine sprouted from the void and possessed the greatest strength.

The moment Chen Shi unleashed his blade, the void behind the Mother Vine suddenly exploded, revealing a towering demon skeleton with eight arms, its body entwined by the Mother Vine. As if resurrected, it danced in the air, meeting Chen Shi's dazzling blade light!
"boom!"

The Blood-Transforming Divine Blade collided with the demon's skeleton, extinguishing all its light. Chen Shi's body trembled violently, his Dao field contracted, and he was sent flying backward.

Xiahou Feng and the others were shocked and hurriedly chased after him.

The next moment, Chen Shi landed on the city wall of Siyuan Mountain Pass, holding a knife in his right hand. He looked up, his tiger's mouth was cracked and bleeding.

Ahead of him, the demon soldiers attacking Siyuan Mountain Pass seemed to receive a command, ceasing their attack and retreating like a tide. The demon soldiers who had stormed into Siyuan Mountain Pass also ceased their fighting and retreated.

The heavenly soldiers and generals guarding Siyuan Mountain Pass thought they were doomed, but they never expected this to happen.

"What a brave man!"

The commander guarding Siyuan Mountain Pass rushed over and bowed, saying, "I am Hua Wanliang from the Wood Battalion of the Shen Division of the Jia Guard under the command of King Li. May I ask who you are?"

Chen Shi sheathed his sword, turned around, and said gently, "We are soldiers who have been ordered to relieve the troops. My surname is Chen, my given name is Shi, and I am also a member of the Heavenly Army Camp."

Hua Wanliang was both surprised and delighted, and laughed, "Great! Our Wood Battalion was about to be overwhelmed, and finally the troop replacement has arrived! Brother Chen, how many men have come?"

Chen Shi's gaze swept over Xiahou Feng, Long Yuanling, and the others, and he said, "Including me, there are seven people."

(End of this chapter)