This is how immortals are cultivated

The Great Demon God is the name given to the spirits and ghosts who have reached the realm of true misfortune by practicing the evil way.

It was once regarded as the main river running through Jingzhou and the master of the Jinglan River system.

Hundreds of years ago, the Wu Kingdom conquered Jingzhou and several accompanying immortals killed another great demon god who was the lord of the Taihe Mountains. However, this Lan Can escaped in a seriously injured state, hid in the mountains, and fell into a deep sleep.

But unexpectedly, this extremely ancient great demon god has already awakened, and seems to have reached some kind of consensus with the Yin Cang Blood Demon and the White Lotus Demon Sect.

"The White Lotus Demon Cult is actually associating with demons and monsters..." said the woman in green.

With the protection of Zhen'e Zhenren, who was born in the academy, by her side, the woman in green could look directly at the body of the demon god, which was already highly polluted.

“Although it was unexpected, it wasn’t strange.”

"The birth of spirits, ghosts, gods, and monsters between heaven and earth is related to the [Miaoshengtian]. Ancient sages learned the Tao through hearing the Tao, and our ancestors met with the [Taishangtian]. Because the [Taishangtian] is the most friendly to us humans. However, our ancestors also learned the Tao by asking the [Miaoshengtian]."

Yuan Jingshan said softly, then sighed:

"One True Evil and one Great Demon God. Although both are in poor condition, it's too late to save them."

"For now, we can only protect Chong'an Prefecture, the foundation of Jingzhou."

"As for the other counties, they can only support themselves and wait for assistance from the imperial court."

As the actual controller of this state with a population of tens of millions and a vast territory, Principal Yuan Jingshan set the tone.

That is, everything is based on defending the foundation of the state capital. As for other areas, it depends on fate.

"The rest of the mundane world is up to you to handle."

Shanzhang Yuan Jing issued a decree, and his body gradually became ethereal. Distorted words overflowed from around his body, revealing the true form of the Dharma, and transformed into some kind of high-level information.

The halo enveloping Chong'an Mansion grew increasingly brilliant, enveloping the stagnant blood clouds in the sky and even the body of the great demon god Lan Can.

What will follow will be a long stalemate until external forces break this balance.

After spitting out a mouthful of blood, the pale-looking Jingzhou Governor Wu Fei recovered a little. He cast several magic seals on the official seal of the governor of this state, and the shape of luck gathered again and was thrown into the light circle to support Yuan Jingshan.

"Blue-robed envoy, I will be staying at the government office from now on. Please do as you please."

Wuzhou Mu said to the woman in green.

This woman in green was named 'Qingyi', and she was the envoy from the capital.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Qingyi bowed to the frontier official.

As the true descendant of Zhen'e Zhenren, his bloodline is extremely noble, and he is also an envoy of the imperial court. His status in Jingzhou is no less than that of the governor.

The governor left. As he left, the light and shadows changed, and the streets were crowded with people again. However, everyone looked at the blood-red sky, the huge golden circle, and the colorful light and shadows rising from the west in horror.

Qingyi was still standing on the bridge, looking at the sky, but her eyes were extremely empty.

After a moment, the light returned to her eyes.

Qing Yi shook his head: "Sure enough, it's not that easy to get promoted..."

She studied under the famous Zhen'e Zhenren, Cheyou, who was well-known throughout the Wu Kingdom and even among the Seven Kingdoms.

The path that her teacher followed was one of the highest paths, namely "destiny".

Before the White Lotus Demon Cult spread throughout the world in Taizhou, there were also masters of destiny in the Demon Cult who concealed the secrets of heaven, making the destiny magic power unusable.

But her teacher, Che You, who was only one step away from becoming a saint, had a hint of it before that.

The affairs of Taizhou are related to the "holy throne", so even her teacher did not see the scenery of Taizhou, but Shuzhou.

Her teacher saw blood in Shuzhou.

Blood came from the sky.

The blood started from Shuzhou and rolled all the way to Jingzhou.

Zhenren Cheyou judged that an extremely evil demon was born in Shuzhou, and Jingzhou would be stained with blood.

As for why her teacher made such a prediction and why she came here, it was related to her way of practice.

Her practice of cultivation seldom relied on external spiritual materials, and the energy for breakthrough mainly depended on intervening in the changing destiny and intercepting a trace of calamity from it.

The more you participate in events with great influence, bear witness at the center of the events, and even change your predetermined "fate", the more likely you are to be promoted.

This is why Qingyi came to Jingzhou - she has reached the end of the Lingmi Realm and wants to find an opportunity to break through the true disaster here.

Chapter 116 Bloody Dream

Leading spirits and spiritual secrets are huge hurdles, just like climbing across a deep canyon, while there is a real chasm between spiritual secrets and true disasters.

The essence of the path of cultivation lies in the word "against", and the path leading to true disaster is truly against the will of heaven.

The potential for cultivating the Way of Deception is related to the depth of the inherited Great Dao. The more profound and vast the Great Dao, the greater the ability manifested. However, at the same time, it is also more difficult to break through the natural barrier of True Evil.

The path that inherited the Taoist lineage of Zhenren Cheyou had already been cut off.

The resources required for true disaster must at least allow one to participate in a major event that affects a state and profoundly changes the fate of the state.

However, under the suppression of the Imperial Academy, not so many major events happened in the State of Wu.

The world had been at peace for a long time. She had many senior brothers before her, and not only did they die while trying to break through, but even finding the opportunity to break through was extremely difficult. Her previous senior brother even waited anxiously for an opportunity until his life was almost over and he passed away.

But she was lucky. After only a dozen years on the path of cultivation, she encountered the right opportunity at the right time.

Perhaps because the destiny of Taizhou, including the three neighboring states, was in complete chaos, her master was unable to infer what the bloody light referred to.

But now it is completely clear.

The blood light undoubtedly refers to the Yin Cang Blood Demon.

The blood started from Shuzhou—the Yin Cang Blood Demon broke the seal and came out from Shuzhou.

Stopped in Jingzhou - Yin Cang Blood Demon really came to Jingzhou.

The bloody light was very dim when it started in Shuzhou - having been sealed for more than four hundred years, the Yin Cang Blood Demon was in a very bad condition.

Blood is raging in Jingzhou—if the Yin Cang Blood Demon wants to return to his prime, he will definitely need a lot of blood food and blood sacrifices.

"But, it's still too late."

If she could find a way to kill the blood light when it was weak, that is, in Shuzhou - to prevent the Yin Cang Blood Demon from breaking the seal, then she would be able to obtain the resources for a breakthrough with the least risk and the least cost.

Even if she could intercept the Yin Cang Blood Demon between Shuzhou and Jingzhou, she would still be able to break through relatively smoothly.

But the mysteries of the Great Dao of Destiny were ultimately not something that her little spiritual master could comprehend. If the true disaster of the Great Dao of Destiny was so easy to break through, there wouldn't have been only one True Man, Cheyou, in the entire Wu Kingdom.

"Fortunately, we stopped the Yin Cang Blood Demon before the bloodshed reached its peak and engulfed the entire state..."

Although the difficulty and danger have increased dramatically at this point, there is still a glimmer of hope.

The current stalemate will not last too long, and the conditions for her side to win in Jingzhou are very simple.

In Taizhou, the White Lotus Cult's plan was thwarted by the 'Saint' of Wu, and the siege of Jingzhou will naturally fall.

In other words, she is now occupying Chong'an Prefecture and is in a stalemate with Yincang Blood Demon and Lancan Demon God. It seems that she has given up the rest of Jingzhou, but it is a very favorable situation for her.

As long as we don't let Yin Cang Blood Demon recover completely, we just need to hold Yin Cang Blood Demon back.

She had just used the magical powers of her lineage and, with the help of a talisman given to her by her teacher, Zhenren Cheyou, saw the blurry blood light that Zhenren Cheyou saw.

Just after the Yin Cang Blood Demon appeared, the blood light became even more intense.

Qingyi just took the opportunity of the Yincang Blood Demon taking advantage of the unsealing of the Chong'an Prefecture's suppression formation to hurriedly eat a meal, turning nearly 10,000 people in the city into blood food to replenish the much-needed food for himself, which made the blood light he was pointing at become more intense.

"Next, we just need to prevent this blood light from getting any thicker."

Qingyi encouraged herself in her heart.

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Zhang Jingsheng woke up from the deep darkness.

Before he fell into a coma, he had a nightmare, an extremely terrifying nightmare.

In his dream, he was in an unheard-of foreign land. The pitch-black sky around him was like a thick curtain. The black area he was in was not the night sky he was familiar with, but a truly unknown foreign land.

That pitch black was not the color of night; it would be more appropriate to think of it as the void that swallowed up all light.

Naturally, there are no stars in this foreign land. Occasionally, there is light passing by, but that light is distorted and extremely strange.

With the void as the medium, something was surging. It was purple-black "clouds", and these clouds were constantly twisting and changing into disturbing shapes.

When he came to his senses, he was already traveling through this terrifying cloud.

He was riding a dragon, perhaps a "dragon," though he wasn't sure. The creature beneath him was simply too massive. Its countless scales, like scales long since tarnished by being salvaged from the deep sea for millennia, trembled as if breathing. These scales quivered with its breath. From the cracks in those scales, a deep gaze seemed to be peering at him.

Focusing his attention on himself, Zhang Jingsheng was unable to determine his own position. After a moment, he suddenly realized.

He was not riding a dragon, but he himself was a part of this "dragon".

He is part of the dragon's gaze, embedded deep beneath its scales and peeking outwards from within its crevices.

The dragon was soaring in the dark void, and Zhang Jingsheng felt an instinctive desire to find the destination where the dragon was soaring.

The 'clouds' ahead tore apart, and a ray of light descended from the end of the clouds.

The light was a combination of seven colors, like the hem of a skirt. Above the seven-color light, a huge golden palace suddenly appeared.

There are countless pavilions and towers in the palace, all made of gold. The gold is slightly dull and even has mottled marks, telling of its antiquity.

A hazy sound came from the Nine Heavens Palace, a faint sound of laughter and bliss.

Gazing at the palace, Zhang Jingsheng felt a desire in his soul, a desire to go into the palace and live there forever.

Just as he was completely immersed in this emotion, completely merging into the body of the dragon, the rolling clouds tore apart again. It was a crack, and behind the crack seemed to be a brand new and vast world. This crack revealed a corner of that vast world.

But all he saw was a pale white. The white seemed to be a tiny part of the limbs of an indescribable giant creature. Then, a huge black tentacle stretched out from the crack and slapped the dragon's body.

Part of the dragon's flesh and blood was cut off and scattered into the void.

Coincidentally, Zhang Jingsheng was in the part of flesh that was cut off.

He fell into the deep abyss below, which represented eternal damnation.

Then he woke up, turned over suddenly, and gasped for breath.

"Wake up."

At this moment he heard a voice and looked around, he found himself in the lobby of the government office.

He was lying on the cold floor of the lobby, and in front of him was a young man sitting on the county lord's seat, holding two official seals in his hands, with a thoughtful look on his face.

PS: There is one more chapter, to be published later.

Chapter 117: Let's do big things together

After waking up from the dream, Zhang Jingsheng was still in a state of shock. However, when he saw the familiar young man, he forced himself to calm down and called out his name:

"Mr. Fang..."

He looked to his side and found that his immediate superior, County Master Wei, was lying next to him on the bluestone floor of the county government hall.

At this moment, Wei Xianzun also looked pale, as if he had fallen into some deep and terrifying dream.

Seeing Wei Xianzun, the memories before the coma slowly resurfaced in his mind.

Yes, when someone came from the provincial government, Mr. Fang had a conflict with the Ronghuo Inspector and Mr. Taohua, but he accidentally revealed Mr. Taohua's true identity, that he was a demon from the White Lotus Sect.

This demon was no match for Mr. Fang and was eventually transformed into a demon. The demonized Mr. Taohua risked his own life to do something extremely terrifying for Zhang Jingsheng, and indeed for the entire Jingzhou government.

The horror of this situation is difficult for ordinary people in the city to understand and cannot be described. Only when you are truly in this system can you understand its seriousness.

In Jingzhou, a large part of the legal network established by the Wu court was destroyed. When the legal network collapsed, he felt as if the sky was falling and felt a sharp pain that pierced his heart and bones.

Taking on an official position appointed by the court not only represents a change in status, but also a deeper change.

It is precisely because of this profound change that he can obtain a certain level of spiritual cultivation and supernatural powers as a mortal.

But at this moment, all these things were stripped away. They had been integrated into his body and his soul, so closely connected that they were like invisible and intangible "organs". Being removed naturally gave him a feeling of being severely hurt.

In addition, there is an instinctive feeling of emptiness and uneasiness, as if I were back in my childhood, being expelled from home and feeling lost and unable to find any support.

Zhang Jingsheng looked at the two seals in Fang Suichu's hand. One of them belonged to him, the official seal of the position of County Magistrate of Linge County. The other one belonged to his superior, the position of County Master of Linge County.

At this time, the two golden seals were dull and even covered with cracks.