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The war has begun.
A great war finally broke out between the Immortal Realm and the Demonic Abyss.
The Yinling Temple took the lead in the attack. Youzhou did not hold out for long. In less than a few days, more than half of it fell.
The Changchun Pavilion and Tiehaimen, the sects that controlled Youzhou, were forced to merge in order to resist the invasion of the Yinling Temple.
On the other hand, the alliance with the Juexiao Sect did not bring much help to the sects in Youzhou, because within just a few days after the outbreak of the war, the Wanmo Dao Sect also launched an attack on Qingzhou.
More than 70% of the disciples of Juexiao Sect participated in this war, and the flames of war spread across the entire Qingzhou border.
Although the situation in Qingzhou is better than that in Youzhou, the difference is not big.
In addition to this, the other two forbidden areas, the original Cangmu Sect and the Demonic Ghost City, all tacitly launched attacks on the Fairyland.
Thousands of years of recuperation did not bring much combat power to the Nine Provinces of the Fairyland. This war was still like a thousand years ago, and the monks of the Demon Abyss had a huge advantage.
Countless geniuses shined during the war, but many also suffered a bitter defeat.
At the same time, the Tiandan Secret Realm has become the focus of this war. The Tiandan cultivators have an overwhelming advantage over the Didan cultivators.
Moreover, after being promoted to the Nascent Soul stage, Tiandan cultivators not only have powerful combat power, but also have a higher chance of breaking through to the God Transformation stage.
Judging from the previous battles between immortals and demons, this war will last at least a thousand years.
A thousand years is enough time for a cultivator who has just entered the Jindan stage to reach the Yuanying stage. Every Yuanying cultivator will have an extra bit of combat power and bargaining chips for the Immortal Realm and the Demon Abyss.
The two sides engaged in a brutal battle around the Tiandan Secret Realm and the Tiancong Sword Tomb.
Since only cultivators below the Jindan stage can enter the secret realm, it has become a battlefield for the new generation of geniuses, and countless cultivators at the peak of the foundation building stage have entered it.
The Jindan cultivators from the major sects were guarding outside and resisting the enemy's attacks.
You know, the appearance of every Tiandan cultivator may affect the situation on the battlefield.
However, since the most powerful saint from the Demon Abyss did not appear in the Tiandan Secret Realm this time, the Immortal Realm was relieved.
The flow of time in the secret realm is different from that in the real world. For every day that passes in the real world, a hundred days have passed in the secret realm.
When the secret realm was reopened, they had already been fighting in the Tenmu Sword Tomb for half a year.
During the half-year-long battle, nearly two-thirds of the geniuses died in the secret realm, and a total of five geniuses successfully formed heavenly pills.
One from the Fairyland and four from the Demonic Abyss.
Each of the four realms of the Demon Abyss has a Heavenly Pill cultivator, while in the Immortal Realm there is only one disciple of the Juexiao Sect who has successfully formed a Heavenly Pill.
It's just that... Although he was born in the Juexiao Sect, this disciple's magic weapon is a compass and he calls himself a storyteller.
That’s right, after participating in the previous assassination operation of the Blood Lord, the storyteller survived first, and the actor survived with him.
Farmers, generals, merchants, all died in this fuse operation.
In the battle for the Tiandan Secret Realm, the storyteller relied on his superb skills in formation to protect most of the Juexiao Sect disciples in the secret realm and successfully seized the most Tianmai Qi.
It can be said that although they are all Tiandan cultivators, the storyteller is more powerful than the other four Tiandan cultivators.
Because the storyteller obtained the most Heavenly Vein Qi, the Heavenly Pill he formed was also the most complete.
But even so, in this battle for the secret realm, the Immortal Realm ultimately lost.
Similar to the secret realm, the situation in the fairyland on the entire battlefield is not optimistic, but it is almost impossible for the Demon Abyss to completely take over the fairyland.
The major sects used their strengths one after another to stop the cultivators from the Demonic Abyss from advancing recklessly.
After the initial fierce attack slowed down, the Fairyland and the Demon Abyss gradually reached a stalemate, which would last for a thousand years.
Before the war, the rumors about the Saint Girl and a disciple of the Juexiao Sect had gradually been ignored. When they were occasionally mentioned, they were only regarded as a plan of the Yinling Temple to divert attention, or as an unreasonable farce.
The missing saint was also believed to have been hidden away by the Yinling Temple to avoid being assassinated by the immortal monks before she grew up.
Now is not the time to ease the relationship between the Fairyland and the Demon Abyss. If the Saint dares to appear in the Fairyland, she will be hunted down by the Nascent Soul cultivators.
As for the disciple of Juexiao Sect who was wanted with a huge reward, even her name has been forgotten by most people, and only a few people who were close to her still remember her.
The formation master who mysteriously appeared in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and played tricks on many Demon Abyss sects has been missing for the rest of his life.
This incident caused quite a stir at the time, but now it seems to be not worth mentioning.
But no one ever saw that strange girl again, as if she had completely disappeared from this world.
Even within the Juexiao Sect, her master, Heipao, had lost contact with her.
Li Guijiao has been completely forgotten.
On the other side, the Four Forbidden Lands of the Demonic Abyss continued to advance in silence, and the four masters of the forbidden lands never showed up from beginning to end.
The Holy Lord of the Yinling Temple, Cangmu of the original Cangmu Sect, the Ghost King of the Demonic Ghost City, and the Fallen Immortal of the Ten Thousand Demons Sect, they seemed to have no interest in this war started by the Demon Abyss.
The lords of the forbidden lands are the beings standing at the top of this world, the most powerful beings who are closest to the state of enlightenment.
Even in the fairyland, there are only a few ancient beings who can rival them.
Several ancient beings have to remain in a dormant state for some reasons, unlike the four masters of the forbidden areas who can often appear in the public eye.
Everyone believes that when the masters of the forbidden land appear, it will be the moment when the ancient existence of the fairyland will reawaken.
By then, it will be the final battle of the war between immortals and demons.
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But no one expected that in fact, the situation was the same for the four masters of the forbidden areas and the ancient beings of the fairyland.
The reason why the lords of the forbidden areas often appear in the eyes of the world is simply because they have spokespersons walking in the world.
For example, the Holy Lord and the Witch of the Zither.
The Zither Demon Lady was originally the Zither Fairy. She was a reincarnation of the Holy Lord's consciousness and was herself a cultivator from the Immortal Realm.
It was not until the death of Fairy Zither that the part of the Holy Lord's consciousness finally awakened and turned into the Witch Zither that shocked the world.
The Lord of the Forbidden Land and the ancient being each have their own unique reasons, but the most important reason is the same.
This world is a cage.
Especially for those who are close to the state of enlightenment, it is not until they touch the chasm that seems to be forever insurmountable that they realize that enlightenment... is simply impossible in this world.
Even if they have stood at the pinnacle of the world, they can only wait for the end to come, until their lifespan is exhausted and they become part of the cycle of heaven and earth.
But who, having reached such a height, would be willing to just turn into a handful of earth
The ancient existence of the fairyland and the lord of the forbidden land of the Demon Abyss have always been looking for the possibility of breaking through the Yuhua realm in various ways.
The ancient being comprehended the Way of Heaven, merged with heaven and earth, and tried to break through the state of enlightenment by utilizing the power of the entire heaven and earth.
The Lord of the forbidden land started a war and caused withering in order to find the real Sea of Blood and Styx, trying to find the door of this cage and escape from it.
The ancient existence and plans of the Lord of the Forbidden Land have already shown results.
The ancient beings controlled the laws of the catastrophe of heaven and earth, and accumulated cultivation through reincarnation for many lifetimes, hoping to completely refine heaven and earth and become the masters of the cage.
The Silent Master is one of the reincarnations of the ancient being.
The Lord of the Forbidden Land finally set foot in the depths of the blood sea and saw the door to this world. The depths of the blood sea was the answer to the cage.
But their plans failed.
It is extremely difficult for the reincarnation bodies of ancient beings to survive, and most of them died in the war between immortals and demons. Although the lord of the forbidden land found the door, he could not find the key to open it.
Their game of chess, using the world as their chessboard, has not yet ended.
Luo Xue slowly opened her eyes.
The surging sea of blood was as solid as a solid substance. Even though it was bottomless, it could only reach her knees.
The sky was a mixture of blood and bright red, and the surroundings were filled with desolation and withering, as if everything was dying.
She subconsciously opened the panel, which was full of garbled characters. She could vaguely see some survival point records, which were all rewards from her previous escape from pursuit.
Being hunted down by countless Jindan, the survival points between life and death increased sharply.
But the biggest amount is stepping into the sea of blood.
Even the system panel believed that stepping into the sea of blood in her current condition would be more dangerous than being hunted down by a Jiedan cultivator.
It was a miracle that I could open my eyes again.
Luo Xue was very clear that her current situation was caused by her body being unable to withstand the True Phoenix's essence and blood, which put her in such an embarrassing situation.
She used her remaining willpower and put all her survival points into cultivating her qualifications, trying to improve this dire situation.
[Improve cultivation qualifications: -1000]
[Improvement in cultivation aptitude: barely acceptable => excellent talent]
[Advancement of the Poisonous Body: Ten Thousand Years of Withering Body]
[Ten Thousand Years of Withering Body: The body carries the will of all things to wither, contains the laws of death and extinction, and the spiritual energy of the sea of consciousness and spiritual orifices turns into the energy of withering. ]
[Appendix: For those who have withered for eternity, death is life. ]
Chapter 121 It's my turn to save you, Ah Chou
The four beings standing at the pinnacle of this world looked at Luo Xue silently, wondering why Luo Xue also possessed the gatekeeper's inheritance.
In this cage-like world, all living beings are exiled here, whether it is the fairyland or the devil's abyss.
The only exception is... the ancient demon land.
This is a place that only exists in legends. It is a place that is completely sealed and isolated from the world.
No one has ever been to the ancient demon land, including ancient beings and the lords of the forbidden land, but occasionally some big demons who have escaped from the ancient demon land will appear in the world.
The Fairyland and the Demonic Abyss used certain means to learn some information about the ancient demon land from the mouths of these great demons.
After receiving this information, the lords of the forbidden areas learned the concept of "gatekeeper inheritance".
Since it is a cage, there will be a gatekeeper, but the gatekeeper is not a certain person or a certain ethnic group, but a heritage.
In this world, only the owner of this inheritance can cultivate to the state of enlightenment and open the door of this cage.
But what exactly is the gatekeeper inheritance like
Even the most powerful demon was vague about the topic and seemed to be afraid to mention it.
The Lord of the forbidden land chose to break the cage and began to look for the gatekeeper's inheritance.
After several reincarnations, it was determined that the gatekeeper's inheritance should exist deep in the sea of blood.
However, several explorations into the depths of the sea of blood all ended in failure, and even resulted in the loss of several Nascent Soul cultivators.
—Until Su Yiyao appeared.
Even though someone with the talent of Pixel Yiyao is rare in a thousand years, the existence of the Fairyland and the Demonic Abyss has been more than a few thousand years.
The Sword Master of Juexiao Sect three thousand years ago and the Spirit Master of Yinling Temple two thousand years ago were both peerless geniuses like Su Yiyao, but they still could not reach the position of the Lord of the Forbidden Land and the ancient existence.
What deserves the most attention is Su Yiyao's inheritance.
The Yinling Temple claimed to be the inheritance of the Nether Phoenix, but the Holy Lord knew very well that this could not be the inheritance of the Nether Phoenix.
Although the inheritance of the Dark Phoenix contains the word "Phoenix", it is actually just an ordinary method of evil cultivation. It was created by a powerful evil cultivator who has fallen into the dust of history when he comprehended the sea of blood.
No matter how strong he is, in the eyes of the Holy Lord who is close to the state of enlightenment, he is not worth mentioning at all.
And Su Yiyao...
What she possesses is the true power of the ancient monster "Phoenix". If one senses its bloodline, one will feel terrified from the bottom of their heart.
This is definitely the inheritance of the Yuhua realm!
And in this cage world, the only inheritance of the Yuhua realm... is the inheritance of the gatekeeper.
Logically speaking, there should only be one such important ancient heritage.
But the four beings felt a slightly different gatekeeper inheritance in Luo Xue at this moment.
Not the same, but very similar.
They couldn't understand why Luo Xue, who had mediocre qualifications, could possess such a terrifying inheritance.
Not everyone can inherit the ancient heritage. Only a peerless genius like Su Yiyao, who swept away all the disciples of her generation, can meet the world's impression of an heir to a peerless heritage.
Just as the lords of the forbidden area were hesitating whether to stop Luo Xue and prevent her from going deeper into the sea of blood.