Thousands of miles of wild forests and ancient trees in deep mountains.
This place should have been a deserted place, but now it is home to monks from all over the world.
The entrance to the sacred road of the ancient Dongyue God appeared here. After being accidentally discovered by a farmer who went up the mountain to collect firewood, major cultivation sects have continuously sent their young disciples to seek opportunities here.
After entering the divine realm, the cultivation level will be suppressed to the lowest stage, and most high-level magic weapons and amulets cannot be activated. Therefore, the monks who arrived here did not wear light and flowing Taoist robes as usual. Instead, they wore armor and held sharp weapons, bows and swords, and were fully prepared to enter the dangerous situation.
A monk walked out of the forest stepping on dead leaves. He was attracted by the roar coming from the sky. He raised his head and looked up through the gaps between the branches.
"It's someone from Guiyuan Sect."
A sailboat came riding on the clouds and slowly stopped above the tree waves. A group of young monks got off the boat.
The leader was dressed in white and light armor, with a handsome face. Behind him was a woman in a red battle robe, looking heroic.
"Is that you, Brother Fu Yun from Guiyuan Sect?"
"Not only that, there is also Yun Zhongjun, the cool breeze and bright moon, and Miao Honger, the expert chef. The senior sisters and senior brothers from Xiaoyao Peak are all here, as well as Yang Jun from Tiezhu Peak. Guiyuan Sect is really generous with this lineup, and basically all the best disciples of the new generation have come."
"But who is that child? Why is Senior Brother Fu holding a child?"
"Haha, Senior Brother Fu has finally started taking care of the baby?"
Fu Yun of Guiyuan Sect still had the same immortal figure and austere and cold face, but at this moment he was holding a six-year-old girl with two buns in her arms.
The little baby had a fair and tender face and dark hair. He sat on his senior brother's arm, looking around curiously with his round eyes.
The male god who takes care of the baby instantly fell from the altar and took on the mundane flavor of a human brother.
After Fu Yun got off the boat, he said nothing, holding Mu Xue in his arms, and led a group of fellow disciples who came with him straight towards the stone wall.
The steep and solid stone wall rippled like water waves the moment they touched it, swallowing the group of people inside, and then returned to its original state.
The world within the stone wall suddenly changed.
The lush, green, mountainous forests disappeared, and what appeared before my eyes was an endless wasteland.
This is a world forgotten by the gods, where everything the ancient giants left behind is buried. The traces of the prosperity of mankind are forever fixed in this infinite time and space. The collapsed huge stone statues and dilapidated houses are scattered all over the wilderness. A gust of wind blew up the gravel and blew the broken doors. The wind brought the harsh sound of the door hinges turning.
The dark doorways with tattered curtains silently watched the group of living beings walking on the road.
Time seems to be frozen in the dusk, with the eternal setting sun hanging over the horizon, dyeing the whole world with a layer of eternal orange-yellow color.
In the wilderness, there are five kinds of beautiful stones scattered around. It is said that the gods once walked there, leaving traces of the five-colored stones. Therefore, it is called the Shinto Road. The Shinto Road stretches to the horizon, and it is unknown where the end is.
A group of people walked slowly on the colorful sacred road.
On the side of the road, there was a huge statue of a demon god leaning sideways. This unknown ancient giant god could be seen everywhere on the road. She had a graceful figure, light gauze and golden bracelets, multiple hands and arms, and a round wheel behind her that was larger than her body. Her head alone was several stories high.
Walking past the huge head, the stone statue's lowered gaze seemed to be looking down at the flesh and blood body passing by, which made people feel fearful. Occasionally, a huge monster phantom with gray smoke would cruise through the sky above, making a low and long-lasting throat sound.
The young female disciples in the team couldn't help but quicken their pace and squeezed behind Fu Yun.
Several young male students in the queue couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, and they fell far behind and murmured quietly,
"Senior Brother Fu is indeed a highly skilled cultivator, but this is the Divine Realm, and we are all the same, aren't we?"
"I have practiced physical skills for many years, and this is the time when they come in handy. Junior Brother Fu may look gentle and polite, but he may not be as good as us."
"Yes, he looks fair and clean, he is definitely not as good as you, brother." A junior sister who appeared out of nowhere came up to them and echoed.
A closer look revealed that this junior sister was wearing a light yellow silk dress, with an oval face, a plump nose, and curved eyebrows. She was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and although she looked pure and innocent, she naturally had a seductive charm. She raised her sleeves and asked with a smile, "Senior brother looks so powerful, I wonder what kind of martial arts he practiced."
The male cultivator puffed out his chest and said, "I am practicing the Vajra Indestructible Method. I have been practicing since childhood and now I have reached the fourth level."
The junior sister bit her red lips lightly, her eyes slanting, "Hehe, so it's the boy's skill."
That giggle seemed to take away my soul, and I wanted to take out my heart and give it to her.
"May I ask which uncle you are studying under? I don't think I've ever seen him before."
"I am not a disciple of anyone. I am from the Liu family. My name is Liu Luchun."
"Liu? There doesn't seem to be any in the sect..."
The man was still confused, but his companion had already realized what was happening and quickly pulled him aside, "Demon cultivator, it's a demon cultivator!"
The immortal world is passed down through sects, while the demon world is based on families as the unit of survival. The Liu family is one of the four major families in the demon world.
"Why are you so nervous? It's just a joke." The magic cultivator of the Liu family stretched out his hand and pinched the face of the physical cultivator, then put it to his nose and sniffed, "Hahaha, the smell of the boy's skills smells good, but each of them is too incompetent. I'm afraid they can't even withstand one of my moves, right?"
Her skirt fluttered as she moved back and forth in the team, almost entering empty areas.
A long leg came with a strong wind, Miao Hong'er gathered her fingers into claws and said tenderly: "If you want to run, it's not that easy. Stay!"
Liu Luchun's waist was extremely soft, and her whole body leaned back like a noodle, twisting left and right at a weird angle, narrowly avoiding the attack, "Where did such a fierce girl come from? I don't want to play with you anymore."
Just as she was about to get away, a cold light came straight at her. Liu Luchun dodged sideways, but saw the cold light tremble in the air, turning one into five, five into ten into a hundred. It attacked her overwhelmingly. This is a set of swordsmanship, called the Plum Blossom Nine Techniques. It contains the Nine-Nine Life-Transforming Way, and even if you don't have spiritual power, it is still very powerful when used.
I saw a handsome man, pushing a child away with one hand and holding a sword with the other hand, with a cold glow like a blooming winter plum.
Liu Luchun tried to avoid it, but the red-dressed woman who had just stopped her started to punch and kick again. She used her fists and her sword to attack, and they advanced and retreated with such a wonderful coordination that it was rarely seen in the world.
Liu Luchun was too slow to dodge and ended up suffering the loss, with a bruise on her face.
"You are so brave. Today I will have some fun with you guys from the fairy world."
Liu Luchun was furious. As a demon cultivator in the early stage of the Golden Core, she felt that her cultivation was profound. She originally thought that even if her spiritual power was suppressed, she would not take these foundation-building period kids to heart. Who knew that she would suffer a great loss as soon as she came in
At this moment, she narrowed her eyes and straightened her body. Her voice was no longer gentle and charming. She instantly lost the feeling of a girl. She pulled out a whip from her waist and swung it in the air. This whip was extremely poisonous and had barbs all over it. If you touched it, you would be injured. It was very vicious and was a sharp weapon for Liu Luchun to hurt others and defend herself.
At this moment, she pulled out the whip and was about to attack, when she suddenly saw the little girl who was protected by the young man behind her, looking at her with a pair of dark eyes.
Although it was impossible for him to have ever seen this child, Liu Luchun inexplicably felt a fear of being dominated by an iron fist in his youth.
She couldn't figure out where this fear came from, and she just wanted to leave here immediately.
By the way, there are important things to do, why waste time with little kids.
Liu Luchun ran away, her unbridled laughter carried in the wind: "My dear, I remember you. I will seek your return sooner or later."
I remember you, too. The stinky kid from the Liu family, Mu Xue thought unhappily as she watched the retreating figure.
It was this young lady from the Liu family who coveted the beauty of my apprentice and repeatedly instigated the eldest young lady from the Yan family to bully Xiaoshan. Until one day, when she accidentally saw Xiaoshan hiding in the alley outside his home, biting a towel to bandage his wound, Mu Xue lost her temper and personally blocked this vicious little kid outside the Liu family's door and beat him to death. Only then did she learn her lesson.
I never thought that now, I have become a six-year-old girl, while she has become a Jindan-stage cultivator. The situation is really stronger than me, and I have no place to complain.
A demon cultivator who just passed by casually threw everyone into a panic as if he was playing a game.
From this moment on, the disciples of Guiyuan Sect, who had only experienced friendly exchanges with fellow disciples in the mountain gate, realized for the first time how harsh the world is and how seriously they lacked combat experience.
After experiencing this, the group became more vigilant and followed the sacred path forward, and soon arrived at the ruins of a town.
The monks who had come in from various sects before gathered here to rest and adjust, making it a safe stronghold on the outskirts of the sacred road.
"Remember, you must not go deep into the divine realm at will. Do not stay around here. Miao Honger and I have other important matters to attend to, so we will leave first." Fu Yun brought his young fellow apprentices here and prepared to leave.
Mu Xue raised her little hand and pointed to the top of a statue on the side of the road in a very ignorant manner, "Brother, there is a flower there. I want it."
Fu Yun looked up and saw a small pure white flower tremblingly emerging from the gap in the stone carvings on the statue's wheel.
Because it is too small, it is very inconspicuous among those complicated patterns.
"This is too ignorant," the other sisters who were traveling with him commented in dissatisfaction when they heard such naughty words.
"It's already this late, and you still want me to climb so high to pick flowers for her."
"Why did Senior Brother Fu bring such a burden with him?"
"I heard that she is the youngest junior sister of Xiaoyao Peak. You know the tradition of Xiaoyao Peak. It is a place that especially dotes on its disciples."
I was thinking that Fu Yun would definitely scold the child.
Que Fu Yun had already started to climb towards the stone statue. Dressed in white, he used the stone statue for leverage and floated up a little. He stepped on the tiptoes and was close to the top. With one hand he held the stone wheel and with the other hand he pulled up the white flower by the roots and brought it down to the ground.
Xiaoyao Peak really dotes on its young disciples. The female disciples bite their handkerchiefs in envy and jealousy.
Mu Xue stretched out her hands to take it.
Fu Yun raised his hand and said, "If you want this, you have to be obedient and stay here and wait. Don't run around. Wait for me and my sister to come back."
Mu Xue nodded repeatedly to assure him, "Xiao Xue is the most obedient."
If you were obedient, you wouldn't be so bold as to follow me to such a dangerous place.
Fu Yun frowned, but reluctantly gave him the flower and called Miao Hong'er to go deeper into the sacred path.
"Junior brother, do you dislike Xiaoxue?" Miao Honger asked him after they walked out of the camp. "I always feel that your attitude towards Xiaoxue is a little strange."
"It's not that I have a problem with her. I just always feel that this child is a little strange. She is so young, but when I see her, I always feel like I can't figure her out for some reason."
Although Fu Yun is usually taciturn, he is actually a very sensitive person. For some reason, these days, he always thinks of the pair of eyes that suddenly appeared behind him on the first night when he was on duty at Huayu Hall.
Although he could not find that person later, Fu Yun clearly remembered that his gaze was powerful, cold, and unpredictable. He was definitely not an ordinary disciple.
"What are you thinking about?" Miao Hong'er pushed him. "Xiaoxue is the disciple chosen by our master himself. When has our master ever made a mistake in choosing someone? Back then, when our master first picked you, I also felt bad about you. You were cold, smelly, and hard like a stone. You were not the soft and cute little disciple I imagined. Now, after so many years, I find that you are not bad, right?"
Fu Yun looked at her with a cold, stern and hard look, and Miao Honger realized that she had said the wrong thing. She touched her nose and changed the subject.
"Xiaoxue is a good kid. She didn't say it, but she was worried about Hangzhou's injury, so she came in here on purpose. If I wasn't afraid that she would run around by herself if I didn't bring her along, I wouldn't have been willing to bring her in."
Fu Yun sighed and said, "Anyway, I will bring her in personally and take her out safely. I will not let her make any mistakes and make Master worry."
Inside the camp, Yang Jun from Tiezhu Peak was chatting with his friends from Tianyan Sect in the next camp.
"My master finally got the hang of it, and this time he let me experience this secret realm." He was very excited. "To be honest, every day I'm either cooking noodles or taking care of the kids in Huayu Hall. I'm so depressed that I'm shaking."
The friend consoled him, "Haha, this is a rare opportunity. We brothers can have a good time together."
As we were talking here, we saw a little girl with two buns on her head walking towards us with a small white flower in her hand, and she called us "senior brother" sweetly.
"Let me introduce you to this. This is Hangzhou's junior sister. Hangzhou is so proud of her that he shows her off everywhere like he has a treasure."
"Xiaoxue, this is my senior brother from Tianyan Sect, Lv Yihong, Senior Brother Lu. By the way, Yihong, Hangzhou got here before us, why didn't we see him? Do you know where he is?"
Lu Yihong's expression changed slightly, and he forced a smile and said, "Maybe he has gone deep into the sacred road. This place is like a maze. Sometimes it takes ten days or half a month to get out."
He changed the subject and turned to talk to Mu Xue: "Although I am a disciple of Tianyan Sect, I used to be very close to your brothers. If you have any difficulties here, it is the same to come to me as to your brothers."
The little girl twisted the white flower with her tiny fingers and knelt down to bow, "Thank you very much, Senior Brother Lu. When I was in the mountains, I heard Senior Brother mention you and said how much you took care of him. I have always kept it in my heart."