The room was clean and empty, with more than a dozen wooden chairs neatly leaning against the wall. An incense burner was placed in the center of the room. Thick green smoke spiraled up from the burner and spread around, making people feel invigorated.
The wooden chairs were filled with transparent people who looked similar to the weirdo in Taoist robes. The blood vessels under the skin were clearly visible. As the body twisted, the crystal-clear jade bones were extremely conspicuous under the muscles.
"Welcome, welcome, our Lengyue Immortal Sect has not seen outsiders for many years. I didn't expect that three people came at once this time." On a Taishi chair directly in front, there was a man wearing a white Taoist robe with white beard and hair. The octogenarian man stood tall, with a smile on his wrinkled face.
Looking up, Ye Feng was slightly surprised. Although the old man's skin was somewhat transparent, it was much better than the others. If you didn't observe carefully, he was almost the same as a normal person.
Ye Feng took a look at the other party. He originally wanted to use his spiritual sense to explore the other party's cultivation level, but he was worried that the other party would sense it and appear rude.
After all, when Ling Nian detects a strong person with a higher level of cultivation, it is easy for him to be discovered by the other party, and the old man in front of him has a fairy-like appearance and seems quite unpredictable.
"Are you a senior of the Lengyue Immortal Sect? I wonder what the relationship between Xuanyue Immortal Lord and you is?"
Ye Feng had countless questions to ask the other party at this moment, but out of politeness and to lower the other party's wariness, Ye Feng proposed the name Xuanyue Immortal Lord.
"Is this my nephew Xuanyue?" The old man was stunned when he heard this.
"Junior Brother Xuanyue? Are you the elder of Xuanyue Immortal Lord?" Ye Feng was shocked. In this way, this person's age and seniority are actually much older than Xuanyue Immortal Lord. Could it be that this person is already alive? Five or six hundred years.
"Don't be surprised." The old man sighed, "Nearly all of you here are disciples of Xuan Yue's generation. They have been trapped in this sealed place for five or six hundred years. As for me, I have lived for eight hundred years. Long."
Ye Feng was silent. The situation in front of him was too strange. Only the strong ones in the Gangwu Realm could have a life span of five hundred years. More than five hundred years, that was the lifespan that only the strong ones in the Divine Martial Realm could have. However, except for the old man's Cultivation is hard to predict. Ye Feng has already gotten a rough idea of the other people's cultivation. Most of them only have the strength of the mid-to-late Yuanwu realm, and they will never be able to live for such a long time.
Xiaobing and Ning Ruoxue arrived here first and already knew each other's identities. Their expressions were a little strange, but they did not explain anything to Ye Feng.
"Young friends may have doubts about our identities. Yes, ordinary people cannot live such a long life. In fact, we can no longer be called human beings."
The old man sighed sadly, and in a deep voice described their origins and the causes and consequences of their situation in detail.
In Shenwu Continent, martial arts are respected, and most of the people walking around the world are warriors from various martial arts sects.
However, the Shenwu Continent has gone through an era of cultivation after all. It was only because of the gradual lack of spiritual energy that the Immortal Dao Sect gradually became depressed, and finally hid in the world and did not compete with the outside martial arts sects for supremacy.
Lengyue Immortal Sect is one of these immortal sects that have survived from ancient times. In addition to Lengyue Immortal Sect, there are three other sects on the first floor, which are the only remaining achievements of ancient immortal sects.
A thousand years ago, Lu Tong, the Shura Ghost King of the Demon Realm Continent, accidentally discovered a seal gap between the continents and led 80,000 demon soldiers through the seal gap to reach the Shenwu Continent.
The location of the seal gap is the current Qiu Yang Secret Realm.
The demonic army was extremely powerful and immediately caught all the martial arts sects on the mainland by surprise. Seeing the fall of large areas of human territory, the five immortal sects that had been hiding from the world finally decided to come out and lead their disciples to intercept the demonic army.
Unfortunately, as the spiritual energy becomes thinner and thinner, the strength of cultivators is also declining year by year. Even if the Immortal Sect members unite with the martial arts experts from various sects, they are still no match for Lu Tong.
After several years of fierce battles, a large number of disciples of the five major immortal sects died. Seeing that they were defeated, the martial arts sects of the four eastern empires decided to retreat to the empire and abandon large tracts of territory in the western part of the Shenwu Continent. Ziyue Zhenren, the leader of the Lengyue Immortal Sect, couldn't bear to see the world in ruins, so he used himself as bait to lure the Shura Ghost King Lu Tong into the sect, activated the sect-protecting formation, and then temporarily suppressed Lu Tong.
Because they did not have enough spiritual power to maintain the formation, the five immortal disciples volunteered one after another, placed themselves in the formation, sacrificed their souls, and eventually became part of the formation, joining forces to suppress Lu Tong.
Even so, Lu Tong, as the Shura Ghost King, still struggled hard and almost broke out of the formation. As a last resort, Master Ziyue used a piece of treasured thousand-year-old sycamore wood to attract the twin phoenixes of ice and fire to help suppress the ancient demon. His head was completely sealed in the formation of Lengyue Immortal Sect.
The strange men in Taoist robes in front of Ye Feng were the disciples of the Immortal Sect who had survived after sacrificing their souls. Now they have become the bodies of formation spirits, turning into the appearance before them of humans and ghosts.
Among the five immortal sects hidden in the world, only Xuan Yue Immortal Lord was left responsible for guarding the periphery of the seal. Until Xuan Yue died, the line of Xiuzhen Immortal Sect disappeared from the Shenwu Continent.
"Seniors are selfless, sacrificing their lives for righteousness, and saving the world from fire and water. Junior Ye Feng is short-sighted and has offended many people before. Please forgive me, seniors!"
As a cultivator, Ye Feng naturally knows the consequences of becoming a formation spirit. If the formation is not broken, the formation spirit can only be trapped in it forever. Even if the formation is broken, the soul will be annihilated and will never be reincarnated.
The weird man in Taoist robes holding a long sword chuckled and waved his hands in disapproval. The sword wound on his chest had healed for some time and was intact as before.
"My little friend, there is no need to blame yourself. The sword-wielding Taoist you fought against before is named Feng Chenzi. He was once an outer elder of the Xingyun Immortal Sect. He was in the middle stage of foundation building at that time. Unfortunately, after sacrificing the soul, , I lost all my spiritual power and had no choice but to practice martial arts. It took hundreds of years to reach the sixth level of Yuanwu Realm!"
The white-bearded old man slowly walked up to the sword-wielding Taoist. After briefly introducing the Taoist's identity, he introduced everyone present to Ye Feng one by one.
"This tall Taoist, named Immortal Master Linghe, is the elder of Sanqing Tower. He had the cultivation level of the later stage of Foundation Establishment back then!" The other man was tall and thin, carrying a long sword on his back, and had a long beard under his chin. Even though he was reduced to a formation spirit, he still looked arrogant. When facing Ye Feng, he just nodded slightly in return.
"This is the Crimson Fire Immortal, the deputy head of the Crimson Flame Immortal Sect, with peak foundation-building cultivation!"
"Seven Star Immortal Lord, Elder of Wuya Immortal Sect..."
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Most of the people sitting here were at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment or above. Ye Feng was respectful and courteous to everyone, bowing one by one and addressing them as seniors.
Being able to practice to the foundation-building realm in the spiritually depleted Shenwu Continent, both in terms of basic qualifications and perseverance in practice, is enough to make Ye Feng feel ashamed.
The white-bearded old man is the deputy sect leader of the Lengyue Immortal Sect, named Linyue Zhenren. He had the cultivation of the early stage of Jindan back then. He is extremely powerful and is the real main force in blocking Lu Tong.
As for the leaders of the five major immortal sects and the sect masters of each sect, they all fell one by one in order to lure Lu Tong into the sealing formation during the battle between immortals and demons a thousand years ago.
After introducing everyone present, Ye Feng returned to his seat at the instruction of Master Linyue. Xiaobing, who had been silent, finally couldn't help it anymore. He stood up from his seat and asked eagerly, "Grandpa, now is the time. Tell us how to suppress the ancient demon again?"
Ye Feng's expression suddenly changed. It seemed that Ning Ruoxue and Xiaobing had not encountered the statue of the Ice and Fire Phoenix, nor had they seen the phantom of the Ice Phoenix, so they did not know the inside story.
Could it be that... Master Linyue had planned to tell the truth for two days and let them replace Bing Feng and Huo Feng to continue suppressing Lu Tong
Ye Feng couldn't help but become nervous. Although he admired the heroic deeds of Linyue Zhenren and others who sacrificed their lives for righteousness, he watched helplessly as Xiaobing and Ning Ruoxue were trapped in the formation, extracting their own essence to seal and suppress Lu Tong forever. , it was indeed difficult for him to accept it.
"Ahem!" Master Linyue looked embarrassed, "It seems that Ye Xiaoyou has visited two Phoenix Temples and has a general understanding of the suppression of Lu Tong."
"That's right, this junior has not only been to the Phoenix Temple, but also met the afterimage of the Ice Phoenix Divine Beast." Ye Feng said solemnly, with a gloomy expression on his face, not knowing how to make a decision.
"Brother Ye, have you seen a senior from the Ice Phoenix Tribe? No wonder I feel so impetuous. It turns out there is a senior guarding this place. I wonder where the senior Ice Phoenix is. Can Brother Ye take me to meet him? "Xiao Bing said with excitement.
Since being brought here by Taoist Tianji, Xiaobing has stayed in Qiuyang Secret Realm for decades. Because he was threatened by Taoist Tianji, he has been living next to him, but he has not disclosed his relationship with Taoist Tianji to the outside world. Since leaving the Bingfeng clan, Xiao Bing has always hoped to meet his own clan members. Now that he has finally met a senior, he naturally doesn't want to miss it.
Ye Feng pondered for a moment and said, "Xiao Bing, it's not that I don't want to take you there, but that senior Bing Feng is already extremely weak and I'm afraid he won't be able to come forward to see you for a while."
"Really?" Xiaobing lowered his head in disappointment and glanced at Ning Ruoxue beside him.
Ning Ruoxue Bingxue was smart, and she had guessed it from Ye Feng's slightly nervous look at this moment and Lin Yue's previous words.
"Master Linyue, the seal is getting weaker and weaker now. Is it because the two senior beasts can no longer provide the spiritual power to maintain the seal?"
Master Linyue said with a somewhat ugly face, "Miss Ning's guess is correct. Because the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is thin, the spiritual power that maintains the magic circle comes almost entirely from the two divine beasts in the Ice and Fire Demon Sealing Array. It's a pity that their essence... Even if it has a long life span, it cannot withstand such a long period of consumption. If a replacement method cannot be found, the seal will inevitably be destroyed, and it will be difficult to deal with it by then."
"This junior will naturally find a way to replace it. To be honest, this junior is here to help consolidate and repair the seal!" Ye Feng said hurriedly.
Except for Lin Yue, the others were obviously a little impatient. They stretched their necks and made ahhhhhh sounds, eager to say something.
"Everyone, please be quiet!" Master Linyue finally spoke, his eyes full of meaning, and said, "Don't worry, little friend Ye, we will never force the two girls, and they have no obligation to sacrifice themselves for the Demon Sealing Formation. Everything still needs to be done. The two girls are willing to do so. Although once the devil breaks out of the formation, the people of the world may suffer disaster again, but as long as you prepare in advance and let everyone escape from the Western Continent in advance, you may be able to avoid disaster and save countless people. . Although I don’t know if there are strong people in Shenwu Continent now, but as long as Lu Tong does not take the initiative to invade the eastern continent, most of these strong people will turn a blind eye. After Lu Tong escaped from this place, because of the thousand-year seal relationship, the strength is bound to be weakened, and we will never take the initiative to provoke those strong men in the Eastern Continent."