In the East China Sea of the Yanhuang Kingdom, there is an area shrouded in fog all year round, which has never dissipated all year round. No matter how big or small a ship accidentally enters, it will be swallowed up. No ship has ever entered it and been able to come out.
Therefore, this place is also called the Devil's Zone by fishermen who often fish in the East China Sea. Fishermen with a little experience will not go close to the Devil's Zone within a hundred miles.
If there are immortal cultivators here who understand the formation, they will see that this so-called fog is actually a formation set up by an expert in cultivating immortals.
What the fishermen didn't expect was that there was a huge island in the center of the fog. The scenery on the island was beautiful, the air was extremely fresh, and even the plants on the island were extremely lush.
There is a huge valley in the southeast of the island. The valley has spring-like weather all year round and a very warm climate.
At the entrance of the valley, there is a stone tablet seven or eight meters high, and on the stone tablet are written three ancient seal characters - Shangqinggu.
Yes, this island is the home base of the group of immortal cultivators who call themselves Immortal Sect.
Shangqing Valley is one of the nine sects of the Immortal Sect.
In the previous competition with the Yanhuang Kingdom, Qing Xuzi, who was in the early stage of foundation building and was killed by Song Yan, was the new leader of this sect. Therefore, the entire Shangqing Valley disciples were extremely resentful towards Song Yan.
After the death of Qingxuzi, his junior brother Qingyan took over as the leader, and his Taoist name was changed to Qingyanzi.
"Zi" is the honorific title given to the head, and only the head is qualified to add "Zi" after the Taoist title.
There are many antique buildings in the valley.
The largest one among them is the residence of Qing Yanzi.
Originally, the vitality of heaven and earth on this island was three to five times richer than that of other places. After ten days, the vitality of heaven and earth in other places increased by more than five times. The vitality of heaven and earth on this island also became richer. Achieved ten times.
This made the immortal cultivators of the nine major sects very happy, and they even believed that their era of immortal cultivators was about to come.
Yesterday, the heads of the nine major sects had gathered to discuss.
The richness of the vitality of heaven and earth will also greatly improve their cultivation progress. Therefore, after discussion, each of their sects will focus on training three disciples so that they can break through to the foundation building stage as soon as possible.
In this way, the Immortal Sect will have 27 new foundation builders, who can completely sweep across the Yanhuang Kingdom.
"Senior brother, it won't be long before I can avenge you and kill that little thief Song Yan!"
Qing Yanzi's eyes flashed with hatred.
At this moment, Qing Yanzi seemed to sense something, and his expression suddenly changed. He suddenly stood up and looked in a certain direction: "That is... that is the place where Master retreats. Could it be...!"
Fifty years ago, Master Mingxiang, who had reached the peak of his cultivation in the later stage of foundation building, chose to retreat to the death gate to break through the golden elixir.
At the beginning, everyone had high expectations for Master Mingxiang. After all, he was the only cultivator to reach the late stage of foundation building in a hundred years.
But ten, twenty years passed.
Master Ming Xiang is still in seclusion. Except for him and his senior brother Qing Xuzi who are still paying attention to this matter, others have almost forgotten about him.
Thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye.
They who originally had hope for Master were disappointed. They even wanted to open the retreat to see how Master was doing.
However, Master Ming Xiang had told them before retreating that no one was allowed to disturb him unless he came out of retreat on his own.
Forty years later, their brothers and sisters have completely given up hope.
When Master Ming Xiang had not come out of seclusion for fifty years, Qing Xuzi and Qing Yanzi even asserted that the Master might have been sitting in the retreat. This made them very sad, but they did not rush to open the retreat. That place became a forbidden area in Shangqing Valley, and no disciples were allowed to approach it.
But today, Qing Yanzi sensed a powerful aura coming from the retreat.
Although fifty years had passed, he could vaguely tell that the aura belonged to their master Ming Xiangzhen.
Thinking of this, he flew towards the retreat with great joy.
Just as he was approaching the retreat, an acre-thick layer of dark clouds suddenly appeared on the originally clear sky, with thunder and lightning flashing on it.
"This... this is the calamity cloud!"
He had read the ancient scrolls, which revealed that after the foundation-building cultivators condensed the golden elixir, they would usher in nine thunder tribulations.
Only through it can one become a true golden elixir cultivator.
If you can't get through it, your soul will be gone.
For a moment, he couldn't help but clenched his fists and said secretly: "Master, you must survive the thunder tribulation!"
really.
In the next half-quarter of an hour, the calamity clouds in the sky became thicker and darker, as if they were dripping water.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a fist-sized black thunder fell from the sky and hit Master Mingxiang's retreat.
The terrifying power forced Qing Yanzi to retreat dozens of meters before he could stabilize his body.
At the same time, the disciples from Shangqing Valley also came in this direction.
"Back off! Get out of here, everyone!"
In order to prevent the disciples from being affected, Qing Yanzi quickly shouted sharply.
"Master, what's going on? Why?"
A young man asked. He was Qingyanzi's disciple and one of the disciples that Shangqinggu planned to focus on training this time.
"Don't ask, it's not your time to know yet!"
"yes!"
There was a strong look of curiosity in the other party's eyes, but he still didn't ask any more questions.
"Boom!"
At this moment, a loud noise came out, but it was the place where Master Mingxiang was retreating that collapsed.
"No, Master!" Qing Yanzi couldn't help shouting worriedly.
But at this moment, a figure rose into the sky with layers of green light, standing in the air.
The other party was wearing a green robe and had a handsome face. He looked to be in his early twenties. He exuded an extremely powerful aura, which was intimidating to all the Shangqing Valley disciples, including Qing Yanzi.
"Master!"
The next moment, Qing Yanzi fell to the ground, his face full of excitement.
The other party took one look at it, and then showed a smile: "Stay far away, wait until the teacher survives the thunder tribulation!"
The other party's tone was very calm, but there was an inexplicable sense of peace in people's ears. Qing Yanzi, who was originally worried that Master Mingxiang would not be able to survive the thunderstorm, couldn't help but feel more confident.
at this time.
"Boom!"
However, the second sky thunder mixed with Huo Huo Tianwei fell from the sky and struck heavily on the body of Master Mingxiang. Judging from the power, the second sky thunder was much stronger than the first one.
However, the lightning quickly dissipated, and Master Ming Xiang was still suspended in the air, with a graceful figure, his robes moving, but not a single bit damaged, and the expression on his face was very relaxed.
For a moment, Qing Yanzi's confidence in him doubled again.
"Boom! Boom!"
The third and fourth thunder struck down one after another. This time, Master Mingxiang was not so calm, and even his black hair exploded slightly.
"Boom!"
The fifth thunder fell, and a multicolored folding fan appeared above Master Mingxiang's head. The folding fan opened and released a multicolored light shield, covering Master Mingxiang.
Therefore, the next few thunderbolts did not harm him.
Only the eighth thunderbolt fell, causing the brilliance of the colorful folding fan to dim slightly.
"Only the last one left!"
Qing Yanzi counted silently, staring at the figure in mid-air without blinking.
Author's digression: Second update (to be continued)