The fifth realm.
In the depths of the ink-like sky, only the creatures that live there all year round can see things clearly.
"Snap! Snap!"
The scattered remains of corpses fell like raindrops, hitting the dry earth filled with filth.
"It's no use..."
The alien goddess faced the Black Lake, watching the human corpses fall and the lake water splashing.
She stroked the tiny pointed horn of the dark anaconda, feeling no joy at all, and still spoke her heart out in sorrow.
Pang Jian listened silently and gradually figured out some things.
The woman with six pairs of pure white wings comes from a tribe called the Celestial Clan. Although this tribe is small in number, it has a very high reputation in the Fifth Realm.
The celestial maidens of the celestial race have an extremely honorable status and are admired by all races.
The important task she was tasked with this time was to gather the tribesmen below level five from all the major clans, and send the warriors to the upper realm quickly while something went wrong with the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.
Due to the terrifying seal of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, truly strong men are temporarily unable to pass through. The warriors of all races who are sent to the upper realm are very likely to suffer a bloody purge by humans.
She had no choice but to do it even though she knew what the consequences would be for the warriors of various races sent up.
Due to the continued invasion of foul alien powers, several forces from the upper realms that used to communicate with them secretly and trade with them using secret methods have completely cut off contact with them.
They could no longer exchange the supplies they needed through the forces in the upper realm in the same way as before.
The invasion of the foul alien power obviously made those forces panic. They were afraid that they would become the force that helped them ascend to heaven, and they were afraid that they would be killed by the forces from the upper realm.
The result is that their resources have become extremely scarce.
Whether it is to create a large-scale weapon to destroy the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar or to forge more flying objects to the sky, all of them are inseparable from some rare spiritual materials produced in the upper realm.
Without those spiritual materials, they can’t do many things.
Although we could clearly see that the Pillar of Heaven was loosening and there was a glimmer of hope, we were faced with many difficulties due to the shortage of materials.
They were forced to concentrate their only resources to build several flying spiritual vessels to send warriors below level five up to help them search for urgently needed materials in the upper realm.
The warriors who were sent up were not strong enough because they were restricted by the shock of the Heaven-reaching Tribulation Pillar.
The alien goddess was extremely worried, confused and depressed, and she also felt guilty for sending warriors of all races up to die.
secretly.
Pang Jian listened silently for a while through the dark anaconda, and only cut off the connection with the traitor when he was tired.
After taking another tranquilizing pill, he sat upright on the deck of Yunfan, thinking without opening his eyes.
"I can reach the netherworld with the Dark Anaconda. Perhaps at some point in the future, I can negotiate a deal with her."
Pang Jian said secretly.
He vaguely felt that as long as he could break through to the Dongxuan realm and successfully condense his spiritual consciousness, he would be able to communicate with the alien celestial being through the dark giant anaconda.
The various materials that the other party desires, maybe... he can get them in the upper realm.
With the bronze medal in hand, he can directly reach the fifth realm, leave the materials needed by the other party, and then leave smoothly with the bronze medal.
After a while, he shook his head gently and murmured, "We still have to think long-term and try to have as little contact with the alien races in the lower realms as possible, so as not to become the public enemy of the human race in the four worlds after being exposed."
…
This day.
"That broken land..."
Gao Yuan stood in front of Yunfan, looking at a piece of broken land not far away, frowning and said: "In the past, there were some independent cultivators active in the broken land, how come it has been taken over by someone now?"
The veiled Luo Hongyan rose gracefully, glanced at the broken ground below, and said, "The Lieyang Sect has planted its flag."
A silk banner was fluttering, and a burning sun in the banner looked extremely dazzling.
"I'll go down and ask about the situation."
Gao Yuan steered the cloud sail downward and landed in the air next to the broken land.
He flew out of Yunfan and went to the location where Lieyang Sect had planted its flag to ask someone about the situation.
After a moment.
Gao Yuan returned with a bitter face, first controlled the cloud sail to fly away from this broken land, and then explained to Luo Hongyan and Pang Jian who had opened his eyes:
"The catastrophe in the lower world is still going on. The powerful sects such as the Fiery Sun Sect, the Galaxy Alliance, the Blood Moon Sect, and the Red Mountain Sect have recently been scrambling to seize the various fragmented lands for those people from the lower world to settle in in the future."
Luo Hongyan frowned: "The old guys from the upper realm, haven't you solved the infection of the filthy alien power yet?"
According to the information she had obtained, similar incidents had occurred before, and those most powerful sects and those big figures with incredible powers were able to resolve them quickly and properly.
This situation where the fragmented land under the jurisdiction of the Ouyang and Shangguan families has been infected and is not only not under control but is continuing to spread seems to have not happened for a long, long time.
"The fragmented lands governed by the He and Ning families have also begun to be infected. They won't last long before being submerged by the foul alien forces." Gao Yuan sighed and said, "The Xuanyou Continent and the Qiantian Continent are firmly occupied by several major sects. The practitioners of the five major sects, their families and descendants, and those who depend on them all live in the two best continents."
"Their descendants and families are loyal to their city families, so they naturally refuse to accept the seven major families from the lower world."
"They had no choice but to seize many floating fragments of land and use them to accommodate the people who migrated from the netherworld."
"There are also many broken lands occupied by powerful independent cultivators like Old Monster Cao and Lingyun Sanren. It is not easy for them to rob them without reason. Therefore, the broken lands where weak independent cultivators live and gather have become their primary targets for robbery."
Gao Yuan sighed.
For independent cultivators like him and Yuan Fei who have no background, the space they can move around in will become smaller and smaller in the future.
The people from the seven major families of the Fourth Realm came and occupied their space, leaving them with less and less places to stay.
"Oh, by the way, Yuan Fei spread the news that you two came from the upper realm."
"As for Zhu Yuanxi, he is only at the Xiantian realm. His weight is not enough for Xueyue to offend you on his behalf."
Gao Yuan briefly talked about how Yinling Temple dealt with Dong Tianze.
They said that the Yin Ling Temple put all the blame on Dong Tianze and did not admit that the Yin Ling Temple had any connection with the Dark Ghosts. They insisted that Dong Tianze was the leader of the Dark Ghosts and that they had just accepted a disciple by mistake, and now he had been detained and interrogated.
"Dong Tianze is also unlucky."
Luo Hongyan laughed in surprise.
If Pang Jian hadn't shouted at the top of his lungs, calling Dong Tianze the leader over and over again, Dong Tianze wouldn't have had to take the blame for the Yinling Temple.
She glanced at Pang Jian and couldn't help but chuckle.
When she thought that in two days Pang Jian would open the ghost altar again and continue his third transaction with the "leader" of the dark ghosts, she felt that things were becoming more and more interesting.
…
The cloud sails continued to soar.
As he got closer and closer to the broken land ruled by Cao Laoguai, Gao Yuan gradually encountered many Yunfans, met familiar boatmen, and learned more information.
One of the messages caught the attention of Pang Jian and Luo Hongyan.
"Qi Qingsong..."
Pang Jian was stunned.
"Do you two know each other?"
Gao Yuan's eyes lit up strangely, and then he suddenly realized what was going on. He said, "It's normal that you recognize him. Qi Qingsong came from the Sword Tower of the Second Realm, and you also happen to be from the Second Realm."
After saying this, Gao Yuan slapped his thigh and praised him profusely, "This Qi Qingsong is truly extraordinary! He is now the honored guest of Cao Laoguai and is being warmly entertained by Cao Laoguai!"
"I heard that Qi Qingsong was a brilliant young man in the Sword Tower, and he reached the Marrow Cleansing Stage at the age of twelve."
"However… "
Changing the subject, Gao Yuan said, "From the age of twelve to twenty, a full ten years, this guy did not make any progress in his realm. He knew what was good for him and did not want to embarrass his master, so he took the initiative to give up his status as an inner disciple of the Sword Tower."
"After he turned twenty, he was always in the Marrow Cleansing Stage and never managed to break through."
"He has been ridiculed by his peers in the Sword Tower and the Second Realm for more than ten years. Everyone thinks that this is his destiny in life."
“Who knows, he participated in a training session a while ago, and after coming out, he broke through in a way of unity between man and nature.”
"After reaching the Xiantian realm, it only took him a few months to reach the Dongxuan realm! This Qi Qingsong is really a late bloomer, who made a great splash with his accumulated experience!"
Gao Yuan exclaimed in admiration.
"After coming out, he actually crossed two realms. I underestimated him."
Luo Hongyan said in surprise.
She didn't expect that Qi Qingsong, who was ridiculed by her and forced to cut off one of his arms by Pang Jian in the City Lord's Mansion, would experience a great explosion in his realm after his return.
Pang Jian suddenly asked: "How many arms does he have?"
Gao Yuan was stunned for a moment, and said as a matter of course: "Of course it's two arms, why do you ask?"
"nothing."
Pang Jian shook his head. Of course he would not say that Qi Qingsong, who he called a late bloomer, broke one of his arms when saying goodbye to him.
Two days later.
Gao Yuan finally found a broken land where the spiritual energy was extremely thin and even casual cultivators were not willing to come.
"The nearby broken lands have all been occupied by various sects. Currently, this is the only place we can still settle down."
Gao Yuan looked a little helpless, fearing that Pang Jian would blame him, and hurriedly said, "How about we hurry up and go to the territory of Cao Laoguai?"
Old Monster Cao is personally very powerful and no sect dares to provoke him. The few pieces of land under his jurisdiction will definitely not be forcibly occupied by any party.
"No need, this place is also good."
Pang Jian nodded, and together with Luo Hongyan, they left the Yunfan that was anchored in the air and fell to the broken land below where there was no grass, no mountains, rivers, or lakes, and no valuable minerals.
He casually dug an underground cave, went in and took out the ghost altar, left Luo Hongyan to stand guard at the entrance of the cave, and then activated the communication array.
Luo Hongyan smiled and stood guard at the cave entrance with a veil on her face. She looked at the ghost altar and asked, "Do you really think he will pay attention to you?"
"In Bagua City, he used ghost chants to set up a sea of black gold swords and severely injured me before forcing me into darkness. I didn't argue with him, so why didn't he pay attention to me?"
Pang Jian said calmly.
"You made him bear the blame. Everyone knows that he is the leader of the dark ghosts. The Yinling Temple was forced to imprison him."
Luo Hongyan pursed her lips and smiled softly.
"He is the leader of the Dark Ghosts. Isn't he the one I communicated with twice?"
Pang Jian snorted.
Right at this moment.
“Whoosh!”
Dong Tianze's figure suddenly appeared in the ghost altar.
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(End of this chapter)