An hour later, Zhang Ling crossed a thousand-foot-high mountain and saw a valley. The valley was not large, but on the other side, the sky was rumbling with intense thunder.
That sky was extremely strange. One half of the sky was filled with rich heaven and earth spiritual energy, appearing as a thick white mist, while the other half of the sky was dark and oppressive, like dark clouds overhead.
The black and white clouds collided frantically, making the heaven and earth spiritual energy in the sky extremely chaotic. That was where the exit was.
Zhang Ling controlled Tian Fei to fly at a low altitude, passing through the clouds.
According to the information he obtained from soul searching, this cloud of mist was several miles in extent. The entire outermost area of Fengmo Island(风魔岛: Wind Demon Island) was like this, obviously a manifestation of the ancient cultivator's restriction on the island.
Calculating the time, the Yimo(异魔: different demon) race cultivators have been on this island for two days. In at most a little over a day, this island will sink into the sea again and fall into complete sealing.
Traveling in the cloud of mist, Zhang Ling in the gourd clearly sensed that his cultivation suppression was rapidly weakening, as was Xuan Gui(玄龟: Dark Turtle).
This situation caused the Two Instruments Gourd(两仪葫芦: Two Elements Gourd) hidden in Tian Fei's sleeve to emit a trembling sound. He and Xuan Gui(玄龟: Dark Turtle) quickly controlled their spiritual pressure, suppressing the sudden surge of their own spiritual power.
In addition, Tian Fei's own demonic energy also had a kind of uncontrollable situation, but it did not affect his actions.
Before long, the cloud of mist became much thinner, and the scene in front of him brightened up. Passing through the chaotic demonic spiritual mist, he walked out of Fengmo Island(风魔岛: Wind Demon Island).
Immediately, he saw a round, red sun hanging on the horizon. The time seemed to be in the evening. The sound of rushing waves entered his ears, and under his feet was a surging sea.
Zhang Ling's divine sense moved, and he noticed the location of Fengmo Island(风魔岛: Wind Demon Island), which was next to the ring-shaped island where he had been before.
However, the surrounding environment had changed greatly. Not only had the water level of the sea area dropped a lot, exposing large areas of reefs, but the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy was also extremely chaotic.
With a turn of his gaze, he noticed three giant ships parked hundreds of feet away. Next to the ships, there was a pile of demonic beast corpses, staining a patch of seawater red.
Zhang Ling was slightly stunned. The corpses were mostly high-level demonic beasts, numbering over a hundred.
"Boy, come over here," suddenly a hoarse voice entered his ears.
"Greetings, Senior Ying(影前辈: Shadow Senior)"
Tian Fei quickly faced the area not far to his left and respectfully performed a salute. In the air over there, a fat old man was sitting cross-legged. Judging from the spiritual pressure on his body, he had reached the peak of the early Yuanying(元婴: nascent soul) stage.
This old man was Ying Laomo(影老魔: Old Demon Ying) of the medium-sized tribe, Ying Sha Tribe(影煞部落: Shadow Evil Tribe), and his strength was not weak. However, only this Yuanying(元婴: nascent soul) cultivator was stationed nearby, and the remaining Yuanying(元婴: nascent soul) monsters were nowhere to be seen.
"Not bad, your cultivation has grown somewhat after being tempered by demonic energy." The old man glanced at Tian Fei and naturally saw that Tian Fei had been tempered by demonic energy, and the demonic energy on his body had been refined a bit. He waved his hand and said, "But it's not yet stable. Go back to the ship and sense it carefully. Remember not to be arrogant and affect your state of mind. Go."
"I will keep Senior's(前辈: Senior) teachings in mind." Tian Fei saluted again and took his leave, flying towards the large ships.
At this moment, there was no one on the ships, but they had all activated their protective light shields.
Tian Fei flew directly to the leftmost ship, and a token appeared in his hand. With a gentle wave, he transformed into a demonic light and easily entered the ship.
The ship had a large multi-story pavilion built on it, which looked like it could accommodate hundreds of people without any problems.
Standing on the ship, Zhang Ling immediately sensed more than a dozen auras in the pavilion, indicating that there were people inside. These people's auras were all around the late Jindan(金丹: golden core) stage, obviously cultivators who had already come out. At this moment, they were each in a room, sensing the changes in their spiritual power.
Zhang Ling controlled Tian Fei to walk straight towards the room that originally belonged to this person, entering a room on the second floor.
As soon as he entered, the Two Instruments Gourd(两仪葫芦: Two Elements Gourd) flew out. With a flash of green light, Zhang Ling appeared beside him. He glanced at the room, which was only a few feet in size.
He saw Tian Fei's eyes roll back and he fell to the ground with a thud. A flash of yellow light appeared on his body, and a yellow light entered Zhang Ling's body. He withdrew the divine sense he was controlling.
Looking at the unconscious Tian Fei, Zhang Ling frowned slightly. He released a cloud of gray gas, directly wrapping the person up.
At the same time, he pressed one hand on the person's head, closed his eyes, and cast the Soul Confusion Technique. He slightly altered Tian Fei's memories of the past two hours.
Although the Soul Confusion Technique is not very profound, it belongs to a type of illusion-like spell.
With his Yuanying(元婴: nascent soul) stage strength, and his divine sense power being much higher than ordinary cultivators, it was easy to change a Jindan(金丹: golden core) cultivator's memories.
Of course, if this person could also break through to his current cultivation level, it might be possible to recover this memory.
Zhang Ling didn't care about these things. Originally, according to his idea, after leaving Fengmo Island(风魔岛: Wind Demon Island), he would kill the cultivator he controlled. But after thinking about it, he decided to spare this person's life.
After all, he had been seen by the Blood Light Old Demon under the magic spring. He was considered exposed, so why kill another cultivator?
Moreover, when controlling this person, this person did not see his figure at all. Zhang Ling believes that although he is not a good person, he is not a bloodthirsty person.
This was just a thought, to kill or not to kill, it was just a small thought. Of course, all of this was determined by his own strength.
After casting the Soul Confusion Technique, Zhang Ling had no intention of staying on the ship. After putting away the two gourds, he took out the Illusion Clay and covered his body, and his figure became blurred and disappeared.
A few breaths of time later, he left the ship and entered the water. He quietly released Xuan Gui(玄龟: Dark Turtle), allowing Xuan Gui(玄龟: Dark Turtle) to use the Water Escape Technique to quickly take him away from this sea area.
From beginning to end, the fat old man sitting cross-legged in the sky did not notice all of this.
However, what Zhang Ling didn't know was that after he left, another change occurred on Fengmo Island(风魔岛: Wind Demon Island) the next day. A Yuanying(元婴: nascent soul) cultivator died on the island, causing some commotion in the following period.
But all of this had nothing to do with him anymore.
As for the outer layer of thunder and lightning area, due to the Fengmo Island(风魔岛: Wind Demon Island), the thunder and lightning wind pressure had weakened by more than half. It only took half an hour to completely leave this sea area.
After leaving the water, he flew with all his strength. He took out a black leather scroll to check his current location. It detailed the scope of some of the Yimo(异魔: different demon) race's power.
His current location was in a sea area in the northwest of the Yimo(异魔: different demon) race. It would take more than ten days to fly to the nearest land. Zhang Ling planned to find a safe place to rest for a while before returning to the Twelve Immortal City area.
After all, the distance from here to the eastern region where the Twelve Immortal City is located is not short. With his current strength, it would take more than half a year to fly there.
On the way, he would have to pass through many large and small forces of the Yimo(异魔: different demon) race. He was a human cultivator, and after all, there was a difference between him and the Yimo(异魔: different demon) people. It was best not to expose himself.
The overall strength of the Yimo(异魔: different demon) race was not weak, and there were several great cultivators in the late Yuanying(元婴: nascent soul) stage among the cultivators of other strengths.
Zhang Ling and Xuan Gui(玄龟: Dark Turtle) combined were not afraid of cultivators in the middle Yuanying(元婴: nascent soul) stage. But if they encountered cultivators in the late Yuanying(元婴: nascent soul) stage, they would definitely not be opponents and could only find a way to escape.
This time, he was accidentally transmitted back to the Northern Origin Cultivation World, and his heart was still a bit complicated.
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A few days later, in a certain stone room.
Zhang Ling and Xuan Gui(玄龟: Dark Turtle) sat cross-legged, staring blankly at a black gourd placed in the center.
At this moment, the black Two Instruments Gourd(两仪葫芦: Two Elements Gourd) had become ten feet high, surrounded by a special blue and white aura. Occasionally, strange sounds could be heard from inside.
Lan Que(蓝雀: Blue Sparrow), who had an extraordinary identity and origin, was currently refining the wisp of True Devil Qi he had obtained inside.
Zhang Ling was protecting him here. The Two Instruments Gourd(两仪葫芦: Two Elements Gourd) had space inside, but this black Two Instruments Gourd(两仪葫芦: Two Elements Gourd) was Lan Que's(蓝雀: Blue Sparrow) treasure. Although Xuan Gui(玄龟: Dark Turtle) had obtained the secret method and could control the heavy water inside, he could not enter it.
Zhang Ling was a little curious about what else was hidden inside.
Lan Que(蓝雀: Blue Sparrow) had been inside for most of the day. He said that after refining the True Devil Qi, he would tell him the secret of the Two Instruments Gourd(两仪葫芦: Two Elements Gourd).
This was the condition he had promised him before. Zhang Ling also had his own Two Instruments Gourd(两仪葫芦: Two Elements Gourd) floating in front of him, and he was observing it as well. But after looking at it for a long time, he still didn't know what the secret of the Two Instruments Gourd(两仪葫芦: Two Elements Gourd) was.
Zhang Ling smiled bitterly and put away his Two Instruments Gourd(两仪葫芦: Two Elements Gourd). At the same time, a flash of purple light appeared in his hand, and a watermelon-sized purple-black magic stone appeared.
This was a crystal pieced together from several magic stones, surrounded by purple-black spiritual light. If you looked closely, you could see a mass of pitch-black aura temporarily sealed inside.
It didn't look big, but it was slowly rotating. It was full of spirituality. This was naturally also a wisp of True Devil Qi. In addition to the wisp of True Devil Qi that Lan Que(蓝雀: Blue Sparrow) had taken away, he had collected a total of thirteen True Devil Qi from under the magic spring.
With a gentle tap of his hand, a small ball of yellow light emerged, lighting up with a dazzling yellow light, covering the magic stone.
The True Devil Qi sealed inside seemed to sense something. The speed of rotation increased a bit, and the sealed magic stone also began to emit a shaking sound.
Then, the True Devil Qi emitted from the magic stone. It turned into a cloud of black mist and spread outward.
As soon as it came into contact with the yellow light, the True Devil Qi seemed to have a very strong corrosive effect, and it corroded the yellow light all at once. Then, it quickly rotated and formed a suction force, swallowing the yellow light into it.
Immediately, a faint yellow spiritual light flickered a few times in the vortex of True Devil Qi and disappeared completely. Zhang Ling looked at all of this without expression, but he was still a little shocked in his heart.
True Devil Qi was indeed not comparable to ordinary demonic energy.
Although the Heavy Yuan Profound Light he released was only a small ball, it was a kind of supernatural power that he had cultivated for many years, and it was swallowed clean in an instant.
After a slight sense, the total amount of this wisp of True Devil Qi increased a little. Although it could be ignored, it also proved what Lan Que(蓝雀: Blue Sparrow) had said before, that True Devil Qi could grow by swallowing other spiritual power.
Thinking like this, the main reason why the ancient cultivators wanted to seal the magic spring left by the ancient demons might be this.
If the True Devil Qi in the magic spring was released, swallowed a large amount of spiritual energy from the human world, and continued to grow, it would indeed change the spiritual environment of the human world.
At the same time, Zhang Ling also noticed that although the True Devil Qi was as black as ink, it also contained the five elements of spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
There was nothing strange about this. The five elements of spiritual energy are the most basic spiritual power of heaven and earth. Whether it is the human race, the demon race, or the ancient demons, the spiritual power they absorb will contain the power of the five elements.
It's just that, depending on the interface and the drastic changes in the environment, the spiritual power of the heavens and earth in each world is slightly different on the basis of the five elements of spiritual power.
The difference is even greater for special spiritual energy like True Devil Qi.
Why human cultivators yearn to ascend to the Spirit World the most, in addition to the Spirit World being a higher interface and the spiritual energy content is not comparable to the human world. Another reason is that the spiritual energy of the Spirit World is the most similar to the human world, and it is most suitable for human cultivators to cultivate.
And it is said that some special races do not ascend to the Spirit World after cultivation. It is possible to ascend to other interfaces.
Of course, this is just a guess of some cultivators. No one knows how it is.
Because in the past ten thousand years, whether it is the Northern Origin Cultivation World or Liuyun Sea(流云海: Flowing Cloud Sea), no one has ever heard of a cultivator ascending.
And according to some interface situations learned from Lan Que(蓝雀: Blue Sparrow) before, if the strength of the Yimo(异魔: different demon) people reaches a certain level, the place of ascension may be the Ancient Demon World.
The so-called ascension, according to some ancient books, is not autonomous ascension.
The real ascension to the upper realm is that after the strength reaches a certain level, the laws of heaven and earth in the human world will suppress and reject the cultivators whose strength exceeds the limit.
What is suppressed is the cultivation base, so there will be no creatures in the human world whose cultivation base exceeds the strength of the Transformation God(化神: God Transformation).
Rejection is that the human world does not allow such powerful cultivators to exist for a long time. It will descend some heavenly tribulations to reject such creatures.
It is said that there will also be some invisible rules of heaven and earth that will produce many calamities. Therefore, if the strength reaches a certain level, it is impossible to stay in the human world for a long time.
Even if you stay without leaving, your cultivation base will definitely be suppressed.
And these strong people who are excluded from the human world will pass through the space storm outside the interface and ascend to other interfaces.
Because the original spiritual energy of the human world is most similar to the Spirit World. In the dark, most of the creatures in the human world will ascend to the Spirit World.
Therefore, the interface reached by the creatures in this human world, ninety-nine percent will reach the Spirit World. This is also the reason why the human race has the most records of the Spirit World in ancient books.
And like the half-demon people transformed by demonic energy like the Yimo(异魔: different demon) race, the traction in the dark may be to the Ancient Demon World.
Lan Que(蓝雀: Blue Sparrow) said before that there are many interfaces like the human world.
Some are interfaces that are completely polluted by demonic energy, and the creatures inside will no longer ascend to the Spirit World. There are also some interfaces that are said to have no human or demon races at all. It is controlled by various other races.
There are not only human and demon races in the Spirit World, there seem to be many different creatures. Lan Que(蓝雀: Blue Sparrow) is not a human cultivator, and he does not seem to be a demon race.
I don't know what kind of creature this guy is.
Zhang Ling looked at the changing True Devil Qi, and his thoughts in his mind were already wandering. It was not until the strange dong dong dong sound entered his ears that he came back to his senses and looked at the black Two Instruments Gourd(两仪葫芦: Two Elements Gourd).
